My Computer

[Audrey]

I have finally realized just how old my computer is. I bought a new one along with an external hard drive. When I went to transfer the data, well it's been about 30 hours now and it's not done. I'm on a borrowed computer right now. I'm told by my IT friend that my old computer is USB 1.0 not 2.0 like the new computer, thus the huge time factor.

[Dawn~AturService]

Well that really stinks. Were you able to get it to all download eventually?

[Audrey]

Dawn,

It all downloaded. When we got home last night, it was already 10 pm. I worked on the new machine until about 11pm and then called it a night. So, right now I'm on the old machine, but we're making progress. I'm bound and determined to do this myself.

[tam2005]

Hey Audrey,

I didn't know you bought a new computer. Congrats! :)

Glad all the data transferred over.

[Dawn~AturService]

Audrey,
Thank Goodness it all downloaded. Technology is a beautiful thing but can be such a pain sometimes! I bought a new computer in April and was so excited to get it going only to deal with Vista bugs and STILL have not been able to resolve a Norton issue after spending several hours with them on the phone on 2 separate occasions! :mad:

Good luck to you.

[Audrey]

I have one "issue" left and that's my old email. I really want to transfer it to the new computer.

[Dawn~AturService]

Hmmmmm, what were you running it on? I've always had Yahoo and MSN so I can obviously access it anywhere. Why can't you import/export it? It just won't work?

[Audrey]

I had outlook express, I now have the full version of outlook. Last night I was able to export my address to a csv file, then import that to my new email. So, I have email address. What I don't have is all the saved mail I had.

[Lori]

Oh -- I have had to do this before Audrey... Have you seen this tutorial?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010943871033.aspx

[Audrey]

Thanks Lori. I'm pretty pleased with myself. I did everything else myself. I think I like this new computer. I'm kind of holding my breath as it's Vista. But I'm loving the new speed. My old computer was about 6 years old and in computer years, that's old.

[Dawn~AturService]

Cool! Glad you got it all worked out. I love the speed on my computer too!