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TIL why ACDSee PhotoFlash app was pulled from the Mac App Store: I wanted to put it on the Men's Shed iMac but it was no longer available. The app applies a flash lighting boost to photos than need a bit of help in that respect.
The reason for the removal of the app is it's been replaced by another called Light EQ, which does basically the same thing.
Mum gave me $100 for my birthday on Saturday. On Monday I spent all bar $16 on underwear, shirts & socks. Now I need fitted single bed sheets. The local Target store sells them for $8 each.
So, budget all used up.
Dang. No single bed fitted sheets left, the last one was torn by aggressive toenails. Ah well, I'll make do with a flat sheet until I can get replacements tomorrow. They're not expensive.
Read errors on DVD. I polished some of them out with car paint scratch remover One folder containing plans for which our Men's Shed has no use is the worst affected. So I'm almost done dragging & dropping the other folders to my iMac's desktop - 600 MB of 2 GB remaining to copy. The DVD drive is making the kind of noises normally associated with a floppy disk drive.
I was presented with a DVD containing plans for woodworking toys & projects, plus instructions to copy the same. No DVD apps, either copying or playing would recognise this DVD as such.
Only the Finder would show the DVD on the desktop. Drag & dropping of various folders was painfully slow, then stopped after only 130.8 MB of 2.69 GB had copied. This was after ten minutes.
Disk Utility on two High Sierra Macs wouldn't register it as a DVD.
However, DU on a Leopard PPC PowerBook does recognise it as a DVD in an optical drive, but even then, won't allow copying, it falls over after about 5 minutes.
It's all fucking bullshit.
12 litres of water added to the evaporative cooler, now it’s full. Temperature tonight isn’t expected to drop below 19°C and the humidity is fairly high. It’s cheaper re electricity costs to run the evap cooler than A/C.
While the USB floppy drive will wok on High Sierra, it's not happy reformatting drives, that's best done on the "Wee Beastie" (my 12-in 2005 G4 PowerBook). That Mac has AppleWorks 6.2.9 on it, just for a fiddle, I copied & pasted an rtf doc into AppleWorks & saved it to the floppy drive as a .cwk document.
I then connected the FD to the MacBook Air and tried opening the file with LibreOffice Vanilla. It worked perfectly.