cuzes

Off to darkest Oxfordshire today to visit my brother-in-law and family: easy drive in fantastic weather (cold and sunny), lovely food, much catching up (although probably not enough) and play from the cousins.

+2/3 and her almost equivalently aged cousin having a good old play on the piano.

A quiet evening trying to complete the great data migration. I'm rapidly growing to loathe OS X. For example: I want to copy the iPhoto library to the NAS and then point iPhoto to the new location. Should be easy, right? So far I've:

* tried to copy through the finder: the progress dialog sat there for about 12h before telling me it would take 20 days to copy and eventually just giving up
* mounted the NAS using AFP and manually copying the files from the terminal: the terminal by default is set to save unlimited lines of history which then exhausted the system memory and required a reboot. Seriously?
* rsync the data across: fortunately the NAS supports rsync. Turn it on, modify the terminal settings and run rsync. Works perfectly... but exposes the horrible internal structure of the iPhoto library. Seriously, what a mess
* turning on hidden file viewing requires some terminal work and restarting the finder. Again, seriously?!

It's nearly there however. Grrrr. 


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Music for today: go on, try Killing by The Apples on for size. You'll like it.