Creeping toward a more functional (digital) state, here. It's been one step forward, two steps back, but today I received one more piece of phone-ordered paraphernalia (a replacement wifi dongle) and now - dare I say it? - it may just be a matter of getting everything set up again on my old laptop. I can only do an hour or so at a time, and there's a lot of seasonal tasking requiring my time these days, but Winter is coming and everyone needs an indoor hobby, right?
One piece of Plain Good News: that automatic back-up system I've been paying for the past few years has earned it's keep. It took a week of non-stop uploading to transfer the saved files back to the laptop and external hard drive, but now I think I've got them all and it's a matter of reinstalling apps and software, finding the restored files, and putting them "away" again. Here's the scale of this housework:
Fingers crossed is high tech, IMHO. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteMay aka Salty Pumpkin
Thanks, May! It's going to be a long, slow process, but since it's making me revisit a LOT of "how I do" things on a computer, perhaps the outcome will (eventually) be an improvement?
DeleteYay for not losing stuff! That's exciting. Good luck getting all up and running.
ReplyDeleteYay indeed! Thanks, Sally :)
DeleteNot dull, good news! And a reminder for the rest of us to back up anything we don't want to lose.
ReplyDeleteAfter having both an internal and an external hard drive fail some years ago, I finally looked into back-up services. A little bit of faff to set it up initially, but a big relief to have all those files available to restore!
DeleteOh my - this sounds way too techie for me! I live in fear of my computer doing the final dance because I know I'd be way over my head. How I miss our #2 son who was my go-to for all things techie but now he lives clear on the other side of the country and can't drop everything and come to bail me out of a computer jam. How I wish he could!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is nice to have a local tech support person, but you fixed your recent tech issue all by yourself!
DeleteHooray! Chris from Boise
ReplyDeleteYes! :)
DeleteYay! It worked!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you are on the right track.
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