It’s not good, but it could be worse.
I was unable to restore anything from the hard drive. However, it turns out that (a) mail from before I switched to OS X was unaffected (it wasn’t associated with an “account”), and (b) my husband did not overwrite my external firewire drive, so I was able to import the inbox and sent mail from 12/02 through 6/20/03.
That means I lost more than three month’s worth of mail, including a lot of stuff related to our grant (administrative, not data), and all the mail related to my three upcoming trips. I’ll spend most of today trying to figure out how to reconstruct the most critical components—flight itineraries, hotel information, etc.
So, if you sent me mail that had critical information, or needed a reply in the past 3 months, it might be wise to resend it, or to at least check with me about whether I need another copy.
To prevent another such disaster, I’ve installed Norton Utilities (to allow for better recovery of erased files in the future), and will be regularly backing up my data to my external hard drive. I think that will be a weekly ritual now.
Wow. Check out this letter from ICANN president Paul Twomey to Verisign EVP Russell Lewis, dated today:
Given the magnitude of the issues that have been raised, and their potential impact on the security and stability of the Internet, the DNS and the .com and .net top level domains, VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 October 2003. Failure to comply with this demand by that time will leave ICANN with no choice but to seek promptly to enforce VeriSign’s contractual obligations.
You go, ICANN.
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