Week 12: Overcoming Adobe

    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.

    In my last post, I had outlined my problems with Adobe Acrobat and how it has stunted my progress on creating my A/V log. This week, I am happy to report that I got past that barrier and was able to successfully create and submit the A/V Log! However, I still have my issues with Acrobat, which I will expand upon more.

    I mentioned before that through the university, students have access to a lot of helpful programs, such as Adobe Acrobat, which I use for more than just this internship at Greenwood. However, I was filling out a PDF on Acrobat when it prompted me to re-sign in to my UCF account and then downloaded an upgraded version of it, the Pro Version. After following the instructions, the software app on my computer completely stopped working. Every time I open the app, it immediately closes. 

    This past week, I was able to make some progress wresting with the software app. I successfully was able to open the app to its "home" screen, where I can see all my files I have worked on previously or have saved to the Adobe cloud. However, as soon as I clicked on a file, the app would shut itself off once again. Using this method, I could catch a glimpse of my files before the software shut down, and I also noticed that a lot of the work that I did on the document did not save, and with the fiasco going on with Adobe, I had no way to confirm if the work I did did not save properly or if perhaps something else was going on. 

    I expected to have this problem sorted out pretty early on in the week, however, that was not the case. I tried multiple different troubleshoots including redownloading Adobe Acrobat again. I made a brand new file and was prepared to completely restart the A/V log in case that file was just corrupted. I also searched online through some forums to see if others had the same issue, which they were, but none of their solutions worked for me. I was even having trouble accessing my files on the web-based version of Adobe, as many of the files I could see that I saved on the Adobe cloud on the software app did not sync with the web-version. This included my partially completed A/V log. 

    To conclude with this saga of my internship, I never found a solution to my Adobe Acrobat issue. To this day, I have problems opening up files on my desktop and many of the books that I have downloaded I cannot open and study by using the software. To get the A/V log done, I had to send a blank template of the A/V log to myself and visited my mother and used her computer in tandem with my iPad (so I can access Microsoft Teams and listen to the oral history) to get it done. Nevertheless, I finally got it finished and submitted to my advisor!