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Just a quick note to say that my wife and I watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium this evening and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who says that a purely innocent and fun movie can not be made anymore has not seen this movie and is a cynic anyway.

Although the movie does have a message (and a fairly deep one at that), it still makes with the light-heartedness, gentle humor and, as the title indicates, wonder that kept us smiling through the entire film. I had never heard of the movie until we picked it up on DVD, and I have no idea how it did in the theaters, but I am beyond glad I watched it. It really reminded me that not all good movies need to be PG-13 or R-rated, have a hard, driving story-line or require sex and violence to be entertaining and worthwhile.

Although we just rented the DVD, we may just have to pick up our own copy. It's that worthwhile.

I may have run across a bug in Mac OS X's Archive Utility (the process that ZIPs files when you select "Create Archive" from the Finder's contextual menu).

I have a folder full of iMovie source files that I want to archive. The folder itself is just over 7 GB in size. I won't need these files anymore, but don't want to get rid of them. Normally what I do in this situation is simply create a .zip file from the folder and move it to an archive's directory.

However, in this case, when I select "Create Archive" from the Finder's contextual menu, I get the dialog indicating that it is archiving the folder with a note that it is expected to take about one hour to complete. The progress bar moves very slowly for about five minutes and then, suddenly, the dialog disappears. When I check, I do have a .zip file that is just under 6 GB in size. However, when I double-click on it to re-expand it (to test to make sure it was created successfully), nothing happens.

So, it appears that the .zip file is not being created successfully.

I'm wondering if this might have something to do with the size of the folder or the size of the individual files within the folder.

HAH!