Thursday, April 02, 2026

My new favorite utility - a Claude-built python app for turning macOS Preview PDF highlights into a plaintext list

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I've asked Claude to build me a few tools, but my new favorite is a macOS droplet that turns macOS Preview PDF highlighted text into a p...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Canon BR-E1 remote blinking red when used with Canon Digital Rebel SL2: Bluetooth repairing

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My Canon BR-E1 remote was blinking red when I tried to use it with my Canon Digital Rebel (DR) SL2, aka EOS 200D. Perplexity ai answers were...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Face-name assignment in macOS Photos app is only local, not synchronized to iCloud

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Apple's photo management software is a great illustration of Apple's decline. Anyway, just so you know, the assignment of Face/Pet i...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Sharing with iCloud Links: working around a bug in macOS Sequoia Photos

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I don't write many posts about Apple bugs in the modern era. If I did I'd be putting out several every day. I cannot use a modern ma...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Sequoia: 400 GB free storage but not really: How to force Photos to downsize using large encrypted disk images

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I read Eclectic Light so I know about macOS APFS free space chaos . Recently macOS Photos quietly grew to consume most of my boot drive leav...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

macOS Photos: Optimized Storage version and External Drive Full Resolution version of same library

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If your full resolution iPhotos Library won't fit on your internal drive any more you can switch to optimized storage. Even for a large ...
Monday, November 03, 2025

How to remove the "Live Photo" video from a macOS Photos.app image: Duplicate

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As of Sequoia's end when you duplicate an image in Photos you have the option to "Duplicate as Still Photo" thus omitting the ...