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Thought I was gonna croak...
18 years ago
As y'all should know if you read the earlier journal regarding my purchase of a Macbook Pro, I've been doing all of my art since August on a Mac... I really love it for graphics and it was doing just great until (queue the portentous music) I upgraded to OS X Leopard... Don't get me wrong, Leopard is super-kewl and it was working great, but I found that my Parallels software to run Windows no longer worked... No problem, sez I and two days ago, I decided that I would uninstall Parallels and give Boot Camp (another app that will run Windows on a Mac). Boot Camp asked me to partition the hard drive so that Windows would have a separate section... Okay, sez I, make it so... Well, everything from there quickly went to Hell in a hand basket. Things got so screwed up that I ended up erasing my hard drive, taking about $1000 of art software I had purchased (like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Manga Studio and Poser 7) via download and stoopidly had not copied to disk with it... The software was so screwed up, the computer would not even boot...
After cussing for hours, I called my local Apple store and set up an appointment with a Mac Genius.
There's a bright side to the story however... The Mac Genius (Brent) got my computer up and running in about 15 minutes. As I was lamenting the loss of the software, he happened to say something like "Well, too bad you didn't use Time Machine..." It was only then I remembered that I had been fooling around with Time Machine and had run it once about a week ago on a whim just to see what it would do. I had no idea what it was, but it did something... I thought it was like a Windows System Restore, which does nothing, as far as I can see, especially if you have deleted applications. The Mac Genius breathed a sigh of relief, then told me Time Machine actually mirrors the files and applications on your hard drive at the time you used the application. Woohooo! And best of all, all of this help cost me absolutely zippo... Everything was free. When I got home, I ran the Time Machine application again and in about an hour, my computer was back up and running with all of the applications I thought I had lost. I was even able to get Parallels working!
Moral of the story: If you don't know what the heck you're doing, when it comes to unfamiliar software, don't do it!
Kudos to Apple's software engineers for coming up with such a neat product as Leopard and Time Machine. Special thanks to Steve Jobs for making Apple such a neat company...
Cap
After cussing for hours, I called my local Apple store and set up an appointment with a Mac Genius.
There's a bright side to the story however... The Mac Genius (Brent) got my computer up and running in about 15 minutes. As I was lamenting the loss of the software, he happened to say something like "Well, too bad you didn't use Time Machine..." It was only then I remembered that I had been fooling around with Time Machine and had run it once about a week ago on a whim just to see what it would do. I had no idea what it was, but it did something... I thought it was like a Windows System Restore, which does nothing, as far as I can see, especially if you have deleted applications. The Mac Genius breathed a sigh of relief, then told me Time Machine actually mirrors the files and applications on your hard drive at the time you used the application. Woohooo! And best of all, all of this help cost me absolutely zippo... Everything was free. When I got home, I ran the Time Machine application again and in about an hour, my computer was back up and running with all of the applications I thought I had lost. I was even able to get Parallels working!
Moral of the story: If you don't know what the heck you're doing, when it comes to unfamiliar software, don't do it!
Kudos to Apple's software engineers for coming up with such a neat product as Leopard and Time Machine. Special thanks to Steve Jobs for making Apple such a neat company...
Cap
Sammy: "Tell me why you need that $1000 again..."
Cap: "Ummm, I didn't know it would do that... You see, this application wasn't working, so I repartitioned the hard drive and then reinstalled..."
Sammy: "You're a #%&%ing prolifigate asshat! If you think for a minute that I'm going to stand by and let you piss away $1000 on a bunch of 1s and 0s just so you can draw girls with big..." etc, etc... Not good...
Oh well, at least it saved me having to go through that!
Thanx!
Cap
Now, for pity's sake, MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DRIVE! NOW! :)
Yup! I went trough the process again last night!
Thanx!
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Thanx!
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Thanx!
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Anyway, pretty awesomeness there, but what I'm wondering is where Time Machine mirrors everything *to*...
Time Machine backs things up to a network drive... I've got a Core2 Duo PC on my home network with just over a TB of HDD that I use for saving my graphics... I sent it there... Bottom line is that I shoulda been more cautious, but given my experience with PCs, I just dove right in...
Thanx!
Cap
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Thanx CnD!
Cap