Computer goes crash!
May. 30th, 2008 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taylweaverYeah, so my computer crashed.
The good news is, I backed it up six weeks ago (thank you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mbarr for the help with that).
The better news is that I am pretty sure that I have not actually put anything new on there since the backup that is important - except for stuff that is backed up in other places. I am now incredibly grateful for my personal policy of not deleting photos from my camera until I have them backed up in two other places. And for all the files that I sent to other people via e-mail - because now I can download them from my sent mail. And for the things I printed out or copied from handwritten work - because now I have copies of those too.
End result: if the hard drive is permanently fried, I lost very little.
I think the only thing I even marginally care about is the cropped photo that is the background of my most recent papercut - but I should be able to re-crop the original photo to a background that is at least similar if not the same, so no biggie there either.
Andmbarr was helpful last night when he tried to save the computer over the phone (it failed, but not his fault), and then made an appointment for me at the apple store, since I couldn't exactly go online and do it for myself. It is wonderful to have a computer expert friend who is still safe to call at midnight. And he also offered to lend me a computer while mine is out being fixed. So big thanks go out to him for many things.
I won't have the loaner computer until late this afternoon or Saturday night, so if you need to reach me about something, phone is your best option.
Anyway, it feels good to not be panicking over this....
The good news is, I backed it up six weeks ago (thank you,
mbarr for the help with that).The better news is that I am pretty sure that I have not actually put anything new on there since the backup that is important - except for stuff that is backed up in other places. I am now incredibly grateful for my personal policy of not deleting photos from my camera until I have them backed up in two other places. And for all the files that I sent to other people via e-mail - because now I can download them from my sent mail. And for the things I printed out or copied from handwritten work - because now I have copies of those too.
End result: if the hard drive is permanently fried, I lost very little.
I think the only thing I even marginally care about is the cropped photo that is the background of my most recent papercut - but I should be able to re-crop the original photo to a background that is at least similar if not the same, so no biggie there either.
And
mbarr was helpful last night when he tried to save the computer over the phone (it failed, but not his fault), and then made an appointment for me at the apple store, since I couldn't exactly go online and do it for myself. It is wonderful to have a computer expert friend who is still safe to call at midnight. And he also offered to lend me a computer while mine is out being fixed. So big thanks go out to him for many things.I won't have the loaner computer until late this afternoon or Saturday night, so if you need to reach me about something, phone is your best option.
Anyway, it feels good to not be panicking over this....
