Things you don’t want your tech guy to say

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

From the Mac guy a few minutes ago:

“If that’s wrong it shouldn’t have run at all. I can’t understand how that happened?”.

I can’t wait to hear more from him. 🙂

Update: Those of you with Macs will probably get this more than I do, but the problems were a corrupt system folder, and corrupt fonts, and Pagemaker needed to be reinstalled, and Distiller needed to be reinstalled and patched, etc. etc. All in all, almost 4 hours of tech support time. After all of that, however, the Pagemaker file that our Graphics guy has spent over a week working on is still fudged. Both the “in progress” and backup copies of it are corrupt in some way that all of that did not fix. Looks like he’s going to have to start over on that file. Poor guy.

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