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So, I forced the machine to shut down and rebooted from my Snow Leopard installation disc. I gave it some time but the login screen didn’t appear. So I saved everything that was open and rebooted. (I’d last used the machine on the airplane on my way home the night before.

These things were all taking 30 seconds or longer. When I woke the machine up from sleep, everything was terribly slow. Thursday 18 February was my first day back at home for a normal day of work. I was on vacation for a few days with my wife immediately after Macworld Expo. So far as I can tell, I didn’t lose a single byte of data. Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox Monday, 15 March 2010
