The Tournament Director Forums
Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: cobi on December 15, 2008, 10:10:34 AM
-
So, right as heads up started my laptop completely died. Powered off and wouldn't turn back on. This was the first time that I wasn't tracking everything on paper as backup. Thankfully it was only a 12 person tournament, and I already had the prizes counted out etc.... so we were able to rebuild everything on paper from memory. Also, thank god I kept our tournament/season results in a spreadsheet on my home PC. I'd have been up a creek without that info.
Hopefully I can get it working again or at least pull the hard drive out and recover my tournament files. I'd hate to start over.
I'm assuming that even if I had auto-save enabled (which I'm not sure I did), it probably didn't save the tourney data for this one?
Lessons learned:
Keep a hard copy during the tournament.
Keep a backup timer of some sort with you (I had one)
Backup your tournament files to another PC, or external device. As an IT guy, I know better but didn't do it.
-
If you had auto-save on and can get back into the hard drive I would think you would be in good shape.
If you didn't have auto-save on, then you might be out of luck with that tourney.
Good luck. I have gotten pretty good at making sure autosave is on as I had an issue in a test tourney once and learned my lesson early.
I have my autosave set at 5 minutes, but now that I think of it, I have a newer laptop so I think I will set it for more frequently and also have the auto save for events checked so that it picks up when people are knocked out and such - my old laptop was so slow that the autosave slowed the clock display refresh, so I set an infrequent backup.
-
Well, I was able to recover my files, but I didn't have auto-save enabled so no dice for the current tournament, but at least I got my templates and all my old ones. No big deal really.
If you ever need to recover data from a hard drive, these are pretty handy to have around. I'd been wanting to get one for a while but never got around to it. This gave me a good excuse. Took about 5 minutes to get all my stuff back.
http://www.cooldrives.com/saandidehadr1.html
Easier than having to put it into another computer.