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A few months ago I wrecked my MacBook Pro. Fortunately I am anal about backups and I just unplugged the Passport backup drive, plugged it into my desktop machine and did a restore. I knew at the time this was NOT the way to do things, but it worked and I kind of forgot about sorting things properly. This morning I was prompted to upgrade to Grande Sierra Madre or whatever the hell the latest OS is. I clicked the button, and I thought to myself, “You may regret this.”
Boy, do I regret it.
Five hours later my computer was Vashed - EVERYTHING was “Poof, Gone.” YEARS of work and records - gone. I have Time Machine backups from as recently as this morning, but Time Machine didn’t work, so I couldn’t do a simple restore. I used MrsWd’s computer to look up how to restore a Time Machine backup without using Time Machine. There is a way and I’m trying it now. According to the screen I’ll know in 6 hours and 18 minutes if I am more screwed than I have been in along time - maybe ever.
Thoughts, prayers, and a large tumbler of good scotch requested.