Yay! I found an old email that helped me. Some advice on getting your computer data back on a newer computer.

Just saying...

I found an old email that helped me. My hard drive went south on me, but The Place downtown helped me save it. Thank you, The Place!

Ah! This altered art is by Vicci at the moon stars paper blog.

Anyway, I have been busy putting programs back ON my next computer lately. This was mostly pretty easy this time, as I have all most of my programs in the same location.

Also, I had unlimited email on my Yahoo mail account. Thank goodness! Unfortunately, for a while I only had the titles of those messages. Then this week I was able to open them and use them.

It is a mystery to me where the message insides (actual messages) have been all this time.

On the good side, because of a program called BackBlaze, I was able to get back my photos and other research.

Note to others: make sure when you have a problem, you go to BackBlaze and start a retrieval. Do NOT request another hard drive backup of your computer, because BackBlaze will back up what is THERE on your hard drive. 

If you do not have anything on the hard drive any more, or are working from another computer, you could lose your original backup from the old one in favor of the almost-empty hard drive of the new one. Just saying.

I could have made this mistake, but was lucky and didn't. My advice to anyone (including myself) is to just be careful and push the right button is all I am saying.

I used MyOtherDrive before, but that site did not work so well with Macs. I was not able to access some of my files because of that.

Now all Mac computers have access to "The Cloud" and also to a service called Time Machine, which I may eventually switch to. But for now, BackBlaze is doing great for me.

Not my computer... zoom? Hmmm. photo by dmealiffe on Flickr

Anyway, now I can update the BGAMUG site, and did that today. I like having things back to normal! Have you ever had your computer go down? I miss mine when I don't have it! And now I'm happy to have my computer back.

Betsyanne
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club
Bowling Green, Kentucky

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You can see the original of the Altair photo at the Fotopedia site.