try opening you swap file with word pad you may find the pov file in there
some where or try scandisk, it may well find some lost clusters, save them
if any, these also may be be your missing files..

Rick

Ken wrote in message <36EB29B7.13747DA9@pacbell.net>...
>It was in the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless evening, in the autumn
> of the year, the sky overcast threatening rain, and the wretched cold
penetrating
> to the very core of my body, that I happened upon the ill fated house of
Beauty...
>
>   This is an image of a scene I have been working on 3 day's now for my
sisters
> birthday. I got the scene to this stage and saved it as a jpg for
reference
> purposes. I made a couple of changes and added a bunch of spheres to make
a
> string like water curtain effect around the statue.
>    I must have been a little over enthusiastic with the ambient values for
the
> spheres and their number. I already had the 72 colored spotlights
highlighting
> the ceiling and the light buffers started consuming enormous amounts of
memory.
>    After rendering for 15 min. my hard drive started groaning and
thrashing
> in an unatural way. Concerned I stopped the render using the windows task
manager    because Pov
>had stopped responding. When I restarted Pov the file and all of it's
> contents were gone. This will remain an unfinished and unreproducable
work -
> a fatal beauty if you will.
>
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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