Demonstration on how to use iTunes to restore an iOS jigger went well except for the final three or four minutes. That’s when it seemed the whole process might hang. The progress indicator coutdown showed 5 seconds remaining.
Now it’s done the iPod is much more responsive to touch input.
I’m doing a presentation on restoring an iOS thingy tonight (it’s now a bit after 0130) and will be restoring my iPod Touch. Currently it has 220-plus apps and is using 85 GB of its 128 GB full capacity.
Normally I take the MBP to such sessions but this time I’m taking the 4k iMac as its Fusion drive has four times the space of the MBP’s SSD.
I made sure there was an iCloud backup then did another via iTunes & a Lightning cable, this backup came to just under 23 GB.
Got a bunch of cotton towels that need refreshing. Loaded them into the new front-load washer, set to long cotton cycle (almost 4 hours) with water temp set at 95ºC; this is a good trick, my home hot water is regulated to 52ºC by law. The washer has a water heater built it for those higher temps.
Extended the wash cycle with an optional prewash with some bleach powder & ordinary detergent powder plus fabric softener.
This machine can handle up to 7 kg of laundry and uses 70 litres of water in the process plus a few more litres for the prewash part.
If either of you fellows wants to download the Lion installer, I'll keep it on Dropbox for another couple of days.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@gtwilson Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2tj5pdeyxibw4v/InstallESD.dmg
@gtwilson Looks like it’ll be about an hour to finish the upload/sync process. I tried OneDrive but the sharing options that should have been there were absent for some odd reason.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@gtwilson Uploading 3.74 GB Lion 10.7.0 installer to dropbox for you. I’ll have a link ASAP.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@gtwilson I have links to an Apple website where El Capitan & Sierra can still be downloaded. Do you have a Snow Leopard DVD? The retail version of that was 10.6.3, predating the Mac App Store which arrived with 10.6.6 before topping out at 10.6.8.
Maybe you can get that DVD (still available to purchase for $19.99) and progressively apply Software Update until you get to Lion. Maybe. See https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
I have disk images for the original release of Lion & for the Combo Updater to 10.7.5.
There were a few supplemental updates for Thunderbolt as well about that time.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@larand The Mastodon instance mentioned here is a more intimate experience than mastodon.social because there are far fewer users/subscribers. But thanks to the magic of Federation, all (proper) mastodon instances can communicate directly with each other.
There are exceptions to every rule, of course. An insteresting variant is a non-federated mastodon experience called counter.social wich I enjoy immensely.