Week 11: Abode Acrobatics

  Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.

    This week tested my patience the most out of any week thus far. In previous weeks, I had been less productive from things that were somewhat out of my control, but I could still find ways around. For example, when I was dealing with health issues, there was still moments where I could get up and do a little bit of transcription work before I fell back asleep or laid back down. Still being a bit productive even in a bad situation.

    This week was different. As a UCF student, I get access to a lot of programs and software that help me with my school work. Some GREAT examples of beneficial software that I use almost everyday include the Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Sharepoint) and Zoom. We also have access to a lot of Adobe-created programs such as Photoshop and Acrobat. My issue is with Adobe Acrobat. 

    As I pointed out in my last blog post, I have been working on the A/V Log for one of the oral histories for Greenwood. I downloaded the template document and the was making good progress on it before I created my blogpost about it. I had finished the easy information such as who was the interviewer and interviewee, where the interview took place, what kind of file is the video, how long is the interview, etc. I also got most of the actual timestamp and topics finished.

    I had taken a day or two break from working on that document, and I am not sure if Adobe had an update or what was going on, but the program was just broken for me. I was using the desktop app for Adobe Acrobat to work on the assignment, but now when I tried to open the document it would not let me edit it without saying I needed to upgrade to Acrobat Pro. I was fine with this, as I already thought I was running Acrobat Pro since I believe I get it through UCF anyway.

    I let the download go through, which takes about 20-30 minutes, which I thought was weird since it should not be that large of a download. After it was done downloading, Adobe needed a full system restart to apply the upgrade, which I did. After my computer rebooted, I opened the new Adobe Acrobat PRO, ready to finish the A/V log. Lo and behold, I open the document again to start working on it and it still says I need to upgrade for some reason... After that, I completely deleted Acrobat from my computer and just tried to reinstall everything. With the reinstallation, more problems occurred. I could not even open the desktop app without it shutting itself off. And when it didn't auto-shit itself, whenever I opened the document it would then shut itself down. 

    I was working on fixing Acrobat for 2 days before I gave up. It was around then when I also began to use my brain and realized their was an Acrobat web-browser version. So I loaded up the Adobe Acrobat website and of course, it has a problem loading the file, and even though I saved a copy to the Adobe Cloud and I was using the same account, it could not open the file. I am now restarting the entire A/V log once again, but hopefully it should be pretty quick since I know what I am doing.