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Adon
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Red Carpet Executive Member
"Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 01:23
Well this indeed is a very vexing post for me but I regret to inform the community here that the ARCS are on a hiatus potentially a permanent one. The reason being is I can’t access the file which contains the data. I believe it has been corrupted because it just won’t read that file. I have the file on a disk. In a bit of sadistic irony I use to have the file on my computer but then my hard drive blanked one day putting all my data in jeopardy. After a dicey Ghost operation I got the data back. I thought this time I will put it on disk. Well wouldn’t you know out of 20 plus files on the disk it is the one to become corrupted that and one other document. Unless there is a way to retrieve the data from that “broken” file I am afraid that I will not resume it because it will require that we start all over from the beginning. That was a file that I used to collect data for nearly two years. It was very fascinating to be able to compare how a character’s popularity changed over a year. I was hoping to create a bunch of interesting stats with the data. What characters improved the most, decreased the most, and had the least amount of change. It’s a shame because in the last round of characters some had nearly 20 votes. Hopefully I will find a way to retrieve the data. If someone specializes in that or has any suggestions I am open to listen. I’m not sure an auto recovery is an option or not. I just happened to think of something I sent RB a version of the file it should be as up to date prior to the holidays.
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Megane
302th Post
Bronze Customer
"Re(1):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 02:26
Ouch. That's pretty harsh.... I hope you manage to scavenge some of the data there.
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Holiday
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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master
"Re(1):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 03:42
That's terrible news! Sorry to hear that. At least the lecherous Dr. Norton's Ghost was able to recover some stuff.
Try sending the file to me? I'll see what I can recover from it. -> yumin@pl.jaring.my
Btw, where did you find that Tron + Kobun figure you have in your avatar?
Sensenic
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Red Carpet Premium Member
"Re(1):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 03:43
Ouch, that hurt. Even though I didn't vote in any round because I didn't know most of the charas well enough, I always enjoyed to read it, people's comments about the characters and so on...
Hope you can recover the data! Good luck!
"Kensu" & "Asina" such a nice couple. Damn boredom that can kill you with a sword! A friend of mine talking about elves in LOTR
Iggy
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"Re(1):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 03:46
Ouch... hope you will recover the data.
Time Mage
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"Re(1):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 06:02
Well, if Rugal has a file updated just before holidays, this can be fixed, no?
I really hope there is a solution to this, since the ARCS are now a mmcafe tradition.
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Toxico
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"Believe in the sing of Zeta"
, posted Tue 13 Jan 17:32
quote: Well, if Rugal has a file updated just before holidays, this can be fixed, no?
I really hope there is a solution to this, since the ARCS are now a mmcafe tradition.
IF I remember correctly you use to post results on the characters here on the board. If that's correct we will only have to search on past pages on the cafe searching the word 'ARCS' or the name 'Adon' until we get the data you posted, that would be a 'worst case scenario' option.
I hope you didn't lost anything valuable with the HDD crash, I always fear such issues (my books are in my HDD and ina diskett, if these to methods fails I'll lose 10 years of work).
Adon
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Red Carpet Executive Member
"Re(2):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Wed 14 Jan 00:31
quote: That's terrible news! Sorry to hear that. At least the lecherous Dr. Norton's Ghost was able to recover some stuff.
Try sending the file to me? I'll see what I can recover from it. -> yumin@pl.jaring.my
Btw, where did you find that Tron + Kobun figure you have in your avatar?
I got the avatar from a custom figures site Joe Ace Vedo
Ok this is the first thing that happens when I try to simply open the file on the disk: “Character ranking.xls cannot be accessed. The file may be-read only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored in on may not be responding.”
Option to retry: and the same thing happens
If I try to cut and paste, copy and paste or simply drag the file off the disk this is what happens: “can not copy Character Rankings: can not read from the source file or disk”
So basically Holiday even if I try to send it to you I am assuming its not going to allow me to move the file
Sensenic
1056th Post
Red Carpet Premium Member
"Re(1):Believe in the sing of Zeta"
, posted Wed 14 Jan 00:43:
quote: Well, if Rugal has a file updated just before holidays, this can be fixed, no?
IF I remember correctly you use to post results on the characters here on the board. If that's correct we will only have to search on past pages on the cafe searching the word 'ARCS' or the name 'Adon' until we get the data you posted, that would be a 'worst case scenario' option.
I hope you didn't lost anything valuable with the HDD crash, I always fear such issues (my books are in my HDD and ina diskett, if these to methods fails I'll lose 10 years of work).
Oh, Toxico's right. It's true, you can take the data from your previous ARCS threads along the 9 pages of the cafe. That with Rugal's copy should be enough so you don't have to "re-work" much on it.
"Kensu" & "Asina" such a nice couple. Damn boredom that can kill you with a sword! A friend of mine talking about elves in LOTR
[this message was edited by Sensenic on Wed 14 Jan 00:50]
Adon
1276th Post
Red Carpet Executive Member
"Re(2):Believe in the sing of Zeta"
, posted Wed 14 Jan 01:10
quote: Well, if Rugal has a file updated just before holidays, this can be fixed, no?
IF I remember correctly you use to post results on the characters here on the board. If that's correct we will only have to search on past pages on the cafe searching the word 'ARCS' or the name 'Adon' until we get the data you posted, that would be a 'worst case scenario' option.
I hope you didn't lost anything valuable with the HDD crash, I always fear such issues (my books are in my HDD and ina diskett, if these to methods fails I'll lose 10 years of work).
Oh, Toxico's right. It's true, you can take the data from your previous ARCS threads along the 9 pages of the cafe. That with Rugal's copy should be enough so you don't have to "re-work" much on it.
Yes thanks Sensenic If RB can come through with that sheet I should be able to to get back 95% plus of the data. I say that becuase I may have done 1 or 2 groups inbetween when I sent hin the data this summer and when I bought it back at the holidays. If I get it going you will have to join in this time. I should also try to take the disc to the my old university and see if it could work there by any chance
Time Mage
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"Re(3):Some bad news concerning the ARCS"
, posted Wed 14 Jan 02:07
quote: If I try to cut and paste, copy and paste or simply drag the file off the disk this is what happens: “can not copy Character Rankings: can not read from the source file or disk”
This has happened to me before, so maybe I can be of some help, since I've been able to partially solve the problem last time. Probably your diks is corrupted, but there's still one thing you can do before quitting: Make an "In depth" scan with the ScanDisk tool from windows on your floppy, and select the auto-correct (or whatever name it as in english) option. If you are lucky, after that you will be able to open the archive, although the data will be probably a bit messy.
Use Time Magic to control time and space. Extremely useful allies.
Hey, great site! That Tron needs to be made into a commericial figure...
That error message means that excel doesn't want to read the file. Try downloading and installing Open Office to fix your problem? Just open the corrupt file with Open Office and save it again, and Excel should read it normally again. I hear a lot of this problem at work, especially when someone tries opening an Excel file directly from a floppy disc and ends up corrrupting it :p
Hey, great site! That Tron needs to be made into a commericial figure...
That error message means that excel doesn't want to read the file. Try downloading and installing Open Office to fix your problem? Just open the corrupt file with Open Office and save it again, and Excel should read it normally again. I hear a lot of this problem at work, especially when someone tries opening an Excel file directly from a floppy disc and ends up corrrupting it :p
Well thank you for your suggestion but when I tried to open it with the program it took like several minutes and it just kept spinning the disk and making that data noise the floppy drives make. Finally it opened it but the sheet was blank. Not one scrap of data on it. I could save as a document like that and send it to you if you have an idea on how to make the data appear again
Holiday
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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master
"Re(2):A solution?"
, posted Thu 15 Jan 21:44:
Wow, that sounds bad. Sorry it didn't work out. Does the new saved excel file have a file size greater than 0 bytes? If it does, yeah, try sending it to me and I'll see what I can do.
[edit] oh, and have you tried opening the broken file in Microsoft Word or Notepad / Wordpad? Sometimes you can salvage some data this way.
[this message was edited by Holiday on Thu 15 Jan 21:50]
"Some bad news concerning the ARCS" 
"Re(1):Some bad news concerning the ARCS" 
such a nice couple.
"Believe in the sing of Zeta" 