Anyone else a Mac user out there? My Manbug is a full on computer junkie - more like a computer whisperer - he understands them completely, speaks their language, understands all their codes and inner workings. Shouldn't we all be so lucky to have 24/7 technical support in the house! So after Windows kept failing him over and over again like a bad girlfriend, he left it all behind and went over to Apple about 3 years ago ... and he's never once looked back ... if I could cue the music of the 1967 song "So Happy Together" and have video of my Manbug running in slow motion hand in hand with an Apple logo through a field of flowers, that would sum up the perfect union between them. They've been a match made in heaven ...
... until he ran an iphoto update about 2 weeks ago. Uh oh - trouble in paradise. His first harsh words about Apple in their entire 3-year romance.
At first the upgrade seemed fine, but soon we noticed new photos were disappearing. After hours (and hours) of troubleshooting and rebuilding, it turns out that Apple had changed the permissions settings for the "shared file" location where we stored our photos. Bottom line: new photos and edits (post-upgrade) were not able to be saved and simply vanished once you closed the program. So poor Manbug spent the better part of this last weekend at the computer backing up a 10-year total of about 18,000 digital photos in our iphoto library and then transferring them to a new storage location on the computer. One with the right permission settings.
Painless process? Nope. In fact, the whole library vanished during the transfer. All 18,000 photos. A complete wipeout. But Manbug kept his cool because, being the computer whisperer that he is, he had backed up a duplicate library into some sort of external system before he started the transfer. But it took a whole lot of time to rebuild from scratch. Quiet time. Like don't interrupt him and let him focus on the job kind of time. But at the end of the weekend, everything was fully restored and we were up and running again ... and Manbug was our resident hero ...
Huzzah!
So now that life is back to normal after our technical difficulties, tomorrow I will begin playing catch up. As in - catching up with bills and emails and those dreaded paper piles of mine ... but on the bright side, I'll also catch up with the 150+ photos that have been backlogged on my camera card. Photos with stories. So many random stories from the last 2 weekends while we were frozen in iphoto limbo ... stories of Baking and Books and Boots - oh my! Can't wait to share ...
5 comments:
...and I can't wait for you to share!!:)
It must be great having a techno savvy hubby!!! Computer problems are an absolute bummer in my book. I have been thinking about backing up all my photos and stuff on an external hard drive for awhile now...today you were my motivation!!:)
Enjoy the day
I would have cried when they all disappeared. We had a similar experience when we got a new tower a few months ago. Luckily, it was something small. But scary nonetheless!
I love the "computer whisper". . .
My hubby is one of those too and he can't understand why I don't want to be one to! :)
Glad Manbug was able to rescue everything and I can't wait to see those boots!
I would have SOBBED if that happened. I am so not prepared for such a disaster. I am computer clueless and BSD is computer cluelesser. Not a good combo. We'd be up a creek if this happened to us. I am skerred.
Can't wait for your stories! :)
Mac crushed me (and all my pictures of John's babyhood) in one swoop two years ago It was horrible.
Since then I subscribe to Carbonite (online backup).
But, like an abused wife, I came back to Mac. And, I still love it.
- Swoop
p.s. Have I mentioned how much I love the MANBUG moniker adoption>
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