My computing experience became far more zen like when I gave up on ugly hacks and pointless tweaks. I just use the software how it's designed to work. Path of l

My computing experience became far more zen like when I gave up on ugly hacks and pointless tweaks. I just use the software how it's designed to work. Path of least resistance. Vast majority of the time this approach works great. Not sure if that's the root of his problems or not but it definitely sounds like it to me because these were the exact types of problems I would encounter after running some hacky app or using unsupported/undocumented features. For example I've had the same iPhoto library for about 5 years now. The only issue I ever had was importing duplicate photos (my fault) and then running a hacky app that was supposed to magically fix this. Nope. It just trashed my iPhoto Library file. If I had manually deleted the duplicates I wouldn't have had any problems. I've had countless address book/calendar syncing issues for the same reasons. I gave up on trying to hack together a system that works now I'm fine with these different services being islands. I don't need every contact I've made in the last 20 years on every device I own.