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From: "dti" <>
Subject: Re: GOT WIPED OUT--NEED ADDRESSES
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 06:11:16 GMT
References: <3B6C8622.9060800@erols.com>


So sorry to hear about that! I don't mean to add insult to injury, but
thought this a good opportunity to remind everyone to backup your files on
floppies, zip disks, etc. Every time I add anything to my genealogy files,
I make a copy of it on a floppy. Also, if you were using Norton, didn't the
program periodically tell you to update your recovery disks? Basically,
recovery disks put everything that's on your computer onto one zip disk and
a floppy. If you lose your files, you pop in the disk and can run windows
from it. If you don't have a zip drive, you can get an external one and
hook it up to your computer. But whatever the method, it is important to
back up everything! Good thing you had most of your stuff printed out.

If there were any family members or other folks to whom you send gedcoms,
perhaps they can send you back copies and help you reconstruct it all. Best
of luck to you....
--
Diane I.
Life is good.
My email account is at nyc.rr.com addressed to dti


"Nevilla E. Ottley" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Dear Listers and Friends:
>
> It has been a long time since I wrote to any of you because around July
> 20th, one of my nephews here sent my son and me a message, and on
> opening the internet, my computer was shut down by an awful virus,
> possibly the "worm", we don't know. Anyhow, it was not one that my
> Norton Virous Protection recognized quickly enough to shut down the
> computer BEFORE the damage was done.
>
> I have lost 9.2 GB of materials, including the family trees ( and I had
> over 1,000 names in about 8 trees), the photos, and the mailing lists
> for the families, Ottley, Taitt, Hunt, Grosvenor, Adjahoe, Tay, Graham,
> etc. for the Ottley Music School (present faculty, staff, students,
> board, and the Alumni list, etc. all the musician friends and colleagues
> all over the world, etc. my research colleagues in both the subjects of
> Black composers, and genealogy, etc. my friends, my symphony orchestra
> roster, my singers roster, etc. friends, ETC. Even though the
> corrupted computer drive still showed that there had been 9.2 GB of
> info, there was none on the drive. So I have to start over again. I am
> glad that I do have a lot of info printed out including the Ottley,
> Taitt, Adjahoe and Grosvenor family trees, but it will still take ages
> to assemble what I had done over the past 20 months on this computer.
>
> As I see messages from some of you who have become friends over the past
> years, I copy the e-mail address, but there are many who may be on
> vacation, or for whatever reason are not posting regularly. Could you
> please write me off the list (so as not to clutter it up the messages),
> with your addresses again. I am thinking of folk like Cod, Murcot,
> Cindy, Mary McKinley, Heather Nielsen, Jim Cropper, {Jim Lynch, I got
> yours in the message about the Zone Alarm--thank you), and many others
> that I have longtime or newly made your acquaintances, and cannot
> remember your name (please don't hold it against me), send me a short
> message with your address. I can still be reached at
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nevilla E. Ottley-Adjahoe
>


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