@matigo Let us all worship at the Church of The Surprised Chicken.
As any non-Mac user knows, generally when you receive a zipped folder of stuff from a Mac user, there's a bunch of other useless guff only Macs can handle included in it. I've just had to send a bunch of photos to our Body Corporate manager regarding vandalism to one of the security light bollards. As he's a Windoze person, I did the decent thing & used an app called CleanArchiver to remove that guff then add the pics to a zipped folder before emailing it to him. Select the photos, drag & drop them onto the CleanArchive icon and wait. Bingo: a zipped folder without the useless stuff in it.
I also used Markdown in the Mac's Photos app to annotated some of the photos.
@matigo To economise I use an 18-inch Thunderbolt cable, I moved the MBA to another spot & gravity overcame the Thunderbolt connection to the drive adaptor. Which, fortunately, is OK because they ain't available here for anything resembling a reasonable price.
@larand See @drlinguist for that.
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@jextxadore A dentist friend keeps a G4 Mac Mini in his office because he still prefers to use Appleworks.
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Lost a hard drive today: a Seagate Momentus 750 GB unit. Well, I still have it, but no access to its content. It was attached to a Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt?SATA adaptor when both fell off the bedside table midway through a Time Machine backup.
Upon reconnection, it didn't want to spool up, just made whirr-click, whirr-click noises. Ungood noises.
I've replaced it with a Toshiba 1 TB USB 3 HD & that works fine.
As for the content of the buggered drive: no great loss. It's one of two Time Machine backups I keep for the MBA. Since I've had this particular Air for less than 5 months, there hasn't been a great accumulation of backups on the drive.
I was left with an empty 2.5-in HD case. One of the two clones of the MBA I do was just a bare drive I could attach via Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt, USB or FireWire adaptors. So it's now in the formerly-empty Seagate HD case.
Public holiday today, so the local shop that sells ghee is closed. Their price is a quite reasonable $6.50 per litre tin. I've seen online shops not too far from here selling the same can for more than $10 more. I can wait until they reopen tomorrow.
So very tired, at only 11am. Didn't sleep well, lethargic from the (diagnosed yesterday) amaemia. It's a bed day for me .
Home again, after going via a pharmacy to get iron tablets. Got a friend to drive me back from hospital to the Men's Shed where I'd left my car.