On Monday my computer’s hard drive died so at the moment I don’t have access to my files so no woodworking pictures this week. Looks like it will be next week before I’ll be fully up and running. The holiday season is making it difficult to schedule time at the Apple store to get it repaired. Good thing I’ve got my company laptop so I can still get on-line. Likely Sunday’s post will be all about how to protect your data. Today I am just praying that my time machine back up is good and I can still recover my work.
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If you need me – I’ll be at the Apple Store
Andrew
Andrew's View of the Week 
Surrounding you with Techno fix good wishes.
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I’m happy for you that your mac is up and running now, Andrew. How did you survive the Apple Store? Last time I took my iPad in I had to wait two hours despite having a booked time slot! Can they really replace the hard drive on a mac?
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My appointment is later this morning. Yes then can on most models. The question will be is the drive worth replacing or should I just buy a new one? or possible get a lower cost refurbished system?
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Good luck and keep us posted. Modern day problems eh?
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Yeah, but I guess it’s better than shoveling out the cow barn…
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Good luck Andrew. I lost a hard drive about 4 years ago and my Time Capsule saved everything. It took less than an hour to get the new drive up and running.
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I am hopeful the data is still there. I’ve never done a restore before so I am slightly concerned. The big time delay now is getting Apple to replace the hard drive. Bad time of year to need their services. They were nice on the phone, but clearly swamped with requests.
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Hope everything turns out all right!
I’m an old school PC user. External back up drives are pretty cheap now, so I have a couple of them that I keep up to date by the good old ‘copy/paste’ method!
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I recently bought a 2 TB external drive for about $100 (likely over paid). At our house we copy photos, docs and things to an external drive that we keep in our fireproof safe. Yeah, I am paranoid about losing data.
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My laptop is old in laptop years, and your post reminds me I better think about getting a new one before it dies. And back everything up well. Hope it turns out okay for you.
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If it’s nearing 4 years, I’d really consider it. Not only are the new ones faster, better, etc, but the expected life time of a laptop is only 5-6 years. My company replaces laptops every 3-4 years. If you get a new one, keep the old one as a backup.
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It’s nearing five years. Oops.
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That has happened to me. I now back up every thing on a USB memory stick or an external hardrive. Wish all the luck in retrieving your work. Be well.
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I keep an external USB drive for backups and it looks like everything is there. Although I’ll likely be adding another backup method just to really secure my data.
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Phew! I learned the hard way the first time. It was lucky for me I do a hard copy of my writings as well.
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Even with the USB drive, I am thinking of doing more to protect my files – maybe something in the cloud. After blogging for 4 years I’ve got a lot of stuff that would be painful to lose.
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Wish you luck with it. I just don’t trust technology. I also have to much to lose. That is why I put a repeat on a memory stick in case something happens to the external hard drive.
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Good luck at the Apple Store, especially this time of year..:)
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The fastest appointment I could get was Friday. They are packed for Christmas.
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I’ve heard good things about Mac’s Time Machine. I’ve often wished PCs had something better than their unreliable rewind. I understand Windows 10 does, though I’m not updating until I have to.
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One of the reasons I moved to MAC was better backups (plus OSx). With Windows you really need to buy third party stuff and quality is all over the map. While Time Machine is good, I think I am going to start researching cloud backups so I can get to it from any computer.
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Oh don’t upgrade to Windows 10! My husband did and has had no end of trouble and spent so much time trying to sort things out. There seems to be so much trouble with that upgrade reading further online and he really regrets going ahead with upgrade. He has since switched back but problems persist.
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Windows has always had a bad reputation when it comes to upgrades. There are technical and other issues that cause Microsoft some problems there. Apple has its share of problems but MAC upgrades tend to be less disruptive. Still, I always wait a few weeks after the upgrade release before applying any upgrade just in case.
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