Time machine saved me from my wife

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.

nice to see a good back-up story

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

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.

dabears34 said:

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

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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.

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

I really need to start using time machine.

*Note to self - Get a External HDD*