Back up your computer! Today I am giving you a public service message! I can not stress this strongly enough, and even better make sure you have set your computer to backup automatically at least once a week. I also want to say it doesn’t matter Mac or PC. This week I have on our team several computers which have lost everything. The users look at me in disbelief, shocked that everything they have done is gone. All of them had solid state drives and they all failed didn’t matter whether it was a Mac or a PC. One told us he had a backup, his backup had told him it was corrupt but he ignored it, so guess what, he has nothing! So the second message is, don’t ignore messages your computer gives you. Verify that the backup is happening, make sure if your computer tells you it needs help, that it gets it before it is too late. Sometimes it is without warning that your computer fails, but sometimes it is telling it has problems for a while or acting strangely. One of the computers we have we told the user to let us fix it 6 months ago but he was too busy, he is now been down a few days so he apparently has time for us to fix it now. The other thing you need to do is figure out who you will take your computer to if it is broken. Don’t wait until something is broken. If you are lucky to have a company IT staff you are set, if you are on your own, I suggest you find someone you trust now instead of when it is a critical moment of need and you are looking through google for an all night computer repair shop. I looked, there aren’t any local, only the India options are up that late.