I love Macintosh computers. I always have, always will. Despite the fact that mine hates me right now, I will always love a Mac.
I knew Macdaddy was unhappy with me for going away on holiday. When I rushed into the house, threw my luggage down and fondly lifted the keyboard to give it a quick kiss... it shut down. Just like that. It shut off and took with it all the emails I had received while I was away.
Fickle beast. I chose to ignore it, the way I ignored the 10 year-old the other day at the dinner table. He had been away for three days on a school trip. We missed him. I shut the door to his bedroom so that I wouldn't be tempted to curl up on his bed and smell his sheets. When asked about his experience he said what he disliked most about the trip was "having to come home". Ouch. See if I bake him anymore coconut pies.
This past couple of weeks Macfickle continued shutting down when I least expected it to. It ate my Photo Shop (an older version of PS, not Elements--still waiting for someone to take the very subtle hint that I need that).
ate.it.
It exists no longer. Which also means the things I worked on are no longer. All reports from disc utility say everything is perfectly fine.
Oh well, que sarah, right?
But Macdaddy has gone too far now.
A few days ago it ate my emails. My in box, my to keep box, my sent box-- the whole stinking thing. Gone. Is there anyone else out there stupid enough to keep all of the passwords to blog silliness in their email folders?
I'm about ready to turn this cantankerous piece of technology into a planter or a lovely lawn ornament if it doesn't shape up.
Have you ever had a computer meltdown and lost something that was important to you?
Que sarah? You mean sera, right? You too funny, J.
ReplyDeleteI love Mac too, but maybe it's time for your Mac to go out to pasture.
ReplyDeleteI hesitated to read this post all the way through for fear that MY MacDaddy was reading it along with me. I don't want him to get any ideas. Forgive me if I say I don't want my Mac to play with your Mac. Not until he is behaving better.
ReplyDeleteCan you schedule an appointment with an Apple Genius and take it in for a check up?
Hey, I've just got back on to a Mac computer after putting up with the Evil Empire's massive joke on the Whole World aka Vista, and I am really happy about this and I just can't hear that Macs can go bad right now. *fingers in ears sings lalalalala etc*
ReplyDeleteTime for a new Mac! I love gmail and not having to save anything on my machine. It's all floating around in cyberspace somewhere.
ReplyDeleteHaving computer issues is extremely traumatic someday there will be a new word for it. Post Traumatic MAC disorder. Yeah I just had to go to the computer doctor and it was VISTA gone berserk.
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling you were a Mac user -- I know a quality individual when I meet one.
ReplyDeleteMy first iMac crashed, taking all of my music and photo files, I wasn't doing a lot back up then, and I lost some irreplaceable photos.
The moral of the story is Macs are not infallible, but the alternative is unthinkable.
Yeah, that "Sharon" comment was me. Again.
ReplyDeletemutter.....grumble....
Crud. I didn't realize how just how moody Mac-daddy was being. I would not be a happy woman. NOt.One.bit.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is crazy demented and backs up all my photos and blogs for me monthly. But my other writing...it'd be gone. I'd be sad.
I think I"m about to. I haven't saved my photos to disk for a while. (too long of a while, actually.) Tonight I can't access my photo file and am thinking the worst happened.
ReplyDeleteI haven't lost anything due to computer meltdown yet (knocking on wood), but I have lost a disc of pictures because it sat on top of the tower for too long--the electromagnetic whatever??? I was and still am totally bummed on that one. We were having computer issues last week, so Jon reset the computer or something and I lost all my saved emails and addresses. (crap!)
ReplyDeleteOuch! I think I'd cry. And the fact that you have lasted this long speaks volumes. I think I'd have to be checking out a mac upgrade. :)
ReplyDeleteComputers love my husband, I love my husband ... it all works out somehow. We've never mac-ed so I have no response, but I'd be willing to grab pen and stationery (beautiful and scented, of course) and dash off a missive if you ever fell off/out of the blogosphere. : D
ReplyDeleteOh no! So sorry to hear your Mac is misbehaving and that it has such a voracious appetite! I've never used a Mac, always been a PC user. We have had ups and downs with it too though. Sure hope you get it running smoothly again soon or you can get a new one. What a shame to have lost your emails and your projects and such.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your help with my blog code, by the way, Jeri! I really appreciate it. :D
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome D!
ReplyDeleteAFF, I really meant Que Sare-AHH and you must say it like a hillbilly. :-)
Thanks everyone for the support.
All photos are backed up, just not the photoshop ones-- seriously, no loss. It's the email (btw, I can't right now) and the stuff I kept on there-- you know, like when Kyleigh first walked etc... Email programs aren't meant to replace journals I guess. :-)
We grow from adversity right?
Ouch! That just sucks!
ReplyDeleteThat has never happened but I would be furious!
I'm sorry your emails have gone out the windows... :(
Yes, I did lose my saved emails, but as I print EVERYTHING at least I had them.
ReplyDeleteMy pc is just a common or garden [hope he isn't taking notes] emachine on sale at PCWorld a good few years ago. 'Taint the machine that gives me trials, it's the bloody server.
Keeps asking for more money or they'll send the big bad boys in...like spam and suchlike.
Even as I read your post, I shuddered! I don't have a Mac and never laid my hands on one before... but my PC have 'melted-down' soooooo many times, I've lost count and obviously lost EVERYTHING so many times until I've got zero trust in it I fell in love with thumbdrive. So now, whatever I have in my PC, its in my thumbdrive too!
ReplyDeleteoh - I haven't had a Mac since I quit my job - I miss my Mac so much!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think that I have lost anything but firefox shuts down my laptop at about one seconds notice every now and again, always when it is highly inconvenient.
ReplyDeleteYup, year before last my entire hard drive got fried to a Krispy Kritter and I lost everything... and I do mean EVERYTHING. I get a wee bit (okay A LOT) jiggy when things like that happen. Now, we do backups every day of the world. Just in case...
ReplyDeletenot me - knock on wood - bu tmy girlfriend lost 3 years of baby photos - all of them - had only printed a few! Poor thing cried for days.
ReplyDeleteUgh--computers! My old one's hard drive crashed and lost everything--my pictures, documents, EVERYTHING! There is nothing more frustrating!
ReplyDeleteum...YEAH!! remember when my little guy dumped mac on the ground. he's never been the same since...and i'm not talking about the little guy!!
ReplyDeleteUgh. Maybe I should figure out how to back things up PRONTO!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, there's a giveaway on my blog that I think you might like. :)
That is such a Pi$$@r!! My computer is a PC and has a twitch in it as well..OOOOoo especially when it shuts down while I am posting. It's a good thing it (the computer)was a little costly cause I have wanted to launch it many times tehe!!
ReplyDeleteUgh! I think other computers do it more than Mac's, though. We had a brand new PC (I'm a Mac girl, but the husband? Not so much.) that crashed completely, twice in four months. TWICE! The second time it crashed, it was the back-up system that made it do it. So not only was everything gone and non-retrievable, there were no back-ups.
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