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ditzyscrap
06-23-2008, 01:42 PM
Ahhh...it's starting out to be a GREAT day! :thumbup:

LOL, I'm being sarcastic.

My SIL went into labor yesterday, labored all afternoon, ALL night, 1-2 minutes apart from 10pm-6am, and when checked this morning, she was NOT dilated at all. She gets to go home because her contractions have slowed right down again. And she's now 7 days overdue, lol.

Then I get the dreaded "blue screen" and tells me it's doing a physical memory dump...I've gotten that before and have been trying to get it fixed, but anyhow, I finally called and gave them the error code I was getting. He couldn't figure out what was going on, because it happened 2x more while we were on the phone and each time I got a different code. So...we completely restored my computer.

No big deal, I've backed up all my "important" files...he kept double checking that I had, and then I started the restore and realized "OMG...all my MUSIC". Too late, lol. Doh! So, I've lost most of my music (all purchased on iTunes - mostly single songs, a few CD's)...I can recover about 1/2 from my iPod, but the rest is gone, including the 10 or so songs I bought this past week.

I get to spend the day reinstalling ALL my programs...so fare I've got my Wacom working, got Y!M going and downloaded Firefox so I don't have to use yucky IE, lol...still have LOTS to go, though.

I'm scared to turn my EHD back on because it was plugged in and turned on when I did the restore...I'm not sure if it reformatted it as well or not. I turned it off after the restore was done and I was waiting for Windows to set itself back up. Wish me luck on that one (thankfully the only thing NOT backed up to my 2nd EHD was digi files - all my photos, designing stuff, and layouts are backed up).

I hope everyone else is having a better day! :blink:
ColleenSwerb
06-23-2008, 01:45 PM
Good lord Bree! That sucks! Yet another PSA for ppl to BACK UP!!

Monday is ok. I'm having too much fun just staring at pictures of the wedding dress I picked out on saturday, and imagining my wedding. :p
Paula
06-23-2008, 01:48 PM
OMGosh Bree!! What a day! So, did you turn on the EHD yet?
ditzyscrap
06-23-2008, 01:57 PM
Yep, turned on the EHD, it was safe. But WAHHHH...I don't have ACDSee anymore, lol...I got it free from the company, and the registration key was in an email, which was in Outlook, hahaha. Doh!
lhaslem
06-23-2008, 01:59 PM
oh man, my fingers are crossed:)
pbumbaca
06-23-2008, 02:00 PM
OH NO! I'm sorry Bree! Glad you were able to save most of it tho! PHEW!
SamaraGugler
06-23-2008, 02:09 PM
ah man!!!

I can sympathize with you though.

My parents lent me a stationary bike, a very expensive one. I got it hooked up this morning and plugged it in. The display came on, I got on and started to ride. I heard a big pop and the screen started smoking.

I called my folks to let them know, but I'm soooo upset. This is/was a REALLY expensive piece of equipment.

Dad said he'd call around to see if he could find some replacement parts.
beaucat
06-23-2008, 02:22 PM
Yikes! That doesn't sound like a fun day!

It also remind me that I need to backup my fonts and music!

Angela
jene
06-23-2008, 02:27 PM
that doesn't sound very fun but I may have some good news when I lost my iTunes stuff I was able to go back into it and redown load them as long as it was the same computer in which you first purchased them from
ditzyscrap
06-23-2008, 02:35 PM
OMG, my fonts....ahhhhh...lol!
ditzyscrap
06-23-2008, 02:35 PM
that doesn't sound very fun but I may have some good news when I lost my iTunes stuff I was able to go back into it and redown load them as long as it was the same computer in which you first purchased them from
Ohhh, really? I will have to check into that...some of it is showing up, and I recovered some from my iPod, but am still missing a good chunk.
~Julie~
06-23-2008, 03:18 PM
Oh no Bree.. I hope the rest of your day is better
crecia27
06-23-2008, 03:22 PM
OH NO! that bites! Hope you can recover your songs! You don't have your fonts backed up?
ditzyscrap
06-23-2008, 03:23 PM
No, never thought about backing up my fonts, lol. I'm sure I have most of them on my EHD, just kinda haphazardly...will have to poke around and see what I find.
**Holly**
06-23-2008, 04:27 PM
Awe that sucks hun....my monday has been pretty good! :)
my4boys
06-23-2008, 06:16 PM
BACKING UP FILES NOW.......Thanks for the reminder....I transfered all my stuff to my EHD to free up space...now off to save on disc............
Contance
06-23-2008, 09:52 PM
well at least you had stuff backed up, my EHD is still all nice and new in it's package, I don't want to disturb it ya know
C
kscwgirl
06-23-2008, 10:00 PM
oh yuck Bree. :(
EveRecinella
06-24-2008, 02:57 AM
Oy vay!! I sure hope today is better!
meems
06-24-2008, 03:13 AM
oh not fun! bummer about the fonts and music and ACDSee :(.

I just emailed myself a screenshot of my ACDSee10 license. :p

I better take an inventory of all programs.

hope your PC is working better now.
my3hens
06-24-2008, 10:07 AM
Im glad your ehd is fine!! Sounds stressful to deal with all that!! I had to buy a new computer recently and had to start from scratch with the fonts too :( Its such a pita!!
cheltzey
06-24-2008, 01:54 PM
That's (part of) why my husband is so opposed to downloading music from itunes. He hates the idea of not having the actual CD. Hope you're able to get most of it back, Bree! I lost all of my music as well when my HD crashed this week, but I think I have physical copies of most of it.