Well I want to thank you all, plus, I have to say back up everything! Including email addresses. In Nov. I lost everything, pictures of family and school events, 300 email addresses and let me tell you , I cried all day on Thanksgiving. My brother a computer wiz tried and could not restore. My mom board burnt up. I now have two hard drives and will back up once a week onto cd. I felt like I lost my life. We can't depend on computers to save us!
I have a lot of drive space (two drives) and I store them all in a folder in My Documents. Then they are seperated again. For example, first folder is titled PTA- then I have one folder for Council, State, different schools..
I then have in them, folders such as Templates (blanks that can be reproduced or e-mailed out) Involvement, folders that are event specific.
I'd literally die (okay but I would lose it big time) if anything happened to my computer. I have it protected like fort knox. My only downfall is I don't back up to disk as often as I should but it's a good idea to copy these folders to a CD, tape or a floppy if you don't have a burner or a tape drive.
I'm not all that good with computers so what I do is copy the info I want to keep-because I don't usually need the whole post-and paste it into a word file and name it something to do with PTO. I wouldn't put it on the desktop because that slows down your computer. If you just find it all to frustrating, there is a link on all of the posting pages that allows you to get a printer friendly version. I have printed topics before when it is something we are discussing in our group because the pros and cons are usually right there for you to hand out to everyone for duscussion or to file away for a later day.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
Not everything. You can also use folders on your disks. What you think is most important is what you should back up on your computer. Also I like to have hard copies around to leave for the next person and share with other members. So you can make some hard copies if you have a file cabinet or something like that. I don't print out everything though. Then when I do loose it, because that is just the kind of gal I am, I come back on here and ask for it again. LOL!
ok, so everything I download from PTOTODAY,
I copy to my documents and then to folders.
I then should back them up onto CD for future use? I am on information overload. My exec. board is baffled and confused with all these ideas!
Thank you for your input.
Lisa
Well I am Mrs. Unorganized, but I do keep everything on floppys. I would use CDs, but apparently I am not that intellegent. CDs work better because floppies can go at anytime. I've done that before. So if it is really important I keep it in a PTO subfolder which I keep under a folder with just my name. Actually I have two or three. Then you can make sub folders under those.
