grinchy blog post....

"Grinchy" might be a little to strong of a word [shut up, "grinchy" IS a word!].  But pretty much I keep having to talk myself down from freaking out... cause my stupid computer has gone ape shit!

Seriously.  I move my mouse around to wake it up this morning, to find it completely different than I left it.  My desktop background, replaced with some colorful swirlish thing that comes with new computers.

Initially I thought, well, maybe Ronald hooked up his computer to mine, or something... so I look around... nope.

Then I'm like, okay, well, maybe it updated it, and this is not all bad... and as I hold my breath I click open the C drive... whew, still there.

Okay, so it's there, and I've got shit to do!  So I open up indesign, get my book exporting, and realize I need to do some photoshop-ing of a few images before I send it off... okay, open up photogshop [ha ha, funny typo that I'm totally leaving in], drag my photo in, and then hit my quick key to run an action... ... ... nothing.happens.oh.shit.

I realize all my actions are missing... [not a huge deal, I can re-load, whatever]... so then I open lightroom... all my presets are missing, and all my catalogues of past work... what.the.hell!

Okay, so for most of you, you have no idea what all that means.  It means, that if this happened at any other time, I would be super duper freaking out, but luckily, I've been kickin out all my projects earlier this week, and don't have anything that's REALLY pressing.

Unluckily though, what the hell happened?!?!

I look into my Documents folder.  Everything's gone.  My Pictures folder, same story.

Right now I'm approaching it with a "I'm gonna go ahead and work on crafts instead until Ronald get's home.  Then he can take a look at it and either we fix it or I'll start over again... and look into investing in the cloud backup.

Meh.

-mrp-

ps: it would be some work, but I assure you, as a professional photog, all my picture files are backed up multiple times, so my clients have nothing to worry about.  Random documents, and advertising files, not quite as well backed up unfortunately :(.

CRISIS AVERTED: turns out my crazy computer decided that it didn't like me as a user anymore, so created a temporary user... all I had to do was restart it and it started in as user Maike... [sigh]... I sometimes hate technology...