Just Not My Day...

jchristel

My Macbook was acting a little funny the past few days.  I tried to upload some of my wedding stuff to Google documents last night to be safe, but I kept getting errors.  I shut it down and figured I'd just deal with it this morning because other than running slowly, it was OK.  Except all I have left to deal with is a $150 bill for a new hard drive.  It completely crashed and the people at the Apple store weren't able to extract ANYTHING from it.  They had it for 8 hours today.  So everything I had for the wedding is gone along with pictures, email, etc from the past 2 years.   They recommended a local "data recovery specialist" and agreed to give me my fried drive.  Maybe with some luck this person will be able to recover some stuff.  I feel like a complete moron for not backing it up or putting at least some of it on a USB drive. 

I'm kind of shocked that I'm not freaking out. 

raangoli

Oh no! That really sucks! I am surprised you're not freaking out; I would be!

I hope the "recovery specialist" can get some of the info for you! I think its possible, I will keep my fingers crossed for you!

Julephenia

Oh, no! Good luck with that specialist!

felicia220

Same thing happened to me about 2 months ago.  I hope that you can get that stuff back, I wasn't able to and had to redo all my wedding stuff.  It sucked.  I still haven't gotten the back up system I want, but now what I do is print everything out or email it to myself so no matter what I still have a copy of it.  So sorry you are dealing with this, I know exactly how you feel!

DS0305

Wow that really sucks - I'm sorry.  I had something similar happen with my work computer.  All my work is on shared drives, but since I had some personal folders on my C drive (including wedding stuff) I lost everything.

jchristel

Thanks girls.  Luckily I printed out the Excel spreadsheet that had all of the addresses on it a few days ago.  We had to cross check it against our original guest list.  Some of the street addresses got cut off because the columns weren't wide enough, but I was able to retype all of them already except for 2 that got cut off.  I need to bring them to the calligrapher in 2 weeks, so I didn't want to wait for the specialist just in case.  My "new" laptop should be ready in the morning.  I think that's when it will really hit me that I have a blank laptop. I'm going to try to get the old hard drive to the specialist tomorrow- you never know, maybe they will be able to salvage something. 

jchristel

Chester cheered me up!!!

DS0305

LOL yay I'm glad Chester was able to help.

I'm sure if Tucker gave you a nice big kiss it would make you forget all about it.  Dogs just always know how to make things better. 

MelanieK2011

That's terrible!  Hopefully the recovery specialist can get some stuff back for you.

jchristel

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_new-jersey_just-not-day?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:90Discussion:50a0badf-f8de-4349-a5d5-ffb533d50a6cPost:c0abfe3b-3d70-40eb-b165-b9d74f6734fb">Re: Just Not My Day...</a>:
[QUOTE]LOL yay I'm glad Chester was able to help. I'm sure if Tucker gave you a nice big kiss it would make you foarget all about it.  Dogs just always know how to make things better.  :)
Posted by DS0305[/QUOTE]

He's half laying on top of me right now.  He's a good snugglebaby!

jrgoogrl

Oh that sux! Hopefully the specialist will be able to recover somethings!

jchristel

I finished retyping all of the addresses last night.  I'm worried that I haven't even realized what else I've lost yet! 

felicia220

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_new-jersey_just-not-day?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:90Discussion:50a0badf-f8de-4349-a5d5-ffb533d50a6cPost:817678a2-1816-4704-9f09-4801d32e1bab">Re: Just Not My Day...</a>:
[QUOTE]I finished retyping all of the addresses last night.  I'm worried that I haven't even realized what else I've lost yet! 
Posted by jchristel[/QUOTE]

<div>I worried about that for about a week and then got over it, the way I see it, if you can't remember what it was then is couldn't have been that important.  </div><div>
</div><div>Keeping my fingers crossed for you that your hard drive can be recovered</div>

jchristel

Thanks- I remembered.  Quicken.  Ugh. 

I called the data recovery person, they quoted me anywhere from $50-$499.  I guess I'll drop the fried drive off on Monday and talk to them about it.  There are only a select few things I feel I "need" back, my wedding spreadsheets, my photo library and Quicken. The rest of the stuff I can most likely recreate.  I just don't want to have to pay extra money for stuff I don't need, but I guess I can't be picky at this point!  

I have my "new" laptop back now.  Makes me feel better just having it!