[ale] Mac's version of BSD

[Drifter]

Unfortunately, non-technical people seldom, if ever, notice the nuances of 
error messages.  She didn't call me when these crashes happened and it 
never occurred to her to save the error messges. Sigh!
But iPhoto can be hard to deal with.  It only wants you to organize and 
utilize your pix using its interface. I never could figure out where it was 
hiding the actual images.  Organizing images the way YOU want to organize 
them is, at best, counter-intuitive with iPhoto.  I never could figure out 
how to do it.  Early on, I made it clear that if she wanted to use iPhoto, 
she was on her own.
The only remaining issue is how to drive a silver plated stake through its 
heart.  The damn thing won't go away.  Put an SD card in a reader plugged 
into her Mac and the only option available is download the images into 
iPhoto. ARGhhhhhh!!!!!!

Sean,

who has issues with Apple's attitude of "The Apple Way or the highway."

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On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 07:07:46 pm Justin Goldberg wrote:
> I almost always google the error messages I see. What message did she
> have?
> 
> On 5/13/12, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> > I am essentially clueless about the underpinnings of a Mac.
> > But, given the recent discussions on failing hard drives, I couldn't
> > help but remember my wife's recent PAIN -- the HD in her Mac laptop
> > died and that's when she discovered that her backup drive had died a
> > week or so earlier.  (She hadn't understood the error messages she
> > was getting.) Two new hard drives later she is trying to recover
> > what she can.
> > 
> > So this afternoon I checked and the command <smartctl> is not on her
> > machine.  Is it available?  If so, what is the download/install
> > procedure?
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
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