Computer update – I managed to get in, get my files and get out like a fireman saving a baby from a burning house. I felt very brave. Where’s my Victoria Cross?
Thanks to ubuntu (which sounds like someone sneezing) I’ve saved my important files. I even then copied them onto three DVDs so I’ve got them saved twice. Paranoid? Moi?
I was about to format the hard drive, and install ubuntu as the operating system. I have no idea what the perks are but I thought ’screw it, why not? Computer can’t any worse’. Just as my finger hovered over the ‘install’ button I remembered something. Something I needed to save from the burning house before I tore it down.
My emails. Hundreds of the things. All stored away in Outlook Express. I can’t lose them! There is all sorts of important information stored there – passwords for various sites, friend’s email addresses, links. Damn.
But saving them may not be as easy. Can you just reach in and lift them out?
So now I am trying to figure out how to save them before I wipe the computer again. Man, this computer stuff is hard work. All I want it for is to download music, new episodes of Scrubs, write stuff and upload photos. Is that too much to ask?
Apparantly so.
