"It Just Works"

Me: Ok, so are all the files on the hard drive copied to the external drive?
Mac: Yessir.
Me: Are all the backup of the backup of all the files on the hard drive copied?
Mac: Yessir.
Me: Ok, Im gonna wipe the original drive now.
Mac: Yessir.

Later

Me: Ok, Im restoring all the files.. where are the files that were on the desktop?
Mac: Oh. You wanted to copy those too?
Me: Yes. All the files that were on the hard drive.
Mac: Those werent copied sir.
Me: Werent those files on the hard drive too?
Mac: Yes. But those werent copied.
Me: *strangled noise* ...rrrrrrr! Ok. Fine. Show me the desktop folder, so I can search for the files myself.
Mac: Im sorry sir. That folder is invisible. I cant allow you to see that.
Me: You mean, I can see it over a network, but I cant look at it on the machine in front of me???
Mac: Yessir. The government can dial into your machine and see all the files you have,even the invisible system ones but Im not allowed to let you see, touch or modify those.
Me: So the files on the desktop werent copied, and are all gone now.
Mac: Yessir.

You tell me... the Mac - "quirkiness" or "incompetence"?

Its no wonder the Mac was brought into this world by Californians and a Frenchman.

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JPennant: There are times I want to strangle Steve Jobs
McClint: everyone says that. why you?
JPennant: If I want to copy everything on a mac drive.. I select everything and drop it onto a another drive, right?
McClint: define "everything"
JPennant: every single effing file
McClint: generally yes. but there are a few invisible files on the root of the HD, and dont forget the Desktop
JPennant: which of course, isnt copied
McClint: what are you trying to do?
JPennant: back up a drive
McClint: OS 9, right?
JPennant: yup
McClint: internal HD to an external?
JPennant: yup
McClint: well what isn't getting copied that you want copied?
JPennant: all the files that were on the desktop
JPennant: And I went ahead and wiped and redid the internal drive
JPennant: I even have the invisible files that were in the root of the drive. Even THOSE got copied over. But not the invisible DESKTOP files.
McClint: ahhh. well if you wanted to do that kind of "backup" all you have to do is drag the internal HD icon into the external HD window. then it will copy 100% of the files on that drive
McClint: when you just select the folder inside the HD window, those are the only things you're selecting
JPennant: so the desktop files are are gone eh
McClint: yep
JPennant: jesus
JPennant: This guys work for the last 3 years is gone, cuz he put them all on his desktop
JPennant: we thought they were backed up
McClint: that's just bad practice anyway because problems can actualyl creep up if you have too many files in the Desktop Folder
JPennant: Yeah, I told him that. But its my fault for not telling him to specifically back up all the files on the desktop too.
JPennant: I wanna strangle Steve Jpobs
McClint: hahahah
McClint: let me guess.... he never made any copies on disk?
JPennant: All on the desktop so he could get to them
JPennant: Im gonna try disk rescue
McClint: i jump down the throat of teachers at ***** who put ALL their stuff on the desktop
McClint: heck... i jump down their throats if they have more than 15 things on the desktop
JPennant: Oh yeah, I tried running disk rescue
JPennant: not everything
JPennant: but a lot of things
McClint: even if you were to run norton unerase, you're too late because my money says you already overwrote the sectors on the disk where those files used to be
JPennant: yeah.
McClint: when I accdently erased my hard drive and lost all the digital pix i took with my camera, I ran norton unerase and managed to recover a shitload of software but only 5 pictures
JPennant: oy. I feel sick
McClint: dont beat yourself up though, I've actually done the same thing you did before a couple times
McClint: if anything it will teach the user PROPER use of the computer
JPennant: yeah


Oy, I feel sick. On my Mac, and other people's Macs.

Here, Im writing on a Dell that is literally falling to pieces, and is still running strong.

You tell me..

"It just works".

Jesus Christ.