Thank You to the Library staff

very big thank you to the Library Staff who helped me get back on. Microsoft is doing a huge security purge of hotmail/outlook and the e-mail account I've had for decades, with backups of my work, was deleted. All my contacts, interesting posts people sent me, everything is gone. So I've been spending the weekend trying to get back on my various sites with varying success. Getting back on here, though, was essential; so again, thank you.

A warning to all of us. If big tech decides it doesn't want to (or is told that it shouldn't) have anything to do with TTWD, you/we will not be able to do anything about it and anything you store in their system or in "the cloud" will be at risk of deletion.

Buy an external hard-drive (should be less than $100) and store all that stuff on it. If you are a lap-top user, it will merely look like another file/folder--when the drive is connected to the lap-top.

I'm not clever enough to store mails and messages there, but I believe it is possible.

What is at risk is anything stored on their servers.

Geoffrey Stirling.

Geoffrey
I actually tried this. Bought an external storage device from staples. Told the clerk it was to transport. Was not told, extremely fragile. After accidently moving everything, instead of copying, to the device; the spring broke. Thought I lost everything, then discovered my work was in my hotmail account under sent from the times I shared my work but before I could retrieve it; mircosoft deleted my hotmail account.

Kerr,

How incredibly frustrating--tech and those who allow us to use it are generally a pain.

I've had several external hard drives, only replacing them when storage space became a problem--its my library of vids that takes up all the space.

None of them have broken, despite being dropped on several occasions. I use "Passport" devices from Western Digital Technologies. They have enormous capacity and access can be password controlled. If not connected the computer does not flag that there is something missing, unless you try to access any content from the laptop, rather than from the drive, when it tells you that you don't have access.

In my previous posts I said that I thought they could be used to store emails etc (browsing history, bookmarks and so on). To do that I think it is necessary to put a browser on the device, so that it becomes your #2 computer. I have never tried to do that. It may not be possible. Februs would know.

Geoffrey.

Geoffrey
Thanks for the tip. When I have the $ I'll look into passport devices. First thing though I want is something to store all my CDs on.

Unless I am more ignorant than I thought--the Passport is not discriminatory, it stores music files too.

Geoffrey.

Nice! I'll look into it.