Freaking out

I'm freaking out, or at least I was, now I'm just nervous. Somehow I allowed myself to spill coffee on my ride. There are no accidents just incidents, and I really don't know what I was doing being so careless.

I thought I wiped everything up and had been lucky nothing spilled into the guts of the thing, just on the aluminum case. But then I booted up and the LCD failed to come on. Flickered a bit and failed. The external monitor port and everything else seemed fine. So, figuring I had (will have) to take it in and get it serviced I started making a backup. My last backup was when I installed Tiger. Grr. Fortunately I've got plenty of external FW drive space so I aimed Disk Utility at it and crossed my fingers.

That was a couple hours ago and it seems to be working 100% fine now. The backup will be done shortly and I'll take it down to my local service center for an opinion, but the LCD is bright and seems happy. Maybe I got luckier than I thought.

During my freak-out mode I found Jeff Geerling's excellent Backup Strategies for OS X article which pointed me to Disk Utility's Restore tab... I didn't know it could be used to take a backup! Nice!

Freaking out

Thursday, Jul 14 at 11:39 AM