For Mac Eyes Only 440 – Mac Migrate-a-palooza

Season 18, Episode 20 (#440)

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric share more on Sequoia’s Screen Recording Permission issue and how to work around it using the Terminal or with an awesome new app, Amnesia! Tackling Mac migration questions from Listener Lisa, Mike and Eric cover how long you can safely keep using that old Mac, Photo library management including migration, moving, and merging your libraries, as well as keeping large libraries on external drives. Mike shares a tip to help you keep mousing when your Magic Mouse needs a charge, and they wrap the episode with Eric’s Essential App pick: DisplayBuddy

LINKS to KNOW

> Michael Tsai: Sequoia Screen Recording Prompts and the Persistent Content Capture Entitlement
> Jeff Johnson: Stop macOS 15 Sequoia monthly screen recording prompts
> luckman212’s macOS 15 screencapture nag remover
> Jordi Bruin and Antoine van der Lee’s Amnesia
> OCLP – OpenCore Legacy Patcher
> PowerPhotos by FatCat Software
> Eric’s Essential App: DisplayBuddy

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Running Time: 1:45:20

Comments

  1. LISA MCLENNAN says

    Mike and Eric. Loved the episode featuring my thorny and voluminous migration questions. … and sorry about sooooo many emails as Eric reminded me in the episode. For the listeners, FatCat software’s PowerPhotos license allows use on two macs and they do specials with volume 2 or more discounts. The DUPLICATE command is the Power Photo copy feature and their website has a very good how to section. Once put of 16 times using this feature, the duplicate command in Power Photos failed for some reason to I used finder drag and drop. Not sure what . The merge feature is really great because it has a report that tells you exactly which photos say of two merging library were : left out because they are duplicates or left out because there was a problem putting them into the merged library . I mean you can look at the actual photo with its jpg number , say and if you want find it and put it into the merged library yourself . I will note that smart albums do not survive a merge. The album that WAS a smart album in PHOTOS before the merge IS STILL THERE but just a regular album not a smart album. You have to create new smart albums yourself. Again many thanks. I recommend MACTRACKER as a fun bu sort of non essential mac app because it gives incredible detail on each and every mac and has a slim profile.

  2. LISA MCLENNAN says

    Corrected sentence in first post : Once out of the 16 times using this duplicate feature, the duplicate command in Power Photos failed for some reason so I used Finder drag and drop. Power Photos puts the word “copy” at the end of the name of the duplicated photos library so if you do it many times you might see copy copy copy !