No picture today?
Nahhh... it's a public service announcement after all!
And it's a SIMPLE one:
BACK UP!
BACK UP!!
BACK UP!!!
We have been without a computer all week.
On Monday, without warning, the hard drive crashed.
LUCKILY, I had a system backup
thanks to a
VERY good friend
who set it up for me
after she helped me update
my old family videos.
It wasn't as up-to-date as I would have liked
(because I don't have it back up constantly),
but it sure saved us the hassle of
resetting settings,
and we haven't lost a GREAT deal of work or pictures.
That concludes my announcement.
I will return
you and myself
to our regular schedule
of cruising about
the Blogosphere.
That public notice struck fear in my heart! That is just awful! Hope you re getting everything fixed up and will be beck soon!
ReplyDeleteCommiserating Fox :0
Thanks Fox!
ReplyDeleteI picked up the computer yesterday (it's an iMac) and had it up an running in about an hour. I had a Time Machine backup and it restored everything and all the files to the way they were at the last backup. Then I just had to catch up on software updates.
If my friend hadn't suggested storing our old movies on a terabyte external hard drive and also making it a time machine, I hate to think what we could have lost and how hard getting all those settings just right would have been.
I don't know WHY the hard drive failed. It certainly wasn't full, but we do have five people using it.
Now I just have to catch up with everybody in Blogland - things move fast out there!
:) Ann
I'm sorry to hear about your hard drive -- that is scary, indeed. A close call, but since you're a Mac (like everyone in my family), and one who uses Time Machine, a catastrophe was averted. Yea!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder.
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