Our beautiful, nine year old iMac crashed! The worst thing is that it was our fault!
We’ve been so obsessed with Midjourney and AI art these last few years, we hadn’t noticed we were filling all our storage with saved images… till we filled all of it, and our iMac crashed because it had zero operating memory.
It took us four days to get it functioning again, but, by then, it was/is so damaged it barely works properly. We managed to move all our images from TimeMachine onto another drive, before our crippled iMac suddenly couldn’t even see external drives, so that was good.
We can’t open installers, so we can’t use Midjourney via it’s app, which has all the functions we use… we can use it on the web, but only using text, and we can’t save images to our dying Mac. Because we can’t save anything, and because our Mac now can’t see external disks, we can’t upload anything to post, hence our first ever, words-only post.
Unless we can retrieve it from TimeMachine, it looks like we lost thousands of albums from our vast music collection, ones we had recorded from cd’s onto our computer, and one’s we’d downloaded back in the day before they made file sharing a crime. Because of the cloud, we still have all our iTunes purchases, which are considerable, but we can only play them via the tinny Mac speakers because the Bluetooth function is only half working, and though it says our Bluetooth speaker is connected, it isn’t.
These last four days have been quite stressful, not just all the brain-churning effort of trying to repair our Mac via Google suggestions using our phone, but the withdrawal from our, literally daily Mj obsession.
So that’s us till we buy a bright, shiny, new iMac… which will be nice, but at NZ$4500, it’s kind of a financial drag we’d hoped to avoid.
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if the hard drive is full when you do manage to get a new computer most computer stores can transfer things saved on the old HD to the new one or to a external hd/usb flash drive… Aside from that best of luck and hope to see your lovely work again soon
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Sadly, things got very complicated… we had to reformat the hard drive to accept a new OS, which is a different format to our previous OS, so we lost everything that was on the drive. But, as I said, we have our TimeMachine backups, which we can hopefully retrieve with the new Mac. Thanks for kind words (:
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you can still recover files from a formatted HD especially if you did quick format, or you can get professional recovery services
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Ok, thanks for the info. We’ll look into it if need to.
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So sorry this happened. 😦
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Us, too! As always, we decide to see the positive in it… we’ve learned WAY more about the hidden workings of iMacs, we’ve gotten good at searching this stuff using our phone (we are a computer person, and really only use our phone as a phone), plus we’ve done more day-time reading and RL art creating than we’ve done for a while (:
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Oh no.. so sorry to hear this. I hope you are able to recover everything you want.. ♥
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