Bob Peterson
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Yes, you must buy password management for Windows. I think mine started off free, and I eventually paid 20 or 30 bucks for a more advanced version. The advantage is that there is a much smaller profile to be attacked. In the Apple world, it is a monolithic target that everyone knows you are using. It is a big target on your back. In my world, I hope my software is essentially invisible to the attackers. It is fully encrypted, and I am able to incorporate my best understanding of a strong password. It strikes me as conceit for Apple to think that it can think better than everyone else, and come up with better answers than everyone else. I like the Windows world where many different people compete, and there are many good ideas percolating their way to the top of the heap. That, in my view, is much more likely to produce the best answers and solutions.
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Then I don’t see the advantage. There are many products that do continuous backups. Personally, I am not concerned if the Win boot drive crashes. It is a simple matter to replace that drive, and reinstall Windows. All of my applications and data are located on other drives, and all of my data is backed up on secondary drives. The difference is that my machine is not bogged down doing continuous backups. I could run it that way, but I choose to avoid that overhead. I decide what and when to backup, and therein lies the difference between Apple and Windows. I make those decisions. The OS doesn’t force me into its mold.
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Sorry John, but I haven’t even thought about things like SMTP or POP3 since the days of 1800 baud modems. I would hate to think that your use of Windows had not advanced beyond that point. These days in Windows, you tell it to connect to a particular internet provider, and, with the correct ID and password, its done. Email is accessed through a browser, and Windows doesn’t have much to do with it. It’s even easier with a direct broadband connection. No fuss, no muss, no bother. Windows just does it.
If you are on Wifi, you need to learn to set your own encryption key. However, if Apple does not require the same thing, I would not trust the security at all. Only a foolish person leaves things at their default values. That is where I think Apple will get nailed one of these days. Hackers will slide through default values in security, and you will never know that they are there. I suspect most Apple users never even think about good security.
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I call it the cool aid. 😉
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While restoration from the cloud sounds nice, this old PC user has seen a lot come and go. What happens when the cloud is hacked, as it will be, or when the server with your backup crashes and burns? There are all sorts of scenarios for what can happen to your data when it is sitting on someone else’s equipment. However, my guess is that you, as a cautious man, already has those bases covered.
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I don’t do anything special in Windows to accomodate SVP. I went from SVP 10 to 12 so I have no experience with 11, and I am skipping 13 as well. To conserve space on the SSD (my first SSD was fairly small), I do install as much of my applications as I can on D: which is a normal hard drive. I cannot imagine that having any effect at all on how well SVP runs.
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You will, in the absence of ultimate serendipity, always lose part of your image unless the image is letter boxed so that you cannot see the details quite as well. It is far better to make an intelligent choice as to what you want to show in the space available, but that will require you to understand that different formats have different spaces. Perhaps it is best for you to let the software fit it in as best it can, and be satisfied with that.
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It would, of course, be far better to have an actual back up to fall back on. My current backup program is Acronis True Image which has saved me on several occasions. Windows backup/restore has not been particularly effective in most cases.
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Have you tried accessing the templates with a previous project where you know they were available and that they worked? If they show up for the previous project, perhaps there is something different about this gopro file.
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Was there some sort of agreement as part of getting the free version of Win 10 that would force you to install it? If not, it is strictly your choice. Even if there was an agreement, I would not install it if I thought there was any remote possibility that it would adversely affect my machine or software. That is a strong possibility with version 1 of anything.