How to lose three hours 'work'

[Taz-in-Space]

Sounds like one of those 'Born Loser' moments!

Sorry! Taz couldn't help himself...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

if that's a reference to a movie, it might help if you explained that.

[deccan]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
if that's a reference to a movie, it might help if you explained that.

It's a comic strip!

[Cirvol]

Loser, you really need to run a scandisk on those drives! Even using 8k or 64k cluster sizes, 375 meg should never take up 12 gig... thats like 36 times bigger... something seems sick.

Secondly, you should run se4 from a local drive - esp if you have auto-hibernate on...
when a network request goes out to a hibernating machine, it could take 10 seconds for the disk to spin up again... which could cause repeated time out errors for many programs, including se4.

Good luck

[Loser]

Ran scandisk, on both machines. No problems anywhere. I assume there is no problem, just some communication issues... odd ones, but that's nothing new to my little network.

As for the network request, Hibernation is different than Standby. A Hibernating computer is turned off, it just saves the contents of RAM to a file so that everything comes back up when you turn the system back on. Unless it has Wake on LAN that network request is going to go completely unheard. I do not serve files from the Hibernating machine, it shares nothing. I also do not allow it to Hibernate on it's own, I have always controlled when my machines turn on and off, controlled it as much as I could, anyway.

Either way, I've got Diablo II, Medieval Total War, and the Viking Invasion Expansion and a seven hundred megabyte file for Hibernation taking up way too much space on my system right now. I'll move SE back to my system shortly, I suppose, but first I'll have to decided which of those two games I'm ditching. Probably Total War... I wonder if I can run that across the network...

Maybe mapping the Space Empires share as a network drive would work better... Or something.