Except, sometimes it feels more like "One step forward, two steps back."
Today I finally got all of my files restored to my iBook, which was wiped clean a few weeks ago in a hard-drive crash and subsequent replacement. Fortunately, I had learned my lesson in a previous crash and was current on my backups. So I didn't lose any documents, music or photos, except for my iTunes playlists and iPhoto albums. (I thought I had them backed up, but apparently not ... or I just can't figure out how to restore them; in either case, I give up.)
I learned another valuable lesson in this crash -- CDs are a slow, painful way to restore from backups. I'm now in the market for an external hard drive. And, you know, I have so much spare time right now to spend on learning about capacity and write-speeds and what, exactly, makes a "portable" hard drive different from a regular hard drive. I mean, I only have a presentation to prepare for Thursday, a book and a few handouts to read and an annotated paper outline to prepare by Friday, and then a 25-page paper and a final project to turn in in a few weeks.
Suddenly, sleep and scrubbing mildewed grout have become extremely compelling tasks.
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Me too. After the flickr disastr, I realized I really could not bear losing the music I've put on the iBook. So we are looking for the same thing -- an easy, reliable external hard drive with backup software.
If I find something, I'll let you know.
Thanks, Sharon. I furled several, if you look in my "Recently Viewed" column. Costco has good prices.
I need one I can take offsite.
I got my backup hard drive at Costco . . . works great.
As for the grout, my favorite, AVOIDING! ;o)~
K
Kara, what brand of hard drive did you get?
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