[Magdalen] Computer Disaster

[Brian Reid]

What to do in the future: be faithful about making regular backups.


> My computer had to be re-thinged and everything reinstalled. That 
> includes my Facebook account that was running on a long-defunct address, 
> not my current one.  I haven't given up FB for Lent or anything.  I will 
> happily accept offers of friendship and if you get one from me, please 
> accept.  I have not been hacked!!!
> 
> My email is a disaster area.  Yes, everything was saved -- in one huge 
> undifferentiated mass like the grains of sand on a beach. Everything. 
> Archives, folder contents, everything rolled into one.  Some 98K of 
> them.  Useful stuff like my address book -- gone, just like the folders 
> themselves.  Inbox now has 90K or so, All Mail has 92,395, Important 4448.
> 
> I don't know what to do!
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
>