I wanted to downgrade my Sonoma installation to Ventura on a Mac Studio. Before doing so I thought I’d take a full backup on an external drive using SuperDuper. This has worked great in the past, and I had assumed it would still work fine on Apple Silicone models in 2025. MASSIVE mis-assumption! Of course … Read more
A few weeks ago I updated my Mac Studio from Ventura to Sonoma. My colleague said good things about it, and with Sequoia now being the “new toy” I’ll stay away from for a while (or forever perhaps), trying out last years latest OS seemed like a nice idea. I had a TimeMachine backup, so … Read more
I was looking for the Windows equivalent of the Linux command “y| rm -rf” and despite my best efforts couldn’t work it out. We need to use “del”, with a couple of switches to do this recursively and for directories, and also automatically confirm this for every entry. Here it is: This will delete everything … Read more
I went out and bought a brand new Magic Mouse for my Mac Studio today. I’ve been meaning to try one for ages, and heard great things about the gestures. I’ve had a Magic Trackpad for years and enjoyed gestures, but find them annoying for video editing, where I prefer a mouse. My current model … Read more
I don’t always need the Stream Deck app running on my Mac, and was wondering if there’s an intuitive way to remove it, say from the Login Items section. But of course there isn’t, because consumers doing what they like would mean total anarchy. Instead, we can use a command line tool to rid us … Read more
So despite trying hard, my old MacBook Pro won’t run anything higher than High Sierra. While sad, I mainly want it for the swishy Dark Mode that’s been introduced in Mojave, and by default that’s just not available on High Sierra… or is it? Here’s how to enable it with a small command line tweak: … Read more
I’m all for new features especially when they’re free, but I despise developers who shove them down our throats without asking first. That’s basically the case with some newfangled thing called the Stage Manager in macOS Sonoma. I don’t even know what it is, all I do know that it’s related to all my windows … Read more
I had an issue with a brand new Plesk server on IONOS that apparently didn’t have the “apsc” database. Must have corrupted after the first update, but thankfully Plesk had made a backup just before it did this. It was a full server backup, part of which is this database backup. Here’s where we’ll find … Read more
