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Reality check: Reflections on switching
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<blockquote data-quote="Demapples" data-source="post: 1262454" data-attributes="member: 199799"><p>Update 3: </p><p>Glad three times now that my iPad was handy when I ran into sticky problems with my iMac. Like last night when I ran a verify on the hard drive and the utility reported that the drive was corrupt. I followed the directions to repair the drive using my Mac OS installation disc, but that was hardly intuitive. I managed to boot from the disc, then needed the iPad to go online to figure out how to do the repair, then how to reboot from the hard drive and get out of the installation disc. </p><p></p><p>Of course I could have fired up my Windows laptop, but the iPad was faster.</p><p></p><p>The corrupt hard drive thing turned out to be a minor difference in file counts.</p><p></p><p>I learned the hard way not to reboot the iMac if I got into a weird situation, like when I imported all my Windows folders of photos into iPhoto. Next morning it looked like the iMac was locked up so did a hard reboot. Then iPhoto could no longer open it's library, possibly because I prevented iPhoto from finishing some writes. Took an AppleCare call to fix that one. I should have gone online with the iPad (or the Windows laptop) first, to find the right way out of that apparent lockup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demapples, post: 1262454, member: 199799"] Update 3: Glad three times now that my iPad was handy when I ran into sticky problems with my iMac. Like last night when I ran a verify on the hard drive and the utility reported that the drive was corrupt. I followed the directions to repair the drive using my Mac OS installation disc, but that was hardly intuitive. I managed to boot from the disc, then needed the iPad to go online to figure out how to do the repair, then how to reboot from the hard drive and get out of the installation disc. Of course I could have fired up my Windows laptop, but the iPad was faster. The corrupt hard drive thing turned out to be a minor difference in file counts. I learned the hard way not to reboot the iMac if I got into a weird situation, like when I imported all my Windows folders of photos into iPhoto. Next morning it looked like the iMac was locked up so did a hard reboot. Then iPhoto could no longer open it's library, possibly because I prevented iPhoto from finishing some writes. Took an AppleCare call to fix that one. I should have gone online with the iPad (or the Windows laptop) first, to find the right way out of that apparent lockup. [/QUOTE]
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