Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Dollars – Mac Geek Gab 673

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Moving your Photos to a new drive, managing your Finder's smart searches, reasons for a VPN, and remote access to your own Macs are just the first few topics that Dave and John discuss this week. Then it's on to managing your document syncing, finding an old version of Mac OS X for an older Mac, some cool scripts that other listeners developed for monitoring your network, and more! Press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 673 for Sunday, September 3, 2017
  • 00:02:18 Jeff-Moving Photos Library to new External Drive
  • 00:08:06 Of dead hard drives and fans
    • SSD Fan Control
    • HDD Fan Control
    • 00:12:34 Ken-Flagged Mail won’t show up (paraphrase)
      • OnyX
      • IMAP4-RFC 3501
      • 00:16:28 Edgar-Excluding “LIbrary” from Finder/Smart Folder Search
        • Smart Search to Exclude a Folder
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        • 00:31:21 Ari-Reasons for a VPN?
        • 00:37:36 Nitin-Remote Access to your own Macs
          • Teamviewer Unattended Access
          • Screens from Edovia
          • Back to my Mac
          • 00:44:19 Joseph-Disabling iCloud Documents and Desktop Syncing

            • Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive

            • 00:46:12 Mike-Keep your Diagnostic Software up-to-date
            • 00:50:12 Updates to prep for High Sierra and APFS
              • Little Snitch
              • Drive Genius
              • Carbon Copy Cloner
              • 00:51:40 iMazing Mini and your iPhone Battery
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                • 00:58:51 Ian-A Picture is worth a Thousand Dollars
                • 01:03:21 Peter-Check and Log your Internet Connection Reliability
                • 01:05:45 eero migration gen2 migration works easily
                  • Linksys Velop Bridge mode requires a “master”
                  • 01:09:04 Neal-672-AppleScript to solve Contact Group Creation
                  • 01:10:40 James-672-External Monitor via Thunderbolt Dock
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