30 second recovery... or why Time Machine is so cool.

Time Machine is very cool…
I was troubleshooting a problem with one of my favourite apps - PDFPen Pro - a small low price pdf editor - and their support said the problem might relate to “incompatible fonts in Leopard”. So I went into Font Book and started to validate my fonts - 40+ errors were found most of them relating to duplicate fonts.
I started to remove the duplicate values and I mistakenly deleted my Times New Roman fonts - all of them. I swore under my breath and told my 7 year-old that I had just screwed-up and deleted something I shouldn’t have.
He looked at me and said “Just open Time Machine and get them back”. I have to laugh - but **** if he wasn’t right. My mind was on restoring the fonts from a boot disk and he nailed it in 3 seconds.
It took under 30 seconds to find and restore the files I had deleted. As I said before… Time Machine is very cool.
And yes, apparently my kids do listen when I speak. Who knew?

unm. i dunno. i guess u gotta keep trying. after the long slow speeds. the reg speed was like 1GB in less than a minute. 45 GB in about 45 min. Besides that, b4 these speeds came in, i did a software upgrade. the software upgrade was for login. but u never know. My best advice to anyone having similar slow speeds, would be: Be patient (it took me about 24 hrs for normality), keep messing with it (let it run at its slow speeds, and about 3 hrs later if its still slow. Stop backing off, turn time machine off, maybe restart, and do it again. When u reach normality try to minimize comp use. it goes by pretty fast.

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