BACK UP  your work in at least 3 places. I can’t tell you enough how important it is. I can’t stress it enough.

A great reason to have an Apple computer is the time machine. The time machine is where you buy an external hard drive such as Western Digital for a Mac 2Tb, 3TB or 4TB now. You set your system preferences up on your Mac so that every hour your entire machine will back up automatically. So if anything on your computer breaks the entire computer is backed up.

Let me tell you a couple stories 1 I just bought a brand new Mac from Apple it was $1200 just came out. It was my first Apple I was super excited and everyone told me to get the apple care which I didn’t at the time because I didn’t have the money but you have up to a year to buy it. Anyways within maybe 2 weeks my motherboard fired or I think it was the harddrive and I took it back to Apple. They said did you back it up and luckily because I had since I bought it set up the time machine from day 1 they told me to. I was able to get a brand new Apple Mac computer took it home plugged it into my external hard drive and the time machine synched the entire computer back up as if it was never even a different computer. It was awesome.

2. I second shot for someone and accidentally erased a folder. For me when I take my pictures off my camera I back my pictures up 1 on my computer 2. on my external hard drives and 3 I have my time machine. I know I have it in 3 places. Somehow a folder got erased no clue how it happened but it did. I am a very cautious person I NEVER erase pictures I still have pictures seriously from 6 years ago when I first started my business. I even kept the raw files from 5 years ago. I am crazy cautious and always take extra steps but things happen it’s called and accident. That’s why I LOVE the time machine. I was able to go back a few dates back to the date I shot the wedding an sure enough every single image and folder was there. That is why the time machine is extremely important. Did I make a mistake yes was it is bad yes will you make mistake yes because we are huge and make mistakes every single day all the time. Get a external hard drive even if you have a PC you can have it back up the same to automatically back up every hour.