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I saw that site when I was researching this the other day.  I do understand the major differences between the two types of service.  My question has to do with the synching.  At some point an email in my Yahoo inbox will be deleted from the Yahoo server.  Will this email disappear from my OST file when it synchs or will it remain?  If I am using IMAP, how do I preserve critical emails?

I figured out the problem late last night.  Outlook automatically set up the Yahoo account for IMAP and created an OST file which is not compatible with PST.  Since this is a third party email provider and I don’t worry about synching to multiple devices, I guess I can set up a POP account which should use the old POP file.

I’m wondering what other uses do in this case.  Have most people migrated to IMAP???

While almost all cell phone manufacturers no longer make it ‘easy’ for uses to replace batteries, it can be done.  There are lots of YouTube tutorials to DIY.  There are lots of small businesses that specialize in fixing electronics these days.  Asurion has over 200 ubreakifix stores nation wide:  Repair Locations Nationwide | uBreakIFix by Asurion   We have one four blocks from our condo (I’ve not had occasion to use it).  I plan on keeping my Google Pixel 6 as long as it continues to get updates.

What does gall me is the planned obsolescence by manufacturers.  I have perfectly good Samsung Tab 7 Android tablet that I use for Kindle reading and other web-based browsing.  It is the perfect size for me but no longer receives updates from Samsung.  They no long manufacture 8 inch tablets nor do many other manufacturers though Lenovo is coming out with one.  Since I’m not part of the Apple community and iPad mini is not what I necessarily need.

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dataman1701

Thanks for the information.  I don’t think I’ve been nagged about it being off but I’ll go into the BIOS  and double check the setting.

Thanks for this post.  I have a TP-Link AX5400 WiFi Router which was rated as the top router when I bought it about 3 years ago.  I logged into it this morning and lo and behold there was a firmware update waiting!!!  Update went smoothly.

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TechTango

So let’s ban TP-Link routers and encourage a US company to manufacture them.  Do we really think this will happen??  BTW, I have a top end TP-Link WiFi router and the two desktop PCs have TP-Link antenna/receivers.

Disclosure:  I’ve been an Intel shareholder for 22 years but might not be for much longer.

this is indeed a troubling time for Intel and we’ll see if they can recover.  AMD has also had issues with their latest CPU offereings and TSM has acknowledged problems in building semiconductor Fab factories in the US (primarily workforce issues but maybe others as well).  I upgrade my workstation every five years and am currently running a ninth gen i-7 CPU.  I don’t need to run an i-9 as I don’t game or do intensive graphics, just office apps and Adobe Lightroom primarily.  This has all the power I need.

Regarding the current issues, readers might wish to review what Puget Systems has said about this matter:  Puget Systems’ Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues | Puget Systems  They build systems for a variety of solutions and their data does not seem to show the same failure levels as others.

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WSrlhess, opti1, DLivesInTexas

I live on the 9th floor of a 10 story condo and it’s very doubtful that anyone can gain access to my or my wife’s workstations.  Neither one of us really has any sensitive files at all and we each  have a robust password manager.  I cannot see the need for Bitlocker on either one of our machines (there is a third PC that is only used for streaming to our flatscreen TV and all that has is the OS drive and a second drive with saved movies on it.  We also have multiple back up solutions in case something happens.

I don’t think Microsoft should be playing the role of nanny with respect to consumers or businesses.  Probably 90% of Windows users have no clue what Bitlocker is or the importance of saving the key in the event of a drive failure.  My feeling is that if this is going to be an direct feature, it should be opt in and not opt out.  Keep it simple Microsoft.

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opti1, rc primak

I finally found a solution.  I had to change the view to “compact” and then the Reading Frame to “right”   Doesn’t solve the mystery about why something happened unless there was an Office update that thought I should have a different view!!

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Cybertooth

This morning was the first time this month that we could open all the windows and air out the apartment here in Bethesda, MD.  Temps at 7 AM was 70F!!!  Otherwise, it’s been pretty awful with just hot and humid air.  We are also in a bit of a mini-draught.

Zig wrote:

Hammer,

?Are you sure your upload speed is limited to 25 GB/min?  I just measured mine (pretty fast downloads) at 0.31 GB/min.

Zig

My rather flagrant error.  Advertised upload speed is 25 MB/sec and not GB!!!!  Our FIOS system at the old house was 300 MB/sec up and 300 MB/sec down.

Just to bring this thread to a close, I downloaded SyncBackPro for evaluation (see the link in my previous post).  It does everything that I need it to and configuring it to back up to Amazon S3 was incredibly easy.  They gave me a 25% discount for migrating from another backup software solution which was nice.  The software can be used as a ‘perpetual license’ where you will get minor revisions free of charge.  However, if you want to get the major new versions, there is a subscription fee of $14/year which is pretty cheap.

The full back up to a local hard drive went very fast.  Right now it’s backing up to Amazon S3 which is slow because of our cable provider limiting upload speeds to 25 GB/min.  I wish our building was set up for FIOS optical!!

Drcard:)) wrote:

I have used numerous backup software in the past and performed published reviews of some of them I tested, but that was years ago. Nearly all of these backup apps utilizes the built in Windows Shadow Copy service to actually perform the backing up. Over time you face what you are facing now, it will cost you money and time to replace this backup app.

Thanks, I’ve downloaded the PDF you referenced and it’s all pretty straight forward.  The third party solutions basically use the Windows service but they provide a nice interface that is more user friendly than the command line.  I don’t mind the command line and have some programs that still use it to run.  The only issue that I see, is this does not provide a cloud storage solution.

One of my good friends uses this software:  https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbpro.html

It’s not a subscription model unless there is a major revision that you need to have and it also provides cloud back up to Amazon which is necessary for me.

Paul T wrote:

If you really want to keep an additional copy in the cloud I would limit it to important data to keep the size down and then perform image backups to a local disk.

That is what I do.  Amazon Web Services is for all the Lightroom files as well as work files that I need.  Once it’s uploaded, it is done and I can use the S3 browser at any time to look at what is up there if needed.  When I installed a Samsung NVME drive several months ago, I saved the SSD that had the OS on it and cloned it over using the Samsung software.  Each month I do a fresh image of the OS drive to the old SSD drive as well as doing a recovery mirror to a separate HDD.  I know Macrium can do that, I just need to investigate how it does back ups.

I will probably roll back to this plan when it next comes up for renewal.  I find myself hardly using Photoshop at all these days.  All of what I do can be adequately handled by Lightroom.  You are correct that there really is not a substitute for Lightroom.  I also don’t use Adobe for cloud storage.  The most cost effective approach for me is Amazon Web Services which interfaces with NovaBackup.  I think I pay $4/month for storage which includes all the work files that I have in addition to photos.