Successfully backed up the iPhone to an external HD using iMazing app and now that backup is recognised by iTunes.
Just lost three months of Time Machine backups. Something went out of whack with the ext drive and nostter how long the backup drive was connected, it would never back up.
It's one of two Time Machine backups, plus there are 2 different clones, so it's mot totally crucial. I erased the drive with Disk Utility & am mow performing a new initial 140 GB backup.
Had a phone call from a friend who desperately needs a copy of Toast Titanium 11. She's still running Mavericks on her 2010 MacBook Pro so version 15 is no go. She asked me if I could send her a copy of Toast 11. I explained mine was part of a MacUpdate bundle & may not respond to her serial number. And that's illegal file sharing, too. Instead I have sent a DVD version of Toast Titanium 10 via specialist courier.
I've been wanting to offload that DVD for years anyway. She will be oaying the courier's cost.
I had been using the Opera browser in VPN mode when it downloaded an alleged FlashPlayer.dmg file. I was suspicious because Flash was already up to date on that Mac. Suspicion justified, as soon as I mounted the virtual volume, Sophos Home app detected it as a nasty piece of shit, calling itself "InstallMe." I got Sophos to remove the threat. So Sophos unmounted the volume, leaving me to remove the spurious disk image.
@larand It's not our date line. It's everyone's. That's why it's called the International Date Line.
I'd put off upgrading iMovie on the MacBook Air as version 10.1.3 kept crashing. I reverted to version 10.1.2 from a backup. So about an hour ago I zipped the existing iMovie version & downloaded the update. Next I unzipped the compressed file to the Utilities folder and checked that it worked, which it did. Closing that version, I headed for the new one in the Applications folder. Big surprise! No crashing. So I trashed the older version plus the zipped one, saving 4.6 GB of space, yes, the updated version runs fine now.
@hazardwarning The story goes back several decades to a major flood in Queensland in Australia. Many inland properties (cattle stations, we don't have ranches) were isolated by the floodwaters and were having supplies dropped in by air. A drop-proof way of packaging rum was devised, consume ¼ of the contents, hollow out a loaf of bread and stuff the rum bottle inside. This was normally quite successful but on one occasion, the dropper forgot to recap the bottle before dropping the loaf.
When the floods had passed & the dropper was on a regular visit to that station, he apologised for his error to the station owner.
The reply was typical Queenslander-style. "Doesn't matter. I just made up my favourite dessert. Bread & butter pudding."
// @JeremyCherfas