I thought my world was going to fall apart without my MacBook Pro. Not quite.
Maybe it was the rapid turn-around of Apple's repair depot, my iPhone being well connected, or simply because computers and an Internet connection are never far away. Staying in touch with Facebook, Twitter, and email was easy with the iPhone. I had no trouble accessing documents in the cloud via Google Apps.
What, then, was inaccessible to me during my Mac's repair? My most sensitive and critical documents which should not be in the cloud or simply too large for it: finance, photos, music, project files. Another catch… These files need their parent applications to operate properly: Quicken, iTunes, DEVONthink.
Am I really tethered to those apps? Perhaps it's time to look at migrating from Quicken to bank and investment web services or leverage DEVONthink's off-line database archives. But what about the iTunes library? Like iTunes, there are many apps which do not have web-based or proxy replacements. How then to ensure everything is always available? That's a future post.
What did I miss the most during the downtime? iPhoto and Final Cut Pro.
The motherboard in my MacBook Pro (two years old) ascended into bit heaven yesterday. It’s off for warranty repair but, unfortunately, with my current schedule I hadn’t kept current on my Time Machine backup – it’s about 14 days behind. For safety’s sake Apple is making a backup of my Users folder (for a fee) should the drive be wiped at the repair facility. Meanwhile, I’m left to ponder a few things while I am sans computer.