As I mentioned on a Monday awhile back, my work MacBook Air (MBA) would
not properly boot. Three trips to tech support and a low level wipe
later, my work machine was working.
Quick shout out to my co-workers who helped me perform otherwise
mundane tasks while I was down.
Also, lesser thanks to the iPad that kept me in email and Slack but
couldn't come close to editing a PowerPoint properly.
The full wipe fixed the inability to boot as well as a few other minor
issues. I had to reinstall everything, move things from backup, and
occasionally restore from the cloud.
I stayed in the office until after 20:00 that day because my trust in
the software deteriorated and doubts about the hardware grew.
Wait. Hang on. This was how I used to deal with Windows issues.
Anyway, I learned the problems were probably due to corporate pushing
the new High Sierra update to me as part of a test, a fun test to have
foisted 6 days before a major deliverable is due!
Ah, wait. My second display software, Duet Display, stopped working
reliably. It worked fine before the forced update. My reinstall
included the same update. My work relies on having a solid second
display to make up for the MBA display resolution and size. Losing that
is problematic.
UPDATE: I'm beta testing new software from the Duet Display team.
Things are still wonky. Also, my VPN certificates disappeared. A
removal of all corporate software and complete reinstall of them was
needed to unwedge the VPN.
Really? Why is dealing with Apple like dealing with Microsoft?
Also on:
[1]Twitter
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My original entry is here: [2]MBA Update. It posted Sat, 21 Apr 2018
14:30:08 +0000.
Filed under: personal,
References
1.
https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/987701211641106432
2.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=989
