A couple of weeks ago in the early morning, I went outside to the big red van to remove some items. I pulled the latch for the liftgate and KAPOW!!! The latch broke right off. The only way to open the liftgate was to crawl to the back of the van and open it from the inside.
Not a long-term solution.
It took us about 10 days to finally get the van to the dealer to replace the latch and it wasn’t long before we had a functioning liftgate again.
Fast forward to this morning.
A thin layer of ice covered the car and the van this morning, nothing I hadn’t seen or dealt with before and nothing that could possibly be that big of a deal. Right?
Well, after unlocking the car door, I pulled the latch and KAPOW!!! The latch on the driver’s side door broke off the car. I’m stuck opening the car door by going to the passenger’s side and leaning through to the driver’s side to open the door.
Sigh.
Not to mention that the hard drive in Susan’s iBook died over the holiday. We sent it off last week and it returned today with a fresh hard drive and an fresh OS install.
Yep, you guessed it: All her data wasn’t backed up.
We managed to save some of her key files before the drive went belly up, but most of her settings her iTunes library, her bookmarks, email, etc., gone. Her iTunes purchased songs were retrieved from her Nano, but it looks like she’s going to have to reload all the CDs she’s loaded over the years. We did back up her library, but to CD but it doesn’t look like Gracenote is recognizing the song meta.
There’s no joy in Mudville right now.
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Seems like a good time to say: Hope 2008 is kinder to your door handles and hard drives but jeeeezie peeeezie, get a couple of external USB drives and use them! (preaching to the choir, eh?)
Posted 31 Dec 2007 at 8:40 pm ¶Heh. I have two FireWire drives and an old Mac to back up on. Been meaning to set up network backup but I couldn’t decided on a program. I finallly found one and I’m going to set it up.
Susan didn’t have as much data on her Mac as I do. I had backed up her iTunes songs when I upgraded her operating system, but in trying to reinstall the library, the dang program isn’t recognizing meta and nobody wants to look at a list of “Track 01, Track 02,” etc. Her iTunes store purchased tracks are intact, though. Everything else came from CDs.
I can recreate her Mail accounts, but she’s lost the old emails. I tried to recover them before the drive went south but it was too little too late.
Bookmarks and such are gone from her browsers, too. I’ve got mine backed up with Foxmarks.
I did get her other documents.
Posted 31 Dec 2007 at 8:53 pm ¶Don’t you folks know that you are supposed to use
10W40 Soy Sauce on those handles regularly?
This is the first time I’ve heard of an Apple going belly up.
Posted 01 Jan 2008 at 11:12 am ¶I thought they went Core up.
Computers were put here to annoy us,not to help.