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rootofnewtSo...
There's nothing quite like the feeling of wiping a hard disk clean. It terrifies me every time, though it's been a long time since I've had to do it.
I re-initialized the hard disk of the Powerbook (G3). It's much happier now.
But...
After transferring all the programs, pictures, etc, to boy's computer for safekeeping... and after asking him "did we get everything? is there ANYTHING ELSE?"... and after actually the initialization and installation of OS9.
i realized that i forgot to back up my email.
i had several years' worth of email.
I had a lot of *important* email relating to mailing lists I administrate. I had a lot of important-to-me personal email. I had thousands of recipes. I had all my friends' email addresses, friends' and relatives' *mailing* addresses, and a lot of information pertinent to the IAAA Board in there...
crap.
Oh, well. As I told boy--there's no point in getting upset now. I can ask friends for back-ups.
If I normally email you, please email me at one of my explodingcat dot com addresses or at my livejournal account. Otherwise, you won't hear from me... ;)
Oh, thank the goddess... I have the IAAA log that I needed the most, because I gave boy IRCLE... *phew* I don't have all the OTHER email, but I have that.
But hey... it's like my computer is shiny and new!
now i just need to install cRussify and a few other things... MTNewswatcher, ICQ, etc.
w00t!
There's nothing quite like the feeling of wiping a hard disk clean. It terrifies me every time, though it's been a long time since I've had to do it.
I re-initialized the hard disk of the Powerbook (G3). It's much happier now.
But...
After transferring all the programs, pictures, etc, to boy's computer for safekeeping... and after asking him "did we get everything? is there ANYTHING ELSE?"... and after actually the initialization and installation of OS9.
i realized that i forgot to back up my email.
i had several years' worth of email.
I had a lot of *important* email relating to mailing lists I administrate. I had a lot of important-to-me personal email. I had thousands of recipes. I had all my friends' email addresses, friends' and relatives' *mailing* addresses, and a lot of information pertinent to the IAAA Board in there...
crap.
Oh, well. As I told boy--there's no point in getting upset now. I can ask friends for back-ups.
If I normally email you, please email me at one of my explodingcat dot com addresses or at my livejournal account. Otherwise, you won't hear from me... ;)
Oh, thank the goddess... I have the IAAA log that I needed the most, because I gave boy IRCLE... *phew* I don't have all the OTHER email, but I have that.
But hey... it's like my computer is shiny and new!
now i just need to install cRussify and a few other things... MTNewswatcher, ICQ, etc.
w00t!
