The Bleeding Edge

Adobe DNG Converter (Let's call it DNGC) has the feel of an orphan program, although Adobe does update it quickly when new cameras come out. I was forced to use it for batch conversions of Fuji GFX files since dcraw does not yet support the GFX (at least, no version that I can … [Read more...]

The software: Quicken Premiere 2017. The OS: Windows 10 Pro. After several months of working, one of the accounts to which I connect using DirectConnect has stopped working. When I invoke One Step Update, Quicken prompts me for the password to the account (and only that account … [Read more...]

I fired up TrueImage 2017 on the second Dell Optiplex 5050. I chose disk recovery, selected a backup, then checked the box next to the image I wanted to use. Then, this happened: I moved the error window aside to see if I'd made a mistake: Apparently not. There's … [Read more...]

When I was trying to get Dell to declare the first Optiplex 5050 bad enough to return, I ordered a Lenovo small desktop as a potential replacement. It arrived at about the same time as the replacement Optiplex, and I set it up while I was attempting to migrate the settings, docs, … [Read more...]

In the previous post, I reported on setting up a Dell Optiplex 5050, discovering that it had an intermittant problem, and receiving a replacement. In this post I'll discuss transferring the first machine's configuratio to the second. There are in general three ways to migrate … [Read more...]