Good evening, my friends. We had an easy-going day today. We visited the Quilter's Cottage in Fallbrook, California. I was on the hunt for a backing fabric for the Shop Hop 4.0 quilt...this one:
I didn't find any fabric I liked. That's okay...I'll find something somewhere else. There will be more quilt shops down the road. From there, we walked in a nearby "preserve." We walked most of the trails in the Los Jilgueros Preserve. You can read about it at that link. While there, I took around 35 pictures. Sadly, when I uploaded them to my laptop, they went...somewhere...who knows where. Even Mike, the engineer, was unable to find them again. I saw them on the screen, and then they disappeared. We're at a loss. So...I regret that I have no pictures from our hike to show you.
As a background, the computer automatically updated a few days ago, and we ended up with a "One Drive" app that seems to have decided it can do whatever it wants on the laptop. Mike spent some time this morning undoing everything it had done. Now, in our effort to find the pictures again, we added the One Drive app back to the laptop, and it went back to doing its dirty work. He'll have to undo all of that again, but somehow the pictures have disappeared, and we are unable to retrieve them.
At this point, I'll just avoid deleting the pictures from the camera when I upload them until we're certain we can find them on the laptop. I won't lose any pictures that way, but we're still trying to figure out how to avoid this problem with One Drive. With that going on, I might take a couple of days off from blogging until we can get these technical issues set right.
Sorry for the interruption in our conversation. I'll be back in a day or two.
6 comments:
My Guy regularly curses One Drive. I disabled it on my computer when I got it. I'm sorry you lost your photos, that's never fun. Hope you find them.
Oh bummer--things get lost in the "cloud" a lot!! It's not that easy to retrieve them I find...
We went out for an early breakfast for a change this morning--another bummer--food tasted like "grill"--ugh!! Well that place is off of our list...and so it goes...at least we know....
Hugs, Julierose
I hate One Drive. I had problems with it installing when I first got my latest computer, a year or two ago. Took forever to disable it. Now I'm worried about future o/s updates. Thanks for the heads up as I will try to be more aware during updates, to check if anything was added to support the terrors of One Drive. But other than that, it sound like you had a pretty good day.
Oh goodness - more techy stuff to deal with! I hope the Resident Engineer can get it all sorted and that your pictures reappear. If not, I suppose you might be forced to repeat the hike, just so you can share with us.
Whenever your computer, browser, internet security or operating system updates, you need to check all of the settings to make sure things are checked that you want and uncheck things you don't want.
When you find your pictures (check your downloads, pictures (photos) and document files to see where they landed, (Mike has probably already done this), delete One Drive or disable it.
I don't allow anything to automatically update - I check the box(s) that let me see what downloads are available, then I can choose what I want and install it when I'm ready.
This has been my experience anyway. Hope it helps
Teresa F.
Well, that's frustrating that you lost all the photos. Too bad about the quilt backing, too, but at least you'll be able to find that!
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