EBB-Brewer
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So I opened up BeerSmith v3 (win10) yesterday to get ready for running my brew day and to my dismay all of my recipes brewed/planned/researched were gone. I wasn't sure if I had a filesystem corruption or another problem but luckily I had a print out of the recipe that I was planning to run and was able to execute based on that.
I was able to track down through the forums the restore from backup functionality and luckily I was able to find a viable file to restore to get my data back. I did lose one recipe but that was in planning so I can recreate it without much issue. My biggest concern was loosing all of my notes that I have recorded from my sessions.
More than anything I expect to be able to rely on software I purchase to store information reliably. I can understand some situations where you have to account for multi user conflicts and different transaction schemes that could lead to data loss but I am using this simply on my desktop with a local drive and not trying to do anything out of the ordinary. From looking at the forums this has been going on for a while and its good to have the restore function but it seems there needs to be focus on fixing a core storage issue and not blame Win10 updates for the data loss.
Just posting this so that there is awareness that this problem is still occurring.
I was able to track down through the forums the restore from backup functionality and luckily I was able to find a viable file to restore to get my data back. I did lose one recipe but that was in planning so I can recreate it without much issue. My biggest concern was loosing all of my notes that I have recorded from my sessions.
More than anything I expect to be able to rely on software I purchase to store information reliably. I can understand some situations where you have to account for multi user conflicts and different transaction schemes that could lead to data loss but I am using this simply on my desktop with a local drive and not trying to do anything out of the ordinary. From looking at the forums this has been going on for a while and its good to have the restore function but it seems there needs to be focus on fixing a core storage issue and not blame Win10 updates for the data loss.
Just posting this so that there is awareness that this problem is still occurring.