RIGHT at the moment … ?
Right at the moment, the word in my head is ‘BUGGER’!
I have an external drive: that I use to store my iPhoto library, AND my back-up TV shows.
Some 800 or so gigabytes of data.
To be strictly accurate? I should say ‘HAD.’
I was planning to settle, last night, with the first two episodes of Penny Dreadful: something Sky’s been showing for a while, now, and been getting good reviews for.
Without thinking … ? I moved my chair. Which hit a stool. Which knocked a door. Which closed. Hitting a printer on the table with my computer. Which knocked the external drive. Which landed on the floor.
After that? After that, the ominous clicking sound from the drive — and it’s refusal to show up in the Finder — told what what it was knackered. I extracted the drive from it’s container, and put in the spare bay of my Mac Pro.
It clicked ominously, and refused to mount.
What I’m HOPING’S happened is that falling off the table means the arm that moves across the platters of the hard drive has been damaged: and is easily repairable.
I don’t know that it is, though.
If it is, that’s all good.
If it isn’t, I’m not going to worry too much about losing the TV shows. Those would be easy to replace. Expensive and tedious, but easy.
The photos, on the other hand, including those of my nephew? Are gone.
I’m not happy, understandably.
Especially when you consider the reason I was shopping on Amazon, last Friday — when I started having problems with Amazon Prime — was to buy a 2 terabyte internal drive, to replace this external drive.
I’m having a bad week.
BUGGER … !!
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