Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread ann sanfedele
48 pretty long time.. yeah, I know that song! wish you all the best getting through it ann On 5/13/2023 10:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote: That sure beats my 48 years here. Wish I could have stayed, but ... There's a song that goes "You can't always get what you want, but ... sometimes you get

Re: OT Time machine

2023-05-13 Thread John Sessoms
Hard drives are relatively cheap. IF Time Machine is having a problem, get a new drive and start afresh. Save the old drive. On 5/13/2023 9:52 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:40 AM David J Brooks wrote: Have I screwed myself here? To free up some space in my time machine

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread John Sessoms
That sure beats my 48 years here. Wish I could have stayed, but ... There's a song that goes "You can't always get what you want, but ... sometimes you get what you need." I think this new situation might be that. I hope it will. That's what I'm gonna' try to do anyway. On 5/13/2023 8:10

Re: GESO Two Trees Trail flowers

2023-05-13 Thread Alan C
Spring is sprung! Just the opposite here. Grass cutting season is over. Have never seen a prickly pear with pink flowers - the local invaders have pale yellow flowers. Alan C On 12-May-23 08:12 PM, Larry Colen wrote: A bunch of photos of flowers from my hikes this weekend, anybody want to ID

Re: OT Time machine

2023-05-13 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Dave, I couldn't say whether you've mucked things up without the machine in front of me to do some analysis, but perhaps these links on Time Machine backup management might help: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/if-the-time-machine-backup-disk-is-full-mh15137/mac (Note that El Capitan

Re: OT Time machine

2023-05-13 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:40 AM David J Brooks wrote: > > Have I screwed myself here? To free up some space in my time machine drive > I moved 47 backup files from 2014 to trash. I kinda winced when I read that, Dave. ;-) You really need to leave Time Machine alone to manage its own files. Many

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread Stanley Halpin
Good news John! Moving can be a pain, but also a good forcing function to rethink what you own, to think about what you really need. In my early 40’s I was joining a group, the get-to-know-one-another topic was “how many places have you lived?” I came up with 37 different addresses where I

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread ann sanfedele
54 years in my low rent lovely apartment in a great neighborhood .. thanks to a landlord who is not trying to push me out of my rent controlled walk-up and the laws protecting me from same if he were to try. Hoping no assholes charge their motorbike lithium ion battries in the vicinity and the

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 13.05.23 um 02:44 schrieb Rick Womer: Moving is agony. We’ve been fortunate in not doing it in 37 years. 38 here. I'd love to go somewhere else but the idea of moving gives me the creeps. Or as they say here: three moves equal one house fire. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher -

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread Bob W PDML
That’s good news - good luck! > On 12 May 2023, at 22:33, John Sessoms wrote: > > Things are looking up. I've found a house, made an offer & it has been > accepted. > > My closing date for this house (the day I get the money from my buyer) is May > 31. > > My closing date for the new house

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread mike wilson
I moved one house along last year. Utter, utter purgatory. Good luck, John. You're going to need it. > On 13/05/2023 05:55 Alan C wrote: > > > You know, it doesn't have to be. A good friend of mine in Phalaborwa has > recently retired from Palabora Mining Company with 40 years service.