{"id":17074,"date":"2017-01-31T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17074"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:59:20","slug":"it-just-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/31\/it-just-works\/","title":{"rendered":"It Just Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Kosmaczewski<\/a> (via Andy Lee<\/a>):<\/p>\n

I start iTunes. It tells me that I need to log in to Apple Music. I do not remember ever having logged off. I enter my username and password. The dialog goes away. iTunes still does not allow me to listen to music. I close and re-open iTunes. I log off and on a few times. I finally reboot my Mac. I discover that the artist I would love to listen to that morning is not available on iTunes Music. I select another artist. I hit play. Music does not come out from the built-in speakers. I plug in my old 2002 Harman Kardon SoundSticks. I plug the USB 3 to USB dongle first.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I sit on my Mac and open a Pages file stored on iCloud, one I was working on my iPad Pro during the weekend. The sync fails and I cannot see the last modifications I made on my iPad Pro. Open and close apps on both devices. I reboot them both. Pages for Mac tells me that there is a conflict between the versions in both devices, even though I have never edited the file on the Mac. I select the version on the iPad. My changes are lost.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I try to open an application I bought yesterday on this Mac. The operating system protests, telling me that I have to login to the App Store because the application was bought in another Mac. It is not true. I log in anyway. The app opens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

This seems too bad to be real, but I’ve had days recently that feel like this. I have an old Mac and sometimes think a new one would be more reliable, until I read about problems<\/a> people are having with a brand new MacBook Pro and display. At least I don’t have kernel panics.<\/p>\n\n

Lloyd Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

I had mangled a bunch of html files as part of a major site overhaul, and I just wanted the top-level folder back as of 12 hours or so prior—that’s the type of thing perfect<\/em> for Time Machine.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Enter Time Machine.<\/li>\n
  2. Restore Folder.<\/li>\n
  3. Observe that the restored folder now has ZERO files in it (empty). Time Machine WIPED OUT everything. No error message, no indication of any issue (that folder has had files for many years, and thousands of them).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Update (2017-01-31): Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    Huh, has it been another month yet? About time for Time Machine to break again.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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