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| Posted by T3NZ3N at Apr 23, 2020, 2:55:30 PM |
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Re: Lost All Libraries Ya, I wrote that when i was very upset. If I wasn't so upset I never would have registered for the forum. After I was able to retrieve my lost data from the cloud, I was much less upset, but the post was in the mod queue and couldn't be edited. So you got the first draft, and that's what you got. Not really my fault. I like the program, and I think it should have a much larger user base than it does, and perhaps it's because there are people with problems who are too polite to come into a forum and say that the program has caused them some problem and so they stopped using it. I think criticism is important. It's what drives improvement. If we complain that something is too harsh or critical, we're taking things too personally. People get upset at a problem, not a person. As I understand it, sh3d is FOSS, and it's on SourceForge, so there really shouldn't be any specific person that a complaint can be directed at. But it does kind of seem like Puybaret may be the only persona really programming it, so I understand wanting to take it personally, but there's no need for that. Anyway, I'm a user, I'm still using it, I like it a lot, but it certainly doesn't mean there's not room for improvement, or that there aren't actual bugs that may not have been worked out yet. It does seem to me that the program has undergone some changes from it's initial concept, which to me seems like it was originally developed to perhaps not be completely FOSS, and then was later made completely FOSS, so that the controls in place in the XML and Prefs folder, essentially locking our furniture up, seems out of place, and perhaps outdated. I still think it should be in a folder with individual OBJ files etc, that cannot be easily lost or overwritten, and more transparent and easy to find and back up, and share, rather than confined to this program only, even if it means taking a few more seconds to start up by reading the contents of an OBJ folder. But that's my opinion, based on my experience, and not a personal attack. I really do think we need to be able to run two different instances of the program, and be able to copy and paste between them, especially if the program is a separate Portable install, with all of it's own separate files. There are specific elements of one house we may just want to easily copy and paste to and from other houses. I think that those two things would also eliminate whatever is happening, and eliminate the risk of losing data or having something overwritten or even mishandling xml or prefs files, etc. |
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