Sunday 26 February 2017

Looking forward to going back


After a year of careful planning, I am just about to plug in the Seagate external hard drive and see if I can unlock the 2500 photos which I hope it still contains. I need to remind myself that I did indeed have a life before 2016.

I have consulted a few experts - well one, actually - and he assures me that the hard drive will just behave exactly like the old operating system and not frantically begin to take on the fresh memories of the new one then forget all about its previous existence like a replicant from Blade Runner. In the back of my mind, there is a niggling memory that this man managed to completely wipe the hard-drive of quite a large company - by accident.

I am not taking any chances though, and will disconnect both from the internet as I open it up. You know what sneaky so-and-sos the geeks in Google are like and how they just love sucking up every snippet of information they can about everyone and selling them to the Mormons in Salt Lake City.

I was surprised recently by surprising a couple of people here who could not believe I use an old Garmin satnav.  They have known for years that I drive around in an old Volvo - which has an electronic engine management system fitted as standard - so they must have known that my attitude toward technology is not so Amish that my transport is one horsepower provided by the output of one horse.

They were only made aware of my embracing this old technology when I recounted how it ordered me to become airborne by taking a sharp left on a 60 foot-high flyover, but I am sure I have mentioned it before. They must have drifted off during my last description of an eighteenth century candlestick, and that must be about a year ago.

This is not the first time I have said goodbye incase I destroy my fake identity forever. The last time was when I overlayed the new operating system onto the old one, having carefully backed everything up on the Seagate which I am plucking up courage to plug in right now.

When I come back, I may appear a year younger - if I appear at all. The system on the Seagate hard drive is called 'Time Machine'...

10 comments:

  1. It's no good. Mac just will not let me into my old iPhoto library. Anyone got any suggestions as to how to get in again?

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  2. I'll be waiting as I'd love to hear how it's done. I am a zero in the tech department.

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    1. Well I finally did it with the help of an online techie, but it is too much to ask for me to go through it now (just finished after hours) so if you really want to know I will tell you later. I am very tired!

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    2. I have had some very good advice from a mac forum so if you are having similar problems I can pass it on. Free altruistic downloads and all.

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  3. When it comes to anything MAC related I just kind of want to stomp on it.

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    1. It's too expensive to stomp on. I like stomping on Windows PCs, mainly because they are so user unfriendly if you weren't born with them.

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  4. I've just looked at my external hard drive, and see that it too is Seagate. I'm told I need it, but gawd know what for!

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    1. Well, as I am sure you have guessed, it is a back up. You put things in it for safe storage in case your computer loses its memory. How you get them back out again I haven't yet found out, but its nice to know that they are - probably - still in there.

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