LESSON LEARNED (THE HARD WAY)

A little over two years ago, I purchased my very first MacBook Pro.  

It was love at first sight. We rarely ever separate, me and my Mac.  

That was until last Saturday.....

The feisty little thing decided to play an evil trick on me and crash!

I know, can you believe it.  

I think, perhaps, I was a little over confident in my Mac.

I liked to brag to my family about how it was virus free and so easy to use.

All the while, laughing at them as they fumbled around on their, clearly inferior, PCs.

Well, who's laughing now? Not me.....

I had to hand my precious Mac over to the genius bar at the Apple Store.

The corrupted hard drive and battery both had to be replaced.

Fortunately, I purchased Apple care when I bought it two years ago, 

so the repairs were completely covered.

Here's where the lesson learned comes in....

I had never once backed up my hard drive. 

We had an external hard drive, but it was formatted for a PC.

I never got around to buying one for my Mac.

I bought one on Friday and tried to back everything up before the old hard drive was removed.

It was too corrupted to back up, even the geniuses couldn't do it.
I have years and years worth of pictures on that hard drive and thousands of songs.
Most of the pictures has been uploaded to Shutterfly,
but I hadn't quite got around to uploading pictures from 2011 and 2012.

Boy, am I kicking myself now!
The geniuses at the genius bar referred me to a Apple certified data recovery specialist.
My corrupted hard drive is now in his hands.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that he can at least get my pictures back.

I will now be backing up my brand new hard drive each and every week.
I will also be uploading my pictures to Shutterfly on a monthly basis.
I guess sometimes you just have to learn the hard way.

On a positive note, the geniuses at the genius bar told it may take up to 5 days to fix my computer.
I had been looking for a good excuse to invest in an I-pad and that qualified as one.
I am the proud owner of an I-pad, finally!
Now, if I could pry it out of the hands of my children.
They seem to having a little too much fun with it!



Strangely enough, after being apart from my beloved computer for 14 hours
(not that I was counting or anything),
I got a call saying my computer was repaired and ready to be picked up.
I am now working with a brand spanking new (empty) hard drive.

Obviously, I haven't lost faith in Apple products
and I am always impressed with their service.
But I now know that my Mac is not indestructible, like I thought it was.
I think I'll be a little more gentle with it from now on.....