Having tried everything to “revive” my presumed dead
external drive I was getting resigned to losing 5 years worth of pics. The biggest disappointment being the loss of
the holiday pics from Hong Kong , Australia and Fiji in 2011.
I viewed the parcel with the replacement disk enclosure
which arrived yesterday with a jaundiced eye & fingers crossed as I
unwrapped it. I was fully expecting the
old disk to be a goner. I didn’t even
bother fitting the disk in the new enclosure I just plugged it into the printed
circuit board then hooked it up to my Ubuntu machine.
The clunks, clicks and lack of the noise of spinning
platters sounded very ominous. Realising
I had the drive upside down I turned it up the right way and viola! it groaned
its way back to life immediately displaying the various folders on my Ubuntu machines
screen!!!
Well at least the PC can see it I thought and gingerly moved
the mouse to “copy” the pictures folder and pasted into the Ubuntu O.S.
It racked up that there were 56101 pics to
paste and that it would take 45 minutes to complete the operation. I’m sure we have all seen these copy
operations terminated in Windows because of some broken protocol rule where it
will roll back the whole operation before finishing it. Ubuntu seems able to cope with the odd
problem but I still sat there watching it throughout the whole procedure.
Result! Every single pic copied and now safe on the Ubuntu
machine! Also promising myself to complete my DVD copy back up of the pictures
folder. I quickly copied a few other things from the
ailing drive as I noticed a bloke outside our back door.
“I’ve come about your pergola and fences” he informed
me. Wandering up the garden with him and
me wearing my “confused expression” he explained that “someone” had expressed
concern at the height of my fences and pergola’s!
Still flushed with the success of recovering the pics I was
rather well disposed towards him and it paid off in the end. We had a general discussion about planning
rules, it turns out he was from the local planning department.
To cut a longish story short it turns out I need to lower
one half of my northern pergola (the bit in front of the shed) more or less to the level of the near half and shave a bit
off some of the fenceline up the path on the left of the garden.
“You’ll need to get planning permission for that” he said
pointing at my neighbours
Incredibly high fence, “I hope not” I replied, it isn’t
mine. Another discussion followed after
which I left the bloke taking photographs of the fence, and returned to my data
copying.
A little while later the bloke bade us farewell indicating
we would get the options open to us in a letter. We had already decided to lower the offending
bit of pergola and the job will be expedited without delay.
The fate of the fence that friends have described as “The Berlin
wall?” the bloke wouldn’t discuss it but it looks as if it will be worth watching
developments over the next few weeks - - -
Off to work this morning as a balloon passed overhead
Its quite high in this shot but by the time I reached the shop the balloon I could see it descending about half way between the shop and our cottage.
Down at the Fun Factory my boss, “lets call him Craig” has
been doing the night shift managers job for a couple of shifts, I blogged about him being off sick not long
ago. Once again he was rather
philosophical about it but certainly “not amused!”
I had wondered about buying a replacement external disk
drive and a “bargain” at the Fun Factory caught my eye. A 1 Terrabite 2.5 inch drive was on display
for £42 (after staff discount) it’s not normally something we stock and there
were I was told only 3 in the shop so I snapped one up! - - -
Enjoy the day
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