Sunday, July 11, 2021

Unable to update date of birth associated with an Apple ID: "... could not be changed because of a server error"

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You can't change the date of birth or family relationship of an Apple ID with a calculated age of less than 13 years old. Otherwise it&#...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend

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Turns out when you enable Apple Card for a non-owner family member they have a max transaction limit of $250 but no total cap (can spend to ...

Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug

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If you've used Disk Utility in Mojave APFS you know it's become much more complex than HPFS days. Recently I tried running it from t...

Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices

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In the old days, before family sharing, families shared purchases by sharing an iTunes Apple ID while using their own Apple ID for me.com se...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Apps for mapping out bike rides

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I recently asked a MN bicycling group what apps they use to layout trail maps. This is the list they gave me: Google Maps I've long used...
Friday, April 02, 2021

The panicky M1 MacBook Air known as Crashy

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Nine weeks ago I replaced Emily's 9yo 11" Air with a 2021 M1 Air . Shortly after we passed the return date I realized I'd made ...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Big Sur bug: Mail Search (corespotlightd) fails on multi-user machine after a user logs out

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We are indebted to GanawaGangunawa  for figuring out why Mail search was failing on Emily's M1 MacBook Air (known to our family as &quo...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

Fixing the Mojave Mail split view in full screen bug

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For many users Mojave email will periodically open in Split View mode even then Mail Preferences: General split view is unchecked. I'm t...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Getting photos from iPhone to Lightroom, Aperture and other non-Photos products

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Apple's approach to photography is to keep everything in iCloud and to view or edit the images from a macOS or iOS device running Photos...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Put display to sleep on Mac with Touch ID: ctrl-shift-power replaced by hot corner

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I use Ctrl-Shift-Power to put my MacBook Air display to sleep each night. That doesn't work on a Mac with Touch ID. I believe the only ...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Don't blame your hub when your USB Flash (thumb) drive disconnects from your Mac

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I tried using a SanDisk USB Flash ("thumb") drive as an alternative Time Machine backup device on my daughter's 2020 Intel Mac...

Migrating from 9yo 11" High Sierra MacBook Air to 2021 Big Sur M1 Air

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I replaced Emily's 8-9 yo MacBook Air 11" running High Sierra with Apple's latest (M1) Air (Big Sur). A few notes for others wh...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Google's mysterious new blogging platform

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Google Blogger has been largely forgotten, but   over the past 1-2 years it's been receiving regular updates . Mostly these have been im...

Blogger will republish old posts with new dates but keep old URL

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So I learned something today about Google's ancient blogger platform. You can republish old content with new dates without breaking the ...

Updating macOS - the paranoid approach (updated from 2008)

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I wrote the first version of this on 9/13/2008. I was looking for it 11/21/2020 and decided to see if I could update it a bit in advance of ...