Well for the third time in almost as many years - the laptop bit the dust. I'm just not gentle enough with the sensitive electronic equipment.
If any of you out there are wondering why I am not emailing you when I should be -- it's probably because I have once again lost my entire address book and saved emails. If you are indeed waiting for an email from me -- or would like to receive one in the future -- please drop me a quick line to let me know where you are. I promise to actually save the address book on a web server this time. Cross my heart.
Earlier this morning when I realized that I lost a lot of unanswered emails... I (*blush*) remembered that the last time this happened I didn't inform anyone and left some folks hanging out there - although I can't really remember who those folks are let alone what their email addresses would be. One in particular was Chris Jordan? (Was that the name?) Who emailed me something like six months ago with some questions for an interview about our Katrina experience. Uh.. Chris - if you're still out there... Those questions and answers are swirling in the void that is my last fried harddrive! A thousand and one apologies.
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Ha! Don't worry about it. :-)
If you have a USB port on your notebook, you can buy a 4 GB USB flash drive about the size of a Swiss Army Knife, only thinner, for currently about $30, plug it temporarily into a USB port and it acts as a second disk.
I do that and copy My Documents and the data from my email program onto it maybe once a month or so, then toss it in a drawer.
I have some SanDisk flash drives (I have more than one so I can cycle the backups, paranoia lives). I stay away from the ones with U3 "smart technology," which is apparently a pain in the neck, and just get the ones that act like plain disks.
I use Windows, so if you're on a Mac, you're on your own :-)
Maybe 4 GB isn't enough space for you, in which case you can get an external hard drive to connect up temporarily, but they are a little fragile. One drop on the floor, and they're history, whereas the little flash drives can apparently survive even going thru the washer and dryer, maybe.
Windows seems to have the drivers for these built in or they are already on the flash drives, I'm not sure, so there's no hairy installation stuff.
That's an excellent idea, trudy. I've added a flash drive to our shopping list. One of my sons has a little 500M USB flash drive that he uses to move stuff from computer to computer -- but I really had no idea they'd increased storage capacity on those things so much. (Although I think my son has been trying to tell me so for a couple of years now...)
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