On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:20:31PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote: > Kindly FRIAMers, > > > > Do you have any advice to give, or a website to suggest, that will help me > decide how to set up the computer I just bought. I back up the old computer > to > a hard drive every night, and I had always thought to transfer the data to the > new one by restoring the backup file to the new computer. But I assume there > is > a LOT of crap in there I don’t want. SOMEBODY must have thought about this > issue and written something avuncular for people like me.
I always restore from backup, or from the original drive if it is still working. Getting rid of crap is a different task, requiring dedication and thought about what you do or don't need. I usually do that either when slightly bored, or when my disk is full and I'm desparate for space. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
