Category: Dealing with Things

Sticky Ghost Safari iCloud Tabs

Every few months this issue comes up for me. Oddly when I get a new device or when my Apple devices aren’t all running the latest operating system. Every few months I have to do a search for the solution. So now I’m writing it down here for myself and others to hopefully find.

If you have an issue in Safari on MacOS where you have iCloud Tabs on your Start Page that are closed on your other devices, but still persist in this list, here is the solution.

Note: All iCloud tabs will be gone once you complete these steps. This resets things completely in my experience. So, save your tabs somewhere. As bookmarks, notes, emails, whatever, before you proceed.

  1. Open Finder
  2. Select “Go” from the menubar, then Go to Folder…”
  3. You can also have Finder as your front-most application and use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Command+G (⇧+⌘+G)
  4. Type or copy/paste: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/
  5. Close Safari
  6. Delete the following three files: CloudTabs.db, CloudTabs.db-shm, CloudTabs.db-wal
  7. Open Safari. Ghost tabs are gone.

What is an accident?

Larry: For the sake of your viewers who can’t see this, I’m showing you I always have a flashlight in my pocket. That’s what I walk around with. A good prop person always has a a flashlight, and it’s there so that you can shine it down the barrel and check for that. If you don’t have a flashlight, don’t go on set. And so that’s yet another step along this horrible chain of events that leads to these incidences. And I do want to point something out. You said it once or twice, Liz, but you notice I have not once used the word accident.

Lizzie: Yeah.

Larry: Right? Because an accident implies that there’s nobody to blame. Oh, it was an accident. It was an act of God. No. The Crow and all these other high-profile things There’s people to blame. There’s enough blame to go around. If you don’t do your job correctly and it leads to an injury or a fatality, you’re to blame. It’s not an accident. An accident is when you do everything you can possibly do to prevent it and something still goes wrong. That’s an accident. These are not accidents. You know what I mean?

Emphasis mine.

From Larry Zanoff, an armorer who works on films. He’s talking about the role of an armorer and their importance in keeping everyone safe on set.

From What Went Wrong, a podcast about movies, and how it’s nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one.

Episode link on podcastindex.org

Louie

We said goodbye to one of the greatest dogs today. Lucky to have had him in our lives.

We gave him a good life after he came to us abandoned. I like to think he gave us a bit of life over the years. The epitome of “man’s best friend”, he’d follow you to the end of the earth and back. Six years is too short for the love we had and cancer just fucking sucks.