> On Jan 7, 2023, at 6:05 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 5:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Jan 7, 2023, at 4:11 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 7, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Nothing is ever required to be saved on iCloud. Ever. Applications give >>>> you the option to do that, yes, but only if you want to. >>>> >>>> Data stored on iCloud can be accessed in several different ways. >>> >>> It's not required, but with Apple's tendency to hold your hand, and not let >>> go, it defaults to saving everything to iCloud. I went through this >>> recently and since my computer has far more storage than I get free from >>> iCloud, it took me a while to figure out how to tell it "no thanks, I'll >>> back up my own data thank you". >> >> You and other respondents on this thread seem to have the most peculiar >> misunderstandings of Apple technology. I suggest you study how to use your >> Apple computers and/or devices with a little more open-mindedness and >> objectivity. They're not rocket science; they're just computers, operating >> systems, and applications. > > Since you are so knowledgeable about apple, perhaps you can explain why my > symlink broke on Monterey. > > I have /usr/local/bin in my path, and I have a symlink from > /usr/local/bin/emacs_bin to > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs > > If I type > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs > at the command line, it runs, however if I type > /usr/local/bin/emacs_bin > I get a little pop-up that says: > This application will not run on your computer. Sorry! > > The symlink worked for many years, through many generations of MacOS, I don't > understand why it broke.
I have no idea, Larry. I am no expert in UNIX/Linux command-line interface or scripting systems, they have been irrelevant to my use of Apple computer systems. My work was in writing, debugging, and documenting macOS native apps, IO drivers, and the Xcode development system, not manipulating the system and apps via a Terminal-based, command-line interface. When I was working (either for my job or at my home for my personal stuff), I almost never found myself using the command-line interfaces at all for anything other than the most trivial of operations. The problem is almost certainly a change in the command-line interface library that came in via one of the operating system updates … which one, when, is a question you have to determine, and then you should contact Apple's support groups to discover what changed, why, and how to use the interface the way you need now. And also, be aware that I retired nearly a decade ago. Whatever the details of the OS that has changed at that level is nothing that has any impact or interest for me at all. And certainly nothing whatever to do with Rich Womer's original question that initiated this discussion thread. G -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
