Today I started tinkering about with the innards of the iMac. Not a clever thing to do.
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There is a new version of Lightroom just out and I fancied installing it, but my operating system is too old. I could have just wasted an hour of my time by installing it on the SSD that runs my system, but being a cautious individual where these things are concerned, I thought I’d install it on a backup instead. It didn’t work because of the technique that was used to build it in the first place. So, I found a way to use Carbon Copy Cloner to install the system from my working SSD into the backup disk. That almost worked after an hour of watching a white line crawl across the screen. I found a fix and that made everything work. So at this point I had two SSDs, both running the same old system. Now I needed to install the new system, called Monterey for some reason, into the backup SSD (I did warn you. I did put the <Technospeak> warning up). After the same hour and a bit it got stuck and so am I. I am thankful that I didn’t attempt to upgrade the working SSD. At least I have one working drive. I’ll have another attempt tomorrow, because I think I have cunning plan.
To Be Continued …
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Scamp and I went shopping after that. We both needed our meds from the chemist and Scamp was dropping off used clothes for the Salvation Army, then we went proper shopping on a small scale, just bread, milk and stuff for dinner, plus a bag of doughnuts for me and a packet of rasps for Scamp. Lunch was soup and it was very good.
Later in the afternoon I drove to B&Q to get a bulb for the fridge which thankfully is working fine now and we can even see inside it! Then I went for a walk in St Mo’s and got a pretty good shot of the sun coming through the trees and that became PoD. So, morning wasted on tech, but afternoon a better prospect.
Dinner was a hashed up, but perfectly satisfactory chicken and prawn paella. I had another half hearted attempt at fixing the mess I’d made of the SSD, but I was running out of time.
Prompt for today was Spicey (not how I’d have spelled it) and I sketched some of my fiery hot looking chillies for it. Great chillies that came from Jan’s Vans in Portree, believe it or not!
We may be going dancing tomorrow … in a church of all places. Only for oldies, none of those under 65 whippersnappers allowed in. My main worry is that we’ll be the youngest dancers there!