Tonight, I downloaded all 862 photos I took on Saturday from onedrive.com to my Mac. When I tried to unzip the resultant file, I got an Error 79 message. I know, you’re thinking, “Oh, Error 79! Right. What is that?” It basically means you have a corrupt archive, but go ahead and try a dozen typical troubleshooting steps, anyway, because surely one of these steps will fix it.
NONE OF THEM WILL WORK.
Undaunted, I then set up networking between my Mac and PC (the latter of which hosts the photos locally) and used that to access the files on the Mac as if they had been there all along.
I love technology1I mean, I do. In the olden days with a film camera I wouldn’t have had this issue because I would have taken 36 photos in total, and they would have been picked up in an envelope at a local drugstore a week after dropping the roll of film off. And if the photos all sucked? Too bad. Book another trip and try again! So this is still better, even if it had to fail utterly first..
