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Today, I was looking to add Boxee back onto my AppleTV.   When Apple released their last update, it cleared my AppleTV of anything that I had installed on it.   This was frustrating enough, as you would think that Apple would be willing to let others make their product better.   Long story short, you have to use a flash drive to install any software onto an AppleTV.   This involves partitioning the flashdrive.  I think you can see where this is going.

Since I have have done this before, I was just flying through the process of getting the files assembled into a folder on my desktop.   I hit the installation button and the partioning begins.   I noticed this process was taking entirely too long.   Then, it hit me.   I partitioned my external hard drive.   No, not the one with all my Time Machine Backups.   I partitioned the one with all my media: photographs, 90 gigs of music, and a bunch of movies that I converted to MPEG4.    I was close to having a mental breakdown.   Technology did not fail me, I failed technology.

So now over the next few weeks, perhaps months, I have to regather everything.  Luckily, I had about a third of my music backed up on DVD-Rs, the other two thirds is on CD-Rs or CDs.   My work/school files I have regathered from the servers at work, saving me some valuable time.  I can only begin to imagine that after I regather everything, I’ll also find that I’ve lost something else.

This has quite literally been the most difficult year for my technological dependency.   I’ve had computers crash multiple times, and have been able to get back up and running in a short period of time.  Well, not this tiem.   I’ve had terrible luck, and its almost all been my fault, not the wonderful world of technology.   Looks like I might be purchasing a Time Capsule for my Time Machine, that way I can have two media hard drives, one as a backup.   This is ridiculous.

Moral of the story, if you’re going to install things onto a jailbroken device, make sure Karma is on your side, and take the extra time to pay attention to what you are doing.   Taking that extra time to go over the installation process could save you a lot more time in the end.