Had to hard boot my leopard MacBook Pro 17". When it came back, everything was wrong - loads of corrupted files etc.
Time for reboot I thought - I had everything backed up using Time Machine and spideroak. Or so I thought :)
So an hour (ish) later I had a fresh virgin installation. I could have chosen to restore from Time Machine during the update, but I wanted a bit more control (:)) than that, so I didn't.
I created the exact same username/password (not sure if that is relevant), and logged in. Clicked on the Time Machine icon and there it was - a beauty to behold - restoring was slightly unintuitive - I expected to be able to right click and restore, but no, I needed to select the ones and then click the Restore icon.
So, no more than 3 hours and I am back up and running.
(yeah yeah, I know, if I had done an entire system image it would have been even quicker).
Didn't have to use spideroak this time, but I will be using it to synchronise mine, and my wife's photo galleries. Rock on.
Time for reboot I thought - I had everything backed up using Time Machine and spideroak. Or so I thought :)
So an hour (ish) later I had a fresh virgin installation. I could have chosen to restore from Time Machine during the update, but I wanted a bit more control (:)) than that, so I didn't.
I created the exact same username/password (not sure if that is relevant), and logged in. Clicked on the Time Machine icon and there it was - a beauty to behold - restoring was slightly unintuitive - I expected to be able to right click and restore, but no, I needed to select the ones and then click the Restore icon.
So, no more than 3 hours and I am back up and running.
(yeah yeah, I know, if I had done an entire system image it would have been even quicker).
Didn't have to use spideroak this time, but I will be using it to synchronise mine, and my wife's photo galleries. Rock on.
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