or image capture?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Or install the 99c iOS app Deleter (which I think by default deletes all except your favourites - but I think you can tell it to delete those too)
― Alba, Monday, 20 November 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
Thanks. I finally got Image Capture to recognize the 5000 pics on the phone. Now I’m fretting about pressing the delete button, worried that there might somehow be some unsaved pictures in there
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
save them to your computer first?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
Image Capture stalls when trying to import and Photos considers them "already imported". I'm just being paranoid, these are all on icloud and my HDD, so I just need to go through with the deletion (no idea why all these pictures are lying around on the phone despite having iCloud Photo turned on)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:40 (six years ago) link
ah wait, I understand your problem now. iCloud library is *terrible* about getting rid of old already-downloaded pictures (it will aggressively and expensively upload new pictures taken that day rather than move old ones).
If you're sure they're already on iCloud (eg you can see them at iCloud.com or in Photos on a Mac), then the only way to get rid of them is:a) Back up your phone -- either to iTunes (with a cable) or iCloud (from settings)b) Erase all Data and Settings (to wipe the phone)c) Restore from the backup
That deletes all the local copies and replaces them with the iCloud proxy assets. I had to go through this just last week and it drove me crazy until I bit the bullet and wiped/restored.
If you try and delete them with an app like Nick is suggesting, that will delete from your iCloud Library too, which I don't think is what you want.
― stet, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
Right. Thanks a lot. Just ordered a new iphone so I guess this will resolve itself when migrating but what a hassle. It took me ages to understand why my phone is inexplicably filling up.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
so I did indeed fix the problem by restoring. The problem is that I now have a bigger problem: 80% of my apps are greyed out and stuck on "waiting" or "loading". I've tried manually synchronizing, rebooting, fiddling in the app store to unfreeze the load process but nothing seems to work (sorry for turning this thread into apple support).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
have you signed out of and into your app store account? that might kick things up the arse a bit
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
Restart the phone
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:11 (six years ago) link
thanks tried restarting, logging out of app store, of icloud, but nothing :(
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
I've had this before but … can't remember the solution :/
― Alba, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
Me too. I think I had to try and buy something so I could agree to updated terms and conditions
― stet, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after clicking on login button several times. Are you aware of it @Apple?— Lemi Orhan Ergin (@lemiorhan) November 28, 2017
wot's going on here lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
jfc
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/root_access_bypass_macos_high_sierra/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
mike hanle y weighing in?
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
wow at this one weird trick apple doesn't want you to know about
― sktsh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
more elegant solution would've been to put a nice sudo button on the touchbar of the macbooks pro of course
― sktsh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
You can set the touch bar to authenticate sudo for you. Not that we need authentication anymore like(Seriously, fuck Tim Cook’s Apple already. Even the “iTunes installer wipes your external HD” era wasn’t as bad as this)
― stet, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
long, slow, grim deprioritization of macos iirc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna buy a grey box from a local PC builder next time I buy a computer
maybe put freebsd on it
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
I can’t really explain exactly why but Mac OS is just so much more graceful and polished than windows, which despite countless iterations still feels keep kind of clunky.
― calstars, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 01:33 (six years ago) link
lol @ iOS Music still not remembering what i was doing in the app, or where i was in a song/dj mix. even Dropbox is able to remember where i was in a song, days after the last time i played it!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link
This is amazing: the bugfix for the password issue breaks file sharing. What the hell is going on with Apple QA?
― stet, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
there isn't any
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
the security bug is extremely bad, but it's the kind of thing you can imagine sloppy automated testing would miss.
a regression that breaks file sharing (or a calculator that calculates wrong) are things you only ship if you're literally not testing.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/i/moments/925799164197441536
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 November 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
tonight my watch suddenly had 25 mb free and went haywire. i restarted it and it recovered to 450 mb, then dropped to 400 mb within a couple of hours. i changed the system language and it jumped to 2.3 gb free.
this keeps happening. on thursday it had 5 mb free and it couldn't even sustain the now playing app. currently i'm baffling an apple support guy who has never heard of this.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
an apple support guy three apple support guys who have never heard of this
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.wired.com/story/macos-update-undoes-apple-root-bug-patch/
― sktsh, Friday, 1 December 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
oh for fuck’s sake
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
11.2 out, good luck everyone.
― Jeff, Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
I feel kind of bad, I’ve experienced so few of these iOS 11 bugs that people have had. Maybe I lead an apple charmed life.
― Jeff, Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:22 (six years ago) link
Or I don’t notice them.
it’s petty but the thing I have noticed most often is the music app on iPad having messed up alignment in the currently playing area. the little divider bar went right through the track name! seems to be fixed in 11.2
― mh, Saturday, 2 December 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
calculator works
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
Apparently it has trashed FaceID on a load of devices. Amaaaaaazing.
― stet, Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
you show it tim cook's face and tap "unlock" six times and you have root access
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
The poor battery life issue is back with my 7 Plus after the 11.2 upgrade.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
well this is interesting
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/12/06/apple-terminate-music-downloads/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-awO52PuHQ
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
Streaming/renting music 4 life.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
until it vanishes from every streaming service for no clear reason
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Then I’ll find a new hobby!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
They’re just phasing out the store right? Not really a big deal tbh
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Best way to buy downloads is as close to the artist as you can get, website or Bandcamp etc as everyone here knows. And iTunes is as removed from the artist as possible. So no big loss
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
in articles about this you always hear that downloads have dropped through the floor but it never seems to be considered that a certain perhaps unknowable percentage of that dropoff, possibly quite a large percentage, is down to apple putting all their promo energy and product strategy around apple music and running the download store as a frozen, bare bones service with no promotion, ux innovation or curation strategy.in the world of streaming I'm confused about how to "give" music as a gift to girls I'm trying to impress people i know. it's ironic that in the "sharing economy" music has become so hard to make a nice gift of.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
just text her a youtube link
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
yeah that's what i do, it's about as fun as collaborating on a google doc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
i mean that's not entirely fair, the music does get there, but the link scrolls up and out of your life by the afternoon
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link