September 16, 2007 – 5:10 am
It’ll be a short log this week. While the Quest has been busy this week, most of the work will make it into individual posts during the next week. I’ve been looking at Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 for backing up. I’ve also been looking at Microsoft’s free SyncToy as a simple backup alternative.
Software of [...]
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September 3, 2007 – 8:04 pm
It was a big weekend here at the OS Quest Data Center so I figured I’d wait for the long weekend (made even longer with a vacation day on Friday) to end.
With my switch to Comcast I have a little time with both DSL and Comcast since the DSL will run for another couple of [...]
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During the drought of blog postings I encountered the return of my problem with iPhoto, where it would crash whenever I emptied the trash, leaving empty icons behind. You can read about that experience here.
I did the usual stuff, index and thumbnail rebuild,etc… without success, I did some web searches and came upon a new [...]
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January 2, 2007 – 7:02 pm
I’ve been having ongoing problems with corruption in my iPhoto library. I was up to about 14,000 photos which is well below the 250,000 image limit. Problems included locking up while importing photos and crashes when emptying the trash.
I’d do the typical iPhoto and disk repairs. They might help for a short while but [...]
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November 25, 2006 – 12:12 am
When I started working on the Thunderbird Mail posting I figured I’d have a lot of screen shots. So I decided to try using a Picasa web album to host them. I’d already installed the Picasa plug-in for iPhoto. I took the screen shots as I was doing the install and I put placeholders [...]
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October 19, 2006 – 8:22 pm
Nothing big happening on The OS Quest this week. Did some researching and stuck my toe in some areas. So let’s recap and see if i can decide where to go next.
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