Computer story

 Well, I had computer issues Sunday afternoon. But they will slowly become manageable, and I hopefully won't go back there again!

My brain wasn't able to deal with a frozen screen, where no mouse control was available, where I couldn't close a thing, where I couldn't even turn the darn thing off.  A few hours later I mentioned this to my son by phone and he said, did you try forced turn off? I guess I'd just pushed the button for a short time, which didn't work. But the 4-5 second push did it. I was glad, because the darn thing was sitting there saying it was trying to download more blog posts.

And so...I called my trusty computer guru who lives just a few blocks away (and charges by the hour of course.) Left a message on her voice mail, and she called back Mon...and I took the laptop over to her "lab."

We looked at how the poor thing only had so much memory, and was trying to load all this, and the Google app was in conflict with the MS app and the Apple app and even the dropbox app was also trying to show how it was the best for everything. What a mess they make, when I have to use all of them differently. She showed me how that doesn't matter, they still want to be in charge, each little spoiled brat.

Then she remembered she'd inserted something else when she'd set up the machine (2 -1/2 years ago) She gave me an extra drive besides the basic drive C which comes with the computer and holds all the programs and files. Data Drive D, come to find out, has like 900 gig memory. And it was completely empty. Somehow I hadn't been saving a thing to it. And C Drive was really overloaded.

So my task this afternoon, having read everyone's blogs already, is to start organizing my files over on Drive D...where they will work much more efficiently. 

Isn't this a nice story with a happy ending?

Today's quote:

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. -Lewis Mumford, writer and philosopher (1895-1990)