Today's challenge: help my mom move her files from a Windows Vista laptop that weighs approximately 17kg to her iPad 😬 - ThreadSky

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cathrinew.net • 30 days ago

Today's challenge: help my mom move her files from a Windows Vista laptop that weighs approximately 17kg to her iPad 😬

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cathrinew.net•30 days ago

"Invalid certificate. Certificate is not valid until January 2025. It's now May 2005." 😂

cathrinew.net•30 days ago

Oooh, now we're getting prompted to update to Zune Software 4.8! 🎶

cathrinew.net•30 days ago

iCloud not supported in any Windows Vista browsers. Neither was Google Drive directly. Quickest and easiest solution was to zip up the files, send to self from Gmail to force upload to Google Drive, download to iCloud on iPad. Simple and manual still works. Happy mom now, yay 🥰

steinijonsson.com•30 days ago

She's probably using big fonts in those files and that's what is causing all the weight :-)

johncas.bsky.social•29 days ago

I have a Toshiba tecra. It has xp and an external floppy disk. But unfortunately the HDD has a non sata interface. It no longer works.

It does have a cd drive that works!

capemo.bsky.social•30 days ago

Good luck! What laptop is it?

cathrinew.net•30 days ago

Some kind of Toshiba brick 😅 Can read and burn CDs with it! 💿

jamescoulter.bsky.social•30 days ago

I feel your pain, I spent about a week trying to fix my wife’s Lenovo Windows 8 laptop (from ~2007) which had run out of storage space on the C: drive. Moved tons of files to an external USB drive and then uninstalled many apps and was then finally able to upgrade to Windows 11.

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