Mac | A Zestful Quest

I’d been planning on working on another website design this weekend but I’m forced to stay away from my beautiful G5 for a while. I absolutely dislike having to cut off the power cord cold turkey but I guess my body is warning me to take things slow. I’m having trouble focusing on the screen for three days in a row now.

My right eye has a disturbed vision that contains unformed black and white flashes like a cool artistic graphic moire trompe-l’œil. Unfortunately the immediate effect is not so cool and follows in the shape of an interesting migraine. It’s always amazing to see how life seems to catch up on you if you try to fool yourself into something.

The migraine is bad timing, I’d also planned to do a clean install on my Mac. It’s going to take me at least three days to install each application that I’m using. I’ve adjusted so many settings and prefs. Designed and added brush sets for Photoshop and Illustrator that I’ll need to import all of these again after the installation.

Something I never look forward to because I end up looking for stuff for days, screening all back-ups for brush sets, settings and preferences. Time that I need to use to design instead of getting my machine ready to work for me. But I have had a few kernels and crashes this month telling me that something needs to be done.

It has to wait for now though, I’m gonna quit the Mac addiction for the moment and try to give my eyes and head a welcome break… Let’s see how long I can keep it up *hehe*.

I’ve been postponing it for ages but while I was working on the template design of my new business blog the application started to fail on me. It kept crashing with one 3Gig file: I realised I had to install the whole package again. So while I was at it I thought I might as well put in the new gear: a 500Gb HD and 2x2Gb of RAM. What I thought would take me an hour in the end almost took me two days. It wasn’t the hardware causing me problems, that all went quite smooth, it was the software and I decided to do a clean system install.

Of course after the installation I found out that files were missing, mostly printer descriptions and prefs and although I did make some backups it was no point trying to sort out what was missing and where it was supposed to be on the system. I deleted all the Creative Suite applications and installed them again and although I still have to sort out stuff on my HDs and take care of archiving, my machine runs fine without any problems. I now have an extra HD to backup all the client files in case one of my LaCie Porsches fails.

It’s been a busy two days but I’m quite content with the results and I know I will be grateful for doing this if I was to experience a serious crash in the future… I’m so happy with my beast… *sigh*