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| Brenda: Okay. I will take a closer look at the "Desktop" folder when I get in today. Stuff to do. Always stuff to do. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 23:36 |
| Brenda: It's possible. Like I might have said I know the original guy, who this other friend spoke to him and he got me the computer. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 23:35 |
| Brenda: Yes, I can get the "Documents" to come up under "Desktop". But the last time I tried that I still got Google docs. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 23:34 |
| Brenda: Okay when the start box comes up and if I were going to turn this off. I put my cursor over the on icon and another menu comes down. It starts with me, pictures, documents, setting and power. That is where I can go into and get my version of my book that I did on Word. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 23:31 |
| second: Brenda, "Everything" is a program that locates files and folders by name instantly. I use "Everything" constantly. [go to link]/ - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 19:18 |
| 6ixStringJack: These are all "for instances". That book could in theory be in one of 50,000 places on your computer, but the likelihood of most of those places is basically NIL. I would think the two most likely places that your actual book document is located is either directly on your "Desktop", or in your "Documents" folder. The third place I would think it could be located would be your "Downloads" folder, but I don't believe that you've been working off of your book from there, since it sounds like you've never made edits off of any version of the book that somebody else made edits to. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:48 |
| 6ixStringJack: Or, perhaps, you're just double-clicking on the book directly from your "Desktop"? If that's the case, you aren't even using your Documents folder at all and you are saving the book directly to the "Desktop". - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:45 |
| 6ixStringJack: If that is the case, somebody made a shortcut on the "Desktop" for you that leads directly to your "Documents" folder. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:45 |
| 6ixStringJack: Is there a folder icon on your "Desktop" that says "Documents" that you double click on to open before double clicking on your book to open it in word? - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:43 |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't know what you mean though by "you open documents in the "Start Box" and it will bring it back up. I'll need some clarification for that because I want to know exactly where your good version of the book is on your computer. Walk me through, step by step exactly what you do from the time your computer is up and running to opening up the book in Word where it's ready for you to make edits or additions. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:41 |
| Brenda: Like I said Excel wasn't anything I used and the other one wasn't either. This computer was given to me as a refurbished one and those two programs were probably just left on. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:25 |
| Brenda: No, I don't and have never used Excel and I can't remember the other one. Yes, I still have the Chrome shortcut and Word shortcut. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:24 |
| Brenda: Okay for my book. I open documents in the start box and it will bring it back up. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:22 |
| Brenda: I'll try to remember to call it "desktop". But you know us old people and new fangled ideas. They don't always take. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 10:21 |
| 6ixStringJack: Read further into the article... "Census Bureau staff said Minnesota received the last congressional seat allotted, which cost New York a seat. Minnesota also received the last House seat in 2010, just edging out North Carolina. "... Ah... I see. They did it again back in 2010 and screwed NC out of a seat too. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 09:00 |
| 6ixStringJack: They managed to hang onto that one extra house seat for 10 years by sneaking 89 more illegals or dead people in the state just in time. Well... 6 years. You know that we're going to have a new census done before 2028's election now. Especially after SCOTUS rules that all illegals don't count anymore in June. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 08:55 |
| 6ixStringJack: Yup... Look at that. AP News back in 2020... [go to link] More crime via politicians in Minnesota. Let's start throwing them all in prison, please. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 08:53 |
| 6ixStringJack: Also, you should call the "Start Page" the "Desktop". When you load up your PC and log in, and you're looking at whatever picture is your background and the Start/Windows button is on the bottom-left of the screen on that gray bar, this is referred to as the "Desktop". Some people may be confused if you call it the Start Page when asking them for help. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:53 |
| 6ixStringJack: So good. We know that you can still open the latest version of your book in Word. Please walk me through that process on your end. Tell me the EXACT steps you take to open up your book in Word. No detail is too small here. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:50 |
| 6ixStringJack: At least we still have Word and your Web Browser (Chrome) shortcuts on your Desktop still. The two that are gone are likely sitting in your "Recycle Bin". If you wanted them back you could either make them again, or you could "Restore" them by RIGHT-clicking on them in your "Recycle Bin" and then clicking on "Restore" in the box that pops up. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:48 |
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6ixStringJack: Excel and the "other one"? I assume you probably don't use Excel at all? Did you use the "other one" at all? Those were likely just "Shortcuts" to the programs that somebody put on your desktop to make it easy to open programs you'd be most likely to use. Not sure why they'd think you used Excel in your day to day life, but when I made PCs for people I'd give them Excel too even though most people don't make use of spreadsheets. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:47 |
| Brenda: Last night I managed to delete or somehow move the icons off the start page. Not Chrome or Word. Just Excel and one other one. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:40 |
| Brenda: We are cold were I am. Also a lot of fog. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:38 |
| Brenda: I can get at a good version of my book in Word. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:37 |
| Brenda: I understand about the frustration. And if I sound frustrated with you, it is frustration with myself. Don't worry about 25years into the future. We don't know what will happen. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:35 |
| Brenda: I haven't used Outlook since I first got the internet and things were soooo much simpler back then. I wondered about doing the default thing. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 06:31 |
6ixStringJack: It's gotta suck when all your racism and sexism comes back to bite you in the asses, huh? The days of rules for thee, but not for me are over. 
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6ixStringJack: It's gotta suck when all your racism and sexism comes back to bite you in the asses, huh? The days of rules for thee, but not for me are over.
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6ixStringJack: Haha. Don Lemon is going to be charged Don Lemon under the Klu Klux Klan act for leading a bunch of left-wing white college "educated" lunatics from terrorizing a congregation inside their church yesterday. Don't blame us. We didn't break all of your toys. You and your 24/7/365 hypocrisy over the last decade+ did. 
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01.20 04:56
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| 6ixStringJack: First of 3 miserable single-digit high days around these parts this week. Won't see a day above freezing now until February if the extended forecast holds. Won't see a day in the 40's until Valentine's Day. Gross. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 04:41 |
| 6ixStringJack: This Alexander Dugin sounds just about as smart as you are, Second. You'd both make terrible war tacticians. because you're both very stupid people. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 02:04 |
| 6ixStringJack: Good luck to them. They can't even handle the dipshits in Ukraine and they've done nothing in 5 years. Russia isn't going to fire any nukes. They're not suicidal Muslims. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.20 02:03 |
| second: Alexander Dugin - the ultra-hardline ideologue often labelled "Putin's brain" - argues the Kremlin must exploit Donald Trump's ambitions over Greenland as justification for carving out a vastly expanded Russian empire. The philosopher has urged Moscow to rebuild much of the former Soviet Union and to deliberately abandon global legal norms in the process. Dugin has even signalled a willingness to resort to nuclear force to achieve Russia's objectives. "Russia is obliged to do something horrible to restore her credibility," Dugin wrote on X. "It is very sad that we have to use such kind of arguments. But we have no choice. Only brutality, force, mass destruction and cruelty matter in Trumplike world." [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 17:39 |
| 6ixStringJack: I've been kinda bouncing around to both types, and cleared up 500GB or so just tonight, and about half of the files I deleted so far are about as large as only 2 or 3 of the files in the other half of the files I've deleted so far. If I archive the stuff in 7zip, it will never bog down a File Explorer search again, and would virtually be erased and out of my life anyhow, but there would still be the ability to go back to it if the need were ever to arise. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 14:39 |
| 6ixStringJack: Man... some of this is going to be really tedious to go through. As much as I'd love to go through every damn file, I think my time would be better spent just going through the 30% of the stuff that takes up 99.5% of the space that doesn't need to be taken up anymore, and then just package the rest up in archives and a nice little bow. I might very well never look at any of that ever again after doing this, but if I ever needed any of it one day it's still there and it won't require days or weeks of purging all the stuff I know I no longer would ever need just to save maybe 10GB worth of space. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 14:38 |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't really have much interest in coding or making programs to run things. It's fun to do some minor coding challenges to keep the mind sharp and to learn a few new things, but it's not my wheelhouse or my real interest. I'm also a fan of the aesthetic of the old tech as well. There was a certain charm to it that doesn't exist with the modern ways of doing things, and since I still have a lot the old stuff, I see no reason in blowing up the backup data for some of those older ways unless I absolutely needed that space for something else. Even if it's largely inferior now to what I've done today, it's not completely useless yet. But boy, there's so much I can get rid of now despite what I'll be saving and that feels awesome. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 11:21 |
| 6ixStringJack: But I can't just go willy-nilly purging everything. There are still specific instances where older (and mostly larger) data would be worth holding onto in a previous iteration because of compatibility it still has with some older tech that is still viable to me and to others, even though what I've done in the meantime largely mitigates any need for the older stuff. The newest stuff will be fairly easy to use and pretty cheap to store. Unlike the old days where you needed expensive equipment being modified to run this stuff, most of that work can now be offloaded to nearly any basic PC or Mac product, and everything I'm working on only needs large external storage. In essence, it's the library and I'm the Historian, which is what I've always wanted all along. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 11:19 |
| 6ixStringJack: I just made major progress on a few milestones that have been at least a decade in the making on my own project. In doing so, I was able to free up over 1 Terrabyte of data about a week ago, and I'm about to begin the process of going through various versions of now-absolutely-confirmed rednundant and outdated data which, if I stick to it, could net me around another 2TB worth of now-useless data. But I have to stick to it now and I can't put it off. Everything I've been doing the last few years is fresh in my nearly one-track-mind right now. If I were to take even a month off before doing this spring cleaning, I'd be too afraid to do it and risk losing something I'd forgotten and I'll be stuck with yet another newer set of data that will likely one day become obsolete. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 11:06 |
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6ixStringJack: If I sound frustrated, it's not you. I'm frustrated with myself. I usually have to do things like this over the phone, but there is at least persistent feedback while I'm doing that. Here, I have to try to balance not overloading you with info, but not wasting time by giving too little at a time too, because of the nature of this tag log and the idea that this site could disappear at any moment entirely. I'll forget my own name in 25 years, but I'll still be wondering if you ever backed up your book or if you lost it one day. I don't want to live with that.
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| 6ixStringJack: I want to make sure that you can find the single good version of your book and that you can still open it as you were used to doing and we'll go from there. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 09:25 |
| 6ixStringJack: We need to go back to pure basics now and start over. The only thing I want you to do now is to find your book that you know is your good and latest version. Then simply open it in Microsoft Word as you always would have when you were working on it. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 09:24 |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't know if we need to undefault anything just yet, and I fear that is going to be far too complex to try to convey in the taglog if we can't do a simple attachment file save if it is necessary, so I don't think we want to open that can of worms yet. The fact that you use Google Chrome as your browser and Gmail as your email isn't making things easier either, since I've rarely used either of them and things are just a tad different than they would be if you used Firefox as your browser and Hotmail/Outlook for your email like I do. I think you really would have had to go out of your way to change the default program that gets opened when you double click on a Word Doc to open it instead in Google Docs, which would require not just opening the file there, but uploading it there first via the internet before it opened. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 09:22 |
| Brenda: I wondered if opening her google docs would screw up something on my computer. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 08:49 |
| Brenda: Okay then how do I undefault it? You will have to send the message several times. I am going to work tomorrow and won't be able to do anything in the morning. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:48 |
| Brenda: Tried downloading into desktop with opening the download in email but it didn't work. It showed it as Edge instead of Chrome. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:47 |
| Brenda: Tried downloading into desktop with opening the download in email but it didn't work. It showed it as Edge instead of Chrome. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:45 |
| 6ixStringJack: If it doesn't ask you where you want to download it to, then it probably will default to your "Downloads" folder, which you can also easily get to from the left-hand side of any File Explorer window (in the list with the Desktop and Documents folder, among others). - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:44 |
| 6ixStringJack: Try these instructions (The Gmail portion): [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:42 |
| 6ixStringJack: I kind of don't understand how you've been able to manipulate that file all these years and write the book but I can't seem to put the right words together to get you to do basic file copying and saving that you probably already have been doing all this time. Maybe Sigs can explain it to you in a less complicated way and I'm making it too complicated for you. This is about as basic as basic gets. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:35 |
| Brenda: In the subject line I once used the title on another one I used the title and book. No, the file went into the body of the email. It doesn't say copy but in file title I get docx. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 01.19 07:32 |