Re: Time Machine HDD encryption

I'm not sure I understand the qustion. Do you just want the drive to use, or do you want the data that's on it now? If you just want the drive, just erase it. If you want the data, you can probably unencrypt it by knowing the password. It's not like an internal drive on an A4-chip machine,

Re: mail and Mail...

il" on the command line > 2) access that mail from Mail.app > > I've not tried a lot but my idea is that Mail.app requires an smtp server for > the account in question to send and a pop server to check the mail and I'm > not sure CLI mail provides that. > > Jean-Chris

Re: Blind spot

Calendar/Siri & > Search…there was a setting that I turned on and it fixed it…maybe something > similar? > > > >> On Aug 16, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Macs R We wrote: >> >> Messenger," iOS absolutely refuses to find it > > > > __

Blind spot

Even though I probably have fewer apps on my phone than most users, I find there are still often too many pages and icons to paw through when I want to use a particular one that I don't use hourly; so I've been a fan of swiping down from the center of the screen, typing the first few characters

Re: Can't add printer on Mojave

I haven't seen a printer networking problem this stupid from a major manufacturer in over 10 years. I suspect a more current/different model would solve your problem. > On May 16, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > > >> On May 16, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Andy Ringsmuth >

Re: Can't add printer on Mojave

> On May 16, 2019, at 11:45 AM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > It turns out that the Canon C3530i all-in-one business copier/printer can > only talk to an old HP Win/XP system when they are hardwired together > (forming a 2-point LAN). The rub is that the

Re: Can't add printer on Mojave

r. One thing you could try is to remove all defined printers, control-click in the big white box to "reset printing system," reinstall the driver (making sure it is qualified for Mojave), then see if the vanilla window suddenly shows you the Canon. > > -Carl > > &g

Re: Can't add printer on Mojave

Why are you going the IP Printer route? Most SOHO networked printers these days have drivers that know how to find them using the default add dialogs. I think you just may be confusing the driver. Try adding it as a vanilla printer (you don't have to change any of the current network bindings,

Re: base64 encoded spam ?

The base64 evaluates to an image, which is an image of text. The "text" in the image is not identical in every mail, as it contains personally identifying information about your ID, password, and so on. The bitcoin address will also likely be different (because it is not just one scammer).

Re: Gray screen of death

ilto:gnw...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 23:12, Macs R We > <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: >> Could be faulty memory. Could be motherboard. >> >> Others have reported this error from a failed boot drive, e.g., >> https://

Re: Gray screen of death

Could be faulty memory. Could be motherboard. First, try zapping the PRAM. You never know. If it still fails, I'd boot it off an external drive with a good system on it (I keep one for each release). If you have another Mac with the proper system on it, you can always throw it into Transfer

Re: Install disk won't stay ejected

My first impression is that somehow the installer screwed up, and installed the copy of the pref pane that is inside the DMG. It sounds like you also had this thought. Compress the DMG and delete the original. Logout and log back in. This should break whatever voodoo connection existed

Re: Purging disk Space

As far as "purgeable space" goes, my internal is reporting purgeable space and I'm still running Sierra, so, not a new Mojave thing. Apparently, purgeable means data for which there is a copy in the cloud so if you have have to temporarily abandon

Re: good color inkjet printer for mac?

> On Dec 28, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > wrote: > > I wish the paper tray held more sheets of paper (only 100), but so far that > is my only complaint, and since we do not print in color very often, the > small tray should not be a problem. Depending on what “very

Re: Find or build a calendar server

ote: > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 13:53, Macs R We <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: > I'd like to ask the folks here to check out my Apple discussions posting, > "Need a calendar server for Mojave." > <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250036009> > >

Re: good color inkjet printer for mac?

> On Dec 22, 2018, at 3:46 PM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > > I bought a Brother MFC-J485DW a while back for my wife to use and it works > quite well. Only one paper tray though and I haven’t tried printing on photo > paper. It connects by wifi, no ethernet, but that didn’t end up being a >

Re: good color inkjet printer for mac?

If the criterion is works well with Macs, Brother would be my choice. I never, ever recommend HP — they have a huge NIH problem, and always want to load massive software that does things their way instead of the way every other printer or the Mac itself wants to work. Their hardware is top

Find or build a calendar server

I'd like to ask the folks here to check out my Apple discussions posting, "Need a calendar server for Mojave." Not being a software or app developer for macOS, this is the only group I frequent where I know such people hang out. I would

Re: unable to partition external SSD

You didn't say what OS you are on. If you re on Mojave (or possibly HIgh Sierra), it may have decided to format your drive as APFS, under which partitioning is quite a different animal. Specifying HFS+ in the terminal command would have reformatted it. > On Dec 20, 2018, at 8:50 PM, Dinse,

Re: Mail Archiving/Backup

play the raw source of the email. > >> On Nov 24, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Macs R We wrote: >> >> I do in fact happen to use the mail tag software, but I've never used the >> tags function per se — I use it to add notes and tickle reminders. I've >> never tried searching fo

Re: Mail Archiving/Backup

oes MailSteward handle Mai Tags, or don’t you use them > > Best > > Chris > >> On 24 Nov 2018, at 18:12, Macs R We wrote: >> >> I’ve been using MailSteward Lite for close to a decade and am pretty >> satisfied with it. I keep telling myself that I

Re: Mail Archiving/Backup

I’ve been using MailSteward Lite for close to a decade and am pretty satisfied with it. I keep telling myself that I ought to upgrade to their top-end version at some point, so it will do real server/client searches on the central repository machine instead of sucking all the data over the

Re: clicking on URLs in Finder crashes Finder

How bizarre. I got different, but related symptoms, running the same release. I dragged the URL to the Desktop. When I clicked on the URL to drag it to a folder, Finder crashed, bam, right off the bat. This happened twice. The third time, it let me drag it to a folder. I opened up that

Re: Can no longer scan with Preview

In general, the USB port on an Airport it is made to attach only to a printer, and the Airport has simple printer server programming included in it. Unfortunately, run-of-the-mill printer server programming does not support scanning.

Re: Can no longer scan with Preview

nter directly to my Mac Pro, it sees it as a > scanner, and Sys Prefs shows the "Print/Scan" tab. > > Is there a way to configure this through the Airport? > -Carl > > >>> On Nov 10, 2018, at 6:13 PM, Carl Hoefs >>> wrote: >>> >>> O

Re: Can no longer scan with Preview

fr website if they have one. > On Nov 10, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Hmm. Image Capture says: "No camera or scanner connected." > > It's starting to sound like my Canon is hosed... > > Is there some sort of device cache somewhere to delete? > >

Re: Can no longer scan with Preview

Hm. I've never scanned directly with Preview. I usually use Image Capture and scan to various places including Preview. Why don't you try Image Capture — if it also fails, the problem is almost certainly with your printer configuration. > On Nov 10, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote:

Re: Finding Spotlight crash

e next version that problem > went away. > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:23 PM Macs R We <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: > The first half is just trashing the Spotlight index, which is the first thing > I tried. However, I haven't tried wiping the system caches by booting in &

Re: Finding Spotlight crash

problem. > On Oct 26, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > You might try giving this a try: > > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8545970 > > -Carl > > > >> On Oct 26, 2018, at 12:30 PM, Macs R We wrote: >> >> For a few months now

Re: High Sierra installer, where are you?

> On Sep 29, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > And if the machine were too old, the App Store shouldn't show me Mojave to > upgrade to. "Shouldn't" is unfortunately an insufficient condition (ah, I remember when that wasn't SOP at Apple). It's a proven fact that the App Store will

Re: High Sierra installer, where are you?

This happens every release. This is why I safe-store installers for every Mac OS release on an external drive of my own. Once you get one installed, the App Store will be happy t provide you the upgrades for it, but good luck finding the original upgrade installer once Apple releases a

Re: Exporting items from Keychain

Apparently, you can export certificates and keys, and nothing else. Create a new keychain. Copy the keys you want to share to the new keychain. Move the keychain file to the other machine and add it as a keychain. > On Sep 17, 2018, at 12:07 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > I'm trying to

Re: Setting up multiple desktops, for different purposes per desktop.

> On Aug 2, 2018, at 10:47 PM, Michael wrote: > And, there's a good chance of it erroring on wakeup. If I use hibernate mode, > it's almost guaranteed. If I just use normal sleep, there's a nearly > guranteed "Oh, no external monitor on wake up, move all windows to the > internal. Oh hey,

Re: Setting up multiple desktops, for different purposes per desktop.

my laptop on 24/7 (I just sleep the display when I'm not using it) so I can always access it remotely if need be — since I rarely sleep or shutdown the machine, that's perhaps why I haven't seen any collapsing. > On Aug 1, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Michael wrote: > > > On 2018-07-29,

Re: [amugtalk] Doin' the desktop shuffle

Yup. The donkey photo showed up on another desktop today, and scrolled just like every other photo. Meanwhile, whatever photo shows up on desktop #5 — and only desktop #5 — shows the "stationary scroll" behavior. I'm truly flummoxed. > On Jul 28, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Mac

Doin' the desktop shuffle

o know why this is happening, and if it can be made to occur on purpose. Does anybody know what causes this behavior? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://m

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

Or, another option — buy Mac OS Server ($30?) before Apple discontinues it, install it on one of your Macs with spare disk space, and turn on File Caching. From then on, the first device on your LAN to download an OS update or app downloads it, but a copy of it simultaneously gets cached in

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

No, that compatibility line is just ignorant sales BS. It has a web-based management screen, so it's compatible with a friggin' SmartTV if that's all you have. I have other Mac service clients using this box. > On Jul 8, 2018, at 4:36 PM, Michael wrote: > > On 2018-07-08, at 2:41 P

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

k a button first every time you want to print to the printer, then unclick it later, or no one else can use that printer. > On Jul 8, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > OK, that was my error. You typed "router," I read "printer." My objection > is

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

QYASABEgLt4vD_BwE> that performs exactly this conversion — for $17, not an expensive solution. > On Jul 8, 2018, at 2:10 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > >> Printer is USB only. >> >> The router in question has a USB port, and support for network printing. It >> ex

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

When plugged into what, where? You've never provided this information. Also, make and model? > On Jul 8, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Michael wrote: > > > On 2018-07-08, at 2:10 PM, Macs R We wrote: > >>> Printer is USB only. >>> >>> The router in questi

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

> Printer is USB only. > > The router in question has a USB port, and support for network printing. It > exposes the printer to the network as Bonjour. Over what? The USB port? This makes no sense. It's like saying that my car is "aviation-capable" because it has an artificial horizon

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

This is good advice. I've had the experience of having a printer that was cabled to my indoor network visible only to other cabled machines, and when it was reconfigured to be wireless, was visible only to other wireless machines. What caused it was the inability of Bonjour to traverse a

Re: Sandbox error while attempting to print

It sounds like your CUPS printer driver is out of date. If you're lucky, it's only your copy. If you're not lucky, there may be no up to date driver available. If this is your only printer, reset the printing system and setup your Epson

Re: Automatic reindexing ?

It's not uncommon to see MacOS systems that are constantly reindexing, to no avail. It eats up CPU and slows down the machine. The first resort is to add the hard drive to the Spotlight Privacy list (ignore the nag) for a minute or so, then take it out. This destroys the existing index,

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

> On Jun 4, 2018, at 8:41 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > > I really dislike that iTunes doesn’t do it anymore…Apple removed perfectly > good functionality from it…I guess they just figure that unlimited high speed > bandwidth is something everybody has. It's what I refer to as "gigabit

Re: Zero Width Space

> On May 22, 2018, at 2:35 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > > The ZERO WIDTH SPACE is in "General Punctuation" code page if you enable the > "Unicode" Code page view. It is not in "Punctuation" nor in "punctuation - > All" quick category, however. So then... “all,” for small values

Re: Zero Width Space

hot%202018-05-21%2017.15.41.png?dl=0 > > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/usyy3x0v3zcv1qr/Screenshot%202018-05-21%2017.15.41.png?dl=0>> > On May 21, 2018, at 8:08 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > >> On May 21, 2018, at 6:23 PM, Macs R We

Re: Zero Width Space

> On May 21, 2018, at 4:16 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > On 21 May 2018, at 15:14, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> On May 20, 2018, at 4:38 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >>> I am trying to copy the zero width space from

Re: Zero Width Space

Let's se⁣e… I couldn't find a "zero width space" in the Emoji & Symbols character table (doubtless owing to its amazingly awkward organization), but I did find an invisible "word joiner" (Punctuation-All, 5th column, 5th row from bottom) that inserted itself nicely between the two e's in "see"

Re: Satellite weather widget

Widgets are no longer Technologically Correct. I had two translation and two TV schedule tracking widgets die on me in the past year. I have other active widgets that still work but are unsupported. My iStat Menus widget still works fine, but they no longer offer it for download, not sure

Re: Photos sharing to GMail or Apple Mail

Lately, Apple has "improved" several such interfaces into total yuckiness. For example, the "send mail" action in Automator no longer opens up a new message in Mail — instead, it throws up its own little dialog box into which you have to type your mail (complete with crippled versions of

No previews for you!

The longer I use my Mac, the more features seem to degrade… Since maybe Tiger or so, I've been able to hover over most links in mail messages, whereupon a little "v" symbol appears to the right, which when clicked brings up the same sort of page preview that the spacebar provides for files in

Re: File sharing web site

, so I know that’s possible. > On Apr 12, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > How would that help to transfer files to s Windows user? > >> On Apr 12, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >

Re: File sharing web site

I assume the attachments aren't massive, since you are sending them via email… so have you tried using the free iCloud storage that comes with your Apple ID? > On Apr 12, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > I have to interact with a person that uses

Re: Trouble with startup disk and the boot chooser.

Nothing has changed in the OS or firmware. Zap your PRAM and try again. If that doesn't work, plug in a USB keyboard and see if maybe the bootloader likes the option key on that keyboard better than the built-in one. > On Apr 7, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Michael wrote: > > I

Re: Finder windows ?

Right, and that's why it doesn't gray out. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:12 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > On 2018-03-26 (21:07 MDT), Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> I think he was suggesting that "Finder / Preferences / General / Open

Re: Finder windows ?

I think he was suggesting that "Finder / Preferences / General / Open folders in tabs" should be grayed out when the tab bar is disabled. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:04 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > > On 2018-03-26 (20:53 MDT), Jean-Christophe Helary >

Re: Finder windows ?

Maybe the finder figures that if you have no toolbar showing, you can’t open windows in tabs, so it doesn’t. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 3:46 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: > > > >> On Mar 27, 2018, at 7:41, David Schwartz wrote: >> >>>

Re: Finder windows ?

t; On Mar 27, 2018, at 3:22, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> Finder / Preferences / General / checkbox at the bottom — at least in 10.12. > > I have an "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows" that's checked and > does not seem to work

Re: Finder windows ?

Finder / Preferences / General / checkbox at the bottom — at least in 10.12. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 6:41 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: > > It's weird. It looks like all my folders now open in separate windows. I > can't find a setting (10.13.3) that will

Re: Universal access console spam

There's not a lot of intel on the web about what this process actually does. Guessing entirely from the name, I wonder if it might be related to System Preferences / Accessibility / Speech / Announce when alerts are displayed or applications

Re: Universal access console spam

> On Mar 25, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2018-03-25, at 12:01 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com > <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: > >> There's not a lot of intel on the web about what this process actuall

Re: Help with no swap space please.

Hm. Have you tried using Sierra Cache Cleaner (they have one for every OS name, just Google yours) in deep clean mode? > On Mar 11, 2018, at 8:37 PM, Michael wrote: > > My system log is showing me things like this: > > Mar 11 19:20:35 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: low swap:

Re: Time Machine duplicates

pears to be only one per hour. So, this suggests that the listing >> within the Time Machine app is reporting two backups per hour when in fact >> only one is being performed (or at least only one is being kept in the usual >> location). > >Do you have mobile back

Re: Time Machine duplicates

Why not examine the folder hierarchy on your backup drive and inspect the individual folder names, which will tell you when each backup set was actually taken. Then at least you will know which end of the process is misbehaving. > On Mar 5, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] >

Re: Startup Disk disagrees with restart options, and restart options is right

> On Mar 1, 2018, at 8:43 AM, LuKreme wrote: > Same. I am puzzled but that. If a drive shows up as bootable in the Startup > Disk CP, it's generally bootable. I have seen such behavior before, but only rarely. The test in Startup Disk only checks for a certain

Re: Startup Disk disagrees with restart options, and restart options is right

The whole APFS fire drill has been such a cluster*k. According to experts , you're only supposed to use APFS on internal SSD drives, and nothing else. That having been said, I have no idea why

Re: Bootup key combo to silence verbose mode

It only works for a single boot, unless you spilled maple syrup on the keyboard or something. Try shutting the machine all the way down (power off) then turning the power back on. If it still boots in verbose mode, something's wacky. > On Feb 26, 2018, at 6:27 PM, Carl Hoefs

Re: Sparse bundle thinks it's out of space.

Of course, in a TM image, one has to be sure one is actually deleting the large file, and not just one of the possibly many hardlinks to the large file residing in another backup layer. > On Feb 24, 2018, at 5:03 PM, Michael wrote: > First question: is there any way

Re: *

Feb 8, 2018, at 10:03 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> Something evil is going on here, and I don't know where to stab it. > > Bad cable? > > > -Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigrou

Re: *

> On Feb 8, 2018, at 11:47 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > On 08 Feb 2018, at 21:03, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> Tonight, I plugged in my iPhone to the USB port and opened iPhoto to upload >> the photos. iPhoto just says

*

I (purposely) never transitioned from iPhotos to Photos. Other than the entirely artificial, Apple-inflicted loss of the ability to delete iPhone photos after importing them into iPhoto (now I just do it by hand), everything has worked fine. Recently, I took a 3:37 video with my iPhone, which

Re: 32-bit apps?

Perhaps do a full Spotlight reindex on your drive. > On Feb 6, 2018, at 12:04 AM, William Ehrich wrote: > > System Information > software > applications "no information available" ??? > > -- William Ehrich > Edina, Minnesota >

Re: Re-enabling low disk space notices

Maybe I didn't get the memo, but I don't think that MacOS offers notices of low disk space. Entirely out of space, I've seen for sure, but not low. Perhaps you had some other tool (something like Onyx, Cocktail, Drive Genius, or whatever) that offered this feature and you deleted it? In any

Re: iMac hibernation mode

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 6:02 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Vanilla install of macOS Sierra on a blank HDD. No network. The problem is > not that the machine isn’t going to sleep. It’s that when it does sleep, it > goes into hibernation sleep, and has to restore

Re: using a set uid root appkit program to gain root

tlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > On 22 Jan 2018, at 15:58, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> You'll lose every other saved password in your keychain but at least you'll >> be able to log in. > > If you use iCloud and have syncing of the keychain enab

Re: broken contact sync

> On Jan 22, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com > <mailto:j...@jeffweinberger.com>> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com > <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: > This is just my ex

Re: easily create passwords and display time in different time zones

Well, thanks anyway, I enjoyed it. I still use the world clock widget. In fact, I have to continually modify the Apple-distributed time zone files in every release to add a couple entries, such as Riga (Latvia), which is a capital city but still apparently doesn't rate a spot on Apple's

Re: 2 bootcamp questions

I'm not surprised that the really low-level hardware-accessing stuff might not run properly from Parallels. It is, after all, an emulation box. I originally installed Boot Camp because I needed to run comm tools (commercial router initialization and boot servers) that I thought would be too

Re: Lost password

> On Jan 16, 2018, at 9:00 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jan 17, 2018, at 3:58, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> Passwords can't be recovered. They can be reset, but doing so abandons >

Re: Lost password

Passwords can't be recovered. They can be reset , but doing so abandons every subsidiary password stored in your keychain (websites, banks, etc.) unless and until you remember what the password was before you reset it. So take the time to try a few

Re: antivirus/malware ?

> On Jan 9, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Michael wrote: > > Can you please explain how downloading a bit torrent file from a known good > seed is any different than downloading a file directly from a known source? > > (I seriously thought it was effectively equivalent, other than

Re: BootCamp troubles

> On Jan 2, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > wrote: > > My complaint is that although the MacPro tries to boot into Windows, it seems > to get stuck before Windows finishes booting. At that point, I power down and > use the option key to boot into

Re: BootCamp troubles

The question here is, how did you get it to boot into Windows in the first place? If you did it by changing the boot disk in System Preferences, then your first sentence is entirely proper operation. If you did it "temporarily" via the option key, then it shouldn't have gotten set permanently

Re: BootCamp troubles

That's odd behavior indeed. You might want to search on the Windows side for the boot camp installer wizard and re-run it. I can't provide any helpful details or locations because I migrated all my Boot Camp Windows OSes into Parallels VM files a few years ago to simplify the backup issues. >

Re: Known problem w/older iMacs?

> On Dec 28, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Yes, his system is not very old. Probably just needs a new HDD and macOS > reinstall and it would be good to go. My understanding is that it is an iMac > (21.5-inch, Late 2013) iMac14,1, but I’m not 100%

Re: Known problem w/older iMacs?

Unplugging the Mac is the most common reset across the various models of iMacs, but of course it doesn’t do squat for laptops. > On Dec 27, 2017, at 10:09 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > >> On Dec 27, 2017, at 8:53 PM, @lbutlr wrote: >> >> unplugging the

Re: Known problem w/older iMacs?

have. > On Dec 27, 2017, at 9:23 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > If it were just a mouse issue, how would that cause a gray screen and an > automatic restart of the iMac? > > -Carl > > >> On Dec 27, 2017, at 9:20 AM

Re: Known problem w/older iMacs?

Well, the first big question: is the mouse wireless? Maybe he just need to change the batteries! > On Dec 27, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Is the following a known problem with older iMacs running Sierra? > > A (not-so-very-computer-savvy)

Re: antivirus/malware ?

curiosity, Malwarebytes didn’t show up anything when run > on my own systems, but then I’m not experiencing any malware-related issues. > > -Carl > > >> On Dec 18, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> I forgot – this mailing list

Fwd: antivirus/malware ?

I forgot – this mailing list is still configured such that replies never go back to the actual list. I do wish someone would change that. Begin forwarded message: > From: Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> > Date: December 18, 2017 at 9:05:36 AM MST > To: Jean-Ch

Re: Nuisance emails

I've found Mail rules in general to be pretty weak tea. Does your mail host at caltech.edu give you pattern-based blacklisting capabilities? This is the sort of filtering I perform trivially in cPanel at my hosting server — I have a dozen stupid, useless TLDs blocked to date (they were

Re: Unrestful sleep

Well, it's being scheduled by launchd, so you should be able to use a tool like Lingon or Launch Control to see what jobs you have scheduled. You can disable any of the ones you suspect are causing the problem and reboot, and see if the problem goes away or not. > On Nov 25, 2017, at 11:51

Re: USB flash drive installer for macOS

Marvelous! I was entirely unaware of this offering, and have been outfitting client's repairs with the software solution. Thank you! > On Nov 14, 2017, at 10:30 PM, David Schwartz <da...@yesdavid.com> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2017, at 8:06 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com

Re: USB flash drive installer for macOS

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 9:44 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > > Beginning with the 2010 iMac, Apple started pulling drive temperature data > from the SATA pins of the OEM drives. After market drives usually didn't > provide the same pin-out information, even when they were the

Re: USB flash drive installer for macOS

I don't remember all the details of the earlier postings, but is it possible that whatever you are doing is falling afoul of HS's strong desire to run a completely new file system on internal drives? I'm not sure at exactly what step of the installation or pre-installation process old HFS+

Re: USB flash drive installer for macOS

There are a couple of reasons for this message to appear. One is that the machine doesn't satisfy the release requirements (memory size or processor type). Another is that the installer you are using is too old a copy, and the security certificate has expired (yes, the message is misleading).

Re: USB flash drive installer for macOS

Curiously, we did this exact same dance on the AMUG mailing list about two weeks ago. > On Nov 11, 2017, at 10:06 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > >> On Nov 11, 2017, at 8:52 PM, David Schwartz wrote: >> >>

Re: Trackpad weirdness ?

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 9:12 AM, larkost wrote: > > >> On Oct 17, 2017, at 8:42 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> If this is commonplace -- apple using a battery that by design will swell >> over time and damage the trackpad/case > No, this is true of

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