Re: [OM] New Camera, and some Photos Uploaded.

[Chuck Norcutt]

I've never used an iPad before and, until yesterday, knew almost nothing 
about them.  But I'm surrounded by hundreds of senior citizens from age 
60 to 97 who know much less than I do.  Since I've become the de facto 
go-to-guy for computer problems I got a call yesterday complaining about 
an iPad that... can't do anything and you can't type on it.

That was certainly correct.  A message had popped up announcing that the 
machine was in urgent need of backing up to the iCloud.  That didn't go 
anywhere though.  Trying to press the reply button or anything else was 
no more functional then pressing on a piece of 1x6 lumber.  I don't know 
what happened but perhaps it was because no internet connection had yet 
been established with the RV Park's wi-fi service.  I knew I needed to 
pull its feet out from under it but had no idea how to do that.  So I 
headed off back to my own place and used my Winders machine to download 
the iPad user's manual.  I think it was on page 127 where I discovered 
three progressively more violent ways to pull its feet out from under 
it.  Well, it didn't respond at all to the two gentler methods so it was 
finally on the the full-blown reset.  It seemed a bit confused on 
restarting but eventually pulled its act together.

Not a particularly good introduction to the iPad.

Chuck Norcutt



On 1/29/2013 11:00 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Last night I finally got around to doing something I've been putting off
> for some time. Resetting and reloading my iPad. It had gotten so buggy that
> I had to dump it down to factory default and restore the backup. That
> cleared up most of my bugs all right. But I will say that the simple Apple
> environment is not any simpler than that from Microsoft.
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