4/12/23 - I'm baaaack!
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (178877)
United States
April 12, 2023 6:56am CST
Finally, after a month of sitting on the phone with Dell, I called Netgear to check out my router since Dell said they had run out of options. I paid $49; and then the tech spent 2 hours checking out my router and didn't find anything. She then passed me along to a higher level tech support. After another 2 hours, the brilliant guy said that the problem was in the tiny box that tracks my movements on the internet (I get paid to have it connected). I contacted the company; and it turns out they had a corrupted certificate file which was giving me the "Your connection isn't private" errors. Now it's fixed!
I will still have to download ALL my files and pictures from the cloud. I hope they are all there. I also need to contact Dell and get my Microsoft Office Suite files back. They were also deleted in the reset.
I am going to attempt to go back to March 12 and read all of your Discussions. There will be hundreds of them. Unfortunately I lost almost 200 Notifications. I can't get those back. Please bear with me...this will be a long project.
Recently we went to Bob Evans for dinner. I had a $50 gift card that I received from our insurance company for getting a mammogram. Cool!
I've missed you all so much and can't wait to get back in the MyLot swing of things.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
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31 responses
@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
I finished March 13 and part of the 14th! Lots more to go!
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@JudyEv (340216)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Apr 23
@LindaOHio Oh wow, it will be a while before you catch up with us all. You're allowed to skip some of mine if it helps.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
@JudyEv I want to read everything so I can catch up with everyone.
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@wolfgirl569 (106413)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Apr 23
Glad you are back and things are fixed now. That was a hassle to find
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@wolfgirl569 (106413)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Apr 23
@LindaOHio If it happens again you know to check that first
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
@wolfgirl569 Yup. Would have saved me a month of grief.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
Now I have to start all over with my files and have to re-download everything.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
Thanks. I caught up with a day and a half today! At that rate it will be a long time until I am caught up.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
12 Apr 23
Welcome back! I'm glad to see you today. I hope you're having nice weather. 
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
12 Apr 23
@LindaOHio You're welcome. We have storms moving in on Friday so have a high predicted of 76F... I'm hoping you keep the colder weather now, thank you. 
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
@DaddyEvil I was really surprised when I heard it was going to get cold again. I thought we were done.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
Thanks -- It will be close to 80 on Friday BUT then in the 40s on Monday!!!
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@Marilynda1225 (82789)
• United States
12 Apr 23
I'm so happy to hear that you're back and that it finally got figured out. Hope you can get all your files, etc back and life can go back to normal.
Hope you enjoyed your dinner at Bob Evans. Having a gift card makes it all that much better.
I've missed you and all our chats about food
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@Marilynda1225 (82789)
• United States
13 Apr 23
@LindaOHio At least your problem is solved and you can work on getting your files back. I'm' sure you're happy to be able to be back online again
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
13 Apr 23
@Marilynda1225 I am thrilled. I missed everyone so much!
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
I missed you too. The downloading of the files is not as easy as I thought it would be. I need to call Carbonite and get some instructions.
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@MarieCoyle (37570)
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12 Apr 23
My son is a computer engineer, he hates those tracker activity boxes.
Glad you are back online and it is all working again. I wouldn't fuss with all the notifications, I am sure no one expects you to do that, Linda.
Have a good first day back!
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
I want to read all the Discussions because there's so much I have missed! It will take me a while. I only have a few Notifications left. The rest were deleted by MyLot when they got to a certain point.
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@MarieCoyle (37570)
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13 Apr 23
@LindaOHio
That may end up being a blessing in disguise, you can just get back to your pattern here that you are used to.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
13 Apr 23
@MarieCoyle I'm averaging 2 days per day. It will take me quite a while to catch up.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
12 Apr 23
Yay! It’s great to have you back. I just got back myself a few days ago after being gone for nearly a year.
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@FourWalls (68102)
• United States
12 Apr 23
I’m halfway through 1963, where have you been???? 
I’m just happy to see you back. Take your time. 
I’m just happy to see you back. Take your time. 2 people like this
@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
12 Apr 23
It's going to be a LONG time until I'm caught up.
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@LadyDuck (471459)
• Switzerland
12 Apr 23
@LindaOHio I am sure, I know I would miss not being here.
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@RasmaSandra (79932)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Apr 23
So glad you are back. I think my cat Ringo senses how happy suddenly I am to see you here he is sitting beside me loudly meowing. Hope you will have a good PC to rely on now, Hope you get all the files you need back on your PC,
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@RasmaSandra (79932)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Apr 23
@LindaOHio Best of luck with recovery
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
13 Apr 23
Thanks! I need to call the company that has my files in the cloud. Am having a great deal of difficulty recovering them.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
14 Apr 23
@RasmaSandra Thanks. I have a lot of files missing! :-(
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@TheHorse (218927)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Apr 23
@LindaOHio No stress on MyLot allowed.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
14 Apr 23
@TheHorse lol I stress over everything!
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
13 Apr 23
Thanks. It's a little stressful; but I want to read everything I missed.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
13 Apr 23
Welcome back! Happy to see you. It's okay if you have lost the notifications. It has happened with me also once when I went missing from here for more than a week.
I too have to catch up a lot here.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
13 Apr 23
Thanks. I am slowly making my way through 30 days of Discussions.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
14 Apr 23
@arunima25 I usually spend 2-3 hours here a day.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
14 Apr 23
@LindaOHio That would be a lot to do. Today I just focus on clearing all the notifications and them maybe read a few posts. I have one hour to myLot and I guess I can't do more than that today.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
25 Apr 23
We rarely go there because it's not conveniently located.
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@Juliaacv (51025)
• Canada
12 Apr 23
Super happy that you are back with us again, let the good times roll. 
This has been an exhausting ordeal, and only to find out that it was not the computer at all, but the router.
I cannot imagine how you feel, but I know that you must feel relieved that this work is behind you.
This has been an exhausting ordeal, and only to find out that it was not the computer at all, but the router.
I cannot imagine how you feel, but I know that you must feel relieved that this work is behind you.1 person likes this
@Juliaacv (51025)
• Canada
13 Apr 23
@LindaOHio I am hopeless with these kinds of things. My hat off to you for understanding them.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
13 Apr 23
Thanks. It wasn't the router. It's a little box that monitors my website browsing. It is from a marketing company.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
14 Apr 23
@Juliaacv I'm only just barely technically competent.
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@moffittjc (121604)
• Gainesville, Florida
14 Apr 23
So glad to see you back! You should treat yourself to a vacation in the Keys for all the trouble you went through!
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@moffittjc (121604)
• Gainesville, Florida
15 Apr 23
@LindaOHio I figured you would be on board.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
14 Apr 23
I can totally get on board with that!
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
14 Apr 23
If I hadn't had an extended warranty with Dell, the trail of help would not have happened; and I might have replaced my computer.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
15 Apr 23
@CarolDM Normally I don't like extended warranties; but I usually get them on my computer and printers.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
14 Apr 23
@LindaOHio It pays to have those warranties.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84029)
• Rupert, Idaho
13 Apr 23
Welcome back, we have all missed you! I can understand, that's a lot of work to go through what you missed. Glad they fixed the issues though....sounds like a crazy time.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84029)
• Rupert, Idaho
13 Apr 23
@LindaOHio no problem....and I can understand that
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