On 12/25/10 10:11 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > The problem will be persuading her to take any interest beyond > knowing that *I* have some backup for her, somewhere ... (I always do one > before an upgrade -- and upgrade her machine last, in order to have seen > most common problems before I get to it.) Any experience with that one? hah. Last year, I got my wife a USB backup drive, and set it up for her laptop. showed her how to plug it in and start the backup program while she was doing other stuff (this is a Windows laptop). few months later, I ask hows the backup going? "oh, its fine, see, its right there->" (points to the drive sitting on her work table unplugged). k, when did you last back it up? "Oh, I thought you backed it up for me?". now, see, my wife is a tech writer, she's not a computer novice, she's been using them professionally for 30+ years, up to and including occasional unix shell usage. sigh.