Sorry to hear about this loss, Pstemarie. People who deprive one of simple property that one has purchased are bad enough, but stealing one's projects, art, programming, and other results of creative effort are really stealing more. They are taking chunks of life, or at least what was made with life's energy, and that energy can never be recovered. I'm not generally an advocate of physical solutions to RL social problems, but I'm also aware that most activity of this nature wouldn't happen if the person doing it thought he would come to harm as a direct result. In short, if someone again tries to give you a bad day, I hope your dog has a good day...
Anyway, I echo others who hope that the time off you are taking from NWN is temporary and that you stick around these parts, even if you don't plan to build again.
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I can't imagine how I'd feel if my ongoing mod and writing work were lost in this way. It's got me thinking of looking into an off-site backup option, just in case.
Yeah, I have a scheme where I backup locally to a somewhat remote external drive on my home wireless network and that drive is hidden away from human scum, though that isn't much protection from fires, flooding, etc. There are
several cloud-based services that are "free" and have a high enough storage limit to be useful. It's tempting to give something like ADrive a try. And, the ability to get to my files when travelling without worrying if I have copied everything over to a USB key or whatever would be very useful.
