Oh don't you know it! We have 2 GIG (yes gig!) on our C drive. And we have several blue ray disc backup hard drives!
We have way too much information not to back it up on a regular basis. Heck, I have 36 GIG of images for my latest favorite hobby of digital scrapbooking. Lori On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM, David O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > BACKUPS !!! the life-blood saviors of the PC. if you don't have at > least 2 good backups of everything you cherish (pictures, documents, > instruction [.bat] files...) you are very foolish. All my "GOOD" stuff is > in one directory structure headed by CBU. I back this up daily to an > external drive (automatic) and weekly to a 2nd external drive ( 1 click). > the 1st one is always online and backs up in background mode. Anything > else is flying without a parachute, or sex w/o a rubber/pill/iud. Youb > choose your level of comfort. > AZDAVE > > > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> Sounds like you are having one of the *major problems* or issues that we >> were having and did not like. We did not have control over our own >> directories like I mentioned yesterday and that you mentioned below! That's >> crazy! >> >> We have backups out the Kazoo! Thank god now for blueray discs!!! >> >> Lori >> >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:07 PM, David O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> As a matter of fact...... I loaded Vista last summer and find i don't >>> like many of it's 'features' - it's way too protective - can't access many >>> of my own directories - i don't have permission. Vista doesn't talk to my >>> scanner and Limewire won't work. luckily. i kept my laptop on XP so the >>> damage is bearable. so i just keep both set up, close by and ready to go. >>> i like having a hot back up anyway. i also have not had a single virus >>> problem or any other s/w fault during that time, except one self inflicted >>> MSIE problem. be careful what toolbars you download. i also run Mozilla >>> Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome to avoid MSIE problems. (the Go-Back >>> feature is worth GOLD.) >>> >>> AZDAVE <-- 25 YEAR PROGRAMMING HISTORY, TIMEX SINCLAIRE, VIC 20, >>> COMMODORE 64, IBM XT, AT PENTIUM............. THINKING OF TRYING AN IMAC. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> After installing VISTA on the 23rd - -- nothing but problems. Thought >>>> they'd be workable but it's gotten worse. So my husband MAY overwrite it >>>> with XP (as MS has it so one CAN'T uninstall it!). >>>> >>>> Yesterday & today after trying to open 2 programs used regularly -- we >>>> get the message -- "The application has failed to start because its >>>> side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event >>>> LOG for more detail." >>>> >>>> Worked fine yesterday. Did nothing different since yesterday. Today we >>>> get that OBSURE message today twice (so far) without knowing the cause or >>>> how to fix it. >>>> >>>> But VISTA doesn't say how to find this "event log" or what it is. >>>> Grrrrrrrrrrr. >>>> >>>> Being a principal software engineer (my husband) and working with >>>> computers at work (engineering) and at home AND having worked with every >>>> operating system out there for 37 yrs (even Unix/Linux) he's beyond >>>> frustrated. >>>> >>>> Seems VISTA takes more managability over one's system away from you. >>>> Very UNCOOL! >>>> >>>> Anyone else having probs? >>>> >>>> Lori >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AZDAVE @ DAVEOCONNELL.COM <http://daveoconnell.com/> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lori >> C4/5 complete quad, 27 years post >> Tucson, AZ >> > > > > -- > AZDAVE @ DAVEOCONNELL.COM <http://daveoconnell.com/> > -- Lori C4/5 complete quad, 27 years post Tucson, AZ
