(When) Should I upgrade my Mac to Ventura? I decided that that was annoying and misleading, so we added support for the new login item mechanism to CCC 6.1.3. In our case, the login item is "CCC Dashboard", but people were being notified that CCC was added as a login item. Additionally, the notification that you see indicates the application that added the login item, not the item that would be launched on login. You will undoubtedly see this barrage of notifications from other applications when you upgrade. ![]() Normally I don't immediately adopt brand-new features like this (because it makes it more complicated to support multiple OSes with one version of CCC), but we found that if we continued to use the old mechanism, the user would get frequent notifications that CCC had added a login item. In Ventura, Apple deprecated an older mechanism for adding login items, and replaced it with a new mechanism. Yeah, "login items" – you can imagine how exciting my summer was □. At that point you're prompted to authenticate, and then you're done. As a result, the procedure for granting Full Disk access to CCC and its helper tool on Ventura is now one step! When you start dragging CCC's "privacy fish", CCC will open the System Settings application and reveal the Full Disk Access controls, ready for the drop. They finally dropped the padlock paradigm, so pre-authentication is no longer required to unlock the settings in the Privacy panel. I'm delighted to report that Apple made a modicum of improvement to this process in Ventura. Normally that works fine, but it was still multiple steps, and users could take a wrong turn at any of those steps. ![]() ![]() Apple doesn't offer a programmatic interface for the "Full Disk Access" controls, so the best we can do is coach users through the procedure. These settings have been pretty annoying for developers and users alike. Privacy SettingsĪpple introduced new privacy settings in macOS Mojave, and they've been tweaking them in every OS release. Now that I've accepted using the Search feature, I think I'm actually a bit faster at using it. Apple was always meddling with the order of items in System Preferences, though, and I recall feeling disoriented every year in this application. I finally gave up and accepted that I'll just have to use the search bar to find things. Initially I was really flustered with the new layout. The name change seems innocuous, but the changes that Apple made to this application are really significant. So to spice things up, I added a recipe for Pumpkin Spice Muffins at the bottom. Overall, the changes are pretty bland, which means this article will not be very exciting. ![]() We have a mixed bag this year, and I wanted to point out just a couple things that work a little differently. We've been testing the new OS over the summer, and I'm pleased to report that CCC is ready to protect your data before and after you apply this upgrade – we added official Ventura support to CCC 6.1.3, which we posted back in September.Įvery year we make a handful of changes to CCC to support changes that Apple makes in the new OS. And of course, Apple is about to drop another new upgrade to macOS: Ventura. It's Fall here on the top of the globe, which means that temps are getting cooler, pumpkin seems to be in everything, and apples are in season.
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