Time Machine

What's the old saying? "There are two kinds of computer users--those who have lost data and those who will loose data."

Last Wednesday I lost data. I lost my entire email program, Apple Mail. Something happened during a routine software update.

When I got on the phone with Apple yesterday the service rep took a "look" inside my computer.

"I see you have a LaCie auxiliary hard drive. Are you backing up your data with "Time Machine?"

That was spooky. I asked him if he could also see what my dog was doing. 

"Yes," I said, as I have been doing backups for years but never had an incident.

Well, he took me into Time Machine (a Mac feature), went back in time and found the Mail application that I was using just before I lost it, and then walked me through the steps to restore it.

Bingo! I am back in business. This is the first time I have ever lost something important and was able to recover it because I had backed everything up. Time Machine backs up the entire computer at least twice a day.

So I am here to tell you that it pays to back up your computer. And today it is very easy. Do it!