Won't be able to be on here much this weekend. My laptop has stopped working again. Completely lifeless. Probably a power problem. Will give up this time and get a new one.
Have got surge protectors on most of my electrical devices - I have seen too many fried systems. Am still surprised at how much I can still do on my old system- it even automatically connected to my network, printer and the internet. Even connects to laptop and mobile. Of course I had to input new passwords but that's all. I've got latest data on caddy so really am stable for now while I decide what to do next. I like to keep my stuff on my own equipment - don't put anything on clouds. I like to have my data available when I am offline.
We've got a large storage card that we've put all our photos and other files on after realising that if the machine they were on died we'd have no copies! Although I've recently used Google Drive to put some big files up so that someone else could view them via a dedicated link - it was quite easy.
Have got surge protectors on most of my electrical devices - I have seen too many fried systems. Am still surprised at how much I can still do on my old system- it even automatically connected to my network, printer and the internet. Even connects to laptop and mobile. Of course I had to input new passwords but that's all. I've got latest data on caddy so really am stable for now while I decide what to do next. I like to keep my stuff on my own equipment - don't put anything on clouds. I like to have my data available when I am offline.