HERE'S WHY I HAVEN'T SHOWN UP FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS

[Golddollar]

Hi everyone. In case it seemed like I disappeared lately, rest assured I am upright and functional. It's my computer that just went kaflooey and couldn't be fixed after almost 7 years. I bought a new computer and now have to see about getting stuff from the old computer transferred over. I need to get that done. I'm now on the cell phone but as a card carrying Luddite this is mighty slow going for me. Hope everyone is doing OK.

 

[lihpster]

stuff from the old computer transferred over.

Except for your browsing history!

 

[boykinlp]

I’ve been through that before and it’s a huge pain! At least it was for me. Fingers crossed that you have better luck.
Larry

 

[Protocall_Design]

At least it was the computer and not you! Hope it's all back to normal soon.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I'm on a new computer for about 6 months, and still haven't found all the stuff, I had as lists in the old one!

Ivan

 

[jeffrefrig]

It's times like these that I wish I had all my user names & passwords written down.

 

[old bear]

It's times like these that I wish I had all my user names & passwords written down.

I've done that for years. Just keep an updated hard copy..

 

[oldman10mm]

^^^ that. And I copy/transfer all document & picture files to portable external hard drives periodically. If the desktop crashes, I can still access them in thru the laptop with the drives.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I used to worry about such events. Then it happened to me, my computer died and nothing could be salvaged. It must have taken me a month or so to realize that it made no significant difference in my life.

 

[Onomea]

Good to hear from you, Golddollar! Good luck with the new computer.

 

[Xfuzz]

I take an occasional pic of my favorites list
on my cell phone.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have a 17 year old IT whisperer under roof.

I'm covered.

 

[Kevin J.]

A very nice feature of the Apple system. When I purchase anything new, iPad, iPhone, or desk top, it is a simple down load from the cloud to bring everything over to the new device.

 

[Ματθιας]

I have a 2012 MacBook Pro and I'd been putting off doing an update on OS Catalina. But then I started having issues, glitches. I finally did the update and as per the forums, it wouldn't completely boot.

They said leave it alone and let it do its thing. I let it do its thing for a week and nothing happened...

Anyway, before the update, pulled everything I wanted on a thumb drive - especially bookmarks and passwords.

I got a new to me refurbed 2021 MacBook Pro -it's super fast - and does everything I need. Going from Catalina to Sequoia OS was a bit of a learning curve, but I'm happy!

 

[ralph7]

I just bought a new desktop from Amazon, was worried about redoing
all my bookmarks.
I googled how to import them and it was simple.
Amazing how long I put up with that slow dinosaur just because of that one worry.

 

[DWalt]

Not difficult to remove the old internal hard drive (at least if the drive itself has not totally crashed) and mount it in a USB drive housing. It then becomes just another external hard drive, and you can copy off everything on it. The USB housings are cheap on eBay. I have done that three times.

After you get everything transferred to the new computer, buy another blank hard drive and mirror everything, including the operating system, onto it. Lots of free mirroring software you can download. If everything ever goes haywire, just put in the mirrored drive.

 

[Golddollar]

Not difficult to remove the old internal hard drive (at least if the drive itself has not totally crashed) and mount it in a USB drive housing. It then becomes just another external hard drive, and you can copy off everything on it. The USB housings are cheap on eBay. I have done that three times.

After you get everything transferred to the new computer, buy another blank hard drive and mirror everything, including the operating system, onto it. Lots of free mirroring software you can download. If everything ever goes haywire, just put in the mirrored drive.

You lost me at "Not difficult to remove."

 

[soFlaNative]

You were gone?

 

[DWalt]

You lost me at "Not difficult to remove."

YouTube is your friend. It is mainly a matter of removing a number of screws.Some laptops require the same case disassembly to change out the rechargeable battery. Some do not.

 

[Golddollar]

Best Buy got back to me. I get to pick up my new computer this afternoon over in York. Hopefully I'll be able to work the new one after getting everything loaded from my old computer 🖥.