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Last Chance posted:Can you try installing Mac OS to an external drive and run the bootcamp installer from the external drive? Or I think you can just bypass using Bootcamp altogether if you’ve decoupled the fusion drive already  So that didn't solve my problem directly, but some comments in a linked thread mentioned to disconnect every external USB device before trying to install Windows or the installed get confused. So THAT did the trick!
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nice! glad it ended up being helpful/in the ballpark at least. I had Bootcamp set up on that same Mac (2013 was it?) and it worked okay. I had the drat Windows partition on the 5400rpm HDD however and that was true hell. I had some Steam games installed on a USB3 SSD, so it was fine after it took ten minutes to boot.
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Last Chance posted:nice! glad it ended up being helpful/in the ballpark at least. I had Bootcamp set up on that same Mac (2013 was it?) and it worked okay. I had the drat Windows partition on the 5400rpm HDD however and that was true hell. I had some Steam games installed on a USB3 SSD, so it was fine after it took ten minutes to boot. I may give those directions a go myself. Everything was OK running Catalina without a Bootcamp partition until I looked at my Steam games list full of 32-bit games. Trip report when I get around to it I guess.
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Best bet to moving stuff around is get a copy of Winclone. Once I figured out the installer issue, it was a piece of cake moving it to the SSD using a Winclone image.
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Chris Knight posted:Best bet to moving stuff around is get a copy of Winclone. Once I figured out the installer issue, it was a piece of cake moving it to the SSD using a Winclone image. Interesting. If nothing else, I could get Windows set up on another computer then make an image of that.
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Wait so... in Music.app, the "heart" icon that's hidden on the left of a song's row and "love" are two different things? Tapping the heart doesn't mark a track as "loved". I've been spending the past few weeks using the hidden icon in an attempt to curate more specific music in Apple Music and now I don't know if it's even doing anything. Edit: nevermind, they seem to be the same function, the GUI just doesn't update without a refresh. enojy fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Cool Apple store screensaver available here if anyone doesn't have it https://github.com/pedrommcarrasco/Brooklyn
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Bob Morales posted:Cool Apple store screensaver available here if anyone doesn't have it Cool, why not! I saw this being used on the demo units at Best Buy, too, and it actually caught my attention in a way that screensavers shouldn't in 2019.
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Bob Morales posted:Cool Apple store screensaver available here if anyone doesn't have it Ok that’s pretty drat cool.
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Bob Morales posted:Cool Apple store screensaver available here if anyone doesn't have it ty
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In a similar vein, I will recommend Aerial, which lets you use the Apple TV screensavers on your Mac
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Are there any significant non-Apple Arcade roguelikes on the App Store other than Darkest Dungeon and Bad North?
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terre packet posted:Are there any significant non-Apple Arcade roguelikes on the App Store other than Darkest Dungeon and Bad North? Not on the App Store, but the best roguelike ever, Binding of Isaac, has a macOS port. For a laugh, type "binding of isaac macos" into DuckDuckGo.
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*edit: nevermind I figured it out
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is it safe to update my 2017 MBP to Catalina now? How bad will I hate the loss of iTunes and my hard drive full of music?
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The new Music app just uses/updates the existing iTunes library file and keeps playing existing files I believe.
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Yeah my massive iTunes library moved over just fine.
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iTunes still lives. It's just been split into 3 apps that behave pretty much the same. I really really miss the previous albums view though.
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Phoenixan posted:iTunes still lives. It's just been split into 3 apps that behave pretty much the same. The Books app is garbage, though.
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Where do audiobooks live now? Audiobooks in iTunes is a big deal to me. 
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tuyop posted:Where do audiobooks live now? Audiobooks in iTunes is a big deal to me. On iOS I think they moved to the Books app? Is that also the case for macOS?
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Keyser_Soze posted:is it safe to update my 2017 MBP to Catalina now? How bad will I hate the loss of iTunes and my hard drive full of music? I was the most vocal hater of iTunes->Music in this thread. However after a few iOS and macOS updates, I've finally stopped having problems with syncing. I still have a few duplicates of one of my Playlist Folders on my phone that aren't in macOS Music though. I guess I'm just ignoring them forever.
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Speaking of which, does anyone know what 10.15.2 is supposed to fix? I still haven't updated my 2018 MBP. It's a work computer, and while none of my core software will be unusable (as far as I know), I am the exact opposite of an early adopter for stuff like this, simply because I can't afford downtime.
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IUG posted:I was the most vocal hater of iTunes->Music in this thread. However after a few iOS and macOS updates, I've finally stopped having problems with syncing. Yeah, iTunes has been annoying a long time and I won't miss it, even on MacOS. I had better results not allowing it to manage anything and keeping my music folder separate by itself. It was still a constant fight with it clearing up everything it wanted to shove into Compilations and especially things like Classical Music, which I have a lot of. Still had weird duplicates in the iTunes view popping up occasionally. Catalina upgrade had no issues at all and only had a few apps needing replacement like the Harmony Remote and Brother Printer apps. Music is fine as well and Music view dupes have disappeared.
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I've never had problems with it managing my library, and I have been doing that forever. I did have a problem when they renamed the ~/Music/ folder to .... ~/Music/Music/ I think (god the name "Music" is so dumb). I didn't have the hard drive space for it to consolidate it. However, at some point MacOS started tracking files even if you moved them. So I just moved over my old folders in the Media Library folder into the new place, and it never caused a problem, so that's cool. My only problem with iOS/Catalina has been the syncing of my music. No one else would care, but I'm pretty OCD about my music library.
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Lincoln posted:Speaking of which, does anyone know what 10.15.2 is supposed to fix? I still haven't updated my 2018 MBP. It's a work computer, and while none of my core software will be unusable (as far as I know), I am the exact opposite of an early adopter for stuff like this, simply because I can't afford downtime. For me, at work, the biggest pain in the rear end has been all of the security changes. Having to update that in order to present a screen during a WebEx/Zoom/Google Hangout etc etc
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Keyser_Soze posted:Yeah, iTunes has been annoying a long time and I won't miss it, even on MacOS. I had better results not allowing it to manage anything and keeping my music folder separate by itself. It was still a constant fight with it clearing up everything it wanted to shove into Compilations and especially things like Classical Music, which I have a lot of. Still had weird duplicates in the iTunes view popping up occasionally. iTunes/Music is like the personification of Me, Turning Into A Dad. I used to absolutely loathe iTunes' proprietary method of organizing & syncing files to iPods and iPhones, to the point it being the sole reason for going to Android for a couple of years. I was militant about organizing my own music for the longest time, until one day I just gave up the ghost and let iTunes take over. I think it was the gradual shift from me largely ripping & encoding my own physical music, to CD-ROM drives disappearing from my life, and Apple Music (and Spotify) becoming quite good. I even use Music.app as my primary desktop music player nowadays -- never in a million years did I think I'd see the day.
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As someone else who was formerly extremely obsessive about maintaining my MP3 library, switching to Spotify and being unable to edit metadata is weirdly liberating. Blurry album art? Misspelled track title? Not my problem!
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tuyop posted:Where do audiobooks live now? Audiobooks in iTunes is a big deal to me. As noted, audiobooks are now in the Books app. I have approximately 3700 audiobook files in iTunes, so it was a pretty big deal to me when I found that Books • Does not use iTunes’ sort tag, so all of my books were sorted by author’s first name • Offers no way to edit metadata • Buries all of the audio files in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books • Won’t play through more than one set of speakers at the same time (I like to sometimes have audiobooks playing through my Mac speakers and through the Airplay speakers in my bedroom) This last one is such an iOS-like behavior, that I feel like the Books app is just a Catalyst port of the iOS iBooks app. I wouldn’t necessarily say that Catalina’s handling of audiobooks was the deciding factor when I went back to Mojave, but it was a pretty big one.
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SaintFu posted:As noted, audiobooks are now in the Books app. I have approximately 3700 audiobook files in iTunes, so it was a pretty big deal to me when I found that Books Oh drat! Could you symlink to the library on an NAS or what? That metadata and sorting poo poo is going to really bother me too. I hope they fix it before I have to update.
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tuyop posted:Oh drat! Could you symlink to the library on an NAS or what? Apparently not.
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Sigh. Remind me tomorrow it is! I thought of just maybe migrating the books over to Calibre, since that’s where my ebooks live. But a quick google shows that’s a real pain as well. gently caress!
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My mother is getting a mac for christmas, and her sight is not so good. On her current macbook, we just switched to a lower resolution so everything's bigger. Does Catalina maybe have some UI scale function? That would be sweet.
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mike12345 posted:My mother is getting a mac for christmas, and her sight is not so good. On her current macbook, we just switched to a lower resolution so everything's bigger. Does Catalina maybe have some UI scale function? That would be sweet. Yes you’ve been able to scale UI elements independent of output resolution for a very long time now. I couldn’t even hazard a guess when the change was. Over 5 years now at least - when Retina displays launched I think.
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Pivo posted:Yes you’ve been able to scale UI elements independent of output resolution for a very long time now. I couldn’t even hazard a guess when the change was. Over 5 years now at least - when Retina displays launched I think. Oh ok really? Do websites scale automatically with this as well?
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mike12345 posted:Oh ok really? Do websites scale automatically with this as well? It looks exactly like changing the resolution, so yes.
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Pivo posted:It looks exactly like changing the resolution, so yes. Well holy crap. And that's been live for 5 years? Guess I could change that now, but then again maybe just make the surprise bigger.
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mike12345 posted:My mother is getting a mac for christmas, and her sight is not so good. On her current macbook, we just switched to a lower resolution so everything's bigger. Does Catalina maybe have some UI scale function? That would be sweet.  For supported displays (including internal), "Scaled" still outputs at maximum native resolution but with larger/smaller everything on screen. Also, don't forget all the settings under Accessibility, including gestures to zoom the entire screen in and out, colorblindness settings, cursor size scaling, etc. Roadie fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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Roadie posted:
Yeah, that's good to know. I think the reason I never found that setting is because her macbook is from 2009, pre-retina.
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