A blog by James: Gamer, Father, Geek.

I have been weighing up whether or not I want to sell my Macbook to buy my iPad. The kicker is that I know someone that I could probably sell it to quickly. As the majority of my internet activity will likely switch to my iPad, the Macbook gets a little redundant. However, I think I just can’t do it. I’ll be selling it for half of what it cost me and saying goodbye to quite a lot of nice software. Plus, 3 years on it’s still a cracking good laptop. So I decided to keep it.

As I have my gaming PC and a netbook I thought there’s not a lot of need to keep my Windows Boot Camp partition about. So I decide to reclaim that space. It did not go well. I’m not sure what I did wrong, but frankly I’m surprised that I was able to fuck things up. That I know of, I didn’t do a damn thing to my Mac partition. Anyway, basically I lost all my stuff.

Enter: Time Machine! It has saved my bacon once before. But I am not very good at backing up. I usually ignore those “You have not backed up in 200 days” style messages. But I decided to do a backup in mid Feb, and for that I am very glad because before that my last backup was August last year! The problem is all my photos and music is obviously digital. You can’t retake those photos and you can’t (in the case of iTunes) re-download the music. I do copy most of my music to my gaming PC but not always straight away. So I could have lost a lot of money’s worth of stuff! Luckily any photos I lost should be on K’s laptop, and the best ones I usually upload to Facebook anyway.

So the moral of the story is, back up your stuff!