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PSA: Don't forget to back up your computer.
Today I almost lost about 6 months of work on a mobile app I'm developing on a Mac of mine (I'm a PC guy so yes, negligence on my part for not being more proactive about backups on this secondary machine).
So anyway, early this morning I'm greeted with a prompt: "An update is available for your Mac". Well, due to some dumb luck and a faulty monitor (long story), the update went awry and the hard drive was corrupted and couldn't be salvaged by Disk Utility's First Aid. Two trips to Best Buy, an online Apple store order upgraded to the premium-priced two hour white glove home delivery of over $100 in Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt 3 to USB-A to Giveusallyermoney-C and other assorted cables and converters that would allow me to put the machine into target disk mode so I could copy all the data over to another computer - and I finally get everything backed up and ready to format and reinstall. Ughh..
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock..
About 14 hours later and thousands of files, movies, tv shows copied, I restart, go into recovery mode again > disk utility > first aid and lo and behold.. the data partition checks out... what the actual fuck. It fixed itself after going into target disk mode?? The other partition with OS-specific files is still failing, but maybe the reinstall will fix that I wonder? So, I reinstall through recovery mode and what-do-ya-know, I'm greeted with a once-again working computer. I pause before the log in screen I'm presented with, and ponder the day wasted.. I log in and there before me as the final slap in the face, I'm greeted with the following: An update is available for your Mac. Hahah.. you fucker.. Yeah sure why not.. *click*
Welp, there's my Saturday.. g'nite
- Updating is a trap! Better just wait and get a new machine with the latest software just to be suregrafician
- I’ll do it next week or the week afternb
- You should be using Git for your software projects. Both Gitlab and Github have generous free tiers.section_014
- I'm not sure I trust any cloud-based repository with my more important projects. But yeah, ideally that would have saved my hide in a worst case scenario..SteveJobs
- I treat my devices as disposable trash and organise my stuff so that everything is on external repositoriesmekk
- Password Manager, Google One for Phone backups, Git and Docker. Office365 Cloud. I only store minimal stuff that I'm working on in that week on my desktop andmekk
- move it to my backed up HDDs once it's done.mekk
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