[Leica] Computer Problems

Sonny Carter sonc.hegr at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 15:07:39 PDT 2023


After we moved to our new house in 2020, a storm took out our electricity
for several days. It was dang hot, and I nearly ran out of power on my
wheelchair.  Fortunately we have gas stove so we could cook and get hot
water.  We then had a whole house genset installed.  I put backups on my
modems, computer, satellite, and tv set.

On several occasions it has proven to be a very wise move.  Power goes out
even while we’re watching a movie and it just keeps on playing.  No reboots
of the satellite, no restarts on the computer.  The air conditioner starts
right up and keeps on humming. Life is good.

Sonny.

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 4:41 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Yes, Tom is pricing whole house generators and balking.  We'll see!!  With
> no electricity, we have no water which is worse than no electricity!!
>
> My SSD internal hard drive is 1TB and I wish I had gotten a bigger one!
> All of my photos are stored on 3 Drobos with about 100 TB of storage.  I'm
> afraid every day they will fail but they are backed up.
>
> Tina
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 4:15 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry to hear that your battery back up failed.  With the tropical storm
> > coming in your general direction(out of Florida)you might consider a
> > generator in the meantime until your computer is restored.
> >
> > How big is your SSD?  I'm hitting 10TB on one catalog and considering
> what
> > to migrate to.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 3:01 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > LUG:
> > >
> > > I haven't been posting lately here or on FB because of computer
> problems.
> > > We had several power outages and my APC power back-up did not work as
> it
> > > should have.  I have no idea why.  I had to restore my entire computer
> > and
> > > start from scratch on loading everything.
> > >
> > > My Lightroom Catalog has been restoring itself for 4 days now and it is
> > 66%
> > > finished.  I did have over 1,000,000 photos in the one catalog so I
> guess
> > > that's to be expected.   I moved the catalog from an external hard
> drive
> > in
> > > my Drobo to my internal SSD drive, hoping it would be faster but it
> > didn't
> > > seem to help yet.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, I can't do anything else while waiting for the
> computer
> > to
> > > do its thing so we have just been enjoying the cooler weather and rain
> > > here.  It has been so hot and dry all summer, the rain is really a
> > relief.
> > >
> > > Until my computer is fixed...
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
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