Reading yesterday’s post makes me laugh. Little did I know, when I was complaining about my inability to get anything done, what I was headed for. Last night I had a full hard drive crash. Dead. Done. Nothing would help it. I tried verifying, repairing, erasing, restoring . . . and nothing. I tried to download a new system.
A trip to the Apple store this morning, followed by a trip to a third-party authorized repair center, a new hard drive, and four hours (or more) of restoring from the last Time Machine backup (which happened at 3:58 yesterday afternoon), I am back up and running. I lost very little. I worked on a Christmas card and letter in between last backup and crash, but both of those are easy to reproduce.
Here I am, back at it. Making sure my archives are properly organized, my backups are running (both of my external drives) . . . I’m a file-safety girl.
My computer seems to be running very efficiently with my new SSD, which I hope means I can get a few more years out of this iMac.
If you don’t make use of any kind of backup system, I strongly suggest you consider doing so. If you’re on a Mac, they make it really easy for you, all you need is an external hard drive and time machine will do the rest. If I had lost everything, I would’ve been devastated. The circumstances by which I would lose everything would be very remote, given how many external hard drives I archive to, but still. I only lost a couple of hours. Not a big deal at all.
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