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Finder Preferences → Advanced → When performing search: Search the Current Folder.

oh awesome, thanks! Now if only there was a way to also make it default to searching for filenames instead of text contents.

That feature exists as well. Press ⌃⇧⌘F in the Finder to activate File > “Find by Name…”.

Re: macOS Monterey

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It runs really well on my 2012 Macbook Pro thanks to OCLP. Better even than Big Sur so far.

How did you get it to run on a 2021 MBP, since macOS Monterey drops support even for the 2013 and some 2014 models?

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I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows… Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I…

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

> two of them are NodeJS servers.

At least they're not Java Spring servers. That's the software I had to install to fill my tax form in my country.

I suggest you to use virtual machines for those kinds of tasks. That's what I'm doing.

Re: macOS Monterey

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I just upgraded to Monterey on my Macbook Pro 2018 15-inch and after rebooting, all of the USB-C ports stopped working, including the power adapter. I spent some time on the phone with Apple Support trying to figure out how to fix it. After about an hour and a half there was about 18% battery left before I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up.

After panicking, the 3rd Apple Support Representative and I endeavoured to try and reset the System Management Controller (SMC) [1] once again. At this point I had realised that the first few times that I tried this with a previous support representative would not have worked, as I was holding shift on the left-hand side of the keyboard (the previous support representative did not specify) and not the right-hand side as outlined in the support article for Macs with the T2 chip.

Good luck!

1. https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201295

Re: macOS Monterey

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> Grid view shows people on your FaceTime call in the same‑size tiles, so you can have better conversations with a large group. The speaker is automatically highlighted so you always know who’s talking.

Is none at Apple actually using FaceTime? I remember seeing group FaceTime for the first time approx a year ago. It looked like a 90' screen saver. I was completely astonished. Like 10 years ago was late for this kind of update.

Re: macOS Monterey

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MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…

I personally prefer the incremental yearly updates to huge changes on a longer timeframe. I'm pretty excited about Live Text, personally. I've been getting a lot of great use out of it on iOS. If we're talking about other recent releases, ARM (/iOS app interoperability) support was definitely a huge change :)

Every time I hold on a pic on my iPhone to preview it it highlights the text in there instead.

Re: macOS Monterey

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>Once that laptop arrives I'm never touching Adobe software ever again unless there's a way to completely sandbox it. If the ipad versions of illustrator and photoshop have the features you need that's the only way you can avoid all the nagware. I only need to do the occasional edit to a logo or photo so the ipad pro versions are enough and I prefer the pen to a mouse. I've stopped using them on desktop and use https…

This is an excellent Mac PDF editing tool. I'm not affiliated, just a user. https://pdfexpert.com I was editing pdf drafts from a publisher and just couldn't stand another minute of dealing with Acrobat. Found this, removed all vestiges of Adobe, and haven't looked back. I've used Preview a lot, but it just isn't reliable (for me). Apple seems to muck around with the code every couple of versions and break things. Od…

I’ve been usding PDFpen pro for years. It is pricey, but I have used it enough for it to be worth the expense. It was recently sold off to a different company, though. Hopefully without ill effects.

Re: macOS Monterey

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> I'm never touching Adobe software ever again unless there's a way to completely sandbox it. At this point I’m going to recommend a virtual machine.

I could, but I think it would take considerable effort on my part. You know how it is. You end up with a long tail of little things that don't quite work properly. Eventually I could get it to work but I'm so upset with Adobe that I'm straight up boycotting their software. I'm ashamed of this but I've fantasized about berating Adobe executives/engineers to their face if I ever met them in real life. Of course I'd nev…

ohh they def will. https://growth.design/case-studies/adobe-cancel-subscription

Re: macOS Monterey

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I've never seen this before, and I've been using the Preview method described above for 15+ years. I have also never installed an Adobe product on a mac, ever. Do you have a link to a file that can produce this error in Mac Preview? It would be fun to learn how to bypass that.

Here's an example of a file that won't load properly in Preview and requires Acrobat: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...

Thanks!

Re: macOS Monterey

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I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows… Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I…

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

This is really frustrating for me as well, I've been manually killing CC processes for so long that it became a usual task in my workflow, a daily habit. Adobe is one of the companies I hate soo much for this shady moves, and I'm stuck with its softwares involuntarily.

But decision is made, I'm upgrading to a new macbook pro soon and will change my design tools. At least I'll try hard before installing creative cloud.

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