This is remarkable: DiskWarrior 5 is struggling to replace the directory on a 300 GB partition of a 2 TB Ext HD. Might be because I've connected it via one of the unpowered USB 3·0 ports on the iMac's front-facing hub.

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Shit & corruption, most likely.

Even eggs & cilantro?

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Shit oh dear. Frost warning in the region for tomorrow morning. Expecting -1°C. Currently 5.5°. #ABitNipply.

Men's Shed group meets Wednesdays & Thursdays. A fellow joined yesterday, (Wed), he's a relieving primary school teacher who's told his supervisors that he'll not be available for teaching duties on Wednesdays.

@kdfrawg Gives her pleasure, she's been getting visits from locals, too.

Took the SSD that used to be in the 2011 MBP, the one that died recently, reformatted it & installed El Capitan on it & put it into the 2009 13-in MBP I've been fixing up for the Mac User Group. Just for research purposes, though. I wanted to see if it would be a reasonable performed even with only 4 GB of RAM installed.
It does quite well, actually, the combination would be very workable for a light-duty machine.
The HDD is back in it now.

@kdfrawg As well as can be expected. Looks like she'll be having her 87th birthday in the hospital, though. One view she has, across a water supply reservoir is of the dairy farm she ran with Dad for 40 years.