Sentinel+

[Risha]

I've been reading the whole New Efforts loop and I recalled that I DID use Sentinel+ on all my toons.  Then went white as I also remembered my computer crashed and I did a reset and a new install last year.  It occurs to me that the program AND all the info I'd faithfully recorded for my many, many toons (and a friend's account, too) was long gone.

I hate to say it, but it's been long enough that I don't recall the power sets of some of my newer, favorite toons...though I have screenshots so that will help if I must rebuild.

Where would this stuff be stored, and what would they be named so I can look for it on my computer?  Many thanks.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Same directory as you ran Sentinel+ from IIRC.

[Thirty-Seven]

The default naming system for each character was:

{Global}.{Server}.{Character Name}.xml

[Risha]

Thanks.  I have no Sentinel+ or Sentinel+ folder either inside or outside my City of Heroes folder, I've checked the back up drives I've had, and apparently I didn't copy that on them...too bad, so sad.

[MWRuger]

I found mine by doing a search for *.xml. It took a little while but all was revealed!

[Risha]

Yes I tried all searches.  No go.   I guess I was too frenzied by the crash close to a work deadline that I didn't think of Sentinel...I did think of icon, and I have most of my screenshots, but Sentinel wasn't in my City of Heroes folder to transfer over to external drives.  Sads.

[MWRuger]

Yes I tried all searches.  No go.   I guess I was too frenzied by the crash close to a work deadline that I didn't think of Sentinel...I did think of icon, and I have most of my screenshots, but Sentinel wasn't in my City of Heroes folder to transfer over to external drives.  Sads.

I am so sorry. I have had this happen enough times that I am pretty paranoid. I have a local backup, a net backup and my most critical stuff is backed up and stored at a separate location. I don't even count optical backup onto Blu-ray. Not sure I trust those a few years down the road.

[Risha]

Well, I have Carbonite, so Sentinel and it's folders/files would have transferred automatically over there, but I think in August 2013 when my Alienware crashed I had forgotten what Sentinel was and why I should save it and when I did the freeze Carbonite it would have saved it, but not more than a month if I didn't restore the files (I think).  I was more concerned about my music (not at all about my work), and the old external had burned out at or near that time.

For work I have a passport and flash and I still use Wordperfect because I love it and one of the things I love is the macro to save my doc to 2 drives at once.  THAT I've trained myself to do.  I have a couple of other externals to check, but I'm pretty sure they won't have it because I forgot what it was....worse is, I can't recall the build of one of my more recent, very strong heroes.  Superstrength or willpower?  And with invulnerability, I think.  I loved him, and have his costume, but I didn't write down his powers and I screenshot a pretty  screens without trays. :P  So totally my fault.

[MWRuger]

Yeah, my music files are the ones I have backed up in several places. So much work in making sure the album art is correct, track titles are exact, artist is correct. At a near TB, that is work I don't want to do again.