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§ ita § - Sep 16, 2013 7:01:24 am PDT #23034 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My last desktop was an HP, and I have nothing against their hardware. It's been so long since I looked at buying desktops, though--I'm entirely out of the game. I don't need amazing power--intermittent image editing is the most that I'm going to ask out of the machine--it's mostly there so I can use Office at home (that's another question--Office 365, or haul out my legal copies of Office 1985 (they feel that old...)? and the apps I can't run on a Mac or well on a laptop.

Also, where's good to shop? I can't believe this used to be my JOB.

(I can't believe, truly, that I'm having the second Lenovo hard disk failure inside of a year--entirely new work laptop, same "can't back up your hard drive" error...)

Jon B. - Sep 16, 2013 7:03:52 am PDT #23035 of 25513
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I just built a Windows 7 64bit desktop with an SSD. It was easy-peasy. I got this Samsung model, which did NOT come with a bracket, but the case I bought had a special spot for a single SSD drive.

§ ita § - Sep 16, 2013 7:16:50 am PDT #23036 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Newegg! Why am I not shopping from them??? There's no point shopping in meatspace since I can't carry shit, so they're a great place to start.

§ ita § - Sep 17, 2013 2:29:39 pm PDT #23037 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is there anywhere in particular I should start if OS X starts refusing to show folder contents? Doesn't matter if it's local or network, Finder or Path Finder. It just spinning balls. I can usually cancel out, and I think rebooting makes it okay for a bit.

eta: Finder won't relaunch either. It disappears from the application running list and won't come back.

Rob - Sep 17, 2013 2:56:27 pm PDT #23038 of 25513

Sounds like a failing drive.

§ ita § - Sep 17, 2013 3:04:11 pm PDT #23039 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And that would affect reading network drives?

I will hit up the Disk Utility.

§ ita § - Sep 17, 2013 8:10:44 pm PDT #23040 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I repaired both disk and permissions and it' still happening after about 20 minutes--whether I'm trying to browse locally, or if that window would have opened directly to any network share, it freezes. I can browse a couple folders deep from my root of my local disk, but that's all. After a while.

Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2013 1:35:02 am PDT #23041 of 25513
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.

Adobe to release a thin-tipped, pressure-sensitive tablet stylus.

Rob - Sep 18, 2013 10:13:41 am PDT #23042 of 25513

A couple of things to try to diagnose your Finder problem:

  • Create a new account on the machine and see if it happens when logged into that account.

  • Boot off an external drive and see if it happens then.

tommyrot - Sep 18, 2013 11:12:41 am PDT #23043 of 25513
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Has anyone installed iOS 7 yet? Or the new iTunes?

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