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Thomas Gonder 
It's so true what Richard said about the 70s and learning. I first touched a Trash-80 in university. However, there was hell to pay when we crashed it (or the Burroughs mainframe.) However with PCs being personal today, and great backup software (I like one from an M company that is called R - if Richard agrees, he can add the names), there's no excuse not to try things. I have restored countless times my (or some elses) entire laptop after a bad boo boo. Access is pretty forgiving if YOU DO THOSE BACKUP SAVES!

I'm glad that Richard didn't post any of my lazy questions from the past few weeks. I'm sure there's been a few. The big problem for some of us, is we just don't yet know how to ask the questions. I've got some old Microsoft Access manuals that say and show some really stupid stuff--leaving me even more confused. And then some things change between versions, making some of the classes that are over ten years old a bit dated.

My brother and I, when kids, loved tearing apart some old appliance that my dad threw in the trash. My friends and I did the same with cars, literally tearing one wrecked Pantera down to the pieces, nuts and bolts then putting it back together again (from design blueprints). This kind of fearlessness has served me over the years in software development.

Do, then ask. Try it, you'll like it.
Richard Rost 
Trash-80. Ha ha. Haven't heard it called that in a long time - usually by Commodore users.

Backup software: feel free to post the names if you want. I don't mind. Me, personally, I use Google Drive for my regular files. It keeps a copy "in the cloud" and also keeps version history in case I edited a document a week ago and need the older version. As far as my databases go, that's separate: Backup.

How to ask the questions: yes, that is definitely the challenge. That's one of the reasons why I'm trying to make videos for everything that people ask me... so they show up in search results. :)

Stupid stuff in Access manuals: I won't name any titles or authors, but I've purchased pretty much every Access book on the market over the past 30 years, and you could tell that some of them were written by people who barely knew Access and were maybe Excel experts that just got handed a writing assignment. Awful stuff.

Tearing things apart: I used to love tearing electronics apart... until I got older with bad eyesight. Now I stick to software. If it involves a screwdriver, I toss it and get another one. LOL
Thomas Gonder 
I use Macrium Reflect. I can't use the cloud for my unreliable and slow Internet connection. (And because I don't trust the cloud.)
Macrium has just about everything I could want for backup. They have a great price when you buy for a bundle of PCs. They even have a free version (although it's slower).

The best part, once you get used to it, do backups every day according to a schedule, you have almost unlimited ways to recover from any recent point in time. My typical incremental backups run daily in less than five minutes covering more than 1TB of data. I can recover an entire system or just one file going back to any day in the past three months.

https:\\www.macrium.com/reflectfree (change the slashes)
Richard Rost 
Interesting. I've never used that product before. I like Google Drive because it will also perform an incremental backup as files are changed. It doesn't matter if you have a slow or unreliable Internet connection. It will keep trying and backup your files eventually. For average every-day users, it's just fine. Even if you've got big video files like me, they still all backup eventually. If you don't trust the cloud, then just ZIP your sensitive files with a password. Problem solved. :)
Ramona Woitas 
Richard you are 100% correct with regards to google.  In fact sometimes the kids will ask me questions that I know the answer to, or think I do, but I am not 100% sure my answer is correct.  Either way, I look at the kids and say, "I don't  know for sure.  Why don't you Google that sh.t.

I constantly use google to get answers to my questions.  My title at work is the IT Coordinator (what a joke), and forms, policies, procedures, etc.  However because of my title "IT", staff assume I just know how to fix it.  I don't have any formal training, and never received any on the work training for this part of my job either.  So everything I have learned about computers and software, has either been with google, figuring it out with lots of research, or trial and error.  Google has become my best friend!  lol!  

I can relate to what Richard is saying in a few ways.  When I have taken the time to find an answer myself, the odds of me remembering it goes up tremendously, as opposed to someone telling me the answer.  I often have staff asking me questions that they could have very easily found the answer on google too (like I did).  In this case they are either too lazy to look it up, or consider it beyond them to do so.  Either way, I end up writing a procedure and sending it to them, so I can quickly deal with the email.  lol

With that said, I also agree with what Thomas said about access and manuals, but that also includes google at times too.  I have been following (off and on) Richards website for almost 10 years.  Google is great for looking up information, but the information is only as good as the person's knowledge that wrote it.  So I often find myself thinking, "what would Richard do?"  Other times I search google for an answer, and their video shows something that I know Richard said, "I don't recommend it", so I stop watching the google video.

For some of us, writing a database isn't an easy feat, and something that Richard can do in 15 minutes or half an hour can take us a whole day or more.  Designing, mapping, finding the time to do it all, and then trying to remember where you left off when you find time again.  So as a result I come back to Richard's website and post my question.  So I guess I am apologizing in advance for myself.  lol

BTW - I love the Templates and have been working on creating my own to save me tons of time, and ABCD is absolutely .... Awesome!

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