It has taken me an entire day of troubleshooting, and finally completely erasing the drive and reinstalling the OS and restoring in order to get my laptop (with my whole life on it) working again.
Can I tell you how glad I am that I had made a complete backup of my drive the day before?
I've always known that you're supposed to back up, but I'm ashamed to say that for years and years I always put it off till 'later'. I've been unbelievably fortunate in that I've never had the kind of crash where losing everything was an option. When I put Leopard on my laptop, it has a great little backup program called Time Machine and I actually only started using it a month ago.
I will continue to make regular backups from now on. Religiously.
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Important. Rather like keeping receipts!
True dat, as my big sons would say...
I learned the hard way too. What my lazy ass does now is pay for an online service to backup my stuff every night. Its five bucks a month for unlimited space and its called Mozy.
Check it out if you have an extra five bucks a month..well worth it Alicia!
Thanks for the tip, Dusty! I'll check it out.
You are very welcome Alicia..its really worth the cost after you have lost everything..several times over as I have.
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