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It seems to have fixed itself, BrightIrish. Ell is as baffled as I am but she is trying to look like she understands why it is now working.
posted by
johnmacnab
on April 2, 2006 at 6:07 AM
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Johnmcnab
I understand now why you commented " So True" on my laugh blog about computers. I have a limited knowledge but can fix some things. I use the disk cleanup 1 to 2 times a day and defragment once a week even if the computer say's that it isn't nessasary. I hope your computer problem will be solved soon.
posted by
BrightIrish
on April 1, 2006 at 7:16 PM
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Krisles
I think you have it sussed, Krisles. When I first read your comment, I was aghast, but as I thought about it, I realized that what we do is lock personal details away in a machine to which we don’t have the combination. How daft is that?
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 30, 2006 at 2:29 PM
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John
I wish I understood one word of this post.......back up? Huh? And I'm not kidding........ I don't know anything about these things beyond using them as word processors....it actually saves me quite a bit of agony from the sound of it......
posted by
Krisles
on March 29, 2006 at 8:42 PM
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ginnie
I feel for you ginnie. Before you start climbing the walls, you will probably try to write with the old fashioned pen and pad. Forget it. I tried it during the past 2 weeks and it doesn’t work anymore. Get in touch with another expert, then buy a good book and settle back with a large G & T. {I tried to answer this comment the normal way. I had written ‘It will be a pleasure, ginnie. Whilst she is away I will get a real profess…..} That’s when my monitor packed up. Why does the word ‘sabotage’ slither around the outskirts of my mind, I wonder?
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 29, 2006 at 8:27 PM
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Yes Mac...who knows...
..this afternoon my PC monitor flashed a 3" wide lightning bolt in front of my eyes and then, in an instant, gave up the ghost. :( I have no idea what to do with it and the 'handyman', who ain't really so handy, is out of town till the weekend. Can I borrow Ell? ;)
posted by
ginnieb
on March 29, 2006 at 7:47 PM
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Pat_B
Clever people, the Dutch, Pat_B. You have suffered a lot more than I have. It makes me shudder to think of what you went through. Oddly enough, when Ell was attempting the second restore of files, I was twitching, not because of the thought of losing the chapters I’d already written, but over the possible loss of the notes. I could rewrite the chapters, but I couldn’t rewrite the notes. Ell thinks that by replacing the XL Home Office operating system she might recover the addresses and contacts, but she is working up the courage to do so. Even losing contacts and etc has made a lot of difference. When I run a system scan with Norton now, it only has 50,000 files to scan instead of the usual 179,000. Does this mean the computer should be lighter, do you think? Maybe if I lose the other 50,000 files, it will float away and not bother me again.
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 29, 2006 at 7:21 PM
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Blanche
That sounds like a good idea, Blanche. One thing I have started doing even although we do back up, is save photographs to DVD’s – not to mention print out names, addresses, dates, birthdays and email addresses.
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 29, 2006 at 7:01 PM
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FactorFiction
…..you are so right FactorFiction; Ell is almost as mad as I am and just as baffled.
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 29, 2006 at 5:39 PM
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ginnie
…pieces of…..crap?….would that be, ginnie? The problem we are having is that although we keep backing up, neither of us have ever restored from the backup to the machine itself. We don’t know if saving files and folders to the backup includes contact addresses, or whether trying to use a different operating system has screwed it up. Who knows?
posted by
johnmacnab
on March 29, 2006 at 5:31 PM
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JohnMcNab,
Well, that just blows chunks. I should actually start backing things up.
posted by
Blanche.
on March 29, 2006 at 2:44 PM
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Oh, and about Ell,
have mercy... She probably feels as bad as you do about being almost able to solve the techno problems. And I can't imagine she's charging $90 an hour... I hope you solve the problem & the gremlins get out of your fragment of the wonderful world of computers.... :)
posted by
Pat_B
on March 29, 2006 at 2:39 PM
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Having lost a novel in a computer crash (twice)
I can truly say I understand what you're going through... I had the original chapters on separate floppy disks, but had made major revisions, changed the plot and of course the writing was "the best I'd ever done" and then, boom. The the mother board went blooey. I got a Dell, rebuilt the novel, wept about the 20 years of poetry I'd input so I could pitch the original notebooks and loose pages, much of which was gone forever. (think of all those rejection slips I saved myself)... And then, just a few months ago, my new laptop went ape with the restored first novel, several short stories, and a second novel -- I'd backed part of it up and again lost some work. Now I back up once a week. when I think about it. There's a Dutch saying: So soon old, so late smart...
posted by
Pat_B
on March 29, 2006 at 2:36 PM
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My sympathies...
I am sure she is "enjoying" the process also...
posted by
FactorFiction
on March 29, 2006 at 2:09 PM
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Uhoh Mac...
...I was going to congratulate you on having such a tech whiz for a wife! Guess I'll hold off on that? My PC is ailing somethin awful and today it seems to have given up the ghost. :( I leave it alone for a week and when I come back it seems much older than its 6 years. I backed up just before I went away so should be okay but then again who knows?? Gotta love these pieces of .......
posted by
ginnieb
on March 29, 2006 at 11:29 AM
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