Category Archives: Data Recovery

MacMedics helped me recover three days’ worth of work with very little sweat.

Apple's Time Machine is your BEST first line of defense against data loss!

“The MacMedics folks are always helpful, always kind, and never judge me, no matter how silly the thing I did was. They helped me recover three days’ worth of work with very little sweat”. Meg R. Washington, DC Thanks to our customer, Meg, for leaving us this excellent 5-Star Google review. The bottom line was […]

Congratulations to our long-time customer Bill on his new 24” M1 iMac!

Moving data from a 2100 iMac to a new 2023 M1 iMac

Congratulations to our long-time customer Bill on his new 24” M1 iMac! He’s been shopping local with us since 2011! He bought this 2011 21.5 iMac from MacMedics. The old iMac still worked, so we backed it up with Time Machine for him and migrated the data to his new iMac, which will inherit the […]

World Backup Day was yesterday; today is April Fools’ Day. Backing up your data is no joke!

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

World Backup Day was yesterday; today is April Fools’ Day. Backing up your data is no joke. I’m on a mission to ensure that all my customers have their data backed up. Almost every day, we see somebody lose some data in one way or another. The most common misconception is that customers think they’re […]

I must tell you about my wonderful experience with MacMedics, namely Dana Stibolt.

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

Yelp review from 2013: I must tell you about my wonderful experience with MacMedics, namely Dana Stibolt.  It was Memorial Day weekend (Friday), and one of our Macs at THE LAND of KUSH vegan restaurant in Baltimore went haywire.  The software wouldn’t launch.  We kept seeing a spinning circle but no progress.  After running a hard […]

Time Machine

Apple's Time Machine is your BEST first line of defense against data loss!

Hello Mac friends, When customers visit us at MacMedics at checkout or check-in, I try to get all this information into customers’ hands, but there’s so much to talk about that I’ve found that there’s just no way to get all of this important information into the customer’s hands. I decided to make an audio recording you […]

Customer: “I was driving and recording at the same time, and I put my hand out of the sunroof, and my iPhone X flew away.”

Customer: “Damaged iPhone X – Please let me know if you guys can fix it. MacMedics: “Sure, What’s wrong with it?” Customer: “I was driving and recording at the same time, and I put my hand out of the sunroof, and my iPhone X 256 GB flew away from my hand because I was driving […]

Shoulder Surfing, it’s back and it’s your iPhone PIN code they are after!

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

Shoulder Surfing, it’s back! Thanks to the Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm/) for tipping us off to this video article from the Wall Street Journal. This is a two-pronged attack. 1. Theves can resell your iPhone when they have your PIN Code, as they can turn off Find my iPhone. 2. The bad guys can steal […]

Help Wanted: MacMedics is hiring more Mac and iPhone Techs.

MacMedics Jobs in Severna Park Maryland

MacMedics, the oldest Apple Authorized Service Provider & Apple Authorized Reseller in the Baltimore-Washington area, seeks new team members with a passion for all things Apple to help our customers with Apple service, repairs, and consulting. A great hourly rate, plus benefits like 100% paid health and dental, company-funded HSA account, & 401k profit sharing! The work: Service, repair, and coordinate Apple Mac, iPhone, […]

MacMedics, an Apple Authorized Reseller & Service Provider, seeks Apple Retail Specialists for our Severna Park store:

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

MacMedics, an Apple Authorized Reseller & Service Provider, seeks Apple Retail Specialists for our Severna Park store: Come work for MacMedics, the company that revolutionized on-site AND in-lab Macintosh service, sales, support, and consulting in the Mid-Atlantic region. A unique opportunity to join the MacMedics team is available for the right person. MacMedics is seeking […]

A Ph.D. student lost three years of research, photos from fieldwork in Peru, and a book in progress.

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

Hey folks! Please back up your iPhone to Apple’s iCloud. Last week, a MacMedics customer whose husband had just passed away, and somehow his iPhone went through the wash cycle in a washing machine, was referred to me for data recovery (there was water coming out of the iPhone, and I was unable to help). The […]