I have D spec 'Windermere' x National White but it's not called 'Trevbor'. Someone must have named it after I got mine. Still waiting for first bloom. Nice flower. -----'species snobs' 'something so small you need glasses to see the flower'---- We get a raffle ticket for each display flower we bring to the meeting. They go into a special can and a seperate drawing takes place before the ordinary people get a crack at the plant table. The other day I filled a plastic carrying tray with a whole bunch of Rain Forest species. Lepanthes, Stelis, Pleuros etc. All in bloom but all had tiny flowers. I even included a magnifying lense. The raffle ticket queen anounced she could not possibly give me a ticket for all these plants as you can't even see the flowers. I had to fight for my rights but did not win in the drawing anyway. Nick

Carol, hopefully others will come along with their ideas so you can pick the best of the bunch that suits your style. I am like Randy and use Acronis True Image, mine is version 7, for my backups. You would need something similar for the initial backup. I got mine when Acronis made it a free offer for a while. The idea was to get us to use it then buy the upgrade, a nice ploy too but I have stayed with version 7 so far. Regarding the timed backups of your personal data you might consider creating one folder for your work with sub folders for each program you use rather than allow each to store their work where they want it. Then it is a simple matter of copying that folder with all it's sub folders to the external drive any old time your heart desires. Using the method I have described you will overwrite the previously saved data folder. You will be prompted to agree to overwrite so you then have a choice of renaming the folder if you want more than one copy of your saved work.

drive #1 is 80gb. almost full. drive #2 is 320gb. maybe 50% full. i thought putting in original drive might change system performance. kid said save original drive in case we needed to find old data. has original OS on it since it was the oem drive. mac should boot up ok with it? no reason really to not wipe it. not sure where the os discs are. i think mac's came with install disc in 08?

I recently lost the hard drive on my computer. I had made recovery disks when I first bought the computer and had made backups of all my documents, pictures, music etc. shortly before this happened. If I had had Acronis or some other system that clones the entire drive, I would have had a much easier time. As it was, once I removed the dead drive and installed a new one, I used the recovery disks to reinstall the operating system back to 2002. That meant I had many updates to do over. Fortunately, I had a SP2 disk from MS, so I used that and then over a period of about a week I installed all the more recent updates. Yes, I had to reinstall all my programs, that can't be avoided, but it was not an impossible task. I now have Acronis True Image and have a complete backup on an external hard drive, so if catastrophe strikes again, the job will be much less painful. If Carbonite does include the operating system, your job should not be difficult at all. Get a new hard drive, install it, and go to work. Good luck!