Sunday, December 16, 2012

Breakfast: leftovers. Continued editing Patrick's new book: pages 46 to 52. Microsoft Word 2011 hangs frequently yesterday and today with beach ball of death. Ran Disk Utility. Verify disk = no problems. Ran repair permissions three times. I copied the file locally (instead of opening it from Patrick's computer), disabled a lot of fonts, searched for duplicates, found no dupes, cleared the font cache using atsutil databases -removeUser, installed the newest version of Cocktail, restarted the Mac. Set up the new Time Capsule to replace my 2009 Airport Extreme. I bought this primarily to simplify. After setting this up, I could theoretically get rid of three external hard drives I was using to back up my iMac, Patrick's iMac, and my MacBook Air. I thought the Time Capsule setup was going to be difficult but found that Apple has carefully thought out the user experience for this process. Unfortunately, while transferring settings from the Airport Extreme to the Time Capsule, the setup encountered an unexpected error and the user experience wasn't that great after all. It did successfully transfer the settings, but I had to figure some things out on my own that non-geeky people would likely not have been able to figure out so easily. I swapped the devices in place, then readded the old device to extend the network only so that I could then restore it to original settings so that I was certain that it did not contain any network passwords or settings. I began a Time Capsule backup from the MacBook Air, then removed its external Time Machine hard drive from service. After that I wrangled with HandyPrint, upgrading it to the latest version, then purchasing a license code, then testing it. It's working now. Began watching Barbarella (1968) on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: Milan-style lasagne adapted from Esalen Cookbook. Finished watching Barbarella. Considered migrating the Time Machine backup for my iMac from an external hard drive to Time Capsule using information provided by pondini (#18), but chose instead to just start anew.