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debbie millman
· 1 year ago
Oh. My. God.
I am backing up as we speak and doing the happy dance that you got everything back.
mxaxm
· 1 year ago
I am so glad this is hypothetical. If it really happened ... hard to think about...
Sameer Vasta
· 1 year ago
Ohno! What a horrible (hypothetical) experience. That's even more stressful than my own Macbook woes from this past weekend.
Lesson learned: backup and store in the cloud!
Gareth
· 1 year ago
"you wish you could go back in time"
You mean with Time Machine??
I work in a very similar situation to this (albeit in London), and it is a constant worry that I might do this.
I do back up regularly with Time Machine (especially before I go out for the day), and all of my bookmarks and contacts are with MobileMe (for better or worse). And I have my iPhone.
As well as backing up it is important to practice some safe MBPing. Your Keychain password should be different to your log-in, for example. Consider FileVault if you don't use big files, etc. And turn it off / log out rather than just sleeping it.
Noah Brier
· 1 year ago
Dude, that was a stressful read. Glad you've got it back. Can I suggest adding "set a master password" to your list of things to do?
Johanna
· 1 year ago
Oh, jeepers. I'm so glad this all hypothetically worked out. I almost lost feeling in my legs reading this.
seanaes
· 1 year ago
Wow. Glad that worked out much better than I feared as I started reading the post. Enjoy vacation too!
Greg
· 1 year ago
Nicely written, almost makes me glad I don't have a laptop!
nathan
· 1 year ago
i really really hope that didn't really happen. losing my mbp would be like... well, it's better not to talk about it.
kim
· 1 year ago
Lost bookmarks...it happened to me once and it was heinous. I try to keep up by adding to delicious, but now I'm thinking that I should double check all of it.
Glad it worked out, and have a great vacation!
Zana Fauzi
· 1 year ago
That was very intense. Glad you got your Mac Book back.
All Comments
I am backing up as we speak and doing the happy dance that you got everything back.
Lesson learned: backup and store in the cloud!
You mean with Time Machine??
I work in a very similar situation to this (albeit in London), and it is a constant worry that I might do this.
I do back up regularly with Time Machine (especially before I go out for the day), and all of my bookmarks and contacts are with MobileMe (for better or worse). And I have my iPhone.
As well as backing up it is important to practice some safe MBPing. Your Keychain password should be different to your log-in, for example. Consider FileVault if you don't use big files, etc. And turn it off / log out rather than just sleeping it.
Glad it worked out, and have a great vacation!