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I put my trust in Apple, and now I'm paying the price. I had an issue with Bootcamp and reinstalling Windows because Bootcamp would not let me partition the drive. The only way I could see to fix it was to format and reinstall everything, which I did. A had all of my information saved on my external drive with Time Machine and knew I could easily reinstall it all using that, so without hesitating I went ahead.
Unfortunately, I shouldn't have been so trusting. After reinstalling I noticed I had a lot more free memory from before. Then when I started using my computer, I found that it only installed by backup from January 23rd!! Everything else between then and now, which I know was backed up, somehow disappeared! I suppose I'll have to take my MBP and drive into the Apple Store to the "Genius" Bar, but to be honest my faith in them is much lower than my faith in Time Machine ever was.
Irreplaceable pictures, music I bought off iTunes and Amazon, class files, programs, all gone. Before I started this mess I had a feeling I should have made a redundant backup with another program. Hopefully others will read this and not make my mistake. As for Time Machine, I think I won't be using it again after this.
Unfortunately, I shouldn't have been so trusting. After reinstalling I noticed I had a lot more free memory from before. Then when I started using my computer, I found that it only installed by backup from January 23rd!! Everything else between then and now, which I know was backed up, somehow disappeared! I suppose I'll have to take my MBP and drive into the Apple Store to the "Genius" Bar, but to be honest my faith in them is much lower than my faith in Time Machine ever was.
Irreplaceable pictures, music I bought off iTunes and Amazon, class files, programs, all gone. Before I started this mess I had a feeling I should have made a redundant backup with another program. Hopefully others will read this and not make my mistake. As for Time Machine, I think I won't be using it again after this.