Thursday, June 29, 2023

Performed knee-friendly quad-strengthening exercises. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, diced half peach; hot water. Worked from home. Reformatted the Time Machine hard drive for my work computer after realizing that it was formatted as APFS and was taking a very long time to mount. In Disk Utility I tried to erase the volume but found only APFS choices in the picklist then found the solution posted by BreBo on tonymacx86 on May 14, 2018, paraphrasing: Select View > Show All Devices, then erase the parentmost object, which is partition rather than the container or volume. HEAL-Rx Video project work. Set up Time Machine anew: MacOS Extended (Journaled) and excluded many unnecessary folders with (old) help from "What Folders To Exclude From Time Machine Backup’s" on essentialapple.com. While it was preparing the first backup, I reopened Disk Utility and found that the disk was set to APFS even though I remember choosing MacOS Extended (Journaled). I then learned that Apple says that APFS or APFS Encrypted disks are the preferred format for a Time Machine backup disk. So now I am resigned to using APFS for Time Machine, and I didn't have to erase all my data and recreate it, but I believe it will at least help some with the slow mount times. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself fried rice with shrimp and vegetables. Water to drink. Continued HEAL-Rx Video project work. HTML email work for Eric: early release. Dinner at home with Patrick: kicked-up tuna melts with creamy tomato soup, water. We watched part of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. Updates for home devices.