Well, I got a call from the Apple store today. They said when they attempted to fix my computer, the hard drive started to "fail" and they could not pull any data off of it. They said I had a few options:
Professional Data Recovery: $500-2,000
Get a new computer: $2,000
Get my data, plus a new hard drive: $500-2,000 + $315
Or just get a new Hard Drive: $315
They have not offered to cover any of this, even though the HD failing is their fault, b/c the HD was spinning just fine when I dropped it off, and if I hadn't dropped it off, an Apple update relased yesterday would have fixed my problems. (except my hard drive, but I was going to get an external hard drive anyways today, which would have been bootale. If I could trasnfer my data, of course). I have a pretty recent DVD backup of both iTunes and iPhoto, but everything else, like my Google Earth which I carefully spent hours adding placemarks to places on earth I've been to, would be gone, unless I can transfer it somewhere else with out my HD failing.
So now, I'm going to try to rescue a few AppleWorks docs, and take screen shots of my bookmarks, ect.. and load them onto a flash drive.
I am going to get a new computer, becuase I have already gotten my HD replaced once, so I presume it's my computer that's making it fail.
I don't want a Macbook. Why? New ones are coming out later this year. I don't really like the 13'' horizontal display, and the gloss finish makes it hard for me to concentrate for long times.
So I will probably go out and get a MacBook Pro.
Any body have ideas on how to approach this to Apple? I'm going to call the Manager at the Apple store I go to, I know him and maybe he can help. If not, I'm prepared to write a letter to Apple Computer, and attach all my work orders, and see what they can do.
I'm such in a bad mood right now, I had that computer since Sept. 2005, and have been adding to it every day since.
