Text 3971, 131 rader
Skriven 2020-03-27 18:46:10 av August Abolins (2:221/360.0)
   Kommentar till text 3970 av Ed Vance (15735.windowsa)
Ärende: Quit XP "Remembering"
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On 26/03/2020 2:35 p.m., Ed Vance : August Abolins wrote:

 EV>I forget to write Replies to messages after I wake up, if the
 EV>hour was late when I read the message and I go to sleep.

Hello Ed!

Maybe there is a way for you to TAG the message (add a mark of some kind in the
message list with your reader?)

I looked at MultiMail briefly, but I don't think there is way. :(

BUT.. I have no problem with tagging when I am using the nntp (newsreader)
method with Thunderbird.  I can even save a partially constructed reply into
Save(as Draft), and come back to it whenever I want.


 EV>OH!, The Life with a Computer is Fun!
 EV>At least around here it is.
 EV>How about at Your place?

The computer is a tool and a toy.  TOOL: I need it to track and perform
business-related things.  TOY: echomail.  No games for me.


 EV>My problem is I have many Sub-DIrectories I Save Notepad Files
 EV>in. BBS Stuff goes here, Operating System Stuff goes there,
 EV>Medical Stuff gets put somewhere else, Home Stuff has its place
 EV>too.

I am not as organized as you.  I just plop everything in the root \MyDocuments
directory. \MyDocuments seems to be the default offering with Ctrl-S.  Then, I
simply rely on "Search" to find what I need starting at the \MyDocuments level.

I do however try to name my files with obvious topically oriented names in the
string.  Thank goodness for long filenames!

I rarely have to do a computer-wide search for anything starting at a root
directory.


 EV>If I want to Open a Text File about a BBS Subject, I have a
 EV>Quicklaunch Icon I Click for that, when I want to look at
 EV>something about Medical I have a Quicklaunch Icon to Click on to
 EV>take me to the Sub-Directory where I have put that type of file.
 EV>Etc., Etc., Etc. ........

So.. you basically have your document filing system represented right on your
desktop.  Nothing wrong with that.  For me, it's just as easy to open
MyDocuments from the START menu and take it from there.  I like being able to
sort by Date or Name when I need to look for something specific - and avoid the
Search function.


 EV>>Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file will
 EV>>be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent Sub-
 EV>>Directories I have remembered using recently to find that File.

Well, with SaveAs..  you can look around for the right directory to plop your
file into.  You don't need to know the directory in advance.


 AA>>Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu..

 EV>I sometimes have done that, one of my problems is I Look At OR
 EV>Make MANY MANY Files and the Drop Down List for Recent Documents
 EV>no longer shows that particular File in it.

I only use Window's Recent Documents when I know that I accessed/saved a file
within a few days or a week.  The current 15 file listing is good enough.  It
is
not intended as a long-list of ALL documents accessed.  Maybe there is away to
increase the 15 files to higher number with a registry edit, but I don't need
that.


 EV>Pressing Start - Doucments - My Documents has over 50 Files and
 EV>Many Sub-Directories and most of those Files and Sub-Directories
 EV>I haven't used for many Years.

Maybe time to purge?!!!

Sometimes I have to wonder what's the point in keeping files that I haven't
looked at for over 10 years.  Pictures might be an exception.  But do I really
need archived email and their attachments from 1999-2012 anymore?


 EV>When I got this XP box in June 2006 it came with 1MB DDR-2 RAM
 EV>and the HDD was 250GB. That 250GB HDD was very close to getting
 EV>filled up so I put a 2TB HDD in the box and Cloned what was on
 EV>the original HDD on to the new HDD.

2TB is sweet.  I just upgraded with a refurbished Thinkpad T540p 16:9 screen,
with a 1TB SDD and Win7pro 64-bit.  But I'm not fully transferred to it yet.  I
hate the task of transferring my apps and files from a previous XP machine.  I
still really like my compact T60 "square" 5:4 screen - a lot!


 EV>I "think" it may be a long time before I start sweating aging
 EV>about "IF" I have room to Download a 15GB File, or something like
 EV>that.

But things can accumulate, fast.  I have to get rid of old mp3 files that I can
"duplicate" with a Spotify access, and old .avi .mp4 video files that I rarely
bother with anymore.

Back in the day when I was still using a fine WinME pc, and DIALUP for internet
access, around year 2000, I put a few of the better ones I liked here:

	http://kolico.ca/mpg/

Those files were HUGE wrt dialup back then.


 EV>In 1958 I passed the F.C.C.'s Amatuer Radio Novice test and..
[snip]
 EV>I can't remember if any of the Older Hams ever operated "Spark
 EV>Gap" Transmitters, but They have been on the Air a lot and
 EV>learned many things by experience.

I enjoyed volunteering to fire up the university campus FM radio transmitters
on
Sunday mornings.  The dials, the meters, the sound, the ozone smell..  sweet!

  //aa

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