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Protect your favorites
What if your computer jumped off the table and committed suicide? Crashed,
Smashed or went goofy? It could happen. You know that. Do you have your list of favorites backed-up? When mine became sort of strange, my first panic was my list of online quilt shops I love as well as places for free online quilt designs, best place for batting and thread .... well, you know. I have no idea what I'm talking about but my sweet neighbor came through, saw my panic, put something smaller than a fat postage stamp in my computer and copied my favorites and address book. I don't know if it was a Blue Tooth (which sounds painful to me) or an iiPR373-ml832. Don't care. If you're skilled enough, back up your favorites on disc or something. If you're not, get help. If no help is available, there's always pencil and paper. Do what you've got to do. If you lose your favorites, your face won't freeze and you won't poke you eye out but it sure would be an unnecessary misery. Polly |
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Good advice, Polly. It's easy as can be to keep your favorites list on
a thumb drive. For less than $20 you can get a little thumb drive that has more storage space than my state-of-the-art computer did 10 years ago. LOL And believe me, that computer cost a good bit more than $20. Polly is wise. Do as she says and ..... um, be happy. On the same vein, most cell companies now will store your contacts list so that you don't suddenly become an orphan, cut off from the universe, if you lose your cell phone. It's worth the few dollars it costs to get this service. Sunny |
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Polly Esther wrote:
What if your computer jumped off the table and committed suicide? Crashed, Smashed or went goofy? It could happen. You know that. Do you have your list of favorites backed-up? I use Xmarks (was Foxmarks) which backs them all up online - this also means when I am at my parents house using their computer I can sign into Xmarks and have my usual bookmarks/favourites all there ready to use. Their website says it works for the Firefox, Internet Exploder (sorry Explorer) and Safari web-browsers. Personally I use it with Firefox and it works seamlessly for me. http://www.xmarks.com/ NAYY, YMMV..... Lizzy |
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Thumb drive? Yes. That's what she used and it was indeed less than $20.
Polly "onetexsun" wrote Good advice, Polly. It's easy as can be to keep your favorites list on a thumb drive. For less than $20 you can get a little thumb drive that has more storage space than my state-of-the-art computer did 10 years ago. LOL And believe me, that computer cost a good bit more than $20. Polly is wise. Do as she says and ..... um, be happy. On the same vein, most cell companies now will store your contacts list so that you don't suddenly become an orphan, cut off from the universe, if you lose your cell phone. It's worth the few dollars it costs to get this service. Sunny |
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Now there's a scene that makes me smile. Lizzy writes that she uses their
computer when she's at her parents' house. Mercy. If my little mama had had computer access, she just might have taken over the entire world. The Sheriff and the entire president's cabinet would have been calling me all the time to do something about my mama. What a thought. Polly "Lizzy Taylor" wrote I use Xmarks (was Foxmarks) which backs them all up online - this also means when I am at my parents house using their computer I can sign into Xmarks and have my usual bookmarks/favourites all there ready to use. Their website says it works for the Firefox, Internet Exploder (sorry Explorer) and Safari web-browsers. Personally I use it with Firefox and it works seamlessly for me. http://www.xmarks.com/ NAYY, YMMV..... Lizzy |
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Unfortunately, I am totally computer illiterate. I have a thumb drive and
absolutely no idea how to copy my favorites to it. When I go "organize favorites" it gives me the choice of moving, renaming, making a new file (which was empty when I tried it), or deleting. Like I said, totally illiterate. "onetexsun" wrote in message ... Good advice, Polly. It's easy as can be to keep your favorites list on a thumb drive. For less than $20 you can get a little thumb drive that has more storage space than my state-of-the-art computer did 10 years ago. LOL And believe me, that computer cost a good bit more than $20. Polly is wise. Do as she says and ..... um, be happy. On the same vein, most cell companies now will store your contacts list so that you don't suddenly become an orphan, cut off from the universe, if you lose your cell phone. It's worth the few dollars it costs to get this service. Sunny |
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Someone kind soul here will come to your rescue, Phyllis. I only know which
funny little slot is the right one to pound the thumb drive into. Polly "Phyllis Nilsson" wrote Unfortunately, I am totally computer illiterate. I have a thumb drive and absolutely no idea how to copy my favorites to it. When I go "organize favorites" it gives me the choice of moving, renaming, making a new file (which was empty when I tried it), or deleting. Like I said, totally illiterate. "onetexsun" wrote in message ... Good advice, Polly. It's easy as can be to keep your favorites list on a thumb drive. For less than $20 you can get a little thumb drive that has more storage space than my state-of-the-art computer did 10 years ago. LOL And believe me, that computer cost a good bit more than $20. Polly is wise. Do as she says and ..... um, be happy. On the same vein, most cell companies now will store your contacts list so that you don't suddenly become an orphan, cut off from the universe, if you lose your cell phone. It's worth the few dollars it costs to get this service. Sunny |
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Polly Esther wrote:
Now there's a scene that makes me smile. Lizzy writes that she uses their computer when she's at her parents' house. Mercy. If my little mama had had computer access, she just might have taken over the entire world. The Sheriff and the entire president's cabinet would have been calling me all the time to do something about my mama. They've not taken over the world yet, but now my dad is so much less mobile, following his stroke, email & the internet help him to keep in touch with us all little and often. Lizzy |
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Funny you should mention this, Polly. At Best Buy last night I bought a 520
GB External disk drive. It's about the size of my iPod. I'm going to put all my pictures and music on it to free up my computer hard drive space. Maybe it will run faster. It says it holds 120,000 songs. That should do it. 520 GB. I remember how excited I was with 320 KB of space. Cindy "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... What if your computer jumped off the table and committed suicide? Crashed, Smashed or went goofy? It could happen. You know that. Do you have your list of favorites backed-up? When mine became sort of strange, my first panic was my list of online quilt shops I love as well as places for free online quilt designs, best place for batting and thread .... well, you know. I have no idea what I'm talking about but my sweet neighbor came through, saw my panic, put something smaller than a fat postage stamp in my computer and copied my favorites and address book. I don't know if it was a Blue Tooth (which sounds painful to me) or an iiPR373-ml832. Don't care. If you're skilled enough, back up your favorites on disc or something. If you're not, get help. If no help is available, there's always pencil and paper. Do what you've got to do. If you lose your favorites, your face won't freeze and you won't poke you eye out but it sure would be an unnecessary misery. Polly |
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I'm thrilled about thumb and other solid-state drives. DH and I use
Mozy online backup, but I'm going to get a couple of thumb drives, too. I'm a little paranoid about hard drives ever since I had an external drive go bad after about 3 months. And all it did was sit on the desk. Really frustrating, it would have cost a fortune to retrieve the data, but I didn't trust just exchanging it for a new one. First of all, there was financial info on there, and second, what's to say it wouldn't happen again? Now that they're so inexpensive, it might provide a little peace of mind to have two. (Maybe it's me. I've had CD backups go bad, too.) --Heidi http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b |
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