In 14 hours I'm supposed to be doing a 50 minute presentation on Mac backups at a Mac User Group meeting. And wouldn't you know it, an external HD I partitioned for Time Machine & CarbonCopyCloner has run into problems on the Time Machine partition & refuses to back up.
Only one solution after TechTool Pro & DiskWarriors timed out when trying to fix the partition: erase & start again.
I have other Time Machine backups & the clone is a just a full copy of the Mac's startup drive anyway.
Erased & repartitioned the drive, Time Machine and CCC are both backing up to their respective partition.
I also told CCC to resize the Clone partition to allow for the creation of a Recovery partition as well.
@kdfrawg This was with a downloaded & pre-annotated PDF. Any annotations I made and any that had been done pre-download had been stripped out. Turns out there's major PDFKit problems with Sierra- apparently Apple concentrated too much effort into getting PDFKit to work with iOS 10 & the Sierra variant just got fucked up.
Some sources report that the issues are rectified in macOS 10.12.3 beta.
Looks like I'll have to reclaim the 2008 El Capitan MacBook Pro from Mum's place. I keep it there as a convenience and because it's limited to a maximum OS of 10.11, its PDFKit is unaffected.
// @jws
That was odd. Connected the Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt drive adaptor fitted with a 250 GB HD to my MacBook Air, intending to do a backup, but it wouldn't mount. System Information showed the drive adaptor as "Unknown Device." Trying other drives on the adaptor didn't help, nor did a restart. "Maybe the T/bolt cable is faulty," thinks I. So I started up the MB Pro in target disk mode, connecting it to the MB Air via the same T/bolt cable. The MB Pro's SSD was mounted, so the cable was OK.
Now I tried a diagnostic SSD (TechTool Pro-created ProToGo drive.) - it mounted OK & System Info correctly identified the adaptor as a GoFlex. Ejected the ProToGo & attached the backup clone. It mounted & SuperDuper! app commenced the incremental backup as expected.
Me no understand but me happy as the price of T/bolt GoFlex interfaces is now ridiculous. The cheapest I've seen them now they're a discontinued item is US$280, crazy, I paid AU$135 for it when new.
@kdfrawg Ørk! Don't suppose you have an Apple TV handy? Not sure if they work with monitors, though. They do with video projectors & TVs, of course.
Enjoying a seriously tasty WHOA by Grand Ridge brewery. Wet-hopped oatmeal ale, the brewery has its own hops garden & these hops were harvested on the day the brewing started. Can't get much fresher than that.
It's a refreshing bitter golden ale.
@matigo No, it's not that. It's bloody Apple Mail stripping annotations from PDFs that were most likely created with Adobe Acrobat.
@kdfrawg How does the monitor connect? MiniDisplay port, HDMI?
You can get DisplayLink USB monitor connections, matbe one of those would be a different fan experience.
Two coffees in the last four hours, the first being a strength-11 pod in my Aldi capsule espresso machine, the next one reused the same pod after I opened it & cleaned out the dregs from the first brew. I refilled it with freshly ground coffee of the type I currently have in stock & refitted a finely perforated plastic cap on top of the coffee.
This refill worked perfectly, I shall definitely use that process again.
Future email contact with the superannuation fund will be done via Gmail in the web app form.