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[amberdreams]

My laptop demise has really thrown me - I'm anxious to get home so I can take it in to Apple and see if they can save anything or repair the hard drive. I've got so much saved on there that isn't necessarily backed up, including hundreds of reference photos! Of course, my personal photos are more important but - ugh. The thought of building that reference collection again from scratch is daunting.

That will teach me to keep too much in one place. I'm wishing I'd forked out for addtional Dropbox storage now instead of going for a fancy online backup system that I've forgotten the log in details for...I'm hoping Paul has a copy of my password file somewhere - I know I emailed him a copy a while back and even an out of date version might help me access my online backups, which would be a start.

Why couldn't the damn computer have conked out while I was at home? Stupid thing.

Meh.

Comments

[fufaraw]

So much sympathy from me.

Between your laptop and caranfindel's phone...stored files and access seem very escapist today.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I just saw caranfindel’s post too - argh!

[sandy79.livejournal.com]

Why couldn't the damn computer have conked out while I was at home? Stupid thing. cause that's what computers do - break down when you at least expect it (been down that road twice already *grumbles*)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Sad but true. Murphy’s law, I suppose!

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Feeling your pain! Password recovery isn’t an option? I have to reset forgotten passwords on a weekly basis. :-/

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Not until I can get reliable access to all three email accounts. At the moment, I only have access to one on a reliable basis, and a second intermittently (because my provider is a pain in the arse). The main one I can’t get into at all at the moment.

Hope your woes are sorted soon too!

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Argh sounds like a nightmare!!! Hopefully Paul has a copy of the password. Fingers crossed all will be well.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

That's a bugger isn't it. I was the same when my old Vaio was dying a slow death earlier in the year, and thankfully the tech guys restored all my data onto the new computer. Now apparantly I've got some kind of cloud storage, although I've got no bloody idea how to use it!

I hope you can get it sorted out when you get home - it's a shame that it's preoccupying you while you're away, but I know it would me too!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

agh! fingers crossed paul can find your passwords and you can get your backups, but mostly that apple can rescue everything on your hard drive.

[be-my-precious.livejournal.com]

This makes me want to do a full back-up, like, right now.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Do it! :D