I was at a tournament when all of a sudden, I got the spinning wheel. I tried to force quit, but the whole computer seemed to be frozen. When I restarted the computer, it failed to recognize my hard drive as a mountable drive.

My last backup was the last day before I left for San Francisco, so a couple weeks of lost data isn’t as bad as it could have been. I’ve found backups of the pictures and videos I took while in San Francisco, so it seems like I haven’t lost any irreplaceable data. I guess I’ll just have to deal with my workflow being disrupted until I get a new hard drive.

I have three things to be thankful for. First, I’m going to get a larger capacity hard drive to replace the old one. Also, I’m glad I use Time Machine. Most of all, I’m glad this didn’t happen to me in San Francisco.