Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Depending on the price...

If anyone cares (suspect not) this

Does anyone have an idea why my Disk Utility keeps popping up when I start my Mac or wake it from sleep? I'm on Sierra 10.12.2.

Was fixed by upgrading to 10.12.3.

What Salmonchild said...price I suppose!

anyone used one of these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salcar-Docking-Station-Offline-Function/dp/B01LYGES66/ref=sr_1_15?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1487338370&sr=1-15&keywords=sata+hard+drive+enclosure+3.5

thinking of getting one for cloning my boot drive, and quarterly back ups.

If this preferable to just getting an enclosure like this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eaxer-External-Enclosure-Tool-free-Installation/dp/B01N2H2PN3/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1487338370&sr=1-3&keywords=sata+hard+drive+enclosure+3.5

Sure, it's quicker to plonk drives in to but unless you're doing that on a daily basis, just use a cable...

I used a couple of LaCie enclosures for the drives that came out my powerMac tower.

Anyone had experience of iphone screen replacement directly from Apple? Is it gonna take ages? I work super close to the flagship store.

Took a few hours for mine (iPhone 6). I dropped it off at lunch, collected end of day

just push for a replacement device. they have tonnes in slim boxes that they're handing out. both me (6s plus battery issues) and my mrs (6s screen issues) got them replaced with NOS devices.

My camera lens cover thing broke so got a replacement device. In n out in 20 minutes.

Dropped my phone this morning. Can anyone recommend a screen replacement place in W1. Am I best to avoid non-apple authorised repairs? It's a 6s out of warranty so that's not a concern.

68 Welbeck street...

anyone done a migration from an internal drive to an external one?

I'm looking to do a clean install of el capitan or sierra onto an external drive, then migrate my current boot drive to it, as there's a load of leftover bits from me upgrading from 10.6.8 to current versions of the osx when I changed computers, and I'm hoping this clean up will improve performance.

Is this possible? Anyone done it? Since I'm not migrating from computer to computer, but rather computer to drive, think there may be complications that I'm not seeing...

Why do you want to boot from an external drive? Can't you just backup, format, clean install?

I've never done a clean install, always just updated previous osx's. So I don't have the original files to do it.

So I'm thinking I'm going to have to download/create a bootable USB from Yosemite/el capitan or sierra. Then do a clean install from that, assuming that a clean install is a more manual version of migration.

The reason I want to do this is that there's a whole load of carryover from previous operating systems and files which aren't in use and which can't be deleted, so want to make sure those aren't carried over otherwise the whole thing is a waste of time...

Plus I need to make a back up of boot drive/documents as I've never had one, and after a couple of computer freak outs want to make sure if it does fall over totally I can bring all my shit back.

it may be possible to just run the installer with the usb drive attached, then install onto the usb drive and boot from it then run the transfer utility (which I am assuming does exist) to get your stuff off the internal drive.

Been reading about the migration assistant and it maybe the case that I'd have to copy across manually as the migration assistant may copy across the defunct/undetectable files which I'm looking to leave behind..

How difficult is it to reconstitute your Mac manually after a clean install? I'm thinking items like keychain, profiles, etc? Just a case of copying across or is there more to it than that?

It's a pretty big chunk of hassle once you get down to it. For me it's a week long process of downloading software installing and authorising it, organising folders etc. Then there's all the recent files opened stuff missing from menus and potentially tons of broken links in stuff like Logic (es24 files for example). Then there's the little programs that you only use once in a while and the basics like dock behaviour, mouse speed and the rest of it. But 'clean install', has a ring to it right!

Not something I'm looking forward to, but still have the dmgs for most of my apps...

Easy. Half hour job if that.

Funny guy

I'm serious. With iCloud, keychain, and Dropbox it really doesn't take long at all. I've done it myself recently, but then I manually copied my music, fonts and photos libraries and I have installers. Time machine might also do the job.

Right,
I've dropped my phone in my flat. it's under some furniture or other, how do i make the fucker ring?
I've tried to reset the password three times, in on the "recover you apple id" bit of the apple website, I've reset the password and it's not doing anything.
its driving me fucking mental

Have you tried calling the phone...?