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User2468 · 23 Aug 2023

Digmor Crusher said:

privacy.com does not work outside the USA so a no go for most.
You give them your name, date of birth, email , address and link to a checking account, great.....until they get hacked.

Anything can get hacked, anything. In fact, thy use Plaid which is now being sued because of a hack. Chances are one if not all of your e-mail accounts are caught up in some database breach right now. You can find out at the haveibeenpwned website.

User2468 · 23 Aug 2023

x509 said:

Shame that this service is not available outside the US right now.

Yeah, they would have to use some sort of financial services company to facilitate non-U.S. transactions. I chose to pay for their service just so that all my transactions in my bank account say "NSA Gift Shop." LOL! So in this way it helps hide what and where I bought something.

dalchina · 07 Sep 2023

@JRO
Giveaway Genie Timeline Home 10 Serial Key Free Lifetime

- has 4 steps to get the free licence you say expired.

I can only guess something went wrong following the instructions about getting a key...

@F22Simpilot - comment in passing on your signature- Everything isn't a 100% replacement for or equivalent to Windows Search which also indexes content and supports extensive search syntax. As for 3rd party tools- Wise Jetsearch is incredibly fast - I was surprised- just ran it the once and tried a search.

User2468 · 08 Sep 2023

You're absolutely wrong by two thirds and a pint of hexafluorine. I use the Everything program as a MASSIVE power user in ways you can't fathom. Plus, the Everything program has regex ability. Plus, once Everything indexes the hard drive/s results are instantaneous. One could opt to keep Everything in the taskbar and running in the background, but I like to keep startup Apps at an absolute minimum.

And I never said it was a total search replacement. It's an "alternative" search replacement. But I chose to use it as a replacement and haven't used Windows indexing (it's off) ever since I started to use flash storage media...

User2468 · 08 Sep 2023

Relating to the topic of this thread, one might be interested in this: Duplicacy

Supported storage backends - How-to - Duplicacy Forum

There's also this: Duplicati

YMMV.

dalchina · 08 Sep 2023

@JRO
You asked

There's a question I've been wanting to ask you. You mentioned that you had taken an external drive (possibly for storing backups) and, in order to ensure its drive name would not be overwritten, you assigned it a letter near the end of the alphabet... I tried that and the letter was overwritten when I plugged it in. How did you manage to give the drive a letter (or a title??) that would not be overwritten?

You can only have one external drive assigned to a given drive letter at a time. If another is assigned the same letter and then plugged in, the first loses that assignment.

Provided you only have one drive assigned to a given drive letter, for the most part that is retained.
I have seen that assignment being lost occasionally despite that- no idea why- so simply did it again in Drive Management.

I have heard Macrium Reflect also lets you assign a backup drive based on its hardware id. You might wish to explore that.