I slept well and didn’t wake until Scamp brought my breakfast at 9:20am. It was her turn to make breakfast anyway.
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Later, after a cup of coffee I explained my plan. I must have been going over the problems with those bloody SSDs in my sleep, because I realised that the common factor in them all was the dodgy SSD. My plan was to buy a new Samsung SSD, not a cheapo Crucial and use a memory stick to install the operating system into that drive. Once that was done, I could erase the new drive and clone my up-to-date backup onto the new SSD which would then be the driver for the iMac. That was the simplified version.
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Long story short, it worked perfectly. The backup installed everything on to the Samsung drive and I’ve been processing the images for a good few hours tonight. Isn’t technology wonderful, when it works!
I saw a strange sight when we were in Coatbridge to buy the SSD. An African lady walking past Tesco with her message balanced on her head while she held a loud conversation with someone on the phone. I’d never seen anything like that in Scotland, although I had in foreign climes in the past. Scamp said it was a good sign when I showed her the photo. It looks like she was right.
More mince ’n’ tatties again tonight, hopefully without the heartburn this time. Scamp had fish fingers and potatoes for her dinner.
I’m off to bed now, because my wee brain is full! Still having problems with images. More things to do tomorrow.
High winds and heavy showers forecast for tomorrow.