Re: Talk About Tech Support
artie505
04/27/24 02:50 AM
That's a awfully fascinating story of an amazingly technologically adept team.
That they were able to scope out the problem and jerry rig a solution is almost beyond comprehensible.
BRAVO!
1
7
Read More
|
Re: Password question
kevs
04/27/24 01:02 AM
PS, just set up trail with 1 pass, so not have head a bit better around idea. I went to a website I hardly ever go to, and which Apple said had weak password and after adding Chrome extension, I reset password, I saw little icon and used 1 pass. Few questions, maybe ask them, like why they saved old email etc
I might ask here, I have an excel with software password keys, it is in icloud. Of course those are just softwares not so important, but you would keep that key in the icloud in excel file, or just on paper at home? as they say next to your will. though think Joe already answered that. eVen in comprimised the 1 pass is not on that excel file.
Still for banks, thinking keeping my unique ones, we'll se..
9
56
Read More
|
Re: Carbon copy Cloner 7
djxpress
04/26/24 11:38 PM
" NOTE: Using the APFS snapshot on the boot drive, it is possible to restore the Data volume to the state it was in the last Time Machine backup was run, and no Time Machine or other backup is necessary. To do that requires booting from the Recovery Drive or an external drive and intimate knowledge of the command line utility tmutil."
Does this mean you can roll back your computer to the previous snapshot if you mess up a system file or other file (for example accidentally deleting the address book data file or something)? Sort of how the old Time Machine used to be able to wipe out the entire "Macintosh HD" and overwrite it with the last snapshot essentially "rolling" back your computer to whatever time you did the TM backup. Ever since they changed to APFS you can't use TM like that anymore.
15
392
Read More
|
Re: "Find My" not finding my iPhone
ryck
04/26/24 12:38 AM
[quote=joemikeb]*]Have you shut down and restarted your iPhone? Just now, and that seems to have had the desired effect. My iPhone has changed from a 3 day old advice that she is at home and now says she's in a mall "Now". That corresponds to my iMac and my iPad. Will report later if that location remains fixed, as previously occurred. I can confirm that that did the trick. My iPhone successfully followed my wife's until she returned home.
9
76
Read More
|
Re: usb back up
jaybass
04/25/24 04:05 PM
I feel somewhat foolish in not checking a third external hd which could have a copy of my photos. Because it was the oldest one, I thought it wouldn't be of much use but of course, that would the most likely one to have a copy. How they disappeared in the first place, I have no idea. But I do appreciate your input as usual.
jaybass
8
144
Read More
|
Re: Uploading issues
Rain
04/23/24 06:11 AM
All seems to be okay. I appreciate your help with this. It's been a long time since any of my Macs gave me any problems, great to know that this forum is still available to help. I will try your other suggestions. Thanks again.
10
174
Read More
|
Re: Loss of Gmail access
grelber
04/18/24 04:21 PM
RE: I thought you couldn't access Gmail?
At home (due to snail-speed loading).
At a high-speed access terminal it's obviously not a problem. Question remains as stated.
25
865
Read More
|
Re: Disheveled Desktop
artie505
04/16/24 01:04 AM
I don't know how it got messed up, because I did not change the View Options intentionally. macOS has got a nasty habit doing stuff like that. I don't remember the details, but it did something similar to me recently, and something different to Ira.
2
57
Read More
|
Re: OS Sonoma- Is 'Top Sites' function gone?
joemikeb
04/13/24 09:54 PM
In Safari 17.5 (macOS 14.5 beta) The settings menu checkboxes are fully populated and look like this. I suspect that between Start page's Frequently visited and Safari Applications in the Dock, Top Sites were considered redundant and fell by the wayside. The only thing I can find about Frequently visited settings is this, but it would be nice if there were some way of defining what the user considers Frequently visited.
5
123
Read More
|
Re: Updates and printers
joemikeb
04/11/24 08:55 PM
Ditto artie's best wishes for a successful outcome from your surgery. Although it ain't anatomically correct, I think it's safe to say that knee problems are really a pain in the _ _ _. ...and I am tired of sitting on it.
11
255
Read More
|
Re: NVMe SSD upgrade for 2019 iMac
Rick Deckard
04/08/24 03:51 AM
The new 4TB NVMe SSD will be put in the same port the old NVMe SSD was. I'm simply taking out the 1TB HP NVMe and putting in a faster 4TB one. It will no longer be fused with the 2TB Samsung QVO currently in the SATA slot, so I guess that could make it slower than fusing them, I don't know. That is the ideal configuration and what I meant to imply, but obviously did not. Fusing the drives is NOT recommended -- as I said, macOS no longer supports Fusion drives. Ok, thank you, that makes sense. The place I originally bought the iMac from has offered to do the work for me at a great price, but the downside is due to shipping times it would give me about a week without it. If I can't find a local tech to do the work after calling around tomorrow I'll have to go that route.
25
2,134
Read More
|
Re: incompatible software
joemikeb
03/31/24 02:53 PM
joe, After my last post, I shut down my computer. The next morning when I thought I would boot up, I found that my computer had NOT shut down. Some message appeared giving some reason which I cannot recall...I should have took a screenshot. Screenshots can be very helpful, but we cannot see them if they are on your computer. There are a number of websites where you can post images that can be seen by others, the most common being Imgur. The easiest way to use Imgur is by installing QuickImageUploaderI did download Etrecheck which gave me a comprehensive report. It read that there are orphaned files that could be removed, unsigned files which didn't advise to remove, System notifications running in the background ( their purpose?) Some kernel
extensions may not work in the future, and finally and the one I was most interested in...(4 files) Library/app/support/virtual box each containing the words "Oracle America" which I removed, which after shut down, stayed shut down. I'm enclosing a
screenshot of the original message. I hope you can read it? No, we cannot read those files on your computer, but a word of explanation. Kernel extensions are dangerous because they run in the system area and can potentially bypass many of the protections built into macOS. On Sonoma, macOS 14, Apple came up with a means of allowing kernel extensions in the user area, thereby permitting their functionality while protecting the system from potential exploits and as a side benefit making extensions much easier to install. At the same time the older kernel extensions were blocked from execution. By removing the Oracle America extensions, you effectively disabled some app in your system that was dependent on them. Probably some "Cloud" related app.
18
372
Read More
|
Re: Magic Mouse
Gregg
03/29/24 12:37 PM
How long have you had this mouse? They do wear out. Have you tried using a different mouse?
If another mouse (not brand new) does not have the same problem, then I'd say it's time to buy a new one.
1
57
Read More
|
|
|