Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 6, 2022, and this is show number 913. Welcome to the podcast where we’re not going to talk about a billionaire making everyone angry, we’re never going […]
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The Great Synology Migration of 2022
Synology Migration Assistant showing wizard to transfer data A few weeks ago I told you that I’d made the decision to buy a second Synology. My plan was to back up the new Synology DS1522+ to the only slightly older DS1019+ and decommission my Drobo 5N2. Drobo appear to be frozen in time after going […]
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A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]
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Last week I announced that I was going to do yet another nuke and pave because I was exhausted from all the weird problems I inherited from Migration Assistant. I am happy to tell you that I started the process on Monday, and by Tuesday evening I was about 90% complete. Even though it went […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, September 4, 2022, and this is show number 904. mp3 download The next Apple announcement event is scheduled for Wednesday 7 September at 10 am Pacific Time. Steve […]
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Why I Used Migration Assistant for the First Time If you have been following along with our home game for a long time, you know I’m a huge proponent of doing a Nuke and Pave to your Mac when getting a new computer. A nuke and pave means a full reinstall of macOS followed by […]
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No Turning Back Now If you’ve been following me for years, then you already know that I’m a huge proponent of nuking and paving computers. By nuke and pave, I mean a clean install of the operating system, but the truly nuke version of clean. I try to do this every year “or so” where […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #603 Touch Bar MacBook Pro Challenges, How Not to Do Migration Assistant, Security Bits
NosillaCastaways go see Mamma Mia!, I solve some interesting challenges with the new Touch Bar MacBook Pro, I explain how not to do Migration Assistant when getting a new Mac and Bart Busschots joins us for another lively session of Security Bits. mp3 download
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When I got the 2016 Touch Bar 15″ MacBook Pro, it was only about a month after I’d done an involuntary nuke and pave on my 2013 MacBook Pro. For those unfamiliar with the term nuke and pave, that’s when you erase everything, including the operating system, and then install everything from scratch. You can […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #597 Credit Card Mixup at Apple, Easy Pill, Clean Install of macOS, Security Bits
Something appears to be fishy with Apple’s databases, based on my story of how someone else’s credit card got into my account. Mark Pouley of Twin Lakes Images gives a great review of the Easy Pill medication tracker and reminder for iOS. I’ll tell you why I think doing a clean install of your OS […]
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