[Magdalen] Computer Disaster

[Roger Stokes]

On 18/02/2018 21:13, Brian Reid wrote:
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> What to do in the future: be faithful about making regular backups.

and, following on from a comment on another list, check those backups 
can be read. An unreadable backup is worse than useless as it gives you 
unwarranted hope.

Roger

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>> 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!!!
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>> 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.
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>> I don't know what to do!
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>> Marion, a pilgrim
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