Thread: Technology-Upgrading & Preserving

Our computer was 12 years old, Dell tower with keyboard, external speakers, monitor, printer, cables running everywhere. I knew it needed replacing so I headed to the Best Buy to get just a tower, the cheapest route & just attach the other old gadgets.

The week prior I had to replace the entire carpet, try living in a place for 17 years & moving everything out , just to carpet & move everything back in. Over half the contents of the place never made it back in. I gave away to neighbors, threw things away & recycled anything that looked recyclable. If you want to cure a hoarder,, make him move everything out & put it back in.

At the Best Buy I decided to downsize the technology too,,, I got a Lenova Yoga laptop (only $60.00 more than the tower alone) & a plug in DVD player from LG.($39.00) My old printer was Wi-Fi capable & was put in a back room out of the way & prints fine. Everything fits on a small coffee table.

My main reason was to preserve my training videos, sport videos, children DVD's. I did not want to lose my training videos to Father Time & I did not want to purchase children videos for my grand kids in the future.

There are hundreds of DVD/videos for me to backup & I have been transferring them to Passports(portable hard drives). This has worked out well. Family photos & videos were transferred already, starting over 25 years ago.

Seeing how much money I had put into children videos in 18 years was a real eye opener. Being able to keep them for the next generation has been worth the cost of the Lenovo.

Thanks for reading.

wow, longest I have been between upgrades is four years. Luckily transferring data will not give you a bad back. I have been terrible about backing up a lot of things or keeping up with the storage devices. I had all my college papers stored on one disk that got lost during a move. Every time I apply for a job that asks for a writing sample a feel an ache in the pit of my stomach. I should of had a back up of my back up. Luckily all photos that I really like are fine, but I do have a bunch that I need to store digitally.

When it comes to my photos & family documents, I go by the rule; 1 is none, 2 is one & 3 is a backup.
I stred with photos over 25 years ago,,, it got a lot easier when I discovered software on a Kodak printer that would recognize photos individually, laid out on a scanner.

That's why I print everything into photos & put them in albums!

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Good news John, treasures like that are always worth preserving.

Backing up regularly is a must a something I do. The wife was slack doing this and when her phone stuffed up lost lots of photos of our sond first year's. It was a painful lesson but something she won't do again. We backup to the computer and 2 passport drives. Really must get a master massive drive as a secondary backup.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

When it comes to my photos & family documents, I go by the rule; 1 is none, 2 is one & 3 is a backup.
I stred with photos over 25 years ago,,, it got a lot easier when I discovered software on a Kodak printer that would recognize photos individually, laid out on a scanner.

Which is why I have 3 internal HDs, one 64G USB3 stick and a TB external HD.