March 10th, 2008
Another reason why I love my Mac. This weekend I needed to edit some video in a pinch. The project was going to take about 20 gigs of hard drive space but I was away from my external hard drive and only had about 10 gigs of free space on my laptop. So what did I do? I did what any Mac user would do - I deleted my entire iTunes music folder. It cleared up about 65 gigs of space, and I was able to edit the video and all was well. Then when I got back home I restored all the files with Time Machine, which had automatically backed everything up. That’s how badass I am.
Very badass. Good job.
03.10.08 at 10:49 pm
Yeah, you know what? I kinda hate you right now.
03.10.08 at 11:13 pm
that is so cool, did you do it wirelessly?
how long did 65 gig take?
but your faith in apple is amazing, I would have never ever done that, and you made digg front page through macenstein.com
03.11.08 at 7:10 am
03.11.08 at 7:47 am
That’s a risk and a half! I don’t even want to imagine ripping 65GB’s worth of CD’s back into iTunes.
I might just buy that old Time Machine now!
03.12.08 at 4:29 am
Holy crap.
I *might* have to try that some day… and have a gun handy in case it doesn’t work.
03.13.08 at 10:35 am
That’s pretty much on the same level as punching Chuck Norris in the face and living to tell about it – well played sir, well played.
03.13.08 at 10:48 am
Wow. I just don’t have what it takes to live where you live…
03.13.08 at 10:49 am
That’s pretty ballsy man. That’s probably why I’m a gunther, and you get all the freakin’ chicks. :-)
03.13.08 at 11:30 am
Uhm,
What’s the big deal?!? That’s what Time Machine is for. That’s how it’s supposed to work. No balls required. But if this is what makes you think you’re badass, I feel a bit sorry for you. Don’t worry though, you may grow out of it.
And to Josh H, who said he “might just buy that old TM”. Dude, you don’t buy it, it’s part of Leopard.
03.13.08 at 11:38 am
That’s why I moved my iTunes library out of my Mac Book Pro’s hard disk. Instead it sits in a 500GB external USB2 drive. This way I don’t ever have to worry about putting too much crap into iTunes, and my laptop now always has about 100GB of free space, when before I would constantly struggle to keep 10-15GB free.
03.13.08 at 11:57 am
Yes, while Apple hypes their products and most of us buy into that hype, we’d be kidding ourselves if we blindly believed that everything would work flawlessly all the time. So basically, I took a calculated risk and it payed off. But does this make me a “badass”? Absolutely. And also the greatest person ever.
03.13.08 at 11:57 am
Major Kudos old boy! That is impressive!!
03.13.08 at 1:25 pm
this isn’t badass, this is bullshit
03.13.08 at 8:49 pm
Greatest person ever? Don’t let your ego go to your head. It wasn’t much of an achievement, you know. Yeah, it was a great risk, but I wouldn’t mind doing the exact same thing. There’s nothing to it.
03.13.08 at 10:52 pm
Oh yes. In your original post you said, “I did what any Mac user would do”. Hmm, you did what any Mac user would do, and for that you call yourself the greatest person ever? Impressive.
If anything here is badass, it’s Apple. Apple, Mac OS X and Time Machine. You’re just a user. You didn’t create this technology. Apple did. Kudos to Apple.
03.13.08 at 10:56 pm
I happen to be a sky diver.
Do you really want to compare testing Time Machine with skydiving as far as “requiring balls” is concerned? Didn’t think so.
I wanna see you jump out of a plane at 12,000 feet.
Testing TM, and then boasting how badass you are?
Pussy!
03.14.08 at 12:22 am
You know I own you, Mike Solomon. Who’s the real badass…
03.14.08 at 3:24 am
@Zews: After what he did, people might say “Oh I can do that too, blah blah blah”, but would they say that BEFORE what he did? He’s the first one to do it, and it’s risky. Kudos to him. Just like skydiving, you are a skydiver, but not the first skydiver, right? Pussy!
And, whoever you are, stop imitating Apple or Steve Jobs. Imitators are just pussies as well.
03.14.08 at 5:03 am
Mike, how are the Google Stats looking after the link love!?
03.14.08 at 2:33 pm
03.14.08 at 2:35 pm
Hello guys, I’m back.
@Le Son
Interesting. How do you know he was the first to do it? First to take a risk with Time Machine, AND brag about it, maybe. First to do something extraordinary? Don’t think so.
Anyhow, how can you compare skydiving to taking a risk with Time Machine? If your parachute’s faulty, that’s it. It’ll be a miracle if you managed to survive the impact. But deleting an iTunes music folder? The worse that can happen is that Time Machine refuses to work and he has to restore the 65GB of music manually. Depressing, yes. But not fatal.
Oh, would we say that BEFORE what he did? I don’t think so. You know what we would say? Nothing. Yeah, nothing. Because we’re not overly egotistical enough to go bragging about “accomplishing” something when all we did was use a feature of Leopard.
Another thing, what’s wrong with imitating? I chose to address myself as Apple not because I want personal gain. I gain nothing out of it. I just like it. Simple, yet so nice, in my opinion. And it’s one of my favorite brands when it comes to electronic equipment. Is that a problem?
@Mike Solomon
Subtle and highly refined sense of sarcasm? You’re getting more admirable by the second.
03.15.08 at 4:20 am
Hey Mike, thanks for the comments!
Ignore the snipey comments, highly refined sarcasm requires a degree of intelligence.
Miserable bugger.
;-)
03.16.08 at 5:27 am
it is badass. Do you know how many hours it might take to restore an 65gb itunes library with god knows how many special playlists etc? Time machine is nice…
03.21.08 at 7:42 am
Have you tried Apple’s repair service?
04.01.08 at 3:28 pm