Thursday, December 27, 2007

Christmas Night - Quest for BUMP 6.0

My daughter is on her flight home and we are back at it.

A quest to find at any cost a copy of version 6.0 BUMP (Backup MyPC).

I search the internet any thread remotely related. I see that Roxio is selling BUMP 2006 but it doesn't say what version it is and of course no one responds in support. It is Christmas after all, not that I would get a faster response if it was the middle of summer.

Finally I see a couple threads in the Sonic forum in Roxio Community that tend to indicate it might be version 6.0. Hell it is only $50 - let's give it a try.

So about 10pm I place my order via credit card. I am told I will get an email from Digital River with the download instructions. I wait and wait.... Nada.

I try searching Roxio Unsupport - can't get squat. Finally I head off to bed feeling truly beaten.

3am - I am wide awake, so let's check and see if my order has gone through. Nope -- I try searching on the order number, finally something I do kicks out an email to me and a download link.

I open it up and install the software. I fire it up - it looks the same! WOW it is version 6.0!!!

HOORAY!

I decide before I do anything else I just want to restore the data files - so I set it up for a restore and head back to bed...time check about 4:30.

Up for work at 7 I first check the computer and sure enough the files are out there - and I can see a lot of them, I can open them. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

So now that I got that to work. Lets do the full restore, reboot, and things will be back to normal like this week never happened.

WRONG! I set up the restore and when I come back from work at lunch I find....

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