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Grown men don't cry!!!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC BK607690

Please help me!!!!I woke up today to another beautiful Florida morning. Birds chirping, sunshine peaking through the drapes, the dog farting and The Lovely Wife looking lovely as always. Being as how I had no appointments today I adjusted my Temperpedic Craftmatic Adjustable Vibrating Bed into the upright position and grabbed my trusty laptop to enjoy an early morning stroll through ActiveRain.

After about an hour I pulled my aching body out of bed and sauntered into my office in my "jammies" to see what was on today's agenda. Not much. Just a few follow up phone calls and some bills to pay.

So I decide to pay my bills first. I actually enjoy paying bills for some strange reason. I guess there were many years when I couldn't afford to pay them so now that I can....it's very satisfying.

Anyway, I click on my Quicken program and enter my password, then......BAM!!! I get a blank screen. What the......I start to break into a cold sweat! Where is my financial data? I fight back the urge to scream and reboot my computer to try again. Quicken......password....BAM!!!! Blank screen again!!!!

Folks, now I'm getting scared. Quicken has ALL of my finances. Business account, personal accounts, investment properties....everything!! And now I'm missing the last 18 months worth of data. It's gone!!!

Then I remember.....I have a back up disc! My breathing levels out and I pop my disc in and......BAM!!! There's nothing on it. It seems the problem occurred the last time I backed up. It said "back up complete" but it didn't burn the info because it wasn't there to burn.

Now I'm sweating big time. What do I do? How can I recreate almost 18 months worth of transactions? I wouldn't even know where to begin.

So I do what any smart person would do......I call Jeff Turner!!!

"Jeff.....HELP ME!!" Super Jeff calmly walked me through a few things on my computer but alas.....we couldn't find the data. I love you Jeff. Thanks for trying!!!

My next call is to Quicken. The rep I reached was very nice and we spent about 30 minutes trying to find my data on my hard drive. It wasn't there. Then he said something that I will never forget. "Mr. Tutas we have tried everything and unfortunately your data is gone!"

Now folks......TLW said I started crying. But I'm here to tell you it was my allergies acting up. Now I'm not sure what I'm allergic to but it certainly must be something because my eyes started watering up. And contrary to popular belief GROWN MEN DON'T CRY!!!!

Anyway, as I'm slowly wiping the "allergy tears" from my eyes I hear a faint voice on the phone "Mr Tutas, let's try one more thing." I did what the guy told me to do and......BAM!!!! My data appeared!!!! He found it!! Right in front of my face, on my screen, was ALL of my financial data. I ran into my office and grabbed 3 disc and backed it up 3 times. I HATE redundancy but this time I LOVED it. If I would have had more than 3 disc available I would have filled every one of them.

So folks, after 4 hours or misery and a severe allergy attack I'm back in business. I have now set up an online account with Quicken so my data is backed up on their servers.

Now I'm off to Walgreen's to buy some more discs, maybe I'll get some allergy pills while I'm there. THE END!

Graphic compliments of Nick "Duh" Appraiser. Nick....we miss you man!!!! 

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Comments (68)

Bryant Tutas
Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC - Winter Garden, FL
Selling Florida one home at a time
AJ.........it was an ALLERGY!!!!! :)
Mar 12, 2008 10:41 AM
Thesa Chambers
West + Main - Bend, OR
Principal Broker - Licensed in Oregon
BB - I actually lost all my accounts about a year ago.... it says I paid the tire store on every transaction for 2005-2007 - we never could fix it..... so I have to go back and manually change it.... I am still working on it... allergies are the pits :o) - glad it turned out for you
Mar 12, 2008 06:00 PM
Neal Bloom
Brokered by eXp Realty LLC - Weston, FL
Realtor CRS-Weston FL Real Estate

BB,

I wasn't as fortunate...I lost 12 years of important data...gone goodbye..thankfully since I got the new hard drive...I try to back up everything on a regular basis...you were like me...frantically running to get those files backed up once you caught the stuff ...hoping it didn't go bye bye again while you rand for the disks:)

Mar 12, 2008 11:52 PM
Loreena and Michael Yeo
3:16 team REALTY ~ Locally-owned Prosper TX Real Estate Co. - Prosper, TX
Real Estate Agents
phewwwww.... I started beaking up a cold sweat as I was reading it. I'm so glad you're back though... Bet you must feel like you want to buy this Quicken helper a "Thanks for saving my life" gift, dont you?
Mar 13, 2008 11:59 PM
Leslie Bloss, Bellevue Real Estate Professional
Bellevue, WA
You should have taken some asprin also, I case you started to go into cardiac arrest!
Mar 14, 2008 08:03 AM
Rob Arnold
Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. - Altamonte Springs, FL
Metro Orlando Full Service - Investor Friendly & F
I spent about $100 and bought an external hard drive.  I back up all my internet, my documents, and quicken onto it at least once a week.  I've lost files in the past and was able to easily retrieve everything that way. Backing it up only takes maybe 15 minutes a week.
Mar 14, 2008 12:05 PM
Carole Cohen
Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office - Cleveland, OH
Realtor, ePRO
OMG Bryant I would say tears were more than justified. Lordy you were lucky to get the data back! I wonder what we would all do if the WWW disappeared! AAAACKKK. Thankfully your story had a happy ending.....:-)  Tell yer wifey I said hi too
Mar 14, 2008 12:39 PM
Barbara-Jo Roberts Berberi, MA, PSA, TRC - Greater Clearwater Florida Residential Real Estate Professional
Charles Rutenberg Realty - Clearwater, FL
Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Safety Harbor
Bryant - Thank heaven you got it back! Always back everything up!!! I also use Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) to back everything up in case of a crash!It is an online server that automatically backs up everything for me as soon as I put it into my computer - for $50. a year, it is well worth it. You might want to check it out! My son turned me on to this and he is the IT guy where he works (HRC in DC).
Mar 14, 2008 01:41 PM
Ruth Jones
RE/MAX Key Land Company - Centralia, WA
Managing Broker, REALTOR, GRI
Been there!  I now use a web based backup at www.Ibackup.com  , so every night at 2am, all my data is backed up.  I get an email in the morning confirming.  I can hop on my Ibackup account from any computer and download a copy of a single file at any time.  I have found that very useful.  I believe there are several web based backup sites, for the price under $10 mo, I found this one easy to use, and reliable.  Check it out.
Mar 15, 2008 10:55 AM
Midori Miller
Talk 2 Midori, LLC - Daytona Beach, FL
Online Marketing For Real Estate Professionals
thank goodness I have the hubby for these things and we have experienced so many close calls.  As far as those allergies...when it happens the hubby...he puts on sunglasses. :)  Just like you...grown men don't cry!
Mar 15, 2008 12:07 PM
Mike Norvell Sr
Morris Williams Realty - Leesburg, FL
Norvell Consulting Group

BB.I too bought a couple of maxtor external hard drives (a 160 and then a 500 gig) they are super cheap and just plug in with a USB...I keep files on several computers by sending them to each other, and I do a mirror on the 500 gig once a week...PS...don't leave the back up hard drive plugged in..my friend lost his during a lightning storm, but the computer did not crash..just the hard drive...Good to see you posting agian, and I learned this after losing over 2 years worth of business records at my old auto shop..3 stores worth!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHH...it was terrible to redo all that stuff

Best of luck

Mar 15, 2008 02:40 PM
Linda Davis
RE/MAX Home Team - Gales Ferry, CT
I know it wasn't funny but  have tears of laughter....my favorite part of the story was "I did what every smart person would do...I call Jeff Turner."  :-)
Mar 16, 2008 02:16 AM
Lizette Fitzpatrick
Lizette Realty - Richmond KY - Lexington, KY
Lizette Realty, Lexington KY MLS - Kentucky Homes
I feel your pain! Some years ago I lost all my personal data on everyone I knew. Poof! It was gone...all the phone numbers, addresses and other stuff. I cried in the floor for days...that lingered for years. I almost needed therapy. A couple of nights ago I celebrated that I had found a lost friend from that data loss. It took 5 years to track them down.
Mar 16, 2008 03:06 AM
Jeanean Gendron
The Address Realty - Redding, CA
Specializing in Selling Unique Properties
Bryant.....Man....it seems like the world of technology is just being mean....planets are out of whack or nuts or something....I killed three computers in the last few months, I lost everything.....I do back ups regularly and so it was not too bad....but I still lost time saving things for blogging and other activities....Grown Men Don't Cry....yes they do and so does everybody else when a file of such importance is lost. Redundant backups of one week is what David recommends. 7 days by date and then start writing over! I've had the lecture many times. I still get too busy and then hate myself! So glad this ended happy! Must be cuz you are a good guy on a major level. The cosmos blessed you!
Mar 16, 2008 03:37 AM
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Keller Williams Realty - Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor Area Real Estate
Bryant we all want to know now...did you get the hard drive to back it all up?  finally now?  I hope so.  it will die again, but next time its going to be backed up.  I'm sure you have learned your lesson!
Mar 16, 2008 07:35 AM
Bryant Tutas
Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC - Winter Garden, FL
Selling Florida one home at a time

GROWN MEN DON'T CRY DANMMIT!!!! Unless of course you hurt me:)

Mar 18, 2008 10:26 AM
"The Lovely Wife" The One And Only TLW.
President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc. - Kissimmee, FL

Blog Boy....

That cracked me up :)  

Mar 18, 2008 11:01 AM
Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

Unfortunately I really know your pain!!! I have a featured post today and I can't comment with justice until tomorrow as I'm working on my neighbors computer just to get comments in for today! My laptop is at the shop for the night with a power problem. THANK GOD IT WASN'T THE HARD DRIVE or I'm sure my allegories would be acting up also.

Todd

Mar 18, 2008 06:05 PM
Larry Estabrooks
Independent Real Estate Agent - Moncton, NB
100% representation means NEVER DUAL AGENCY !

This comment does not apply to laptops. Two years ago I purchased a new desktop. The two most important words effecting my buying decision were "raid array". This feature provides for a complete mirror of everything including all installed software. You are always protected from a single hard drive failure. Raid array, check it out. By the way, I still back up all my data files to an external hard drive.

Mar 19, 2008 01:46 AM
Glenn Edwards
Realty Executives - Sparta, NJ

I used CARBONITE to back up my computer and it was definitely easy to use.  Several months later, I lost a major file, over 4 GB of customer data.  When I went to Carbonite to get it back, I found out they had not backed this particular file up because of its size.  I  retraced my steps and could find no signs that this information was ever asked of me.  I AM NOT A FAN OF CARBONITE, THEY WON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT IT.

May 19, 2009 04:10 AM