Keep it simple stupid, that's been my motto all my life. I'm not stupid but I'm not one of your smart, clever people either. Oh I know how to survive but as for having any special talents, especially technology wise, my brain isn't user friendly to today's technology. I work at it though with plenty of help.
This morning I returned my Seagate 8 TB hard drive to Staples for a full refund which they gave me. Thank you Staples.
When I got home I called my Apple computer guru friend Mike and asked his advice. He told me he uses a G-Technology portable hard drive which he purchased from the Apple store. This is what I should have done at first instead of rushing off to Staples yesterday and buying that Seagate hard drive. That's another problem I've had all my life, impulse buying without doing all my proper research. I've gotten better over the years but I am still susceptible to my first impulse, which is to run out and buy what I need only to find I have bought the wrong thing or duplicated what I've already bought. Oh the woe for not being one of the smartest people on this planet.
Delivery of my new G-Technology portable hard drive from the Apple store is scheduled for tomorrow. Now if I can grab that off my front porch before a porch pirate does.
4 comments:
Plug and play from apple, works so well.
Thats what I'm looking for David, simple operation to save my photos. I don't need anything complicated.
Hey Ron - after hearing about your trouble with hard drive back up I decided to try mine again. I purchased a Seagate over a year ago and it seemed to back up just fine. However, when I tried to do it again weeks later nothing seemed to happen. So I fetched it from my electronic components drawer and plugged it in and left it. Later I noticed there was a moving icon which seemed to indicate it was active. Also, it felt warm. Much later the eject symbol appeared. So now I am feeling confident I have done backup. Sometime from now I will have a notice on my screen saying that I haven't done backup for a number of days. So if the days on the notice equal the days from today when i think i've successfully executed backup then that will confirm it. Hoorah!
Pat
Pat,
I found the Seagate backup procedure confusing. I get my G-Technology Apple backup tomorrow I hope that isn't confusing. I want something clean and easy to understand.
Ron
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