One woman’s story and practical advice on how to backup your computer and avoid the anguish
Again? They’d just watched it yesterday and the day before and the day before that, going all the way back to the beginning of lockdown when we regretfully started allowing the kids to watch videos on my home computer.
Since then, bedtime stories had lost their charm, and instead, all they wanted to do was rewatch the same few videos again and again.
I took out my external hard drive (EHD) and plugged it into my laptop. A few months ago, my computer had died. The guy at the computer store had advised me to buy a laptop with very little memory (something with an SD card, he explained.)
I was very into decluttering at the time, and the idea of having a computer with a clear desktop and only minimal, used-daily information appealed to me. All the heavy data would be saved in folders on an external hard drive, to be accessed when necessary. Lately, almost every night.
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