Computer Follies

I was pretty close to having a meltdown in that I know I had backed up everything in my MailStore archives, but I wasn't able to find it anywhere.  It finally turned up thankfully.  Now it is definitely easier merging two databases if I had MailStore Server, but you have to pay for that.  I am going to see if I can get it to work with the freeware version, but I have saved off the new archive (of the recent emails I haven't been able to back up for months), in case something goes wrong, as it likely will...

It terms of overall priorities, I would say it is getting Total Recorder back up and running, and then the wav editor I use.  I'd like to get Calibre reinstalled soon, as well as Kindle_for_PC and then probably iTunes.  I'm pretty sure I do remember my password for iTunes.  For whatever reason, I had to plug in my password every week or so, so I got increasingly salty towards Apple. 

So there was a snag, as there always is with MailStore in that it upgraded to version 25 recently, which means that old archives are invalid.  It's possible to downgrade to 24.2, which I did but it isn't entirely clear how to then export the files into the new format.  I'm sure it is possible, and at least my old emails (from as far back as 2011) are still saved, which is what I really cared about, even though some of the even older emails are in a not particularly useful format.  I think what I will do is rerun the archiving of my current email, which seems a bit stupid, but it will combine newish emails with what was already archived, and then I'll figure out how to move the whole enchilada over to version 25, though not for a month or two I suspect.

I had some image editing program I liked - Irfanview or something like that.  And a PDF editing software that was useful - I think it was PDF Split And Merge Basic.  And there is supposed to be a way to restore the MS Tif editor (MOBI?), so I'll see if that is still possible in Windows 11.  I will probably reload Beyond 2020 which is a special software used to look at Census data files (from the Canadian Census) and 7 Zip. And I guess LibreOffice, though I don't use it all that much.  Oh, and I guess Comic Rack to read cbr files.

The last rolling update for the evening.  TotalRecorder was pitching a bit of a fit, but I finally got it up and running.  One added bonus was the registration key I had (from an email in that archive from nearly 10 years ago!) still worked, so I am golden.  

I think I'll just download a few more of the missing programs but actually install them in a day or two.