For some strange reason, I have been inundated with spam emails today\u2014well over a thousand so far, and counting\u2014forcing me to interrupt what of right ought to be prime blogging time so as to rid myself of the pestilential things.<\/p>\n
Also, the MarsEdit v5.3<\/a> update dropped yestiddy, so naturally I hit \u201cDownload and install\u201d with a quickness, only to find that the blasted thing refused to launch on the trusty iMac, who knows why. The Dock icon would bounce three (3) times in the ordinary manner, then come to a screeching halt and sit there still and lifeless as a dried-white dog turd on an Arizona blacktop in late July. Then the customary nag box popped up: \u201cThis software may not be compatible with your current MacOS version.\u201d Which, I\u2019d already checked that before I ever even ran the updater, of course.<\/p>\n Lather, rinse, repeat, far too many times for my own good, always with the same dismaying result. I firmly resisted deleting the ME Preferences file, seeing as how I\u2019d expended a great deal of effort setting up a shitload of custom keystrokes and\/or macros therein\u2014probably the single MarsEdit feature I love most, and make use of constantly. I really, REALLY didn\u2019t want to lose my heavily-customized ME setup only to have to do it all over again, as I figgered a clean-reinstall would require of me. Yessir,\u00a0I was up a tree but good<\/em> on this one.<\/p>\n After spending waaay<\/em> too long last night searching the remotest nooks and crannies of the Mac-software Innarnuts for a full-version download of ME 5.2.6, the hassle-free version I\u2019d been running for quite a while now, I finally (FINALLY!) found it at the venerable MacUpdate<\/a>\u00a0site, DL\u2019d and decompressed the little beastie, dumped it into the Applications folder, and viola!<\/em> Back to fair winds and following seas with the best third-party WP editor of all time for me, like I’ve long since come to rely on.<\/p>\n