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Ira, The original reason for posting was that I could not trash the FGT folders but earlier okay I was able to drag all 3 of them to the trash so I must have done something that allowed me to do that. What, I don't know.

However, if I did refer to those folders as an app, that must be a mistake because there is no such app that I could find.

The good thing is that I now have imgur for future use.

jaybass

I have a 2019 27" iMac I purchased from a grey market reseller that has two SSDs installed as a single Fusion Drive, for a total of 3TB (1TB + 2TB). I'd like to replace them with a single 4TB NVMe SSD. The current 1TB NVMe drive is an HP unit (with about 30% life remaining according to DriveDx) and the 2TB is a Samsung QVO 860.

I'd like to remove both drives altogether and I'm leaning toward buying a Crucial brand Gen3 NVMe SSD to put in the iMac's NVMe slot. I'm told using a Gen4 drive wouldn't add any speed as the iMac doesn't have a fast enough bus to take advantage of it, but I wanted to confirm that here. I know there are many brands with 4TB NVMe SSDs out there now, so I'll go with Crucial unless anyone here has a better recommendation.

My main question is about any adapter needed to use the new NVMe drive. I assume there is one already installed for the current HP SSD if it has one at all, since "the 2019 iMac does not have an NVMe slot, it has a proprietary PCIe slot." That quote is from an email from a tech at a local shop I would like to do the work. Is that accurate though? Apple's System Report from this iMac shows the 1TB HP drive installed in the NVMe slot, so I think he might be mistaken.

I will have to pay to have this installation done as I've watched the OWC video about this upgrade and it isn't something I want to try myself.

The tech literally said he does not recommend this and they could not provide any warranty for such an installation. The OWC video didn't show any special adapter to replace the NVMe in the 2019 iMac they used, so I'm asking here for help. Thanks in advance!

That's it. If it says "GET," the initial d/l SHOULD be free. If the initial d/l isn't free, there'll be a $ number where it otherwise says "GET."

I have a folder on my desktop named Tab Group Favorites and I am trying to remove it. There is nothing in it but when I drag it to the trash, it goes through the motions of being emptied and it never stops.

How can I remove it?

jaybass

She was, indeed, an unparalleled, never to be matched piece of work.

Joe,

You're in my backyard up here....where's your next port of call?

I searched for "download macOS beta via software update," and all the top hits assumed the option I reported.

Dunno why you haven't got it.

The last time I was in Mojave, I saved some home movies from iTunes and put them on the desktop. Of course they didn't show in ventura so I thought I had to boot into Mojave. What I didn't remember was that I had also

put them into docs which allowed me to retrieve them as per your suggestion...thanks. When I upgraded to ventura, I couldn't find them because 'home movies' doesn't show as such in tunes sidebar. However they are in there

now.

jaybass

EFICheck is useful in keeping you aware of the total System Integrity Platform status and offering configuration suggestions and help in setting. It doesn’t do anything that you could not do with half a dozen other apps and a dozen manuals, it merely consolidates everything into one app.

Here's a link to another story about Bobi:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/worlds-oldest-dog-according-guinness-040518749.html

It will be interesting to see the frequency of these RSRs. Will that be an indication of the number or severity of attacks? Of the speed with which Apple can respond?

There does seem to be a feeling of increased security that comes with an active action as opposed to Apple's silent, in the background XProtect updates.

Ira, your suggestion works like a charm...thank you. An I do view my emails on my iMac first.

jaybass

Before I replied above I did a fairly extensive search (partly because I too have a very old iPod). While there are a lot of readers, all of the ones I saw required iOS 10 or later. That may indeed relate to the 32 versus 64 bit issue.

Thanks Joe, good info/ point.