[Magdalen] iPhone 5 update to ios8 info?

[Kate Conant]

​Thanks for the info, Cady.
​

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:15 PM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kindle - can put photos onto it via a USB to a computer, as long as
> the computer allows you to see the Kindle (mine do). I've backed up
> most of my Kindle on the computer as well. It shows up as an external
> hard drive - just explore where photos go. It's just a low-level form
> of ?Linux? for the OS.
>
> iPhone 5 & updating - mine's up to iOS 8.1.1 with no problems. There
> are unspecified problems if you get close to the storage limit, and
> having the old+new OS on it may have hit the limit. It's very useful
> to remember the top+front button reset method. It's also very useful
> to have the iPhone backed up to a computer. I also back mine up to
> iCloud. I haven't been at all impressed with the 'new' iCloud - it's
> clunky & useful for such a very few things. Nevertheless ... backups
> are extremely useful to have. Not to mention keeping my mac mini /
> iPad mini / iPhone in sync.
>
> DropBox - use it for daily backups for most of my computer files AND
> for sharing amongst the cave photographers (electronic submissions for
> the annual competition) and church documents (audits, region reports,
> vestry minutes, etc.). Very handy. I find it most useful since I can
> store any type of file in any format. (Not true for iCloud any more or
> yet - as in, it used to work that way & may work that way in the
> future, but is truly limited to backups and Apple(r) app files for
> now. Sillies.)
>
> Google Drive - also use it for a few things. Also useful for sharing,
> has basic security. Has an interesting "live collaboration" feature
> that can be a bit mind-bending if you work at it.
>
> Other than that - nothing but several backup drives...
>
> analog hugs anyway - Cady
> playing hooky from computer problem solving
>