Technology is terrific, when
it works. I keep my genealogy, my generations of family photographs, my family
book-in-progress and many other things on my laptop. I’ve had a Lenovo ThinkPad
for about five years. Over those years I had a couple broken keys and my laptop was
not very fast any more. I decided to treat myself to a new Lenovo. I
passed the old one on to my daughter.
Unfortunately, before I could
begin to enjoy my new laptop, the hard drive failed. It has been returned to
Lenovo, quickly repaired and is on its way back to me.
Meanwhile I am learning how
much my life has been centered around that machine. All my information is on an
external hard drive but I can’t easily access it. I have the ancestry app on my
iPad but the app does not give me a link to all my Family Tree Maker 2012
details. I cannot read my ‘Notes’ for individuals. I keep lots of details &
sources there.
I have new information from my
trip to Ireland that I cannot yet add to my records. New posts for my blog are
also on hold for now.
My Tech Tuesday is, sadly, a No
Tech Tuesday.
How frustrating to have the information ready to enter and not have the means.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Hard drive failure = no fun!
ReplyDeleteNew laptop is working at last!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, my 3yr old Acer has the same issue. I am waiting for it to be returned to me this week after getting the hard drive replaced. Yes external hard drives are good, but not fun to try and work from.
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