Annoyance in Catalina save dialogue box

OK so I have found a new annoyance with Catalina and it is in the save dialogue box.Often when I am rendering something in After Effects I overwrite an old render with a new one. But when I make the file, it adds a _1 to the filename, so I open the save dialogue and hit the right arrow to go the rightmost character and delete the two characters. Before Catalina that is how it worked, but now it goes to the end of the .mov so if you delete, you delete the .mov instead of the last 2 characters.This is a new behavior, and completely changes how I have worked for years. It is a huge annoyance!

Wow they fixed the Folder issue on Music and iOS Finder sync in the latest Catalina 10.15.3 Update!

Holy Shit! They actually fixed it. There was an earlier update that said it was fixing the issue, but it didn't actually fix it, but the latest Catalina Update 10.15.3 has fixed the issue and I can now see folders from Apple Music in alphabetical order in the finder iOS sync. WOOHOOO!I had submitted feedback via the new Feedback Assistant app, and hope that helped getting this feature fixed. Lets hope they keep brining feature support back to what it was in iTunes!

More Problems with Apple Music on Catalina

I swear the problems with Apple Music, Apple's iTunes replacement for Catalina never cease and they don't get better.I am stilling dealing with the items in folders showing up out of order in folder iOS sync, but here is another issue that is driving me nuts.I know that basically they just want you to use Apple Music and not own your own music anymore, but I still own a lot of music, and when I create a new playlist in Music and drag the music I want in it to the playlist the tracks show up for a little while and then disappear. Now the music has been added to the library and I can go find it and then re-add it to the playlist, but why the hell if I add it to a playlist does it then leave the playlist. Honestly Apple What The FUCK!!!!

Apple needs to fix Catalina’s iOS Finder Sync

I was scared when I heard apple was breaking up iTunes and everything has been proved right. The sync is terrible.To get any syncing working I have to let it sync once, and then click out of the iPhone in the finder make changes and sync if the sync button isn't greyed out.iTunes folders are showed in some completely random order in the finder.In iTunesIn Catalina Finder Sync the same folderWhat the hell is this? And the old iTunes applescripts to remove playlists from Folders no longer work.And there seems to be no way to get custom Ringtones into your phone anymore, only payed ones. WTF!And if you start a sync their is no way to stop it if say you need to restart your computer. In iTunes you could at least Force quit iTunes, but you can't force quit iOS finder sync, even restarting the finder just keeps it going. I have turned off all automatic syncing and WIFI sync so that I don't have to deal with this issue.

OMG iOS sync on Catalina is f***ing garbage!!!

OK so I been having problems with the iTunes replacement Music in Catalina since upgrading, but the worst part seems to be the finder iOS sync! Not only are anything in folders shown in the finder in completely random order, but the sync itself barely every works! if you select any music to sync the sync button gets grayed out! Sometimes if you let it do an initial full sync but make the changes in itunes after a sync you can hit the sync button and it will work, but it is far from assured that this will work.It usually takes me multiple restarts, and connect and disconnects to get the damn sync to do anything, and I am running a fairly new iMac Pro! WTF!Apple doesn't give a shit about you syncing your own music anymore, they just want you to use their cloud music and Apple Music, so they have relegated syncing to the dumpster fire of Catalina Finder sync! WTF!

Have now learned Final Cut Pro X for a job, and I have made a lists of my thoughts and the problems that I ran into

So I got hired for a job at a Final Cut Pro X only post facility, so I had to learn FCP X and used it for almost 2 months, but first I picked up a copy at home to learn the basics.I am someone who loved Final Cut Pro 7, and purchased FCP X the day it came out, played with it for 2 weeks and returned it. It was just not for me, as I keep a very organized timeline and the magnetic timeline seemed to be something that I was always fighting.To learn FCP X I picked up the Apple Pro Training Series Book Final Cut Pro X 10.4 by Brendan Boykin and went through the whole thing until I felt completely comfortable with the program. The book was a good start for sure.I can certainly edit with FCP X, but I will never be a convert to it’s way of editing. This program has been out for 9 years and in many ways it still feels like a new program just filled with bugs, though I am sure they would call some of them features.Here are some thoughts that I have had using it and bugs I have run into.The nomenclature is insane! Why is a project called a Library. And why is a sequence a fucking Project! WTF! Project and sequence are pretty much terms across the industry and renaming them just screams of hubris, saying that you know better than anyone else. Epic Fail!And you can’t tell me making V (the select key for Adobe) the disable clip key wasn’t a fuck you to Adobe users.I hate the magnetic timeline. It was why I gave up on Final Cut Pro X initially.For an initial edit and trying different orders of clips the magnetic timeline is great and very fast. Once you start using connected clips attached to your timeline it gets beyond dicey and I am always fighting it. And deleting clips getting rid of all connected clips is a disaster. I know that rolls work as it’s organization, but I hate not having tracks, and how things in and out of storylines don’t line up. It is just a mess to look at. And it makes something as simple as audio transitions so much harder. I never had a problem with old school timelines. I love keeping a project super organized, and being able to see stuff easily by looking at, but these timelines are a damn mess! And if you roll a clip with a connected clip, it moves too, wtf (I know it is the attach point, but it is almost never what I want to do)! And putting transitions on a clip that is attached automatically puts it into a storyline and adds transitions to both end. WTF, why? At times I want to put 2 transitions on, but not every time, in fact very in-often do I want transitions on both ends. And audio gets to be such a…

So the new MacPro is available for preorder and it isn’t cheap

The Apple MacPro is available for preorder, and it is expensive. In fact fully loaded without the 6k monitors it is $52,748.Still I wish I could afford one, though I would go much cheaper. I would go 12 core, 192 gb of memory, 1 Radeon Pro Veg II Duo, 2TB of storage, and the Apple Afterburner card, but that comes to $17,999.00 Holy shit! Hopefully you could of 3rd party ram and save some cash, considering it is $1000 to jump from 32gb to 92Gb and $3000 to jump to 192GB! That is nuts!I am most excited about the 64 Gigs of video memory and the Afterburner card.Can’t believe the cheesegrater is back!

iOS 13.2 memory bug makes multitasking impossible

So iOS 13.2 seems to have way too aggressive memory controls in place, so apps that are in the background are almost always restarted when switching back.This can be super frustrating. Here is an example, when I am using google maps for navigation and I switch to Podcasts to start a different podcast, often google maps will have to restart, meaning my navigation is lost. This is dangerous when driving, and means you would need to pull over to enter your destination again (an impossibility on the freeway).It is also duper frustrating on mail on the ipad which is constantly reverting to 3 column view whrn in landscape mode!Apple needs to fix this quick!

Fix for being unable to sync iOS devices in Catalina’s Finder

So my sync stopped working for iOS devices in the Finder in Mac OS 10.15 Catalina. As soon as I made any change to the sync the apply button was greyed out.Well I went to my /Library/Preferences/ Folder and removed the com.apple.syncserver.plist and the com.apple.finder.plist file (I am assuming it just one of these) but after removing them the apply button was no longer greyed out and I can sync my iOS devices again. You should then restart the finder.•••Update, so this fix is no longer helping me. I just can't sync anymore. The sync button is OK until I make any changes, then I cannot sync.

Another huge annoyance with Apple’s Music that replaced iTunes, the Playlists have all reverted back to Playlist view!

OK, so I have another complaint with Apple Music, it's music portion of the previous iTunes app for Catalina 10.15.I have spent many years getting my iTunes Library just how I like it, including rating everything with Stars, and setting up my playlists just how I like them. And that has always meant View as Song vs View as Playlist which has been the default for way too long.In iTunes you set up your default view with all the categories that I wanted, something like this:And your new playlists show up with that organization once you switch to Songs instead of the damn Playlist view that doesn't give enough information including track order. And it still does that.The problem is that for all my existing playlists, and we are talking a FUCKING SHITLOAD OF PLAYLISTS they have reverted to the initial setup of these categories.This is seriously fucked up! I have literally thousands of Playlists, and to have to change the settings individually for each playlist would literally take forever! WTF Apple! And I have always organized my music into playlists so I have a playlist for every album, but I put the year into the title so I can easily sync and know which year the album was! So I have literally a FUCK-TON OF PLAYLISTS!I need a way to set the default setting and propagate it to all the existing playlists! FUCK ME!I posted about this on Apple's Ccommunities, not that I think there is a solution that doesn't require me fixing every playlist individually.