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Sick as a parrot
Beersmith crashed.
Had it 2 years and all my recipes from over that time have completely disappeared.
If you use Beersmith - backup now!
Beer will get you through the times of no money better than money will get you through the times of no beer
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
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Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
They have to be in there somewhere, Tony. Do you have any IT bods at work?
Planning: - To get some more brews on now the weather's a bit cooler
Fermenting: - Ginger Beer experiment
Conditioning: - A normal bitter with Styrians
Drinking: - All of it!!
E-mail: arnyfris@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Yes .... but (wisely) they avoid Vista like the plague!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Do a system restore to a point when you know it was working properly.
Fermenting: Damson pale
Conditioning: Morello Cherry Lambic 2
Drinking: Schneider Weisse Tap 7 clone, Morello Cherry Lambic 1, Rauchbier
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Hi Steve. I did think of that but it's Vista we're talking about and it does things that someone with high blood pressure shouldn't even think about.
But .... STOP PRESS ... had a couple of emails with Brad who wrote Beersmith and he pointed me through the Vista minefield and have managed to find the old recipe .bak files... I couldn't get them to stay after closing initially but have managed now and have all old recipes back up.
I am so happy!
Cheers to Brad!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Marvellous news, Tony. We were heading for a tragedy there. I use Windows 7, and as much as they like to tell you it's the best thing since sliced bread, take it from me, it isn't!
Planning: - To get some more brews on now the weather's a bit cooler
Fermenting: - Ginger Beer experiment
Conditioning: - A normal bitter with Styrians
Drinking: - All of it!!
E-mail: arnyfris@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I used to be very much into image processing, and while I do use Vista Ultimate on a fairly high end PC, nothing is more reliable than my old Windows 2000 Pro box chugging along in tandem! She's seen off a few others in her time.
Must say, I'm rather reluctant to move up to Windows 7, except for the higher RAM capacity which would help considerably when I do dabble in Photoshop occasionally again... Is it really as bad as people let on? I've had very few issues with my Vista installation, and certainly nothing that a system restore to several hours previous didn't fix.
I guess, however, that this is a lesson to all of us to back-up data as part of a routine rather than an occasional action. I've almost all my data saved to a RAID-esque device which will prevent data loss even if a drive fails completely, as duplicates are stored across other drives. It's certainly a higher outlay than a large internal HDD, but I don't think I'd ever go back.
Fermenting: Damson pale
Conditioning: Morello Cherry Lambic 2
Drinking: Schneider Weisse Tap 7 clone, Morello Cherry Lambic 1, Rauchbier
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Phew that was a close one. I keep a hard copy print out of my favourite recipes in a folder... old skool!
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Oh well ... lesson learned. I emailed Brad back and told him that I love him. Oddly, I haven't heard back from him since then!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
I'm not sure Brad is that way inclined.
The forum is also a good back up for recipes if you post them!!
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I was just doing that when I got the instructions from Brad on Friday night .... I've only been a member of here for about 18 months but recipes in beersmith go back father than that, but yes .... a great way of keeping recipes!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Hi Steve
Hard to say, but, on balance, it's not bad. The thing I like is that it's self-fixing. I have a small photographic business and use a Canon EOS 5d, thankfully not the new one with its 21.7 mp and files the size of a small African country, but the 12.7 mp and full-sized image sensor on mine can make the computer and photoshop work hard. The files load into PS at 60" x 40" and when you are editing at 100% size and a resolution of 250 pixels/inch you are dealing with a 438.8 mb file, and that's big in anyone's language. The computer is an Intel Quad core Q8200 at 2.33 Ghz, 4.00 Gb Ram and the Windows 7 is the Ultimate 64 bit edition. It takes 1 second to perform an Unsharp Mask operation on the above file and 10 seconda to save it as a compressed 49.3 mb file. Not great, but with my old system with Intel 1.5 Ghz and 1.0 Gb of ram and Windows XP I would have been able to make a cuppa and watch an episode of Corrie while I was waiting! On balance, I'd say it takes a bit of getting used to and I doubt if I am using 10% of its potential, but it's certainly an improvement on earlier systems. On the other hand, it's forever automatically downloading updates at the rate of 10 to 15 a week, so there must be some big holes in there somewhere. Not at all unusual with Microsoft.
Planning: - To get some more brews on now the weather's a bit cooler
Fermenting: - Ginger Beer experiment
Conditioning: - A normal bitter with Styrians
Drinking: - All of it!!
E-mail: arnyfris@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Funky; I used to have the Q8200! I upgraded to the Q9550 (2.83Ghz) to help out on rendering Crysis at full detail and haven't looked back, but I'd still like to be running 6-8gb of RAM... unfortunately spare funds these days have gone into a new hobby - brewing!
Fermenting: Damson pale
Conditioning: Morello Cherry Lambic 2
Drinking: Schneider Weisse Tap 7 clone, Morello Cherry Lambic 1, Rauchbier
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Wise move Steve, Computers can't make beer
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Ok....Im a geek and I gotta say........ Crysis. Amazing game. The first game I played from start to finish since Halflife 2. Im a "Graphics Slut" and im proud of it!
Wanna share steam/xbox live names? Counter strike is still my game of choice for being crap at!
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Nath, I have never owned a console in my life, pure PC through and through! I usually just go for a quickgame with whatever game has a good connection and a reasonable number of players. Can't say that I'm any good at it though
Fermenting: Damson pale
Conditioning: Morello Cherry Lambic 2
Drinking: Schneider Weisse Tap 7 clone, Morello Cherry Lambic 1, Rauchbier
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
I have to own a console, not because im "cool"! Far from it. I have been playing Steetfighter for as long as I can remember and PC's arnt great for that kinda thing. But my main love is pc games. My thumbs are totally dyslexic (tried many a fps on a console and Pfffssst!) so a mouse keyboard combo is what I can relate to. Grab yourself counterstrike source and have a blast, it may be old but damn its good! PC love back at'cha!
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
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