My beloved computer has been acting … strangely. Fine for ages, then stuttering and crashing at widely spaced intervals that lull me into complacency.
This morning, I launched my e-mail program, and it asked me to set up my e-mail account(s) anew.
I do not yet know how much has been lost, or where else data has been lost; I do have a good backup protocol in place for the last few months (via Backblaze), but the tricky bit is going to be figuring out what, amongst a terabyte of data, needs to be restored. This also means dredged through the scraps of data to find current addresses to contact clients if they are affected, after I figure out if they are affected. While it is not the worst possible time for this to happen, it’s not far from it.
I will probably be even less communicative than usual for the next few weeks as this gets sorted out.
January 19th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Wow, that sucks. Good luck with your data recovery problem. Thanks for the lead on a backup solution, btw.
March 5th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Strangely similar to something that happened to me recently…
In my case, something ate my inbox. As far as I know nothing else was effected. The program hung while downloading mail shortly after launching it. I hope yours restored as easily as mine.
A.M.