I understand the concept of MY BRIEFCASE. I want to be able to share and update files between my laptop and my desktop. I have a zip drive. How do I practically do that? Is this a good way to keep current backups as well? Please respond in detail cuz I gotta be spoon fed 🙂
I look down my nose at people who dare to look down their nose at people.
Edited 4/19/2002 6:54:48 AM ET by Pete
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Pete- I'm still bottle fed let alone a spoon. I hope some exrerienced hands can help you here. I write because I had an experience with 'my briefcase' in my ramblings on the puter that I wouldn't want to see anyone replicate. Had been storing files on the other setups i.e. my documents etc., when I notice nothing is ever put over there in 'my briefcase'. So I decide to thin out my files and put some of the good stuff over in 'my briefcase' for easy access all on its own. Then I see the little window popup that says 'update files click here' while I'm there in 'my briefcase'. In my explorations around the puter I've run into and done things I wish I hadn't so with a mixture of fear and intimidation that I'd crack the screen or make it smoke or somethun' I hit the update button and all my good files flew off the screen to who knows where parts unknown. I did a search and can't find them. So now I get out the books to find out what happened and discover the use of 'my briefcase' to transfer files to your laptop. Since I wasn't hooked up to a laptop at the time I hit 'update files' I fear I sent them into the ethereal world. So when anyone gets done with your question I hope they can take a shot at mine since those files weren't copied anywhere else (a brainer I know) I wouldn't mind retrieving them if there are still in there somewhere. Thanks for sharing on your post.
I have a program called Gateway Go Back.......if you make a goof you can return your computer into the past and retrieve it. Of course it won't help you in this case, but................There are fast carpenters who care..... there are slow carpenters who care more.....there are half fast carpenters who could care less......
Pete, briefcase lets you work on files from either station, update when you are done. You have to have the comps physically connected, by the cable of your choice. If you are networked, why not just enjoy the free access of all the files? I guess briefcase gives you a buffer for stupid, but I don't see the point. You can exchange the files between the two comps via zip, but you are limited to file size, and I guess you have an external zip you can move from one to the other?
Rez, I think your files may have just gone back to where they started, lol. Gawd, how did you search for them? If they were orphaned to Briefcase you couldn't have updated them.
Pete,
I use My Briefcase with my laptop on a network and I think it works great for backing up and updating files. Its best to do the bulk of your work on the desktop, and sync everytime you dock the laptop to be sure you have the most recent files.
It starts to get a little more complex when you add a third machine, handheld, etc.
I set up the briefcase on my laptop, and just dragged(copied) files from my desktop to it. I had some problems with outlook.pst files not syncing that I have still not resolved, but it does what I need it to do.Tom
Qtr-thanks for responding. It was on a new Dell last year on ME. I had moved the files from 'my documents' to 'my briefcase'. Photos of a house I'd been working on. Hit the update button and they were gone. New comp didn't have much stored on it except a mass of napster songs. There was some kind of search mechanism I used that came with the program. I typed in the basic letter/numbers all other remaining photos, which I hadn't moved, had begun with. Those photos showed up on the search file and where they were located but not the missing 'my briefcase' photos. I'm pretty much a computer greenhorn which really complicated the issue and makes it exciting running around this new breaktime system. But that's the story of the missing files. Tune in next week, same time, same channel for the continuing saga.
Don't know about the orphaning to briefcase stuff. Just know what happened and now leave the briefcase alone.
Edited 4/19/2002 10:45:48 PM ET by rez
Edited 4/19/2002 10:48:06 PM ET by rez
I don't think I even have Briefcase on my comp, but there is a whole lot of MS nonsense I delete.
You can just search the hard drive for *.jpg the * is a wildcard that will pull up any name for that extention. Assuming the extention is jpg. The thing is, unless you have your settings so you don't have to confirm delete, the files are there somewhere. When you updated the files should have defaulted to their original folder, and not just poofed.
But we are talking MS, lol. Seriously, all of this is off the top of my head, if it isn't too late I'll help you look, but it sounds like you are talking about last years system.
Edited 4/19/2002 11:03:44 PM ET by Qtrmeg
Qtrmeg- I'm still hiding out from winter working in Oklahoma. Will be returning to Ohio where the computer is and where the dastardly deed took place sometime in next month or so.If the offer to help search still stands I'll look you up. Thanks
I had a Zip drive also. I got rid of it. Install a good CD burner, I like the TDK Velowriter, and copy the files to CDs. Then you can use the files at any later date, they store better than Zips, and with any computer with a CD player. The regular CDs are one use only but there are rewritable CDs that can be used for files that are updated regularly. The advantages include CDs being both larger, 100MB vs 700MB, cheaper and more reliable by than Zips and faster to both read and write. The CDs are large enough than copying an entire HD is practical and can be used as a alternate , if slower, HD.