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I bought a copy of Adobe 9.0 on ebay for $75. Since it came with a license key, I could upgrade for less than the full acrobat price, but still not cheap.
I upgraded to XI and took it as a business expense. This current version is really powerful, including editing existing compete pdf files (not scanned) without having to go to OCR and taking a set of files and creating one pdf file from them. Great for combining a series of screenshots.

There is a Chrome extensiion and a Firefox addon that put a link in a password protected website that you can come back to and find the name of the article and the link. It’s called Instapaper. It has two functions “Read Later” and “instapaper”. The first will save your page link. Just so you don”t panic, in Chrome your screen goes black and “Saved” shows up. The second will take you to a login page after which you will see all your saved pages. You just click on them to open.
Instapaper works really well and you can a paid version (really cheap) to store more links. You can email a link to someone from you screen and make folders for filing your link. All told it’s an amazing app for little money.

I use a belts and suspenders system. Dashlane is my password manager. Access to the program is of course password protected. It has a few sites where it blows the password process as noted above. Adding passwords to new sites is trouble free and it will suggest strong passwords during the process.

However, long before a password manager and to replace index cards I put all my sites passwords in a table on a Word file. I still add to it even if a new one is stored in Dashlane. The Word file is stored in an encrypted usb drive which is password protected.

Sounds complicated but only takes a couple of minutes.

Have you verified that the same version of your file has been backed up on both destinations? As I understand Window files have an archive attribute. (From Wikipedia “Archive Bit”) “On Windows and OS/2, when a file is created or modified, the archive bit is set, and when the file has been backed up, the archive bit is cleared. It is by use of the archive bit that incremental backups are implemented.

Backup software also provides the option to do a full backup while clearing archive bits – that is, to back up all files regardless of their archive bit status, and to clear the archive bit of all files processed by the backup. This allows for the creation of an initial full backup that will be supplemented by incremental backups in the future.”

So if your first software clears the bit when you back up, how does your second software know to back it up.

I have to support the NAS solution mentioned early in the thread. For years I used on-line backup, first Dell’s version which disappeared, AVG Live Kive which created a huge MGb file in my AppData folder, which they could never explain, then CrashPlan, which claimed that you could backup both locally and online with the backups synced. The only problems were, when I used my NAS drive for local I had to create a special connection to it using a command batch file with mklink. Of course, when my hard drive crashed I couldn’t get the connection back again. To add insult to injury, the onlinerestore process skipped files that their algorithm judged as inactive and I had to go to my online file structure and reactivate all the files.

My current backup consists of data backup and imaging using Acronis True Image 2014 on the NAS drive with incremental backups. I do a twice a month image using Windows disc imaging on an external USB drive. Since we live in an apartment building, fire and flooding are less a risk, files on the NAS are encrypted and I have enough security software and settings to make me feel OK.

What hasn’t been mentioned in these articles is how your backup choice affects your restore choice and when you make an image drive in Windows you are asked if you want to create a system disk and you have to say yes, otherwise you are out luck. You only have to do this once. Similarly if you use a third party backup software you need to know how to restore the disc/data and keep a hard copy of the users manual.

I’ve had the same error on, dare I say it, Chrome. Windows trouble shooting responds with “DNS server not accessible. While this is a brand new problem I’m only having in the last two months, I’ve found one fairly quick but not quite permanent solution.

Click the Start button.
Enter cmd in the Start menu search field.
Right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator.
Type the following command and press Enter: ipconfig /flushdns
If the command was successful, you will see the following message:
Windows IP configuration successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

Then ipconfig /release
and ipconfig /restore

This has replaced my frequent loss of my internet connection which was corrected by updated my firmware.

It’s always something, isn’t it?