Chalk it up to an accident and replace the flash. Lesson learned to be more careful. It most likely will be more expensive to repair than a new flash would cost.

He broke even

I agree with you about the excellent support from Adobe. I have used them twice over the last two years and they were great.

Great composition, I love old barns.

I had a totally different experience yesterday with ADOBE. After the last OS system update, I had lost access to my photos. I could pull up the previews as usual, but when I tried to switch to the develop mode to work on them, I would get a File Not Found message. I tried troubleshooting myself for hours and could not get it straightened out.
Decided to contact Adobe and an agent immediately signed on with me. She had me show her what was happening and she then took control of my iMac. After just a few minutes she had everything back working again. The last OS update had changed the security permissions and was not allowing LR to access my external hard drive where my photos are stored. It had not occurred to me that was my issue and I hadn’t checked for it.
This is the second time I have had to contact Adobe for help and they have taken control of my computer and both times they have corrected my issue quickly and completely. My experience with Adobe is 100% satisfaction and am surprised you had any issues, hopefully it was an isolated issue.

If you haven’t found this lens, let me know. I have one I bought and have only used a couple of times. If interested I would sell it for 800.00. I also have the original packaging and I have a protective carry case for it also which we could discuss if you are interested.

I have non Apple memory in my IMac and am running Monterey without any issues at all. It does recognize and use the installed memory.

Topaz Sharpen AI and Topaz Denoise AI are two programs that I feel are the best on the market. Couple those with Topaz Gigapixel AI and you have three of the best post processing programs available. Just my humble opinion.

House Finch

Look at your update screen and it will probably advise you to click on a button that downloads the the complete program.

Following, for additional info.

Nice collection of the 53 cars, I hoped to see a 1953 Ford sun liner Convertible. I had one way back in 56, my favorite of all of the cars I’ve ever owned.

Nice composition Tommy

Both are fantastic photos, I personally like the second photo better. The fence to me slightly detracts from the main focus which is the old home that held many memories. But both are wall hangers for sure.

Did you ever sell this camera? I'm looking for a P1000