Technology...
What a week it has been, my friends. The hard drive on my computer crashed Wednesday afternoon. If you have never experienced this, you are lucky. If you have, then you can feel my pain.
I have QuickBooks - that's how my business bookkeeping has been recorded for over seven years. You should know that I always backup QB. For some reason, files were not backing up to the location I had intended. The files were saving to the drive that crashed.
Technology is like a double-edged sword. There's the good side and there is the dark side. We become more and more dependent on our computers, our phones, our tablets. We rely on them as much as we do our automobiles. I've had my car for ten years and it has not given me nearly the trouble my two- year-old computer did this week.
I got a new phone in October after being persuaded by my techno gurus - my husband and son. They assured me my new "droid" would be amazing. I got a really good deal on it. It's 4G and has lots of great "stuff" on it - all for $99.
When I got it home, I learned my computer operating system (Windows XP) didn't recognize it. Now I would need to buy Windows 7 so I could get the computer and the phone to "talk" to each other in order to download pictures and data onto the phone. I don't remember exactly how much I paid for Windows 7 - it was the going rate, though.
My fearless team backed everything up on my computer after Christmas and loaded Windows 7. All was well until we tried to reload my QuickBooks 2005 program. Windows 7 didn't like the old version and wouldn't "talk" to it. Even though QB 2005 was more program than I had ever needed, now, I would have to buy QB 2012 for $148 so Windows 7 recognize it.
My phone was getting more and more expensive. Of course all the extra features and internet capability required higher charges from Verizon each month. I was becoming rather skeptical about all of this. I began to lament the loss of my old, simpler phone. I said to myself that I should take my own advice to my clients. Opt for simpler, larger, easier...
I wasn't using half the phone's features and had already cancelled a couple services like the extra $5 a month for texting. I can call someone and say what I want to by the time I try to touch these tiny little letters on the keypad of the phone all without typos.
After this week, I am finally grateful for my expensive phone. I told my son and my husband I see the silver lining in this experience.
Had I not bought the phone, had I not had to backup and save everything before we loaded Windows 7 onto the computer, I would have lost so much more than two weeks worth of data. I have spent the last three days reloading and recreating. I'm not finished yet, and I will be backing everything up in triplicate now, but it could have been so much worse.
I have QuickBooks - that's how my business bookkeeping has been recorded for over seven years. You should know that I always backup QB. For some reason, files were not backing up to the location I had intended. The files were saving to the drive that crashed.
Technology is like a double-edged sword. There's the good side and there is the dark side. We become more and more dependent on our computers, our phones, our tablets. We rely on them as much as we do our automobiles. I've had my car for ten years and it has not given me nearly the trouble my two- year-old computer did this week.
I got a new phone in October after being persuaded by my techno gurus - my husband and son. They assured me my new "droid" would be amazing. I got a really good deal on it. It's 4G and has lots of great "stuff" on it - all for $99.
When I got it home, I learned my computer operating system (Windows XP) didn't recognize it. Now I would need to buy Windows 7 so I could get the computer and the phone to "talk" to each other in order to download pictures and data onto the phone. I don't remember exactly how much I paid for Windows 7 - it was the going rate, though.
My fearless team backed everything up on my computer after Christmas and loaded Windows 7. All was well until we tried to reload my QuickBooks 2005 program. Windows 7 didn't like the old version and wouldn't "talk" to it. Even though QB 2005 was more program than I had ever needed, now, I would have to buy QB 2012 for $148 so Windows 7 recognize it.
My phone was getting more and more expensive. Of course all the extra features and internet capability required higher charges from Verizon each month. I was becoming rather skeptical about all of this. I began to lament the loss of my old, simpler phone. I said to myself that I should take my own advice to my clients. Opt for simpler, larger, easier...
I wasn't using half the phone's features and had already cancelled a couple services like the extra $5 a month for texting. I can call someone and say what I want to by the time I try to touch these tiny little letters on the keypad of the phone all without typos.
After this week, I am finally grateful for my expensive phone. I told my son and my husband I see the silver lining in this experience.
Had I not bought the phone, had I not had to backup and save everything before we loaded Windows 7 onto the computer, I would have lost so much more than two weeks worth of data. I have spent the last three days reloading and recreating. I'm not finished yet, and I will be backing everything up in triplicate now, but it could have been so much worse.
Posted by There For You Too at 01-22-2012 
Categories: Technology
Tags: technology boomers and technology
Categories: Technology
Tags: technology boomers and technology
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