[Magdalen] Computer Disaster

[Grace Cangialosi]

I have an external hard drive plugged into my laptop when it’s docked. It backs up every time the computer is idle for five minutes.

> On Feb 18, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
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> What to do in the future: be faithful about making regular backups.
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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!!!
>> 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
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