Thursday, December 01, 2022

Family Sharing: all charges go to Family Organizer - UNLESS there's an Apple Account balance

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One of the drawbacks of Family Sharing is all charges go to the Family Organizer. Even if a family member has a payment method stored in the...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Apple Numbers appears to display a + instead of a / or ÷ for the division formula

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I'm on Mojave for a while (Aperture) so I get to use an old version of Apple's spreadsheet - Numbers 10.1 (6913). It think this is s...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Migrating from an Apple Store/iTunes shared media Apple ID to a standard Apple ID configuration

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I'm putting this up as a peacekeeper. I hope one day I'll fill it in better, but if you are trying to migrate from a shared Apple ID...
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...