stuff falls apart III
Oct. 4th, 2008 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kip_w.
My trip to the Apple Genius Bar leaves me with a working computer that still makes that noise from time to time. They tried installing Leopard on it (which would have been a nice upgrade), but it wouldn't take. They reinstalled 10.3.9 and rebuilt the directory, which they said might have been the problem. What about the noise? They do that sometimes.
So I've started trying to back stuff onto the old iPod. I wanted to sync the iPhoto library to it, but every time I start, it grinds for a few hours and then declares that there just wasn't enough room on the hard drive to put every single preview before putting them on the iPod. There doesn't seem to be a place where I can click the option to do them a few at a time instead of like an idiot. I mean, an iDiot. Also one time it failed for some other nebulous reason I can't even remember now.
So I'm bodily loading a bunch of things to the drive. This works somewhat, but about 50 items in the Applications folder have forward slashes in the name, and the iPod drive just won't take those, having been brought up on Windows. Naturally, it can't skip those and go on, but must abort the entire operation. I'm reluctant to change them all, as it might leave me with nonworking programs. Stymied there.
Some progress, though, I guess.
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My trip to the Apple Genius Bar leaves me with a working computer that still makes that noise from time to time. They tried installing Leopard on it (which would have been a nice upgrade), but it wouldn't take. They reinstalled 10.3.9 and rebuilt the directory, which they said might have been the problem. What about the noise? They do that sometimes.
So I've started trying to back stuff onto the old iPod. I wanted to sync the iPhoto library to it, but every time I start, it grinds for a few hours and then declares that there just wasn't enough room on the hard drive to put every single preview before putting them on the iPod. There doesn't seem to be a place where I can click the option to do them a few at a time instead of like an idiot. I mean, an iDiot. Also one time it failed for some other nebulous reason I can't even remember now.
So I'm bodily loading a bunch of things to the drive. This works somewhat, but about 50 items in the Applications folder have forward slashes in the name, and the iPod drive just won't take those, having been brought up on Windows. Naturally, it can't skip those and go on, but must abort the entire operation. I'm reluctant to change them all, as it might leave me with nonworking programs. Stymied there.
Some progress, though, I guess.
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