We prefer to spend our days designing and selling our silver charms but when the computers crashed last week our office was almost paralyzed. There was the mad scurry to figure out what happened, “But we ran the back ups EVERY DAY. What do you mean they haven’t worked since Aug.2 ?!?!?!” Then the flurry of phone calls to Quick Books and the tense wait to see if they could rebuild our data base.
Note to self, “Restore from a backup at least once a week to make sure the system is working!”
Many people think that jewelry designers primarily design jewelry. But anyone reading this site knows that to running a jewelry business forces you to wear many hats just to keep the lights on: marketing, book keeping, employee management and, yes, software management. Then, if you are lucky, you get to sit down and design.
Has your computer ever crashed and left you stranded? What did you do?
Computer Bashing Fantasy
Very well said, Oh and don’t forget everything it takes to manage a website, between photography and listing the items there goes many hours of work. I have a back up drive on my computer and a program called Time machine, it backs up my computer daily (you can program it to do so hourly, daily etc. and you can even tell it to over write the old or keep the old for whatever period of time). It’s come in handy a couple of times. Having a Mac has made a huge difference, since my switch 2 years ago I’ve never had a crash. Good luck!
Comment by Alison Kelley — September 27, 2010 @ 4:03 pm
~knock on wood~
I have an etsy shoppe so I haven’t had that happen…… glad to see it worked out for you guys finally
Comment by Pamela Gangler — September 30, 2010 @ 2:53 pm