PrettyTiny Film Company Pic A Week *2020*! (The END!!)

[Alliecat]

Thanks everyone.
The data recovery guy's communication is crap, & he has disappeared.  I can't go away for another week yet, but it looks like a couple days' trip in the offing.  It'll be worth it if he saves my precious files, but, if you run a business and want customers to feel valued, you have to communicate with them.
On a previous major long-term project, I backed up religiously.  I might have changed only 1 paragraph, but I immediately made 3 copies of it.  I need to start doing that again I guess.
The old drive is working so far, but it only has 10 GB to play with, and settings are different.  I need to defrag it.  Maybe that'll help with the storage space.

And then maybe consider investing in a good quality desktop computer for your main computer. In my direct ex-perience, most desktop machines have the courtesy to exhibit symptoms before failing catastrophically. Laptop machines tend to fail without warning. Yes, laptops are convenient for their portability, but... sometimes they stop working. Suddenly. And completely.

Except that the desktop lives in a windowless basement office, whereas I can work on the laptop on the porch, or the couch under a nice big window, or most importantly, on my bike desk near same big window, so I'm moving & not just sitting for hours on my bum (21 miles today).
Sigh.

So this week's pic is another double-dip because I just managed to squeak in before deadline with an entry for the PUDDLE annual contest.  This one took 4 hours of messing with lighting & FX, in such a cramped corner that I literally had to crawl back & forth under the drafting table twice for each take.  Then another hour of swearing at the slow old desktop.
SIGH.

Anyway, the theme of this year's PUDDLE is "the haunted library".