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Oct 13, 2018 21:27:51   #
boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander
 
MyComputer is dying. the only way I can log on is with great difficulty. Fortunately all my pics are backed up, by Carbonite and all my other site or apps can be recovered. So beware, there are gremlins. Back up

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Oct 13, 2018 21:33:27   #
Marionsho Loc: Kansas
 
boberic wrote:
MyComputer is dying. the only way I can log on is with great difficulty. Fortunately all my pics are backed up, by Carbonite and all my other site or apps can be recovered. So beware, there are gremlins. Back up


I'll take a note.

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Oct 14, 2018 03:46:39   #
rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA
 
Make sure to back up not only pictures, but anything else on the computer hard drive you'd want to keep and have available on your next computer. Documents, software installation files, browser bookmarks, passwords, etc. The sooner, the better.

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Oct 14, 2018 06:28:09   #
Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.
 
Kk f mine are backed, n disc, and I have th original negs and slides.

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Oct 14, 2018 08:24:32   #
Treepusher Loc: Kingston, Massachusetts
 
Just dealt with a crash here, too. Everything was backed up, but having to reinstall all the software was a pain. Backed up or not, many programs have their own encryption keys that have to be re-entered or they won't work, so be sure to store those, too!

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Oct 14, 2018 08:41:02   #
sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD
 
Carbonite did a good job for me when my computer was ransomed. Had to start all over with a wiped clean computer. (Even restored my 20,000 or so email messages) along with about 20,000 raw photos. Took a while but all came back in the proper order etc and was all was normal again. The virus attack was on a new computer with McAfee virus protection. Changed to Norton as I was using previously and all is well now

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Oct 14, 2018 09:29:17   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Gremlins - definitely and almost daily.

I make sure I have backups of all important data, but also a spare desktop computer or two. If my main computer has a problem, I can pull the D drive and put it into my standby and continue as normal.

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Oct 14, 2018 09:30:35   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Treepusher wrote:
Just dealt with a crash here, too. Everything was backed up, but having to reinstall all the software was a pain. Backed up or not, many programs have their own encryption keys that have to be re-entered or they won't work, so be sure to store those, too!

Yea, unfortunately you cannot "copy" the software, it has to be installed. I really hate changing computers. Can't do an image restore on a new box since the guts will be different.
I finally made a list of all software packages that I have on each computer to make it easier for me.

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Oct 14, 2018 09:34:54   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
Backing up your download folder can be a huge help in rebuilding as it will typically have the majority of your application installation files.

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Oct 14, 2018 09:35:02   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Speak of the devil. My computer just rebooted itself. : )

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Oct 14, 2018 09:40:49   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Speak of the devil. My computer just rebooted itself. : )


Ghosts in the machine again. You can expect this to get worse as we approach Halloween 👻.

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Oct 14, 2018 09:46:36   #
Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas
 
I use Lightroom for all my photos. When my computer gets full I move them wirelessly to a double WD drive that copies and then makes an instant back up on a second hard drive. I can find, locate and import all pictures from my Lightroom program.

As for my "computer hard drive," on or about the 15th of each month I make a bootable backup using a small external portable USB drive that is larger than the computer internal drive using a program called "SuperDuper". It works perfectly all the time on my 2013 Mac. I once had to replace my internal hard drive and this is what I use to restore it. A while back I got a second computer and used this same setup to get all my programs installed onto this second computer. Just last week I installed the latest Mac OS. It ran so slow that I had to reverted back to the old operating system again using this software. Simple program to use.

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Oct 14, 2018 10:45:46   #
GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan
 
boberic wrote:
MyComputer is dying. the only way I can log on is with great difficulty. Fortunately all my pics are backed up, by Carbonite and all my other site or apps can be recovered. So beware, there are gremlins. Back up


So far I've only had a mechanical "Gremlin" once, (thank you lightening strike). My big reason to always back-up things is because every so-often as in the past and might in the future, I have a senior moment!

Don't think because you're not an 'ol fart like me, that it won't happen to the younger at heart either. LoL

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Oct 14, 2018 11:19:55   #
lsimpkins Loc: SE Pennsylvania
 
Longshadow wrote:
Yea, unfortunately you cannot "copy" the software, it has to be installed. I really hate changing computers. Can't do an image restore on a new box since the guts will be different.
I finally made a list of all software packages that I have on each computer to make it easier for me.

But you can clone an old hard drive onto a new one with larger capacity (or to an SSD) if the old drive is still operational. I did this to get Windows and all my application software onto a SSD and now use the previous boot HD just for data. Having that list of all programs you have installed is a great idea - I keep a spreadsheet that lists the install file name and any updates I've performed. Backing up your Downloads, as TriX mentioned, is also a great idea.

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Oct 14, 2018 12:24:21   #
FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA
 
sodapop wrote:
Carbonite did a good job for me when my computer was ransomed. Had to start all over with a wiped clean computer. (Even restored my 20,000 or so email messages) along with about 20,000 raw photos. Took a while but all came back in the proper order etc and was all was normal again. The virus attack was on a new computer with McAfee virus protection. Changed to Norton as I was using previously and all is well now

sodapop, when you say it took a while, are you talking several hours - for example 10 hours or more? Is it possible to backup the entire computer (take image) onto an external hard drive then restore the backup image of entire computer to a new clean computer with nothing on it except the operating system? ~FiddleMaker

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