Back Up Those Computers
Saturday night, as I was turning around to scold the puppy for eating the older dog's (Scout's) food, I knocked over my glass of wine.
All over my Mac laptop.
I dried it as much as I could and left it turned off overnight.
I hesitate to tell you that the only copy of my NaNoWriMo novel is on my laptop. Also? Most of the pictures I've taken since Christmas when my husband made it possible for me to make the leap to a Macintosh.
By Sunday, the computer would boot up, but the keyboard was having some issues. Like, it started randomly typing sevens. Here is an actual e-mail I sent to my friend Tiffany:
Now the seven key won't work at all but this is far better than when I couldn't type the letter "u." I use the letter "u" a LOT. Also, the battery no longer works--that's kind of a limitation for a laptop.
At any rate, my husband hooked up an external drive and backed everything up and I am on my way to the Apple store to ask for professional help.
PLEASE learn from my mistakes and back up your computers RIGHT NOW. And either keep your wine on a separate table or drink it a lot faster.
Sigh.
All over my Mac laptop.
I dried it as much as I could and left it turned off overnight.
I hesitate to tell you that the only copy of my NaNoWriMo novel is on my laptop. Also? Most of the pictures I've taken since Christmas when my husband made it possible for me to make the leap to a Macintosh.
By Sunday, the computer would boot up, but the keyboard was having some issues. Like, it started randomly typing sevens. Here is an actual e-mail I sent to my friend Tiffany:
"777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777
Sigh.
It's just randomly7 t7y7pin7g7 s77 no7w7777777. Wit7h or with7ou7t7 m7y77 a7pproval.
Gosh, 7is 7th7is 7har7d to7 rea7d??&"
Now the seven key won't work at all but this is far better than when I couldn't type the letter "u." I use the letter "u" a LOT. Also, the battery no longer works--that's kind of a limitation for a laptop.
At any rate, my husband hooked up an external drive and backed everything up and I am on my way to the Apple store to ask for professional help.
PLEASE learn from my mistakes and back up your computers RIGHT NOW. And either keep your wine on a separate table or drink it a lot faster.
Sigh.
Comments
I hope everything gets restored.
I also love using TimeMachine and TimeCapsule (Apple products) to back up my laptop every hour.
Trust me, people, hard drives die. I have had it happen at least 4 times.
The question is never IF, but WHEN. And the answer is always, "Whenever it will hurt most!"
Personally, I use Time Machine AND Intego's personal Backup. I make a bootable copy of the entire hard drive NO LESS than once a day. And I try to have several of 'em, on different portable hard drives. The little ones are relatively cheap, and the agony you avoid could be your own!
Sorry for your troubles; thanks for saving me from myself (and probably Ned. Who did, in fact, just knock over my beer. But not on the computer.)
I thought of you when I was writing my puppy posts.
Seriously, like a new baby. Except a perfect new baby unlike any real baby I've ever had.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJWeB1lkh8
I told my husband the universe has decided I should use a Mac. Our PC is just too touchy for me.
Hard to say if it is worse to lose everything or to have to buy a new laptop...
I was slow to convert but oh, I could write a poem to my Mac. I feel very bad that I didn't look out for it better! No more PCs for me. (There goes the checkbook...)