General Chat

...... and now I am using the new computer for the first time :-D

I've had a very bad back since Monday, and have been unable to even attempt to use this new toy.

Back's a lot better, so I'm chancing it!

I've got quite a few things to learn, what with all new everything, including a keyboard with smaller keys!!

and everything is all black, bit dull!


names ............. you should have heard our geek guy when he phoned me on Monday morning after he'd discovered that the old hard drive was downloading!

I think he was happier than I was! :-D

Nice to hear of good news amongst all the..........

Brilliant! :-D :-D

I have my new computer :-D

My geek guy managed to download ..........

ALL my family history files
ALL my photographs
about 115 of my emails
lots and lots of other files, both essential and should have been deleted years ago!!


But NOT my email address book ................ and the reason for that is that the information in the email address book is not stored on Microsoft ................. at least, that is what he said!

Now all I have to do is get used to Windows 10, and the fancy bells and whistles :-D ;-)

Barbra .................

"Sylvia know Rollo can be a bit over the top but your comments are really harsh he has helped people on here Barbara"

I really don't care that you think my comments were "really harsh".

The remarks were exactly what I was feeling when he twice posted YouTube links on how to find out if a computer was dead and then how to reclaim data from it myself when I had already declared that my computer geek had seen it and declared it dead, and had intimated that he would be able to save at least some of it.

It showed that Rollo, as so often, had not properly read my posts, just gone ahead and posted unwanted information.

If I had wanted information from posters, then I would have said that I needed help, and could anyone suggest what I might do.

Then I would have expected Rollo to post what he did.

The fact that I do not and will not use YouTube would then have meant that I would have thanked him but said sorry that I would not follow his suggestion.

As it is, I know what I can and cannot do on a computer, and get expert help from someone that will do what I cannot do or do not understand, and that I can talk to face to face.

Over the top is not a description I would personally use :-|

Sylvia know Rollo can be a bit over the top but your comments are really harsh he has helped people on here Barbara

You'll be in demand as a troll scarer Sylvia :-D
Made me laugh :-D :-D

Even better :-D

I know!!

Not one, but TWO postings deleted ;-) :-D :-D

Sylvia are you speaking to yourself again...no comment from Rollo :-D :-D

Rollo ..............

PLEASE stop giving me links and advice.

I do NOT EVER follow your links, and almost never follow links given by anyone else on this or any other site..

I have a computer geek I trust, unlike you who I do not know.

My computer is deader than a doornail, and I do not yet have a new desktop.

I have no intention of trying to load anything on this laptop.

I don't do anything that I can have done by someone else when they are an expert and I am not.

I have a lot of my genealogy on paper , some filed some not ............... but would take a lot of inputting!

Geek was pretty confident, but of course I don't know when now that the poor guy is sick.

*quickly looks at the many memory sticks in the drawer*

Phew, most of my genealogy stuff is on them.
No particular order - but is there.
I also email stuff to my sister.
She's not interested, but I know it will be retrievable!

Had a bit of an issue this morning, Lappie had rebooted overnight,
and Chrome wouldn't open...
eventually found it collapsed behind the clock, on the taskbar........

also had a note about flashplayer, support is finishing soon....

.......... and now our geek guy has pneumonia!

One day I am going to take the trouble to find out what the cloud is.

Oh dear Sylvia, I hope you can get your data back. It would be heartbreaking to lose all your genealogy stuff and anything else important to you.

Three or four years ago our computer wasn’t running well and needed some adjusting. OH was short of time so took it to a local expert. Everything seemed fine until after a week or two I wanted to use my Family Historian program. It was nowhere to be found. The “expert” had somehow deleted it entirely. I had a few moments of feeling sick before I realised I had all the data backed up but I thought I would have to pay out for a new Family Historian. However, after a good hunt through some old files I found my original registration number and was able to use that to download the program again for free.

That experience made me even more careful about backing up regularly.

Mine too crashed recently

Has loads of photos on it and most importantly my FTM 2007 program

Ancestry stopped syncing with it as they sold to mcvie


Was just going to print off a genealogy report for relation in Canada for my mums Half sister who was a bhc in 1909

Fortunately I had done some updates and was able to do a gedcom from ancestry back to my laptop which has newer version of ftm ,and then do some more updates

Been a long slog getting back to where i was

Have now sent two genealogy reports for both sides of aunts parents which have been received with wow we so wanted to know our English side of the family

Oh dear Sylvia, I do hope that you can or he can retrieve the important stuff.