May 18, 2020

Holy Bidirectional Thunderbolt, Mac-Man! – Mac Geek Gab 815

1 hour 27 minutes

Did your Mac stop showing all your spotlight results? Do you have an external rotational drive on your Mac? Do you want to Add the Dark Menubar to your Light-themed Mac?

These answers are addressed in the opening Quick Tips segment. Can you imagine what happens when John and Dave, your two favorite geeks, start answering your questions? Good news: you don't have to imagine. Just press play and all will be revealed!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 815 for Monday, May 18, 2020

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00:01:51 Mike-QT-Command-Tab Follows the Dock

00:04:23 Jeff-QT-Deleting Notes in Preview

00:05:46 Jeff-QT-Remove your boot drive from Spotlight Exclusions after Restoring from Clone

00:07:48 Boot From Clone resets Apple Pay (Cards were still still there, had to reenter CCV)

[email protected]

00:10:51 Ben-Command-Delete will delete iCloud Backups

System Preferences > Apple ID > iCloud > Manage (Storage) > Backups

00:12:38 Paul-QT-Drag Over Selection area for Multiple Select in iOS 13

00:13:28 Mike-814-Drag to the Finder’s Path Bar

00:15:20 Robert-QT-814-Use HFS+ for Better External Rotational Performance

CSF-SanDisk 3D 1TB SSD

00:17:53 CSF-Orico Portable NVMe USB-C SSD

NTFS, needed reformat for macOS, 10G USB-C, 860MBps W, 940MBps R. $150 512, $240 1TB

00:20:26 Thunderbolt vs. USB-C Drives

00:23:03 CSF-Bi-directional TB3-TB2 conversion

00:27:25 Marc-Long hover can do things

00:29:38 Add Dark Menubar and Dock to Light Theme –

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

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00:39:37 Irving-How to Play Blu-Rays on the Mac

libbluray extension for VLC

Dave’s Blu-Ray Reader on his Mac

00:45:54 Walter-Living with 128GB Boot Drive

Move your home folder to an external

00:50:54 Josh-Using an iMac as a Display through Thunderbolt Docks

00:55:58 Thunderbolt Drive Speeds vs. DisplayPort

01:02:01 Peter-CSF-Capto for Screen Captures

01:03:20 Ben-CSF-814-Suspicious Package

01:04:36 CSF-TimeMachineEditor 5.1 brings additional exclusion preferences

01:06:08 CSF-Logic Pro X 10.5

01:09:29 CSF-Behringer Ultragain Digital ADA8200

Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

01:11:20 Kenny-NCSF-Automatic Car Adapters

01:16:03 Scott-Enable Safe Boot via Terminal

Disable SIP first (csrutil disable)

Enable Safe Mode: sudo nvram boot-args="-x"

Disable Safe Mode: sudo nvram boot-args=""

01:19:15 James-Troubleshooting with AppTamer and OnyX

Brad Madix, Rush’s Sound man, on Gig Gab Podcast

01:25:16 MGG 815 Outtro

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