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The removable battery seems like a nice thing, but most people never ever use it.
I would say that 90% of the times I've removed the battery from my laptops it's been to crash it when it's frozen or otherwise fucked. I understand that that's not such an issue for the Mac users among us. But never?
brenda, holding down the power button on a laptop for about 5-10 seconds kills the power completely, so you shouldn't need to take the battery out. Of course, I'm open to corrections.
megan, nah. Apparently for a small charge you can redownload the songs with DRM removed.
I've had my current iBook for 9 years now, and I don't think I've ever taken the battery out. The computer's getting a tad wonky now, but after 9 years of steady use and abuse I'm amazed it still turns on.
I'm with Brenda - sometimes the power button does not work and I've had to pull out the battery.
re: LJ download for archiving:
I am on a mac, so I downloaded ljdump, I get a folder with three things in it on my desktop:
ChangeLog ljdump.config.sample ljdump.py
what do I do?
yeah, I have that, I don't know what that means.
I just got an error message that should go in the Vague And Useless Error Messages Hall of Fame.
"The iPod could not be synced. The required file could not be found."
(Fortunately, restarting iTunes seems to have located the required file, and all is now well again.)
Ah! I've gotten that same vague and useless error message! But I hadn't tried restarting iTunes and retrying. Hope it works for me, too.
msbelle, this page helped me do it with LJDump....except then I don't seem to actually have a useful way to LOOK at what I downloaded to my computer.
LJSM would seem to be more useful in its output, except that I tried to run it, got errors, and then read in the comments of that link above that another user on 10.4.11 also didn't have the correct libraries loaded (er...whatever that means) to properly run the thing.
LJBook would appear to be the *prettiest* of them all, but is way overloaded, right now. And while I'd be willing to donate to them, I'm a bit puzzled from their page, on how that works, and why I'm supposed to do so in Euros.