Liam, Alan, Tyler, Rob and Silner (+anyone else that I may have forgotten),
Many thanks for all of your observations and suggestions. I have learned a couple of things. Firstly the pae kernel! (I should point out that I was aware of the limitations re memory and the 32 bit version. I had upgraded my memory since the 10.04 upgrade. I considered the 64bit option but had been put off by some of the adverse comments that I had read.) I can confirm that the PAE option is automatically used upon installation subject to it detecting in excess of 3Gb RAM. I would have replied sooner but things finally came to a head when Thunderbird started messing me about and I ended up losing all emails back to last January. I decided that a total reinstall was in order! Again I learned something! I had recently made a brief foray back to the UK (I live in Greece) and had taken my netbook for company! Before leaving, I had synched my email which meant that upon my return on 20th May I had a backup to that date. As I use GMail to access my additional accounts, I was able to use the 'recent' attribute to download the last 30 days email. (I didn't know about that until I went searching for ways to download archived Gmail!) I know it's no substitute for a daily backup but hey! I *know* that I am not perfect! The long and the short of it is that after a total reinstall, things are fine. I new I should not have gone with the upgrade option! I still can't bring myself to go 64 bit! Thanks everyone yet again. You are a credit to a great list! Bob Giles Corfu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
