Saturday morning the iPad was not finished. Casey had not seen the third and last Hobbit movie (The Battle of the Five Armies) and I hadn’t seen it either, so we went to the 3:05 pm movie. It is clearly coming to the end of its first run as the movie was in one of the small theaters that seats maybe 65 people. The movie was two-thirds full, so people are still going.

I thought the movie was just OK. Some of the “tension” between the elves and dwarves as a bit contrived and the battle scenes themselves a bit anti-climatic, particularly thinking back to “The Two Towers” and “The Return of the King” and those epic battles. However, I enjoyed the movie and am very happy I was able to see it on the Big Screen.

On the way back to Jaelene’s, I called the fixit store and the iPad was finished. I picked it up, the price was as quoted, and dropped off my MacBook. It is supposed to be done not later than Wednesday. It’ll be very nice to have both machines back in good working order.

Meanwhile, Casey has figured out what was the matter with Nina’s iPhone. She had no room left, even after deleting just about everything. In the storage management area the iPhone reported that she had about 12gb of photos. The Photo app reported no photos. Something was wrong. One of Casey’s friends suggested downloading an app to look into the iPhone’s file system (which Apple hides and makes very difficult to access). After trying a couple of apps, Casey found one that worked and located a folder with several hundred photos and videos that accounted for most of the unavailable space. He’s now downloading those items to her desktop where we’ll probably find these are photos that were already imported into iPhoto, where iPhoto thinks they’ve been deleted, but weren’t. I’m pretty sure the Apple Genius person would not have checked it out and just told her to wipe the phone and start completely over.

So, good Apple things are happening around here. Nina gets her iPhone back in good working order. My iPad now has a clear, uncracked screen, and my MacBook is being fixed as well.

Life is very good!