Well, Darn
Oct. 23rd, 2008 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedWent to turn on my computer tonight, and it's dead. As in a doornail. Forget about the spinning beach ball of death, it's not even powering up.
Sigh.
I had it in the shop a couple of months ago, and they told me the CPU was living on borrowed time, but I was hoping to get a few more months out of it. Looks like I'll be getting a shiny new Mac Pro sooner rather than later.
Fingers crossed the hard drives are intact and I didn't lose any data, 'cause it's a couple of months since I did a proper backup, and all my photos of Ros are on the bloody thing. Also fingers crossed that the Ultraviolet vid I've been working on for a ridiculous amount of time is recoverable.
At least I always send copies of stories I'm working on to my gmail account, so they're safe. And I've got my work laptop to tide me over till I can get the new machine in place.
Double sigh.
In other, better new, I finally finished what I hope is the last big set of changes on my Pros novel today. So, yay for that.
Sigh.
I had it in the shop a couple of months ago, and they told me the CPU was living on borrowed time, but I was hoping to get a few more months out of it. Looks like I'll be getting a shiny new Mac Pro sooner rather than later.
Fingers crossed the hard drives are intact and I didn't lose any data, 'cause it's a couple of months since I did a proper backup, and all my photos of Ros are on the bloody thing. Also fingers crossed that the Ultraviolet vid I've been working on for a ridiculous amount of time is recoverable.
At least I always send copies of stories I'm working on to my gmail account, so they're safe. And I've got my work laptop to tide me over till I can get the new machine in place.
Double sigh.
In other, better new, I finally finished what I hope is the last big set of changes on my Pros novel today. So, yay for that.
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Date: 2008-10-25 04:27 am (UTC)Your computer isn't that old is it? Seems like just yesterday you were going on about how shiny and new it was.
Hope your data is okay. I guess that is my cue to go and do a backup of my machine.
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Date: 2008-10-27 06:10 pm (UTC)The new one is ordered and, I hope, on its way. I should know later this week if the data is also dead, dead deadski. (Let's hope not.)
And yes! Backup your machine! Back it up now!