Synology Drive Client 3.2.0 – 13258 Update has a Problem

Frank-Peter Poschmann Synology , , 0 Kommentare

As quite a lot of people have noticed already (e.g. here) the Synology Drive Client 3.2.0 – 13258 Update has a problem. After the update it is crashing silently all the time on my Macs. The advice from the Synology support to re-install the Drive client from scratch may be constructive but is quite tedious if you have a lot of shares configured (as for me). A hint in the above mentioned forum lead to the solution.

Obviously the password of the stored connection to the Synology NAS is corrupt after the update. Since the Drive client crashes very soon after startup the best procedure to restore the correct password is the following:

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Syncing Reminders between Mac and Synology NAS

Frank-Peter Poschmann Synology , , 0 Kommentare

Well, for quite a while accessing reminders stored on my Synology NAS from my Mac was broken. Syncing with my iOS devices was no problem but on my Mac I could not see the folders and reminder items. Looking around in the internet showed that it was apparently problem since macOS 10.15. It seems that the Reminders client on the Mac does not accept the LetsEncrypt certificate on the Synology NAS.

Good news: With macOS 13 (Ventura) the sync is back on the Mac. No problems anymore neither on my Intel Mac nor on my Apple Silicon Mac.

MapKit: Change in Behaviour of addOverlay on iOS 16 / Xcode 14.0

Frank-Peter Poschmann Swift , , , , 2 Kommentare

Just after I have published my latest app project „Muvy“, a very nice tracking app for all outdoor activities, Apple released iOS 16 and Xcode 14.0. With big horror I had to notice that my app was not working properly with the new version of the operating system. All non-Apple maps were covering my tracks so that they were not visible anymore. What a pity. It turns out that Apple changed the behaviour of the quite central method addOverlay without notice.

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Open the last used document on App startup

Frank-Peter Poschmann Swift , , , , , , , 0 Kommentare

Did you ever want your app to open the last used document on startup? Well, that’s not too difficult on macOS. In your NSDocumentController subclass you have the array of recentDocumentURLs, and on startup you can try to open the first member if it exists.

But on iOS it’s a little bit more tricky. There is no such array as on macOS. So we have to mimic it by ourself.

This is a review of my post 2 years ago: UIDocumentBrowserViewController and External Storage

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Aliases in Synology WebStation on DSM 7

Frank-Peter Poschmann Synology , , , , , , , 4 Kommentare

Recently, I have updated my Synology NAS to DSM 7. I was positively surprised that most of the apps I use work without problems. The new Synology Photos app is not that nice compared to the old Photo Station 6 but anyway, it will improve, I hope.

There is a bigger update on the WebStation under DSM 7. Formerly, it was quite difficult to run a website (let’s say: a WordPress instance) under the main domain name of your installation (e.g. as fpposchmann.de). The standard installation would access a WordPress instance under fpposchmann.de/wordpress; quite ugly. The Apache aliases could not be configured in the WebStation. I found no way to change that by standard configuration means and ended up configuring my own apache.conf.

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