Herself has got a new Mac, similar to mine but thinner. While she was still looking at the bumf and hesitating to do anything with it, our granddaughter Mib, just 13, bossily took charge, plugged it in and belted through all the commissioning palaver far more quickly than I could have done.
Soon she got bored and started taking selfies of herself and me looking over her shoulder. 'It's got features, things you can do with the image', she said out of the corner of her mouth. To show what she meant she started distorting her own image, elongating her face, giving herself huge sinister goo-goo eyes, extraordinary stuff, all done at high speed.
In reality she's a very pretty child, always has been. Beautiful, I'd say, if it didn't seem so vainglorious. I suppose if she was plain she'd be less willing to make herself look ugly and weird.
Remains to be seen how soon Herself will dare operate the thing. Macs are quite user-friendly though.
This all came about because Herself's PC laptop has started turning itself off at random being long in the tooth. Data transfer looks like being a problem.
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>>Data transfer looks like being a problem
Copy PC to Dropbox to MAC.
Your Granddaughter will know what I mean.
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Get them on your network and connect from the Mac to the PC and copy the files. You have someone technical there who should be able to sort this out :-)
There's no need to copy everything up to Dropbox on the Internet and then down again.
Depending on how much data, a USB flash drive might be sufficient if it's big enough.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Thu 23 Jul 15 at 20:44
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The beauty of Dropbox in this scenario is that it gives an enforced backup which can be retained. Bet this data hasn't been backed up in a while...
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True but using this method assumes the Internet connection is probably unlimited (upload and then re-download), it's fast. How is copying everything to a local USB stick not going to be easier if he has one large enough? Or just copy from PC to Mac directly.
I agree there is likely to be a lack of recent back. I get a new work laptop workstation soon (quad core i7)* and now working out what I might have forgotten to backup. I might take an image of the old machine just in case. But then I'd have an unencrypted image depending on how I do it.
* Still cheaper than most MacBooks!
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I could be here until Christmas uploading my data to dropbox and getting it back down. Use a usb hdd.
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Nippers eh? - No FM2R
