Hi, russ, again, I just discovered that my new computer comes up in my directory for my old one. So.... I guess I COULD just transfer EVERYTHING on my old computer onto my new computer.
But surely this is a sheep-dip moment, and I should transfer only data, emails, and other stuff in the backup. Save me from myself. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 2:33 PM To: friam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:20:31PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote: > Kindly FRIAMers, > > > > Do you have any advice to give, or a website to suggest, that will > help me decide how to set up the computer I just bought. I back up > the old computer to a hard drive every night, and I had always thought > to transfer the data to the new one by restoring the backup file to > the new computer. But I assume there is a LOT of crap in there I don’t > want. SOMEBODY must have thought about this issue and written something > avuncular for people like me. I always restore from backup, or from the original drive if it is still working. Getting rid of crap is a different task, requiring dedication and thought about what you do or don't need. I usually do that either when slightly bored, or when my disk is full and I'm desparate for space. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
