Been doin computer stuff most of the day. The hard drive on my old computer has been flashin the blue screen of death more and more lately. Since it has some other issues, I decided to replace the box. I've had this one since shortly after I moved here.
So after a few days of tryin to familiarize myself with Windows 8, I decided it was time to start moving stuff to the new computer. I've been usin Carbonite to back up my data for the last couple/three years. I started restoring data around 1 PM Saturday. I let it go almost continuously till it finished this morning around 9AM. I'm not gonna tell ya how many GB of data I have, but there were a lot more than a couple to download. Mostly photos and eBay/Etsy records. Never know when ya need to find some 'paperwork' on a specific item . . . And I do a few times each year.
I've spent the rest of the day, tryin to figger out how to transfer my bookmarks and email adresses. Once I figgered out how to do the bookmarks, it took only a couple minutes. I have my addresses backed up but I haven't restored them on the new computer yet. Carbonite doesn't do bookmarks and email addresses. It doesn't transfer programs either. So I've been loading programs and trying to link up the data with the program. Sometimes it went easy and sometimes it hasn't. I have a few more hours of fiddlin around before I get things straightened out. This isn't something I would want to do very often. But then if I did do it more often, maybe it would go faster because I would be familiar with how to do it.
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