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Remarkable how cheap the comments on stories like this tend to be. The regurgitated "Apple is bad, mmmkay" low effort posts. To be clear, guy started a sync wi
by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Remarkable how cheap the comments on stories like this tend to be. The regurgitated "Apple is bad, mmmkay" low effort posts.
To be clear, guy started a sync with his phone (people still do this?). In the middle of a sync he decides he wants to restart his computer, which tells him, reasonably, to wait until its done. If you were running a long-running terminal script, in the middle of a backup or large file move, or countless other tasks, any reasonable OS does exactly the same thing -- it asks the various subsystems if now is a good time, if not it delays the reboot.
He could forcefully stop the sync (which would make it not an issue, while forfeiting the work it had done thus far), and he could forcefully reboot his computer, but this has positively nothing to do with "you have to reboot your phone first".
There needs to be a moratorium on these sorts of low-info, low-effort posts. It's just pandering to a base.
- happytoexplain 6y agoExactly. Ideally, a sync is silently interruptible, or at least can be easily manually paused. That's the actual, and legitimate, issue. Being "unable to reboot" because of the in-progress operation is a derivative result, and the author is misleading by making that the title, for the purpose of creating a more provocative headline.
- weikju 6y agoNot entirely correct. I've run into this problem on Catalina as well, and very often it IS a bug with the phone syncing (yes people still sync, we're not all backing up our phones to iCloud). The phone appears to be done syncing, there's no progress bar/circle/spinner anywhere, the phone might even be disconnected from USB (though some syncing can happen over wifi), and YET, and yet! The Mac refuses to let go and reboot. Unlike the blog author though, I figured out that 'sudo reboot' works very well in this situation...
- ironmagma 6y agoA sync should be an atomic operation. Or at the very least, reversible if it gets interrupted. In that case, a reboot should be able to happen at any time.
- em-bee 6y agomore than that. a sync should be interruptible and resumable. rsync does that. so does syncthing which i use to keep my phones data synced to my computer. it runs all the time and syncs when i am on wifi (even when i am not anywhere near the computer) it pauses when i get off wifi or the two machines can't connect for other reasons, and resumes when the connection is back.
- a1369209993 6y agoCan you forcefully stop the sync or[0] reboot the still-trying-to-sync computer if the OS doesn't want you to? I'm not up to date on the material these sorts of posts are Hallmark-style-loosely-inspired-by-true-story-esque based on. Edit: FWIW, weikju seems to claim that `sudo reboot` still works correctly (forces a reboot regardless of what the OS wants) as of Catalina; I dunno about `kill -9`-ing the sync. But other than that, yes. I was expecting this to be a legitimate problem like two-factor authentication on the computer. 0: by which I mean that both options are available, and you choose which, not that at least one is available.
- Semaphor 6y ago> Remarkable how cheap the comments on stories like this tend to be. The regurgitated "Apple is bad, mmmkay" low effort posts. It offsets the "Everything apple does is good because it’s for the betterment of humanity"-posts.
- happytoexplain 6y agoSurely you don't think those two types of posts come anywhere near parity, numerically?
- Semaphor 6y agoNo, I see more "Apple is god" posts. But I give it a high chance that you remember more of whichever of them annoys you more though.