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Gabe wrote:Thank you all.
It looks like I irked one responder by asking this question. I don't have a literate computer friend at my disposal to ask. I thought this forum was to ask questions that are related to sleep apnea. No matter what,

I was afraid that you would take my suggestion the wrong way. I was not irked, I had absolutely to intention of offending you, and I'm very sorry you took it that way.

Copying files is a very basic procedure, and there are several ways of doing it in Windows. I really thought my suggestion of having someone show you how to do it was for the best, so that you don't mess something up. I have a neighbor who I help all the time with what often seem to me to be a simple procedure. Computers are complex tools, and it amazes me how everyday people are able to use them as well as they do.

Again, I'm sorry i offened you.

Gabe wrote:Thank you all.
It looks like I irked one responder by asking this question. I don't have a literate computer friend at my disposal to ask. I thought this forum was to ask questions that are related to sleep apnea. No matter what, it may not be important to some, but it is important to me. I may not use it now, but maybe later. The reason I asked is that there was a thread that specified to copy to the hard disk and that it should be done to save the data.

A dumb or stupid question is a question you don't ask and should've asked.

Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS to all. And thanks again.

George

Georg, to succeed on this board you need to develop a thick skin like this:

JeffL wrote:

Gabe wrote:Thank you all.
It looks like I irked one responder by asking this question. I don't have a literate computer friend at my disposal to ask. I thought this forum was to ask questions that are related to sleep apnea. No matter what,

I was afraid that you would take my suggestion the wrong way. I was not irked, I had absolutely to intention of offending you, and I'm very sorry you took it that way.

Copying files is a very basic procedure, and there are several ways of doing it in Windows. I really thought my suggestion of having someone show you how to do it was for the best, so that you don't mess something up. I have a neighbor who I help all the time with what often seem to me to be a simple procedure. Computers are complex tools, and it amazes me how everyday people are able to use them as well as they do.

Again, I'm sorry i offened you.

Apology accepted.

And one more thing for those of you who don't back up your data...

If you don't care about your old data, this won't matter to you. I suspect there is only a very small percentage of CPAP users who are so involved that they even look at their data.

However, for those of you who are really into collecting and keeping your data, it's often said that if the data does not exist in 3 places, it is not backed up. This applies to all data, including photos and down loaded music. Hard drives crash, computers break, SD cards are not going to last forever, thefts, fires and floods happen. My important data is on my internal hard drive, and occasionally backed up to an external hard drive. Photos are additionally burned onto a DVD and kept at another location, and it's all backed up daily to an off site location by Carbonite, (where ever they are) because if the house burns, the data goes up in smoke.

The purpose of collecting old data is to build and see trending for analysis. Those of us in the analytically inclined lot like to see this and try and look for correlation to other items.

As far as looking at last night and seeing why things happened, yes that is more likely more important, but again, to each is own.

John