OK, so it's been a hectic couple of months, what with moving to the farm, getting the horses settled in, vacating the old place, fighting off the french cheese invaders, and so forth, so I haven't had much chance to play with Carrara 2 yet. So this weekend I figured I'd take a break from fixing up the house and play a bit. First thing I did was go to the eovia site and download the patch, then I installed it. Bad mistake. Very bad mistake. Now Carrara won't start at all. OK, no problem, I'll just reinstall Carrara, thinks I. I THINK WRONG. Because, the Carrara 2 CD is in some unnamed box among the many unnamed boxes in my garage (picture the last scene of Indiana Jones). So far I have found: The manual, the invoice/receipt, the content CD, the secret code, all the stuff from the Metacreations version, all the stuff from the Carrara Studio upgrade, but not the application CD for Carrara 2. BECAUSE I AM A BOZO WHO DOES NOT PUT THINGS AWAY PROPERLY. sigh At least, this will give me incentive to finish unpacking the mess in the garage. The moral of the story is: Don't be installing any patches unless you have the original CD in your hot little hands. Please learn from my bozocity. The NEXT BOZO COULD BE YOU. The sad thing is, I probably won't learn from it at all. I AM JUST THAT MUCH OF A BOZO.

I feel your pain, I have a similar problem with my wife. She likes to put the CD she takes out of the player or drive into the case of the CD she is putting into the player or drive, not the original case it came from. So anytime I need something, I have to follow the trail of bread crumbs. Open Diablo II CD case, no Diable II, but there is a Nine Inch Nails CD, find NIN CD case, open case, no Diablo II, but there is a Jay and Silent Bob DVD, put NIN CD in case, go find Jay and Silent Bob case, open case, no Diable II, but there is a...

You see the problem.

Good luck,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Freeware and commercial 3D extensions
http://digitalcarversguild.com

I hang my head in shame, as I do the same thing. I am sometimes not very bright. On the plus side, at least I'm getting my music CD's straightened out.

I know exactly what you mean. I finished a major remodeling project on my house a month ago. new electrial, new plumbing, new insulation the inside was pretty much gutted. I stored everything in the garage and now I can't find a thing. Took me two weeks to find my fan. Now I don't need it. Luckly, I took my Carrara 2 disks and manual put them in my suitcase. (I stayed with friends while the remodeling was going on.) When I moved back in I install C2 and down loaded the patch. I've got a cable modem now, What a diffrerence that makes! No more overnight downloads.

Glad to hear there is an upside to moving (getting stuff organized). We've moved four times in the last five years. We're getting lighter and lighter! -Kix

I moved to San Francisco a year ago and decided not to move out of my apartment at the conclusion of my lease for two reasons -- one, the landlord LOWERED the rent $200 per month (that's how bad the rental scene is here in SF after the dot-com bomb), and two, I have JUST managed to find everything after moving here from Arizona. I couldn't bear the idea of having to look for all my stuff again. My ex used to do the same things with CD's. That's part of why we're no longer together. So, beware, CD case shifters! It may seem like an easy solution to keeping your CD's safe from harm, but it can backfire on you. - Dex