Re: FLASH: Re: MAC OS HELP _ EMERGENCY - HELP

[Franke James]

Daniel,


I've had far too much experience in this lately ;-) But I still love Macs.

My G3 was freezing (running OS 8.6) and crashing regularly causing my Flash

files (striking terror in your heart?) to get corrupted. I would save

versions and then have to go back to earlier versions, because whatever

flash file was open would be "history". These were monster files of 30 and

40mb. (swf's are under 1 mg)


End result: My 9gb.hard-drive came up with a flashing question mark (?) and

I had to send it in for repairs. The hard-drive was under warranty, however,

(legal loophole) if I wanted to try reclaiming the data it would void the

warranty!


I sent it to CBL Data Recovery (1.800.551.3917). It was a scary experience.

When the person called and gave me progress reports (hard-drive is a mess,

fragmented, little hope...) I felt like she was the doctor coming out of the

operating room, with surgical gloves and bloody hands, reporting on whether

my data was alive!! They retrieved about 85% of the data, and removed $1600

from my pocket. Although we have a thorough system of back-ups/cd-roms at

our office, this was my home studio computer and it had not been backed up

for 6 months. 


Lesson learned: Back-up. Save versions. If your hard-drive is crashing it

may be a warning :-(


I bought a cd writer and a new hard-drive. I tried running OS8.6 but it

crashed too much. I'm now running OS9, and it seems much more stable...but

it's early yet. :-)


Franke

Jamesgang.com





> 

>> my mac just froze after a whole nights work.   aggggggh

>> G4 running Final Cut Pro

>> mouse still moves - but nothing else seems to respond.

>> dont know the mac os - dont want to crash it

>> and potentially loose everything if there is still a

>> way to save it . . anyone with mac experience that can

>> help?? feel free to call me if not email back soon.

>> thanx a million . . . toll free 1-877-brothers . .

>

> Daniel Votino <danieldescry [dot] com>

> 



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