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I still can't bring myself to address that inevitable cluster. I do have iCloud installed on the new laptop, and it appears ready to do some syncin for me, but I refuse to plug the phone into it until I get through my run of five straight appointments in Rochester tomorrow between 10 and 2:30. At least I got out of a sixth at 3:15 because my dentist's hygienist called in sick for tomorrow; this is now the second health professional to beg out on seeing me in the past week.
Over the weekend, I finally got the Semagic blogging software going on here. The install itself was easy, but I'd forgotten that Dreamwidth imposed an extra layer of password protection about 18 months ago. That finally explained why the Masked Password in the Semagic login box on the other computer was much longer than the one I use to access DW itself. This post contains the magic beans to get connected, which I have duly copied and saved in a Word file in this laptop's Semagic folder.
Speaking of Word, I got all of my ancient Office files more-or-less working on this laptop using the Office 365 app. Outlook won't sync the old laptop-based mail folders and calendar items with the server-based ones the new laptop connected to, so for now at least I have two sets of folders to toggle between. Even with that, though, the new machine is SO much faster at everything that those extra seconds of toggling are just fine, thanks.
Then, today, I got the new computer and new printer to talk to each other. This was another Case of the Mysterious Password, where the login/password that connected Old Laptop to New Printer did not connect New Laptop to New Printer. A Tech Guy showed up unannounced at 10 this morning, just as I was going on a call with a court, supposedly to "fix things," but he never figured it out. He escalated me to a Bigger Smarter Faster Tech Guy who was going to do a remote takeover of this machine. Eventually, though, I got tired of waiting for him, googled some support forums, and figured the damn thing out on my own, thankuvermush. (For future reference: the trick is to make the "Scans" folder on the PC shareable through Windows.) After I got it going, I called TG#1 to tell him to tell TG#2 not to bother calling- and to educate #1 on what I'd learned so the next poor shlub won't get stuck with the same problem I did.
Turning in now in hopes of getting good sleep before All The Things tomorrow.
Over the weekend, I finally got the Semagic blogging software going on here. The install itself was easy, but I'd forgotten that Dreamwidth imposed an extra layer of password protection about 18 months ago. That finally explained why the Masked Password in the Semagic login box on the other computer was much longer than the one I use to access DW itself. This post contains the magic beans to get connected, which I have duly copied and saved in a Word file in this laptop's Semagic folder.
Speaking of Word, I got all of my ancient Office files more-or-less working on this laptop using the Office 365 app. Outlook won't sync the old laptop-based mail folders and calendar items with the server-based ones the new laptop connected to, so for now at least I have two sets of folders to toggle between. Even with that, though, the new machine is SO much faster at everything that those extra seconds of toggling are just fine, thanks.
Then, today, I got the new computer and new printer to talk to each other. This was another Case of the Mysterious Password, where the login/password that connected Old Laptop to New Printer did not connect New Laptop to New Printer. A Tech Guy showed up unannounced at 10 this morning, just as I was going on a call with a court, supposedly to "fix things," but he never figured it out. He escalated me to a Bigger Smarter Faster Tech Guy who was going to do a remote takeover of this machine. Eventually, though, I got tired of waiting for him, googled some support forums, and figured the damn thing out on my own, thankuvermush. (For future reference: the trick is to make the "Scans" folder on the PC shareable through Windows.) After I got it going, I called TG#1 to tell him to tell TG#2 not to bother calling- and to educate #1 on what I'd learned so the next poor shlub won't get stuck with the same problem I did.
Turning in now in hopes of getting good sleep before All The Things tomorrow.