Great News on the Writing Front
As I was sitting at the Mac last night, trying to work on my writing but feeling daunted by the amount of rebuilding (that seemed to keep growing the more I converted my old backup files), I had no idea I'd be getting a related phone call today.
If you want to make the phone ring, start washing dishes.
Actually, I was down to my last pan and mixing bowl when the phone rang. It was my computer person, whom I'd planned to check in with after dishes anyway.
He apologized for not getting back to me sooner, because the follow-up e-mail I'd sent him about a week ago had gotten snagged on his spam filter. He had great news: a friend of his who has a "clean lab" did him a favor (after hearing my sob story) and was able to recover my old (dead) hard drive!
Granted, I still have to pony up some money, but because of their generosity it won't be at the professional clean lab price. I am super excited.
Now, we just have to make sure the computer person's wife can wait a few days to have their new baby--just until he can get the DVD over to me!
If you want to make the phone ring, start washing dishes.
Actually, I was down to my last pan and mixing bowl when the phone rang. It was my computer person, whom I'd planned to check in with after dishes anyway.
He apologized for not getting back to me sooner, because the follow-up e-mail I'd sent him about a week ago had gotten snagged on his spam filter. He had great news: a friend of his who has a "clean lab" did him a favor (after hearing my sob story) and was able to recover my old (dead) hard drive!
Granted, I still have to pony up some money, but because of their generosity it won't be at the professional clean lab price. I am super excited.
Now, we just have to make sure the computer person's wife can wait a few days to have their new baby--just until he can get the DVD over to me!
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Now have you bought an external hard drive and started religiously backing up your new machine? They're very cheap, you know...
We got metal shelves for the basement (40% off) and I'm hoping the 240 gig external HD I slobbered over last week is still there tomorrow.
'Fly--NO WAY! Office Depot is closing? I'll have to check the one not far from the bookstore to see if that's the case around here, too.
Send me an email with some of the details on your machine, but from what you've mentioned I'm sure it has a couple of usb 1.1 ports and I hope it has a couple of firewire 400 ports. You'd want to get a firewire 400 drive, as it is much much faster than the original usb.
I would certainly look at whatever office depot had on sale or costco, etc., because as long as the box says "firewire 400 interface" it will work fine on your imac and you can probably find something cheaper than the OWC stuff I linked to above; usb will also work, but since I'm pretty sure you only have the older usb ports it will be very slow to back up all your data.
Like I said let me know the details on your machine and we'll come up with a plan.