Gordon's Tech

On Mojave as of May 2022 CCC v 5.whatever wouldn't create a sparse bundle disk image for me when I selected new disk image as destinatio...

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 ...

When my local Apple store tech was unable to remove the battery from my iPhone 8 they gave me a new device -- which was SIM locked to AT&...

 I'd wondered if it was possible to do a Time Machine backup to a cheap Flash Drive. My daughter is going to college and probably doesn&...

This morning's heart attack: " CCC no longer excludes 1Password by default ." What the fork were they thinking ?! ----------- ...

Two of our kids are ending their St Paul Public School careers. Both have a collection of Google Docs. The school does not seem to provide ...

My daughter uses Photos.app and a 50 GB iCloud Photo Library to manage her videos and images [1]. She edits on an older Air with a small SSD...

https://www.icloud.com/#settings  currently shows an “Advanced” subsection for restoring Contacts. It provides options to restore an iCloud ...

Apple has broken me. I’ve left iCloud Photo Stream shares for Google Photos. First I lost the ability to share from Aperture to Facebook. I...

Something went wrong. It always does. I had thousands of images distributed across over 60 shared photo streams. One day I rebuilt Aperture...

I’m leaving this one up as a reminder of how scary the world of secure backups is, and how important it is to actually do a dry run of a dis...

Apple has a support doc on backing up iCloud data with a less than ideal recommendation for macOS Notes.app backup … Archive or make copie...

Ran into this with a friend’s devices. He was syncing his and his wife’s iPhones to iTunes under Lion. Not sure how old iTunes library was. ...

Simplenote.app, an Automattic product I use a zillion times a day, is less dead than I thought. They just released a version for Android, I ...

A few days after my carefully delayed update from Yosemite to El Capitan, Emily’s MacBook Air complained it couldn’t run its Time Machine ba...

After my Synology NAS updated itself to version 6 one of my Time Machine backups stopped working. It might have been coincidental. Time Mach...

Somehow I’d enabled my iCloud Mail account in Yosemite Mail.app. This is irksome, because I don’t use it and, sooner or later, I’d somehow s...

One day your iMac dies . It’s old, but not old-old. Sucks. Good thing you are paranoid about backups. You have onsite backups. You have offs...

I picked up Emily’s SIM-Free [1] 64GB silver 6s from the Mall of America Apple store Friday night. I’d used Apple’s reservation system so th...

Lifehacker’s guide to home file sharing was written in 2010 for Windows users. Excluding a traditional server/file share the options back t...