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Dumb and dumber

Well for some reason I put my old desktop computer with the original files of the book I am working on in the BACK of the storage unit. Dumb.

Moving everything in the way was such fun. I still have bruises from trying to get to that darned thing. But I finally did.

Then the older Mac (Performa) wouldn't read the new CDs I bought to copy the files on...hmm? I put in an older CD that already had data on it I had copied before and it read it just fine.

I changed brands of CD, to the one I know it will read. Hope that helps. If not, I'll have to get someone to pull those files off my hard drive for me...dumber!

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posted by ALongLook on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 07:44 AM
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posted by ALongLook on Jul 8, 2008 at 01:08 PM

Thanks for the advice...I am sure I'll find a way, just feel "less than smart" for not taking them off originally when I more or less retired that computer. I appreciate it.

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posted by GoliadChica on Jul 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM

You could always hook up your computer to the internet and send your files to an email account and download to anywhere.

My file cabinet is maintained by Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail.

Good luck, Sonny.

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posted by ALongLook on Jul 7, 2008 at 08:21 AM

Thanks Brandon...I believe it does have USB ports, and I'll take you up on your offer.

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posted by bleonard on Jul 7, 2008 at 08:06 AM

Does it have a USB port Sonny? You could just put the files onto a thumbdrive and transfer them that way. There are some other more complicated ways, but if it has USB, use it my friend.

I even have a USB thumbdrive you could use if need to.

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