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   On Fri, 2/13/2026 11:23 AM, micky wrote:   
   > In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:04:39 +1100, Daniel70   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/02/2026 11:00 pm, micky wrote:   
   >>> In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:13:42 +1100, Daniel70   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> On 12/02/2026 11:04 am, micky wrote:   
   >>>>> In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 11 Feb 2026 16:27:40 GMT, Frank Slootweg   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>>>>    BTW, I don't understand your comment "backing up all my data except   
   >>>>>> maybe the stuff in the User folder"! Why wouldn't you backup your \Users   
   >>>>>> folder?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Because I'm a jackass, and until recently I don't think I kept anything   
   >>>>> there. I can fix that before I leave.   
   >>>   
   >>> Okay, I fixed it already.  It only has stuff that I recently sent to the   
   >>> pc from the phone using bluetooth, and then allowed the files to go to   
   >>> the default location   
   >>   
   >> Hmm! I'll learn how to do that one day. ;-)   
   >   
   > For when that time comes, things to remember:   
   >   
   > It wasn't easy.   
   > You have to do things in the PC to get it ready to receive.   
   > You have to click on the icon in the systray and then click on Receive a   
   > file.   
   > And they are serious when they use the singular form.  You have to do   
   > that again for each file, although I think you can do several in   
   > advance.   
   > You have to then acknowledge receipt by clicking on Save or browsing to   
   > the directory you want to put it in.   
   >   
   > Sending an email seems easier, and I did that easily from the Text app   
   > recently, but when I tried to do that from the same app before then, it   
   > didn't work, twice, in different ways.   Maybe it didn't work when I   
   > used Gmail and did work when I used my email Fastmail.  Can't keep track   
   >   
      
   You can gather up a tree of stuff into a single solid file   
   and shoot it across the room, right ? You have the skills   
   Obiwan. I would say "tar" or "zip" but I'd likely use   
   something else, but you get the idea.   
      
   As far as I know, the transmission now may have compression   
   capability, but it is likely better to be compressing   
   any "big things" before transmission. For example, when I had   
   a 200MB text file listing (with file paths in it), that   
   would have taken an eternity to shoot across Bluetooth.   
   But by compressing it before transmission, it was 5MB and   
   went fairly quickly. The link compression, could not possibly   
   be that good (the dictionary the other method uses is 600MB   
   in size, other compressors use smaller dictionaries than that).   
      
   Any time I have a machine air gapped, I might be messing   
   around with this for fun.   
      
   If I needed to capture my Downloads folder, well, that's too big,   
   but I think you can see I could make a solid file out of that,   
   and compress it while making that solid file ("micky.zip").   
      
   Years ago, a Wifi standard at the time, allowed the Wifi to be   
   used to augment Bluetooth. On that old OS, FSquirt would have   
   run like quicksilver. But thanks to technology and progress,   
   we're robbed of that today. We can't even do that much. The basic idea   
   is, to make it look "attractive" to be using the Cloud, instead   
   of efficiently shooting stuff across the room.   
      
      Paul   
      
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