And then Wednesday morning I get up, make a cup of coffee, get situated on my couch to work on my upcoming blog about fighting fat... and my beloved laptop died.
My new Asus Vivobook on the top, my 2011 Toshiba below
It had nothing to do with the new gateway just installed in my home. The Toshiba has been on it's last legs for a few years now, held together with packing tape, twine and even half-erasers under 3-4 keys that were stuck. It took forever to start up, and even longer to shut down at night--but I loved it like an old friend.
I bought the Asus over a year ago, back in Jan 2024, one week before I got covid that became long covid. It's been hidden away in my bedroom dresser ever since. Until today.
I feel like I've been uprooted from 2011 and tossed into 2025. Did you know The Good Wife is no longer on tv? President Obama is no longer in office and we're under siege by a Fascist party and megalomaniac tyrant? You don't own Microsoft Office anymore, you SUBSCRIBE to it? Enough!
This new laptop is lighter on the lap--it weighs 13 ounces. Not even one pound. My Toshiba weighs 10 pounds, 5 oz--that thing was a tank. Anyway, I can't figure out where anything is on here. It keeps telling me to stop trying to store files on it, move them to Microsoft's One Drive.
My mousepad doesn't even have any buttons!
What bothers me most of all, the very first thing I did was download "Open Live Writer" for my blog. OLW is an offline editor I've been using for 20 years to write and publish my blogs. When I tried to install it, I got a stern warning APP DENIED ACCESS from Google (because it uses your Google credentials to create an offline version of your blog).
I just saw it as a challenge until I went looking for answers. I discovered this has been happening since 2020 for every blogger who uses OLW and gets a new computer. After 20 years of blogging, this is my first time writing a post using Blogger's online editor. It's going to take some time getting used to.
Well, on Saturday I am meeting with Carl from the hardware store, we're going to use his work station and an ethernet cable to hopefully get access to my Toshiba's hard drive long enough to retrieve my photos folder, financial documents and a couple blog drafts I was working on. Thanks for listening, wish me luck and if you see anything weird going on with my blog--that's just me trying to get a new handle on things here. Thanks for listening.
What a challenge! I also hate moving from laptop to laptop; I never know how to run it or find anything. I loved Windows XP but was forced onto Win10 when I bought my not-so-new current laptop, then went to 11. (a nightmare) I hope that you can get your stuff off the Toshiba. It sounds like you have a friend to help you! I thought Blogger was easy when I tried it and probably would have gone with the platform except that it couldn't take my Typepad archives. :( WP is a lot harder with the blogs and the issues with editing. I still have to switch to my iPhone to edit a post--ridiculous! Best of luck, my friend!
ReplyDeleteMargaret, thank you my friend--I was just sitting here (tearing some hair out over trying to copy some files) and thinking "I'd rather deal with a new computer then what Margaret went thru this month with her blog!" I''m sorry it's still a weird challenge for you. And you are right on both counts--Blogger is simpler than WP, but you could NOT have migrated here from Typepad.
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