Dear Chap and all Others:
Many thanks for your answers to my question regarding Memory Sticks. I will
follow your advice.
Ellaine Goodall
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:55 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Correspondence Tracking
Ellaine:
I have been using a memory stick for 5 years & have never lost any data.
I have run them thru many X-ray machines at airports & have not had any
problems.
I would be very skeptical of the story about the filing cabinet & the lose
of data.
The memory sticks are not meant to be long term storage devices, so I
would
not store information on the stick and leave it in a filing cabinet for
say
5-10 years -- use a CD or DVD for that.
Chap
Leon Chapman
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellaine
Goodall
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Correspondence Tracking
Dear Brian:
I am new to Legacy but recently I attended a local genealogy seminar and
they were talking about the memory sticks which you put into the USB Port.
One girl said that she always had all of her data with her at all times
this
way and wore it around her neck--another said that she kept it on her key
chain. So I went out and bought one because one always thinks about what
would happen if one lost all of this work. I was not able to get it to
work
and so called tech support. Tech support asked my why I had pruchased it
and
I told him the above. He said that they were not created for that purpose
and that if exposed to certain frequences all of the data would be erased.
He said that an employee put one in a filing cabinet and evidently some
current was running under the cabinet and when he went to use it it was
blank. Has anyone else run into this problem? I was very disappointed as
these sticks seemed like such a good solution.
Ellaine Goodall
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