An American Life in Istanbul

Current Mood: Angry & Confused

Here, to catch up read Crisis and Crisis Update

The good news is, I have my laptop back it’s working. The bad news is, it has a new hard drive in it and I am now starting the slow and painful process of going through externally saved data, and reorganizing myself. I am going to take it to a professional data recovery company when I get back to the US in August, but it doesn’t look good. The Apple service guys I took it to ran some data recovery software on it for 4 days even though the hard drive was making horrible noises. It specifically says not to do this on the website of most data recovery websites, because it may cause severe physical damage to the hard drive. So if it was recoverable before, chances are it’s less recoverable now.

To add to the general crappyness of this situation, I do not have a MacOffice CD here. I took a CD that says:

“

Microsoft Office v X for Mac

Professional Edition

(Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1)

“

Apparently what the above CD means is that it is in fact not Microsoft Office for mac. Instead it is Virtual PC (let’s you run window’s software) for Mac, which has a Microsoft Office component. This is completely useless because Virtual PC is generally not a very good program, and it takes up a lot of system resources. Only being able to run excel through Virtual PC is useless.

However, I do need Excel and Word to do my job. I know I own a license somewhere, but the question is where the heck is it? I suppose I will start calling around to my friends until I find someone with a Mac who has MacOffice. Perhaps Istanbul’s software black market may have it as well.

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