I HATE APPLE

No way, 7.1 was the shit. Multitasking! Stability!

7.1 was the shit. Multitasking!

No tabbed Finder windows no cred
xp

I haven't checked to see if anyone's had problems but I have to give them some respect for rolling out an entirely new filesystem as a point release

Plain cigs, zappi. Why I meant but didn't make clear: if I copy the files from Mac to pc the creation date is set to the time of copying said files, aka right now. That's what the columnist told me anyway, he couldn't sort them on the original date created any more, because it is replaced with date of copying. But I don't know pc's very well, so maybe that info isn't lost in the process of copying?

ah ok that makes sense, never copied from mac to pc but that is maybe what happens. wouldn't be surprised if the same happened from pc to mac as you are dealing with different file systems.

depends how you copy iirc
network, disk drive, w/e

I don't remember the pre-OS X MacOs finder because whenever I tried to use it I just lolled at the Chicago everywhere.

I don't know how I would do my were it not for hierarchical file structures, because things like sets of lecture notes with the same name save their year are hard to find in spotlight, and I don't see a way to make that easier except by using a user-imposed structure like a hierarchical file system.

a metadata tag with the year, you'd think

but if I have to enter the tag, how's that easier than just creating the folder?

they're equivalent

folders aren't even used to show hierarchy but relation most of the time

I guess tags would be cool if I could tag files wrt my projects, and then search by project, but then I'll have a bear of a time thinking up a name for a project, and I'll forget those names.

I'm a fan of robust file names. At work I make the file names essentially little paths.

apple made "tags" a huge thing in save dialogs and the finder sidebar but does anyone actually use them? i hid them years ago and frankly forgot they existed

I think every 18 months I decide that I'm going to use tags and tag a bunch of things and the next day think wtf are all these dots for? I never tag everything I want, never remember what each color is for, etc.

I'm much better off with hierarchical folder structures, the find command in iterm, and spotlight so long as you hold command to show the file path (which at least is possible to do even if you have to press a key to do it).

i finally surrendered to the chaos of letting things file up on the desktop/downloads/documents and you know what it's fine

I hate tagging, in general.

Never use tags in Apple and forever mad that the creation of tags made "labels" not work the same way anymore, it's one thing to have 1 or multiple little colored dots next to a file name. It was much easier to have the entire line colored so you could label something and really SEE the difference. The little colored dot tags are too subtle. And they could've kept the full line colored if tagged only once.

The only place I use tags is to replace folders in gmail and in fact that is why I switched to gmail. After using mail and yahoo years ago and never knowing exactly where to file something I'm grateful I can tag an email more than once and then later sort it.

imo they fucked up the file system tags/labels/etc. shit and are going to avoid it until they come up with a user-facing solution in iOS that they can backport

iPhone 7 headphone debacle continues. I just keep finding scenarios where I am cursing out the designers. Like when I have my laptop and phone, listening to something on my phone and want to switch to listen to something on my laptop. CAN'T DO IT

i lost my 64go iphone a couple days ago, luckily my gf has an old iphone i can use. problem being that it's a 16go iphone so i can't restore from backups of my previous phone as they're too big. unless i'm mistaken there's no option to allow me to restore only my contacts and text messages from the backup?
anyone know of a way to retrieve only contacts and messages from my backup? ideally one that wouldn't cost anything

you can deselect what you want to restore i think. take a look at this post:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/had-64gig-iphone-5-now-16gig-not-enough-space-to-restore-backup.1631639/#post-18639238

thx, i'd seen this but it looks like apple fixed this issue as i can't click through the tabs when i get the warning message

this is probably a really basic question but is there a way of getting microsoft word on a macbook without paying??? i need to do editing work that involves tracking changes and openoffice isn't compatible with the client's end :((((

steal a copy is all i know

office 365 free trial https://products.office.com/en-US/try

The people who complain about the finder are almost always pre OS X mac users. For them "better than windows" is damning with faint praise. They are otm

yeah i still feel like a permanent moron about the whole file-browser-window paradigm yet persist in treating everything as much like finder folders as i can vaguely recollect, bc dammit things were better then

holy crap. just randomly noticed Apple finally put the "open playlist in new window" feature back into iTunes.

Oh nice

i can't drag a photo from Photos to Twitter

wtf is the point of an operating system in 2017 if it can't do this

All anyone wanted was a MacBook Air with a Retina Display, and Microsoft gave it to ‘em. https://t.co/pGXmL4dQbi

— nilay patel (@reckless) May 2, 2017

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/01/siri-speaker-kgi-wwdc-home-ai/

KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo has published an industry report today claiming that Apple will likely announce a Siri Speaker product (branding unknown, Kuo calls it ‘Apple’s first home AI product’) at WWDC in June. The device will compete with the Amazon Echo and go on sale in the second half of the year.

Surely that is already the Apple Watch.

would you believe i completely forgot about the apple watch

changing keyboard ON IPHONE triggers the control centre at least 50% of the time and it's really

fucking

annoying

I upgraded to OS Sierra! Everything is faster!

Except TextEdit ie the program I do all my work in. Every time I save, I get the spinning beach ball, sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes a crash that necessitates forcing quit. How do I fix this? Why would TextEdit of all things be screwed by an upgrade?

(on a Macbook Pro)

I have used a Mac for 5 years at work and still squirm with rage daily at how annoying these fucking things are to use.

A MAJOR source of irritation is using two screens and switching between different windows. I realise I have no right to expect Mac OS to work like Windows, but it's always annoyed me that I cannot choose to have CMD/tab to switch between different windows rather than applications. But whatever, I'd be fine using CMD/` to switch between windows of the same app if it actually fucking worked. Instead, I've got Chrome focused on one screen, Chrome on another, but CMD/` takes me to Word and then flips between Word docs. Maybe there is some logic to this that has escaped me over all these years, but how I hate these shitty machines.

Same arrangement: one Chrome window on the left screen, another on the right. Every time I click in the Chrome on the right, Word comes into focus on the left. There is no combination of clicks/movements that makes this not happen. So annoying.

at completely random times i'll click a finder window to give it focus, and it'll suddenly leap across the screen. this has been happening for years.

Hit ctrl tab to switch between apps, only the mouse is in the area the switcher pops up in and the highlighted option pops to the mouse, which is never what I want...

(alt tab, I think I mean. I'm still not sure which of the 4 ctrl keys I need to press to get it to do what)

fuckin extrernal hard drive cant be read by my new hand me down imac - now I shell out 20$ for paragon ntsf reader! FTS! (fuakdatshit)
of course I dont have much other option - the imac is clever tho - the garphocs card is haunted an dweird triangel randomly appear on scren making me kind o flove thiscomputer

is it.. is it Hanle y??

oh FUCK THIS UPGRADE I can no longer sync my Android (Samsung Galaxy 4.1.2) with iTunes. Literally just doesn't recognise the phone

FUCK UPGRADES FUCK UPGRADES FUCK UPGRADES

What use is it to have Siri if THE THINGS I USE ON AN EVERYDAY BASIS NO LONGER WORK

I can no longer sync my Android (Samsung Galaxy 4.1.2) with iTunes.

how were you ever doing this?

iSyncr

I think DoubleTwist would have worked too

But my phone won't even connect to the Mac in the first place any more - prompts me to download Kies (which...isn't available for Macs any more???). Tried the Kies alternative, Smartswitch, which also doesn't recognise the phone is connected

kies was replaced by smart switch iirc, worth a try?