Yesterday (August 6th), my computer was running slowly and I had to reboot it, a common occurrence. Â My computer decided to hang on a grey little Apple icon, seemingly harmless, but 24 hours later after a call with Apple Care and a visit to a data recovery center, my entire hard drive is gone. Â I will know in about a week if my files are recoverable, but now I wait. Â And wait. Â Fortunately I have some data backed up on an external hard drive. Â Unfortunately, I had not backed up many arrangements from the past year. Â
For those of you I’ve been e-mailing with this past week (Casey, Jamie, etc), please e-mail me again when you get a chance and re-forward your request to me. Â With the hard drive crash I don’t have any e-mails from before TODAY, and I don’t have your e-mail addresses! Â I may have some of the arrangements you’ve requested on the server which could be good news.
For everyone else, please hang tight. Â I’ll know in a week what was salvaged, if anything, and if it’s a total loss, I might be contacting some old clients to send PDFs and files of my arrangements back to me so I can painstakingly rebuild my work. Â Let’s hope it’s good news next week!