Yay!

[caliente_uk]

Thank you to everyone for the sympathy and advice on my computer woes earlier. It's taken a long time to do it, but I managed to retrieve my iTunes library...so I haven't lost any of my iPod files. Yay! :D

Thanks to bogwitch (and other kind offers), I've now got The Butterfly Effect back on my hard drive. I'm so happy about that, because it was one of the first fics I read and remains a favourite to this day. So thank you, bogwitch!!

I've managed to locate several of the videos that I lost, and I'm going to search out some of the pics (that I hadn't gotten around to backing up) tomorrow. So, what could have been a disaster hasn't turned out too bad after all. :)

And the moral of this story? Back up any important files! I do back up files on a regular basis (although obviously not regularly enough!), so I've been lucky. I did lose some family photographs and camcorder footage that I transferred from my camcorder the other day, plus some fic and fandom files (including the most recent icons and graphics that I'd saved to my laptop), but it could have been so much worse.

The one good thing about the whole thing is that my laptop is operating so much faster now! :)

Comments

*hugs*

[showmewrtr.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear about your computer woes, hon. *HUGS* So glad you were able to retrive some of your data. I'll pay homage to the computer gods for your computer's continued health.

Re: *hugs*

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Mary. It's been a nightmare! *hugs*

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

BE is a big favourite of mine too. It's a shame what happened to CJ.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. She's a wonderful writer.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

The one good thing about the whole thing is that my laptop is operating so much faster now!

Thats a good, healthy, 'half-full' attitude Cal. Glad you managed to retrieve your iTunes library - and I now have several backups of my backups just to be sure. *g*

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

You have to look on the bright side, don't you? I can't change what's happened, so I might as well think of the positive aspect. :)

I was so glad I managed to retrieve my iTunes library! I would have been lost without that. Yes, I'm going to back *everything* up from now on!

*hugs*

[lmbossy.livejournal.com]

Glad you've managed to get most of the important things back! And a faster laptop can't be a bad side affect *g*