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eschwartz · 01-07-2015, 08:51 PM

Before I think about passing on my own stuff I'd like to think about helping my family get control of the stuff they already have.

For example, my mother's emils are all on the computer that just crashed... in Outlook, using POP3 instead of IMAP, which means her GMail account is a wreck and the stuff from before GMail is... issueful.

So next time I go home I will have some work to do to make sure anyone in my family has any digital files at all. Stuff is (was?) spread across accounts as well as random folders in obscure locations IIRC, backed up in random folders after two different repair installs or something, and haphazardly backed up to an external hard drive.

Fortunately, I think the problem is merely with Windows, not the hard drive, but still... fun.

And you want to know if I will be passing stuff on to them.

01-07-2015, 08:51 PM	#39
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Before I think about passing on my own stuff I'd like to think about helping my family get control of the stuff they already have. For example, my mother's emils are all on the computer that just crashed... in Outlook, using POP3 instead of IMAP, which means her GMail account is a wreck and the stuff from before GMail is... issueful. So next time I go home I will have some work to do to make sure anyone in my family has any digital files at all. Stuff is (was?) spread across accounts as well as random folders in obscure locations IIRC, backed up in random folders after two different repair installs or something, and haphazardly backed up to an external hard drive. Fortunately, I think the problem is merely with Windows, not the hard drive, but still... fun. And you want to know if I will be passing stuff on to them. Last edited by eschwartz; 01-07-2015 at 08:55 PM.