Greetings Ed!   
      
    EV> My first Email experience was with Juno when it was Dial-Up.   
      
   Been there, done that. Hated every second of it.   
      
    EV> I connect to it via the internet now but I only check the In-Box and   
    EV> Junk-Box about twice a month JIC that old Address is still in   
    EV> someones Address Book and they send me a message.   
      
   Is Juno even around after all this time?   
      
    RW>> I prefer not having any email stored on my system. It is very   
    RW>> safe where it is.   
      
    EV>> I make backups so I know if this PC's HDD goes belly up I still have   
    EV>> my messages up to the point that I last made a backup.   
      
    RW>> LOL! The only way I'd lose any email is if Yahoo's servers went   
    RW>> belly up before they got around to backing up their servers.   
    RW>> Which they probably do every hour on the hour.   
      
    EV> I'm glad I gave you something to laugh about.   
      
   The only way to make a truely safe backup is to save it on a HD or USB   
   flash drive. A USB flash drive can lose files to if you don't use the   
   USB 'release' feature in windoz...   
      
    EV>> We're just different, and that's alright.   
      
    RW>> That makes the world go round.   
      
    EV> Blessed Are Those Who Run Around In Circles Because They Shall Be   
    EV> Know As WHEELS! - No Chapter or Verse.  I'm a BIG WHEEL!   
      
   Me too. My name if Ferris...   
      
    EV>>> I like keeping the messages I receive on my computer instead of   
    EV>>> loading up the Webmail Server.   
      
    EV> -snip-   
      
    RW>>> I just recently opened a DROPBOX account that allows me to keep   
    RW>>> everything I wish to have on their servers, leaving my HDs free   
    RW>>> of clutter.   
      
    EV>> I am sure DROPBOX will stay around for a long time.   
      
    RW>> Or it may go away at the drop of a hat. When I closed my   
    RW>> Facebook account, I didn't bother to retrieve any of the photos   
    RW>> or movies I had there, since they already reside on a thumb   
    RW>> drive and a 1 Tbyt remote HDD.   
      
    EV> A friend of mine told me She has a Grand-Daughter (GD) who took lots   
    EV> of photos of Her (GD's) Mother (our friends Daughter) on a cellphone   
    EV> from a Rental Company.   
    EV> One day the GD decided to  return it to the Company without anyone   
    EV> thinking about having someone take the photos off of it.   
    EV> The Girls Mom passed away and all the pictures are gone now.   
      
   Seen that before. Now the daughter is passed and those photos will   
   probably be lost to all of the Gkids.   
      
    EV> My friend sure wishes her GD had done as You have by keeping those   
    EV> photos on a thumbdrive.   
    EV> But most cellphone users are not Technical type folks as We Are Here.   
      
   Well, those photos will probably be replaced by new photos as time goes   
   by. I was looking for a couple of photos on my cell yesterday and they're   
   no longer there...   
      
    EV> All of the photos I take with my Digital Camera are Saved to this   
    EV> HDD. I keep multiple Full Back-Ups JIC I ever needed to Restore what   
    EV> is on this XP box, If the latest one would fail, I hope the Child   
    EV> Back-up works.   
      
   The photos I seem to have lost were of the fixture I made to 'push' my   
   verticle mill from the front of the garage to the back with my pickup. It   
   attached to the receiver hitch on the truck and it had wheels to keep it   
   from stopping the momentum as I pushed. That worked fine and I was   
   explaining it to a GM area manager, but couldn't produce the photos to   
   show him. Oh well, he was intrigued at the genious of it all.   
      
    EV> Recently, I got one of those 3TB External HDD and one thing I don't   
    EV> like about it is it saves the back-ups I put on it,   
    EV> in one B-I-G Chunk.   
      
   Yeah...   
      
    EV> My usual plan is to just Copy the sub-directory the new back-up is in   
    EV> to Another External HDD so I have a Duplicate.   
    EV> (As Tom says: "Belt And Suspenders")   
      
   So, you didn't make a sub-folder before you copied everything to the HDD.   
      
    EV> I will have to go back to making my BU's to the drive that I used B4   
    EV> getting the 3TB'er so I can Copy from it to the new drive.  :-(   
      
    EV> It'll take the same time to do a BU (and DUPE), but me seeing the   
    EV> whole BU in one piece really surprized me when I first saw it on that   
    EV> drive.   
      
   8^) That's what big drives are for.   
      
    EV> I didn't notice the new drive was NTFS, vs. FAT-32.   
      
   That's a good thing.   
      
    EV> I just looked at the box the drive came in and it doesn't say what   
    EV> Format was on it, it only says it can be used with Windows7 as is,   
    EV> and MacIntosh users will have to ReFormat it.   
      
   I began to use NTFS when I first started using W2k...it will do backups to   
   a safe place all on its own.   
      
    EV> My XP box has USB 2.0 ports, the 3TB drive is my first USB 3.0   
    EV> device. -snip-   
      
   Wish I had v2 ports, let alone v3. Still stuck on v1 USBs.   
      
    EV>> Around my area in the early 1980's (before I had a computer) I heard   
    EV>> that two people started up a Dial-Up BBS and after it got popular   
    EV>> they shut it down.   
      
    RW>> That sounds familiar. America On Line (AOL) comes to mind.   
      
    EV> Some of the people in my Email Address Book use AOL for Email.   
      
   My sister and BIL used to as well, but they've changed providers since.   
      
      
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