Hi all,

As if the over a year delay after beta 3 were not enough, now my iMac
(which I love) has for several months been causing me increasing
delays. Finally, after destroying many files, including some eMA
ones, it then just stopped working, and I could not restart it at
all. It has taken six weeks, even with AppleCare extended warrantee,
and they are still trying to fix it.

After replacing the iMac's power supply and the main logic board, now
they are waiting again for replacement parts from Apple. This time
they are going to replace the internal disk drive. And this time
their estimate was for, uh, two days ago.…

Thus, since before the holidays, I have been without a computer to
work on. So eMA is delayed again. At least it is not my fault this time.

Oh, yes, I did have my old PowerBook G3 as a backup computer, and
yes, I had thought to back up my eMA stuff to it just before the
iMac's final failure. It seemed surprisingly slow compared to the
iMac, and the screen seemed to be getting progressively dimmer, and
finally, after a week, that computer also died, also without warning.

That is all for now, about where beta 4 is, and I am strongly
resisting adding several more paragraphs about my "very interesting"
ordeal. OK, I won't. :-)
--
Cheers, John

PS: don't be surprised if my email silence takes a while more. But I
will get back when I can.