I’ve spent quite a bit of time here recently. In December I went to three of the Apple workshops (free). One was on Leopard, the newest Mac operating system, one on i Works, and one on iPhoto. They were all excellent overviews of the programs, and I’ve been using a lot of what I learned. Today, however, was my first appointment at the Genius Bar. This morning I opened up one of my subject specific email folders and discovered that everything in the folder was gone. I started looking around and there were significant losses in nearly all folders, but a few still had all the saved emails. Dates didn’t seem to be related. Not all folders were empty (but most were). My Christmas folder had 2 of perhaps 50-60 emails with receipts, scrapbook projects, and other goodies that appeared in my inbox during December. Why were two still there? The wedding folder from 2006 lost nothing. It appears totally random. We couldn’t figure it out, and sadly, neither could the resident Genius at the Apple Store who was as perplexed as we were. Who’s to know? One of the features I haven’t started on Leopard is Time Machine which backs up your computer to an external hard drive on an hourly basis. It’ll be working before I go to bed tonight!