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Mar. 26th, 2015 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljThere now. I got my data back on my new pc from the old one. The main concern was my photos and music because, the music in particular was not up to date on the backup external. He also changed my anti virus program with a scaled down corporate version of one of the "biggies" for free. Apparently I don't have to schedule scans, it's always running and within a very short time it came up with a couple of things that McAphee didn't catch, nor did the malware program catch. One of them concerns a message that randomly pops up and tells you Google Chrome is out of date and you need to download a new version. Once I went to the computer and it looked like it was in the process of downloading without any interference from me but i managed to stop that. I think. But anyway, the new av caught it and quarantined it. Any time i did get the message before, i would just close it down. The first time i noticed it, i checked within Chrome itself and it was up to date so i knew it was a scam, malware or something. Sorted.
Now I just have to copy the music back over to the folder i set up and update iTunes with the new stuff as well. Then back it all up to the external again! I use Synctoy, by MS, to do the backup as it keeps track of file changes, or new things and just copies those. You can also set it up to sync both ways but i don't do that. I clean up the current folders and leave some of the older stuff on the external which I can always find if i want to.
These days with all the cloud services, you can use those but without paying for a service, you have limited space and I don't really want things spread across several places (Google drive, Dropbox, Microsoft One Drive and apparently i can have a cloud area on Acer but i can't be bothered.) Graham and I use Dropbox to send stuff back and forth to each other quickly in a shared folder.
My mom got a new laptop, too and it's basically set up but she still hasn't got anything for word processing. She had a copy of Office on the old one but it isn't on her new one. I haven't been able to get there to help her do stuff on it because of the weather but once I get there I'm going to put Open Office on. Might also sign her up for Drop Box and show her how to save copies of her stuff there. If i send her the invite to DB, I think I get more space myself. She also bought herself a Kobo eReader but aside from basic set up, she hasn't had the chance to buy books for it or put any on that i gave her so I have to show her all that too.
... and I saw a dime on the floor of the food court this morning :)
Now I just have to copy the music back over to the folder i set up and update iTunes with the new stuff as well. Then back it all up to the external again! I use Synctoy, by MS, to do the backup as it keeps track of file changes, or new things and just copies those. You can also set it up to sync both ways but i don't do that. I clean up the current folders and leave some of the older stuff on the external which I can always find if i want to.
These days with all the cloud services, you can use those but without paying for a service, you have limited space and I don't really want things spread across several places (Google drive, Dropbox, Microsoft One Drive and apparently i can have a cloud area on Acer but i can't be bothered.) Graham and I use Dropbox to send stuff back and forth to each other quickly in a shared folder.
My mom got a new laptop, too and it's basically set up but she still hasn't got anything for word processing. She had a copy of Office on the old one but it isn't on her new one. I haven't been able to get there to help her do stuff on it because of the weather but once I get there I'm going to put Open Office on. Might also sign her up for Drop Box and show her how to save copies of her stuff there. If i send her the invite to DB, I think I get more space myself. She also bought herself a Kobo eReader but aside from basic set up, she hasn't had the chance to buy books for it or put any on that i gave her so I have to show her all that too.
... and I saw a dime on the floor of the food court this morning :)
