So I’m working from home the other day and being a Wednesday I’m going through my normal process of installing patches and updates. I didn’t give a second thought to updating my iMac workstation at the office, but perhaps I should have. The next thing I knew, I couldn’t reconnect to my trusty Mac and when I got to the office my worst fears were realized. OS X was toast. OK, so that’s perhaps a little over dramatic, but the fact is I took great care to make sure I was installing the updates in a clean environment. I even rebooted and logged into a clean administrative account before starting the update process. I haven’t lost any data… yet, but as I spent almost an entire 8-hour day working on the problem. (to no avail) It’s looking more and more like I’m going to have to wipe the drive and reinstall. Tomorrow I’m going to backup my account data and give it one more shot before blowing it all away. What a waste. On the other hand, this gives me a real appreciation for the ability of Windows to roll back most updates.