OMG, my mac is BACK!!!!!
HOLY SH*T!!!!!!!! I dropped off my Powerbook on Monday night, so it maybe shipped out Tuesday morning, and just now DHL dropped it off! WOW!!!
Holy turn around, eh!? I can’t believe it! I actually have been receiving a lot of packages this week, but was sure I’d received the last of them, so when this arrived I had no idea what it was, set it down and went back to work. HA! Then about an hour later, I looked over and was like “oh ya, I wonder what is in there?” and so I opened it. Low & behold it was my baby!!! I almost cried! hahaa!!!
So, turns out they did wipe it completely (never listen to them if they say they might not, they almost aaaaaalways do), so right now I’m doing a full restore from Retrospect’s Sunday 8/28 backup, that should put me right where I left off! *crossing my fingers*
Man, today is a good day!!!
p.s. Apple’s Customer Service on this has me dumbfounded and glowing. In addition, calling Retrospect for Support on how to do this full restore was a piece of cake: within 15 minutes they walked me through how to get the restoration process started. They’re awesome!!
UPDATE: I am completely sold on Retrospect forever… how *amazing* that I was able to completely recover my entire operating system, applications, bookmarks, EVERYTHING exactly as it was before it crashed. *kneels down & thanks the mac and retrospect gods* Let this be a message to you all: BACKUP NOW!
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that reaffirms my intuition to began a strict backup regimen! I am leaning towards off site backup in case of fire and theft, like you mentioned. Maybe external hard drive and off site??