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Geeks Pub - Death of an iMac

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My Mac Productions MyMac.com Tim Robertson

Gadgets, Technology

3.830 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tim's iMac died, so he and David discuss for hours on end.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's time for another Geeks Pub.

0:05.0

I am, is it Geeks Pub this week?

0:06.3

It is Geeks Pub this week.

0:07.4

Yeah.

0:08.9

I wasn't sure.

0:10.2

All the weeks are blurring into each other.

0:13.8

So, a little different this week in that it's just you and I, no Donnie this week.

0:18.5

With everything else going on right now with my... It's just you and I, no Donnie this week.

0:29.0

With everything else going on right now with my technology set up, it was just, I wasn't even sure if I was going to do a show.

0:34.2

You've really been up against it the last few weeks because you rewind everything a couple of weeks ago.

0:35.8

Yep.

0:37.9

Yeah, the lightning strike.

0:40.9

I remember I had to, it blew my speakers.

0:41.4

Yeah.

0:43.0

Blew something else too.

0:44.1

I can't remember what it was now.

0:52.5

But either way, this week, my IMAQ is performing a slow spiral death.

0:53.1

Yeah. And that's not good.

0:55.8

And so I am attempting right now to back up that machine in anticipation of replacing it.

1:04.1

How old is your, if this backup doesn't work, how old is your most previous backup to that?

1:10.2

Well, I pulled out my carbon copy cloner that I run weekly.

1:14.3

And it looks like the last clean backup was a couple weeks ago.

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