The joy of Firewire and the failure of software
So my new laptop hard drive decided to die on me in the last 5 minutes of watching the Thomas Crown Affair. The Pierce Brosnan version from iTunes movie of the week (99p). Currently I’m running my MacBook off a firewire cable to my external drive like its an umbilical cord, kinda neat I can do this with Firewire but it also acts like a ball and chain around the laptop. The external drive is mains powered, being a 3.5 inch desktop size hard drive, so I’m not taking this anywhere for a while.
So until the new laptop drive gets here (tomorrow now) I don’t fancy installing a lot of software when I have to wipe the drive anyway. I’ve only installed the apps I’ve needed, Camino, Skype, etc, etc. It hasn’t been too bad until I shot on the Saturday and today and only in raw! I can’t do any edits until the drive gets here. On top of that I have tried to reinstall Lightroom at least just so I can convert my ORF files to DNG. No dice, Lightroom will install but will not load up the the palette screens or allow me to import files. I get a ‘failure to load module’ type error which I haven’t seen anybody been able to rectify while on my travels in forums looking for a solution.
Anyway if somebody can help me with that, it would be great, drop me a comment or something. There isn’t a need to register here btw.
