Not a good sign

Racky has been having issues with his back legs for a while. This morning one of them was just not working.

I carried hhim to his foodbowl, which he attacked with gusto, and he seems to be recovering some use now. I'm hopeful he just slept on it. If he's still limping after I get back from the farm there is a vet appointment in the near future. And possibly a supply of plastic sheeting.

Windows profile blues

So I was having some problems with defragging C drive.There were these few really large files which just couldn't defrag, because little green system files were in the way of creating enough space.

I still haven't found a way of moving the system files, but I did download WinDirStat, a marvelous visual tool for showing you what files take up how much space on your drive. Lo, the big troublesome files were all Picasa cache files - one was over a Gig in size.

"C'mere, Picasa," said I. "I want to have a word about your settings".

Under interrogation Picasa revealed a "Clear the Cache" option which was duly exercised to remove the offending files. "Now Picasa" I said, "how about keeping that cache somewhere different? I've plenty of space on these other drives."
"I'm sorry," replied Picasa, "I can't do that."

So I asked the internet, which unfortunately agreed with Picasa. The curse of the Windows profile directory strikes again. Next reinstall I put that somewhere else from the word go - I'm not quite willing to risk moving it on an established system right now, although I have successfully done so in the past.