Today all my hopes died
My Mac died today and with it, all those files Is should have backed-up ages ago. I have been promising myself for a long time that I will never let that happen again and still it did. I let it happen. All those files I had gathered during the months I have had it. Since I always do lots of things on the computer and since I’m unemployed I had a lot saved on it.
There was this folder with photos all sorted after date and camera. Everything is gone. I had several wordpress themes with photoshop files needed for it all half-ready. They are gone too. Other graphics, finished or half finished. Gone too. And of course all notes and my calendar and info about mail servers etc. It feels like half of my life is gone.
But the worst part is that all my ideas for stories and half finished stories are gone and my almost finished novel. I have never in my life finished a novel and this was almost done. I would have sent it in to publishing companies this spring. Now I don’t know how to go on. How do I start over?
~ by irispolaris on 25 January, 2009.
Posted in General
Tags: computer, died, drive, lost, stories, writing
Of course this is terribly upsetting! But remember that there is a gradation of problems within “computer dying”. What you really care about is your creative and collected work on the hard drive. It’s possible the computer failure does not involve the drive; in other words, it may work if hooked up to another computer. And, even if the drive itself is damaged, there are companies that can recover the data from failed drives.
Oh i haven’t given up hope yet, but fixing it might cost lots of money. And when I’m unemployed I can’t afford anything extra. I’ll try to connect it to my other computer with a firewire cable though… when I get one or find my own;)