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8 May 07 ¦ Permalink ¦

So my MacBook hard drive died and I’m upset because I didn’t back-up my stuff.

I lost a lot of photos and music.

Surprisingly, I’m most upset about losing all the photos.

I lost all of my Hawaii pictures from my Grandma’s funeral. I had a lot of pictures of M with my Grandfather. The two of them hanging out and playing and smiling.

Those pictures were most important to me.

Anyway, I took the MB into the Apple store yesterday and the so-called Genius just frowned and shook his head.

I get the MB back in 7-10 days, and they’re going to fix the squeaky creaking sound and some pieces of plastic that broke off too… until then, I’m using the PB and forgot how hot this thing gets.

(My hands are sweating right now.)

Also, the PowerBook (12”) just seems slower and darker and super tiny compared to the MacBook.

God, what a difference an inch makes, huh?

Oh, this is random, but I was going through my pinkbeltrage email yesterday (I haven’t since March!) and anyway, noticed a couple Twitter invites. What exactly is this? Am I missing something? I don’t really get the concept… or is it as dumb as it seems?

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  1. I guess you learned your lesson about backups and don’t need to be chided about it right? Actually I had my 12” PB (that’s PowerBook, unfortunately I don’t have a pink belt) that had the HDD fail on me a few weeks after I got it while on vacation. Luckily since it was still new I really didn’t lose anything. But yeah, with so much precious digital junk stored away on HDDs these days, backup has become so much more important.
    — archie4oz    8 May 07    #
  2. Hey Archie! Yeah, I was lectured left and right (literally, I was sandwiched at the counter) yesterday by everyone in the Apple store. I just smiled and nodded. . . although I was really pissed and upset about my macbook and the very last thing I felt like doing was chatting with a bunch of dorks at the genius bar.
    — joy    8 May 07    #
  3. Nobody is touching that “what a difference an inch makes” line, huh? Yeah, me neither.
    — -Birdy-    8 May 07    #
  4. my computer is being ridiculous as well. a couple pieces of plastic broke off the back somehow while sitting on my desk.. and a few days ago the wireless just randomly started working. too bad i have no money to fix it right now. YAY STRESS!
    — maggie    8 May 07    #
  5. haha! :D

    Dorks at the genius bar!

    You’re like the tenth person this year with this story.

    A couple of years ago I was living with this asshole who smashed my computer to pieces in front of me. I lost like six years of word documents.

    When I was twenty this other asshole stole and made disappear an art journal of mine that had about 4 years worth of stuff in it just to spite me.

    I suppose at least I had faces to blame and direct my anger towards.

    No screw that, loss was and will always be terrible. Like so much forgetting.

    You have my sympathies!
    — ali b    9 May 07    #
  6. Ouch!Before digital I was always worried about losing a million photos in a house fire or natural catastrophe. I guess this is the equivalent.
    — Ed    11 May 07    #
  7. Hey Joy,

    You want one of these NAS devices

    I have the fear of loosing all my data, esp music and photos. Also sick of having some stuff on one PC and other stuff on another. Put them all together in a safe and backed up environment. Home network raid storage is the way to go. I bought one of these systems last week, and it rocks!!!
    — mark    13 May 07    #
  8. hey there birdy, maggs, ali, ed and mark!

    i got the macbook back and what’s weird is when i plugged in my shuffle, it asked me if i wanted to transfer my purchased music from the shuffle to the itunes library! i got all excited thinking that this was new and i could do the same with my ipod and nano…but nope, doesn’t work. is that only a shuffle thing? is there any program that will allow me to move songs from the ipod to the macbook?
    — joy    14 May 07    #
  9. Another reason I love PC from the “Get a Mac” commercials…who am I kidding? Macs are so much more cool, right?

    I am so sorry you lost your photos…my laptop’s HD has crashed as well just this week. Thankfully, it’s my workie laptop and I didn’t have much personal stuff on it at all except a few kid pics.

    Stupid computers!
    — melina    15 May 07    #
  10. Hey there Melina! Belated Happy Mother’s Day to you. :)
    — joy    16 May 07    #
  11. Hey I’m new to your site. good stuffs love the music. bummer about your macbook. i used this program to get my music from my ipod back to my laptop after it died. its called Ollie’s iPod Extractor. It will copy all your music from your ipod to your computer. Hope this helps. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20856
    — Eric    29 May 07    #
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