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A friend who's 60-odd km away emailed me with an odd problem: the SSD from his failed 2011 MBP when installed in an external case, wouldn't mount on a 2012 Retina MBP borrowed from his son.
Yet this same drive would mount on his NAS. He wanted to get some 300 GB of stuff off it but couldn't work out how to do it. A different ext drive setup (3.5-inch in case) mounted OK.
I suggested he put the SSD back in the MBP & restart it in target disk mode, connecting the two Macs via a Thunderbolt cable.
He said he'd give it a go but wasn't prepared to buy a $60 just to do that.
I suggested he could borrow one from me, if he was prepared for a 120 km round trip as my car was out of action. He asked for my address & said he'd be there by 10 am. He was 5 minutes late, as it turned out.

I've heard back, after a few attempts the old MBP in target disk mode had mounted on the desktop of the new one & he was transferring the stuff from it.
This is just one of the reasons I insist on at 2 clones & at least one TM backup - there'll always be a copy that's only a few days old if recovery is needed.

Mechanic just phoned me. They have had a cancellation of a booking for tomorrow and can fix my car then. It might even be possible to make a start today.

@matigo Missed out on that: it’s good for three months OR 5,000 km: I’d exceeded the latter.

@matigo It’s only new to me. It’s 5.5 years old and has traveled over 140,000 km in that time. She previous owner must have been a right bastard of a driver to get it into that state.

My older sister is visiting Mum for a few days, she’s over from Western Australia, several hours flight time away.
I had planned to visit today, but the noise from the transmission as I eased the car into reverse put paid to that idea.
I hope to get it to the mechanic tomorrow, may have to leave it with them for a week due to demand.

Car’s playing up. Clutch seems to be fuct. Might be enough meat left on it to travel the 900m to the mechanic’s workshop. Don’t know when they’ll have time to work on it, though.

How to allow apps from anywhere in macOS Sierra/High Sierra Gatekeeper. http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/allow-apps-from-anywhere-macos-gatekeeper/

@hybotics What happens to Charlie in the meantime? Is she being looked after? Get well soon, Dale.

My spare cellphone’s 365-day call/data pack ran out today, so I recharged it. I felt 42 BG of data was reasonable last year, only used 34 GB.
This time I’m an existing customer so I get 48 GB.

Blast & bloody damn it. Last night’s brushcutting & chainsawing plus rubbish removal has strained my bad shoulder.