SURVIVING AN ELECTRODIGITAL DISASTER
Towards the end of 2022, my 27 Inch iMac stopped working. Initially I thought it was a faulty hard drive, but the technicians at Majuro Computer Services could see a burnt out component on the mother board. Just to add to the disaster, my iPhone also went down! and then the Magic Jack internet phone service I use to get technical help!
With problems getting components out here , I decided it was quicker to buy a 2020 Macbook Air that they still had in stock from the pandemic days.
I expected to just use the "Time Machine" auto back-up disk to restore the main apps and files (as I have done twice before with iMacs). However, this back-up disk was corrupted and could not be used or the data recovered with specialized software. Finally, the hard drive of the iMac was removed and used as an external drive for the laptop. I could now transfer apps and files one by one to the laptop, but it is taking weeks to do!
In the meantime, the E-commerce with automated accounting and invoicing is back. Until then I had to use my iPhone to access orders on Shopify.com and then copy everything into a notebook and use manual invoices as in the old days!
Long Story Short, we are back in business again but with limited inventory as we start to bring in more chemicals and packaging material. We hope to partner with a big company to make this more cost effective.
