@matigo Possibly I’m the guilty party…
Wondered why the connection betewwen my iPad 8th gen & 2017 iMac 4k using Sidecar (sets iPad as additional screen) wasn’t working, it worked OK on the 2017 MacBook Pro. So I tried it on the laptop & it wasn’t seen. But it had been visible in the past. Then I noticed that Bluetooth on the iPad was inactive. Turning that on got Sidecar working on the MacBook Pro but it was still cranky on the iMac, sometimes working via wi-fi, sometimes not & never via w sync cable. All the while, the wifi-only iPad Mini was only connecting via a cable.
I’m not conscrned for the Mini, it’s screen is too small to be viable as an iMac’s extra screen anyway.
In desperation I reset the bigger iPad’s network settings & when it rebooted after that process, it worked fine in Sidecar on the iMac, both over cable & wifi.
I had tried a soft reset earlier & it hadn’t helped at all.
It’s all good now but a 10.2-in screen is still a bit small for use with an iMac.
It’s viable besise the 13.3-in MacBook pro’s screen, though, providing a nice bit of extra screen realestate.
@matigo Seems excessive. At current exchange rates, £166 equates to AU$298, yet I can get the same Lexar card here for $199 from Amazon.
// @variablepulserate @joeo10
Apple makes it hard. Before Big Sur, one could download macOS point updates as Delta or Combo updaters for use with more than one Mac. It’s even harder under Big Sur because point updates are not applied to clones even though the main boot-up drive from which the clones are made do get updated. Since I have or am responsible for three Big Sur Macs & four clones thereof, I need something relatively simple.
Therefore today I downloaded the macOS 11.2.3 installer & used Disk Drill (via Setapp) to create a bootable installer on a spare 250 GB external USB-C SSD. Right now it’s updating the iMac’s clone to make it into a bootable 11.2.3 system.
@variablepulserate When my parents were courting Mum mentioned her grandfather had designed King Edward VII’s coronation robes. Dad then said his family also had a connection to royalty, & related the tale of Sir Simon Fraser, triple traitor. One of my older cousins has retained a sword used at the Battle of Waterloo, carried by a member of Clan Fraser. A certain degree of research was needed to determine whether he’d fought under Wellington’s command or Napoleons’s, there were Frasers on each side. (He was on the victorious side)
@variablepulserate I am very well arare of that. In fact, the last man publicly beheaded in England was a Scots ancestor of mine, one Simon Fraser.