On 06/12/2010 05:00 PM, Abdul Hai wrote:
Thanks for letting me know I did get rid of the office application to save some
space. As for the Google docs and new Microsoft stuff the reliability of the
connection should not be the problem as I have a good connection.
I would have used Google docs but they are not as professional as Open Office.
I guess I could get my brother to look at extra hard drives.
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As I said - Thumb drive for $10 - $15 with the Portable OOo
application. The app is stored on the
thumb drive and run off that thumb drive. No files are stored on your
computer, unless you save
your data on your own hard drive.
HOW much drive storage do you have;
Total?
Free space?
I run a laptop with 80 gig and use OOo along with many other programs
and a lot
of files [including music, video, fonts, and such]. I have used 20 and
40 gig external
drives to help when I wend below 20 gig free space.
I used a 40/80/80gig 3 drive server as my file server before I got this
desktop.
Now I have over 500 gigs of data stored on a data partition of my
desktop that
I just moved to the 1 TB external. I will be wiping the desktop clean
and rebuilding
the desktop back to a single partition [ 1TB ] Ubuntu system. Then I
will copy the
files back to the system. I will keep the data on the external one for
a backup, along
with keeping the external drive updated with the new data from the email
client and
the browser's bookmarks, plus any other files I create/change. I have
over 11,300 files
totaling 310 gig, JUST in my audio/video folders. I have over 10 gig of
font files [over
200,000 fonts] stored on the external for use by anyone I choose to
share them. Also
I use it to backup my digital photos from 2005 till now [over 27 gig and
about 8,000 photos].
No matter what your current system has internal. Since using CD/DVDs as
backups would
take too many, the use of the external drive for a backup is the way to
go. Using one for your
system's extra needed space, is a no-brainer. They have a new hard
drive dock where you
dock you drive like you would your iPod. You dock your drive, backup
your files to it, then
place it a safe location. I have a box of 10+ 20-40 gig drives as a
backup from my old
laptops. Now I have the 1 TB drive. Before the end of summer, I hope
to buy at least one
more, and I am on a fixed Disability income. Still I can afford one
with the prices you can
see now.
You need to get the external drive. You will thank yourself later.
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