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I have a WD Elements SE HD which has failed. The way it has failed leads me to suspect that it's the electronics (USB interface?) rather than the platter / mechanism which has failed. Inside the case there appears to be a set of six contacts next to the USB socket. Might these give some sort of low level access to the drive? I know there are interfaces for SATA drives, does anyone know whether similar devices are available for WD drives? Keith

Hi everyone, Can someone please point me in the direction of a software utility that can compare files over multiple drives so they can be consolidated onto one computer? I don’t mind paying for it. The back story is I have eight drives from various computers I’ve had over the years. I have an old iMac that has a hybrid drive. One of the drives failed years ago and I attempted to rescue it with Stellar before taking it to Apple for repair. All it did was capture my folder structure with all the files listed, but the majority of the newer files were corrupted. It is a daunting process to get the files back. I have recently purchased a new iMac with the intentions of getting all the old files on there. Photos, videos, documents, the usual stuff. The drives that I used for back-up have also failed, so once I get this all sorted out, I plan to get a back-up redundancy plan going. For now it will be a lot of digging, and to do it manually feels overwhelming. I’m using a Zilke device for reading the old drives and that seems to be doing a decent job, but many of the files with the newest dates are corrupted and cant be opened. Thanks in advance. I know this is a total mess of a situation and I expect it to take a long time to recover. Steve

I'd appreciate feedback, please, whether this is something peculiar to my machine or more widely known / experienced. Any further hints and tips would be a bonus! I am using a MacBook Pro 15-Inch "Core i9" 2.3 Touch 2019 2.3 GHz. Since updating to 15.3 from 15.2 it has been reporting its battery charge erratically. Yesterday I saw it was at 1% so I immediately put it on charge, whereupon the charge was displayed as 51%. Something similar happened today and I recorded the battery charge - please see the attached screenshot. After 09:17 the machine was not connected to the charger, but the charge (apparently) went from ~70% to ~25% in next to no time, then back up to 45%, then down to ~15% and then up again to ~25%. It seems to me probable that it is the very low readings which are erroneous as the green lines in the screenshot show the sort of linear decline one might reasonably expect. The battery health is reported as "normal". Keith

jim robertson’s recent post about whether to open a suspicious pdf file in imessages prompted me to share a recent oddity on one of our two household iphones, a his and a hers, both iphone13 pro max … after logging on, at some point her phone suddenly displayed a multi-page message purportedly from apple describing numerous changes to terms of service with regard to updates…at bottom there were two buttons to push — “agree” or “disagree” … she did nothing … this was neither an email nor a text and there was no way out it of it except to turn off the phone, which she did… upon logging on again after a few minutes, the message did not reappear and everything was normal … later, when we logged on to him’s phone, the message did not appear… unless i’m missing something, this message clearly was malicious and certainly not from apple … i regret not taking screenshots of the message so i could show it here! … has anyone else gotten this strange/suspicious message on their iphone? or even heard of it from other users?

Apologies for the length of this message; I hope I’ll get some forgiveness because much of it sets the stage for why it’s so important to me. If someone were to ask me what piece of music and what performance I’d choose if time travel permitted it, it would be Leonard Bernstein’s performance of the Mahler 2nd Symphony at Ely Cathedral in England in 1973, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Many of you may have watched Bradley Cooper’s attempt to channel that monument in Maestro, the movie. I’ve just discovered that Deutsche Grammophone released a recording of it in 1974, but they also have an audio-video version available on their subscription website, <stage-plus.com>. Unfortunately, permanent access to the recording is not offered. Here’s the link: Watch: Bernstein conducts Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (1974) stage-plus.com While the technical “quality” of both the audio and video betray the era of their creation, the emotion by Bernstein, the vocal soloists, and members of the chorus are priceless and timeless. My question: is there a way to capture this to my own Apple devices (preferably my Mac) that’s both possible and legal, so long as I don’t distribute it to others? Failing that, is it possible to do so without getting arrested if I don’t distribute it? Extra Credit (no Googling allowed): why is the name “Gilbert Kaplan” so relevant to this issue? And, a movie recommendation: the Oscar-nominated Netflix Documentary The Only Girl in the Orchestra (probably the main reason I’ll watch the Oscars this year). -- Jim Robertson