Record Keeping....

[Ma-dotcom]

Derek be aware of which external drive you have, I received an email from Windows a few days ago, stating that one of their xternal drives wiped itself of all data on the 23 june-this month. Mine happily is not of theirs.
I have already had one 'fritz' during a windows update. It had oodles of important to me data.

I don't quite trust cloud either but some stuff is saved there.

 

[Findem]

Mine happily is not of theirs.

Nor is mine one of Windows, mine is a Seagate, I only use it to store Genealogy and one or two other database data on such as Brother's Keeper info.

 

[Findem]

Forgot to add as an extra precaution I don't keep my external hard drive plugged in to the computer, it only gets attached when I'm going to use it.

 

[Bay Horse]

Forgot to add as an extra precaution I don't keep my external hard drive plugged in to the computer, it only gets attached when I'm going to use it.

That's good advice.

 

[Ma-dotcom]

Nor is mine one of Windows, mine is a Seagate, I only use it to store Genealogy and one or two other database data on such as Brother's Keeper info.

Started a reply yesterday but was on laptop [we don't quite see eye to eye yet], I also had seagate & liked it, until the dreaded window's update fritzed it. Can't think of any other reason.
Now have something different again bought by our Son, bless him.

 

[Elma]

Does any one know if Family Tree maker works well with Macbooks now? I got it a while ago but couldn't get on with it and although I could save photos etc I couldn't save records from Ancestry. Do you have to download them then save. I remember from pre Macbook days I liked Family Tree Maker.