Blend

[ginger44]

Rich, was this recent?

Keith, I carefully copy & paste all the instructions, so I can follow or think them thru - seeing what Rich does with software is similar to a sharp smack round the earhole it has encouraged me to get my brain into gear and look at things differently.

[molucca]

Yvonne,

An older study. I lost the entire hard drive, and had to reinstall everything. I recovered some files from my archives. The hard drive was making noise and got turned off never to start again. I had planned to archive my files to disk.

Rich

[ginger44]

that HD that died - just in case you didn't try this. I had a HD crash on me and one of the tech guys where I worked at the time connected it to the network, I have no idea what magic he used but he said that although it didn't run he could view it and took an image and copied the lot to CD's for me.

[molucca]

We tried lots of things wiht the HD, but it was never accessible. I had to write to lots of software companies for my program information. They were very responsive.

In Xara, you can brush on saturation or desaturation. E3 doesn't have any of those transparency capabilities. In this case, I saturated the image in back, and erased the image in front. I use clouds mostly. That way, you can selective saturate by removing areas of the base image.

Erase blending is non destructive, and you can always remove a stroke.

If you wanted to cross fade two image, you need to make an eraser that varies in opacity.

Rich

[ss-kalm]

Rich,

One way I've had recovering data from a bad drive, is stick it in the freezer for a couple of hours and then reconnect it ...... Can't harm to give it a try!

[steve.ledger]

This is off-topic, I apologize to Rich.

Can't harm to give it a try!

Actually it can. You were just lucky Keith, the 'freezer myth' has been a commonly perpetuated data recovery trick for many years.
If the data is very important, don't risk further damager by putting a drive in the freezer Get it professionally looked at.

[ss-kalm]

Maybe a myth, but it did work for me anyway. Now I admit my data wasn't critical so I wouldn't have lost a great deal anyway.

[Soquili]

Steve the two links you posted seem to have missed the entire purpose of 'freezing' the drive.

It has nothing to do with shrinking the hardware components within the structure.

Freezing is to help keep electronics at a cooler temperature for as long as possible before they heat up and become unstable.

A drive with a crashed read/write head cannot be recovered using the freezing technique. Only a drive that has on board electronics that act up when they are 'hot' can be recovered by 'freezing'.


Sorry for inturrupting your thread Ron.

[steve.ledger]

Yes this is no place to argue who is right about this.
I think this was Rich's thread anyway.

[jeff21up]

wow that's nice!