Computer crisis re: quilting!!
#11
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Location: Lowell, MA
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I feel your pain. After acquiring a rather nasty virus on my computer, my DH had to rebuild my computer and I lost several precious files, although he had backed everything up for me. I'm still working on revising my e-mail and address folders, but I do a little at a time and I'll get it back to the way I want it. That's one nice thing about living with a retired computer engineer; even when he tells me how to build a clock when I ask him what time it is. He hates that description of himself, but I feel it is accurate, as that's how his "engineer brain" functions.
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Location: Once an Iowan, always an Iowan, but now suburban Chicagoland
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#15
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Location: Ontario Canada
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I lost EVERYTHING once about 10 years ago ... never again ... I bought an external hard drive and back it up every Friday ... and when I do lots of downloads, I back it up that day ...
It's time consuming but the alternative is worse!
I'm so glad you got all your files back!
It's time consuming but the alternative is worse!
I'm so glad you got all your files back!
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Once an Iowan, always an Iowan, but now suburban Chicagoland
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another tip
Yes -- all is well. THANK YOU so much to everyone who gave great suggestions. I never knew there was a recycle bin other than the one in Word. I found it and it worked!!!
Thank you again to all who took the time to give such good suggestions. If nothing else, this should teach me to read what the computer is asking me before I click on "yes."
Taxes today -- no quilting. boo hoo.
Thank you again to all who took the time to give such good suggestions. If nothing else, this should teach me to read what the computer is asking me before I click on "yes."
Taxes today -- no quilting. boo hoo.
#17
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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Along this line, I have just had to replace my old laptop which was dead on arrival at the computer hospital. Took a week to research, to into to town to buy it, to leave it at the same hospital for a transfusion of info from the old laptop. But they were able to recover ALL my files, my desktop icons, my google bookmarks, and my favorites to the bookmark bar and set up all my accounts . Cost me a total of $96 from the first minute I walked in their door to the end; best money ever spent to relieve my stress about learning to use Windows 8.1!!
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Jan in VA
#18
Yes -- all is well. THANK YOU so much to everyone who gave great suggestions. I never knew there was a recycle bin other than the one in Word. I found it and it worked!!!
Thank you again to all who took the time to give such good suggestions. If nothing else, this should teach me to read what the computer is asking me before I click on "yes."
Taxes today -- no quilting. boo hoo.
Thank you again to all who took the time to give such good suggestions. If nothing else, this should teach me to read what the computer is asking me before I click on "yes."
Taxes today -- no quilting. boo hoo.
#19
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 4,299
I have an external hard drive on my main PC, it came with really easy to use software that let me set up multiple backup schedules. Some folders I back up every single night, others are backed up weekly, then everything is backed up once a month.
It works so well I bought two more, one for DH's personal computer and another for our shared "media" computer where all our photo and music files are housed.
They're gotten to be SO cheap these days, there's really no reason not to get one. The peace of mind is worth it. I think I paid about $60 for each drive, and they're each a terabyte of data. That's enough room that each drive should be able to hold about 2 million photographs!
For our photos, I'm actually contemplating buying ANOTHER drive for that PC specifically, so I can swap the two external drives monthly and keep the other one off-site (like in my desk at work). That way if we ever have a house fire, I'll have a fairly recent backup of all our photos and not have lost all those irreplaceable images of people and pets that are long gone.
It works so well I bought two more, one for DH's personal computer and another for our shared "media" computer where all our photo and music files are housed.
They're gotten to be SO cheap these days, there's really no reason not to get one. The peace of mind is worth it. I think I paid about $60 for each drive, and they're each a terabyte of data. That's enough room that each drive should be able to hold about 2 million photographs!
For our photos, I'm actually contemplating buying ANOTHER drive for that PC specifically, so I can swap the two external drives monthly and keep the other one off-site (like in my desk at work). That way if we ever have a house fire, I'll have a fairly recent backup of all our photos and not have lost all those irreplaceable images of people and pets that are long gone.
#20
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,382
I can left click on a deleted field and have the restore option. It has saved me a lot of work and frustration.
All my files and photos are saved online using Carbonite I can access them from any computer, smart phone, or tablet. When I take a picture on my phone the photo is automatically is uploaded to Google and Amazon Cloud and DropBox. I have them saved in three clouds. I don't have to do anything but take pictures and not worry.
All my files and photos are saved online using Carbonite I can access them from any computer, smart phone, or tablet. When I take a picture on my phone the photo is automatically is uploaded to Google and Amazon Cloud and DropBox. I have them saved in three clouds. I don't have to do anything but take pictures and not worry.
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