Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
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Apple is killing me.
After some more file syncing to OneDrive and cleaning up afterwards - including deleting those strange snapshots, it looks like this:
Yes 574 GB from 494 GB are available!!!
Yes, on a 500 GB drive.
And while over 400 GB are used by "Other Users".
This get's confirmed here:
436 GB used by other users.
But it does not end there:
Yes, there are still 74 GB purgeable - but there are no snapshots anymore!
How to purge this now?!?
What can I say ...
I'm not sure I'd trust a system that can't even calculate its free disk space, but then again, you've probably "butchered" it so throroughly with your "common sense experiments" that it doesn't even remember it HAS a disk 😂
hehehe
Really, not in this case!
I was just syncing stuff to and from OneDrive.
But I found part of the problem:
Those two with the SymLink also have the new cache directory:
So, while two of the accounts have the new SymLink method for the OneDrive Sync Location, one account looks old-style!
Buttttt ...
The other, while without SymLink and without cache directory, may look like an older OneDrive installation - like my my main account - but it still has the new-style sync location:
And yes, there is even content!
I can only assume that this is the "purgeable" content.
Will need to remove this account.
Not that this will be of interest for many, but I still wanted to document this :-)
Disk Utility.app is, as far as I know, a GUI around diskutil. You might be able to get more real info out of directly using diskutil.
Some of what is considered purgeable is files that can be recovered from other storage. Like iCloud files that are currently held locally but are really supposed to be local for caching only. Some media stuff like movies can fall into this area too. It could be from OneDrive, maybe. I think some of the Xcode builds can end up being counted as purgeable too. I do sometimes need to go and manually blow away the build files from inactive projects to regain space. They most likely are in ~/Library /Developer/Xcode/DerivedData.
Thanks @NeonSilicon
After deleting the user and the new snapshot that got created:
Back to 21%
My bigger staff sits there:
Will later try again and check if the user get's a proper new OneDrive configuration with SymLinked Sync Location and Cache Directory.
Hopefully it is not a problem that my main account is not migrated to this new concept for OneDrive.
It does not work.
OneDrive seems to be buggy with this new Sync Location / SymLink / Cache method.
I have no energy left to post the details.
I may try to contact Onedrive support.
You are all making my head spin… I don’t want to use Linux anymore for daily computing and definitely not for music, that was a disaster (a first world type disaster of course) for me.
Anyway, I just want the OS to stay out of the way of making music. My only window management wish is that the OS would remember how different windows of apps were open on certain desktops on last close- I like my logic mixer on a different space than the edit window, and sometimes on a separate screen when I can. I have to do it manually every time I open a project, although I have the main logic window set to always open on desktop 2. Still, in the grand scheme, it’s not terribly hard to do manually.
With better touch tool, which is really handy, there is a shortcut where you drag the window to the top of a desktop and it automatically fills that desktop- that is something I really miss when working on a Mac that isn’t mine.
The speakerfood apps have been enormously helpful in logic as well.
@mrufino1 In my experience, macOS was not good in remembering windows and desktops.
My two monitors have not the same speed when connecting, and macOS seems to each time believe that there is only one monitor at first and switches all windows in a messy way.
When the second monitor connects, macOS partly switches windows back - but terminal windows or Safari windows and other Apps are messy after that.
Apple is trying to be "intelligent" here, but such automatisms never work well.
The OS should be able to see the monitors early and just do what it did last time.
To be honest it would be fine for me to do always the same - even if indeed one monitor was missing.
In this case I would need to clean things up and reconfigure the setting.
While I agree that macOS window management could be improved, part of what you are seeing might be because the OS provides an API for applications to remember their window states and how and what to do with this is up to the application. In my old MIDI control I would grab the window location for each saved MIDI controller document. So, what happened with the window location when the app was brought up or screens changed depended on the documents that were opened.
I tested Alacritty as alternative to kitty or iTerm (or Apple Terminal) and noticed something great.
While Alacritty is a pure horror in regards to it's configuration file and default configuration, it offers something apparently unique on macOS:
Opening mulitple instances shows each of them as single instance in the Dock!
This means, that you can click any of them and get them to the front, whatever other App is currently in there.
It does NOT pop all of it's windows to the front, as usual on macOS.
This allows for the flexibility from Windows, without needing to arrange Apps in MIssion Control and different Desktops.
So, it IS possible to do this on macOS!
Mabye there is even a way to configure this for all Apps - which would be heaven.
The longer I use iOS / iPadOS and now macOS, the more I think that Apple has lots of serious quality issues.
Small things like that BlueTooth is always re-enabled after an OS update, or that updating Apps in the App Store on iDevices disables the way to rate the Apps after all are updated and you need to press "done" and then re-open the list to rate the Apps, or the fact that an iPadOS update results in asking for the password, but simply never offers the keyboard to enter it.
You need to press the power button, press it again and only then can enter the passwords ...
But it shows in numerous moments.
Right now, I needed to use rsync on a not-so-stable network volume ....
Apple's rsync constantly stops working with messages like this:
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/a0876c02-1788-11ed-b9c4-96898e02b808/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync/receiver.c(674) [receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4433904 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/a0876c02-1788-11ed-b9c4-96898e02b808/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync/io.c(453) [generator=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1086 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/a0876c02-1788-11ed-b9c4-96898e02b808/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync/io.c(453) [sender=2.6.9]
I finally issued "sudo port install rsync" and tried the same with the binary from "MacPorts" ...
And Bammm, no problems anymore!
I have 4 FLAC files in the following format:
file.flac.z01
file.flac.z02
file.flac.z03
file.flac.zip
And I have no idea how to unpack this on macOS.
I tried "cat" in two different orders (*.zip first and *.zip last) to create a new file.flac.zip file from all 4 parts, but that did not work.
Any idea?
cat file.flac.zip file.flac.z01 file.flac.z02 file.flac.z03 > fullfile.zip ; unzip fullfile.zip
Doesn't work?
Nope, as I wrote, I tried both directions, with the *.zip first or last.
With your sequence:
And with the *.zip as last file:
Trying to extract the last version gives lots of those:
Hmm. Maybe just parts of the files are bad ...
I will try to find them again and repeat the process :-)
If using "cat" is the right way to handle this, it can only be a bad file.
Thanks for your attention
EDIT: At least one of the files is broken ... I found another source
This should be something for you, @tja
The below, BLOCKING dialog appears EVERY SINGLE TIME that you pull the lightning cable from your device while you're debugging your app on it. It is SO blocking that it ALSO INDEFINITELY BLOCKS a computer shutdown! (when you click "Try again", it'll just immediately reappear).
(further info: The fact that you unplug your device during debugging is completely unimportant. Well, unplugging it unfortunately kills the app instead of just detaching the debugger, which is stupid in its own right. But in any case, you just literally unplugged the cable and your app disappeared from the iPad screen, so a DOUBLY BLOCKING DIALOG telling you that this just happened is just completely ridiculous.)
Great 😅
You can do this over WiFi.
This should also prevent the problems with the cable.
Cannot remember where to configure this - somewhere in Xcode...
I've tried numerous alternative terminal apps but came back to the native one. Apple have silently added a few nice features over the years and it's not too bad now.
I found "New window with profile" (with slightly different colors, just enough to separate the windows from each other), saving window sets, renaming tabs and switching tabs using keyboard shortcuts to be good enough for regular work. Everything else is done by aliases and scripts. I only have to remember closing unneeded windows and tabs 😉
Anyway:
open -n -a Terminal.app
(And you will want window sets!)
Tried it back then, but it was a bit unstable and, above all, much slower than over cable... but I might try again!
I'm back with a new experience :-D
I wanted to open some files from my Downloads folder, just to check what they are about.
To my surprise, Lumafusion got started and seemingly imported the file - not even showing it.
I closed Lumafusion and searched around in the right-mouse menu for some option to open the file with VLC and found it.
Good.
Next file... Lumafusion got started again.
So, I tried some keyboard buttons while using the right-mouse menu and found "Always open in ..."
Great! I thought ...
Next file... Lumafusion opens again.
:-O
As it seems, this ONLY changes for ONE file!
Why?!?
Who would open 1.m4v with one Application and 2.m4v with an different Application?!?
Normal would be one file type -> one application
This time, I had enough and just moved all the remaining video files to my cloud storage and started to google for a solution.
I found one: Right-click on one of the fles, use "Get Info" and and change the "Open With" entry.
Why?!?
I wanted to change this in general - this way, I first need to find at least one file of any type and change this!
What if I cannot find a *.mov file - at the next occusion, Lumafusion would start again!
So stupid again from Apple, I thought and did what Google recommended.
No.
I tried!
Of course, it did not work.
As it seems, such a configuration not only needs an actual file to change the linking between file type and application to be started, noooooo - this also cannot be a file "somewhere"!
I needed to first copy back one file from each type to my Downloads folder - and THEN I could change this!
And now tell me, that Apple has ANY clue about computers and conventience!
They DONT!
And in general, how did Lumafusion changed this setting for seemingly any and all video formats?
Why can't I change this globally and generally?
If you don’t already have it installed, The Unarchiver is a really useful app for unpacking various types of compressed files.
Thanks, I finally found that at least one of the archives was bad, but I found another source and could uncompress them!
I installed The Unarchiver nevertheless, thanks!
This entire thread is incredible.
Yes 😅🤗
@tja To always open files with that extension in the same app, make sure you also hit the "Change All..." button.
defaults write ?
Yes, but first, you would need to actually find one of the files for any type ... and it cannot be on any type of file system for you to be able to change the default!
I just wanted to express my disbelieve in what Apple feels is The Right Thing to do ..ßß
Ahh, that's a good idea - Google did not offer this ...
I am going to research!
Many thanks 🤗