Did you check the Recycle Bin?

Did you search your whole HD?



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Me and leslie Judge are scanning the entire .map file for faults right now.

Also, Sine, if it's gone.. like, really gone, can't you sue the guy or something?

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Map-Review | Digital Core | The Matrix: Unplugged

Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Well, if it happens it happens.

And sue the guy

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

Jeez... and it was looking so awsome too... Should have burned a CD copy. Wow... legacy lost to the faults of computers.

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"Ahhhh!! I'm Burnin'! I'm Burnin!!!" - Cleaner from Max Payne 2

He can't sue the guy. Anything under the guise of "Data Recovery" always comes with a clause that states that "Not all data is guaranteed to be recovered. Any and all data may be lost permanently, or could be damaged beyond usable recovery. The recoverer is not responsible for data lost or damaged during the process." This is basically a bullsh!t way to cover the repairman's *** . However, I'm uncertain as to why you didn't just keep the HDD if you knew it was good. It's not hard to install an IDE drive into a new computer at all. Just slip it into a static bag and presto. Good to go till you get the new box.

What you could do is get him if on paper it was stated that he would perform services that he obviously did not perform, and after multiple attempts you were still unable to have your agreement met. This will only work if you have a contractual agreement with him. Very few courts will honour verbal contracts.

More or less your best bet is just to get a .bsp and decompile it. It's a sketchy process, but it would at least give you something to continue with. I've used one that was designed for RtCW before to learn how to edit things in Radient, and what comes out is often a mess, or doesn't make sense. But it may be more successful for you since A)It's your product to begin with, and B) There may be another decompiler that apparently isn't 3rd party from the editor itself.

Best of luck to you Sine, but I think that you're quite out of luck if you intended to sue the guy.

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Sine........... I'm sorry. This sucks ****. If this would have happened to me............
I would probaly be screaming the the repairmans face, threatening him with his own screwdriver. I think you find out what rights this guy has. You definatly follow this up, lawsuit I say.

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I feel like someone has died.

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

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[This message has been edited by Ubuu (edited January 08, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Ubuu (edited January 08, 2004).]

Sine, you said the /maps folder is empty. You originally did the map for JO. Is a *.map file in the JO folder?

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Multiplayer Game Alias: II88BlackOps
JA is awesome!
Corrupted Paths, my WIP for JA. Screens here: http://imagebase.freewebspace.com/photo.html

My quote: "People choose to side with the left, and the others choose to side with the right. I go forward."

Unless he just cut and paste...

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/me cries

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To artificial life, all reality is virtual.

The computer guy, who was very distraught that he might have wiped my work, had the hard drive sent to a data recovery service. I'm being optimistic.

The best of luck man, Ive been looking forward to this too

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

This is the part where you take a family member of his hostage for "extra motivation".

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Wow, that sucks.

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1 of 14 | 6-16 Never Forget. | Click.

Shouldn't have clicked. I really dislike losing work.

How long were you working on it? Seemed like a long time ago when you first showcased it.

good luck man

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" You killed me. That wasn't very nice."
Noble Gases

I hope you don't have to pay for the data recovery service.. they can get extremely pricey, whether or not they actually recover anything.

smells like a scam.

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*Remnant Temple beta taking a bit longer than planned but ill get it done*
Light And Darkness

Hmmm... he *could* remove the precious file(s). THEN, he could get you to pay for a recovery service, where he simply puts it back in.

That's very, very hypothetical though.

Good luck.

Eh, that really sucks. Hope they can recover it. I had never seen it before, very amazing work. Anyway hope it works out.

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Oh...man. x10^9

I need me lucky charms!

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Multiplayer Game Alias: II88BlackOps
JA is awesome!
Corrupted Paths, my WIP for JA. Screens here: http://imagebase.freewebspace.com/photo.html

My quote: "People choose to side with the left, and the others choose to side with the right. I go forward."

Wow... doesn't it seem like this sort of thing always happens to the big projects? Something always goes wrong and the project is lost...

There can be only one explanation: God is against video game editing.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

NoOO!!! He'de better get the files back!!

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"Laugh it up Fuzzball!"
-Han Solo

Really sorry to hear that.

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