00:12:15 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:16:34 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Bootloaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgla4yeCXw 00:17:16 Carol Pearson: what is a boot loader 00:21:37 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Patch Tuesday Blog https://patchtuesday.com/ 00:23:04 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Wi-Fi extenders https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20241218_PowerPoint.pdf 00:28:14 Steve Parker: I gave up on extenders and went with mesh routers 00:30:15 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OneDrive client for Linux release notes https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/releases/tag/v2.5.6 00:31:35 Tom Trottier: You can set up google alerts on a query - https://www.google.com/alerts 00:32:38 Tom Trottier: We may all end up in an URN.... 00:32:50 Natalie: Reacted to "We may all end up in..." with 🀣 00:32:53 Jeff Dubois: Alan, if you use FileZilla Pro version you can access your OneDrive account but each time you run it you will have to login to the OneDrive account with your credentials. Of course you don't get real-time synchronization but it's an option from Linux. 00:34:46 Natalie: Replying to "You can set up googl..." Are the search parameters specific words, phrases, URL? 00:34:48 Tom Trottier: Jeff, what is the difference, besides $, between FileZilla pro & free FileZilla? 00:35:24 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Getting rid of OneDrive sync https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9l1WDgJVAw https://askleo.com/my-onedrive-free-experiment/ https://askleo.com/product/all-about-onedrive-online-course/ https://askleo.com/tag/onedrive/ 00:37:43 Tom Trottier: Replying to "You can set up googl..." I believe any google search query with Boolean, quotes, .... 00:38:49 Tom Trottier: de fault belongs to MS 00:40:51 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Don’t Rely on System Restore (maybe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxFh4puWAD0 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/system-restore-a5ae3ed9-07c4-fd56-45ee-096777ecd14e https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-recovery-environment-0eb14733-6301-41cb-8d26-06a12b42770b 00:45:56 Tom Trottier: The restore file is for each disk, and is stored on that disk. 00:50:01 Tom Trottier: Or perhaps "volume" 00:52:12 Tom Trottier: System Restore worked for me multiple times. 00:52:14 Bob Herres: TY Chris for your review of System Restore! πŸ’— Well Done! I use it every now and then Eg: Before I try anything "new" I usually "Create a New Restore Point" with a note βœ… (It has saved me before) 00:53:17 Tom Trottier: The way it works, i believe, is using the NTFS log / shadow copies. 00:53:43 Tom Trottier: Disk image much better! 00:55:17 Harvey Hope: System Restore works well when the computer is significantly affected by virus or malware infection. 00:57:23 Tom Trottier: Easiest to try first 00:59:26 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Disk Imaging – Part 1 - Backup https://www.easeus.com/download/tbf-download.html 01:05:08 E O'Driscoll: I just did an EaseUS image backup recently. It seemed to work but I was confused by the options File / Disk / OS/ Apps data. I think I backed up OS. I'll retry. 01:05:46 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: You don't want to backup just the OS. Go for the full drive and select every physical disks you want to back up. 01:06:17 E O'Driscoll: OK thanks. At least I now have slides to reference. 01:07:09 Tom Trottier: If the backup succeeded, why no change in space on backup drive? 01:08:37 jenn faubert: how much space do you need to back up? do you need to check that first to ensure your external drive can take the data 01:10:06 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: No magic number for size. Generally, there is a bit of compression that happens, but not much. The program won't try to tell you in advance. The backup will just fail if it runs out of space. You can configure tasks so it will only keep a certin number of backup sets etc to do automatic cleanup of your backup files 01:11:51 Tom Trottier: for the 208GB the pdb size was 107GB 01:13:28 Harvey Hope: Replying to "for the 208GB the p..." Tom, I believe the 107GB represents used space. 01:14:51 Tom Trottier: Replying to "for the 208GB the p..." No, the disk size was 254GB 01:14:58 Tom Trottier: Replying to "for the 208GB the p..." source 01:15:09 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG presentations at the OPL https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/program?text=pc+users 01:15:47 Carol Pearson: Lynda's Newfoundland was very good! Thank you 01:16:06 Bob Herres: Thank you Alan & Chris! Great content throughout! πŸ‘ 01:16:22 Natalie: My branch said that they hadn't received the current list to choose from. 01:16:51 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: It is likely to be sent out from Emily (main organizer) within the next couple of weeks 01:17:05 Natalie: Is there a way to know what has been offered to hte branches in order to ask for specific presentations at a specific branch? 01:17:13 Carol Pearson: thanks 01:17:16 E O'Driscoll: Thanks for the backup info. I'll refer to the slides. 01:17:59 widya: thank you 01:18:00 E O'Driscoll: Thanks for all the presentations.