[AuRavelling79]

I've had an email from Paul. The problem is their end.

Sorry for the delay, I’m inundated with eMails from users with the same
problem.

We’ve been let down by our internet hosts and I can’t contact them. I fear
they may have gone bust !

Hopefully we can resolve the problem and get it up and running again soon
but I can’t give any timescale I’m afraid.

Thanks Bungle.

I'm glad to hear Paul is OK. I hope he can arrange a long term fix soon.

[Flasher]

I had this reply tonight when I asked what was going on

Hi Mark
 
Sorry but we’ve been let down by our internet hosts and I can’t contact them. I fear they may have gone bust !
 
Hopefully we can resolve the problem and get it up and running again soon but I can’t give any timescale I’m afraid.
 
George is still backing up to your local hard drive but it would be a good idea to backup to an external drive or USB stick regularly while it's offline.
 
 
Paul Sanders
GeorgeSystems
www.georgesystems.co.uk

[AuRavelling79]

I had this reply tonight when I asked what was going on

Hi Mark
 
Sorry but we’ve been let down by our internet hosts and I can’t contact them. I fear they may have gone bust !
 
Hopefully we can resolve the problem and get it up and running again soon but I can’t give any timescale I’m afraid.
 
George is still backing up to your local hard drive but it would be a good idea to backup to an external drive or USB stick regularly while it's offline.
 
 
Paul Sanders
GeorgeSystems
www.georgesystems.co.uk

Thanks Flasher, a keystroke by keystroke description of how to back up and retrieve in the correct format would be useful.

[windowswashed]

If you got a spare pc, laptop or tablet then download George onto it, download George Fix and download George  restore all from the internet George online systems i think it is.

Anytime you finish with George on your main computer copy it onto a spare USB drive, then plug the usb into your spare PC, laptop, whatever. Before opening George program, go to George restore program and select your USB as one of the restore options and save it onto George restore, it will add to George restore.
Click on the file you have just uploaded to George Restore and it will replace your previous update to your last one installed on George window cleaning program if selected, so when you start up George for windows it will be updated to the latest back up. Hope this helps some of you.

[Bungle]

If you got a spare pc, laptop or tablet then download George onto it, download George Fix and download George  restore all from the internet George online systems i think it is.

Anytime you finish with George on your main computer copy it onto a spare USB drive, then plug the usb into your spare PC, laptop, whatever. Before opening George program, go to George restore program and select your USB as one of the restore options and save it onto George restore, it will add to George restore.
Click on the file you have just uploaded to George Restore and it will replace your previous update to your last one installed on George window cleaning program if selected, so when you start up George for windows it will be updated to the latest back up. Hope this helps some of you.

Top reply 👍👍. It's hard to get your head around until you have to start looking at how it all works. I've kind of fathomed it out now.

[windowswashed]

If you got a spare pc, laptop or tablet then download George onto it, download George Fix and download George  restore all from the internet George online systems i think it is.

Anytime you finish with George on your main computer copy it onto a spare USB drive, then plug the usb into your spare PC, laptop, whatever. Before opening George program, go to George restore program and select your USB as one of the restore options and save it onto George restore, it will add to George restore.
Click on the file you have just uploaded to George Restore and it will replace your previous update to your last one installed on George window cleaning program if selected, so when you start up George for windows it will be updated to the latest back up. Hope this helps some of you.

Top reply 👍👍. It's hard to get your head around until you have to start looking at how it all works. I've kind of fathomed it out now.

I dropped my laptop once and it stopped working, screen shattered, so lucky I had a back up with it all saved to within a couple days, lesson learnt that day and always make sure I got a spare hard copy updated regularly just in case.

[Bungle]

Still not able to upload to their site. I'd have thought they would have sorted it by now 

[Splash & dash]

Sounds like a change of app is needed then ?.

[SB Cleaning]

I moved to Squeegee a few months ago, i used George for nearly 13 years but it's had its day now i think...

[Flash..]

Still not able to upload to their site. I'd have thought they would have sorted it by now 

I agree, I guess its their way of shutting it down?

[windowswashed]

George window cleaning software has ceased trading owing to poor health and lack of internet hosting for the time being so guess that's it for now.  Been a good long run!

Best £50 ever spent and £12 for annual back ups.

Wish Paul all the best for the future whatever he does.

Luckily have "George" on a back up laptop  for emergency.

[Bungle]

George window cleaning software has ceased trading owing to poor health and lack of internet hosting for the time being so guess that's it for now.  Been a good long run!

Best £50 ever spent and £12 for annual back ups.

Wish Paul all the best for the future whatever he does.

Luckily have "George" on a back up laptop  for emergency.

That is sad. I hope we can use the recovery file if we need to?

[windowswashed]

Anyone relying solely on George for their work really should make a copy of the program, restore and data fix program along with a  spare program on a spare laptop or notebook as losing all that work would be a nightmare scenario with no outside help from Paul via email any longer.

[Splash & dash]

All very sad but as I said before ones pay for theses apps and have no control what’s so ever over what can happen to their business data , this is why I won’t use such systems .

[The Jester of Wibbly]

I echo all the above advise.   George can still run your business for many years to come as long as you have done all your preparation.

I've never had to contact Paul over the last 12 years of using it,  as it's all really easy to fix.

Make sure you have all the install programs.  I have always stored them on a cloud drive to avoid issues if my laptop went pop.  All my backups go straight to my cloud too. 

If you run into issues, just uninstall and install again  and run your backup set.  If it still does not work, assuming you've tried the Datafix too,  the issue belongs to your laptop, so go get a new one.

Best £50 quid ever spent.  Scares the hell out of me if one of those fancy cloud systems close down without notice leaving all users high and dry.

George can just carry on for as long as you need.

Only threat will be future Microsoft Windows issues, but very unlikely.  But if it becomes an issue it's easy to buy older sufficient laptops on eBay.

I can't see any reason I can keep using George for another 12 years.

[Den68]

I echo all the above advise.   George can still run your business for many years to come as long as you have done all your preparation.

I've never had to contact Paul over the last 12 years of using it,  as it's all really easy to fix.

Make sure you have all the install programs.  I have always stored them on a cloud drive to avoid issues if my laptop went pop.  All my backups go straight to my cloud too. 

If you run into issues, just uninstall and install again  and run your backup set.  If it still does not work, the issue belongs to your laptop, so go get a new one.

Best £50 quid ever spent.  Scares the hell out of me if one of those fancy cloud systems close down without notice leaving all users high and dry.

George can just carry on for as long as you need.

Only threat will be future Microsoft Windows issues, but very unlikely.  But if it becomes an issue it's easy to buy older sufficient laptops on eBay.

I can't see any reason I can keep using George for another 12 years.

I agree totally and thanks to you now have a couple  of backup of the three George programmes.
Cheers again
Den.

[AuRavelling79]

Mr. Thicky Luddite Here.

On my laptop I have Data Restore and George 3. I now store to an external hard drive at least once a week.

As yet I have not had a failure in George on the laptop and I have checked I can restore data from the external drive.

Have I got enough protection?

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Mr. Thicky Luddite Here.

On my laptop I have Data Restore and George 3. I now store to an external hard drive at least once a week.

As yet I have not had a failure in George on the laptop and I have checked I can restore data from the external drive.

Have I got enough protection?

Also make sure you have a the Data Fix install program to hand too.   Incase your data becomes corrupt or needs a tidy up.   Hopefully you won't need it, but worth running it from time to time.

[AuRavelling79]

Mr. Thicky Luddite Here.

On my laptop I have Data Restore and George 3. I now store to an external hard drive at least once a week.

As yet I have not had a failure in George on the laptop and I have checked I can restore data from the external drive.

Have I got enough protection?

Also make sure you have a the Data Fix install program to hand too.   Incase your data becomes corrupt or needs a tidy up.   Hopefully you won't need it, but worth running it from time to time.

Thanks. How do I get datafix? Or have I got it?

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Mr. Thicky Luddite Here.

On my laptop I have Data Restore and George 3. I now store to an external hard drive at least once a week.

As yet I have not had a failure in George on the laptop and I have checked I can restore data from the external drive.

Have I got enough protection?

Also make sure you have a the Data Fix install program to hand too.   Incase your data becomes corrupt or needs a tidy up.   Hopefully you won't need it, but worth running it from time to time.

Thanks. How do I get datafix? Or have I got it?

It's one of the three files in the other thread I uploaded.  You will need all three instal programs stored safely.  They are all needed if you need to instal George again.  You can't just copy Grorge, Data restore and Datafix from one computer to another.  It needs to be installed.