Wow, some jerk just broke into my studio...

[Anthony]

and stole my laptop, a six year old macbook. Luckily, it is password protected, insured, and I have a backup of essential stuff. Odd thing is my classical violin was out in the room. Thank god for dumb@ss criminals.

The bummer is I'm self employed and use quicken 2006. There's an auto backup to mobile me but only when I shut it down, which had been awhile.

Sucks to be invaded like that.

[space-time]

sorry to hear that. At lest you have the violin, probably much more important that the old MacBook.

FYI: The password can be reset, so if you have personal data in there (SSN, tax returns) I would be very worried.

good luck.

[DaviDC.]

Indeed it does suck & I understand completely because my house was broken into a week ago.
You lost much more than I did.

[Grateful11]

I hate to hear that, someone broke into our garage once took a $50 leaf blower but left a $400 string
trimmer, guess they didn't know the brand name. I have no use for thief.

[Anthony]

Space time: Yikes.

I had no idea passwords can be reset. How?
There is sensitive stuff on there. How hard is that to do?

[space-time]

if you forget your password, you can reboot from CD/DVD and you can reset the password for the account.

[Anthony]

Any ideas on what to do at this point?

[Tofer]

For your next laptop, install Prey.

[Numo]

Doesn't the iPad allow you to remotely wipe all info or disable it? Is this possible with a laptop?

[volcs0]

Tofer wrote:
For your next laptop, install Prey.

Thanks. Just installed this on my MBP.

I've been using PhoneLocator on my phone for awhile. I might try this one also / instead.