On Sunday, I was having a printer problem at home. It was basically a driver issue with the new update for my OS that I downloaded onto my ibook. Well, the last time I had this problem, I re-installed the original OS X Tiger.
No problem, right?
Maybe in my exhaustion from my trail race on Saturday, or from practicing my bass for the past hour on a Sunday morning, or a combination of the two, I made a bit of a mistake in the re-installation.
Instead of installing OS X Tiger, I went ahead and re-installed the original OS X Panther. After installing this OS, everything that I had saved on my computer could not be found.
It was all gone.
Thousands of pictures dating as far back from my wedding of five years ago all the way up to our trip to Mystic, CT had completely disappeared. Music that I had downloaded and purchased had been completely wiped. Videos that I had created of my son's first steps had mysteriously vanished.
Now, I don't remember if there was an option that I should have left unchecked, but what I do know is that this is not the type of lesson to learn the hard way. Just last week, I was walking through a retail store having every intention of walking out with an external hard drive but in my cautiousness, opted to buy it at another time. I had been talking to wife about how we needed to backup all our files just in case something happened to the computer.
Missed opportunity.
Well, my only hope for salvaging some lost data is to check in with a store the specializes in Macs. Maybe in my haste of trying to fix a driver, all my data is saved in a different partition of my hard drive that was created in the installation of the OS.
Although, I doubt it.
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