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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 20:58:04 GMT
Problems started because besides ebay I also do Ancestry.com--genealogy. I kept my millions of records on Ancestry online--now they've dropped a bomb on us and I HAVE to get all my stuff off there and onto a software program. Trying to keep this short but apparently I have to buy a software program from them to GET my stuff off and it takes 675 mb hard disk for installation and 1 gb for memory. (Not much idea of what this means). I also have to buy another software program to put my millions of records on once I get them OFF Ancestry by using that other software.  Nightmare stuff for me. So one person I called at the "good" software place, which I will eventually be using, said to open up space on my computer I should put my EBAY pictures on a flash drive. Can this work? I have pictures that I haven't used yet--I will need them on my computer, won't I? what about the pictures that I already have of current listings? When those listings end and I want to relist, does ebay still have the pictures? Or is ebay still grabbing them from my computer? And for ended listings, if we have to wait ONE MONTH to see if we're going to get something returned, don't I have to save the pictures just in case I have to prove my case? Is it really safe to ditch all these ebay photos? Or which ones can I ditch? Or do I put them onto a flash drive? If so, when? My computer says it has 577 gb free of 653 gb hard drive and 9.53 gb free of 25.4. Whatever that means. Thanks. Hope this makes sense. |
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Post by labbypaws on Dec 14, 2015 22:03:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 22:23:24 GMT
Problems started because besides ebay I also do Ancestry.com--genealogy. I kept my millions of records on Ancestry online--now they've dropped a bomb on us and I HAVE to get all my stuff off there and onto a software program. Trying to keep this short but apparently I have to buy a software program from them to GET my stuff off and it takes 675 mb hard disk for installation and 1 gb for memory. (Not much idea of what this means). I also have to buy another software program to put my millions of records on once I get them OFF Ancestry by using that other software. Nightmare stuff for me. So one person I called at the "good" software place, which I will eventually be using, said to open up space on my computer I should put my EBAY pictures on a flash drive. Can this work? I have pictures that I haven't used yet--I will need them on my computer, won't I? what about the pictures that I already have of current listings? When those listings end and I want to relist, does ebay still have the pictures? Or is ebay still grabbing them from my computer? And for ended listings, if we have to wait ONE MONTH to see if we're going to get something returned, don't I have to save the pictures just in case I have to prove my case? Is it really safe to ditch all these ebay photos? Or which ones can I ditch? Or do I put them onto a flash drive? If so, when? My computer says it has 577 gb free of 653 gb hard drive and 9.53 gb free of 25.4. Whatever that means. Thanks. Hope this makes sense. Newengland, I bought the family tree maker software on eBay for around $10 a few years ago when I cancelled my sub and wanted everything backed up on my computer - it probably wasn't the newest version but worked just fine. If you have 500-some gbs free one GB to do your download is nothing.What's up with ancestry I was thinking about renewing and getting back to work. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 22:32:43 GMT
As to some of your other questions - you can keep your unused photos on the flash drive and just have it plugged in and navigate to it when you do the listing. As long as your ended listings are still in eBay's database you don't need to reupload them and ebay isn't accessing your computer for them. If you wait a year and redo the listing from scratch you would need them. that said I keep mine long after the item is gone too.
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Post by zoesam on Dec 15, 2015 0:50:56 GMT
What Fashion said. You can keep them on a flash drive if you wish.
Ebay only "grabs" the pics from your PC (& it can grab them from the flash drive) the first time you list an item.
Understand that it may longer to upload listings from a flash drive though.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 0:51:25 GMT
You look like you have plenty of room on your computer but an external hardrive would be a good idea if you have a lot of online data and photos on ancestry.com. I have a 1tb one I just plug into my USB drive. I use it for movies that I convert to play on my smart TV. So I convert them from DVD into a file that will play on my tv. Then transfer it onto the hard drive, plug it into the back of the tv and we can access our video library directly from there.
You wouldn't need one that large but it wouldn't hurt to buy a big one if you plan to continue to add to it.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 15, 2015 1:54:25 GMT
Agree with PEEK - The external drive will act exactly like your hard disc - no matter what kind of a drive you get (thumb drive, jump or whatever), it'll always act the same with the same directory structure. But a regular hard drive will be more robust with more room. I'd invest in that before anything.
You can use it for back-up, too.
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Post by unknown on Dec 15, 2015 2:00:08 GMT
Don't panic and don't buy anything. You have 2 hard drives and each of them has more than enough space available for everything you need to get from ancestry.
If you have a gmail account, you could also use the gdrive to hold the stuff from ancestry.
If at some point in the future when you have time to think about it and look at stufff, it might be a good idea to get an external drive for backup but it's not necessary.
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Post by zoesam on Dec 15, 2015 2:06:08 GMT
Agree on the external drives for backups. We have multiple externals for both on site & off site bkups. Most households don't do off site bkups, but having both been in IT for most of our lives, we feel bkups are super important.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 15, 2015 4:16:45 GMT
You can also put your eBay pics in a photohosting account, like Photobucket or Imgur.
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Post by unknown on Dec 15, 2015 4:59:00 GMT
And you don't need to ditch ANY photos. You've got a half terabyte free space on your drives - you could almost host photobucket, for pete's sake - that's a LOT of empty space.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 1:20:10 GMT
I would be sure to back up the ancestry ones somewhere other than on your computer. Either on photobucket, a flash drive, external or whatever. Would hate for you to lose all that work if your hard drive crashed. Been there before, will never be there again.
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Nightmare stuff for me.
