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Originally Posted by eleanorigby
I'm not done by a long shot, but I feel like I'm starting to figure stuff out. That is largely due to Pencil(who gets a nice dinner!), but others here as well. Thank you all.
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I THINK (I am not sure of this) that once I sign away a great deal of money to Microsoft that they will drag my old Word and Excel docs up to current status. That's what they did at work.
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I have word 2015, not 2021, but I cannot fathom that things are different. MS wants to keep you in their corral. So I made a new document, saved that as a Word-97, closed everything, double clicked the doc and Word -15 opened it right away. Up on top of the Word window it said - in square brackets - [compatibility mode] which I interpret as saying that it has formatted this for the newer version.* To get it totally up to date you have to pick
File -> Save as…
* Changing things like fonts that are no longer there and stuff like that.
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Do you think that if I do the 2 factor authentication that my G drive would be reasonably safe from hacking? I am not sure anyone can know that for sure, but...
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No, no one can be sure. But it’s as safe as you can reasonably hope for. I would say the risk is greater for the hard drive to spontaneously catch fire and start dancing
La Cucaracha.
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Check out the Google drive download (but I would still have the 2 factor authentication) and use that instead of the Microsoft Office purchase. If I did this, I would (obviously) convert the old Word docs to Google docs etc. How exposed are they?
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Are you afraid of them getting hacked, i.e. personal information getting exposed? Or that the files will be lost, corrupted? In either case I’m a firm friend of belt & suspenders. 2FA will do a lot for the former, having a backup for the latter. If you split things into separate files, you’re going to be even safer regarding exposure, i.e. don’t keep all your passwords in one file, and do not name the file
Password. Better to have something really innocuous such as
Tina’s Bday invite and
Regulations nursing station2. Keep half the password in one file, and the second half in the next.
Note: This is for your peace of mind only. No one will ever get that far.
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Go live on a compound in Idaho and deal only in barter is Plan B. lol
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Iowa is next door. Maybe their ’well regulated militia’ is less wacky than the one in Idaho. Corn or taters?
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did not know I had something called Time Machine on my Mac.
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It takes a very long time the first run, since it’s basically cloning the hard drive, warts and all, i.e. it’s not just backing up files, it backs up everything.
Everything? Yes everything.
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We all have different life skills and interests. But I am sure that I am not alone in the angst
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No, no you are not. But admitting that is another thing and kudos for doing so. The majority of users are blindly ignorant and [broad brush] men are not only blindly ignorant, but often think that they know and understand way more than they actually do. This is especially the case with tech, where they somehow think they are supposed to
know that stuff.