http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/crashrecovery Questions tagged with 'crashrecovery' at Ask MetaFilter. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:28:46 -0800 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:28:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/47924/Recovery%2Dfrom%2Da%2Dcrash%2Dmidsoftware%2Dupdate%2DOSX Power outage during an OS X software update -- how screwed am I? I'll try to keep this brief: iMac running 10.2.5 -- it's been in storage for a while -- that I'm trying to bring up to snuff to pass along. Got the machine online and ran the Software Update. The OS update to 10.2.8 and 1.0 update to Safari downloaded and installed (or so said the Software Update screen) but in the middle of installing an iCal update the power went out. Since the computer is residing on my desk very temporarily, I neglected to plug it into my UPS. Consequently, the power outrage caused the computer to power down hard.<br> <br> When the power came back and I restarted, the computer went through the OS X start process (it took a while to get past the grey on grey screen, but it got there eventually) and got to the point when the Finder should have started, desktop and dock become visible, etc. but I've got nada, just a blank blue screen. The mouse pointer is visible and responds to mouse action, but no keyboard commands are recognized and nothing else happens.<br> <br> Thoughts and ideas on recovering from this mid-update crash? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.47924 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:28:46 -0800 crashrecovery mac osx poweroutage softwareupdate Dreama http://ask.metafilter.com/41837/How%2Dto%2Dsave%2DAdobe%2DPS%2DElements%2Dmetadata My wife's (Windows XP) laptop took a dive. Our digital image library was on it, organized with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. I was able to pull the hard drive, stuff it in a USB2 box, and access it on my Windows XP laptop. So the images are not lost. Any tips on how to preserve the metadata? Her hard drive is still working, if that helps. I've also made a copy of all the images to a directory on my backup hard drive (a large USB2 drive). I had thought of moving all the images to this drive anyway, and the sudden crash has convinced me to go ahead with it. <br> <br> I know that date is embedded in the JPEG files, so that's not a problem. But Elements also lets you tag your photos, title the, and add comments to them. I believe all of this info is stored in the "album" files that Elements creates in the "all users/application data/adobe" folder. But I'm afraid that will all break now that the paths are different (i.e. her drive is now "F:" and the photos I copied to the backup drive are at "E:\photos\adobe." <br> <br> I had to muck with the file permissions on her hard drive (i.e. changed them all to 755 via Cygwin) so I could access them on my laptop while logged in as me. Prior to that, attempting to open her user folder would give me "access denied." <br> <br> I haven't tried much at this point because I'm afraid of mucking things up. So I'm looking for best practices. I've burned everything to a DVD in case everything gets hosed. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.41837 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:40:46 -0800 adobephotoshopelements crashrecovery imagemanagement wheat