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Apr. 8th, 2007 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynneOkay, so last October this weird thing happened with my computer, where when I was trying to update the OS, something odd happened and I couldn't get it to load. I'd turn the computer on and it would give me a gray screen with a blinking icon of a file folder with a question mark in the middle.
It's doing that again, except this time with no discernible reason. I was trying to get my LJ profile page to load, but when it was taking upwards of ten minutes, I figured I'd just turn the computer off and on and see if that helped. I know that's not exactly good for the computer, but I've done it before, PCs and well as Macs, and this never happened.
Last time what I ended up having to do was completely reinstall the OS. I ended up losing most of my iTunes library (the stuff that wasn't purchased, but was downloaded before there was iTunes), as well as all the documents I hadn't gotten around to backing up. Which was most of them, because I constantly forget to do that.
I wouldn't lose as much this time around, because I have been better at backing things up, but there are some recent things I don't want to lose, so I don't want to reinstall the OS again. Hopefully we can find someone who knows what to do, but...gah! I have no idea why this happened!
Thank God I'd already finished my Remix and still have it in my email, as well as my beta's. If I'd had to rewrite the thing, a week before the deadline, I'd probably want to cry.
It's doing that again, except this time with no discernible reason. I was trying to get my LJ profile page to load, but when it was taking upwards of ten minutes, I figured I'd just turn the computer off and on and see if that helped. I know that's not exactly good for the computer, but I've done it before, PCs and well as Macs, and this never happened.
Last time what I ended up having to do was completely reinstall the OS. I ended up losing most of my iTunes library (the stuff that wasn't purchased, but was downloaded before there was iTunes), as well as all the documents I hadn't gotten around to backing up. Which was most of them, because I constantly forget to do that.
I wouldn't lose as much this time around, because I have been better at backing things up, but there are some recent things I don't want to lose, so I don't want to reinstall the OS again. Hopefully we can find someone who knows what to do, but...gah! I have no idea why this happened!
Thank God I'd already finished my Remix and still have it in my email, as well as my beta's. If I'd had to rewrite the thing, a week before the deadline, I'd probably want to cry.
