AS THE SHOW LOOMS, DISASTER STRIKES
Wouldn’t you know it! Sadly my computer went totally awol last night. Somehow [and I don’t know how] the machine got corrupted ! [all the extensions for all the programs [.exe files] were incredibly converted to .ink and I could not open or run anything! I have no idea what happened to cause that! Wouldn't you know it!] So I have spent the day recovering what I could.
Firstly I thought was that I have Acronis [a highly regarded backup program] which I had used to make a full backup of my C:\ drive, and this would save my bacon... sadly set of 8 rescue floppy discs froze on me!
O.K. Back to my old saviour....Norton Ghost. I had most of my [college] work on my second hard drive, which, thankfully, was not affected...
Strangely, although I could open the drives and move the files around, I couldn’t use any of the program, nor could I connect to the Internet. I did manage to burn some of my college work off the second drive onto a CD for the assessment on Thursday, Additionally, I did manage to salvage some crucial current information that I had stored as .doc files in ‘My Documents’ but... as for the rest ?????
I re-installed my Norton Ghost backup from last November onto the C drive and it has worked!!!! [whew..breathes a sign of relief].
But it has taken most of the day. [Fortunately, I didn't install many new programs since then, and so have managed to salvage most of the 'stuff' now.] So, onwards and upwards as they say.
My other problem is that the source stuff I used... is way larger than any CD/DVD... any ideas? Or do you want to see that too? I've done some screen grabs of the time lines from the video editing software and burned them onto the CD.... will that do?
I also have quite a lot of backup technical research which is in folders... I can bring that in as well....plus some CD's of my digital images...etc.etc.etc...
Re: Help for building the show… Yes, Steve [my friendly professional carpenter,] would be much happier coming in on Saturday [as he is in gainful employment and that’s not easy to come by these days…and I think he is quite keen to help [I've promised him a customized cashmere jumper....I am not without resources?] If this is not possible, he might be able to get a day off on Monday to help, but possibly not. However, in the interim, another friend has VOLUNTEERED [even] to come down from Birmingham to help as well. He can come on Monday and I've emailed him our Health and Safety form to fill out. He will be able to sign it, scan it in and email it back to me so I should be able to bring it along anon.
The one comforting thing that has happened just recently is that I will be able to make my own label for my work.
Firstly I thought was that I have Acronis [a highly regarded backup program] which I had used to make a full backup of my C:\ drive, and this would save my bacon... sadly set of 8 rescue floppy discs froze on me!
O.K. Back to my old saviour....Norton Ghost. I had most of my [college] work on my second hard drive, which, thankfully, was not affected...
Strangely, although I could open the drives and move the files around, I couldn’t use any of the program, nor could I connect to the Internet. I did manage to burn some of my college work off the second drive onto a CD for the assessment on Thursday, Additionally, I did manage to salvage some crucial current information that I had stored as .doc files in ‘My Documents’ but... as for the rest ?????
I re-installed my Norton Ghost backup from last November onto the C drive and it has worked!!!! [whew..breathes a sign of relief].
But it has taken most of the day. [Fortunately, I didn't install many new programs since then, and so have managed to salvage most of the 'stuff' now.] So, onwards and upwards as they say.
My other problem is that the source stuff I used... is way larger than any CD/DVD... any ideas? Or do you want to see that too? I've done some screen grabs of the time lines from the video editing software and burned them onto the CD.... will that do?
I also have quite a lot of backup technical research which is in folders... I can bring that in as well....plus some CD's of my digital images...etc.etc.etc...
Re: Help for building the show… Yes, Steve [my friendly professional carpenter,] would be much happier coming in on Saturday [as he is in gainful employment and that’s not easy to come by these days…and I think he is quite keen to help [I've promised him a customized cashmere jumper....I am not without resources?] If this is not possible, he might be able to get a day off on Monday to help, but possibly not. However, in the interim, another friend has VOLUNTEERED [even] to come down from Birmingham to help as well. He can come on Monday and I've emailed him our Health and Safety form to fill out. He will be able to sign it, scan it in and email it back to me so I should be able to bring it along anon.
The one comforting thing that has happened just recently is that I will be able to make my own label for my work.
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