Showing posts with label Computer Troubles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Troubles. Show all posts

Joy to Despair

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9 Of Your Sparks


A few weeks ago, due to a lack of available space on my MAC, I decided to make some changes. I bought a smaller (300GB) External Hard Drive to use with Time Machine when backing up my hard drive.

Then I took my 1TB Eternal Hard Drive and reformatted it and moved my iTunes files over there. It freed up about 50GB of space and my plan was/is to move my iPhoto files there also, opening up another 40GB or so.

Before I deleted the iTunes files from my hard drive I made sure everything worked correctly. I added new files to the library. I transferred songs to my iTouch...everything was just fine.

Once I got through the holidays I would also burn each playlist (by genre) to DVDs as a tertiary backup.

Christmas morning I went in to send the Christmas playlist to the sound system. Ummm...iTunes Library can not be found...

WHAT?

Open the external hard drive and I can see them there, but iTunes is not opening

Let the day go to enjoy the holiday and Monday morning I go in and restart the computer When I do, the External Hard Drive does not appear on the desktop.

I go and run Data Rescue 3 and it tells me no files can be found! OH CRAP!

Well, then I go and use the Deleted Files function of DR3 and as I write this 48.9GB of audio data is being recovered. A process that will still take 12 hours (been running for about 5).

So, that is the size of my iTunes library (7,600+ tunes), so the data is being recovered, but looking at it before recovering a bunch of file names are all comfuzzled.

Until this process is done, I will not know what I may have lost. 80% of the music is still available to me...where I am concerned are the cassettes I digitized with the Warner-Chappelle Collection on them. 25 90-minute cassettes covering that publishing house's music from the 20's to the 90's.

AND all my live concerts. they may e missing, but since it says 48.9GB and I KNOW that was the size of the library, I am hopeful.

I will let you know. By the time many of you read this, the scan will be completed and I will have an idea of how much has been saved.

SO, how was your Christmas weekend?


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Monday Missives

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Monday, February 25, 2008 22 Of Your Sparks

OK....so everything is printed and we finished at 4:00 am on Thursday, just in time to get on the road...

Had a great two days in Philadelphia, MS at the Pearl River Resort...relaxed...played some cards...ate a great meal and laughed a lot...

The cards did not turn out great. We did get into a Texas Hold 'em Tournament with about 80 players. We lasted an hour or so getting more 4 & 7 hole cards...

We were in the #2 seat and the guy in #1 was getting some great cards. The gent next to us in #3 looked over after my last hand and said "Man, you had nothing to play"

Did spend some time at the Blackjack tables also and just road my own, leaving a few shekels behind...

Dinner was excellent...Presentation on my Spinach Salad was lacking, as they put all the other ingredients at the bottom of the bowl, and then tossed the Spinach leaves on top....Might have been a commentary on our asking for the dressing on the side...

Dressing was a Balsamic based, but with sugar, salt pepper and olive oil used...will have to experiment on the proportions...

We also had the Macadamia Nut Crusted Orange Roughy with a Buerre Blanc Sauce.

Darlin' Nancy had an Iceberg lettuce and tomatoes Salad and then the Petite Filet, with a nice sauce on the side.

We had a Stag's Leap 2003 Cabernet with dinner and split a slice of NY Style Cheese cake with a Strawberry Sauce.

Every female diner gets a red rose at the conclusion of dinner...nice touch...

Except for the group of over-served gents at the table behind us who were totally loud and obnoxious and ride...(wait did we just describe tables we have been at???)

Where were we...anyway, they left just in time...people were beginning to get a tad annoyed...

It was a grand evening overall...


OK, then after we picked up our car in Olive Branch we went and picked up the new iMac....YUP....we got it...

20" of bright beauty...as a matter of face, we are lying on the bed, the computer about 5 feet away as we type this...see, the mouse and the keyboard is wireless...the wireless keyboard is a smaller version, and we are not sure we are totally comfortable with it yet, but that is why they invented spell check...but we sometimes miss some of those - RIGHT ANNDI?



So, that is the good news...bad news is we might have lost everything n the old machine...might be much worse than we thought...all our music...and the programs ..my Photoshop and Illustrator were work related from a past job..they gave to me...but we do not have the disks to load on the new machine.

And MS Office is another program where the disc is no longer with us.

We have begun loading all the CD's we own and also trying to recreate some of the live music (bootlegs) we have...

I feel like Layla who lost much of her music, though she was able to recover some...

We have not given up hope yet though...we are hopeful the Pros can do something we can't to abstract the data...

So, no huge graphics abilities at the moment.... if you want to share your P.S. and Illus. discs for Mac... heheheh we will not tell...


Also hopeful to grab the USB turntable and get the vinyl loaded to digital...how is yours going Travis?



Went to watch some Baseball on Sunday...it was about 50, so not so horrible, but standing / sitting through a double header, still gets a tad chilly...

"Our" team won both games (played against two different teams)...

So, back to work...in the office that is...



SENDING OUT A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO

CHICKLET

MAY YOUR BIRTHDAY BE FILLED WITH SMILES AND GIGGLES

This might be wrong but...

Votre anniversaire peut être rempli avec des sourires et des rires

or is it this:

MAI VOTRE ANNIVERSAIRE SOIT REMPLI DE SOURIRES ET RIT NERVEUSEMENT




We can not start on another addition of TUNEAGE TUTELAGE - The Delta Blues Series now...though we had to go over to iTunes and use some of our credits...we have enough to work this up...

Next up...Mr. Chester Arthur Burnett - the world knows him as Howlin' Wolf
.....aaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooooooo

A little taste today...The Howlin Wolf London Sessions...In 1971, Howlin' Wolf and his long-time guitarist Hubert Sumlin traveled to London to record with British blues/rock musicians Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts .

Enjoy...This is called "Poor Boy"...




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