Published by JPLand on 25 Sep 2009 at 12:25 pm
Inbox Zero
In the business world, there are many theories on how to increase productivity. One of the most recent trends is called “inbox zero”. The intent is to remove all of the e-mail from your inbox by deleting what is unnecessary, doing the tasks that are required, and sorting the things that need to be archived. This gives better visibility to things that need to be addressed when they come in.
This morning, I hit inbox zero…but not in a good way. I fried-up my computer and…..ptht. Nothing. Boot to safe mode, error checks, memory checks. I even took the thing to our IT people. Ptht. It just so happens that I had a bad hard drive. Guess how much data they were able to recover from the computer. Ptht.
I just got this computer in June and had several project closing over the past month, so time was tight and backing-up those files was not on my priority list. When I explained to my boss everything that had happened, he offered for me to use his external hard drive as a back-up option. If somebody could just let me borrow a time machine, I’ll be able to recover my data.
Alana on 25 Sep 2009 at 2:41 pm #
Have you seen the Time Machine feature on the newer Macs? It’s completely freaky. We just got an external hard drive and set up Time Machine on my computer. When I choose to “Enter Time Machine,” my desktop slips away and you look like you’re moving forward through space to whatever your computer looked like at the last back up. It’s spooooky science fiction stuff.
Um, I just realized how not helpful that is. Sorry for your loss?
JPLand on 25 Sep 2009 at 2:56 pm #
I had an automated system restore function so that if I got a crash, it could restore the computer to the most recent point in time. The external hard drive wasn’t an option at the office (well, not until this afternoon when management suddenly realized that we might need to get some), so the system restore was all I had to rely on.
Unfortunately, the failure seems to have been a failure of the mechanical parts of the hard drive and this caused physical damage, not something that can be recovered. So, unless I would have gone against company policy and stored my back-ups on our network, I had no way of getting around this. YAY!