[John Rofrano]

Great advice. I’ve been checking my 32-bit apps and I’m amazed that after 10 years of OS X supporting 64-bit (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was the last OS that was 32-bit only back in June 2009 ) there are still relatively new apps that are 32-bit. What are developers thinking? There will be a lot of breakage when Catalina arrives. ☹ (…not sure I’m moving to it)

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[Luigi Perrotta] “Someone told me the problem may be the video card in the computer doesn’t support 4K Televisions. What the video card has to do with the audio? Can this be the problem?”

Anything is possible. It could be trying to sync and then looses sync because the graphics card is not designed to support a 4K TV. I would look up the specs on your card and see. I don’t have a 4K TV so I have never experienced this but I know newer graphics cards specifically state if they support 4K monitors so it’s logical to believe that some older cards might not.

Also make sure that your HDMI cable supports 4K. Again, I have no personal experience, but I have seen HDMI cables rated for 4K so maybe an older cable might be up to the bandwidth requirements? The HDMI cable carries with audio and video.

You might want to start a new thread so that new people who have experience with 4K will see your question.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

I have since moved to the Mac and edit with Final Cut Pro X and it has frame accurate audio scrubbing and it does come in handy at times. I guess it depends on what style of video you are editing. If you do a lot of video and audio syncing I could see it being useful.

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[John Rofrano]

There were several suggestions in the article you linked to. One was Capture One Pro which looks pretty good. I use Affinity Photo for photo editing but I realize it’s not an organizing app like Aperture was.

I have several partitions on my 2010 Mac Pro that I use to boot from to circumvent the fact that Apple has done this to us several times throughout the years. All of my audio editing is stuck on Mavericks with Pro Tools 11 and I have an old Snow Leopard partition to run DVD Studio Pro 4.

Apple loves to make things obsolete. That seems to be their business model. 🙁

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[David J. Smolar] “I do video editing, so I’m very concerned that the time machine drive isn’t competing with something else, or that the monitor’s response time/speed isn’t hindered because it’s sharing a buss with other stuff.”

You are correct that plugging a hub into a USB port is just dividing the bandwidth between all of the devices. I would do some testing to see how your camera reacts to sharing a bus with external hard drive that is recording video. You might get away with having the camera and mic on one USB port and the external drive and keyboard/mouse on the other, with just two hubs.

The way I see out, you have two options: (1) Buy a Mac with more USB ports (which means stick with an older Mac) or (2) Start to replace your USB attached devices with Thunderbolt devices.

[David J. Smolar] “…where I’ll need my keyboard/mouse, mic, camera, and external drive simultaneously. “

I woulds start with storage devices. Get a thunderbolt external drive and see if that alone off-loads enough bandwidth to solve the problem. You can also get a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Then plug the camera into one USB port and the Mic into the other and your problem is solved. Nothing will be sharing a USB port. I have an Apple Time Capsule so my Time Machine backups are over the network and don’t consume a USB port.

~jr

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Depending on how long you have been a Mac user, you can go to the App Store app and click on Purchased and then scroll down the list and most OS’s you have installed in the recent past will be available for download. I see El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, and Lion in my list (I’m on Sierra and have not upgraded because I too have DVD Studio Pro and don’t want it to stop working). Each one has a Download button.

~jr

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Sounds very suspicious. I would get a copy of AppCleaner and drop Chrome onto it. If you just drag Chrome to the Trash, it will only delete the app and not the metadata that is stored in your ~/Library folder. AppCleaner will usually find all the other property files that an app creates and allow you to remove them as well. Then reinstall Chrome and see if it behaves any different. You might want to export your bookmarks before doing this so that you can import them again because AppCleaner will probably remove any personal preferences like bookmarks. Good Luck!

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[John Rofrano]

The Grab tool hasn’t been needed in years.

The key combination of Shift+Command+3 (⇧+⌘+3) will capture the screen to the desktop while Shift+Control+Command+3 (⇧+^+⌘+3) will capture the entire screen to the clipboard. Likewise, ⇧+⌘+4 will capture part of the screen to the desktop and ⇧+^+⌘+4 will do the same to the clipboard.

Mojave has made that even easier. Just use Shift+Command+5 (⇧+⌘+5) and it will bring up the new screen capture utility that will let you decide if you want to capture full screen, part of the screen, and place it on the desktop or clipboard. So now there is only one key sequence to remember. More info here.

~jr

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What exactly isn’t working? I’m not running Mojave but I do use symbolics links to move my Garage Band instruments off of my boot SSD. You should have done something similar to this (assuming your external drive is labeled “MyDrive”)

cp -R "/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library" "/Volumes/MyDrive/Instrument Library"
rm -fr "/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library"
ln -s "/Volumes/MyDrive/Instrument Library" "/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library"

The first line copies the contents of source to the target folder. The second line deletes the source folder (this is what frees up the space) and the last line creates the symbolic link from the new folder to the original folder so that it looks like it’s still in the same place. You will probably be prompted for your password to be able to delete from and create a link to the /Library folder. That should do it.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

I agree with Paul, the Mac Mini with 6 Cores and 32GB memory will perform way better than the MacBook Pro with only 2 Cores and 16GB.

~jr

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