Have you thought of a battery back up for your computer - recommended by a computer geek after I lost my computer during a similar event - haven't had another failure like that since and we've had a number of outages since.
Ken Waller
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Sent: Dec 8, 2023 6:10 PM
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Doug,
It's certainly not normal! We've been in this house 37 years and have never
had an event like this before.
We're looking into getting a whole-house surge protector to provide a
second layer of defense..
Rick
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 6:56 PM Doug Brewer wrote:
Rick, have you spoken to your power provider? I mean, we're aware of
your history with electronic equipment and some software packages, but
this kind of event is not normal.
On 12/7/23 5:48 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
I don't know about the server gods, but some gods somewhere weren't happy
with my photo computer .
On the night of November 13 it seems that our house had a massive power
surge. The victims were (1) my photo computer setup, consisting of a Mac
Mini and two on-line OWC hard drives. A few days later we learned that
control circuit board and some of the wiring for our house's minisplit
AC/heating system were partially melted (we are now using our hot water
heating system).
We're waiting for a new circuit board and valves for the minisplit
and I've been chipping away at the computer problems. The OS on the Mac
needs replacing, and both external drives have media and file system
on Disk Utility which are making them flaky.
So, in the midst of other activities, I've been chipping away at the
problem. I'm shifting files from two other external hard drives (which
aren't in daily use) so that I can shift my files off the damaged drives
and reformat them.
Then I'll be able to transfer a bunch of files, reformat the external
drives they were on, transfer files back, and hope that Lightroom
cooperates in getting everything accessible.
Stay tuned.
Rick
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Have you thought of a battery back up for your computer - recommended by a computer geek after I lost my computer during a similar event - haven't had another failure like that since and we've had a number of outages since.
Ken Waller
-----Original Message-----
From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net>
Sent: Dec 8, 2023 6:10 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net>
Subject: Re: Let's test the list!
Doug,
It's certainly not normal! We've been in this house 37 years and have never
had an event like this before.
We're looking into getting a whole-house surge protector to provide a
second layer of defense..
Rick
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 6:56 PM Doug Brewer wrote:
> Rick, have you spoken to your power provider? I mean, we're aware of
> your history with electronic equipment and some software packages, but
> this kind of event is not normal.
>
>
> On 12/7/23 5:48 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
> > I don't know about the server gods, but some gods somewhere weren't happy
> > with my photo computer .
> >
> > On the night of November 13 it seems that our house had a massive power
> > surge. The victims were (1) my photo computer setup, consisting of a Mac
> > Mini and two on-line OWC hard drives. A few days later we learned that
> the
> > control circuit board and some of the wiring for our house's minisplit
> > AC/heating system were partially melted (we are now using our hot water
> > heating system).
> >
> > We're waiting for a new circuit board and valves for the minisplit
> system,
> > and I've been chipping away at the computer problems. The OS on the Mac
> > needs replacing, and both external drives have media and file system
> errors
> > on Disk Utility which are making them flaky.
> >
> > So, in the midst of other activities, I've been chipping away at the
> > problem. I'm shifting files from two other external hard drives (which
> > aren't in daily use) so that I can shift my files off the damaged drives
> > and reformat them.
> >
> > Then I'll be able to transfer a bunch of files, reformat the external
> > drives they were on, transfer files back, and hope that Lightroom
> > cooperates in getting everything accessible.
> >
> > Stay tuned.
> >
> > Rick
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