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<\/p>\nI have a marvelous late 2008 “Unibody” MacBook Pro 15 which has fallen into disuse. \u00a0Problem is, it was the hub of my Apple Universe. \u00a0It only had a 256GB hard drive, so I offloaded its iTunes library to a network drive, which I never quite got running the way I wanted. \u00a0The goal was to be able to use any sort of media procuring activity to drop files into a folder that would be monitored by iTunes on the MBP (MacBook Pro) for automatic addition to iTunes. \u00a0Any device that I wanted to use to “consume” media would use the iTunes server built into the network hard drive. \u00a0This is such a great idea that there should be a patent in it somewhere. \u00a0Or maybe it’s not possible. \u00a0Either way, I never got all my stuff hashed out, and this project never took off the way I wanted, which is bad.<\/p>\n
Also, the battery on the MBP died from being plugged in all the time (it was my desktop replacement for quite a while), and once the iPhone became so stable that it stopped needing to\u00a0sync with its home station (I haven’t sync’d in over two years and the phone is FINE), there went the rest of my motivation for upgrading the MBP. \u00a0Long story short, the network hard drive died, the MBP’s own drive is too full to upgrade, the iPhone is too full to upgrade, both are years out of date, and I’m stuck. \u00a0Except I finally broke down and bought a new external hard drive (now one of four sitting on the desk), and have JUST begun to back the thing up using the magnificent “Time Machine” utility. \u00a0 There are more issues, including a huge bag of photos and some early software mishaps, but today, I began the long road to recovery.<\/p>\n
“Backing up 1,050,815 items. \u00a04.27 GB of 178.66 GB.”<\/p>\n
The MBP is on 10.6.8, and the iPhone is on iOS 6. \u00a0I think these are high points of design and function, but being a tech realist, it is time to move on.<\/p>\n
Moving on. \u00a0A pic from about an hour in, should be done somewhat after 7PM (1900):<\/p>\n
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And tracking pretty well:<\/p>\n
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(As it turns out, it finished at 6:57)<\/p>\n Next thing the MBP will get is a FREE upgrade (I shudder) to Mac OSX something. \u00a0(I think those upgrades are all free now. \u00a0I blogged about this quite a while ago — I’ll reproduce that here.) \u00a0One big reason I never go ton this earlier was that I liked MacOS less and less with each upgrade. \u00a0I loved 7, worked well in 8, stumbled through 9, caught the wave in 10 (10.2 “Jaguar” was wonderful!), and it’s been downhill since there. \u00a0Don’t get me wrong — I love the functionality improvements, and the ability to Automate \/ AppleScript things, and it just didn’t help at all, because I didn’t understand the file system, and my mistake was WANTING TO UNDERSTAND.<\/p>\n I work in IT. \u00a0That means I work in Windows and maybe other things as well. \u00a0I used to be an Apple evangelist — I have \u00a0two MP 110s and an eMate 300. \u00a0I *now* have three Macintosh laptops; the MPB, and early MBA, and an ancient MacBook from before they were making MacBook Pro. \u00a0SO I get it! \u00a0Except I don’t get it anymore, and of all things, frigging Microsoft is making things easy.<\/p>\n Why the hell is an operating system named “Mavericks”? \u00a0What’s the damned version number? \u00a0What comes before and after it? \u00a0Scoff if you like, but if I don’t know these things, I cannot make it sit still in my head. \u00a0And so forth all the way throughout my Mac experience.<\/p>\n So I still don’t know if this is a jailbreak to liberate all my stuff from Cupertino’s smiling tyranny, or a revival of the Insanely Great. \u00a0But I’m fixing the hell out of this Mac.<\/p>\n The download is going nicely — this is for the OS update from the “App Store”:<\/p>\n Guess we’ll be done something like 9PM.<\/p>\n Once it’s up and healthy, and I’ve recovered all my stuff (crossed fingers) from the dead network drive, I’ll finally let this iPhone upgrade. This thing is so stable that I would let it do it on its own, if I had the disk space on board.<\/p>\n Well, we’ll bomb that bridge when we come to it.<\/p>\n So far, so good. \u00a0For me, 9PM will be 5AM (Monday 6 JUL) in Carlyfornia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n So, the new OS is installed. \u00a0First thing I notice is everything seems washed-out and flat. \u00a0Second thing, iTunes is showing me everything in fricking pictures, like I can’t read. \u00a0Why do I have to go online to find out how to get a proper list view?<\/p>\n People pay top dollar for Apple stuff to not suck, and this sucks.<\/p>\n I have a marvelous late 2008 “Unibody” MacBook Pro 15 which has fallen into disuse. \u00a0Problem is, it was the hub of my Apple Universe. \u00a0It only had a 256GB hard drive, so I offloaded its iTunes library to a network drive, which I never quite got running the way I wanted. \u00a0The goal was to be able to use any sort of media procuring activity to drop files into a folder that would be monitored by iTunes on the MBP (MacBook Pro) for automatic addition to iTunes. \u00a0Any device that I wanted to use to “consume” media would use the iTunes server built into the network hard drive. \u00a0This is such a great idea that there should be a patent in it somewhere. \u00a0Or maybe it’s not … Continue reading ![\"graph5\"](\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/graph5.png\")
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