A hard lesson on saving work as you go -

[Northstarr]

Oh I could just cry! I just lost a whole piece I have been working on for 2 days, about 9 hours worth. I was almost finished a picture for this week's challenge when I accidentally pulled the paintbrush off the bottom of the canvas. My windowsME, presented me with a message that Zbrush had performed an illegal action and would close. There was no way to save anything! I wish I had remembered to save periodically as I went along. Gotta start all over.

I wanted to post this so that others may avoid the same nasty situation.....

:(

[Frenchy Pilou]

Windows is not a very stable system !
Try Linux :)
Pilou

[RazorX]

Windows Xp is perfectly stable, Me is the prob. I skipped it. Went from a stable 98SE to a more stable XP.

[rhom]

WindowsME sucks BigTime-I have it on my older computer and Windows XP on my new one,the difference is night and day.FrenchyP-Can you run ZBrush on a Linux based system?Are you? would be a better question.

[dOb]

Oh, that's really bad Northstar. I know that feeling.

I agree with others. WinME is a big problem. I suggest you to switch WinXP or win2000...

Rhom, I think That's Pilou's :td: very funny :td: joke!

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi
I have nothing idea of this "Zbrush on Linux"
But tell that to Pixolator!
And maybe somebody of the "Linux world" who has seen this Incredible prog (Zbrush) will adapt it !
Pilou

[Flycatcher]

My heart goes out to you, Donna. Been there, done that - though not having lost quite so many hours in ZB with it. :(

Win Me is another story. I was lucky (in a sense). I actually bought an "upgrade" from Win 98SE - then read so many horror stories about it in the press that I've never installed it. Anyone want a copy of a WinME upgrade, still shrink-wrapped and unused - any reasonable offer accepted... :rolleyes:

[rhom]

Oh.

[Northstarr]

Well interestingly enough, this disaster was just the thing I needed to push me into looking at a new computer with windows xt. The guy who built my present computer 8 years ago and has souped it up every year since, is building me a new one with a specific view to graphics. Should be a monster machine. It will cost me but right now - eh, what's a little more debt.. :p

I will have to find out how to get my Zbrush program to work on it. Anyone else switched computers??

:qu:

[kokoro]

oh very sad - try a mac ;) - i am zbrushing now since 7 weeks, on a mac, and had never a crash...

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi Kokoro
I never seen a system don't scratch !
Maybe be a day :)
Pilou
ps Except the solar system, but if we believe the scientifics, even it, in 5 billions years scratch too :eek:

[DLee]

You won't have any problem installing Z in xp. Just install and get a new number from that link that's in your readme with Z and you'll be up and running ~s~

I couldn't get ME off my system fast enough. I've talked to very few who haven't had problems with it.

[kokoro]

Frenchy Pilou - i did not say the system is not crashing ;) - it does every mminute when i run animation master , thats why i came to zbrush - but with zbrush it runs totally smooth.