Kbird1 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Just another warning for those who have NOT backed up their User Libraries at all, or recently, as I have seen numerous reports of this , and it finally happened to me.... PSA : backup you User Library Folder Now ! found here : C:\Documents\Chief Architect Premier X13 Data\Database Libraries you can copy and paste the file back into the folder then change the extension to .bac to do this simply. but would suggest a more proactive automatic solution long term like SyncBackFree. V. 10.1.24.0 is the latest as of posting... https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbfree-new.html No Error message, no nothing.... I went to put in some Rollout shelves into a cabinet and my User Library was empty ! I checked the Database Libraries Folder and sure enough my User Library file is 81kb .... thankfully I had a Macrium backup from 2 days ago and a Syncback one from 3 days ago or I would be really pissed off, years of making and collecting gone. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, Kbird1 said: Mick I personally have mine in onedrive, which has versioning/historical data. no issues having it in the cloud if thats a nice solve for you. Sorry to hear about it, thats frustrating 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 11 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said: I personally have mine in onedrive, which has versioning/historical data. no issues having it in the cloud if thats a nice solve for you. Sorry to hear about it, thats frustrating Thanks, but hopefully that is not the only place you have it..... and I assume you have the PAID OneDrive if you have History and Versioning , which many won't, but as with all backup solutions redundancy is critical. ie at least 2 backs plus the Cloud..... Mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 8 minutes ago, Kbird1 said: at least 2 backs plus the Cloud. Really no need for that. I have 100s of versions in my file history online, I'm comfortable with that, and at $2/mo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 This good advice is only really heeded or applied once disaster has struck. Begs the question, "What happened?" .. and Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, HumbleChief said: This good advice is only really heeded or applied once disaster has struck. Begs the question, "What happened?" .. and Why? True some have to learn the Hard Way ........ Thankfully I had my backups , so just lost my time which seems to be the usual case with CA snafu's. As to the 2nd part --- No Idea , i started Chief like normal to do a quick Redline Fix and didn't notice anything askew until I navigated out to the User Library for my usual Rollout Shelf and the User Library was empty.... Why CA suddenly decided the Library needed replacing with the default File I have no idea, but have seen it reported a lot with x13 , a lot more than x12 , so thought I'd just put it out there as a reminder to Others. Mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Another strategy that seems to work OK (for me at least) for backups is Carbonite. It's maybe $55 a year and I've used it maybe 3 times in the many years I've had it but those 3 times have been absolute life savers. I also just remembered that I took my Database folder out of my DropBox and have it solely on the computer HD. Might rethink that given Mick's experience.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I frequently manually save my "User Library's" per version to One Drive and also to a USB HD that I have so if everything goes away, I have those back ups. DJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Orum Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 I use the export library feature, and export it to a folder on my hard drive, which in turn is automatically backed up to Dropbox. Plus two other hard drives. Seems to work ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 56 minutes ago, Ed_Orum said: I use the export library feature, and export it to a folder on my hard drive, which in turn is automatically backed up to Dropbox. Plus two other hard drives. Seems to work ok. I am personally not a fan of this method as all of my assets are pulling from a particular material and model folder which is shared across multiple machines and are used in several other 3d softwares. If I want to update a material I simply replace the root file. With this method, your assets are repackaged as a calibz file instead of a calib and the assets are pooled and stored in your data folder, no longer linked to source material files of your choosing. Just thought I would put it out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightdecor Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I am a fairly new user and this just happened to me. I had a corrupt file that 'yes' I did open it. It was some time, now library is missing. I read about backing up. ok, will do this moving forward, however I do I resolve this issue? Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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