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.
Results of blood tests show iron to be at the low end of normal. Technically I'm anaemic. No surprise, except the reading being as high as it was. Back to the iron tablets.