@kdfrawg The best puns are real groaners. Such as that one.
I had been using the Opera browser in VPN mode when it downloaded an alleged FlashPlayer.dmg file. I was suspicious because Flash was already up to date on that Mac. Suspicion justified, as soon as I mounted the virtual volume, Sophos Home app detected it as a nasty piece of shit, calling itself "InstallMe." I got Sophos to remove the threat. So Sophos unmounted the volume, leaving me to remove the spurious disk image.
@larand It's not our date line. It's everyone's. That's why it's called the International Date Line.
I'd put off upgrading iMovie on the MacBook Air as version 10.1.3 kept crashing. I reverted to version 10.1.2 from a backup. So about an hour ago I zipped the existing iMovie version & downloaded the update. Next I unzipped the compressed file to the Utilities folder and checked that it worked, which it did. Closing that version, I headed for the new one in the Applications folder. Big surprise! No crashing. So I trashed the older version plus the zipped one, saving 4.6 GB of space, yes, the updated version runs fine now.
@hazardwarning The story goes back several decades to a major flood in Queensland in Australia. Many inland properties (cattle stations, we don't have ranches) were isolated by the floodwaters and were having supplies dropped in by air. A drop-proof way of packaging rum was devised, consume ¼ of the contents, hollow out a loaf of bread and stuff the rum bottle inside. This was normally quite successful but on one occasion, the dropper forgot to recap the bottle before dropping the loaf.
When the floods had passed & the dropper was on a regular visit to that station, he apologised for his error to the station owner.
The reply was typical Queenslander-style. "Doesn't matter. I just made up my favourite dessert. Bread & butter pudding."
// @JeremyCherfas
I run Sophos Home on my MacBooks. I'm doing a scan on the MacBook Air at present & decided to check the Home Dashboard. This is a web interface that shows the status of your various Macs online. There was an issue with the MacBook Pro and I was able to clean it from the website.
Most efficient.
My MBA has been behaving oddly recently. After startup, it initially displayed 321 GB as the available space, then when all the bits & bobs had loaded, it showed 369 GB free, this being the correct figure.
I booted it from an external SSD (Yosemite) and used Techtool Pro 9 (lacks support for Sierra) to create a Mac startup environment with seven apps plus TTP9 on a USB stick drive.
I then booted from the TechTool drive and played around (NO TESTS WERE RUNwith it a bit before restarting normally. Now after startup it just shows free space as 369 GB.
Not looking forward to a phone call. Someone asking for advice on which MacBook Pro to buy will call me soonish. So I've been looking at a reasonably extensive list of refurbished 13 inchers & a pair of 15s in addition to the newly released ones. I'm going to recommend at least a 256 GB SSD & 16 GB of RAM for whichever (if any) MBP he decides is best.