Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, I have no response for your old discs, I suppose it shall be, but I have something to recommend to you and the Community. I have subscribed an individual plan at Crash Plan for a UNLIMITED back up on iCloud, I pay about $50.00 at year, I have started on September uploading 1.7 TB and the work will be finish in 3 or 4 days now. For more information: <http://www.code42.com/crashplan/> I hope this help! Cheers Lluis El 20/11/2014, a las 19:14, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > HI CREW, > Yeah I know it's me asking a techie question! :-) Well you all know "I'm > clueless when it comes to techie things." > So please be kind to the "old lad." Thank you. :-) > > Remember those little, I think they were about 2"X 2"square discs we loaded > all kinds of images on? Then technologies advanced and we moved to CD's and > Memory Sticks" And heaven knows what? > > I have quite a number of those 2X2 discs, if that's what they're called? > > Can I take them to some computer techie shop and have the info on them > downloaded to memory sticks of today? I'm sure there's a wealth of "old > images" loaded on them and I'd like to retrieve them if possible? And not > going to cost the Bank of Canada monetary reserves to pay for the change > over? :-) > > At one time I did have a back-up hard drive, unfortunately the chap > installing it didn't do it right! YEP you guessed! So when we did have a > computer crash and burn I lost about 10,000 images because the back-up > drive > wasn't doing anything but taking up space in my little computer room!!! :-( > :-( > > Your suggestions please. > > Thanks a bunch. > > cheers, > ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information