This thread deserves to get Wastelanded because it's gone far off its intended topic. But before it does, I'll respond to some of the points you made.
SL2008's post was far from helpful. It was a snotty half-sentence telling me not to bother (for incorrect reasons) and to simply do what I was asking to do. You conveniently seem to want to ignore that so you can take me to task. If I'd responded in a similar way to one of your requests for help, you'd be less than thrilled.
I'm sorry, but you have been on this forum for a while, you should KNOW that those type of responses are abound. If they're not exactly what you WANT, then say so, instead of going into some fit where you demand that a poster should be able to spell in order to respond to you, and so on, amounting to an ad hominem.
Yes, my politeness did disappear for a bit; I never said that I wasn't hot-tempered.
No, but you purported to have "asked politely" AFTER you scolded the bloke.
Many posters don't return to their original thread to post solutions found elsewhere, especially when there hasn't been much community interest in the problem. I did it out of simple courtesy, not because I condescended to grace the forums with my presence a second time.
Ah, yes, you're big on courtesy. It shows.
Even in this thread, where you dont even say thanks:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/428399/
And, finally, as you're charging me with arrogance, you ought to start thinking about your own hypocrisy. If my commenting on another member's posts is arrogant, what does that make your sniffy comments on my own?
Strawman, much? It's not you commenting on another poster's, well, post. It's the way you comment, your inferred demands and ad hominems.
To disagree with you doesn't make me arrogant.
You could have just refrained from posting.
And there your strawman argument came out in full bloom.
Instead you made a point of sticking out your tongue and bragging that you were deliberately withholding information that the larger MR community might have found useful, just so you could take the thread OT and wag a shaming finger at me.
Wow, speaking of strawmen.
First of all, I wasn't bragging. I was making a point, that I, for one, will not help someone who asks for hel, and when someone posts something you disagree with your response is to attack the person and act all arrogant and selfrighteous. I'm sorry, but in order to be "bragging", one has to be "proud" of something. I'm not in anyway proud that I know the answer to something as mondaine as this. But I was telling you (albeit in my own way) that if you act like that people, or at least yours truly, will be less inclined to help you.
How you can make that into "bragging" is unfathomable.
