Well I had my first system meltdown in my 3+ years working on macs. I'm not sure what happened exactly but somehow my keychain (the thing that stores all your passwords/logins for websites and other programs) got wiped out as well as various apps (Mail, iChat, Newsfan) just wouldn't start.
What's really slick is that I had just done a backup using, aptly named Backup, and so I just had to reinstall the OS, install some programs and then fire up Backup and restore all my mail settings, mailboxes, internet bookmarks and history, preferences for _all_ the programs I had installed, my photos, documents, etc.
If I'd been really serious about backup, I could've been using Carbon Copy Cloner which is a free OS X app that makes an image of your hard drive that you can use to put absolutely everything back where it came from. I used that when I upgraded Powerbooks a few months ago and it works very slick.
One more reason to love using a Mac. :)
(Disclaimer: Yes there's probably something like this on/for WinXP. I think it's only on XP Pro.)
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wow chris, you really are the Mac-Daddy aren't you? well, the closest person I know to qualifying anyway! I was just thinkiing about the whole backing up thing – I have yet to purchase a USB drive but know I need to for files; have been uploading important files (assignments) to various web locations where I have some storage but was thinking about all the other things on my computer that I would lose if my computer crashed for some reason. When I started to read this post I was very sad for you but wow, good thing you copied things . . .
Gonna look into that cloner thing too . . . thanks!
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January 21, 2005 9:13 AM
Posted on January 21, 2005 09:13