Wow! What a roller coaster! My computer died causing much pain, agony, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Today, after using Data Rescue II and spending the whole day (more or less) watching software scan, find, rescue, copy, delete, format and finally install – I’m back! That’s right the computer has been rescued by the prompt, patient and heroic ministrations of the superwizard of support LP (I will not use his real name so that he can maintain his secret identity).
All my mail is back. All my friends have been grinning and making evil comments about backups and other safety measures. When not watching the screen I have been walking around as an example to others: “Look there he is… he didn’t back up and now he is toast…” A tale to scare the grandchildren with.
So now I will solemnly promise to make even more frequent backups and to never pop mail again (yes I shall embrace imap with the fervor of a convert).
Lessons learned you think? and yet… I don’t know. Maybe it was too easy, maybe I didn’t suffer enough…