Lap top died...

After some skittish occurances, it appears my hard drive took a nosedive during a software upgrade. Hopefully the backups to the desktop are okay, and all my stories, novels, etc. are intact.

While it is in repairs, I've got the big ole clunky desktop at my disposal, so not sure how much new writing is going to be getting done in the meantime.

Can't believe the dust on my husband's desk....hee hee, Swiffer to the rescue!

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K2, at least you're still with us.... hope it can be fixed soon.

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Hugs, k2. Hopefully, it will all get sorted out soon.

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If I relied on memory to do backups I'd be really screwed. There's software out there for doing it automatically. Mac users can use Time Machine (have it go to an external drive), not sure what's the best options out there for Windows users. I have Scrivener set up as well to back up all of my stories to Dropbox whenever I edit them. Dropbox is essentially an Internet hard drive ("cloud" stuff) that keeps a copy of whatever you have in a specific directory on your computer, and vice versa.

Dropbox offers free space which you can pay to expand, and will give you more if you invite other people to use the service. If anyone doesn't have a Dropbox account and wants to sign up, I'll be happy to send you an invite , or I'm sure someone else here would as well.

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Chris, the problem with Time Machine and Mac laptops is remembering to plug the laptop into the external drive and then to turn on Time Machine every day/ night so that it does the back up.

Which is why I try to make myself remember to plug it in once a week, usually on Sunday evenings so that I am all prepared for the new week at work. On that night I take my computer to my "office" room in the house, since I do not want the external drive sitting around cluttering up the main living room where I use my laptop all the time.

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Hubby's heading out right now to pick it up! He backed the laptop up to the desktop's drive before running the update, so we ae hoping all the pertinent info got saved properly.

We shall see later on tonight if I am back in business. The desktop is an old Apple G-5, and while it works fine with both the Gatch sites, anywhere else is pretty much a bust.

Fingers crossed..but not to stressed if I'd lost anything. More worried about my daughter's music collection.

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I'm glad you were able to recover everything!

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Yay k2!!

jublke: I think not worrying that your files are lost forever is probably worth a little clutter downstairs. My laptop rarely moves (I know, that's odd) so it's almost always plugged in to the external drive and I leave Time Machine on all the time.

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