Unloadable Macbook AIR cleaned up

The MB AIR on loan to Hege & Ada was reported as being unusable , and sure enough there were only 800MB free out of the 80GB drive!

To access my account I started in Safe Mode by holding Shift during the boot process. Once there, I started looking for things to delete. Ada's Movies folder held quite a few GB, so I moved that over to my Black WD drive for a while.

Finally. I made a new Admin account, checked it worked OK before de-authorizing my iTunes account on the AIR, deleting the Music folder contents.. that got rid of a LOT, then from the new account I deleted 'gfraser' leaving the Home folder's remaining contents for the time being.

Have completed the job by making a fresh Superduper backup to Black 1 :)

Wondering about the name

'My AIR Journal' began after the arrival of my first gen. Macbook AIR, the idea being to complement my paper journals, but things changed again after I bought an iPhone 4 to join my Nexus One, (since replaced by a Galaxy S2).

I found a great 'journal' app called Momento for iOS, and more importantly, discovered that a spare Apple wifi keyboard (with Norwegian characters) could be used to input data to the phone. This helped me maintain a daily personal record, which gets backed up to the iMac.

Paper mindmaps are to a great extent taken care of by the Mindnode Touch app, which is much simpler to use than the iMindmap solution. Mindmaps made on the iPhone can be copied to Dropbox and edited on my iMacs. Perfect..

Finally, I have passed my AIR on to an eager granddaughter, and don't expect to have it returned any time soon :) Perhaps I'll just hang onto the name for now.

It arrived just after lunch

What a surprise.. was just going to have a doze when I heard a van pull up outside, and sure enough it was TNT!

It was solidly packaged, both the external box and the inner one. Really well done..

I took it carefully apart, looking at things carefully as I went. Found which way round the power dinx should go though I have a feeling it goes either way. Powered on, answered the few basic questions, and up it came. Found the network with no difficulty, and while I was feeling my way around, thinking it was becoming rather warm, a Software Update popup told me a whole bunch of updates were ready to install. They installed in no time!

I had some difficulty getting Softsqueeze to start, it clearly didn't like the one from the iMac, but eventually it installed 3.6 and I'm listening to Andsnes thro' the Viba earbuds :)

More tomorrow