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Cleo · 2013-03-23, 10:31 AM

Oh and I have a very dead 10 year iMac sitting here in the office. It was dropped of yesterday since it wouldn't startup. Its hard drive is dead, dead, dead, won't even show that it has a hard drive in it. It has ten years worth of work on its drive and it was never backed up. I could open it up and put a new drive in it but don't want to get involved it what is going to be a nightmare of opening it up, hoping that the screen doesn't get broken in the process, replacing the drive and then reinstalling everything. Then telling them that ten years worth of work is gone because they are a fucking idiot and never did a backup even once.

I told then it needs to go to the Apple store rather than me getting involved in this money losing mess.

Toby · 2013-03-23, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

It has ten years worth of work on its drive and it was never backed up.

Most people need to experience at least one catastrophic data loss before learning to do regular backups. Quite often one is not sufficient.

Cleo · 2013-03-23, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Toby

Most people need to experience at least one catastrophic data loss before learning to do regular backups. Quite often one is not sufficient.

Same thing happened to his daughter's Macbook last year. It was a corrupted hard drive and not a mechanical failure though so I was able to retrieve about half of her work. Took me five hours to get everything up and running so she got a rather large bill from me. I showed her Time Machine and all she had to do was to plugin an external drive and let Time Machine do its thing. She still hasn't backed up to this day.

ArtWilliams · 2013-03-23, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

I told then it needs to go to the Apple store rather than me getting involved in this money losing mess.

"Bring to Cleo. She'll fix it. She's the Mac expert!"

2013-03-23, 10:31 AM	#1
Cleo Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeast Florida Posts: 27,936	Oh and I have a very dead 10 year iMac sitting here in the office. It was dropped of yesterday since it wouldn't startup. Its hard drive is dead, dead, dead, won't even show that it has a hard drive in it. It has ten years worth of work on its drive and it was never backed up. I could open it up and put a new drive in it but don't want to get involved it what is going to be a nightmare of opening it up, hoping that the screen doesn't get broken in the process, replacing the drive and then reinstalling everything. Then telling them that ten years worth of work is gone because they are a fucking idiot and never did a backup even once. I told then it needs to go to the Apple store rather than me getting involved in this money losing mess. __________________ Free Rides on Uber and Lyft Uber Car: uberTzTerri Lyft Car: TZ896289