Yesterday, my iMac email began to behave oddly: I could receive emails, but not send them. Today, I tried messing around with the various settings, and finally tried deleting the SMTP and IMAP setting for Gmail in the keychain. I then re-entered the password in the Mail programme. That reversed my problem: I could send emails but not receive them. After more messing around with settings, I finally discovered that although the password was correctly entered in Mail, the keychain entries for Gmail's IMAP and SMTP were different. I copied the password from the SMTP to the IMAP, and that appears to have solved that problem. How the SMTP and IMAP suddenly wound up with two different passwords is beyond my comprehension.
A friend came to visit today, bringing his new Samsung laptop and his old laptop, with the objective of me transferring his files and settings from his old computer (Windows XP) to his new (Windows 8). I was also supposed to install Office. Microsoft now has a utility to copy your data from your old computer, so I used that. While I was copying the data from his old computer to a USB drive, I installed Office 2010 on his new computer. Then I copied the data from the USB drive to the new computer.
I then ran Office. When I entered the licence key, it told me that there was already a copy of Office on the computer and I could not run two different versions (64 bit and 32 bit) of Office on the same computer. It never occurred to me that there might be a trial version of Office on the laptop. However, that trial version was still running fine. Note to self: leave "well enough" alone! I went to the "uninstall programmes" menu and opted to uninstall the version of Office I had just installed. Instead, it uninstalled the other version of Office, despite my selection. When I then tried to enter the licence key for the version of Office I had, it told me that the licence key was for the wrong version of Office.
I then thought, OK, let's access the recovery programme, do a reinstall of everything from the recovery partition, and start from scratch. When I clicked on the icon for the recovery programme, it said the programme could not be found; turns out there's a bug in Samsung's Windows recovery programme. I then tried downloading an upgrade to the recovery programme from Samsung's website, only to be told that the existing version of the recovery programme was newer than the version I had just downloaded and it would not install the new one. What should have been easy took us from 11 to 4PM and left my friend without a reliable version of Office and without the ability to restore his computer in an emergency.
After he left, I learned that if you hold down the F4 key on bootup, the recovery programme runs automatically. XX)
I REALLY hate Windows.
A friend came to visit today, bringing his new Samsung laptop and his old laptop, with the objective of me transferring his files and settings from his old computer (Windows XP) to his new (Windows 8). I was also supposed to install Office. Microsoft now has a utility to copy your data from your old computer, so I used that. While I was copying the data from his old computer to a USB drive, I installed Office 2010 on his new computer. Then I copied the data from the USB drive to the new computer.
I then ran Office. When I entered the licence key, it told me that there was already a copy of Office on the computer and I could not run two different versions (64 bit and 32 bit) of Office on the same computer. It never occurred to me that there might be a trial version of Office on the laptop. However, that trial version was still running fine. Note to self: leave "well enough" alone! I went to the "uninstall programmes" menu and opted to uninstall the version of Office I had just installed. Instead, it uninstalled the other version of Office, despite my selection. When I then tried to enter the licence key for the version of Office I had, it told me that the licence key was for the wrong version of Office.
I then thought, OK, let's access the recovery programme, do a reinstall of everything from the recovery partition, and start from scratch. When I clicked on the icon for the recovery programme, it said the programme could not be found; turns out there's a bug in Samsung's Windows recovery programme. I then tried downloading an upgrade to the recovery programme from Samsung's website, only to be told that the existing version of the recovery programme was newer than the version I had just downloaded and it would not install the new one. What should have been easy took us from 11 to 4PM and left my friend without a reliable version of Office and without the ability to restore his computer in an emergency.
After he left, I learned that if you hold down the F4 key on bootup, the recovery programme runs automatically. XX)
I REALLY hate Windows.
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