sorry Edel, I meant the Jervis Street Centre. ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank kelly" <frankke@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:39 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: prices for passport drives hi Edell here is the pc world number you can choose from the list of stores in dublin 1890 7 0 0 0 0 1 regards Frank Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edel Carey" <careyedel@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:57 PM Subject: [vip_students] prices for passport drives Hi Paul & Frank Thanks for that price list. Now is there a pc world near Dundrum as I am heading that way this weekend. I suppose I could always try the website. Edel.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Mahoney To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:14 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: WinZip Hi Paul I have prices for the passport hard drives for you. 250 gb ?94.99 350 gb ?110 400 gb ?130 You can also get a hard case for ?10 Thanks to frank kelly for getting the prices for me. the pc world site is not very vip friendly. Paul Mahoney ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Traynor To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:08 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: WinZip Hi Paul, Sounds like a neat tool for sure. I use a laptop harddrive which is contained within a special case for housing laptop drives and is also powered via the USB ports. I only have a 160 Gig here at home, yours sounds really good, what kind of price are we talking here?. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Mahoney Sent: 25 January 2009 12:49 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: WinZip Hi Paul i have just got a 400 gig external hard drive. The beauty of this one it is no bigger than a regular passport. In fact it is called a passport hard drive. The one i got is a 400 gig. I got it in scotland but you can get them in pc world for various sizes. Another good advantage with the passport hard drive you don't need to plug it into the wall. You plug it in to the usb connection on your pc the same as a flash drive. You can get a hard case for the drive so you can bring it withyou. If you want any more information let me know. Paul Mahoney ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Traynor To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:05 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: WinZip Hi Edel, I would suggest strongly that you or anyone else who cares about their computer work, personal files, music collections etc get an external drive and create a backup plan. I recently read in the Lidl catalogue where they had a "terrabyte external drive" for euros 80. This is a massive size of storage space and I would suggest that you watch out for it in future either in Lidl or Aldle. Paul. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edel Carey Sent: 23 January 2009 21:29 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: WinZip Hi Paul Thank you for all that info but it leads me to a few more questions now! Am I right in saying then, that WinZip is not a saving space facility but rather a backup facility if the original file remains? I have located my zipped files since my last email and unzipped them in order to download the new programme you recommended and although I've gone through the process of unzipping, they still look like zipped files to me. Why is this? I suppose my real question is if deleted the original as in the file that remained to save space, what would happen?. I have a lot of music and photographs on my pc which are the main culprits I know for taking up space but I don't suppose it is possible to zip these. Maybe the external hard drive is the answer to my problems. Is it a big device? and how much approx?. Edel.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul J. Traynor To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:14 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: WinZip Hi Edel, "I win zipped files to try and free up space but the original stays in my documents. Is that right." Yes Edel, that's correct. The original files will remain where they are located and the zipped up files will basically be wherever you instructed the zip software to store them when converted into the zip format. It sounds like you didn't tell where to locate the new zipped up files and WinZip just used its default location. " I can't find the zipped files at the moment so I'm assuming I've done something wrong? If I were to delete the original is it easy then to access the zipped files when I need them." Zipped up files is a pretty good idea but on one or two occasions in the past when I came back to a zipped up file I had and needed something out of it, it failed to work correctly and I lost my files. I do stress this doesn't often happen but if you are thinking of using this for back up purposes, I would still refer to the kind of backup plan I wrote to the list earlier today and see how it might suit your needs. If you really want to zip up your files I would recommend a great free zip software called "7-zip" and you can download it from the below link. When you right click on any files or folders or have first selected a group of files and or folders, just right click and you will see that there is a 7 zip sub menu in there. You can right arrow in here and choose to zip up what you have selected. At this point it will prompt you to give it a place to locate the zipped up files, just click on browse and make your choice of location. Next, there will be a kind of save as file type box with the format of "7Z" in it, change this to zip, you only have to do this one, any other time you create a zip file it will have remained at the format of". zip". Just click on okay and the process will begin. Much simpler I think than WinZip. http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sevenzip/7z464.exe Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter We are a community of 5.9 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 14 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. 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