Category: Mac

I should post that I do like macOS Ventura. It fixed the way Photos didn’t work (wouldn’t read the date from my camera). It probably didn’t fix Podcasts but I don’t care as I found a better solution (https://podcasttomp3.com/). It didn’t break anything. Except GIMP 3. Luckily I retained GIMP 2.10. I like the controversial…

1. Put Desktop files somewhere in Documents 2. Back up Documents and Downloads onto an HFS+ external hard drive 3. Back up external SSD with SuperDuper 4. Unplug printer, speakers from port 5. Unplug dock from port, plug keyboard and mouse into Mac mini 6. Stay wired to Internet 7. Double-click Installer in Applications. Should…

The takeaway is that Mac natively makes bootable installers. sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/USBname The USB will be renamed:Install media now available at “/Volumes/Install macOS Ventura” 3. Check to verify a good copy. I did this with shasum but I can’t recreate right now exactly what I did. I usually get kind of wound…

Chrome requires Ventura as of July 28, 2026. After some thought I decided to upgrade what I have, from Monterey. The M1 has 339 GB available. Last time I did something like this it wasn’t available online and I had to have a shop do it. softwareupdate –list-full-installers Found Ventura. It took 21 hours to…