So, to my three fans, I'm posting a warning note, and this is not a Halloween joke. I'm currently having some technical difficulties on a number of fronts.
I've upgraded the ol' computer to the latest and greatest version Mac OS X. I've been on OS X since the public beta, and on the mac for a lot longer than that. So I had very few reservations about upgrading on day one, and I must concede that it was a mistake. The installation was a nightmare, but I think after 3 days and countless hours of waiting on hold with apple, I think I'm in a place where I can maybe get some work done.
That said, my productivity has taken a major hit, and the things that don't work right in 10.5 is A LOT.
As you may know from a previous blog post, I am also a Scrivener user. It's a great app, and while I started writing Being Christina Chase before I became a Scrivener convert, it's now indispensable.
When I was reinstalling the world by hand to cope with OS X install woes, I grabbed the latest version of Scrivener. When I opened up my project in the new version, it attempted to update the format of my file, and completely hosed it.
Being good and paranoid, I pulled the old copy of Scrivener and my old copy of BCC off my backup and I'm mostly back in business.
I don't think I'll miss my Friday posting, but this is a warning notice just in case something else goes wrong.
Comments
Other than install issues
How is Jaguar?
Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? Wait, no, that was God. Sorry, common mistake...
I don't think OS X 10.5 is
I don't think OS X 10.5 is ready for primetime. I would advise people to wait for 10.5.1.
Just For Safekeeping, Of Course
Personally, I think you should email me all your unposted chapters.
You have my address, right?
You'll never get me lucky
You'll never get me lucky charms!
This really is an honest question.
Have you tried a windows computer before? I am just interested because many of the people I know use Macs. The cost has always held me off and now with my rapidly declining fortunes, when my windows laptop dies, (it is 5 years old)I will be off the air. So far things seem to be cooking OK. I try to keep the things I really care about backed up to a thumb drive and that is about all I can afford.
I love to write but I would sure like to have someone in my house so we could encourage each other, and who would make me work harder.
Love your stories.
Gwenellen
I've got in depth experience
I've got in depth experience using macs going back to System 6, Windows back to 3.1, OS/2, BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD, various unixes and so on. For personal computing, I don't think you can do better than a Mac, even though I think they botched the latest OS release. That said, lots of people get work done on Windows. I would not recommend linux for most users.
Always do the best with what you have.
I've worked with both ...
... Windows and Macintosh systems (in fact, i'm being forced to work with WIndows XP on my new job *sigh*). I installed Mac OS X 10.5 without a hitch, and although i'm not particularly fond of the of the changes I haven't had a single issue on either of the machines I've installed it on so far.
I think it was just bad luck your installation went south, your Krunchiness. But in general, it's always a good idea to wait for the update after the initial release of an OS instead of buying it straight out of the gate. Unfortunately, my son pushed and pushed and finally pushed me past my misgivings.
Hope things get back to normal for you, hon! *hugs*
Randalynn
Micro$oft
Well, you make me feel bunches better about my recent experience with Windows Vista. Nothing got hosed, I just hated the new OS. Especially Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Mail. Got my XP computer back up and everything is good. Fortunately my brother enjoys playing with electronics stuff, including computers. He lives in a college town where every spring kids sell last year's Christmas presents from good ol' mom and dad to pay their party tabs. And they are usually infected with 15 or 20 dozen viruses and worms from swapping bootleg music files online so they go cheap. Part of the cost of a college degree I guess.
Gotta love it.
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."
College Girl - poetheather
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Always do a fresh install.
I always do a fresh reinstall for a major OS upgrade - whatever the OS, linux (any distro), windows, OS X - and I never seem to have these problems.
People who do an upgrade make fun of me for being so finickety, but then they seem to spend days or weeks fixing it.
/me is using Leopard for nearly a week now, on two machines, for real work, with only about two minor issues. The laptop crashed once while coming out of suspend and... actually I forget the other one.
(aside: I did find scrivener indispensible, but then I dispensed with it. :-) I wanted to be platform-independent, when I made my Linux box my main working desktop machine again. Now I do it with Textmate on the Mac and gedit on Linux, and subversion to sync the writing projects between machines, but because it's all plaintext I can really use any text editor on any platform. I use markdown/smartypants to format it for upload.)
um,
what the hell did you just say???
Kristina