There is an easy way to back up your data, without investing a lot of time/expense/hassle. Carbonite.com and other online sites can back up your data. It works in the background while you do other things. The cost is about $50 a year, which is a very small price to pay for keeping your data safe. It also works well for upgrading a hard drive- you can transfer everything over to a new drive easily without having to reinstall everything. (disclaimer: I've not done this myself). Anyway, there's no excuse for losing data anymore these days.
Paul McCloud
San Diego
----- Original Message -----
From: Porritt, David
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: 03/03/2009 8:34:59 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business
Mike:
Backing up data is an important part of whatever software/hardware you use. It’s never a matter of in case you lose data, it’s when you lose data.
dp
David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Magness
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:13 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
Access is a database program but Outlook has a "contacts" section that
provides a number of different fields (and you can customize it as well)
into which you can input and organize customer or "contact" information.
It's evolved into something quite a bit more powerful than just an email
program.
David Love
Ah, yet another of the infinite holes in my education. I haven't used Outlook, and didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification.
Ron N
I have used Outlook but NEVER will again. I was well into inputting customer names and data into it plus using it as the dedicated e-mail program for my website e-mail. I came home one day and clicked the icon to open it and have never seen my data since!
I tried everything, including a 6 hour phone conference with Microsoft, only to be told ultimately they didn't know what else to try. It was somehow corrupted and would not reopen.
When I began researching it I found I was not only not alone, this is apparantly a common thing. For those of you using it I would strongly suggest downloading to disc or backing up on an external harddrive or site periodically.
I have not been that impressed with many of microsoft's office products. I currently use openoffice.org a freeware program which is compatible with the office suite but much less ridgid.
I'll be the first to admit I'm not "all that" when it comes to computers. I prefer programs that don't have instructions that take months sometimes years to wade through. I have enough on my plate without learning to be a computer programmer! (g)
Mike
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Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
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