Re: Can't see Lumia 520 from any of my PC's.
Next morning:
Well, I'm ready to tackle this again after a good night's sleep.
Thanks for sticking with me on this, I really need the help.
Yes, I think there may be something screwy about my account(s). I had that feeling when that was set up. Maybe the confusion is just in my head. It seemed to me that there were two (at least) things going on. One was an account that had username = my email account. Another was an account using the first part of that email address (i.e. the part before the @ symbol), with live.com being the second part. I have different passwords for them, at least I think so. I made notes in my computer information system regarding this. Yesterday I tried to login using the new phone using the @live.com sign in and it didn't work, so I tried the other one and it did work. Where my backup went? I don't know yet, I'll go look as you suggest. What was my sign in on my old phone? That would seem to be the question, maybe it wasn't the one that I signed in with on the new phone. Yes, "screwy" comes to mind.
I have a few other questions that concern me that I think you can speak to at this point:
1. My contacts, well, actually there are a lot of them in there. I only entered a few, less than a handful IIRC. I think the others were brought in automatically from Facebook. Is that reasonable?
2. I have a few for money apps, very few, maybe 3. Early on I heard about MyFreeApp, which offers a different free app every day. I don't check it as often now, but over time I've downloaded dozens of those. Most I've never even tried, but some of them are really great. I know if they aren't restored automatically I could find them again, but I think most of those I'd have to buy at this point... isn't that the case? So, the question is, can I get them restored too?
Next thing I'm going to do right now is put the SIM and SD card back in the old phone and go through the list of apps and type the names into my information management system so I know what have at the moment. Then I'll take a peak at what Windows says is on the SD card and see if it still matches the backup I made to PC's HD. Then I'll try to ascertain if I have a valid backup out there.
Maybe you can help me make sense of the confused picture I have of my accounts. I remember talking to a Microsoft person around 8 months ago for a few minutes, it wasn't clear in my head about those two different usernames and what they signified.
I'll post back. Now, to be honest, I'm not in a giant hurry on this, my most typical usage for this phone is listening to music, most typically in the gym. I bought it originally for the GPS functionality, it's great for that, but I only need that once in a while. At times I frequent a for-money app I saw recommended, Amazing Weather HD, it really is great IMO. I almost never make calls on it, partly because my AT&T coverage in the house is very spotty, at least it used to be. I use my land line for telephone. So, the time constraint more than anything is Amazon telling me that I have to return the old phone within 30 days. Thanks again!
Edit: When I swiped left on the start screen, I listed my apps. There are ~162 of them +/- one or two! One of those apps is OneDrive, and when I open that I see a few things including photos, that were automatically uploaded but I don't see the backup I did yesterday. I don't know if that means it isn't up there. Here's my list (I put a few dash marks next to ones of special interest to me, which wasn't all inclusive):
List of apps on old phone before change-over -- 03/24/2015
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4th & Mayor --
Accurate Tuner Free
AccuWeather - Weather
Advanced English Dictionary -
AirportSeek
Alarms
AllTube Grabber
Amazing Weather HD ---
Amazon Kindle ---
App Folder
AT&T Address Book
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Radio
AtomicClock ---
Autible
Audio Notepad
Audioook Reader Free
Baconit --
Battery
Battery
Battery Saver
Battery+ 8.1
Blek
Bowling Journal
Calculator
Calendar
Camera
CamTool
Chase Mobile* --
Chess WP
CloudMesh Pro
Cortana
Data Sense
Depth of Field 7
Dictate!
DocuSign
DS audio --
DS file --
DS finder --
DS photo+ --
DS video --
Earth Time Free
Easy Password
ESPN Hub
ESPN Radio
Evernote --
Facefook
Files&Folders Pro
Flixter
FM Radio
Food & Drink
Function Plotter
Funny Qyotes
Games
GasBuddy
Glance Background
GPS Calculator PRO
GuitarKit
Gym PocketGuide ---
HardFox SixPack
Health & Fitness
Heart Rate
HERE Drive+
HERE Explore Beta
HERE Maps
HERE Transit
IMDb
INRIX Traffic
Inspirational Quotes ---
Internet Explorer
Kindle Best Free Books ---
Lumia Black Update
Lumia Camera
Lumia Cinemagraph
Lumia Creative Studio
Lumia Help+ Tips
Lumia Panorama
Lumia storage check
MagicPhotos
Maps
MeeDJ
Messaging
Metrotube
MixRadio
Mobile Bartender
Mobile TV
Modern Translate
Monetal
Monster Stack 3 HD+
Music
Music Sense
myAppFree
Newspapers
Night Stand Clock
Note It
Notes
NYTimes --
Office
Office Lens
OneDrive
OneNote
OneReader
OneShot
Pandora
People
Phone
Photo Lock Pro
PhotoBeamer
Photochronicle
Photos
Picture Perfect
Planner+
Podcasts
PODCASTS!
PosingApp
Protect Your File
Quick Bandwidth Test
Ringo: Low cost international...
Romance Quotes
Settings
ShareFolder Explorer
Simply Alarming
Skype
Sleep
Smart Shoot
SmartWakeup
Sonic
Speeh shopper
Spotify
Stop the Music! --
StopWatch
Stopwatch Timer
Storage Sense
Store
SuperTimer
Syno Downloader
SysApp Pusher --
Tapatalk
Tasks
The ArmAsault
The Sound Recorder
Tile Me!
Timer
TO DO
Translator One
Travel
Tube HD - Best Client f...
TuneIn Radio
Video
Video Shop
VisualMATH 4D
Vizilife
Wallet
Weather (the weather channel)
Weather
Weather26
WeatherBug
Weave News Reader
WebApps
Windows Central ---
Yelp
YPmobile
Zoom