Another Astounding Contribution from Joseph Gill!

[Barbra Voltaire, FGG]

GEMS & GEMOLOGY - January 1934 - Fall 2012 Vol. XLVIII, No. 3 - All 319 issues
- Joseph O. Gill collected and made into a single PDF

16,294 pages, 1.13 GBs. (download this overnight), ALL searchable pages of this fantastic historical and modern, Gems, Gemology & Jewelry Journal - PLEASE tell others about this unique resource....... The GIA is to be congratulated on its progressive attitude, for making Gems & Gemology 1934-2012 available for free download on their web site.

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Let me see if I understand correctly--If one downloads this, it can be saved on one CD-R? Mine are "Memorex CD-R 52X 700MB 80min". Would this work?

[Alberto]

no, it's 1.13 Gb so, 800 megs are not enough......................but u can save it in a DVD...............

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Please forgive my techno-ignorance . So, I can't save this to a disk, but keep it saved on my computer?

[wfwilson]

Please forgive my techno-ignorance . So, I can't save this to a disk, but keep it saved on my computer?

As long as you have at least 1.3 gigs of space free on your hard drive, Yes.

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Okay, checking my computer hard drive, it shows 394 GB free out 444 GB .

[Alberto]

So, I can't save this to a disk,

actually you can, but it has to be a DVD instead of CD-R

ciao
albé

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Okay, thanks Alberto !

[desertgem]

I know it is listed at over one GB, but I download it twice thinking something had interfered in the first download and both came out 485,507 kb or ~486 Mb. I checked the 1934 and then the end and it all seemed to be there, so maybe you could get it on a CD. If not I can burn it for you on DVD-R ( only blanks I have) or CD. It can be a very slow down load

Jim

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Thanks, Jim . I will download it tonight and see how much space it takes up. If it is less than 700MB, I'll copy it over to a CD-R so I can have a backup.

Edit: Well, unless I, too, missed something, the download only took about 7 minutes and 485,507KB.

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Edit 2: Okay ... seems there is a different PDF file that IS 1.1GB ! It can be found here.

[Barbra Voltaire, FGG]

Remain calm....this is doable.
I store all my gemological stuff on an external hard drive.
They are quite inexpensive and very practical.
For $69 you can get 1TB of external storage!
Check this out

Why get a color, like blue or red? Because you can see at a glance where your gem data is stored. (I also have a black one for other stuff)

I would save the G&Gs, Gemology Tools Pro, GemeWizard, Journal of Gemmology issues, my appraisals, anything related, all on an external drive. Don't have to worry about scratching a disc or misplacing a wee flash drive.
My 2¢

[Barbara O. Ellis]

Thanks, Barbra ... I've placed it on my Amazon "wish list" .

[gilljoseph1949]

Hello Gemologist,

Get modern, I have not used a DVD or CD in several years. Just use your laptop HD and then back up all this and all your Gemology etc on an inexpensive 2 or 3TB Seagate external HD.

Copy and paste this address into your browser:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=jo ... pe%3Atexts

and see the many other gemology items that I have uploaded to archive.org for your education.

Read "A Glimpse of Our Lives" and other things at www.worldglobetrotters

My Best Joseph Gill
gilljoseph1949@yahoo.com

[Barbra Voltaire, FGG]

What he said.