{"id":118,"date":"2006-02-02T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-05-28T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T22:58:29","slug":"recovery-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/02\/02\/recovery-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about 80% recovered from Tuesday&#8217;s minor disaster. I eventually had to a complete wipe and reinstall of the operating system, followed by migrating the old user account over. Bleah. Not everything restored perfectly, but all my data seems to be intact. What&#8217;s annoying are the little things, like losing my font settings in Thunderbird, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/applescript\/uiscripting\/01.html\">System Events<\/a> getting turned off. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem so far is that iTunes can&#8217;t find my library, although all the files seem to be in the right place. OK. I think I figured that one out. The Tiger installer installed iTunes 4 but I was using iTunes 6, so I need to upgrade again. I don&#8217;t know why it didn&#8217;t get iTunes 6 when it imported all the old applications.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken the opportunity to fix a few things I should have fixed long ago. For instance I&#8217;m now configuring most of my AppleScripts to ask Finder where the home directory is rather than just hard coding it.<\/p>\n<pre>tell application \"Finder\"\r\n\tset theHome to home as string\r\nend tell\r\n\r\nset quotesfile to theHome &amp; \"Cafe au Lait:support:quotes.html\"<\/pre>\n<p> This will mean I can use the same scripts on my laptop as I do on my desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about 80% recovered from Tuesday&#8217;s minor disaster. I eventually had to a complete wipe and reinstall of the operating system, followed by migrating the old user account over. Bleah. Not everything restored perfectly, but all my data seems to be intact. What&#8217;s annoying are the little things, like losing my font settings in Thunderbird, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}