Comments on: Offline for a While…

By: Shelley Munro

Shelley Munro — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:23:39 +0000

Thanks so much for the good wishes and advice. I have a new laptop now and thankfully I only lost a few photos plus my emails. I’m pretty good about backing up and the new external hard drive should help, along with the flashdrives (or sticks as you guys call them).

Now all I need to do is learn to drive Windows Vista. I know some people hate it but I haven’t found it too bad so far.

By: Tempest Knight

Tempest Knight — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:09:09 +0000

Sorry to hear your computer got sick. Hope the computer doc can fix it.

By: Nancy Henderson

Nancy Henderson — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:48:15 +0000

Ugh! Bad news! I had a trojan virus on my other laptop, wiped out everything. I feel your pain.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:09:22 +0000

Oh boy, Shel, that sucks! I back my wips up on a flash drive. I back whatever I’m working on once a week.

By: Wylie Kinson

Wylie Kinson — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:28:25 +0000

UGH. ACK. GROAN. STOMP. GRRRR.

I feel your pain. Hope you get it sorted out soon.

By: Christina Phillips

Christina Phillips — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:41:38 +0000

OMG what a nightmare, Shelley. I hope your computer is soon fixed and you don’t lose anything. I email my ms to myself every day and have a stick but haven’t yet backed up the wip on it. Better do that today.

Your interview for Tea for Two is up on my blog today (Friday 17th)

By: Amy W.

Amy W. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:14:31 +0000

Ugh! You too? You already know mine went caput last week but ours ended up being the mother board failed. New one came in the mail today and hubby is busily installing it but he’s still getting some error code. Sigh. I have most of my stuff backed up except I hadn’t done my working files (The in-progress stuff in a month or so) so if we can’t get the computer back up I will have lost all of that. We use an EHD for our back ups but even those fail or can be infected. All the best.
-Amy W.

By: Gabriele

Gabriele — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:49:13 +0000

I have two computers to begin with, plus an external hard drive. All my writing and photo stuff is backed up double, as well as the bookmarks and website code.

For a quick save in between, I send the current NiP to myself per email.

I use Avira AntiVir Professonial since my laptop crashed because that fucking Norton didn’t find the sucker.

By: Marissa Alwin

Marissa Alwin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:29:54 +0000

omg How scary! Our main computer gave us one of those Crash warnings last week. My Husband backed everything up and put it on CD too. Esp. pictures. I keep my writing on CD or memory sticks too. I am clueless about security, we have McAfee. Good luck with everything

By: Amy Ruttan

Amy Ruttan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:16:40 +0000

Oh no Shelley that’s terrifying.

We have a backup drive and do regular backups.