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:( Another one bites the dust

January 11th, 2013 at 12:42 am


For the past several years, my household hasn't exactly been on the cutting edge of technology of any sort I have a tracfone, as do my daughters. No cellular phone plans for us. We were using two refurbished computers that my stepdad bought from his school's computer lab a few years back. One of them died two months ago. It died with the only version of my 8th graders's science fair research paper on it. I retyped it onto the second computer (only marginally newer). It, too, died today. Thankfully I forwarded all the files as attachments to DH at work so he could fix some margin problems on the supplemental excel sheets. So, at least we have access to the second version.

I sadly lost my excel document that tracked all my spending. Frown

The good news is that for Christmas my mom and stepdad got us a family gift of a new computer. Smile

Now I can clear off the work station and make it nice and pretty and neat and clean and organized with only one computer and less wires. Smile

6 Responses to “:( Another one bites the dust”

  1. Maranatha Says:
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    I'm sorry you lost your spreadsheet but what a great gift your parents gave you and just in the nick of time!

  2. Amber Says:
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    Oh wow, I do understand when losing documents. I too have a really old laptop, that has to stay plugged in at all times. I however, use Google docs to save important documents, it's free. You may want to try it. I also have an external hard drive that I back everything up to.
    Just a thought for you.

  3. SecretarySaving Says:
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    I keep my 5 fav spreadsheets on a thumb drive on my key chain.
    That way I use it at work, home or when I'm at the library.

  4. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Sorry to hear about your computer - but great that you got a new one!

    If you don't want to convert you documents into Gdocs, dropbox is another good free (up to 5 Gig) resource for storing documents, pictures, etc.

  5. snafu Says:
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    Thanks for the reminder to back up my important docs. Sorry your 'puter went kaput before you'd transferred to the new machine.

  6. North Georgia Gal Says:
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    I live in constant fear of my computer crashing with my Quicken on it. This has never happened and i back up frequently. Sorry you lost your doc.

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