This Time it's No Joke

This is not good. Plotnik's recording project has been saved to an external hard drive. It now appears that the external hard drive, which is only a few months old, may have failed. The data may or may not be recoverable. Plotnik has earlier versions of most of the songs on the hard drive of his Powerbook, but the whole reason for the external drive was not to have to store the songs in the hard drive of the computer, but somewhere else.

So it appears he should have had a backup for the backup, but then again maybe that would fail too?

Oh, man. His brand spanking new Macbook Pro appears to work, and is very fast, but this won't help recover data if the data is gone. G-Tech, who makes the external drive, says it sounds like a simple problem they can repair while saving the data -- but it'll take two weeks and there are no guarantees.

Criminy. Plot doesn't hate technology but when it fails it becomes a tortuous process. Keep your fingers crossed, please. And backup your backup of your backup? It sounds funny but is really no joke at all.