On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:29:45 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:


What makes you think that if she couldn't use a USB memory stick she
could connect an external drive and click the 'use backup' button
(what use back up button?).

this isn't specifically about her, but it really isn't very difficult.
if she can't handle it, someone else in the household can.

This is slightly hilarious. You are now accepting the possibility that
she might not be able to handle a task. At the same time you are
asserting that there *will* be someone else in the house to handle it.

you're assuming again.

I'm not. I'm making explicit your assumption, that there will be
someone else in the house to handle it.

how did she manage to plug the computer into mains power and set it up?
that is a *lot* more steps than for time machine.

What kind of idiotic question is that? If she's plugged in an iron or
a toaster, she knows what is to be done with a power cord. If she
needs it "set up", the store where she bought it will do that.

What do "steps" have to do with anything?


How did she manage to do these things as well as setting up and
connecting to her network connection? I have no idea but can only
presume that someone did it for her.

then that someone can connect a hard drive and click a button for her.

This is past the point of ridiculousness.

then what do you suggest eric's sister do, given that she is incapable
of such tasks, according to eric?

The ridiculousness is that you refer to "automatic" back-ups being so
simple and completely ignore that the back-up procedure is only
automatic *after* it is set up for automatic back-ups. There is
nothing automatic about setting it up, and there are choices to be
made that the sister is not capable of understanding. You think she
knows if she wants an incremental or differential back-up?

Then you refer to connecting an external hard drive. Why would a
person who can't figure out how to view images on a USB stick want or
have an external drive? And, that means she'd be backing up on C, and
that's hardly any protection from loss.

My suggestion would be to Eric, not the sister: Send the USB stick
and include clear, step-by-step written instructions. There's no
reason to think that the sister isn't capable of following clear
instructions.

What's she's not capable of or interested in - evidently - is figuring
it out on her own.

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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida