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Community / Re: Earthquake

« on: April 25, 2024, 01:24:28 AM »

Hi Frances,


Not really, some people are now considering earthquake insurance but unless we get another big shake we probably will just hold our breath and muddle on. The state has supposedly checked all major bridges and declared them safe, ignoring our local loss.    Will be interesting to see how long it takes for them to repair or replace the stone bridge. One benefit, our daily walks down that road are pretty traffic free. 


As of this date, we now have over 120 aftershocks. Again, most minor and barely felt unless really close to the source. Seems as though they have now discovered a "Tewksbury fault" hitherto unknown.    Not how I hoped our town would get recognized on the map.

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Tech / Re: revert to a previous version of Photoshop CC

« on: April 25, 2024, 01:14:59 AM »

Obviously another slip up of the Adobe Quality Control division.

 

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Tech / Re: How to convert to APFS to be able to upgrade OS?

« on: April 25, 2024, 01:13:24 AM »

I'm not sure why SuperDuper says you have to convert the external to APFS other than this I found at the Shirt-Pocket website from Dave Nanian:


"Since the source is APFS, and there are features of APFS that cannot be replicated on HFS+, such as sparse files, it's wise to use the same format. It's not required, but, for example, a 2TB "sparse file" on the source that might only have 200K of data in it will take up 200K on the source and 2TB on the backup...and will be 2TB once restored, if you use HFS+."

That said, you may be able to keep the existing data as HFS+ and create a separate partition on the external that is APFS. This link explains with pictures how to do that (2nd choice).


https://recoverit.wondershare.com/harddrive-tips/convert-external-drive-to-apple-file-system-apfs-format.html


Some caveats: if your previous attempt to convert with SD failed, it may have corrupted the data presently on the EHD. You may have to erase the disk anyway and start from scratch. Not terrible if you only had a previous User Folder and nothing much else.
But once again, I recommend having more than one external bkup, one SSD with a complete clone, one for Time Machine or timed SD backups and one strictly for data that can be HFS+(OS extended) so it can be used with an older Mac OS if you have legacy machines.
Here is a thread at Shirt-Pocket that confirms my suggestion as well as another at Apple with similar thoughts:


https://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?p=34675#post34675


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253532971?sortBy=best


Hope this helps you get to your goal. 

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Tech / Re: How to convert to APFS to be able to upgrade OS?

« on: April 22, 2024, 11:34:31 PM »

First of all, are you backing up to the same hard drive as the one with original data? Not very helpful unless all you are interested in is going back with Time Machine to a previous state. Otherwise if you have a problem with the hard drive you really have nothing, no backup at all. I backup to several external drives. They're cheap enough these days.


That said, it appears as though your drive is already APSF. When you are in DU, click on the View at the top so you see ALL Devices. Post a picture here of that with the listing down the left side. It will help us see just how your drive is divided. Your listing it helps but visual confirmation of which volume is subbed under which will further help.

If you have to convert a drive or volume to APSF do it within DU and not SuperDuper. SD is notorious for taking forever to do it and often fails. I tried once using SD, then gave up after a long period and then did it within DU very quickly. But really can't suggest action til actually see more about your drive setup. Can't suggest sizes etc til see actual drive size and what's available. However, I strongly advise getting external SSD drives and this problem would be mute. You'd just format externals (if SSD) as APFS and SD will comply in backing up.
 

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Community / Re: Earthquake

« on: April 18, 2024, 12:20:37 AM »

Update:
As of today there have been 73 aftershocks, most minor though I did hear and feel several and a couple actually woke me up.


My well water has cleared. The Revolutionary Mill down the road which was being restored had its facade collapse and the quake undermined a local stone bridge a half mile away which had to be closed. We now have to detour a few extra miles to get to "civilization". From the looks of it, the bridge will need to be totally replaced so we expect many months before our normal access is returned. Only detriment is any emergency services will now take longer to get here.


Otherwise things are OK. But did twitch a little when the house next door had tree men fell a few large pines with a resounding thud. 

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Community / Re: Earthquake

« on: April 10, 2024, 06:06:19 PM »

Since the original quake we have had 47 aftershocks as of today. Most were minor but at least a few were loud and shook the house. Damage has been limited to things thrown around and my well water going brown for a few days from dirt being dislodged. However, I now tend to cringe when I hear a loud noise waiting for another shake. 


The biggest one was the strongest in the area since 1783 so this was a real surprise. I do get annoyed though when the news keeps referring to the location as Lebanon or Whitehouse Station. Both those places are south/southwest of the actual epicenter which is Oldwick in Tewksbury about 2 miles from my house. Some of the aftershocks have been even closer to me. However, most have been within perhaps 4/5 miles from Oldwick center.
In jpg below, orange are shocks today, yellow past few days, grey previous years, white quake three weeks ago and magenta my house.

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Community / Re: Earthquake

« on: April 05, 2024, 05:12:13 PM »

Just had a major aftershock. Guess we are not done with this yet. 

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Community / Earthquake

« on: April 05, 2024, 01:33:53 PM »

Well, it's been an interesting day.


On March 14th, I was in my kitchen when I hear a loud boom and my house shook. I thought a tree had fallen on the roof but when I went outside there was no evidence of anything out of the ordinary. No trees down, nothing on the roof but I was going crazy wondering what it was. Finally thought it had to be an earthquake but it wasn't until several hours later that I got a text from a local authority that indeed there had been a 2.2 magnitude quake centered a couple miles from me. OK, so I wasn't going nuts and others did mention it on the NextDoor forum though my sister who lives 6 miles away didn't feel it.


Today I happened to be again in the kitchen in the exact same spot and KABOOM! Once again the whole house shook and this time it sounded like a dozen trees landing on the house and I had to brace myself. Some soup cans fell off a shelf and a few other things tumbled as well. Pictures were all out of level on the walls. It took me a few minutes to stop shaking myself. This was the same series of noises and shaking as before but to a much more extreme degree and much longer. This was 4.8 magnitude. My sister texted me immediately that she had felt it, too. Turns out the epicenter was only a couple miles from my house, like before. Now i'm wondering if that earlier one was a prequel or if this one could be a warning of what it to come.


TV reports say this is the strongest quake in the area in over 50 years or more. Since the epicenter is very shallow it makes it felt many miles away, more than the ones on the West Coast. We just were coming out of a nasty storm that took down lots of trees and power outages for almost two days. I do have a generator but only now got back internet (DSL box  up the street requires power).


Anyway, all is well. Just a bit concerned that this may not be over. 

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Community / Re: We need some Humor!!!

« on: February 07, 2024, 12:17:35 PM »

Thanks, Jon!  We needed that. At least I did.   

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Tech / Re: NameDrop Confusion

« on: December 05, 2023, 11:06:55 PM »

Thanks, Jim.  Good info.   

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Community / Re: We need some Humor!!!

« on: October 31, 2023, 03:08:24 PM »

Jon, love those!    ❤️

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Community / Re: We need some Humor!!!

« on: October 31, 2023, 03:05:04 PM »

Great collection of email sigs there. Does anyone still use email besides me? 🤔

I do.   

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Tech / Re: Sonoma on older Macs

« on: October 10, 2023, 09:09:34 PM »

 

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Tech / Re: Where do you store your data online?

« on: October 08, 2023, 11:15:12 PM »

I agree with Jon. I have many externals that I use for backups. I do use iCloud for a few things that I manually upload just in case the worst happens and I lose everything locally.

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Tech / Re: Sonoma on older Macs

« on: October 03, 2023, 11:41:23 PM »

I used a patcher years ago to run a non-supported MacOS on an older MBP and it worked well except for the fact that it could not run any new security updates without totally reinstalling from scratch.


I don't know if this patcher has the same limitation but of course there are features that will not work due to the limitations of the hardware on older Macs. I would try it on a Mac that is not necessarily my main machine so if things go belly-up then no big deal. Of course a full backup would be my first move.


More details: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/