"Mayayana" on Sat, 9 Mar 2019 09:44:22 -0500
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:

But it also depends on how important the data
is to you. Most people I know don't really care if their
computer goes down. The only "data" they have is
stored on gmail. Most people still don't use computers
to do their taxes, edit photos, write documents, etc.
The last time I had to fix someone's computer, she
was only worried about the pictures of her grandkids.
"Where are they?", I asked. "In my email." I knew
by that that she was talking about her gmail account.
She'd never even saved out copies of the photos to her
computer!

And probably never thought to maybe, print the favorite ones.

"That CD looks great over the sofa." said nobody.

One of my concerns is that while I have ~15,000 books, the vast
majority of them are e-books of some sort.
So, nothing to sort through, nothing to look at, just all the
pictures, books and music on a computer drive, and the heirs can just
junk it all in one fell swoop, because the computer is obsolete and
running an antique version of Windows. Never mind if they might have
grabbed some of the books, photos and albums if they had been held
physically in their hands.



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