What the . . . Macbook crash! Again!
OK, I’m getting really tired of this. I was typing along with my Macbook with it running on battery power when at 50% battery life it just went POP and then shut off. Blank screen. Stopped hard drive. Complete crash. And when I started up again all my settings were GONE. AGAIN. All of my iPhoto photos, all of my iTunes tunes, all my Thunderbird mail settings, all of my directory and OS X settings GONE. I’m so f’in tired of this.
Do you remember the Ellen Feiss video? You must:
And I was like “nnnnmmmm???”. Yeah, I hear you. I was like “oh no not again”. This is the SECOND time I have had my Macbook just quit on me and destroy my settings. See, it’s horrible. iPhoto keeps your modified and originals in two separate folders, and if the file that links them together is corrupt then forget it. Your settings are just GONE. Observe these wonderful pictures after my computer came back to life:
I mean seriously. When Windows XP crashed it was bad but at least the settings files were there. When my Mac crashes it takes out data. And I might add that my WinXP didn’t crash that often.
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!
In a way this is almost worse than a Windows registry crash. With the registry you can back that up periodically. With the Mac all the config files are all over the place. And, for example, the iPhoto config files are inside the iPhoto directory which is impossible to navigate using Finder. You have to open up a Unix shell to get at the files. It’s horrible.
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Update 2007.10.08 01:47:
- Running Rember 0.3.4b: tests passed
October 8th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Something is seriously wrong there. Run as many hardware tests as possible and then complain bitterly to Apple. It may seem futile at first, but I have managed to always get closesure from them when I’ve had faulty hardware issues.
Nikki.