I'm angry at everything here.
I have long backed up my Mac mini with Carbonite and with Time Machine. I figured I'd never have a problem if I had both.
Well, last week, the hard drive on my Mac mini failed. We had to drive 5 hours away to the nearest "Genius Bar." e has to get a hotel, which was fine while I was unaware of the problem which was to happen.
It was still under warranty. When she asked if I'd backed it up, I said yes because it was. Times 2.
So she installed a larger hard drive at no extra charge. Yay. She mailed it to me so we wouldn't have to drive back down.
It took days for Carbonite, and when it was all done, all of the files that had been reinstalled were installed in iCloud with alias on the Mac. And I had run out of iCloud, which I have always hated. But don't worry, they upped the amount I had to pay for iCloud and just kept on going!
So, after talking to Apple four times, none of the "geniuses" were actually correct, but it seemed to me that what I needed to do, which was to move all of the iCloud stuff to the correct place on the Mac and then eventually deleting the aliases. Well, I did that, but it took two day, and there are no more folders on my desktop, just the files that used to be in them. Ok. I think I've dealt with that.
But I can't figure out how to do a couple of things it used to do. For example:
1. My Mac mini, iPhone, and iPad as well as my account on my husband's MacBook Pro used to be synced. If any of them had a login/password, they all had them. I could also copy something from my iPad and paste it into my Mac mini. No more.
2. My password app, mSecure, used to be synched as well, and now, while two of them do, the one on the Mac mini is totally blank.
3. My Garagesale app -- an eBay app I don't expect anyone to know about -- is scattered so far asunder, I don't expect I'll ever get it back, which mean I will be manually trying to pull together more than 4,000 listings until the day I die.
Though it may or may not be related to this mess, I am scheduled to undergo back surgery Tuesday which will keep me in bed for at least a week, which has me freaking out and probably made my reasoning powers less than usual.
If anyone can help me with just one of these problems -- or even part of one of these problems -- I will be forever.
Ugh.
I have long backed up my Mac mini with Carbonite and with Time Machine. I figured I'd never have a problem if I had both.
Well, last week, the hard drive on my Mac mini failed. We had to drive 5 hours away to the nearest "Genius Bar." e has to get a hotel, which was fine while I was unaware of the problem which was to happen.
It was still under warranty. When she asked if I'd backed it up, I said yes because it was. Times 2.
So she installed a larger hard drive at no extra charge. Yay. She mailed it to me so we wouldn't have to drive back down.
It took days for Carbonite, and when it was all done, all of the files that had been reinstalled were installed in iCloud with alias on the Mac. And I had run out of iCloud, which I have always hated. But don't worry, they upped the amount I had to pay for iCloud and just kept on going!
So, after talking to Apple four times, none of the "geniuses" were actually correct, but it seemed to me that what I needed to do, which was to move all of the iCloud stuff to the correct place on the Mac and then eventually deleting the aliases. Well, I did that, but it took two day, and there are no more folders on my desktop, just the files that used to be in them. Ok. I think I've dealt with that.
But I can't figure out how to do a couple of things it used to do. For example:
1. My Mac mini, iPhone, and iPad as well as my account on my husband's MacBook Pro used to be synced. If any of them had a login/password, they all had them. I could also copy something from my iPad and paste it into my Mac mini. No more.
2. My password app, mSecure, used to be synched as well, and now, while two of them do, the one on the Mac mini is totally blank.
3. My Garagesale app -- an eBay app I don't expect anyone to know about -- is scattered so far asunder, I don't expect I'll ever get it back, which mean I will be manually trying to pull together more than 4,000 listings until the day I die.
Though it may or may not be related to this mess, I am scheduled to undergo back surgery Tuesday which will keep me in bed for at least a week, which has me freaking out and probably made my reasoning powers less than usual.
If anyone can help me with just one of these problems -- or even part of one of these problems -- I will be forever.
Ugh.
