How can I be so daft? – It isn’t hard
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Yesterday, I was thrilled to collect the hard drive from my old iMac. This was the drive that held five years (and more) of all my files and programmes. I have been waiting patiently for Apple to say it was ready to collect. “Once I get my hard drive, I can get myself all sorted out on my new iMac” I kept telling Mo. “Until then, I can’t really get going.”
We picked up the old drive from the Apple Store and went straight to PC World to buy an enclosure (Apple don’t sell them). We were greeted by a young chap who looked like Eric Sykes (British comedian) and sounded like Tommy Cooper! He was a bit of a comedian himself, but I expect that was inevitable really. He finally sold us an enclosure and we set off home.

Once home we followed the very brief instructions on how to wire it up. I plugged everything in and switched it on. The light came on and quickly went off again. We took it to pieces and tried wiring it differently, as the instructions were so vague we were not totally sure it was correct. Still not working.
I contacted a very clever PC man called Jeff (View From The Clouds) and emails flew back and forth while he very kindly tried to help me out of my predicament. Unfortunately it seemed that something was faulty, and we would have to go back and see Mr Eric Cooper, or was it Tommy Sykes?
It ended up with us getting our money back, even though they said that the enclosure fired up for them. I was now a little worried that it may be the hard drive that was faulty after all, so we went to the Apple Store, and they said that if we couldn’t get it to work with another enclosure they would return the costs for the drive removal. We set off to the only other shop we could think of, to buy another enclosure. On the journey I started to think (shame I didn’t do that sooner – much sooner!) Did I really need what was on the drive? What IS actually on it? You know, questions like that.
“Don’t worry Mo” I said out loud. “I will take the drive back to Apple and get a refund” Mo looked a little confused – not too confused because she knows me.

“I’ve just remembered. I didn’t use the internal drive for many of my files. I used an external one, and in any case, I always backed up my ‘home’ folder, so I will have everything on my backup drive.” (For those that don’t know about Macs, the ‘Home’ folder holds pretty much everything, except applications!) “We might as well go home now.”
Mo: “I’m already going home.”
She had turned around as soon as she heard my ramblings on what was, or wasn’t on the hard drive. She knows me too well. She hasn’t moaned at me once, for all the running around she’s had to do.
What is my excuse for my stupidity and total waste of time? None really.
We’ll probably take the hard drive back, get a refund from Apple and pretend that these last few weeks didn’t really happened.
For those of you that like Tommy Cooper, and just to show you that some people make a fortune out of being as daft as me, here is a little clip for you.
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Stumble it!





















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