I certainly hope you coil your cables!
Can you spell
rat's nest?
Besides "besides," unless this is a temporary glitch, you're going to have to get creative.
I am pretty. sure I am going to have to get creative. For now I can read the DVDs and while I was considering adding a new high capacity hard drive to replace optical drives for archival storage, I will probably settle on encrypted dmg's on iCloud or a similar online service. They have a regular program to
refresh their drives and I don't.