Luckily, it’s pretty easy to export the configurations. I use several apps from Rogue Amoeba to get all of the audio bits to flow correctly in the live show, and for doing Skype interviews for Chit Chat Across the Pond. I launched my Live Show Setup page and got busy. There are a lot of moving pieces to this, and I’ve documented all of the configurations I make to get this to work. The most complicated thing I do on my Mac is the creation of the live show. In that section I’ve got 49 apps to install that are critical to me! My Wunderlist has 39 separate actions on it so far, and one of them is simply “install apps”. I’m not going to bore you with that list, but I was really surprised at how many little things I had to fiddle with. But so far I have 49 applications on my list that are essential to how I use my Mac and how I create the show. I like to only install applications as I need them, because I install so many weird things I don’t want to bring everything over. I installed Wunderlist pretty soon after that, so I could keep track of everything I needed to do. Of course I have to use another device with 1Password on it in order to find my password for Dropbox itself, but once I get that done, I can install 1Password and I’m ready to get to real work. The first step is to install Dropbox, because that’s where I keep my 1Password vault. This was an essential ingredient to the success of my story. I tested this bootable back up before I gave Apple my machine and while it was painfully slow to boot from that 7200 RPM drive, it worked. (And yes, I realize I’m tainting that backup when I do this.) Instead, I found it very useful to boot up an older MacBook Pro to that bootable backup because there was so much more I needed to do. I had envisioned simply dragging over all of my data from the backup drive to my new install and then maybe needing a few files here and there from the old user Library. In addition to CrashPlan for my offsite backups, I use Superduper! for my local backups. Let’s walk through the process, shall we? After watching me for the last couple days though, I’m not sure if you’ll ever see him do a clean install! I’ve been trying to convince Steve to do this on his iMac for about a year now. With the Mac App Store, and 1Password for licenses outside of the store, it’s not nearly as painful as it used to be. I move over pretty much all of my data, but I set up my apps from scratch. I suppose if you never add new software it might not be too bad, but there’s a lot of stuff lying about in your Library folder that you probably don’t want to tote to the new machine. It’s like moving and not throwing anything away when you pack your boxes. I always say that I don’t believe in using Migration Assistant because you bring all of the cruft and glop you have collected in your previous installation over the years. My first step was to replace El Capitan with Sierra. I’ve been procrastinating on doing a clean install of my operating system for at least six months, so I was kind of happy that they forced me to do it. Well, they had asked me if I had a backup of all my data (which I did), and warned this could happen. In fact, it was so much like a new machine, that it had a fresh install of El Capitan and no data. I think the display assembly might still be the same, and probably the SSD and memory, probably a fan or two, but every single other part of my laptop has been replaced. And then for no reason they explained on my receipt, they threw in a new logic board while they were in there. The camera is part of the clamshell of the laptop so they replaced the top and bottom on my laptop as well. I have not had any trouble with this camera but they replaced it anyway. Evidently something was wrong with my iSight camera. I guess that made sense since perhaps the trackpad was actually damaged when it was pressed on by the battery.īut whenever Apple does diagnostics on a piece of hardware, if they find something else wrong, they’re going to fix that too. The top case is everything you see when the laptop is open: the keyboard, trackpad, and the enclosure for those pieces. They did replace the battery, but they also replaced what’s called the top case. I picked it up on Wednesday, but the repairs they did really surprised me. I took it in on Monday so that I would have it back in time for the live show this weekend. Luckily, I took it into them within 14 days of the expiration of my AppleCare. Not a big shock, because I keep this MacBook Pro plugged in all the time. I took it into Apple and they said, as I suspected, that it was probably a swollen battery. I think I mentioned on the show last week that the trackpad on my 2013 MacBook Pro wouldn’t click any more.
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