"No I hate technology,
it always breaks down on me,
and now my life sucks you see,
always and forever."
(to be sung in a kip-like voice)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Computer Woes
Brad and I seem to have the worst luck with computers, equipment, printers, technology in general. And my home computer has been no exception. We had a lot of problems when we first bought our mac, but after a few weeks, and some long winded complaints to managers, we finally got it fixed, and have enjoyed it ever since. It has been my life line to the outside world, my creative outlet, keeper of my memories and all things me. But one seemingly normal day brought with it a terrible incident. The Mac died! Just stopped. I did what I could to revive it, but to no avail. I wasn't too stressed out, because we had it backed up. Of course we had it backed up...right? (who doesn't back up their computer? Silly really.) But a breath stopping conversation with my husband reveled that we did NOT have it backed up. WHAT?!?!? I guess our communication skills are defiantly lacking, because I was certain that Brad told me that he had gotten it backed up. If I had known it wasn't, Brad wouldn't have been living his life nag free for the last while. So, I begrudgingly took a trip to the Mac store. My least favorite place. I walk in, holding the lifeless computer, and can see them wringing their hands, their evil wheels spinning as they try to contemplate how much they squeeze out of me. Dignity, money...whatever they want. A short while later, they confirm the worst. The hard drive has crashed. They can't retrieve any information. Luckily they can replace the hard drive for free (what? Free is in their vocabulary?) But, I sit with weeks of work ahead of me. Luckily, my pictures, and my scrapbook supplies are all safely put away on DVD's. But the work it is going to take me to put them all back on, keyword them. Re edit videos, update documents, gather all my information again, is daunting! And believe me, the first thing I will be doing is supervising the back up of the system. There will not be a miscommunication again. Wish me luck as I undertake this stupid project, that could have been so easily avoided.
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Sad day for you. Jason actually brought up to me the other day that we need to back up our stuff b/c Mac hard drives always have a tendency to crash. I think this is a sign and we'll be doing our own shortly!
Good luck!
That sounds awful. The only thing I am wondering now is... Are you still a "Mac person"?
Oh no! That happened to my laptop right after we got married... all my pictures, music, college work... GONE. Luckily, my Mom and I share pictures so I got most of those back. We just got an external hard drive and I'm a fanatic about backing it up all the time!
Tiff -Macs are so cool, very simple and user friendly. And besides those two big issues, I have never had one spot of trouble, unlike PC's which seem to just be so "moody" So, I like the one I have (once it works again) But, if we ever need a new computer, it will probably not be a Mac.
Ah Tahsh, that is awful. I don't like working with computer troubles either! We bought a 64 bit for christmas before we realized my CS2 only works on a 32 bit. Alas. Luckily Barak knows how to fix all my computer woes. . . unless we get a mac that is. Which I agree. . . are definitely awesome, especially for doing artsy stuff. Good luck getting things put on and backed up!
That sucks, I am sorry you had suck a bad experience. I own 3 MACS and none of them have ever had problems and I LOVE going to the MAC store, but probably not so much if my computer had broke.
Just think you could have already had a crashed hard drive, virus etc if you had gone with a PC!!! :) But I agree to think this is a wake-up call that we all should back up our stuff. GOOD LUCK!!!
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