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@matigo At least with Mac and iOS/iPadOS one can select optimised storage for photos. Doing so on the old iPad Mini used about 5GB vs iClod (sic) Photo Library using 32GB.

The size options for the iPad Mini 5 were either 64 or 256GB, I had no choice as the device was a raffle prize. I either paid $5 or $20 depending how you break it down. Each ticket was $5, I bought four of them but only one came up. The device was originally priced at $599 and had thesame internal specs as the then current iPad Air 3.

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I’m in the process of replacing my 64 GB iPad Mini t with the new 128GB iPad Mini I bought online yesterday. The settings say there’s another 11GB of apps to download from the temporary iCloud backup.

I realised there was one older Mac I hadn't tried with the recalcitrant iXpand drive, the 2008 15-in MacBook Pro. After being connected for about 5 minutes, it deigned to mount and I was able to save the 10 Gb of scans to another drive.

I wondered how to do this with both USB ports being used, one for the mouse (the trackpad is often unresponsive) and the Time Machine drive doing a much-needed backup.
Then I remembered I had a FireWire 800 to SATA bare drive adapter available. I used this with a spare SSD to copy the 10 GB of scans.

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I went hunting through a selection of Mum's photos which I had scanned four years ago just before he own passing. I couldn't find the USB drive I thought I'd stored them on but there was a backup on a SanDisk iXpand drive, I thought it would be a simple matter of plugging the USB-A end of the iXpand device into a Mac and perusing the scanned pics to find ones with Uncle Mike in them.
Not so easy. None of my Macs, be they Apple Silicon, Intel or PowerPC types could access the content.
The other end of the iXpand drive has a Lightning plug on it for use with iOS/iPadOS devices, I could try either an iPod Touch or an iPad Mini 5, I chose the latter because of the bigger screen. I was able to use the iXpand companion app to view and copy the desired photos. I found 17 in the scans and another 9 in my existing Photos Library.
On the Mac Mini I'd already set up an album for those 9 shots, I copied each scanned image to that same album in the iPad's Photos Library, then waited for iCloud to sync the extra 17 shots to export them from Photos onto a USB drive which I'll present to my cousin after the funeral service.

The end of an era, so to speak. My mother's last sibling has passed on, he was 87 and had been very ill and distressed, so his daughter (my beautiful cousin) says it's something of a blessing that he's free of pain.
Uncle Mike had been a driving instructor in the Army Reserve, one time back in the 1980s the was a roar of multiple engines at about 9 o'clock one night down on the family farm.
It was Mike with three Land Rovers with three troopers in each. He'd decided to conduct a night-time navigation check from the rest of the unit camped on the other side of a range of significant hills about 50 km by main road away. But they'd used primarily bush tracks to traverse the hills rather than taking the main roads to go around the hills. Mike decided it was time to visit his (reasonably) nearby sister, brother-in-law and their kids. He stayed long enough to ensure the troops had time for a brew-up then hthey were back on the road again.

@matigo I can still buy the cheese but I have ti travel 25km each way to where they now make and sell the stuff.
The new people do not make cheese, they specialise in various grades of Jersey milk, butter, cream and yogurt. They do sell cheese from elsewhere, though.

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There used to be a cheese factory about a km away but they closed s year or so ago. Meanwhile a few hundred km away another dairy enterprise struck problems: the company handling the milk packaging pulled the pin on the process, forcing the milk supplier to set up their own plant in a disused family property.
Today I learned that the Jersey milk company will open their new processing facility plus retail store and cafe tomorrow in the former cheese factory. That’s a win for them and their loyal customers.

@japchap Too stupid to follow simple onscreen instructions. Every participant had an 80-page handout PDF emailed to them but weren't able to find it. Had to get another within the Zoom meeting. There were specific aspects that the presenter reiterated needed Apple Silicon Macs and these thick idiots wanted to know why it didn't work on their Intel machines.

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Attended a Zoom meeting overnight, hosted by the Naples Mac-friends User Group in Florida. It was the first of their famous professionally run 2025 classes and the subject was Sequoia. The whole show went for 2 hours and 28 minutes including a 15 minute break and ended 2 minutes before it’s scheduled finish time.
I can conclude from that experience that probably 20% of the 120+ attendees are too thick and stupid to get out of bed in the morning and should turn in any future rights to an oxygen supply.

@japchap The “old” 27-inch Retina iMac screens are gorgeous things. I use an Apple Studio Display purchased with an inheritance connected to a mid-spec M4 Mac mini. The Studio display is almost the sane as the Intel 27-inchers, but is 20% brighter at its highest setting.

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