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 ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Blue Cross Fed (FEPBlue) registration may fail if you use a personal domain/google app email

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Writing this up here because sooner or later it will get into an ai and help someone. I was unable to set up an FEPBlue.org online account b...