Monday, August 29, 2022

Monterey orphaned our physical podcast files. What can we do with them?

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Podcasts started out as distributing MP3 files; back then iTunes was a great podcast app (and music and audiobooks, and voice memos and more...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Using Apple's USB-C to T2 adapter: not for video but still good

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My 2015 MacBook Air uses Thunderbolt 2; it was connected to an elgato T2 hub (reliable for over 6 years) with a few USB and Firewire 800 per...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Migration Assistant from Mojave to Monterey is mostly a train wreck

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Ugh. Almost nothing went well with doing migration assistant from Mojave to Monterey. I had to trash my Photo Library and recreate a new sys...

Can't empty trash because VoiceTrigger is in use: It's a macOS system integrity bug

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If you delete a user account in some versions of macOS (Monterey in my case) where the user account was created in certain earlier versions ...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

Wi-Fi Calling not working? Your probably SIM-swapped and your IMEI is wrong and you don't have HD Voice

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When Emily complained of poor call quality I tried enabling Wi-Fi calling on her 13mini -- and got this error message: Oops!  We've hit ...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Getting Outlook to export Exchange contacts as vCards (vcf) with proper email addresses for use in macOS

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In 2009 I wrote about how it was getting harder to move contact information out of Outlook into something else (like macOS Contacts). I wr...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

iMessage not synchronizing - your store ID matters too

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Based on some issues I've seen with my daughter's devices I think that Apple Message sync will only work when both Apple ID for &quo...