• There were many reasons for the change of the site software, the biggest was security. The age of the old software also meant no server updates for certain programs. There are many benefits to the new software, one of the biggest is the mobile functionality. Ill fix up some stuff in the coming days, we'll also try to get some of the old addons back or the data imported back into the site like the garage. To create a thread or to reply with a post is basically the same as it was in the prior software. The default style of the site is light colored, but i temporarily added a darker colored style, to change you can find a link at the bottom of the site.

I'm back!

I'm not sure yet... but it's running Windows 10. :shocked:
The old 'puter seemed to get slow & lazy... Then it couldn't get Windows (7) to even start.
Without that: I couldn't even get help from remote diagnostics... :banghead:
Rather than continue the hatchet-fight: we just broke down, and bought a new one. :dontknow:
 
That leave of absence must have put you at least 3,000 posts behind.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:
 
Bob Denman said:
Rather than continue the hatchet-fight: we just broke down, and bought a new one. :dontknow:
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You can slave the old hard drive in the new system so you can attempt to recover files, docs, pics etc......:thumbup: I would recommend putting the old drive in the frig overnight before slaving it in... it can give you a few mins longer if the drive is indeed failing....
 
Really...😲

Wow you were gone two days....but it was getting slack here....:lecturef_smilie:next time give us a heads up....:roflblack:
 
Oh no, you lost all of your Avatars???imoticon.jpg No worries, I can loan you some. BTW, hate windows 10, still getting along with 7. Still runs well and until it dies, I'm 'stickin with it.
 
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Bob Denman said:
Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:
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It's water over the dam now; but, have you thought of backing up your data to an external hard drive?

My iMac crashed and burned a few months ago; luckily I had all data backed up to my external hard drive. I had panicked for a minute before I remembered I had it.
 
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Bob Denman said:
Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:
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Man, that bites. That's why you ALWAYS backup. I have a 1 TB external hard drive & I back up once a week. Or, you could backup in the Cloud.
 
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Bob Denman said:
Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:
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Bob ... I believe someone has suggested this already. If you have a local computer shop, you can buy a cheap USB case for your old drive and then plug it into a port on the new machine. Since you are just going to read data from the drive, this should work .... that is unless the drive itself is bad.

I am limping a 12 year old computer through Windows 10 and having some interesting challenges -- either my second monitor is not available or my antivirus doesn't start on first boot up (always have to do a restart to get both). I actually have an old drive from a previous computer hooked up as described above and it works well for keeping backups. Additionally, I find I occasionally need a file from that drive that I neglected to migrate years ago .... has paid off to keep it active.

Hope it is the guts of the computer (CPU, or mother board) that is bad and not the drive ... then you will be able to at least access the data.

Good luck .... Ann
 
oldguyinCT said:
Man, that bites. That's why you ALWAYS backup. I have a 1 TB external hard drive & I back up once a week. Or, you could backup in the Cloud.
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Me too. But, I recently discovered it died some time ago and there's no way to access the backup files. Need a cloud backup solution soon before my main hard drive fails and I lose everything.
 
Spyder_Cowgirl said:
Bob ... I believe someone has suggested this already. If you have a local computer shop, you can buy a cheap USB case for your old drive and then plug it into a port on the new machine. Since you are just going to read data from the drive, this should work .... that is unless the drive itself is bad.

I am limping a 12 year old computer through Windows 10 and having some interesting challenges -- either my second monitor is not available or my antivirus doesn't start on first boot up (always have to do a restart to get both). I actually have an old drive from a previous computer hooked up as described above and it works well for keeping backups. Additionally, I find I occasionally need a file from that drive that I neglected to migrate years ago .... has paid off to keep it active.

Hope it is the guts of the computer (CPU, or mother board) that is bad and not the drive ... then you will be able to at least access the data.

Good luck .... Ann
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Thanks for the tip! :thumbup:
The corpse is still down in the basement; I'll pull the hard drive out of it before disposal...
 
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