James W. Bogart Jr. wrote (Jan. 26):

Call Adobe. Tell them about your fried drive. They'll probably be very helpful. Normally, you have to de-activate the old drive/computer before you can activate the Suite on a new machine. But fried drives happen. But I would trust Adobe realizes that.

I finally called them today following an apparent close call with my current machine, which had slowed to a deathly crawl. Experimenting with a second Mac OS account and bringing back a recent user library folder got me going again, but I was scared enough - particularly with an urgent job that had to be done immediately - to give some due consideration to emergency issues. What the nice lady at Adobe Amsterdam said was that they wouldn't give me an additional activation now, but they would if and when I needed it. Kind of like being able to see a dentist this week only if you're in excruciating pain.

I'm wondering if anyone here has anything helpful to say about backup - not of your disk, which has become easy with available software (Time Machine on the Mac) and cheap megadisks, but of your computer, which is something else again. We can get a loaner from an Apple store here while we wait for a repair, but it's ridiculously expensive. Do you guys (particularly the self-employed individuals) have backup computers with current software, or do you use a loaner in the event of a repair, or what?

Now that I think of a backup computer for me, the obvious one would be my old one with the fried logic board (not drive). Only we're obviously not going to want to pay =E2=82=AC1000 to repair it, which is what they would have charged us nine months ago. Should I forget about trying to get the old MacBook Pro repaired cheaper (presumably finding a used logic board somewhere and getting it installed somehow), or is there any hope in that path, do you think?


Thanks,

Roy


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