 It's time for MacGeekGab and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week because I rediscovered that the Finder, yes, the macOS Finder with no third party extensions necessary will let you batch rename files. It's true. It's a little tricky because it doesn't work the way my brain wants it to work. You highlight all the files and then you go to the file menu or you right click and you choose rename. When you are renaming multiple files, you get a little dialogue that pops up and it says rename Finder items and you can replace text, you can add text, you can remove text and you put in the string that you want it to find if you're replacing text and the string you want to replace it with and even better, it uses the first file in the list as an example to show you what your end result will look like so you actually get to see this in real time. It's the coolest thing. I love that it's in there, especially since it's probably not used very much. More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on MacGeekGab 1032 for Monday, April 8th trading cards for grownups day 2024. Greetings folks and welcome to MacGeekGab the show where you send in or we provide quick tips like that. You send in your questions, we try to provide the answers, you send in cool stuff found, we share all that together, the goal being that each of us learns no less than five new things every single time we get together or we relearn things we've forgotten about like that opening quick tip which I know that I knew in the past because the find and replace strings were things familiar to me. Those for this episode include linkedin.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free and BB at it from barebones.com with integrated notebooks, chat, GBT support. There's so much in there. We'll talk more about all that in a little bit for now. Back here and well rested in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton and here and never left in South Dakota. I'm Adam Christensen. We are flying in the missing man formation as it were today because Pete is actually out doing the flying so schedules were not to work. So Adam, you and I are, I think this is the first time you and I are doing this, just the two of us. I think. I can't remember. I can't either. I'm getting older and these things escape me but I thought we maybe did one. Maybe Pete did swoop in at the last moment and I know we talked about doing one. There was one we thought we were going to do solo without Pete and then the schedule is just magically worked so I don't think that's going to happen today. I don't think we're going to see a surprise Pete appearance but you never know with Pete. You never know. And I want to thank you and Pete for the shouldering the load last week. I know there's visual and audible evidence that I participated in Mackie Cab 1031. I have very little recollection of it given the limited amount of sleep that I had coming in. The one thing I remember about doing this, I do remember doing the show was that every 10 minutes or so I'd feel like, oh, OK, now I'm like, awake and online. Oh, now I'm great. I'm good. And then 10 minutes later be like, no, now I'm online. It's like, no, no, no, I don't think it was ever online. Thank you. I listened back. I thought there was good stuff in the episode. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I enjoyed it. Yeah. That's good. You don't remember. Yeah. I remember now. I heard it. It's like, OK. It wasn't even like on anything. It wasn't, you know, there wasn't, it was just lack of sleep, I guess. Yeah. PC Unix and a thread in our Discord. PC Unix mentioned the idea of having pinned notes in the Apple Notes app. And Steve Hammond was like, I didn't even know this was a thing. Dave, you need to put this in the show. I agree. If we've never talked about pinned notes in notes before, then yes, now is the time. I we use this here, right? With MacIkeb, we have several shared notebooks, which perhaps is another quick tip that there are shared notebooks. We have several shared notebooks amongst the three of us. And at the top of two of them, the prep notebook and the current show notebook, we have some pin notes that we use for various things. And it's awesome to be able to just go like I have my, I don't know if I've talked about it on the show, but certainly pre-show. I have my pre-flight and then, of course, post-flight checklist because there's too many things to do now with all the stuff that we're doing. I would forget. And in fact, we added a new thing to the pre-flight checklist just this morning because I kept forgetting. Thank you, Zoe. And thank you for the bacon. So yeah, these pin notes are fantastic. And you just, I think you just right-click a note and choose Pin It, right? Yep. Yep. I'm sure there's something in the menu and I'm sure there's a shortcut too, but that's usually how I do it. Yeah. There is pin notes. There's also lock notes. Yeah, that's so Pete can't mess with them. No. No. That's the password one. The lock note is the password protects it. Yeah. I wish there was a way to lock it so Pete couldn't mess with it. That would be great. Yeah. Well, if you don't give them the password, he can't mess with it. Oh, that's true. That's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I want it. I want like a, now. Yeah. I know what we're talking about. Like, you can't edit it. It's not so much for Pete, although it is, but also me. Like, you know, sometimes you just like your cursors where you don't think it is and you start typing, it's like, oh, wait, crap, I didn't want to edit that note. Like my pre-flight checklist. I only want to change that when I want to change it. You know, so yeah, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that's the pin notes and other things in notes too, evidently. Yep. Yep. What do we have next, Adam? I was going to say, Michael has one for us. He says, your advice is excellent. Don't get caught. Well, yeah, that's good advice. He says, he would also like to add this. Don't get lost. He says, here's a quick tip about using the iPhone camera as an aid to not get, to not getting lost. Once upon a time. Oh, it's the story. I was at a meeting at a local hospital designed as a truly enormous maze on five stories. Our team were meeting in a department far from the main entrance. We received a message that colleagues who had traveled from another city had just arrived and were waiting at the main reception. I was volunteered to go fetch them. Finding reception was no problem. It was clearly signposted throughout the building, but I would never, ever be able to, would I ever be able to find my way back? And it would be especially embarrassing to take visitors to an interminable Rambo on an intern, interminable. Is that I'm not familiar with that word Rambo all around the hospital. So this is the quick tip on my long walk to reception. Each time I passed through a junction, I would turn around and snap a photograph back down the corridor. I had just taken once I had collected my visitors. All I had to do was step back through the photographs one by one in reverse order and they got me straight back to our meeting. Our visitors were so impressed. That's, that's smart. I like it. I have made a, in scenarios like that, I have made a habit of as I walk, I haven't used my camera to do it, but I just turn around and look because I know that I, like the view that I have going the way I'm going is not the view I will have going the other way. So I use that to just set some visual memory of like, oh yeah, I remember this. I remember this. I remember this. I remember this, but taking a picture that I actually have and can see would be even better, especially given the whole memory thing. I don't know if it, if it would work on multiple floors and this is just coming to me in the back of my mind and I've never used this feature. Yup. But doesn't the compass app have like a wayfinding thing in it? Yes. It, it, yes. I, I haven't used it this way either. Yeah. How do you turn on the wayfinding? I don't remember. I think you can use it with a watch and stuff too, but I doubt it would work. I think it's just on the watch. Altitude wise. Right. Right. And, and yeah, is the GPS tight enough to work in indoors? In a building probably. Yeah. But I think it's just on the watch. Um, cause I'm not, I have the compass app up and I don't see. Oh, maybe it is only on the watch. Yeah. I did just notice something about the compass app having it up is I tapped on the screen thinking maybe that'll get me more options and I swiped and, you know, did other things. But if you tap on, if you aim the compass in a certain direction and you tap on it, it'll mark that. So at the moment I am facing 287 degrees. Okay. Great. If I then turn the compass, it shows me the gap between where I set and where I was. So I, you know, it's like it's red. The gap is red. And it says, no, if you want to aim 287, well, you're off of that now. Better go back onto it. That's cool. Yeah. I know. Yeah. There's all kinds of little tips in there. I'm wondering what else. Yeah. The level. There's the level, but that's not in the compass app. Is it? No. Is it now in measure? I think it's in the measure app. Yes. Yep. Which is perhaps even yet another quick tip. If you didn't know that it was there. Yeah. There's that level app. And that's a fun game to play to hold the phone and see if you can make the screen turn green. Yep. In the level app. Lots of things. All right. Yep. All right. Alex has a quick tip for us. He says, I thought maybe sharing a word of advice about for users of the Apple calendar app to help me better prepared for birthdays of their important people in their lives. Apple calendar apps provide a convenient feature for events. The second alert on iOS or multiple alerts on the Mac. I'd also like to use it for birthdays of the people closest to me to make sure that during busy days I prepare a nice and accurate gift or message in advance and to be reminded as well in the morning on the day of the event ensuring myself from accidentally and unintentionally recalling about the matter too late. However, if you go to settings to change the alert of the automatic contacts birthdays calendar and try to add a second alert for its events, you'll see that this particular calendar is deprived of the second alert feature. I have come up with a manual workaround in the calendar app on the Mac. Double click on a given birthday event. Then click the middle gray area of alerts and a plus sign and a circle will appear. This will give you multiple alerts on the Mac. Unfortunately, that doesn't work at all on the iPhone. You can't add the second alert and the alert created on the Mac doesn't fire on the iPhone either. This is truly limited just to the Mac. But at least it allows you to do the second alert which you could set for, you know, several days before or whatever you want. I like that. That's a good one. That's a great tip. It really reminds me of, I can't think of the examples right now, but I do often run into this thing where there's certain things you can only do on the Mac and not on the iPhone. That disparity comes up more often than I would think at this point. Yes. More often today than, yes, than I would expect to. You're right. Because why, there's so much that's shared between the two, like code bases that are shared between the two of these apps. Why do we have these things? And then we have, you know, cool stuff like the battery name and the finder that's like who even knew. I think there are multiple third party apps to do that. Oh yeah, there's a ton. It's right there. Like how many other people don't know, how many other people have either don't know about it or have forgotten about it? Yeah, I mean the classic thing though is like the thing in the finder is pretty basic. I mean it does a nice job, but like if you need extreme renaming with like a lot of options, there's a lot of great third party apps for that. Apple always leaves that little hole. They kind of cover the basics and then if you need more, you know, developers. Developers, right. Yeah, you're right because like it doesn't let you sequentially rename things or at least not that I know of. You can, let's see, you can add text to it in the finder and you can change the format. Oh, you can do a counter. Oh, it will let you do a counter with the format thing. So, okay, and you can even have it with the date, you can time stamp the files. It has some nice options. But again, I think there's these extreme runs that people who just are dealing with massive amounts of documents need to do weird things and visionals and if it's this, then that, you know, that sort of thing. Yep, that makes sense. It's not going to do that, but it's yeah, mess around with it. This is one of those things that's I believe good to have a working knowledge of so that when you need to do a thing you know, ah, I know where to go and I suppose in a medicine that's kind of what this show is all about because a lot of the things we share aren't like necessary in the moment, but it's like plant the seed in your head. Plant the seeds with us, folks. Uncle Jamie has another seed. Yes, I do. He says, drag a documents title bar icon to move or share like the finder. The small proxy icon appears to the left of the documents title and the title bar when the document is open in the app. For purposes of dragging it has the same effect as dragging the documents icon in the finder. This is especially useful to attach the document to an email message you also have open. Yep. Yep, super handy. Yeah, I always use the trick too for figuring out the path by right clicking on that thing and I think it'll show you the path, right? Oh, yeah, it'll show you the path. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where that file is. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah, it's I love things like this. Yeah, just treating that folder thing occurs in a lot of places. There's a lot of places where you can just drag the folder, the representation of that thing in an app and it will behave like you just grabbed it from the finder. So I think that's just a good general tip. Like doesn't even have to be the title bar folder like you know, you're just looking at a document app or something like that or you're in files or wherever. Wherever. Yeah, yeah Kiwi Graham in our live chat discord macikip.com slash discord says he believes that icon is technically called the proxy icon which works for me. Sure. I'll call it that. I do this occasionally and the last time I did it, I figured how I need to share this again. I think we've talked about it before but with current versions of macOS we have this whole permissioning thing for where apps get access to things like your microphone or full disk access or accessibility especially and really those last two full disk access I can say Mac geek gab in my sleep as I proved last week cannot say full disk access without really working on the enunciation. I got to make that funny face that theater people make and accessibility those two are often in the way and by that I mean I'll go to do something in an app and it'll say oh you need to re-enable it doesn't say re-enable but I know I've enabled it before and somehow it got turned off so it's like you need to enable this and then sometimes you got to quit the app and re-launch it and so I have found that when I am in that scenario and I have to go into say you know system settings privacy and security you know and then let's say accessibility if I have to go in there for one app I look at everything that's there and turn back on the ones that I know that I want on because they turn off and then while I'm there I also go to full disk access and do the same thing and I have gotten in the habit you know talk about alert blindness or security blindness because this is such a cumbersome thing in the moment I have gotten in the habit of just turning on accessibility and full disk access for anything that shows up in that list which means it asked for it now obviously I'm looking at the list as I'm doing it and if there's something that seems questionable to me maybe I won't turn it on I'll dig in deeper but otherwise man like no bueno like I just I wish I could say just grant this like it used to be please like I'll take the blame I don't know Yeah but you're a responsible computer user who knows what you're doing I try to be I understand where this comes from because it comes from that place of you know if they don't point it out to people they won't think about it so it would be nice to have that overwrite I guess you know somewhere somewhere that setting deep where most people wouldn't find it but yeah even bury it deep that's right defaults to on I'll go in and turn them off like I really wouldn't mind you know even setting a monthly calendar thing and maybe I should do that but I find myself in there probably about that often is once a month I'm in there and it's like I just turn all this stupid stuff on like because it drives me crazy and another tip about that when you go and turn you know if an apps asks you hey you need to turn this on or whatever and you go and you turn it on system settings will almost and it might not even be almost almost always tell you okay I've made this change but you have to quit and relaunch you know the app in question in order for it to be aware of this change that is not universally true system settings does not know whether an app is truly capable of refreshing itself enough in in that way so try it usually with accessibility and full disc access you do not need in my experience you do not need to relaunch the app for screen sharing you absolutely need to relaunch the app and that of course is the one that sucks the most when you're like in a zoom call it's like can you share your screen it's like oh crap that got turned off it's like yep well I gotta say goodbye I'll be back you know so well imagine how fun it is when your IT department is the only people that can change that for you oh my gosh I didn't even think about that oh I understand that that that sounds awful is that yeah and they will not grant it in my case for is it teams no what's google google google meet they're like no we're not giving the browser access to your camera because there's no app right right we're not granting chrome full access to your camera couldn't they I'm just thinking about like the right way to solve this problem couldn't they give you couldn't they say alright or to your screen I guess it's really what it's the screen sharing they don't it's the screen but what if and I don't even know if this is possible but bear with me here what if they had a like Microsoft edge and they designated edge as the browser for these teams meetings right or google meet or you know yeah yeah yeah google meet and google meet and gave you and this is the part that I don't know if it's doable but it sure seems like it might be gave you a locked down Microsoft edge profile that only allowed it to use google meet and nothing else right so every time you launch edge the only sites that you're allowed to visit with this profile are you know meet dot with google dot com or url is and then would they feel better about this now I don't know how to go about building that profile or if it's even possible but it seems like there might be a browser you could do that with and it's funny because now that you're saying that I think they did figure out the solution because I think this came up originally because I was like hey I can't share my screen in these these google meet meetings and they're like oh yeah well no we're not letting the browser do that and I think my it guy went and thought about it and I think he figured out of way and I now that you say profiles yeah I think he figured out a way to like build some sort of specialized profile it's good that's good that's good yeah all right folks ever wonder how we 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finder search result in the finder become non responsive and having causing them to have to reload the finder number two is attempts to search in the mail app result in the mail app becoming non responsive and having to force quit the mail app number three is attempts to print any document to PDF using the print dialogue about box results in that in the app that created the document to become unresponsive I'm seeing a theme here yeah unresponsive force quit and restart the app a workaround for this problem is to open in preview and then save the PDF file from there and that works fine number four attempts to tag a file with a color marker do not work troubleshooting steps that he's gone through are and have been done to resolve this issue resulted in temporary elimination of these issues but they return in a matter of minutes or hours so he's tried safe boot he's tried running titanium software titanium softwares maintenance scripts which is a great set of scripts and installing big sir from the recovery partition by starting with command are he says I'm left left wondering if there could be some corruption in one or more preference files but I have no idea which ones might be the culprit so my first question is what other repair actions should I take to attempt to resolve these issues on the current iMac and OS and I think he's also somewhat wondering is it time to upgrade exactly do I need a new Mac yeah and that was that was sort of where the question came in I think maybe the title of the subject of the question was you know is it time to upgrade to m1 and I'll address that first no not necessarily I mean it's never bad time except that it is right like you know you it's gonna cost you money all of those things I don't I wouldn't well listen I had a 2019 iMac Intel here in the studio similar to what he has I think mine was a little faster than his but not like not to the point where it would make a difference for the things he's talking about and I would still be using that if it weren't you know lightning strike this past summer you know it's so I don't think this is the reason to upgrade there's a few things I try this remind I know you said you ran titanium softwares maintenance scripts titanium software the folks that make onyx I would I would make sure that for this scenario especially that I would go into onyx go into maintenance and turn on everything and that includes rebuilding the mail index it definitely includes rebuilding the spotlight index there's something clearly something wrong with spotlight on this computer at least that's based you know you said you're sensing a theme here is like yes same right yeah yeah yeah and and you know you already did the big sir reinstall over the top that would have been sort of the next thing that I would try if I were there and failing all of that or having tried all of that because it seems like you might have kind of done the you know the obvious things for us which means either you've been listening long enough for you you know you learn these things on your own somewhere I would I you know open activity monitor and sort by CPU you know and make sure in activity monitor you go to view all processes so that you're seeing the entirety of the system and see what like see what's chewing your CPU in those moments where it's bogged down it is not uncommon for me this I mean I'm Dave and I'm a nerd to run with activity monitor open just for these reasons so I can see what's going on or I use you know I step menus or stats or you know one of those things but it is sometimes even clicking on the menu bar is impossible in those moments because things are so bogged down so having a window open with activity monitor already running sorted by CPU showing all processes that can be really informative for troubleshooting the exactly this kind of thing so that's if I were there that's what I would do I don't know what do you think yeah I mean so he says he's done a reinstall of big serves that I'd be curious if that's just an over-the-top like reinstaller is that a complete wipe in reinstall I mean no I think that's the over-the-top that's the extreme option and I don't know that you're there yet at the same time too I'm wondering because I still run a 2019 Intel Mac I mean right it's a 16 inch Macbook pro and I've got a core i7 instead of an i3 I'm curious why he's still on Big Sur did he he explained that in a part of this in a you didn't miss it I took it out he's on Big Sur because he had some issues with a file maker database that he didn't want to upgrade okay they didn't want to upgrade at the time but he did say look if upgrading to a more recent OS is is necessary as part of this he's like I don't mind the expense it's like we the only reason I'm hesitating on that is because it probably doesn't if you're having these issues they're not going to go away by doing an over-top install of another operating system that's kind of what I'm getting at so like if some of the other recommendations you gave didn't work depending upon I mean if he's just been doing over-the-top over-the-top since he got the thing I mean I I fell in this camp where every three four years I would generally nuke and pave and just restart because you just build up crud over the years and it's a pain in the butt and I hate doing it and it's not fun and I recommend it you know only in the most extreme circumstances so I would try some of these other things like Dave's recommended and if there's not a resolution there then you might have to bite the bullet and try a nuke and pave like do all your backups make sure you've got the multiples and you know where everything is and you know where all your software is to reinstall and all that fun stuff but yeah nuke and pave I will say that nuke and paving today is way less of a pain than it was even five years ago you know so much of our data synced to the cloud it more than I every time I do it I dread it just like you said it's like oh I don't have a day for this and it only winds up taking a couple of hours you know and I would be very if let me put it this way if I were there on site with you and you were paying me by the hour and I learned this when I did a lot of this on site I would spend the first 20 to 40 minutes kind of trying the quick things right you know and if we weren't getting anywhere and we were spinning our wheels like okay wait here we are 30 40 minutes into this we could stumble on the solution in the next 5 minutes and that will remain true until we actually stumble on to the solution which could be hours but we're always potentially 5 minutes away from the answer and we might wind up spending 5 hours and not yet get there so I would always try to balance this with the customer and say we know that a nuke and pave is probably going to take about 2 hours you know or whatever we think it's going to take that's a known the looking for this needle in the haystack is an unknown so your choice but you know I would advise them like if this were my computer I might spend another 15-20 minutes looking for the needle in the haystack and then I would punt on that and just get the job done and there are additional benefits of nuke and paving that go beyond this one problem but I feel really confident in this scenario knowing what we know that a nuke and pave would resolve this I could be wrong the main reason I did it again I would do it if I ran into exactly this situation where it's like this problem I'm just chasing it chasing it I can't figure out what's going on that's one scenario the other scenario like I said was like every 4th upgrade or something like that but a lot of that was about just cleaning house it forces you to go through your system and be like oh my god I've got these apps that I haven't needed forever I have all these documents that I've just been sitting there let's get those off and archive those someplace else like it gave me an opportunity to really assess oh my god I've pack-ratted for 4 years and 50% of this stuff could go and I wouldn't care you wouldn't care right yeah exactly Kiwi Graham in the live chat brings up something that came to my mind and left it almost as quickly when I was first answering Andrew's question which was he said and I don't know if this was included but he said he had a 1TB drive with about 250 gigs used is that a spinning drive or is it an SSD I am not sure if in 2019 you could still buy an iMac with a spinning drive but if it is a spinning drive that will have a performance impact negative performance impact yeah on especially on database intensive operations which is what searching is now right you know so it but what size is the drive 1TB if he has the base model that's a 5400 RPM SATA drive okay so I just checked Mac Tracker I'm assuming he has the 4K right now 2.5 inch that's the only one that offered the Core i3 okay alright so it's the early 2019 because they also did a 5K 27 inch in 2019 correct yeah I had the 5K here I still have the 5K some something in me like has hope that it's just gonna that's a Core i5 so the Core i3 is the base model 21.5 inch and the base storage is a SATA drive the other 1TB would be a fusion drive which is still still mostly spinning right alright so new advice buy an SSD connect it to the Thunderbolt port on that thing and clone or well cloning is not could he clone with Big Sur maybe yeah if you can't clone you know reinstall and migrate over to that things are gonna get faster and that will breathe new life into that machine for you I mean you can carbon copy clone or whatever well but you can't with Sonoma like you can't clone to a new boot drive it ain't quite as easy as it used to be yeah yeah yeah yeah still or if you're really brave you know you can open that thing up and put an SSD in it but that's what I had to do with my wife you know we had an Intel Mac mini or whatever and like it changed the world yes oh yes yes I you know you can go back to the episodes it's probably 12 years ago now or something on this show where we started migrating our machines to SSDs and it was like you know finally our computers would use their CPUs yeah prior to that everything was IO bound you know rarely did you see your Mac use it CPU and then it was like got freed up the IO it was like boom good to go yeah yeah start there yeah I would oh yeah yeah just do the external thing because it's it's easy and fine and Thunderbolt has plenty of the bandwidth that it's no you're not you're gonna get so much more performance over the spinning drive internally even though because like people start to freak out about the whole bus thing and it's not going to be your bottleneck that's not that's not going to be your issue that's correct yeah thank you Kiwi Grimm this is one of the things I really love about the Mac Geek app community in general and specifically about having so many of you join us when we do the show because these kinds of things come to mind and I I made the incorrect assumption I could have checked Mac or when I was answering Andrew's question but I was like in like blazing through mode I'm like there's no way they released a computer in 2019 that had a spindle drive well Dave was wrong told you I was wrong before and that I would be wrong again who knew it's gonna be right away uh yeah that's that's where I would start for sure especially since you've exhausted all these other things I mean you know spending money is spending money you don't want to do it willy-nilly but and I still think you know here's the thing unless you can clone to that migrating to it will naturally cause you to do a reinstall the operating system and then migrate things over with like you know migration assistant which will work almost perfectly in most cases so it really won't hurt all that much but that's not a new can pave migration assistant is its own thing but it will get you there quickly that and that would be worth trying right you know it's just do that yeah install the OS on the spindle drive let migration assistant take your data over sorry install OS on the install the new OS on the SSD let migration assistant slurp things over and my guess is that your your problems will your life will change yeah you may not solve you may not solve the problem but you might mitigate the symptoms of it this way yeah yeah how well has our next question he says and I'm curious about m1's future I have three m1 max max studio 14 inch macbook pro and an 11 inch ipad pro okay all m1 with 1 terabyte storage I just use lightroom for photography that is all I don't do any video editing my question how long will the m1 ship handle this basic photo editing and receive continued apple support maybe move up to the m3 or the m2 I still have a 2017 Intel iMac and it's still going just fine yeah great okay good he says it's a backup only and Adam I'm glad to have you here says Hal and I agree with Hal yeah yeah yeah so I'd be here yeah yeah yeah yeah thoughts on on this Adam yeah so my immediate thought was I don't know how many people know about Apple's sort of terminology for either vintage or obsolete products so bottom line is I don't think you have to worry too much about m1 going away anytime soon because Apple has two things where they have vintage or yeah vintage products and obsolete products yeah and vintage products are basically considered in terms of like you can take it to an Apple store you can prepare them you can go to Apple service providers they're going to have parts for them for like five years yeah products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than five and less than seven yeah right five and five and seven years yeah and as we know like operating system updates go back four or five years too so like you're going to be able to upgrade your operating system for at least four or five years and you know after seven years that's when things get obsolete and that's when I would really kind of start to worry but you know like m1 is still like a great processor and if you were to buy one I wouldn't even have any qualms about recommending to someone especially someone who might be on a tight budget you can still find them on Max out there and you can get great deals on them and they're going to go for three, four, five years you're going to be just fine the max studio that I'm running here in the studio to replace the aforementioned lightning struck iMac is an m1 max it's the base model max studio with a 512 gig ssd and it's great I looked in in mac tracker to see when this clock would start for the m1 in general which I think is an important marker here right so the m1 mini was sold up until January of 2023 the m1 max studio through June of 23 and the m1 iMac was sold up until October of 23 so I think for m1 in general October of 2023 is when this 5 year clock is going to start I know that there were others that stopped being m1 prior to that but m1 is m1 especially with macOS right so October of 2023 that means we've got until fall of 2028 before Apple is off the hook for m1 in general I think we're going to be alright for a while yeah yeah yeah I was going to mention I guess we're going to talk a little bit later so maybe I should save this I'm going to save it for later but I'll talk about some of my technology that I still use a little bit later I think alright okay great shall we proceed into later you want to read Jim's question yeah I guess it's not that much later it's not that much later here we are yeah Jim has a great size and it's actually for you Dave he says Dave I'm considering getting a Synology Disk Station I can say that word with the main use being backup and to stream media photos videos for family and friends I take a lot of photos and videos with family and friends and groups I'm associated with I have a few questions regarding this and I'm hoping you can help answer I'm sure Dave can I would like to take photos videos of events and then post them for others to view or and or download can I allow access to a media folder with both videos and photos that others can view if they have a URL to access this folder and can you share individual files can home videos be streamed would video station be used to stream share media files is there a cost for that software are the disk stations noisy have running fan or relatively quiet I'm considering the DS 423 with 4 bays so I would have plenty of room for backing up files and sharing streaming media I could use raid 5 or 3 on the drives for backup and have one drive by itself sharing my media oh can I think he's asking or do all 4 drives need to be set up on raid 5 or is that the best way to set it up I currently have a flicker account where I share my media files but home videos are limited to size and length I'd rather not pay an annual subscription or flicker if I can do the same thing myself with no limit on streaming videos is Synology a good solution for what I'm trying to do or should I just stick with flip flicker I appreciate your feedback since you are familiar with the disk stations I am all too familiar with the distations I have a little story to tell about my 20 minute or deal on Saturday afternoon that turned into 6 hours but I'll save that with my disk station this was a self inflicted thing yes so I think the DS 423 plus that's the model there is no DS 423 just for everybody's benefit if you wind up searching for this I think the DS 423 plus is a fantastic disk station for most of us here in the Mackie Gab community it's got like you said it's got 4 bays it's got a decent CPU in there to handle like you can run some docker containers on that CPU you can run the things you want to run it also it is an Intel CPU with a GPU which means it has the capability of doing hardware transcoding which can be important especially in your scenario where you want to provide videos for family and friends having the disk station able to do that hardware transcoding if they're on a bandwidth limited connection back to you super important so there's all like a lot of reasons that I love the DS 423 plus really great disk station I would as far answering your questions in reverse I would almost always unless there is an extenuating circumstance and nothing you described would fall into this category for me I would always set up all of the disks as one array one and arguably one volume too I wouldn't split the volumes I would make one array of all the disks I would not have one disk for media and the other three disks for whatever else you're doing to all four of them or three of them or two of them you don't have to fill it out of the gate you can put two in two disks and then add a third when you need more storage and add a fourth when you need more storage and I would not use RAID 5 you could and there's nothing wrong with RAID 5 except that you can't use different sized disks with RAID 5 if you do if you have let's say you put two terabyte disks in let's say that even if you call it RAID 5 if you just have two disks one disk is always dedicated to fault tolerance with RAID 5 which means you would get two terabytes of storage and you would have one disk for fault tolerance however if you added a third two terabyte disk you would have one disk for fault tolerance and now four terabytes available for your storage if you then and we're still on RAID 5 if you then added a four terabyte drive you would only add two more terabytes of storage two terabytes on that four terabyte drive would remain unused until you replaced all of the other three drives with drives that were at least four terabytes in size so the smallest drive in the array defines how all of the drives are going to be seen that is not true with something called Synology Hybrid RAID or SHR as they call it that gives you the option of using mixed disk sizes within one disk station within one array and for most home users is what I would recommend because it allows you the flexibility of kind of using drives that you get over time and as you replace drives you start replacing them with larger drives and over time your array will just grow and that's wonderful so that out of the way for video streaming yep this device will do it you can use video station or Plex even it's available for free could be and you can pay for additional features but Plex I would use Plex to do this but you can run both Plex and video station on the same disk station pointing to the same media library like that you don't have to keep two copies of your media library you can literally have one you point both of them to that folder and it works just fine as for noise so yes the DS 423 plus is going to have a fan and that fan can be set to like loud mode, medium mode or quiet mode the fan is not going to be your problem that's relatively quiet and it's nice consistent easy white noise those disks that you put in there however are going to be a different story unless you choose to put SSDs in those disks are noisy Adam are you you have experience with this too yeah because my Synology sits in our living room and you know my wife would be like what's that noise I'm like it's yeah yep yep it's the disks are noisy when I moved the disk stations last year maybe a year before from my office to the kind of a basement closet in our house playroom closet really in our house simply because we put we put a generator in like a standby generator in the house and I thought well this is now where I want all the network stuff and it was it took me a couple of weeks to get used to the new much lower much more consistent ambient volume level in my office was like something's wrong I thought like it felt like the power was out even though of course the lights were on everything was fine but yeah those things are noisy so if you can avoid putting it in your living room that is a good thing and and or your bedroom but you could put SSDs in this and then all you would have is the noise of the fan you'd also maybe have to just eat ramen for a little while to offset the expense you mortgage yeah exactly but yeah you know the answer to everything is yeah man this is what a disk station is for and it's a great entry point to getting a disk station there's so much more you can do with it as I said the 423 plus is super capable so you will and and Synology software Synology software is really where they shine we actually have a lot of complaints comments perhaps about how their hardware is underpowered it's sort of a known thing in the industry the the holy grail for all of us is Synology software and QNAP's hardware right that would be great and it turns out we might get something approximating that from Ugreen the Ugreen brand new not even in the market yet NASSync and ASYNC is is coming I've been paying very close attention to this since CES actually had a conversation with them last week I've got one on the way but they're putting they the people in charge of this project have worked at Synology they've worked at QNAP and they've worked at Seagate so they know the like they really understand what people like us want and they know that there's a gap in the market so I'm eagerly awaiting to I like I know out of the gate the Ugreen one isn't going to be right so right now I wouldn't recommend buying it unless you want it to just tinker with but over the next 12 months as the software for this thing matures and everything kind of comes around it's going to start getting interesting so anyway that's a departure the Synology software is great it will you know it will give you as many Saturday afternoons of tinkering fun as you care to spend with it and tweak and you can add all kinds of different little server things it's super fun so yeah I think I think you're going to have fun with it as to the last question is this easier than Flickr no Flickr is already working for you there's no friction no time and just the annual expense of maintaining the status quo with Flickr so I can't with a straight face say of course this is better no well it's not easier whether it's better or not depends on whether you like I for me yeah of course I like hosting the stuff myself I like managing it I like tinkering with it most of the time so yeah hopefully that helps you which distation we got it we got to upgrade you right you have a 1513 plus how many disks do you have in that I think four okay because because maybe maybe we need to send you a 423 plus that's kind of too broken drive doors that we talked about I got to get a little lat I got to order those well you don't have to order them if we want to get you a 423 plus because that might be the the magic answer here I was looking at that exact model it was interesting he brought that up yeah I wrote a lot of old technology around here I realized you know we were talking earlier about when to upgrade to and you know your intel mac so I thought every time I've been in here there's a fan noise and I always thought it was my Drobo under the desk and I went and turned off the Drobo today and I still hear the fan noise and I'm like oh yeah I had a I had a spinning backup drive that I use for just like a seagate drive that I use for and I'm like oh I wonder if that has a fan in it so I unplug that still a fan noise it's my intel it's my intel it's oh of course it is yeah yeah yeah yeah so there's that um until I moved here two years ago I was using a USB forbay Drobo like an original Drobo connected to a intel core duo not even core 2 duo mac mini as a network backup yeah storage facility and it it was stuck running snow leopard I think was the last operating system it would run on but I was running that up until two years ago and it's sitting in the box here would still run I could probably hook it up and still do the same thing I was using um chrono sync and chrono sync has I forget I can't remember what it's called but they have like a networking software that you can use to okay go across the network and that works great so you know I am the king of like holding onto old technology for way too long and continue to use it but yeah I mean that's an ology is running great too it does everything I needed to do and the only complaint I had was I couldn't figure out plaques but then what I didn't realize as we talked about on a previous episode is that I needed to update the core software because I didn't realize it wouldn't tell me that oh you're on six you can now go to seven it would did the auto updates up within whatever version it was yes and yes I didn't know I could even download and install like you can run DSM 7 on the 1513 plus yeah I think so that's amazing that's great like Synology their support is like their support for their devices is amazing like the fact that you can run the current operating system on these devices that are ancient and out of warranty and out of any sort of support it speaks a lot to how they are as a company and they if you emailed them for support with that like I would be almost certain that they would engage and answer and help you even though it's way out of warranty like I've had them go and we've heard this from all of you folks too they go out of their way for this so yeah it's I'm running 711 whatever 1116 it's amazing and that brought my plex back so now I'm happy like it's fine other than the little hardware failure right but that's like physical hardware failure that your drive doors won't close yeah and I just took the empty ones and I swapped them of course yes so they're just the empty bays that are popped open I had never heard of that until you mentioned it you know whatever three or four weeks ago whatever it was and then I was doing an inventory of distations that I like old distations that I have here and I was going through one of them and just making sure I hadn't left like a drive in it or anything before I gave Pete this old one that he's now using for like a data storage thing which is great it's nice to see it back in service and as I was going through you know I just pop the drives and put it take it out make sure there's nothing in the tray pop it back in and lock it and one of them it was totally fine until I touched it and I opened it up it's like okay great and I close it and won't close and I'm like that's weird and and I was like freaking Adam cursed me like I've never experienced this I have I've had so many distations over the years and now I get this yep here's the thing with mine they did it on their own like they were just sitting there in they just one day I walked up and one was popped open and I couldn't close it and then about a month later another one did it and I was like what the heck is going on here like they just failed on their own like no one touches that thing no one goes over there right I mean unless the cats bumped it and then did it but I highly doubt it I doubt it yeah I will share a PSA here about anyone migrating from one distation to another something I have done countless times without any issues whatsoever so much so that I'm super confident about the process and Synology makes it easy if you have let's say you have like you know three three bay array and whatever size distation it might be you know could be a four bay could be an eight bay it doesn't matter you can take those disks move them into a new disk station fire it up and it'll say hey I see that you're moving this from a you know whatever you used to have to whatever this current model is do you want to do that and you say yes and then and then it asks you another question do you want to start from scratch up with your system but keep your data or do you just want to basically keep everything including all your settings and your users and everything and just run what you ran over there over here without having to do anything else and so obviously I always choose that and then it said great I'm going to download the software for it it downloads the software updates itself reboots and literally in like 20 minutes you're back up and running it's amazing right it's awesome so on Saturday we got home we went out to lunch we got home from lunch and I'm like you know I've been wanting to roll one of my disk stations to a newer one that I have here I need to test okay great I'm like I told Lisa I don't even know if I told her I'm going to take 20 minutes but in my like I knew it was going to be 20 minutes so I'm like yeah I'm just going to do this and so I go into the play room I shut down the old disk station I had my laptop downstairs already I was kind of thinking about doing this and I shut it down I put the you know put the move the drives and the one thing and I did this this was not my problem you have to put keep the drives in the same order so drive one is drive one drive two is drive two if you mess that up that's on you so I was very I know this I've done this many times I very diligent okay so I did that came up got the screen answered the question starts the software the download is corrupted what okay fine whatever let's do it again you know so back through download restart it you know fine come up that starts downloading the download is corrupted okay so I go to the website I download the software manually because you can you can do that too you can you know it's all just in a web browser so okay again one more time upload your system volume is full I've heard about this oh no so now I have there's there's your main volume that has you know terror and terabytes and terabytes of data and then there's a tiny little sliver that they carve out for the system volume and it's put on every disk so if you lose a disk you still have your system volume it's it's a raid one it's a mirror cross all of them and that system volume was full it turns out Synology used to and so therefore my older raid has this size 2.3 gigabytes of a system volume the new ones if you were to set up a disk station today it would give you an 8 gigabyte system volume I would argue it should be a hundred but be that as it may it needed about 750 megabytes to download and unpack like unzip the update file and you know things like if you know anything about Unix var log is stored on the system volume the slash user and slash etsy directories are stored on the system so there's like things there and there's even some app packages there I spent six hours on Saturday and I by hour five and a half to our previous story I gave up it was like I cannot solve this and I texted Lisa I started kind of keeping her up to date like I'm sorry here's where we are I like I hadn't even like gone upstairs since we got home from lunch and and like I have two more things I'm going to try it's going to take 15 minutes and then I'm done and thankfully the first one of those actually worked but it was you know it was just that constant process I had to I learned on Saturday how to hot mount a system volume in I built like a new station with a single drive to just get it up and running and then while it's on I pushed all of my discs in from the old one and was able to hot mount the system volume that way it was a whole thing I learned more Unix than I wanted to learn and I knew I was playing with fire right like I knew that anything I did could be the last thing I ever did with this volume right but thankfully I was able to clear off enough stuff from that system volume to fix it my advice to everyone is if you are if you know how to go and check how much space is on your system volume do that before you migrate to a new disk station definitely you and if you don't know how to do that open a Synology support ticket tell them what you're about to do it's going to take a few days for them to reply have them go in look at your system volume clean out they will clean out the things that they know are safe to clean out so you're not guessing like Dave was on Saturday afternoon and you're and have them prep you for this upgrade and then and then then you'll be fine like if I had gone in in advance this would have instead of being a 20 minute process it would have been a 25 minute process like it really would have been trivial if I knew how much space I needed and what to do to get there which I now know it would have been fine but instead I did not proactively do this and I lost you know an entire Saturday afternoon sure I learned some things and here's a valuable story and I can go tell Lisa no no it was good I talked about it on the show but yeah so be aware is and really engage Synology support if you're gonna do this so that's my PSA so yep but don't let that don't let this dissuade you and they they are aware of this problem one thing that I noticed I have four discs in this array two of them have eight gigabytes reserved for the system partition two of them have 2.3 so my system partition partition is 2.3 as we talked about before you know it's a mirrored thing so the smallest size wins but once I replace the other two drives over time my system partition on this array will grow to eight gigabytes so and if you were to start up a new one right now you'd get eight gigs and in theory that's enough I again I'd like about 50 or 100 just plenty of breathing room storage is cheap Dave you want to talk about Synology for a little bit no why do you have a question okay shall we do some cool stuff found Adam I think we should I agree I agree all right listen Dave tells us about a new thing that he found it's called stash.new he says it's a well thought out alternative for Google docs he says you just go to well you go to stash.new or stash pad I guess you go to either one it seems I went to let me confirm this before I do the thing yeah stash.new will bring you to docs.stashpad.com okay so he says here are the number of steps to make a new shareable document in Google docs first you got to be signed in second you got to go to Google docs create a new document share make a title for it save it test it go into the sharing thing change restricted to anyone with the link copy the link and you're done okay so he counted all that out that's 11 steps the number of steps to make a shareable document on stash pad in your browser type stash.new number two click the paper clip looking icon in the top and you're done three steps including and you're done which was the 11th step in the other one too so he says the speed of their site is remarkable and the learning curve feels like zero I dug into this and he's totally right it's a very cool alternative I of course was wondering okay what's the longevity of this company what's the privacy who are they all of this and thankfully Dave from Houston but now living in Lisbon Portugal had already done some of this work and he says it's an early stage startup based in Durham North Carolina the other Durham one of the other the founders used to be engineers at Twilio and next door they're backed by precursor ventures and people who have helped build Twilio Slack superhuman github and others so he says their privacy pages looked pretty good and all that stuff so thank you for that Dave yeah fun stuff stash.new yeah free or so it seems so that's you know we like that free for now free for now yeah yeah yeah Portos John is gonna make us all spend some money he says I'm in one of our remote offices today and when I arrived at the hotel I realized that I brought my travel kit to charge my phone watch and air prods but had forgotten my power adapter for my mac and iPad off to Best Buy I went and he says I found the coolest light as thin as power brick with included two outlet extension that I have seen he says it wasn't cheap but it's easy to use it's the anchor it's the 91261F1 G-A-N Prime 100 watt charging station regularly $65 on Amazon he said that day it was $10 off now it's at $90 on Amazon this thing I have the oh I guess actually no the one that he mentioned is still that there's a 140 watt version so I have the one he talked about which is this very cool thing it's it looks it's about the size of an iPhone and it it's like including its its thickness but it has on its face it has two three prong USAC outlets and what's cool is when you plug into one of them the outlet lifts out of the adapters to make it deep enough to plug into which is cool and then on the end it has two usb-c and two usb-a power ports as well this is what I travel with it I use this for all of the trips that I had recently and I love it it is it's exactly this the 140 watt watt one that he found in addition to being 140 watts has a screen on it that shows you how much power each port is consuming and because it's going to be used in hotel rooms the screen is not on all the time it has a little button you can push to turn the screen on and of course off so that you aren't stuck with this glowing beautiful light of nerdness that is going to be so delicious so I definitely need to upgrade to this for the screen alone for sure like there's zero question that I'll need this in my travel kit and I'm bum that I didn't know about it before I started travel extravaganza because now I don't have a reason to use it for a little while but I but I will they'll be they'll be more so 89 bucks for the one with the screen on Amazon we'll put a link in the show notes looks delicious that's worth it it's it's first Friday it's first Friday yes and I know this because it's 10 a.m. and the air raid siren just went off so if anybody hears that I apologize you hear that yeah we have we have not there's what there was one time in the past where you mentioned that it was going off and we couldn't hear it but this time we get to hear it so yeah that anchor thing right though like oh yeah yeah I had something similar that years ago not not with the USB stuff but just a nice portable thing yeah it was great for carrying around and I could share it with people in Starbucks and stuff like that was great yeah look at that air raid siren I love that I love it we got time for another cool stuff founder too listener Ben tells us about our next one and as soon as I find it here I will pull it up he says my M2 air has the tendency to be slow to reconnect to Wi-Fi after waking from sleep this is odd to me since power nap works and evidence reveals that it has been connected during sleep nonetheless I found some steps in an article to build a sleep watcher automation that power cycles my Wi-Fi on every wake of my MacBook Air and the problem is solved and so we will we will link to this sleep watcher thing it's sleep watcher is a command line tool that monitors the sleep wake up and idleness of a Mac and can be used to execute a Unix command which of course can then trigger a shortcut or whatever you want from there so and we've got links to sleep watcher and then also to the script that Ben found to that actually does the swapping of the toggling of the Wi-Fi so thank you for that Ben I love nerdy things like that see only one of our cool stuff found today so far is going to cost any of us any money so that's not bad right? yeah that's good I'm just wondering how long this siren goes for I will share one other cool stuff found that I will audible into our ever-growing list of cool stuff found I was talking to our friend Jeff Gamet last night and he was talking about text plays which is in a sense like a text expander type tool where it but it's got so many extra things in it it's got like templates and scripting and he says it's like it's what he always wanted text expander to be so I figured I would share that here too I have not used it yet but it sure looks pretty interesting so we will we will put that in the show notes too I love things like that I still use a combination of text expander and Apple's built-in text expansion thing I like Apple's built-in one because it's part of my iOS keyboard by default but for the advanced stuff I use text expander I'm surprised that I haven't moved any of that into keyboard maestro you know just because it's always running for me keyboard maestro is yeah I use the same combo I still have the text expander keyboard on my iOS devices and use it a little bit I wish Apple would fix that like I don't know if they can right that not separate keyboard thing but I mean on my Mac yes right text expander all the time yeah yeah yeah text expander is there all the time on the Mac it can only be there with a separate keyboard on iOS or you can launch the app and the app is even more full-featured like if I need to do one of those things with fill-in forms or whatever the app is absolutely the way to go and there is no keyboard maestro app for iPhone so perhaps that answers my own question as to why I haven't moved this stuff into keyboard maestro but yeah yeah yeah yeah I like the Apple stuff for the simple things because it's always right there like you know phone numbers email addresses those sorts of things I highly recommend building snippets for that for those hold on for those playing at home four minutes is how long that I think if they were actually playing along at home they would have calculated that already that's the tornado warning siren so I appreciate it yeah and it happens once per once per month just to test it the first Friday of every month at 10 a.m all right they run that thing and it's loud because again it's about 200 yards from my house so and it spins around so it gets louder when it points towards me and then it dopplers yeah and it sounds just like a World War 2 you know yeah siren is it is it is it an old world like a World War 2 you know why wouldn't it be right in our town that I grew up in we had a volunteer fire department and I think they still do and so you know they would test that occasionally and then also there were times where it wasn't a test but I got so used to hearing it that I wouldn't even register I'd have a friend over at the house like what is that what do you mean oh that oh yeah that's the thing they're like what do you mean what do you mean it's like super loud because again we were about as close to it as it sounds like you you are to yours but like yeah that's just fine it's fine yeah it will be important for us if a real event happens because we don't have a basement so right we have to go just to block over to the police station basically security center they have a shelter there so that's good we've not had to do that the only time ever here it is first Friday and that's when I hope I only ever hear it let's hope it stays that way yeah yeah yeah that house that I grew up in we also had a bomb shelter in our basement it was you know the house was built in the 40s so like they thought that that would help protect against like you know nuclear attack obviously we've learned a little since then but seemed like a good idea at the time so we had this little bomb shelter you know just more cement that's all out here in I think it's more western South Dakota and I forget where the place is but there is a company that is now selling we had the largest munitions storage facility in the entire United States and it's now been decommissioned and some company bought it and they're selling out them as shelters because they literally are will survive a clear bomb so it's interesting they just sell the empty shell and then you can do whatever you want on the inside and they're building a whole community out there so that's cool huh alright I guess it's that time if you need it time to bring the band in thanks for hanging out with us everybody thank you for sending in all your stuff to feedback at macgeekgab.com right Adam yeah that is feedback at macgeekgab.com it's feedback at macgeekgab.com thanks to Cashfly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you make sure you missed hearing Pete on the show this week so make sure to go listen 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