Unlike those big names who have tons of machines to use, we only have one primary development machine (a macbook pro). Last week, it failed to boot due to the famous graphic card failure and it had to be sent back to Apple. When it’s ready, we discovered that the hard drive failed (!!) as well. Long story short, I got a (almost) blank new hard drive with a shiny new Leopard in it. No sweat, ’cause we had several backup methods and no important data is lost. But the story doesn’t end here: as the logic board was swapped, our Time Machine backup on an external drive wasn’t recognized any more and we had to spend the time fixing it. That was easy; the hard part is that tons of permission issues came after it and we simply couldn’t write stuff to that external drive any more…

All right, so now the shortest version of this story is that in order to make sure Pagico 4 is released as perfect as possible, we have no choice but to postpone our original schedule (August) to September, due to all the troubles we had in the past two weeks. A good thing to report is that as of now, everything is back to normal and we’re resuming the development work. Many exciting improvements and tasks are done, and we’re rolling out another beta build in just a few days.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you very much for your understanding.

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After the troubles that we’ve been through, we discovered that in some rare cases that the Apple Disk Utility may render the entire drive un-mountable (ruining the directories). This is a critical problem because many are using the Time Machine on a single external drive. We’ll share more details with you guys about our findings later.