Time machine saved me from my wife

Counselor · Counselor #1 (**permalink**)

11-16-2008, 01:49 PM

After many issues with Vista on my home computer I decided to buy an IMAC. I found one for a fair price on Craigs List and brought it home. I then took all of my family photos off my old windows computer and loaded them on my mac. The mac was great but I was having problems with it booting up. I assumed that I had a software issue and after some research..repaired permissions etc. While in Best Buy the other day I started looking at back up Hard Drives to work with Time Machine..why not I decided, I have the program the drives are reasonably priced, so I bought one, took it home and backed up my drive. Next morning my imac is frozen and will not boot up after I turned it off. I took it to the apple store and.....you guessed it bad hard drive (replaced free under warranty). Saved buy Time Machine.

louishen · louishen #2 (**permalink**)

11-16-2008, 02:03 PM

nice to see a good back-up story

dabears34 · dabears34 #3 (**permalink**)

11-16-2008, 10:44 PM

I had to do a double take to make sure you didn't say "time machine saved my life."

AnthonyM1987 · AnthonyM1987 #4 (**permalink**)

11-18-2008, 11:04 PM

I've always had a little trouble with TimeMachine giving me the infinite 'preparing' time. I think I've recently finally noticed when I'm torrenting and it tries to back up that's when things get fudged.

Tarek · Tarek #5 (**permalink**)

11-19-2008, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dabears34

I had to do a double take to make sure you didn't say "time machine saved my life."

Not really, maybe he was mistaken but if the saved "ME" wasn't written. Anyway, I guess his wife would have killed him if he misplaces / accidentally deleted the important pictures of their family you know.

Hahaha.

McBie · McBie #6 (**permalink**)

11-19-2008, 12:41 PM

Good to hear things turned out well.

I must admit that I had my doubts in the beginning with Time Machine taking a long time " preparing " and " finishing backup ".
My advice is ..... let Time Machine smoothly tick away in the background and you'll be fine.

Cheers
McBie

bad.heron · bad.heron #7 (**permalink**)

11-19-2008, 03:45 PM

I really need to start using time machine.

*Note to self - Get a External HDD*

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Member Since: Apr 26, 2008 Location: Belgium Posts: 1,838 Mac Specs: 2008 MBP 17" - 10.8.2 & iPad - iOS 5.1	11-19-2008, 12:41 PM Good to hear things turned out well. I must admit that I had my doubts in the beginning with Time Machine taking a long time " preparing " and " finishing backup ". My advice is ..... let Time Machine smoothly tick away in the background and you'll be fine. Cheers McBie " Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. " A. Einstein The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude towards the problem. You understand ?
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Member Since: Nov 08, 2008 Posts: 2	11-16-2008, 01:49 PM After many issues with Vista on my home computer I decided to buy an IMAC. I found one for a fair price on Craigs List and brought it home. I then took all of my family photos off my old windows computer and loaded them on my mac. The mac was great but I was having problems with it booting up. I assumed that I had a software issue and after some research..repaired permissions etc. While in Best Buy the other day I started looking at back up Hard Drives to work with Time Machine..why not I decided, I have the program the drives are reasonably priced, so I bought one, took it home and backed up my drive. Next morning my imac is frozen and will not boot up after I turned it off. I took it to the apple store and.....you guessed it bad hard drive (replaced free under warranty). Saved buy Time Machine.
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AnthonyM1987 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: May 23, 2008 Posts: 124 Mac Specs: iMac 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, OSX 10.6, 1TB Storage	11-18-2008, 11:04 PM I've always had a little trouble with TimeMachine giving me the infinite 'preparing' time. I think I've recently finally noticed when I'm torrenting and it tries to back up that's when things get fudged.
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