Week 32

Week 32:

HND Project

Unfortunately, I ran into a problem this week that could have seriously affected my Project.  At home, I work on my assignments and make use a Dell laptop. While it can be very reliable at times, it does tend to have the habit of overheating when I am using programs like Steam or Unreal Engine 4. Eventually, it’ll simply crash and force itself to switch off to cool-down. 

This week I had made the mistake of overusing my laptop when I was updating my Unreal Engine 4 project. As a result, my laptop then overheated and then crashed. Once I managed to get it up-and-running again, I made an unfortunate discovery and found I had lost several weeks worth of Project-related work that had previously be saved on my Dell laptop due to this.

Fortunately, however, I had been creating copies of my Project beforehand on USB Sticks and USB Drives. In addition, I was also recording my progress on this blog. As such, it was only a matter of time before I eventually backtracked and had recovered what I had lost due to the damages. I didn't get much done this but week but I thought this was noteworthy of mentioning.

As a warning, I believe its safe to say and common sense that one should always create and keep copies of Projects, Assignments, Images, etc. I was lucky this time, but had I not been I would have to start again from scratch and wasted so much trying to recover what I had lost, and the time I had already used up before it had happened.