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Hi,

As I do not have my own website, I parked all my test sceneries on megaupload so that I could ask some people to check them out.
Those sceneries were zipped and contained all the relevant files necessary to run the scenery.
In order to save disk space I did not keep a copy because I thought they would be in a safe place so that I could continue to amend and improve the versions I had on my own hard disk.
Now, as you may have heard, the dear FBI has arrested the people of Megaupload, and the site is off line.
Has anyone any idea of how to retrieve my files I thought would be in a safe place (and do not tell me that I have to ask the FBI to send them back to me, please, because for once I am not in a joking mood:rolleyes:)?
 
Thks for the hint, Dick.
Unfortunately, as you said, it only works sometimes and as with Megaupload most and maybe all servers have shut down I do not have any idea how I could possibly log in to their database to get to my files.
Tried all tools but do not even get the first homepage of the website, only a red cross.
 
Can't you ask the people to whom you sent the files to return them?
 
Ouch. Writable CDs and DVDs, wonderful things - just make sure you verify whatever is written to the shiny disk. But again, ouch.
 
Or a cheap, small, external HDD just for storing things.


In any case, this sucks. And as was pointed out, a public appeal and/or a letter or an e-mail to MU might help.
 
Hi George,

Well, I know that you downloaded a first beta version of Ceuta as your comment read that it must be a joke because the whole scenery was off by a couple of hundred meters :D (Hey, I did not lose my sense of humour;)). I would indeed be much obliged if and when in the unlikely case of your having kept a copy somewhere instead of having thrashed it straightaway, you would send it to mcswennenatgmaildotcom.
Unfortunately I do not remember :banghead:to whom I sent the download code for the Alboran and the Larkspur ferries, as well as for a CV77 Strait of Gibraltar scenery, for a part of the Spanish fleet with Rota Navy base scenery, for the port of Ostend and port of Ramsgate photoreal scenery and for the former Camp Holland scenery in Afghanistan. All is FSX, by the way.
So whoever reads this, if you did download it, it would save me uncountable hours of work to find everything back. So maybe I should indeed contact the FBI hoping to find a kind soul there?

Roby

PS Heretic, what does MU stand for? And I did store some of it on an external HD but, as you know, when things start going wrong, they go wrong all the way and (I feel embarrassed to tell it) my 400 Gig external HD, where I indeed stored all zip files ever downloaded of FS8, FS9 and FSX (perhaps but not certain) also included those previously mentioned sceneries, has decided to give up on me (do not laugh, it died after a recent January rogue thunderstorm).
Bottom line is, though, that storing your files somewhere else is apparently not as secure as you might think. Maybe we should also sign the petition against COPA to keep a free internet (it is not because some abuse it that it should be curtailed) outweighing adavantages and disadvantages.
Oops, that was a rather large PS but I hope you get what I am trying to explain.
 
Hi Roby,

Unfortunately I didn't keep a copy of your Ceuta. However, it shouldn't take long to rebuild it using FSET.

George
 
George,

Would not that be a kind of understatement?
What about all the custom buildings, the shore lines, the freeway traffic, the flattens, the ... etc.
With the Prokey of ADE (not yet available then) it would have become much easier to move the whole caboodle so that it would have been in the right place but now I have to remake almost all of it and disguising the photoreal underground so as to be able to upload it.
Sure, my new photoreal scenery is better but I still would have liked to use some of the old that I do not have any longer.
Thanks for checking though.
Still, I do not think it is fair to simply shut down a website without taking into account the consequences for all those that are using it in good faith.
 
Roby

I have a zip from you named "TEF Larkspur Ferries." I'll send it if you can use it.

This is why I'm not yet a big proponent of the "cloud".

Bob
 
Megaupload CLEARLY states that the service should not be used to keep backups!!

I have a DVD-RW which has all my projects on that I update this disc every 2 days or after a major change in a project...this disc is kept safe in my draws.

ANY file uploading sites state that the service should not be used to store/backup important files. Let this be your lesson learnt!

Anyway, it's not good to loose all your stuff, it has happened to me on a few occasions before i got the DVD-RW.
 
It's no secret the MegaUpload facilitated piracy and that access to it had already been cut-off in a number of countries. Given that it's hardly fair to complain when it's eventually taken down.
 
Hi,

Thanks for letting me know what I should not have done.
I was unaware of all these things and the honest truth is that I never bothered to find out either (who would think of something like that to happen to a site that is big and advocated on this forum some time back as well).
The zip files I stored on megaupload were complete sceneries or complete craft. It is not that I cannot find the various parts and textures back on my PC but those have been altered and as I sometimes bungle up I used the ones on Megaupload as the base files and for letting others test them.
If I had known what you now all tell me, it is obvious I should not have done so but it is too late to dump the well when the calf has already drowned :).
I'd appreciate it, Bob, if you would send me the Larkspur file you downloaded or at least the textures of it because it contains the original photoreal (corrected for perspective) textures I tried to improve. And I agree about your hesitance about the cloud thing.
Oh, and by the way, could someone point me to a 'reliable' alternative?
And as for the righteousness of shutting down the website, who am I to say it is or is not as I never looked at the contents or links it contained, although I do oppose (even being a European;)) everything that curtails internet freedom.
Yup, I learned one more lesson.
 
As an alternative online file storage, I use Microsoft's SkyDrive, and I have another backup for files on Fliesplat. AS well as my hardrive and DVD!

Dick
 
Admitting hereby that I am a layman when it comes to those things: never heard about those possibilities. But thanks a bunch, I will try them out.
 
SkyDrive gives you 25GB storage for free... but you cannot use a direct URL link to the file. Downloaders must go through the SkyDrive site.

FileSplat claims 32GB storage plus up to 2GB filesize. In reality, I think it allows only 4GB storage per account. You can have one account per email address.

Dick
 
hcornea said:
You could also try

or a cheap FTP solution from someone like Godaddy.com
(online file folder "FTP" like service 100Gb, unlimited bandwidth, $1.99/month --- and no, I don't work for them)
http://www.godaddy.com/email/online-storage.aspx?ci=55861

Pretty sure you can directly link to files in this account.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the GoDaddy.com recommendation. I just purchased 5 years of 100GB online storage for $83.40. That works out to $1.39/month! Cheap insurance at twice the price.

I was absolutely amazed at just how "cheap" 100GB from them is compared to nearly anyone else.
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Godaddy.com...............Dropbox
$1.99/mo........versus...$19.99/mo

I will say for the record though that it is without question difficult to get instructions from. I wound up having to call the support center to find out how to access the new online storage I'd just paid for... :rolleyes:

I had forgotten that my old friend Bob Parsons is the CEO of GoDaddy.com. I worked with him nearly 40 years ago when he was working on his first project: QuickVerse (DOS version). Man has he come a long ways since those days! We quite literally were working from a corner of his living room back then. :rotfl:
 
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Yes ... not "user friendly" to get around.

It seems to be quite reliable however.
 
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