u/Like_Zorro

Any ideas what could be wrong in Tahoe 26.5.2 (25F84) regarding on wallpaper. When I set my wallpaper as a static JPEG what I have in ~/Photos/wallpapers folder, it will be my wallpaper some minutes, but after that OSX just replaces that wallpaper and sets its own animated wallpaper over it.

Also when I go to Finder and find that file, set it as a wallpaper, it does not change, but if I after that log out, it is set to my wallpaper on login screen and after login it is also my wallpaper, until couple of minutes passses and BOOM then it is again changed to MacOSX wallpaper.

How could I fix this?

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So, I have a NAS what is now turned off. My MacOSX randomly tries to connect it from time to time and gives me this annoying popup. If I close it with OK, it might stay away 10 minutes, or 1 minute. Now I have just dragged this to another virtual desktop and let it be there without pressing OK so it won't jump to my face all the time.

Anyway, I wish to find real solution to prevent this happening.

So far I have:
- Cleared server username and passwords in keychain, so there is no keys for this SMB mount
- I have removed "Recent files" visibility in Finder, since I assume that something tries to read from there and some of the recent files are on NAS. Still no success.

I have no any other apps running in dock and/or toolbar than Finder, Safari, 1Password and Adobe Creative Cloud application and of course volume control, battery info, wlan info and so on basic MacOSX stuff.

I have installed newest Tahoa, 26.5.2 (25F84) and it still have not fixed this issue.

How I can fix it? Maby places says "unmount it from sidebar", but there is nothing to unmount since that NAS is not visible because it is turned off, so I can't umount it.

So far my workflow has been with different cameras that I will copy all the photos on my PC hard drive, then use FastRawViewer to cull the images, take backups with FreeFileSync to another disk + NAS and then import only those selected to Lightroom Classic. That way my LRC library have only limited amount of photos.

Anyway biggest downside in this is that it requires that I will use my PC, so it is not very practical when I would want to use my laptop to get those images for example to my diary. Sure, I can just remote connect to NAS, copy there selected images and use images there, but there could be easier solution.

Apple Photos is one what I thought, but usage with PC is meh, so Lightroom with cloud sync could be better option. That way I could store items to cloud and use those from my laptop as well.

One thing what I am wondering tho is should I use some kind of hybrid workflow that I will move all the files to my PC + backup disk + NAS backup when I have time and motivation to copy those files to PC and do first imports to Lightroom cloud from my laptop.

Since the photos my camera generates are quite big (DNG is around 82-84 MB each and JPEG's are 13-21 MB each), I think that I don't want to import all the images from memory card to Lightroom cloud catalog unless I am away from home and need to do full memory card backup there, then at home download those and delete them afterward.

So, do any of you have some kind of hybrid workflow where you store all your images to main PC/Mac and then import only limited amounts of photos to the Lightroom cloud?

Or do you normally import everything to cloud and keep all there? Or do you remove all but good photos?

I have done lots of music through the years and recorded it at home etc., but now I am reached the point that I want to finally make something more "professional", eg. album that is sounding like properly made album.

Since my process have always been totally different with different mindset when making songs and recording them (eg. just do it, no need to sound professional mostly), I am trying to find out ways to do this and I am keen to know processes how others are doing these.

This is how I have previously done my music mostly:
- Start doing with Logic
- Add drum track, maybe bass track
- Add some chords with synths
- Add guitar tracks
- Write lyrics

Sometimes of course lyrics grow same time as the song grows. Anyway, the point is that whole process has always been "make as you go" - there has not been any kind of learning of the playing of that song, memorizing chords or whatever since I have just recorded those songs immediately and moved to next song.

Point of this has been that I have wanted to make many songs to familiarize myself with Logic, so when I want to really record something worth it I don't need to spend time on learning how to use Logic to add tracks, how to add effects and so on.

Anyway, that part is now history and I don't anymore need to do it this way.

Now I have totally new approach, so that's why I am coming here to ask how you normally proceed.

- I have written 10 songs with guitar and I have lyrics for those
- I have immediately recorded demo versions of those songs to Zoom R4 (so I remember later how those was originally intended to go when I composed those, eg. I can remember rhytm, melody line and so on)
- Then I have practiced those songs with just playing guitar and singing. I have rarely listened those demos, because those were just so I can return to them to listen if I forget how it was meant to go + to send to others so they can hear also demos what kind of songs those are about.

Now I have evolved in this process that I have put drum track from Mainstage to my headphones and I have practiced now first song only. I have thought that it could be beneficial for me to learn songs one-by-one and play them as long that I can remember them well - I want to remember chords without needing to check from papers, I want to remember rhytm and of course I want to be able to play those with drum track in correct tempo.

So far the first song is going well, and I can play it with drum track and stay in rhytm and I think I have figured out the final arrangement for the structure - at least so far. By arrangement in this context I just mean that how long intro is, is there any bridges/interludes and so on between verses and choruses etc.

Now comes the tricky part what I want to get some kind of ideas how people normally do things. Since all of those songs have made with "man and guitar" kind of approach, how you normally would develop the whole song to final product?

What I have thought I might do next to get this song for final product:
- Learn this song more and more to make sure that I can hit it 99 % of time correctly with guitar, I can stay in sync with drums, I remember all the bridges and length of intro and so on. Eg. practice, practice and practice
- Record raw version of this with Mainstage as a backbone. Eg. play it live, record it (guitar + mic same time, drums only monitoring to headphones, not for recording)
- Drag that raw recording what is played properly and stays in tempo to Logic Pro. Then I can listen that track and add some kind of drum pattern - no need to be correct and final drum pattern at this stage, as long it is something what helps me playing other instruments.
- Add bass track
- Record guitar parts. Now I am not sure how to do this - I think I might use same what I played as a backing track recording (eg. that backbone track with guitar + vocals), or maybe I can start making totally different guitar tracks. For example, if I have played strumming whole song, I might change that I strum only on choruses, but on verses I might do something else - I also might drop off whole guitar on some parts.

At that stage I should have backbone track (vox + gtr), guitar track, bass track and some kind of drum pattern. Then I think I can mute the backbone track since it has already served it purpose, eg. helping me to add other tracks around it.

Then I think I could record vocals, or maybe record more instrument tracks - some piano, some synth, whatever. Depending what direction I feel that song might grow. Also another alternative is that I will record all the other tracks, add better drums also and then use that whole song as a backing track and start training my vocals over that.

If I go to that approach, I have started to think that I should write my song in english and with better lyrics. On practice time I have played guitar + sing with my current lyrics, but since I record anyway everything later I have also good opportunity to rewrite lyrics. That would be also easier if the whole arrangement is already done.

So in the end it could be that the song demo I have recorded with man-and-a-guitar approach might change drastically - guitar parts might change totally to different way, lyrics might be rewritten and so on.

I don't know if that kind of approach is good or not when creating as good results as possible for my skills. Is it normally rare to rewrite lyrics?

Anyway, how those of you who have done professional kind of albums alone, how have you done it, especially on singer-songwriter styled songs? Have you made the demo with guitar + vox, then trained that until perfection, then recorded vox + guitar and then added later other parts, or have you later also re-recorded those guitars and the whole song have grown later to different direction?