I never really check out much of the past posts here at NSS. I kinda just rely on others who are searching for music to let me know if links are down. Then I do the best I can to re-upload said post.
With the death of Megaupload & the freeze-out by Mediafire, with the trying of various filehosting platforms like Fileden & Drop.io, with the loss of one 8T external drive & the frying of one motherboard, I realized that most everything still breathing life here was on MEGA or re-upped to MEGA.
This week-end I decided to go back into the archives & check the status of past offerings. It was the usual swiss cheese & old lace holes I was expecting & I was doing okay until I got to South Korea in the Musick Around the World project. When I checked Shin Jung Yung, I got the surprise message: "The file you are trying to download is no longer available".
I've received this message before when for some unknown-to-me reason MEGA deleted files. I noted which files needed re-upped & went on to check Japan 2.0. To my horror, all of the files garnered the same "no longer available" message. As I jumped forward sporadically I became more & more horrified. Everything from this labor of love I had been so proud of, from South Korea all the way back to the United States, was a gaping black hole of missing files. It appears that nearly 50GB of uploaded materials had just vanished.
ASIA:
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region)
Philippines
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
Papua New Guinea
New Zealand
PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS
Palau
Northern Mariana Islands (in Political Union with the United States)
Guam (US Territory)
Federated States of Micronesia
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
Fiji
Tuvalu
Nauru
Marshall Islands
Kiribati
Western Samoa
Tonga
Cook Islands (self-governing Parliamentary Democracy)
French Polynesia
SOUTH AMERICA:
Chile
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay
Bolivia
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Brazil
French Guiana (French Territory?)
Suriname
Guyana
Venezuela
CARIBBEAN ISLAND NATIONS/TERRITORIES:
Aruba (Netherlands)
Curaçao (Netherlands)
Trinidad & Tobago
Grenada
Barbados
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Saint Lucia
Martinique (French Territory)
Dominica
Guadeloupe (French Territory)
Montserrat (British Territory)
Antigua & Barbuda
Saint Kitts & Nevis
St. Martin/St. Maarten
Anguilla
British Virgin Islands (British Overseas Territory)
US Virgin Islands (US Territory)
Puerto Rico (US Territory)
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Bermuda (British Territory)
The Bahamas
Cuba
Cayman Islands
Jamaica
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Panama
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
El Salvador
Guatemala
Belize
NORTH AMERICA:
Mexico
Canada
United States
71 countries MIA. Japan 2.0, Jamaica, & United States (Fugs mega-post) were among my most viewed & d'll posts of all times for me. All the back-up files are on the dead external drive. Man, am I up Shit Creek in the proverbial shit storm in a leaking boat sans paddle.
I could just say F! it & go onward, but my pride is killing me. I am mighty thrilled with the effort that went into the around the world sojourn, so just shining it on doesn't work for me. I'm going to re-post up what I can quicky, stop chewing my nails, & try to recover. So if you don't hear much from me for a while, this is why. I'll try to post up my progress reports as I proceed. Thanks for listening.
Pulling my hair out trying to recover Japan. Digging out old Jun Togawa files. Saw I had 20th Jun Togawa. Here's a taste & a hold...
Jun Togawa - 20th Jun Togawa, God Ocean Records COGO 0102, 2000.
decryption code in comments
Like the Radio???
Finale
Joe le Taxi
Because the Night
Casablanca Moon
All Tomorrow's Parties
well,
NØ