Have you tried to copy the files to a "flash drive" and open on a different computer?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 04:10 am: Edit

Yes, they are corrupted. I tried emailing them to myself and they won't email. I tried uploading them and they won't.

By Jeffrey Coutu (Jtc) on Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 06:18 am: Edit

You could try using the free JPEGsnoop on the image files (assuming they will open with it). Depending on the software used to make the image, it may store info about the software used for the image creator, for example, jpeg images on my computer when opened with JPEGsnoop one line that shows on the 26th line:

[Software ] = "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows"

Not all programs will put this info in the file, but if it does, at least you could try using the same software to open the file that created it and see if that works.

You could also try Wondershare Photo Repair to try to repair the files. I have never used this software so do not know how effective it is.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, November 17, 2023 - 11:33 pm: Edit

Nothing worked until something did.

That something was to put the original damaged D-drive in the F-slot and manually compare the folders to see if something needed to be manually replaced. I spent an hour and got about half of it done; more tomorrow.

Thanks for all the education. I learned a lot from you guys!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, November 18, 2023 - 08:51 am: Edit

And the mouse fix worked just as you guys said, so thanks for that, too!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, November 27, 2023 - 09:40 pm: Edit

MORE HELP NEEDED

On my 30 year old Mac I can find any file in seconds using SHERLOCK.

On the PC the search is worse than useless. I want to find a photo I collected years ago of a Panzer-IVF and when I search the hard disk for something generic like "Panzer" I get thousands of web results (not what I want). I tried searching "documents on drive-D" and got any number of text documents which had the word "panzer" somewhere in the text but no photos. (I know where some of my tank pictures are, in a folder called tank pictures, which includes dozens of pictures with "panzer" somewhere in the file name. These are photos that the PC search system says are not on my hard disk, even though they are.) Setting aside the question of why PCs are so freaking stupid, can someone just give me clear instructions on how to search my hard disk for PHOTOS with a title including the word "panzer"?

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Monday, November 27, 2023 - 11:09 pm: Edit

In a Windows File Explorer window, use the search box at the top and search for:
*panzer*.jpg

That will give you only results of jpg image files with panzer in the title. The asterisk is a wild-card and tells it to ignore anything before and after panzer and include any file name that includes it.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, November 27, 2023 - 11:55 pm: Edit

How do I get a "windows file explorer window"?

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:51 am: Edit

Several ways, but the easiest to explain is the "This PC", or "My Documents" (or variation thereof, such as "Steve Cole") that are usually on the desktop. Those will open a File Explorer window, pointed at those locations.

The search-bar in the Start menu can also be used to find and start any program, in this case File Explorer.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 10:50 am: Edit

Found it. It says "no files with that name" which isn't true as I have dozens with that name. (None of them being the mis-filed photo I need.)

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 07:13 am: Edit

Are they maybe not jpg image files?

You can search *panzer*.bmp or *panzer*.gif or whatever image file type extension they are.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 03:41 pm: Edit

They are jpgs or jepgs but "panzer" should find them either way, and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 05:25 pm: Edit

You probably already know this, but in the example I provided, it will not produce any results for .jpeg suffixed files.

The Windows file search tool is extremely string-specific. The example I provided (*panzer*.jpg) will yield only results with panzer in the name that were .jpg suffixed files.

A search-string to look for any JPEG-format images (regardless of Mac 4-digit suffix or legacy Windows/DOS 3-digit suffix) would be *panzer*.jp*

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 05:32 pm: Edit

Also try *panzer*.* for anything with panzer in the file name whether a jpg, jpeg, tiff, png, etc...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 09:28 pm: Edit

Thanks for all the help.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 09:37 pm: Edit

Recently, two people I do business with reported that email to me was bouncing. This made no sense as I got email every day, just not from them.

Albert investigated and found that when he set up OUTLOOK he accidentally set it to leave any email I deleted on the server for 30 days. This was taking up space, but most of the server space was taken up by email I had not deleted. Some of that was email I was keeping for future records but some was mail I could delete but had not. Email with big attached graphics was a particular problem, a lots of the undeleted email was Shapeways review stuff which had lots of graphics.

That was how I used Mac-Eudora, which effectively had no limit on the email it kept as the attachments were filed separately. Outlook has a much smaller email bin and it filled up in "only" three years. (I have 32 years of email in Eudora and I can still access all of it. Except that the company that made Eudora went out of business without updating the "kill switch" set for 2021 I would still be using it.)

Now that I know how Outlook works (horribly) I will have to spend more time each day deleting old stuff and being sure to not just delete stuff I don't need to keep but going back and deleting stuff I only needed to keep for a short while.

Once again, a 30-year old Mac beats the @#$% out of a brand new PC. Go figure.

I spent 3 hours deleting old stuff and got the bin down to 80% and will pursue that with diligence each day from now on.

But anyone who Could not get email to me should try again.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 09:27 am: Edit

Uh, is there no version of Eudora that works on Windows? I know it used to.

Just because you are using Windows doesn't mean you *have* to use Outlook.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 01:45 pm: Edit

I use Thunderbird (from same people who make Firefox web browser) for my email. If you're using a POP3 account, you still need to tell it how long to keep mail on the server. I set mine to three days, just in case I need to go on the web-mail to re-pull something.


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 02:05 pm: Edit

The problem is that running a business, as I do, the email system is a combination of things to do and things that got done and things I'm waiting for.

Changing email systems means that I have an old archive I can search but it's not something I can use to send follow-up emails without copying and pasting emails. So changing from a horrible email program to an unknown email program has dubious benefits and major known problems. Better the devil I know.

I wasn't offered the PC-Eudora option at the time I was given outlook and (see above) it's too late to switch again.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 04:24 pm: Edit

Three days (4 hours) and I'm down to 60% so email should work nicely. I did find that email I deleted in the browser (lots of spam since my email address is very public by necessity) was still on the serve 3 years (not 30 days) later.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, December 01, 2023 - 02:27 am: Edit

I will miss the next few days of work. Leanna has a medical thing Friday I have to drive her to and home from and take care of her. Monday I will have very minor but incredibly painful surgery and Leanna will drive me there and back and take care of me. Then Leanna and I have appointments Tuesday which won't give us any office time.

Be nice to each other and Jean until I get back.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, December 02, 2023 - 05:43 am: Edit

Leanna's eye surgery/treatment went well, and she already reports vision improving in her bad eye.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Saturday, December 02, 2023 - 03:46 pm: Edit

I'm glad it was a success.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Saturday, December 02, 2023 - 09:24 pm: Edit

Excellent! Here's hoping your procedure on Monday goes as well.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 - 11:18 am: Edit

I have been sick since Thursday, stuck at home, fever, cough, sneezing, unable to sleep until I just pass out from exhaustion, constantly choking from drainage, dizzy, can’t drive, not that I need to go infect somebody, sorry about newsletter, back when I can.