Sunday, October 16, 2022

AppleScripts to speed Java compile and execute with BBEdit

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Students are often asked not to use an IDE (I like Visual Studio Java) for their Java projects. Instead they need to use BBEdit without an I...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Expelling demons from 2020 Air: when Disk Utility says to run against the Container (and more)

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If you have to maintain a modern Mac, it helps to be retired. How else would I have hours to spend one Friday pm? The 2020 Air I inherited f...

Monterey T2 bug - First Aid, unlocking disk, operation canceled - Do an SMC reset

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When I tried to run Disk Utility on my 2020 Intel Air running Monterey I got:      Running First Aid on ..      Unlocking Disk     Operation...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Managing multiple Apple Store Apple IDs in Monterey: how to sign out and thus change default Apple ID for app update and purchase

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There's a lot of complexity in Apple's software, but my nomination for the ultimate complexity is the web of undocumented and slowly...
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...