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Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by kennend3 »

chongli wrote: post #23
zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder

Thanks!! Having it search my mac by default was a mild annoyance (you can click search current folder once the search starts). But this is helpful

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by lelandfe »

And the legions of System Settings, Control Center, and Share Panel accessibility problems remain intact. I don't even understand the point of filing bugs during these betas anymore; macOS seems destined to be an unusable quagmire.

This stuff was noticed months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669950

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by ngrilly »

To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I should probably try Stage Manager before ranting about it here :)

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by agumonkey »

cstuder wrote: post #7
ajkjk wrote: post #4

What's the best place to read technical details about new Mac releases? This has a bit, as do other sites like https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macos-13/ , but I wonder if there's something with a more exhaustive list -- something that reads like actual "patch notes".

The Ars Technica reviews are always pretty thorough: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/macos-13-ventura-the...

some things never change :)

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by ehutch79 »

frankjr wrote: post #40
sramsay wrote: post #11

Ventura and iPadOS 16 dropped (along with iOS 16.1), but not Xcode 14.1 (which is still RC). I don't recall them ever not releasing Xcode at the same time as an OS update.

And iOS 15.7 seems to be already abandoned.

So no security updates or anything?

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by lelandfe »

ajkjk wrote: post #4

What's the best place to read technical details about new Mac releases? This has a bit, as do other sites like https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macos-13/ , but I wonder if there's something with a more exhaustive list -- something that reads like actual "patch notes".

Six Colors is also good: https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/10/macos-ventura-review-a-wo...

(I miss John Siracusa's reviews for ArsTechnica)

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by zinckiwi »

orpheansodality wrote: post #53
chongli wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder

wow - how is this not the default? It's always the behavior that I expect to happen, and I'm pretty much always surprised and disappointed when it does a global search instead.

Especially when global search is only ever a Cmd-Space away.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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_jal wrote: post #26
jron wrote: post #5

Lockdown mode looks very usable despite the messaging that it is "designed for the very few individuals." Users can even exclude applications from Lockdown mode. When Lockdown Mode is enabled, some apps and features will function differently, including: Messages - Most message attachment types are blocked, other than certain images, video, and audio. Some features, such as links and link previews, are unavailable. We…

Yep, much like on the phone, Lockdown is really attractive to me to just run all the time. - I never want executable content sent to me via messages. - I already block web fonts everywhere I can. I do want to know what other "complex web technologies" are blocked. - I don't care about Facetime. - I don't use Apple services or Icloud. - Ignoring USB when locked should be a default.

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