This is SO not gonna work…
Among several little strategies under way just now is a scheme to transfer all the data files on the MacBook’s hard disk to DropBox, which I’ve enhanced with a $100 payment to DB’s proprietors. Copy…paste…copy…paste…
Sounds pretty simple, eh?
Right. But it’s a computer. So as we know nothing is simple. For reasons incomprehensible, some folders will not copy over. They eliciit a “-46” error message. The fix? To open the folder and transfer each file, one at a time.
But some of the 32 folders are going over without protest, so I take my chances and copy three or four at a time. Usually this takes 10 minutes or so. Sometimes less.
Arrived nearly at the end of the long, eye-glazing task (some of the folders contain hundreds and even thousands of items, whatever TF an “item” is), I grabbed the last four.
Mistake. This transfer proposed to copy 47,448 “items,” requiring two hours for the job. Shit. And of course it’ll take just one “-46” error to bring the whole shebang to a stop. And that will mean deconstructing each of the four folders and transferring each of each folder’s myriad files over to DB, one at a time.
Progress is magnificently slow.
Tomorrow morning a Mac tech is supposed to come over and help upgrade the operating systems in my so-called “vintage” machines. No joke: Apple’s post-Jobian planned obsolescence technique involves dubbing some computers “vintage” and some older ones “obsolete.” If your computer falls into the latter category, the bastards will not repair it or work on it at all!
So much for Apple’s grand customer service, eh?
So pretty soon I need to decide whether to switch back to the PC and put up with the arrogance that is Microsoft or to stay with Apple’s brand of arrogance.
Anyway, with all data, programs included, backed up to external hard drives with Time Machine and working files on Dropbox, these computers can crash and be damned. Nothing will be lost.
Except…for my time.
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Amazon seems to have surprising little that’s worth watching among its marvelous video offerings. Right now I’m turning off a perfectly awful space opera called The Expanse. Bleak, violent, grim, and depressing.
That this fine entertainment is regarded as “entertainment” at all, I suppose, reflects the mood of the country.
I hate this kind of drivel. And that undoubtedly explains why my own golden words will never combine to create video-worthy content. My stuff is bleak, that’s so: bleak defines my view of humanity. But violent…not so much. Violence just doesn’t amuse me. I can’t stand it in movies and TV, and I can’t bring myself to write it.
Something must be missing in my character, hm?
0h UGH! We’re still told it will be “about an hour” before this copy/paste project ends. If it ends.
I give up. I’m going to bed…