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You are right — I was too focused on Content Blockers, but it is the content blockers that are most often the culprit or at least that has always worked for me.

The develop Menu is an all-or-nothing extension on-off for all sites while Safari > Preferences offers more nuanced control. Without the aid of the Develop Menu, Safari > Preferences > Extensions permits tuning off individual extensions including content blockers for all web sites and Safari > Preferences > Web sites permits site-by-site control of a wide variety of functions including permitting content blockers and other extensions.

I prefer a flyswatter to a howitzer for swatting annoyances. 😀

SUMMARY

Monterey (macOS 12) is scheduled for full release tomorrow October 25, 2021. My Current status is…

• I have no remaining incompatible apps (Rogue Amoeba just completed updating their last app and SoftRAID has a running gold master scheduled for Tuesday release)
• Montrerey compatilble Etrecheck pro delivered an almost cleanbill of health (there are still a couple of unsigned apps but they run just fine in the Monterey gold master)
• My system is rock solid stable and has been for days now.
• the learning curve has been steeper than I expected, but much of that has been subsumed in subsequent betas.
• The average user should encounter few surprises but the power user may find some additional security related changes and those who stick with or reverted to Big Sur will find they have a steeper learning curve to climb.
• There are new features in Monterey that add significant utility for power users although it may take some rethinking to take full advantage of them.
• One major feature, Universal Control, did not make it into macOS 12 — list it among Coming Attractions.
• For clone fans there is no change from Big Sur nor is any change expected either by CCC or SD. (Once Apple gets moving kernel extensions into the user rather than system area that may improve but given the multi-tiered boot structure I am not about to hold my breath waiting on bootable clones as we knew them in Mac OS X).

OPINION

Monterey is a significant step in the macOS evolution and certainly the most secure version yet. The new features are well thought out, and useful, but not particularly exciting.

SHOULD YOU UPGRADE?

I would, of course, say YES. The step to the next macOS 13(?) will only get higher.

THIS THREAD HAS OUTLIVED WHATEVER USEFULNESS IT HAD, IF ANY, SO I AM GOING TO CLOSE IT AT THIS POINT. IF YOU WISH TO RECORD YOUR OWN INSTALLATION SUCCESSES OR PROBLEMS THOSE CAN GO IN THREADS OF THEIR OWN.

I started getting some spam and, when the first piece arrived, I used to the Apple Mail "Rules" function to put in a 'Delete if it Contains', but then it kept showing up and I kept writing new rules. This morning I reviewed the rules written so far and found that addresses differed slightly.

6857.ugKl1l36iRjSdt84elbv@i8shux.d63rrwu7t5.us
6857.ugKl1l36iRjSdt84elbv@gua84k.gng2y96knq.us
6857.ugKl1l36iRjSdt84elbv@rxb2b5.wp22k437kv.us
6857.ugKl1l36iRjSdt84elbv@67dnhr.mv6wysa1p1.us

Everything is common up to the @ so I wrote a new rule that looks only for addresses "Containing" 6857.ugKl1l36iRjSdt84elbv@ Hopefully that'll do it. And, hopefully this experience will help anyone else with a similar issue.

Have you got a SD! clone that's old enough to possibly include the emails you're looking for?

Disk Warrior is based on a deep understanding of the intricacies of HFS+ which is conceptualized around rotating mechanical media and APFS is a conceptual clean sheet of paper re-do for the file system for use on radically different media that renders much of what DW does unnecessary it not infeasible, so you may be right. At the same time Disk Utility has evolved to do a credible job of rebuilding directories and costs 100% less than DW and is the only tool I have actually needed in years.

Yes, and their privacy policy states that while they own the information they collect, they will only use it to communicate with you and the charity you have selected.

Joe, fascinating, will note all this.. Workarounds are way too much of a hassle, but my idea, which is also a hassle is probably best right?

And did not think of this while sitting comfortably the other day in my big chair with my ipad pro:

Just walk over to the next room and sit at the 27" imac and find the same pdf and do the search.

So I just did that finally now, and lo and behold, the search bar was right there upper right, and drills down into every part of the pdf beautifully, which confirms that still traditional OS blows away ios, IMO.

That said, everything you have written is fantastic, to know for future frustrations with IOS....

Ira, thanks, will test 2, , then 3 commas... ...

I just re-read this and realized adding an extra step would have prevented the necessity of a restart.
The update could not be completed because the files were open and in use.

Having read the following, I will try file vault "on"

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There are virtually no cons.

Contrary to what another answer here claims, FileVault takes only a minute or so to enable and works quietly in the background to encrypt your data with no noticeable slowdown. You can use your computer normally while it does its thing.

Also, when you enable it, you are given a recovery key so that if you forget your password you can still access it with the recovery key. You can even choose to store the recovery key in your iCloud account for safe keeping. So forgetting your password isn’t as big of an issue as some want you to believe.

The encryption it uses is very secure. With your data encrypted even if someone removes the hard drive or SSD, they cannot access your data.

You really have no excuse not to use FileVault on any recent modem Mac. It does a fine job of protecting your data.

Jaybass

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