Hi Steel, sorry to hear that. Oh well. Will your computer be ok or is it time for a new one?
It has been a weird set of circumstances that allowed me to be vulnerable to data loss ... and I have a huge and absolutely irreplaceable data base. First step was retrieving the data (which, I'm told, was done twice on an external hard drive). Next, there is a part on order to replace what I can only describe as some switch that started sparking when I tried to awake my G-5 Mac from sleep mode. The computer doctor believes the hard drive is likely to be okay, but I'm purchasing my next computer this week anyway.