I blame Zolpidem. The last few years it's been a crutch, but it does leave me with spells of . . . loss of drive. (sorry about that.) Now, with nice British fresh air I'm sleeping with bags of REM-sleep and regaining some of my high-level functions. I have to say, the last few months seems like a haze so nothing very orderly in the rivets world. Backing up? Well, that's what the Black Armor was for.
I'll spend part of today looking into laptops (3) and two diddy drives that should contain at least part of the collection. The other part of the day I'll spend looking for somewhere to live - for the first time in my life.
This is what I got from my son, who earned good pocket money when he was a grad student, by taking over the department's computer care needs. It's just a ramble now, for no more than general interest.
I was able to hook up the BlackArmor drive to my network after resetting its username and password to the default “admin”, but it’s having difficulty transferring files.
I’ve managed to transfer about 11%, but the file transfer now repeatedly slows to a crawl and then the drive reboots itself. When that happens, Windows asks me if I want to try copying the file (the one it hung up on), which I can do for a v. short period before the device reboots. It seems to be getting worse, so I’m not sure if it will stop me getting past this 11%. Anyway, I’ll do my best. 11% of 45GB is still a lot of photos (more than none, anyway).
I’ve just done a series of three timed reboots. The files will transfer for almost exactly 60 seconds, then the drive will reboot (which takes about 2 mins). There’s about 4hrs of total transfer time left – which will take a nightmarishly long time to work through…!
Interestingly, it didn’t reboot when I didn’t resume file transfer (just left it waiting for me to hit “try again?”)… at least, not for the 2-3 minutes that I tried waiting. So the file transfer seems to consistently cause it to reboot, every 1min
And later:
I’ve been running it with a strong fan blowing on it, which has helped a great deal. Now at 80% complete, but it’s 2am so I’m headed to bed.
It’s likely to reset/hang up, but I’ll hopefully be able to continue tomorrow.
So, not all bad, but my main computer has been my eyes and ears on the world for too long now. I'll miss that setup.
There's one more thing. There are some photos in that lot I hope he doesn't happen across.
