iCloud Alter Egos, Dock Duplicates, and Synology's Shenanigans
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
But that’s just the start. You’ll dig into iCloud storage conundrums, managing Apple One, and what happens when uninstaller apps clash with ongoing updates. Bluetooth quirks on the iPhone 16 Pro Max, lingering Comcast email access post-Xfinity, and a potential Backblaze rethink all get tackled. And if you’re wrestling with UPS power spikes or Synology’s restrictive 2025 drive policies, yep, they’ve got hacks for that too.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1089 for Monday, May 12th, 2025
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 Greg-QT-Set a Timer Quickly in iPhone’s Control Center
00:03:27 QT-Adjust Time Machine Quota Size from Terminal
sudo tmutil destinationinfo
sudo tmutil setquota [ID] 1500 (1500 is size in gigabytes)
00:06:34 What to do when Time Machine says you don’t have enough space left?
00:07:21 Joe-QT-iCloud eMail Alias alternative to “Hide My eMail”
Alter iCloud Egos!
00:10:11 Roy-QT-You can resize the Mac’s Dock
00:12:03 How do you use your Dock on your Mac
00:15:49 Andy-QT-Drag Contacts to Numbers for an Easy Export
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:21:40 Bill-Let Uninstallers/Cleaners Work while an App is Updating?
CleanMyMac
AVG
00:28:25 danbo99-Bluetooth and iPhone 16 Pro Max
00:36:37 Bob-Can I keep my Comcast email even if I cancel Xfinity internet service?
00:43:44 Pete’s audio issues: learning from our mistakes!
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MOAR Questions Answered
00:47:56 Bruce-1086-Local Device Access Might Not Mean Everything
00:51:33 Adam’s Running out of iCloud Storage
01:02:32 Managing Apple One
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EVEN MOAR Questions Answered
01:05:56 Dave asks, Dogstir answers – To transfer your Dock layout ...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Greg brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:06.8 | there's a handy hidden feature that can be found in the control center that lets you swiftly set up a timer |
| 0:12.9 | without hunting for the clock app. You probably know that you can jump to the timer section in the |
| 0:18.8 | clock app by tapping the dedicated control center button, but you might not know that there's an even shorter shortcut. Tap and hold the |
| 0:27.6 | timer button in the control center and a slider will appear on your screen. Move your finger up or down |
| 0:34.6 | on the slider to increase or decrease the duration in one minute increments |
| 0:39.9 | and tap start to begin. More tips like this plus your question to answer today on Mac Geekab |
| 0:47.4 | 1089 for Monday, May 12th, 2025. |
| 1:14.1 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mackey, Keb, the show where you send in tips like that. |
| 1:14.7 | We share them. |
| 1:16.3 | You send in cool stuff found. |
| 1:17.0 | We share that. |
| 1:18.1 | You send in questions. |
| 1:30.1 | We share them, hopefully answering them, or at least providing some guidance down the troubleshooting path so that we can each learn at least five new things every single time we get together our sponsors for this week include square.com slash go slash m gg where you can get |
| 1:37.5 | up to 200 bucks off of square hardware when you sign up there coda dot io slash m gg where you can have one doc to rule them all and get six months |
| 1:47.8 | of the team plan for startups for free and also a new sponsor Caldera Lab.com slash MGG. |
| 1:56.3 | Don't settle for drugstore junk and you can save 20% on your first order using code MGG at checkout. |
| 2:03.8 | We'll talk more about all of that in a minute for now here in Durham, New Hampshire, as usual. |
| 2:08.9 | I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:10.8 | And here in South Dakota, as usual, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:14.6 | And here in sunny Pensacola, not so usual. Pilot Pete, good to be here with you guys today. |
| 2:21.4 | It's good to be here. On National Nutty Fudge Day, it turns out. |
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