Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

We Fiddled with Ditto – Mac Geek Gab 680

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Are photos still bloating up your iPhone? Having trouble upgrading to High Sierra or Downgrading to Sierra? Need to Sync two folders on your Mac? These are just some of the questions your two favorite geeks answer this week!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 680 for Monday, October 23, 2017 <https://macgeekgab.com/>
  • 00:02:30 Meticulousness and Conspiracy Theories
  • 00:03:24 Felix-Dropbox causing iOS Photo Storage to bloat?
  • 00:07:51 Erik-Content Caching, Detecting Space Used, OmniDiskSweeper
    • Run OmniDiskSweeper as sudo – except in High Sierra (for now)
    • Disk Inventory X
    • Daisy Disk
    • WhatSize
    • 00:15:34 Bill-Combo Update from 10.10 to 10.12?
    • 00:20:29 Olga-High Sierra installation Issue
      • Fixing Apple’s (temporarily) buggy High Sierra installer
      • 00:25:26 Ken-Downgrading to Sierra
      • 00:29:11 EP-Ken-Scripting iOS Lock Timings
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        • 00:33:07 Paul-CSF-679-Visual Codes for iOS
        • 00:34:18 JP-QT-Use Siri to disable Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
        • 00:36:06 CSF-Network Multimeter for iOS
        • 00:38:23 Mark-QT-Check the iOS White Point
          • General | Accessibility | Display Accommodations | Reduce White Point
          • 00:39:59 iOS 11’s Smart Invert
            • General | Accessibility | Display Accommodations | Invert Colors | Smart Invert
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            • 00:49:17 Margaret-QT-Change the sidebar text size
              • System Preferences | General | Sidebar Icon Size
              • 00:51:15 Ev-CSF-TeamViewer QuickSupport for iOS
              • 00:54:13 Ken-SmartThings Hub and Watch Dock QuickTip
              • 00:56:06 Wink Hub 2
              • 00:56:37 Rick-QT-Reset Photos People Album
              • 00:59:04 Mike-CSF-Magsafe Lightning Cables
              • 01:00:41 Microsoft Office alternatives. (Jonathan)
                • Libre Office
                • NeoOffice
                • Apache OpenOffice
                • 01:04:45 The argument to use Live Photos all the time
                • 01:07:27 Ezra-Syncing two Folders on the same Mac
                • 01:13:49 MGG 680 Outtro
                • PhotoPlus Expo
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