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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 14, 2016 10:58:16 GMT -5
I finally got an email from a flesh and blood Photobucket employee... It's a problem they know about, and it's affecting many users... so their engineering team is on it. Phew! I really wouldn't want to lose several years worth of work!!!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 14, 2016 11:56:02 GMT -5
I'm well aware that rebooting a pc helps solve certain problems ones experiencing but my problems were occurring during the initial set up of a brand new laptop. I did reboot once or twice and later on and the problems remained. Then when tinkering with various setting controls, you don't know which one fixed the issue and a reboot was all that was necessary. I wasn't going to reboot with every adjustment I made. Still don't know what finally solved my sound and Wi-Fi issues but now that it's fixed, reboot should work going forward
I lost all my excel files with the hard drive crash. One file thankfully I emailed to myself a month ago. A bunch of the others, including the biggest mother of them all, I found had been saved in OneDrive several months ago. You can imagine how thrilled I was last night when I recaptured them. Gave them up as lost. Now just have to work on them to get them up to date
My pc has that Dropbox program. Once my files are updated, I'll store them there too. I'll also attach them to emails from time to time and send them to myself
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 14, 2016 12:15:35 GMT -5
Each time computers cause that much grief, I'm reminded of how they're supposed to make life easier... Ugh.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 14, 2016 12:46:01 GMT -5
Each time computers cause that much grief, I'm reminded of how they're supposed to make life easier... Ugh. I guess new pcs these days don't come with an installation disc anymore. It's all built in or on the internet. I'll have to get something to back up the programming, what's the term, a bootable disc? A simple blank CD sufficient?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 14, 2016 13:17:34 GMT -5
Each time computers cause that much grief, I'm reminded of how they're supposed to make life easier... Ugh. I guess new pcs these days don't come with an installation disc anymore. It's all built in or on the internet. I'll have to get something to back up the programming, what's the term, a bootable disc? A simple blank CD sufficient? I suppose it should, depending on the size of Windows nowadays, but I'd probably go for an external HD on which I'd also keep a back-up of my files. I work on a Mac and there's this program called Time Machine that backs up everything to an exterior drive every so often; I find it really practical not only to get a new computer going (it takes all of half an hour to set everything up) but also to recover files I inadvertently deleted (which happens more often than I'd care to admit)!
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 17:43:21 GMT -5
I got my Macbook pro back Monday and I was shocked that ALL my files were intact.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 19:32:42 GMT -5
I'm facing a major storm tomorrow and I may not be able to chime in the next few days ... Weather ReportGreater Seattle Weather Report for the weekend
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 14, 2016 19:34:04 GMT -5
I came home to a pleasant surprise. A "sketch" of Jonah Hex by Tim Truman. I got this as part of my support for the Red Range Kickstarter. I really was expecting something far more sketchy. Gorgeous piece I think.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 15, 2016 1:27:16 GMT -5
Each time computers cause that much grief, I'm reminded of how they're supposed to make life easier... Ugh. I guess new pcs these days don't come with an installation disc anymore. It's all built in or on the internet. I'll have to get something to back up the programming, what's the term, a bootable disc? A simple blank CD sufficient? If you mean a complete image of your Windows install with all software, you'd be hard pressed to even fit that on a DVD these days. There's probably a solution that lets you do it onto a USB drive though.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 15, 2016 1:28:11 GMT -5
I came home to a pleasant surprise. A "sketch" of Jonah Hex by Tim Truman. I got this as part of my support for the Red Range Kickstarter. I really was expecting something far more sketchy. Gorgeous piece I think. Sweet!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 15, 2016 2:00:29 GMT -5
I guess new pcs these days don't come with an installation disc anymore. It's all built in or on the internet. I'll have to get something to back up the programming, what's the term, a bootable disc? A simple blank CD sufficient? If you mean a complete image of your Windows install with all software, you'd be hard pressed to even fit that on a DVD these days. There's probably a solution that lets you do it onto a USB drive though. As RR mentioned, I guess the best way to go is using an external hard drive which commonly hold 1T or 2T worth of data. By my count, my pc is now holding about 60GB worth of info and that's with a bunch of programs I've already installed or downloaded independently. I'm just about finished adding the things I'm used to having. In fact, I need to review all the crapware the pc came loaded with and remove any i don't need
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 2:14:57 GMT -5
For fans of classic science fiction art, this site may become a total time suck...it's a facebook page linked to a tumblr account that spotlights 70s sci-fi art. 70s sci-fi art facebook70s sci-fi art tumblrit features everything from Kirby... to work from the likes of Norman Adams... to Ken Kelley Micronauts work... to Frank Kelly Freas... to the uncredited art for the 1976 edition of Philip K. Dick's Dr. Futurity... every day brings new artistic discoveries for me and then leads me to track down the books to see if it's something I want to read too, so I thought I'd give it a shout out for those who have a similar taste in sci-fi art and classic sci-fi that I see crop up in the book thread from time to time. -M
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Post by Confessor on Oct 15, 2016 6:15:26 GMT -5
I came home to a pleasant surprise. A "sketch" of Jonah Hex by Tim Truman. I got this as part of my support for the Red Range Kickstarter. I really was expecting something far more sketchy. Gorgeous piece I think. Wonderful piece of art, Slam. I'm a big, big fan of Truman's take on Hex in the three Vertigo mini-series, so colour me very jealous of this.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 15, 2016 11:26:00 GMT -5
I came home to a pleasant surprise. A "sketch" of Jonah Hex by Tim Truman. I got this as part of my support for the Red Range Kickstarter. I really was expecting something far more sketchy. Gorgeous piece I think. Wonderful piece of art, Slam. I'm a big, big fan of Truman's take on Hex in the three Vertigo mini-series, so colour me very jealous of this. I've been a huge Truman fan since he first started out at First on Grimjack, Scout and Airboy. When I saw there was a sketch incentive from him on the Red Range Kickstarter I had to go for it. I'm really glad that I did. It's a great piece of art and I really loved his work on Jonah Hex with Lansdale.
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Post by Farrar on Oct 15, 2016 13:47:00 GMT -5
I finally got an email from a flesh and blood Photobucket employee... It's a problem they know about, and it's affecting many users... so their engineering team is on it. There's a site called "Down Detector" that you can check to rule out if it's just you, or if it's widespread and others are encountering the same issues too. If you search something like "Photobucket problems" or "Roadrunner problems" or cite whatever site is misbehaving, it will pop up. downdetector.com/status/photobucket
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