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From: "Guy Weller" <>
Subject: Re: [Computers] Back up
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 07:16:38 +0100
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Bruce,
I presume that you are aware that m/soft puts all your address files,
e-mails etc in completely a different place to the Outlook program
itself?
All the user stuff defaults to a directory called Application Data.
Hope your backing up the right stuff!
(I learnt this the hard way!)
Guy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Cardner" <>
To: <>
Sent: 09 June 2001 01:29
Subject: Re: [Computers] Back up


> J. J.
> I just got cable modem installed today. I love it so far!! Knock
on wood.
> I am keeping my old address for a few weeks, and that is a little
annoying
> to handle. It is very fast, and I had good technicians come. I
paid the
> $49 to have a tech install the modem and do the setting up. It was
worth
> every penny. Otherwise it would have been free installation.
>
> Yes, he asked me if I had backed up. Nothing went wrong. However,
I have
> double back-ups of everything on Zip 100s. That is very much my
preferred
> way, though I know many like the CD way.
>
> The Zip is just like having another drive. This morning I just
dragged my
> whole Outlook Express to Zip. Just in case. That way I had a
chance to
> read my latest mail in case anything happened.
>
> I hope I don't have to eat my words, but this certainly makes
computing more
> fun! I just wish they had let me choose my own email address.
> Sydney Cardner (the Sydney is female)
> .
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:41 PM
> Subject: [Computers] Back up
>
>
> > What is the easiest way to back up my system? I am having a cable
modem
> > installed and they told me to make a back up and to run a scan
disk. I
> have
> > all my restore disk so I don't see any need to back up anything
other than
> > than my personal files, such as on line banking, Genealogy etc.
Any feed
> back
> > and/or Instructions would be appreciated
> > Regards J.J.
> >
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