My Mac is dead. At least its hard drive is. A couple of days ago I was busy finding a new pot roast recipe when all of a sudden my screen went gray and a spinning wheel appeared. This is the way my computer has stayed ever since. After a bit of a dissection from a techie friend, the prognosis is not good. It appears that my hard drive has crashed and all is gone. :(
I would be about 1 million times more upset if my handyman hadn't been his usual "safety 1st" self about 2 weeks ago where he suggested putting all the pictures that I have saved on my computer onto our media center as well. Just in case, he said. Well...here we find ourselves in just such a case. All the pictures we have of our house building project, and MUCH more importantly, Colin...from our first ultrasound up to a few days ago, were housed on the very same mac that has gone to mac heaven. Had we not copied them to the media center, they would be gone forever. I cannot even imagine how upsetting that would have been. Yes, I lost recipes, addresses, bookmarks (I love my bookmarks!), and many, many lists, however none of those matter. They are all replaceable. I can find new recipes, re-bookmark my bookmarks, and work on recreating my lists, but the pictures, well they are just far too special to imagine losing.
Technology is amazing and digital cameras are obviously far more logical than traditional film cameras. However, there is something to be said for taking pictures the "old fashioned" way. The only person I know who to this day chooses a film camera is my Grandmother. Even though she has a digital camera that my Grandfather used to use, she continually chooses to load & develop her film. From this day on, I will never question her method as I know the memories she is capturing will never be lost on a laptop and will never disappear to technology heaven. Today's brush with losing all those pictures was a little too close for comfort & from now on I will never balk at my handyman's suggestions to transfer files & pictures to another location.
I am a converted computer backer-upper from this day on.
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So glad you didn't lose everything! Grandma will be happy that you approve of her methods, as she is convinced that no one else does. Grandpa always wanted her to go digital, and she refused. Yay for your handyman!
ReplyDeleteI, a firm believer in Macs, use Time Machine. My hard drive packed it in last summer, and after getting a new one installed in Wpg (very reasonable too), I had no problems restoring all my important 'stuff!' :) [A 1.5 TB drive for under $200!]
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