I have 2 computers networked via a router. The original computer had 3 users on it, so before setting up the new computer we copied many files of the users other than myself. But recently we found that one particular folder of documents hadn’t been backed up and that file was needed over at the other computer.
Now on a networked computer, you’d think you’d be able to share files fairly easily, but I’ve never quite worked that out and we don’t really need to. But now we did. I tried backing up this particular file to disc and inserting that into the other computer’s CD disk. No luck. We don’t have a USB flash drive. We could have burned the file and swapped it over, but all burning happens on the other computer and I didn’t really want that program on my computer (it’s pretty chockers now).

I couldn’t email the file either because I could not get to his documents, only mine. His email is no longer on this computer so he couldn’t so it either.

Then bleeding edge came to the rescue again. I was reading the column in our local newspaper and noted a utility called Karen’s Replicator which could swap almost anything to another section of the network.

So I downloaded it and could find his documents now and move them to my documents and then email the file in question.

Guess what! it ended up that the file was ‘write only’. Maybe that had caused many of the other problems! But I just made the file writable again and emailed it again. Sweet!