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 🖥.

 

[Golddollar]

I got the new computer this evening and Best Buy really did a good job transferring everything from my old computer to the new one. With the solid state drive vs. the hamster driven hard drive the difference in operational speed is amazing. Trying to use a cellphone as a computer just didn't cut it.

 

[rwsmith]

My newly repaired laptop......

...has been fried. I'm on the desktop.

 

[venomballistics]

Long ago, a friend and I set up a LAN for multi player combat sims.
It always seemed to take a solid 45 minutes of mildly fatal network floggings to get things rolling.
Now, some twenty odd years plus later, we did it again over internet with a sizable squad.
The 45 minutes worth of mildly fatal network floggings really brought back fond memories of our greatest hits.
"Is the router even plugged in dipchit?"
"This was just working last weekend"
" Dude, you exported the mission without anything playable again"
And many many more...
Back then I'd hack these games and modify weapons and equipment. I considered it the game within the game. A nuclear 1911 is always a crowd pleaser.
Looking back, sifting through hundreds of lines of code and cobbling together class derivative flow charts was quite the impressive feat.
The current version of me is far less willing to dive into such endeavors. In fact, the current version of me is only aware that it's a thing at this point.
I'd likely brick the installation going in now.
That's part of the problem we face with technology.
No matter how savvy we might have been, we're just tired of dealing with the man behind the curtain if we're even off to see the wizard at all

 

[Golddollar]

Long ago, a friend and I set up a LAN for multi player combat sims.
It always seemed to take a solid 45 minutes of mildly fatal network floggings to get things rolling.
Now, some twenty odd years plus later, we did it again over internet with a sizable squad.
The 45 minutes worth of mildly fatal network floggings really brought back fond memories of our greatest hits.
"Is the router even plugged in dipchit?"
"This was just working last weekend"
" Dude, you exported the mission without anything playable again"
And many many more...
Back then I'd hack these games and modify weapons and equipment. I considered it the game within the game. A nuclear 1911 is always a crowd pleaser.
Looking back, sifting through hundreds of lines of code and cobbling together class derivative flow charts was quite the impressive feat.
The current version of me is far less willing to dive into such endeavors. In fact, the current version of me is only aware that it's a thing at this point.
I'd likely brick the installation going in now.
That's part of the problem we face with technology.
No matter how savvy we might have been, we're just tired of dealing with the man behind the curtain if we're even off to see the wizard at all

Does this flowchart template look familiar?

 

[venomballistics]

Does this flowchart template look familiar?

that might have been useful at the time.
Class derivative is kinda like sorting out nature into categories.
Nature is your first block which splits into living and non living .... living splits into plants or animals .... no not a lot was really needed. just had to see where the stuff came from in the family tree.
If I really really really really really had to, I could probably do it again. the real mystery today is why I ever wanted to in the first place

 

[ACORN]

Long ago, a friend and I set up a LAN for multi player combat sims.
It always seemed to take a solid 45 minutes of mildly fatal network floggings to get things rolling.
Now, some twenty odd years plus later, we did it again over internet with a sizable squad.
The 45 minutes worth of mildly fatal network floggings really brought back fond memories of our greatest hits.
"Is the router even plugged in dipchit?"
"This was just working last weekend"
" Dude, you exported the mission without anything playable again"
And many many more...
Back then I'd hack these games and modify weapons and equipment. I considered it the game within the game. A nuclear 1911 is always a crowd pleaser.
Looking back, sifting through hundreds of lines of code and cobbling together class derivative flow charts was quite the impressive feat.
The current version of me is far less willing to dive into such endeavors. In fact, the current version of me is only aware that it's a thing at this point.
I'd likely brick the installation going in now.
That's part of the problem we face with technology.
No matter how savvy we might have been, we're just tired of dealing with the man behind the curtain if we're even off to see the wizard at all

Is Google Translate able translate "Geek" to English?