the echothis blog

By default Outlook sticks your data files on your C: drive, and makes it very difficult to change that.  This can present a problem if your C: drive is getting full, or if you simply want to keep them elsewhere.  Today my entire Outlook setup crashed and got corrupted – and none of my 4… Continue reading Moving IMAP folders on Outlook 2013

I took the plunge and installed Windows 8.1 today.  Here’s the recap: See the download link in this post.  I expected to see it in the Windows Store, since that is how it’s deployed, but it wasn’t there (I looked under Productivity too).  It might be there by now.  Once you get it started, it… Continue reading Upgrading to Windows 8.1

This is indicative of, I think, a wider Windows 8.1 problem, but I ran into this pretty serious problem with TortoiseGit when upgrading to 8.1.  TortoiseGit won’t start, so when you try to repair it, you end up with an error dialog.  Worse, it could not be reinstalled, repaired, or even uninstalled! You get this… Continue reading Reinstalling TortoiseGit after updating to Windows 8.1

The Jake project, which allows you to embed a standalone CakePHP app within the Joomla framework, turned out to be rather popular.  So I went ahead and built CakePress, which lets you do the same thing with WordPress.  Enjoy.

Yesterday I was working as usual, when suddenly my 18-month-old PC shut off.  At first I thought it was a power outage, but when I restarted it, and it just spun the fan without beeping (much less booting), I knew something was seriously wrong.  I got out the tools and removed the CMOS battery, then… Continue reading Recovering my system after a catastrophic hardware failure