This is actually what happened to me when I saved a file on a PPC based Mac running old OS v9.2.2 for a freind that had a Dell X86 something or other. That's from the "before" time when things like this weren't supposed to happen. The date was 08/19/02 10:42am.
It was terrible! Women cried. A grown man fainted, trust me I know the guy real well. It was 45 minutes of "the ride from hell" around Ozark mountain roads to the nearest place with a qualified bone Dr. I'd let touch me. They had to do x-rays and tried to do it BEFORE the Demerol. Let's just say there was one right hand balled into a fist in protest to moving that wrist, or what was left of it. God Demerol is great when you really need it!
I created a little Word® file and when I pressed the key combo for "Save As" the whole thing exploded like a daisy cutter. Half my 60 acres were flattened as though it were the forest around St. Helens! Both bones at the wrist joint were compound fractured.
This is 4 weeks into recovery. All the "little" pins have been pulled. The photos of my face were gratefully destroyed! See one can do that with one left hand motion on a Mac, bring about sure swift action, so NEVER do this!!!
My above statement was almost all a lie. That IS my arm, the break was AS advertised! The Photo has only been transformatted to jpeg. No retouching or photoshop tricks.
Macs don't autodestruct like PC's have been know to do.
I actually broke this arm falling off the side of my $750 power room. Lack of good health insurance made that little 6' fall into a $15,000 power room. That WAS my solar budget! A square ended truss array was braced with a single 2X4 to hold square and plumb. I was about to fine tune the west end truss, balanced on the top stud plate, while placing WAY too much faith in 16p sinkers. It was cool. The middle nail in this angle brace, of about 10, popped free and the rest followed like machine gun fire. I knew I was falling a short distance and held my arms loosely at my sides, 'cause trying to "catch" ones self is a sure way to break an arm.(?) I learned that the hard way riding a cycle! Besides there was a 10' 2X4 full of nails coming along for the ride. On impact both arms flew out to my side like a dying bird's wings. The left one found a rock shaped just like a pryamid, and the wrist encountered that rock just so. The rest they say is history. I will never have a good left wrist again.
For saftey alone I'm now revealing this masively evil key combo. Remember do so at your own peril! It may blow you away!
On a Mac keyboard press in this order:
The Apple Key with your thumb, right next to the space bar on the left hand side, little finger press the shift key, middle or ring finger pres the "s" key, and the file will be saved with a title or name of whatever you want. If one transports said file to any other Mac the client Mac will provide an option list for the file to be opened if the creating program does't reside on the client end. Mac's can save files for internet use in alomst every program written for the Mac. The above photo was snapped on a digital hooked to a PC at work. I just had the file emailed to me in the camera "raw" format via our internal server and it was magically transformed into jpeg anyone with a moden browser can see. That was done on the dual core tower sitting on my desk. It took all of 15 seconds to have the file in this state. Now you can see it too. Ain't moden technology wonderful? ? ? ?
Macs work so much easier than PC's (IBM clones), and this is ESPECIALLY so with graphics that it's unreal. To blame the Mac for not HAVING to have all the extension markers "just so" a program will open the file is like saying, "It's not fair that your race car is faster than mine because I use a 1974 Pinto 4 cylinder and you use a Honda Indy Car V8 engine." A Mac can just tell what kind of file it's dealing with. That's what use Mac users have been trying to tell the world for years, along with about 500 other advantages over a windoze box. Ever hear of iTunes?
I know my voice is as one crying in the wilderness, but those of us that have had/used a mac or 200 know the truth. We've had to work on a PC box from time to time and we know............
Someday............................
BTW Wildblue actually got a man to my house Sunday to fix this ISP thing once and for all. It was a bad grounding block. I thought it was my inverters ground when there were problems on install. It turns out the part was leaking ground at the uplink side of the coax connector. It only took a request to terminate service to finally get something done! Of course this same dude was supposed to be here Saturday @ 2pm, that made no show # 6! A $5 part would have fixed it 2 months ago!
So it appears I'm here to annoy and clutter up the place a bit longer.
