Wednesday, September 5, 2012

learn from my mistake

Everyone, go right this second and back-up all of your important pictures and videos and documents.  Even if your computer is less than a year old.  Even if your computer has been acting totally normal.  Even if you think it won't happen to you. Go, now, and back everything up.

Because I didn't.  And now it's gone.

I had been organizing all of our pictures and videos for about a month.  It takes a long time to put them all in iPhoto and separate and combine them all and move them onto our portable hard drive.  I had been working on it slowly but surely, and getting it all done.  I had done everything up until January of this year.  But January through August of 2012 were on the computer still, waiting to be transferred to the portable hard drive.  And then the hard drive in the computer crashed.

We took it to the Apple store, but there was nothing they could do for it.  I was devastated.  I was crying in the Apple store and then crying in the play area at the mall.  And then crying in the car.  I am still brokenhearted.

We are sending the hard drive to a data recovery company in hopes that they will be able to salvage something.  It makes me so sick to my stomach to think about.  If they are able to recover some things, it will cost us an arm and a leg to get it.  How much are they worth?  How much do we have to put towards this?  Why couldn't this have happened one week later, after I had backed them up?

I am just a mess about it all.  It makes me so upset.  But, I hope that this motivates someone to go back up their computers.  It's worth the extra time, I promise.

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