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Hekate

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7. I'm really glad you have done that.In my case, I've finally got a new computer to replace the 10 y.o
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:58 PM
Dec 2016

...Mac. Over the past 30 years, I've only had a few computers, all from Apple. My track record of saving old media isn't so great -- the floppy disks are history, for one thing. For another, it's my husband who transferred all my old files the last time because I was so attached to them. That included all my PhD dissertation files, drafts, and final copy. When I finally went back to look at them, a lot of them were black and even more of them had lost all their formatting. Thank God I have the dissertation in several hard-copy formats, including one bound book.

There's so much I haven't even looked at in years, and I figured that rather than dragging it all with me like the chains on Marley's Ghost, I'd clean house a bit.

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