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Please forgive me as I whine.<\/p>\n

Last week Monday, I noticed my 9 month Apple Macbook Pro was really slow and wouldn\u2019t boot up IPhoto. \u00a0After rebooting multiple times, I booked the first available appointment at the Genius Bar for Wednesday. \u00a0And I actually remembered to back up everything on my external hard drive.<\/p>\n

At the Genius Bar, the very nice Apple guy said the problem with Iphoto was my corrupted Iphoto library. Which means the hours I\u2019ve spent tagging faces and retouching photos? \u00a0All wasted. \u00a0All gone. \u00a0None of it saved, even on the external hard drive.<\/p>\n

We spent the next 2 hours waiting for my computer to transfer photos from somewhere to somewhere, I don\u2019t even know where. \u00a0Meanwhile, my computer ran slower and slower and slower until both Apple Geniuses who were working with me concluded it might be a failing hard drive. \u00a0Unfortunately, none were in stock, so they ordered a new one and said they hoped it would be in by Saturday.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning I wrote my Patheos blog, interviewed a friend for my latest book idea, came up with more interview questions. \u00a0By Thursday evening, my computer stopped booting up at all. \u00a0It had died.<\/p>\n

Thank God for Dropbox! \u00a0Dropbox is like the Cloud. \u00a0My Regional Leadership Team\u2019s using it to share documents with one another. \u00a0I\u2019ve put all my work, writing and recipes in Dropbox, and every time I make a change, it saves it out on some server somewhere. \u00a0Because of Dropbox, I could continue working, cook my Chinese New Year\u2019s feast and didn\u2019t lose my new questions and interview.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short (er), after the new hard drive finally showed up on Tuesday, I went home to transfer my back-up only to see they\u2019d installed Lion, the newest operating system. \u00a0That was actually very generous of them, except that Lion won\u2019t run Entourage, where all my mailing lists, email lists, and old emails reside. <\/p>\n

Back to the Mac store for 30 minutes, where they switched me back to Snow Leopard. \u00a0I went home, backed up, and then realized I backed up everything from my old computer, not the newest one. \u00a0AACK.<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon I went back\u00a0to the Genius bar\u00a0for the 4th time in a week where they re-wiped my hard drive and told me to go home, restore my back-up using the right file and I should be all set.<\/p>\n

Finally, after an entire week, I was overjoyed to see the smiling picture of our family in Hawaii on my desktop. \u00a0Then I opened Entourage only to find that none of my groups, categories, email folders or old emails exist anymore\u2013the whole reason I couldn\u2019t use Lion.<\/p>\n

Pray for me. \u00a0I need it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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