Technology - the facilitator and frustrator of modern life.  I bought my husband a new PC and we have been struggling for the last two weeks (including most of the bank holiday weekend) to transfer stuff successfully.  Because it also involves a new version of Windows, we have now found that some things simply will no longer work and I have found that my beloved PC (running XP, bought in 2003) will cease to be supported in approx 700 days.  It worries me that we are losing a lot of information just because we will no longer have the ability to read it.

The external hard drive provided backup. but no longer worked with the new software.  She realised nothing is permanent, however hard we try to keep hold.