Re: Trackpad weirdness ?

I don't know about slips, but batteries that swell (age is only an incidental factor) can keep them from clicking, and can sometimes bulge them right out of their frame. If your Mac has screws in the bottom, open it up and examine your battery. If it is bulged, get it replaced, stat. > On

Re: Awful bugs in HS Mail

kreme.com> wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2017, at 18:09, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> This may be voodoo, but consider vacuuming your mailbox: >> >> http://brettterpstra.com/2015/10/27/vacuuming-mail-dot-app-on-el-capitan/ > > Wow. I am really surp

Re: Awful bugs in HS Mail

This may be voodoo, but consider vacuuming your mailbox: http://brettterpstra.com/2015/10/27/vacuuming-mail-dot-app-on-el-capitan/ Note: the 10.10 in the code should really say 10.11 (see the page comments). > On Oct 14, 2017, at 4:53 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary >

Re: Macs Fan Control (was: Re: High Sierra and MacPorts)

> On Oct 12, 2017, at 5:05 AM, Michael wrote: > Also, is there a temperature over time graphing program that works with > modern macs? > I used to use Temperature Monitor, but it doesn't work with modern macs, and > said that the method it used to use to get temps no

Re: Can't log out or switch user

Well, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about Apple's "entitlement requirements," but I still have no idea how something like that could happen. Other than one report where a guy claims these messages were solved by replacing the mismatched RAM in his machine, so maybe check that. :-/

Let them eat kernel_task

I use my MacBook Pro outdoors on the job. For a significant portion of the year, the ambient temperatures here are in the 90-110 range. While outdoors on the job (but at no other time), I have been having a problem where the machine bogs down to an absolute crawl. The reason is kernel_task

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 on macOS High Sierra

Not to worry. When the bomb does drop, now you'll get no warning whatsoever. :-) For years, I've used an envelope/label printing app called Inprint, by Ampersandbox. They stopped "supporting" it ages ago, but it still worked. I just found out that the company went out of existence since I

Re: Mail PREVIEW pan

Damn. I reproduced this immediately. It seems to be an ugly bug. To get around it, go to Mail / Preferences / View and click "classic layout." This will make the panes horizontal, with a dimple on the bottom bar. Grab the bottom dimple and drag up to open up the message pane again.

Re: Ugh -- Mail in 10.12.6 -- Show stopper

Control-command-F does it. Maybe your hand got sloppy when you tried to forward a piece of mail. Also, in recent releases, double-clicking the top bar of a window (that has one) grows the window to the full screen size, not quite "full-screen mode" but close. > On Sep 26, 2017, at 10:36

Re: Getting a command to move to the time machine backup of working dir

In Multics, there were something like four different controls in the command processor to address problems like this, each of which performed requoting, each with slightly different semantics and producing slightly different results, and all useful in different contexts.

Re: Ugh -- Mail in 10.12.6 -- Show stopper

None of this sounds remotely familiar. Mail / Preferences / Viewing has a checkbox for "Use classic layout." Maybe that will solve your problem. Mind you, what you are describing is NOT the recognized behavior of the "new" layout, but perhaps changing layouts will circumvent whatever it is

Re: extend text selection

I don't know of one, but while you hold the second click, you can mouse in the direction of things you want to include and the selection will expand. > On Sep 22, 2017, at 8:18 PM, William Ehrich wrote: > > Double click selects an alphanumeric string. Is there any way to

Re: Moving a phone call

fly under Continuity's radar. > On Aug 31, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > > I misunderstood your meaning. I thought you were saying that you had a > friend whose iPhone never reflected his incoming calls to his computer. > Apparently, you were

Re: Moving a phone call

PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > On 31 Aug 2017, at 13:13, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> On Aug 31, 2017, at 10:52 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >>> On 29 Aug 2017, at 15:06, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >>

Re: Moving a phone call

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 10:52 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2017, at 15:06, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> I know that I can answer phone calls on my Mac when my iPhone is ringing. > > That reminds me. USUALLY, when phone c

Moving a phone call

I know that I can answer phone calls on my Mac when my iPhone is ringing. What I'd like to be able to do is TRANSFER the call to my Mac after I have answered it, once I get back to my computer. I can't find any help on this topic on Apple's website. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Re: Time Machine and hard links

It's more less common knowledge that Time Machine uses hard links to represent files in the backup set that have not been modified during this time period, so they are linked to the most recent actual data in a previous backup set to save space. It's also true that the Mac GUI gives a user

Re: How to safely open a suspect .docx file?

You can use the spacebar in the finder to get a preview of almost any file, though for most of these docxs you will simply get a message that says you have to turn macros on to read the file (a big hint it's malware). You can also open it in Pages, which has no macro facility and is therefore

Re: Reset Admin Password: El-Capitan

> On Aug 3, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Chris Walker wrote: > > It’s not my machine. A friend acts as Admin for his parents machine - an > iMac that dates from Snow Leopard or thereabouts which has been updated > several times. For this reason I doubt there is a recovery

Re: Reset Admin Password: El-Capitan

on the desktop. No idea whether that would > advance anything. > > I suspect Macs R We is correct. A deep breath and dive into single-user boot > is probably best, but do a clone to another drive beforehand. Since I’m not > familiar with terminal commands, I’m guessing you sub

Re: Reset Admin Password: El-Capitan

graded from somewhere around Snow Leopard, unless one of the upgrades > created one somewhere. > > Instead could he use target disk mode in any way? > > Chris > >> On 3 Aug 2017, at 18:19, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> The standard way is t

Re: Reset Admin Password: El-Capitan

The standard way is to boot into the recovery partition, use the Tools option to launch Terminal, then there is a simple command (not chpass, something custom) you use to reset the password. Sorry I don't remember the exact command, but I'm positive this is Googleable. > On Aug 3, 2017, at

Re: Time Machine stops backing up

nected to a UPS. There is a USB > cable running between the two, so that must explain it. The USB cable allows > the UPS to tell the Mac to shutdown gracefully if it's been on battery power > for a specified amount of time. > > As confirmation, when I look at the Energy Saver panel

Re: Time Machine stops backing up

> On Jul 30, 2017, at 6:13 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > wrote: > > Well, I'm not sure whether being connected to a UPS has anything to do with > my problem, but my Mac Pro knows it's connected to a UPS. There is a USB > cable running between the two, so that must

Re: Time Machine stops backing up

ut I'll try turning off Power Nap and see if that works. > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > -Original Message- > From: Macs R We [mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2017 5:38 PM > To: Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <di...@niehs.nih.gov> > Cc: macosx-

Re: Time Machine stops backing up

Try TimeMachine Editor (free) to impose a "manual" schedule outside Time Machine. It won't technically "fix" your problem with native Time Machine, but it might force your way around it. At the minimum, you may get a more informative error message if it also fails. > On Jul 30, 2017, at 1:40

Re: sudumb

andom machines there is only one line that > begins with % : > > %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL > > > Are people blaming Apple for changes or edits they've done themselves to this > file after installation? > > > >> >> -Carl >> >> >>> On

Re: sudumb

thread/7906178?start=0=0 > <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7906178?start=0=0> > > -Carl > > >> On Jul 24, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com >> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: >> >> What would cause sudo to g

sudumb

What would cause sudo to go deaf and dumb? I updated to Sierra three days ago. I tried running a sudo command today and it just sits there like an idiot. Never even asks for a password. The day I updated to Sierra, I got notified that MailTags and GPG were incompatible, so I updated both

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

Yeah, I also endorse CCC as my actual first choice for this task, I was just thinking about how to do it with native MacOS stuff. > On Jul 23, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Michael wrote: > > > On 2017-07-23, at 2:20 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > >> It’s not a

Fwd: [amugtalk] Sierra Time Machine -- new, cleaner interface

Perhaps someone would be kind enough to remove this spamming bitch's access to postings. I have gotten two of these now. Thanks. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Jessica Scott" > Subject: Re: Re: [amugtalk] Sierra Time Machine -- new, cleaner interface > Date:

Re: [amugtalk] Sierra Time Machine -- new, cleaner interface

god-awful remote-service-hostile animated Star Wars background image), but I suspect the big black bar never let itself be covered. Three weeks of coffee duty are strongly indicated for somebody in Cupertino. > On Jul 23, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

Machining properly. > On Jul 23, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2017-07-23, at 12:00 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > >> The way we used to evade this problem 30 years ago was to select an archival >> or compression

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

The way we used to evade this problem 30 years ago was to select an archival or compression utility that preserved all of the file system properties we needed transferred, throw its output into a pipe, and use the dearchival invocation to re-extract it into the target space. > On Jul 23, 2017,

Re: Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

it-now, which is a pretty fair price to escape Apple brain damage. > On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:44 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2017-07-20, at 7:15 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > >>> >>> On Jul 20, 2017, at 6:09 PM, Michael

Re: Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

> On Jul 20, 2017, at 6:09 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2017-07-20, at 1:22 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > >> Number one, a bigger hub would probably be the cheapest and most efficient >> way out of your problem. >

Re: Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

Number one, a bigger hub would probably be the cheapest and most efficient way out of your problem. Number two, I can't imagine there's anything magic about an Apple optical that requires it to be directly connected, as long as you have a powered hub, which you want to have anyway. Sure,

Re: Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

His point is that it's relatively straightforward using Apple tools to modify the size of the last partition on a drive, but modifying the size of any of the partitions except the last is a complete pain in the butt. I haven't played with these tools very much, but there are a number of

Re: Where's my booklet?

It's a great feature. I created a simple (two statements) "Mail Encrypted PDF" automator action in there which turns any document into an encrypted PDF (using a password you type in) and attaches it to a new mail message. I use it to send documents to my

Re: Where's my booklet?

I've never used this feature. Did you try a Finder search of everything "modified today", sorted by modification date? > On Jun 15, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > macOS 10.12.5 > > I have a multi-page PDF document. There's a curious item in

Re: FActime not getting calls from my phone

Did you try creating a new virgin user on your Mac, signed into your same Apple ID? It sounds like some daemon responsible for receiving Handoff requests may not be running properly on your main account. > On May 9, 2017, at 1:31 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > > On 2017-05-09

Re: Trying to (re)create a POP gmail account locally

I can't understand what you are asking. What is a "local account?" All accounts have an ISP, right? So I don't know what a "local" account is. Where are these "10+ years of mails" and which direction are you trying to avoid transferring them? On your machine, or at your ISP? If they are at

Re: Finder Alt+Cmd+F ?

Given this corroboration, I won't do the external drive virgin OS test unless asked. > On Apr 21, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Vince LaMonica wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > } > On Apr 21, 2017, at 19:50, @lbutlr wrote: > } > >

Re: why are Time Machine backups so large lately?

Grend Perspective (free) or Daisy Disk (fast) do this job surprisingly well. > On Apr 19, 2017, at 7:58 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > wrote: > > Any other suggestions? Is there an easy way to get a list of files, ordered > by file size, so that I can see which files

Re: Apple Mail keeps crashing

ailbox and even the mailbox, but that did not help. > > Do you have any other suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > On 04/06/2017, 7:03 PM, "Macs R We" <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > >When I've seen this behavior before, it's because I had Mai

Re: Apple Mail keeps crashing

When I've seen this behavior before, it's because I had Mail open to a piece of HTML mail which was so malformatted that it broke Mail's renderer. The way out is as follows: Quit Mail. Relaunch Mail with the shift key down. That will cause it not to automatically select the same piece of

Re: Text shortcuts

It has the smell of a permissions or corruption issue. I'd monitor the DTM of stuff in ~/Library while I change some shortcuts, to see in which file they get stored. Then I'd wipe that file completely and start over. > On Apr 5, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary >

Re: Cell-capable Macs?

e devices can connect to > the internet through its cellular connection? I don't see anywhere that a Mac > requires a SIM card, cellular contract, etc. > -Carl > > >> On Mar 25, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> Well, of course,

Re: Your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage

Maybe you're one of the poor bastards that the Turkish Crime Family decided to use as a proof of concept. > On Mar 23, 2017, at 1:12 AM, @lbutlr

Re: Your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6707221?tstart=0 > On Mar 21, 2017, at 6:24 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Recently I began getting the following alert popping up on my iMac: > > Your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage and FaceTime on a new Mac. > If you

Re: iCloud Passwords

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 12:28 AM, Chris Walker wrote: > > I’ve checked the account and couldn’t see anything untoward, so yes it’s > probably some fool typing it in. I changed the password just in case but > it’s a good idea to change them every so often - where I work they

Re: iCloud Passwords

> On Mar 6, 2017, at 2:41 AM, Chris Walker wrote: > > Could be wrong but I think creating an Apple ID first before you could create > an iCloud mail address came fairly late on. Those who had one of the earlier > @me.com addresses got swapped to iCloud and then finished

Re: iCloud Passwords

The vast majority of people have Apple IDs that are email IDs on providers that are not iCloud. The vast majority of these people never take advantage of iCloud mail by creating a separate iCloud mail ID. These people don't have your problem — their (main) email password and their Apple ID

Re: iCloud Utilities

On Mar 5, 2017, at 12:23 AM, Chris Walker wrote: > > That said I think iCloud Drive may do stuff in the background even when the > machine is asleep. When the machine's asleep, it's asleep. It can't do anything, including pass data to or from its drives, because the CPU

Re: iCloud Utilities

I dunno. I heard and experienced a lot of bitching from early Sierra adopters. CPU totally consumed by "deleted" and other daemons (most but not all of which was laid at the doorstep of iStat Menus,

Re: Mystery automount

Get info will tell you where the .dmg resides in the Finder. > On Mar 1, 2017, at 11:38 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: > > About a year ago, my son installed a game called League of Legends. Ever > since, every time the Mac is rebooted, a League of Legends disk volume >

Re: I'm through with HP

It's not as if we didn't see this arrogance coming. About a year ago, I was called by a client who was having printer problems. It seems her Hewlett-Packard printer was insisting that her new Hewlett-Packard cartridge was counterfeit. When we inserted it, it gave us a little lecture about how

Re: I'm through with HP

Little Snitch is not going to see traffic between a printer and the internet. That traffic doesn't pass through your Mac. > On Feb 25, 2017, at 1:15 AM, Michel Coste wrote: > > I’d suggest the use of Little Snitch. I’ve been using it for years and it’s > perfect! > >

Re: I'm through with HP

r, so I don't know if they produce > vibrant, glossy color prints or not. > > Also, a replacement set of toner cartridges is $135! I hope they last longer > than inkjet cartridges! > -Carl > > >> On Feb 21, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com >&g

Re: I'm through with HP

not-invented-here megalomaniac in the home office decrees they will be done (e.g., HP bloatware / startup daemons / configuration suites). > On Feb 21, 2017, at 8:22 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > >> On Feb 21, 2017, at 8:00 PM, Macs R

Re: I'm through with HP

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > I'm beginning to hate the Internet Of Things... > > I have a Sierra MacPro that's operating within a private, dedicated, secure > LAN with no internet access. I'm trying to hook up an HP inkjet printer to

Re: Moving a TM drive to a new machine

> On Feb 15, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > I want my new system to inherit my old system's TM archives. > > So when I do a backup, it augments the existing archive, and doesn't make an > entirely new one from scratch, which would mean abandoning

Re: Moving a TM drive to a new machine

From your message, I can't understand what effect you are trying to achieve. At first, I thought you were trying to clone all operation of your dead machine onto this other machine, but somehow that doesn't seem to square with your story. Then, I thought you were just trying to reuse the drive

Re: Restoring from TM backup

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > My damaged iMac (OS X 10.10) doesn't have a recovery partition. It ought to, but sometimes this happens. > When I option-boot it gives me a gray screen which shows me the damaged boot > drive, the

Re: /usr/libexec/airportd: Binary is improperly signed

To be safe, I would boot into the recovery partition and reload the entire operating system. Airportd is probably not the only thing damaged, just the first thing you tripped over. > On Feb 11, 2017, at 11:48 AM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > We suffered a nasty

Re: Printer coma issue

Thanks for all your comments on our misbehaving Epson printer. Spent a fruitless half hour on the phone today with an Epson tech who refused to move off "it's a router problem." Finally told him I could prove it was Epson's problem, because they were getting their printer back. Client

"You have custom access"

I have a Mac Mini on the test bench in my workshop that I use as a home server. It's running El Cap with OS X Server. I have file sharing enabled on it. I have an external volume which is shared. The access in OS X server reads: cdt (me), read and write; test ("Test Bench", the admin of

Re: Internet restore failure?

> On Dec 27, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: > Zapping PRAM three times, then trying again successfully executed > internet recovery and installed Sierra (which had never been installed > on this Mac, oddly) Wow… Apple's sure getting pushy, aren't they? :-)

Re: Internet restore failure?

Standard attacks for this problem include zapping the PRAM three times and rebooting into Safe mode (hold shift down). If that doesn't work right off the bat, rebooting into verbose mode (command-V) will sometimes give you a clue as to where it is hanging and why. > On Dec 24, 2016, at 1:47

Re: Hardware issues -- is this common?

I'm aware of the "extended warranty" on the 2011 MBPs (ends December 31, so call now). I haven't heard anything about widespread issues with 2014s. I hate tap-to-press with a passion myself. The worst is on client's machines where they've set the trackpad so slow that you have to "wrap

Re: Find My Friends Notifications

I've never used the email feature if Find My Friends, but if they were actual emails, wouldn't you be able to examine the raw header and see exactly when it was sent and in what time zone? That information is required by the email standard. > On Dec 17, 2016, at 12:04 PM, @lbutlr

Re: [amugtalk] iPad calendar boggy

rything else > (ipad/icloud) and sync the calendar over USB, leaving icloud out of it. > > Do one calendar at a time, if possible. > > If all this sounds vague, it's because I use Fantastical instead of Calendar. > > That's it off the top... > > Tracy > www.va

Re: iCloud keychain passwords are where?

No iCloud keychain was apparent at all. Maybe it takes time to populate. I'll look again when I get back to the shop. > On Nov 14, 2016, at 1:27 PM, David W Vaklyes <dwv-...@wmc-worldwide.com> > wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com>

Re: bash shell command issue

Right off the bat, I think you made a mistake in putting the * at the end of the command. The whole idea of piping the output from LS is to input it to touch, and you just provided touch with another argument first. I think if you just let LS do its job and don't provide touch any arguments,

Re: Airport recognition and airport utility?

Wow. Pretty obscure. Thanks for reporting back. > On Aug 17, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Bill Cheeseman <wjcheese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Aug 17, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com >> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: >> >> It

Re: is Apple Mail unsafe?

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: > > Not so much... Malware can indeed be contained in an image. > > http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/22/stagefright-mac-iphone-ipad/ Agreed, in part. Stagefright was real malware that delivered real malicious code, but not to

Re: is Apple Mail unsafe?

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > wrote: > I just checked my Apple Mail preferences. Under the Viewing tab, I see that > I have the box checked for "Load remote content in message". Is sounds like > I should uncheck that box, right? If I do

Re: printing txt file

If your TextEdit file is unformatted, it will rearrange itself as it feels like when you try to print it. If you want the representation on the page to look like the representation on your screen, you have to change the document to a formatted document – then all of the linebreaks and character

Re: Max native external monitor display

Magic 8-Ball says: Outlook unclear. http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=398=GeForce%20320M …says it can do 2560 x 1600, but has a suspicious void at 2560 x 1440. > On Jun 3, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Carl Hoefs wrote: > > I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch, mid 2010.

Re: Finding HDD manufacturer's name

I used to swear by the Deskstars and Travelstars. Pretty sure Toshiba is still selling. Also HGST, though WD now owns them. > On May 31, 2016, at 7:23 AM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > >> On May 30, 2016, at 4:59 PM, @lbutlr wrote: >> >>

Re: Finding HDD manufacturer's name

Ah, somehow didn't occur to me you would be talking about an external enclosure. The rules are different there. > On May 30, 2016, at 4:57 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > >> On May 30, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.co

Re: Finding HDD manufacturer's name

gnomes in North Korea, and has self-estem issues? :-) > On May 30, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > >> On May 30, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> I'm pretty sure you can get the fo

Re: Finding HDD manufacturer's name

I hope whoever decided to lobotomize Disk Utility in El Cap got fired, but I suspect he got promoted. I'm pretty sure you can get the former information style from System Information. Also third-party tools like Drive Genius are good about reporting it. I suspect there is some UNIX command

Re: Adjusting an image

> On Apr 30, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Michael wrote: > > But the exported was a copy of the original, without any of the edits. > > I cannot believe that a simple "apply this quartz filter", or "apply this > color profile as an adjustment" (there is a lighten, and a darken,

AppleScript failure?

For all the vaunted easy programmability advertised for AppleScript, my experience has been that an AppleScript rarely works across two major releases without needing to be debugged and rewritten to accommodate some change in the OS. I have a script that I wrote way back on Jaguar that takes

Re: Time Machine problem after switching cable modems

Yeah, I think I've seen what is this precise problem before. Time Machine uses the Backups.backupdb repository for backups from the computer to which the drive is directly attached. For backups done over networks, it uses the sparseimage repositories. Don't ask me why the distinction I think

Re: What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?

If you have disk warrior, boot from it and try to repair the drive. If you don't have it, it's really, really worth getting. > On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Michael wrote: > > I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at "random". > > During startup, it

Re: Sending mail without launching Mail.app ?

You mean like Calendar notifications? There's an app called SendLater for delayed mail sending. I think there's at least one other I saw announced within the last two weeks. If you Google "os x" scheduled mail you get all sorts of hits on this subject. > On Mar 18, 2016, at 6:16

Re: Mail & El Capitan

> demise of Eudora (which, while handling large amounts of mail with aplomb, > was abominable in a number of other ways). > > If you have a lot of mail, tread carefully with IMAP and Mail.app, especially > on 10.11. > > Matt > > >> On Jan 19, 2016, a

Re: Mail & El Capitan

I'm reticent to make any such suggestions at all, since doing this using IMAP is WAY simpler than doing it using POP with a Rube Goldberg back-end. You're essentially spending much time and energy — and playing with what are essentially internal interfaces that Apple can change on a whim* — to

Re: Any Word repair specialist ?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500821 This page used to refer to Office 2008… apparently it has been changed to Office 2011 and the 2008 page has gone missing, but if you follow all the same steps, you will probably pith 2008 adequately if not completely. > On Jan 18, 2016, at 4:49 PM,

Re: how do I create folders in Mail? -- SOLVED

Creation of mailboxes in the newer versions of Mail is unfortunately contextual – the mailbox gets created in whatever section you last highlighted some other mailbox. And, as you discovered, you can no longer create a mailbox inside another mailbox by highlighting it – you have to create it

Re: MBP too slow...

Try creating a new user and running stuff there as a test. If it feels zippy, then you've loaded your usual user ID down with too much bloat. Another thing I do is boot from a virgin copy of the OS on an external drive (I have these laying around, as I do housecall service). Modulo the speed

Re: remount usb memory

sically unplugging it? > > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenbu

Windows forum recommendation

Can somebody recommend a forum for general Windows assistance? I tried Tom's Hardware, but it doesn't seem to be getting much traffic. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: QNAP HS210

t; MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___

Re: Mail (big) issues

tall an app that came with OS X (such as Mail or Calendar), > reinstall OS X." > > Since I did not have search/flag issues with Mail right after installing El > Capitan, I'm seriously considering a Mail reinstall. > > Is there anything I should know before doing that ? &

Re: Mail (big) issues

ebuilding the boxes yesterday which > eventually resulted in removing all the data I had there. > > Ok, so now I have restore everything, the mails are here, but Mail search in > all aspects of search in Mail is dead. > > Any idea how to get that back ? > > Jean-Christo

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It looks from the postings you quote as if you are simply traversing the early-adopter badlands. Sorry. > On Oct 28, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Oct 29, 2015, at 07:17, Macs R We <

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> What has to be done to properly restore that inbox and get it properly > imported ? > > Jean-Christophe Helary > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

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