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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

You know, one does wonder exactly when (if ever) Apple will get around to fixing Spotlight indexing in macOS so that, when you do a Spotlight search for a keyword, you can be 100% sure that it gives you the COMPLETE list of results that match the keyword […] [Original post on toot.community]

Folder in macOS containing several items with “Chabrol” in their file name or contents

Search for “Chabrol” with Spotlight returns a very incomplete list of results

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

The latest Safari update for macOS 15 (Safari 26.6) causes, once again, my destination for downloads to revert back to the default ~/Downloads, instead of my destination of choice (also called “Downloads”, but on an external volume). Additional twist this […] [Original post on toot.community]

File download location setting in Safari 26.6

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

AppleCare for the two Studio Displays that I bought together three years ago is expiring. Because I have two items with expiring coverage, System Settings shows the two with a “Renew” button next to each. I have to click on “Renew” even though I don’t want to […] [Original post on toot.community]

AppleCare coverage for Apple Studio Displays expiring

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Finally, because things can never be straightforward with a macOS update, however minor, after the update, my main user environment showed up as already logged in and running, even though my Mac is definitely set to NOT automatically log in. toot.community/@betalogue/117010505…

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

It also wouldn’t be an authentic macOS update if it didn’t result in all my devices telling that a Mac has been added to my devices… Is this any better in Tahoe? toot.community/@betalogue/117010505…

Device Added alert in iOS alert in macOS

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Apple’s estimate for the prep time for a macOS update might be more accurate than before, but its time estimates WHILE the update is taking place are still singularly useless. toot.community/@betalogue/117010505…

“About a minute remaining…” for an update that’ll take another 10 min (at least)

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I’m old enough to remember when *18 GB* was considered a monstrous download, especially for a very minor update (from macOS 15.7.7 to 15.7.8). OTOH, this time around the prep time estimate was actually better than the usual “30 minutes”. (It never takes that long.)

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Well, that's a really helpful error message in QuickTime Player when exporting an audio file. (Not too hard to figure out that the problem is caused by the file name, which is long, at 217 chars. Shortening it fixes the problem. Seems to me that if QT Player […] [Original post on toot.community]

“Cannot create file” error message in QT Player in macOS

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Microsoft's page layout model in Word is so well thought out that, when you have a continuous section break in a document, you can have a header/footer after the break that's different from the one before the break. And that remains true even if the continuous […] [Original post on toot.community]

Different header/footer before and after a continuous section break in MS Word

Different header/footer before and after a continuous section break in MS Word, even if it’s in the middle of a page.

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Another one who skipped the “When not to use manual line breaks" class. FFS (This kind of crap makes editing existing documents so much more painful. It interferes with muscle memory for paragraph selection in a major way! But of course who cares about what editors need, uh?)

Manual line breaks in numbered list in MS Word

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

What's wrong with these pictures (of the Music app in macOS)? Quite simply, that there is *no indication* that there are more albums. There's no horizontal scrollbar (and of course horizontal scrolling with the mouse doesn't work either), but the two arrows […] [Original post on toot.community]

Row of album covers in Apple Music app in macOS

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

If you go to ocs.transunion.ca and click on the "Login" button, it takes you to a screen that invites you to continue, and when you click on "Continue", it… takes you back to the initial page with the "Login" button. Tried on with four different […] [Original post on toot.community]

Login button on TransUnion Canada web page

“Continue” option TransUnion Canada web page

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Always fun to come across spectacularly useless and unreliable search tools:

Search for “260703-2” returns zero result

Search for “260703” returns several results with “260703-2”

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Shoulda known, when I saw this error message about “My Home” on all my devices earlier today, that it was a message from the Apple gods that something had gone wrong somewhere. (I don't use “My Home”.) When my Apple TV asked me to re-enter my iCloud password […] [Original post on toot.community]

Home hub not responding (don’t have a home hub)

Defective power adapter for Linksys switch

WD power adapter with same voltage and plug

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

MS Word's Find/Replace dialog has an autocomplete feature that is maddeningly dumb and useless. It automatically remembers your previous entries in the “Find what” and “Replace with” and it automatically reinserts them as soon as you type the very first […] [Original post on toot.community]

Autocomplete in MS Word’s Find/Replace dialog

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

If you want to get a sense of how careless Microsoft developers are about the small details, just take a look at this dialog. Why would you use “(CAN)” and “(Canada)” instead of using the exact same for both language flavours? (Also, let's not mention the […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

In Microsoft Excel, when the Find & Replace dialog is in the foreground, the app hijacks its own ⌘A shortcut. Even though the app’s Edit menu still clearly states that ⌘A is the shortcut for “Select All”, when the Find & Replace dialog is in the foreground, ⌘A […] [Original post on toot.community]

What ⌘A actually triggers when in Find & Replace in MS Excel

Keyboard Maestro macro to stop MS Excel from hijacking its own ⌘A shortcut

Keyboard Maestro macro to trigger “Replace All” in MS Excel with the ^A shortcut

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Very entertaining "wobbly" effect for the internal “menu bar” on YouTube, especially noticeable in Chrome, but also there in Firefox and in Safari. Nobody cares about anything anymore.

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

What is really cool about Microsoft's implementation of passkeys for OneDrive on the web (AFA I understand it) is that, if you try and create a passkey and it fails for whatever reason, the live.com servers keep resetting regularly and redirecting you to your […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

TIL that, in French, “muscule” is both a typo that I make regularly when I mean to type “muscle” and… a word that actually existed in old French, with a totally unrelated meaning. Consequently, if the spell checker used (Antidote by Druide in my case) has […] [Original post on toot.community]

Definition of French word “muscule” in the TLF

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I must say I find it rather irritating that online map services (Google, Apple) seem to expect you to ask for *directions* when all you want to find out what the exit number is on the limited-access highway. Why can't they just put that number somewhere […] [Original post on toot.community]

Tiny highway exit number far from the intersection in Google Maps

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

You don't say. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/ju… (Although the critical-thinking skills of people who believe that we actually needed a study in order to prove this could be called into question too.)

Guardian headline about AI and critical thinking

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Always nice to feel that Microsoft Word is so reliable. Here is a document window with a simple text that's clearly fairly long, and yet the status bar insists that the document only contains “7 words”. Even bringing the document stats window with the actual […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

When I view a PDF with protections in macOS Preview, if I try to select some text and copy it, it shows an alert about the action being forbidden. When I view the exact same PDF on the Web in Safari, if I try to select some text and copy it, it… just fails […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Nice to see that Apple has got the bilingual situation here in Canada perfectly sorted*: * Why this particular show? Don’t ask me. I have no frigging idea.

French-language (translated) poster for English show in the middle of a list of other English shows on Apple TV

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

You obviously have to be Microsoft to be able to design an email user interface where the message in the message list has a button that clearly reads “RSVP”, yet the message itself contains a button that clearly reads “No Response Required”. By definition […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Err, Apple, when I said that I wanted macOS to *always* show scroll bars, I didn't say I was willing to make an exception for the horizontal scroll bar in the Weather app. If the contents of a window are scrollable horizontally, with this setting, I expect […] [Original post on toot.community]

Conditions window horizontally scrollable, but no scroll bar visible

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

TFW, one week, your employer silently adds a feature to its server that causes a new feature called “PhishForward” to appear in your Outlook user interface, with no explanation, and then, the next week, they send an email explaining what to do when you receive […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

That's one very useful progress bar (in Photos, when importing pictures from my phone).

Progress bar when importing photos in Photos (macOS 15)

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

There are already several options the user can rely on to insert a comment in documents in the MS Word UI: a toolbar button, a menu command, an optional keyboard shortcut… Why would someone like me, who only inserts comments very occasionally, need this […] [Original post on toot.community]

Custom keyboard shortcut for inserting comment

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

The other thing that has changed all of a sudden in Microsoft Word is the look of the status bar at the bottom. I want to stress that this happened *before* I installed the latest Office updates. I just noticed it this morning, after updating my Mac to macOS […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

No idea why updating my Mac Studio from macOS 15.7.7 to 15.7.8 would suddenly cause Microsoft Word to start displaying this control in the right margin every time I select something in the paragraph. It is quite distracting, and I have no idea how to turn it […] [Original post on toot.community]

Add Comment icon in margin when text is selected

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Who on Earth thought it was a good idea to display this alert and force me to dismiss it *each and every time* I go to delete a photo on my iPhone? Enough already, Apple. I got the message! How do I stop this? As usual, a search on the Internet is completely […] [Original post on toot.community]

iOS 26 alert when deleting a picture in Photos

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

In MS PowerPoint, I *never* double-click on a text frame's edge in order to open its Format Shape options (simply because I rarely need to adjust these options, and if I do there are other ways; also, this annoyingly changes the zoom level and the whole layout […] [Original post on toot.community]

Cursor over text inside text frame in MS PowerPoint

Double-click selects word in text inside text frame in MS PowerPoint

Cursor over edge of text frame in MS PowerPoint

Double-click on edge of text frame triggers display of Format Shape in MS PowerPoint

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Toolbar in Safari (macOS 15) with *Increase contrast* on in Settings: menu headings keep disappearing if your mouse pointer happens to be in the “wrong” spot. Imagine producing software this flaky, with a bug that clearly affects usability, and then never […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I need someone from Microsoft to explain to me why, even on a fast Mac, when I click on a document window's title to make the document name editable, it often takes SEVERAL SECONDS before the title bar responds to my click, leading me to wonder whether it has […] [Original post on toot.community]

Editable document name in title bar in MS Word document window

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I have to say, nothing says “Apple doesn't care one bit” quite like this outstanding bug in macOS 15, which of course they never bothered to fix: If you have a bunch of DIFFERENT document windows open in an app and you option-click on the Minimize button to […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Because I bloody hate the default behaviour of Apple apps for ⌘⇧S, I have a @KeyboardMaestro macro that hijacks it and uses it to trigger the normal/sane/expected “Save As…” commands in those apps. The problem is that, occasionally, macOS takes a notion and […] [Original post on toot.community]

Correct/expected/sane behaviour for ⌘⇧S in Apple apps

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

I recently added a compilation to my library in Apple Music. It shows up as a single album with all 15 tracks under “Recently Added” in macOS. On the other hand, in iOS on my phone, tracks 9, 11 and 12 are listed separately, making it impossible for me to play […] [Original post on toot.community]

Recently added compilation in macOS Music

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Exactly how many times does one have to tell Apple one doesn't want anything to do with its opaque, half-baked UX crap?

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Typical of today's Apple to put this once-in-a-lifetime “Updated Time Zone Information” notification with absolutely no explanation whatsoever. Did I ever ask for time zone defition updates? Nope. Have I ever seen one before? Nope. Could I use more info […] [Original post on toot.community]

Updated Time Zone Information notification in macOS

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

It's rather infuriating that the Bitwarden folks keep revamping the user interface for their stand-alone app, yet never seem to be able to get it right. It's not costing me much, so I cannot complain too much, but… Just to give one example, there is still no […] [Original post on toot.community]

Save and Cancel button in Bitwarden for macOS

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

In MS Teams for macOS, if you change the destination for file downloads from ~/Downloads to a folder on an *external* volume, and then you attempt to download a file, you will consistently get a “Couldn't download - No permissions” error — even if you grant […] [Original post on toot.community]

Default location for downloads in MS Teams for macOS

Custom destination for downloads in MS Teams for macOS

“Couldn’t download” error with custom destination for downloads in MS Teams for macOS

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Maybe one day someone at Microsoft will realize that using coloured underlined text for BOTH hyperlinks and tracked changes can lead to somewhat confusing results for the user. (And the fact that, when you compare documents, EVERY hyperlink is somehow flagged […] [Original post on toot.community]

Edited document compared to original document

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Kinda awkward, in this day and age, that @bbedit still asks you to enter your serial number manually on a web page in order to confirm your eligibility to upgrade pricing. You'd think they'd have something built into the app itself by now. Also do NOT […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Every so often, MS Word takes a notion. Here, double-click-and-drag has stopped working properly. Word only selects the LAST word in the dragging movement. Sometimes quitting and relaunching the app clears the problem. It was not one of those times. A […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Just got around to installing the macOS 15.7.7 update. As always, Apple doing its best to make it really fun for the user:

Pile of “Allow App X to find devices on local networks?“ alerts

“iPad added to your account” notification after updating a Mac to macOS 15.7.7.

IINA failing to resume properly after an update to macOS 15.7.7

Pile of “Disk Utility wants to make changes” prompts after updating Mac to macOS 15.7.7

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Got this email today from _The Guardian_. 1) No mention of the fact that my current payment method has expired. 2) A click on “Manage My Account” takes me to a page asking me to confirm that I want to continue with the account I'm currenty logged in with. I […] [Original post on toot.community]

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Betalogue @betalogue.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

If you have a specific folder open in a tab in a Finder window, and then, in *another* window, you view the enclosing folder's contents and you right-click on the folder in question and select “Open in a New Tab”, macOS Finder does NOT open the folder in a […] [Original post on toot.community]

“Open in New Tab” command for folder in Finder window

“Open in New Tab” results in a background window coming to the foreground

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