Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Mac vrs. ?
I drove back down to Troy on July 4th to pickup my iMac with its new hard drive. Everything was ready when I arrived and I packed it back up and brought it home. Then started the reloading of everything. Luckily (I guess) after only five weeks I didn't have a lot to lose. Most software I'm using on the iMac so far is open source stuff. Things like Text Wrangler, NeoOffice, Cyberduck and more so it was a matter of downloading and installing it all over again.
I did find out that the Graphire tablet software now seems to be working. Maybe there was something in the initial load of OS X that wasn't quite right - perhaps the hard drive problem was interconnected with that - I'm not sure.
Another good thing about starting all over again relatively quickly from start up is that you get a chance to do things like they should have been done. A few weeks is enough to learn where things should go and how things should be set up. In the initial excitement I had put things rather helter-skelter and now have tried to be a bit more logical the second time around.
However, while trying to rearrange things a bit more logically I moved/copied (still haven't quite got the difference down) a folder named after me. Yep, all my settings disappeared which wasn't too bad, but my mail also went away. I finally figured out I moved/deleted my user prefs file which made some stuff work quite oddly. I ended up deleting and resetting my user account which fixed things. And I did find my lost mail - it had somehow ended up in the applications folder so I was able to recover the mail.
So most stuff is back in place and most things are working as they were before the hard drive dying. We'll see how long it lasts.
