Be Prepared It helps
Apr 12, 2020 20:10:51 #
I was. I had the HD on my IMac crash yesterday. My previous IMac HD also crashed.
I still have the new IMac under extended warranty but with everything being locked and can’t take it in but would have to ship it. Being home bound nowdue to Covid, I would go insane without it.
All my files were backed up to cloud drives, ICloud, Creative Cloud and One Drive.
I never did a restore backup so I had to other options. I had a 500 gb ssd drive and was able to reinstall the OS on it from Apple online.
Now I am going through the process of reinstalling purchased software. I kept all my logins and passwords in an Excel file, which I print out regularly and email it to me so I can access it on my IPad.
I am so fortunate I had everything copied and saved. But the Apple Restore/backup, or whatever it is called would have been most likely better.
Of course my new HD will be organized.
I still have the new IMac under extended warranty but with everything being locked and can’t take it in but would have to ship it. Being home bound nowdue to Covid, I would go insane without it.
All my files were backed up to cloud drives, ICloud, Creative Cloud and One Drive.
I never did a restore backup so I had to other options. I had a 500 gb ssd drive and was able to reinstall the OS on it from Apple online.
Now I am going through the process of reinstalling purchased software. I kept all my logins and passwords in an Excel file, which I print out regularly and email it to me so I can access it on my IPad.
I am so fortunate I had everything copied and saved. But the Apple Restore/backup, or whatever it is called would have been most likely better.
Of course my new HD will be organized.
Apr 12, 2020 21:25:33 #
You had a plan for that day when the HD crashed, it did (they all eventually will), you’re executing your plan, and with time, you’ll be back up with no data loss. Congratulations on your foresight. There’s a lesson here for all those who Pooh Pooh the cloud, and don’t have a backup AND a disaster recovery copy of their data.
Apr 12, 2020 21:41:33 #
Bike guy wrote:
I was. I had the HD on my IMac crash yesterday. My... (show quote)
I suspect you are talking about Time Machine. It's an Apple Program that is part of the operating system. All I will say is that I have used it for years and it works great.
Apr 12, 2020 22:04:55 #
LarryFB wrote:
I suspect you are talking about Time Machine. It's an Apple Program that is part of the operating system. All I will say is that I have used it for years and it works great.
Time Machine, yes that is what I was thinking.
Thanks
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