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Post by nipper on Feb 20, 2017 9:33:32 GMT
Hi all!
Just a reminder to those of us that have smart phones and keep all their phone numbers, email addresses, photo's and a hundred and one bits of other stuff that gets collected on one over time!
BACK IT UP !!!!
Mine did a backwards somersault with pike into the canal at Ellesmere on Saturday, dispite searching with a net in about 2ft of water I couldn't find it and then a boat or two went by and all hope was lost!
Had I backed it up? well, I was going too, but at the end of the day, I didn't so all my contacts have gone,all my pics have gone!
Now I have to get a bus to Nantwich to get a new sim for this old Motorola defy that I found in a drawer in the boat!,
Happy Days!
Nipper
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Post by bargemast on Feb 20, 2017 9:47:57 GMT
I know the feeling Nipper, as the same thing happened to me twice already.
It's really not easy to get all the information back, and of course all those beautiful photos are lost for good.
To give you the proof of what dummy I am, I still haven't made a back up.
My only (cheap) excuse is that I'm far from clever with computers and Smartphones, and only know just about how to use only a very small part of their possibilities.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 9:51:32 GMT
That also goes with laptops and other devices which have data on which you haven't got backed up on the cloud.
Hard drives do fail!
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Post by kris on Feb 20, 2017 9:59:30 GMT
Backing digital data up to a minimum of three places is recommended. But what a pain in the butt. I keep a paper record of all my must keep numbers, all my emailing is done through an online account so that stores emails. Photos I just have to live with loosing. Yes I have lost a few smart phones and it is always a wrenching experience. I would have never believed I would be living in symbiosis with a piece of technology. Does that make me a cyborg?
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Post by bargemast on Feb 20, 2017 10:01:27 GMT
That also goes with laptops and other devices which have data on which you haven't got backed up on the cloud. Hard drives do fail! The cloud here are only full of rain, they don't hold any of my data, probably something else I should try to do one day.
I've gone through a couple of failing hard drives too, and losing everything I had stored on them too.
Only on one occasion, my late brother in law, who was a very smart and clever guy, managed to put the disc of my failing hard drive into another hard drive to copy the stored information for me, and put all that into a new hard drive.
Sadly enough the poor guy died in 2012, and I've lost 2 hard drives since, but some of the stuff I'd put on an external hard drive, something I don't do often enough.
Peter.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 20, 2017 10:03:45 GMT
Conversely, I drift along happily loosing everything. I noticed I rarely looked at pics I've taken, contacts, emails and texts get a good clear out, a fresh laptop or phone goes like the clappers. It's like spring cleaning but effortless.
I admit it's taken a few (at the time) seemingly disastrous heart wrenching losses to adopt that attitude but after calming down and carrying on I realised it really didn't matter.
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Post by NigelMoore on Feb 20, 2017 10:03:46 GMT
Why not install free dropbox on your phone? Every photo uploaded to the cloud, and accessible from anywhere at any time, no matter what happens to your phone. In fact, photos are the only thing I have ever been able to retrieve when a phone has gone swimming.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 10:08:56 GMT
Or Google Drive. You get 15GB free.
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Post by kris on Feb 20, 2017 10:11:52 GMT
I want to Unentangle my self from the digital world, not get more entangled. In fact I'm hoping for some severe sun spot activity to wipe it all out. But I sippose I might have to live in hope of that.
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Post by bargemast on Feb 20, 2017 10:23:46 GMT
I want to Unentangle my self from the digital world, not get more entangled. In fact I'm hoping for some severe sun spot activity to wipe it all out. But I sippose I might have to live in hope of that. Nothing wrong with living in hope, lots of Dutch barge names have hope (written "Hoop" in Dutch) in their names.
Peter.
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Post by kris on Feb 20, 2017 10:30:00 GMT
I want to Unentangle my self from the digital world, not get more entangled. In fact I'm hoping for some severe sun spot activity to wipe it all out. But I sippose I might have to live in hope of that. Nothing wrong with living in hope, lots of Dutch barge names have hope (written "Hoop" in Dutch) in their names.
Peter.
i agree hope is a good thing. If the digital was taken away, I think people would wake up from the hypnotic trance they are in. They migh even talk to the people next to them. When the Internet started I was on of the many who thought it was a force for good. But now it has been taken over by corporate interests, I think it s just another system of indoctrination and control. Anyway that's enogh of a rant.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 20, 2017 10:36:55 GMT
Nothing wrong with living in hope, lots of Dutch barge names have hope (written "Hoop" in Dutch) in their names.
Peter.
i agree hope is a good thing. If the digital was taken away, I think people would wake up from the hypnotic trance they are in. They migh even talk to the people next to them. When the Internet started I was on of the many who thought it was a force for good. But now it has been taken over by corporate interests, I think it s just another system of indoctrination and control. Anyway that's enogh of a rant. I couldn't agree more, it's just a big marketplace now with searches focussing and directing you to products rather than info and trapping you into an ever narrowing place defined by random products tenuously linked to some other random product you weren't looking for previously. Eventually everyone will be able only to access one page each, crammed with adverts for shite you weren't ever interested in.
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Post by kris on Feb 20, 2017 10:46:58 GMT
i agree hope is a good thing. If the digital was taken away, I think people would wake up from the hypnotic trance they are in. They migh even talk to the people next to them. When the Internet started I was on of the many who thought it was a force for good. But now it has been taken over by corporate interests, I think it s just another system of indoctrination and control. Anyway that's enogh of a rant. I couldn't agree more, it's just a big marketplace now with searches focussing and directing you to products rather than info and trapping you into an ever narrowing place defined by random products tenuously linked to some other random product you weren't looking for previously. Eventually everyone will be able only to access one page each, crammed with adverts for shite you weren't ever interested in. exactly.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 20, 2017 10:53:35 GMT
I've never been comfortable with TV either, I have one now after my latest 5 year break. The content has nose dived and again it's more and more a continuous advert, by which I mean the programme content is for sector promotion, not interest. Be that canal, house, car related. I try to restrict myself to International sport, that way it stays mostly in the cupboard.
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Post by bodger on Feb 20, 2017 12:33:53 GMT
another clone thread matching the other side.
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