I do have a terrabyte hard drive on my desk next to my computer with just about
everything duplicated from my computer. Thanks. I definitely get it. I also
do have a program on my computer itself where I can store duplicate files but
can’t remember right off the top of my head what it’s called.
Linda G.
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Marty Rimpau
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:24 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: I'm Angry At My Computer
Hi Linda, I think what tall guy is saying, is you need a backup hard drive, and
to make sure that everything on your hard drive is backed up, and some people
have a backup of a backup, with as many as 3 or 4 backups of their operating
system in case something like a lost file happens. I think that hard drives
aren't terribly expensive, but once you have one, you'll be thankful if
something goes wrong.
Marty
On Jul 20, 2016, at 9:34 AM, Linda Gehres wrote:
Hi Tallguy,
You’re absolutely right. I do have within “my documents” and on my hard drive a
file called Important E-Mails, and though I think I do actually have the e-mails
within Microsoft 2010, and that it’s a camera issue (it says zoom when it’s not
supposed to be saying that),I suspect the in-box still has stuff in it from
before, but if I lost a friend’s phone number, well, it’s not as though we were
very close anyway. There were other e-mails I was keeping so I could look over
them again, and Pete assured me he could send the Raider game to me. And this
time I’ll put it in my important e-mails! I suspect the Microsoft Disability
Help Desk folks can fix this, but for some reason, they seem to be having
problems with their phone number always being busy, which is highly unusual.
One thing more to add to the list of things I’ve gotta do.
Linda G.
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tallguy (Redacted sender "tallguy403" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:07 AM
To: Our Place List
Subject: [ourplace] Re: I'm Angry At My Computer
I'm so sorry that this happened to you, Linda. But one thing I have learned from
working with computers all these years is that NOTHING is safe. You must save
everything you want to keep! Everything is so easy to make disappear, either by
you hitting a wrong key, or by MS doing "updates" and "improvements"!! Those
always mess things for me where I can no longer find files I know I have.
Just this week, I saved two files that I worked hard at writing, and the next
day I went to review them, but they were gone! I know I saved them, I know
where, but they were just not there. Simply gone! And this happened just last
night again -- I painstakingly copied a couple of audio files from the internet
and saved them on my stick (I was working at the library on my laptop). Then I
moved them to my Hard Drive on the desktop -- but they simply vanished. No trace
anywhere! Now, I have to go and download them all over again. Serves me right
for removing them from my download folder -- so the thing I have learned is to
make duplicate copies in several places.
When you have emails that you want to keep, make a copy and save it on an
external Hard Drive. Those portable HDs are not very expensive, and they can be
very large, keeping many, many files. I know this is an extra step, and
duplicates all your files, but you will be so glad you did WHEN you lose your HD
(and it will happen) or when something strange happens. It will all be worth the
effort. And eventually, when you no longer need those files, they can be
deleted.
A friend of mine prints EVERYTHING, and keep telling her that we don't need to
do that anymore. But maybe she has a point. At least she will have a copy on
paper when she loses her electronic files as happened recently when her whole
system just stopped working and we could not recover anything. Lesson learned --
the hard way.
Please: Back-up, back-up, back-up.
Tallguy
-----Original Message-----
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Linda Gehres
Subject: [ourplace] I'm Angry At My Computer
Hi All,
I had messages that I had kept for quite a time in my in-box, and now
Microsoft isn't allowing me to see them! [snipped]
Linda G.
