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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Son's Computer Build Woes
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:09:05 -0800
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On 12/31/2024 3:53 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> I think I've got it all working now.
> 
> TL;DR:
> 
> 1. Don't buy cases with GLASS panels (I didn't even realize it was 
> glass, the one I bought for me is plexiglass)
> 
> 2. F Google keeping your bookmarks in the cloud.  (I've actually had it 
> lose them all for people a couple times at work too!)  Export them to 
> back them up.
> 
> 3. F Onedrive taking over your filesystem (It's been working pretty well 
> at work, but it was an unmitigated disaster on my son's personal PC)
> 
> 4. Don't buy a CPU with built in GPU if you can avoid it and you're 
> planning to use discrete.
> 
> 
> The LONG:
> 
> Putting it all together was pretty easy.  I installed windows 11 pro. 
> Updated all the drivers.
> 
> I brought over what I could, but he uses FL Studio (Audio studio of some 
> sort) and that screwed it up where the most important plug in wouldn't 
> work.  Also got a bunch of errors that files weren't there when 
> transferring the data.
> 
> Wiped it, started over and brought very little over.
> 
> Had an issue where Chrome wiped out all his favorites after he signed 
> in.  I tried to get the bookmarks from the old computer, but they were 
> missing from where I saved them on the desktop when I popped the drive 
> in the new one, back and forth several times and I finally figured out 
> onedrive had somehow taken over his desktop, only the desktop wasn't 
> there in onedrive, so the files just disappeared until I booted it back 
> up.  I eventually figured to put in in a folder on the root of c, and 
> got them.
> 
> Chrome would wipe them out though replacing them with nothing every time 
> I tried.  I loaded them up offline on the old computer, exported from 
> them and brought them over, but somehow it picked up thousands of old 
> bookmarks and not the few he wanted.  We ended up just deleting them.
> 
Sounds like you should have wiped Chrome.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.