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iCloud ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ breaks the Mojave installer

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Yet another example of a really bizarre macOS bug that’s pretty inexcusable as a test escape, given it occurs with the default installation settings on a completely clean OS install. In short, the Mojave update installer does not work (on High Sierra at least) if you have ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ enabled for iCloud Drive (System … Read more

SQLite table constraints must be specified after all columns

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Marking this one for future reference. TL;DR:  You have to specify all the columns in your table, in a CREATE TABLE statement, before you specify table constraints like primary or foreign keys. SQLite gives the most useless error messages most of the time.  Case in point: CREATE TABLE “Foo” ( “ColumnA” TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE, “ColumnB” … Read more