Lafayette Life

I had a problem. I wanted to copy about 900 photos to a SD flash drive, for Grandmere’s digital photo frame. I have done this before, and I thought it would be a snap. NOPE. I failed and failed, and felt like a DOPE.

First, it would give me a strange error, cannot copy file, error code -0036xxxx whatever. I thought to my self, Oh, maybe it’s those punctuation marks that the Mac can handle, but Windows cannot. So, I looked on the web, found a utility called “Better Finder Rename”, tried it out, it removed punctuation marks (commas, apostrophes, ampersands) from the file names, bought the software, used it on 1700 files, and tried again. NOPE.

Then I checked the error code more closely, and it said the Mac was trying to copy these invisible files with resources that, once again, Windows can’t handle. But there was a very fast and free solution: Open the terminal and type Dot_clean. So, I did that. Then tried the copy again. The first 100 files went fine, and then it said “No room, disk full.” NOPE! What? The disk is NOT full. That was only about 6 MB of a 2 GB drive. It’s not full. It’s NOT full. IT’S NOT FULL.

Then I looked around for more error codes, and found something about FAT16 vs. FAT32. Oh, gee. This flash drive was somehow formatted for FAT16. That’s like 1984 technology. OK, quick trip to the Disk Utility, reformat the flash drive to FAT32, and like ‘that’, it works.

You know what they say, “It ain’t over ’till the FAT lady sings.”

Just think I expanded my vocabulary. Watch out, everyone who is playing “Scrabble” with me. I will cross the Rubicon to get you.

We are well on our way to a big spa in our tiny backyard. Photos will be published on Flicker here. More will be put as we proceed.
Just a hint.

She is returning from the big city to be a Team Lead in COV. Welcome! Updated to have smaller size pictures.

Update my blog. Like today, for instance. All this week, I have been working the photos, working the captions, arranging, culling, and finally got them in shape. So what happens? I put 250 photos on the web all at once. But they ARE arranged into albums, and I did delete the crummy ones and the duplicates (here’s John smiling, and here’s John smiling again, and here’s John kinda smiling… you get the idea). And I did remove the red eye (except for Marilyn Manson) and I did brighten up the dark ones (but can’t do anything about the dork ones). So slide on over to the right where it says Photo Pages, and spend a couple of hours visiting with the Comeauxs and the 2009 Thanksgiving-Christmas-Holiday season. It’s the right thing to do.

Oh boy, more photos. We spent a 4-day fun trip to Tiki Island, which is a little boat-and-fishing village that Faye is allowed to use. We also had some good old Chicken Spaghetti for John’s birthday, and this time invited the Prayer group. Last week Phyllis spent hours at the hospital with her Mom, who was suffering from low hemoglobin. Well, on Halloween day after her treatment when her levels came back up, she felt so good, she came out to eat with us, and then we all dressed in costume and crashed David and Des’ party.

So click on the links, and Make it So, Cher.

When Betty escapes the hospital, she crashes Dave and Des’ Halloween Party
Phyllis makes a Chicken Spaghetti for John and the “Life in the Spirit” prayer group
Faye invites us to Tiki Island for some R&R - very puzzling