After hearing mostly good things about Snow Leopard, Apple’s new operating system, I decided to upgrade. The OS was cheap- just $30, and promised to make my computer harder, better, faster, stronger, etc. So far, it’s just been a headache, but I’m on the phone with Apple, and they’re being super about helping me.
So, when I tried to install, the program basically told me that there was a problem with my hard drive. After troubleshooting a few times, I decided to erase my hard drive and restore it from one of my saved backups on my external.
(For those of you not familiar with the Apple backup system, it’s called “Time Machine” and it saves versions of your computer in time. So when you back up on a certain date, you’re getting a copy of your computer as it was on that exact day.)
When I was prompted to pick a date to restore my computer to, I picked the top date on the list…which happened to be 9/4/08. So effectively, I sent my computer back a year in time. This completely wigged me out and gave me a heart attack, thinking I had lost a year of my life (at least computer-wise). I opened Time Machine, and all dates after 9/4/08 were greyed out. I could see that I had performed backups, but I couldn’t access them.
After breathing a huge sigh of relief, realizing my information was still there, I called tech support. About 5 hours later, after reverting to Leopard, restoring to 9/2/09, and re-installing Snow Leopard, my computer is finally happy.
So far, so good with the SL. And it did buy me about 20 gigs of free hard drive space (27.9 total, I used to have only about 8). HOLY SHIT, MAN!!!
Apple wins once again.
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