Re: Installing SSD

2016-11-21 Thread christopher hallsworth
Oh I see. Nothing to worry about then. Cheers. > On 21 Nov 2016, at 19:09, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > It will automatically come with one from Apple. The only time you won't have > one is if you're installing a brand new drive yourself. In these cases, > you'll need to

Disregard last message

2016-11-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Sorry, all, I just found the problem. Somehow that blasted message filter option got turned on again. I sure wish there were a way to permanently get rid of that, so far it's been nothing but a nuisance. Cheers, Donna -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Installing SSD

2016-11-21 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hi How do I create a recovery partition just in case my girlfriend's new mac won't have one? I never knew you had to create one in the first instance, since mine came with one for Lion and presumably got updated as each new major OS update was released. Correct? Anyway thanks for any

Re: Installing SSD

2016-11-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It will automatically come with one from Apple. The only time you won't have one is if you're installing a brand new drive yourself. In these cases, you'll need to install the MacOS first so that the Recovery Partition is present. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov

Messages in mail not being saved to folders

2016-11-21 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I'm running the latest build of sierra. I received a message that I want to save to a folder on my Mac. I did that, but when I look in that folder, the message isn't there. In fact, it appears to have been deleted from my Mac altogether. Anyone know why this is happening? If this

editing a video

2016-11-21 Thread jean parker
Hello All: I have two mp4 videos that I want to edit. I want to extract a clip from the videos and save them as separate files. I opened imovie 9 but it is unclear to me as to how to proceed. Could someone walk me through the process, off-list is also fine so as not to clutter the list. As

Re: Trying this again. Wanting to install windows in a boot camp partition from a vm. Can this be done without sited help.

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
Mathew, it’s a matter of file systems. Mac OS is different from fat 32 which is what your usb disk probably is. You need a fat 32 partition or similar to run windows on natively. In the case of vmware, the virtualization engine creates a file that acts like the file system. It’s sort of

Re: editing a video

2016-11-21 Thread Ray Foret jr
Actually, I use Screenflow to do that now. Cost me $99.99 though and I assume you don’t feel like paying that much. For my part, I’d like the answer to this question myself as I think it would be good to know how to do this with the latest version of iMovie just in case. Sent from my Mac,

Re: 4 G is turned off for some reason.

2016-11-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I didn't give them my IMEI number last time and it worked on the 6 plus S. They also told me that if I ever made a call they would get to know what type of phone I was using. I'll call them tomorrow Scott. Thanks so much for your help. Kawal. > On 20 Nov 2016, at 23:38, Scott Granados

Re: can't close preview pane in Mail on new MBP?

2016-11-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Try a double-click on the Splitter. Either with the simulated VO click or on your Trackpad. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 21, 2016, at 18:06, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I'm very excited to say that I just took possession of a 2016 MacBook Pro with

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I could see Airplay going away. I mean, it's not universal. It's generally not cross platform. Look at what Sonos is doing by simply using standard wifi. Not only that, but Bluetooth is really becoming more the thing now. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor.

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Aa, yeah! True! I totally forgot about the line in jack. Well, the Play 5's have line in, so you wouldn't totally be screwed. I get that it would be more expensive. I never said it would be the most ideal, I only said it still could be done. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016.

Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Barry Hadder
I think that this is really bad news. > http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/21/apple-ceases-airport-wireless/ > Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
I have to agree, so flexible across machines too. One of the rich interchangeable things making Apple so reliable. Sad this is taking place to be sure. On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Mary Otten wrote: Well I'm really sorry to see it happen. I was hoping for new Apple routers. I know they charge more

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Brent Harding
I think it was the Airport Express that Sonos and others recommended to use to bring Airplay audio into other setups by way of that line out jack it had. I don't know that other routers have that. - Original Message - From: Scott Granados To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
Put me down in the complicated puff pastry category for routers so I have job security.;) As long as the major backbone routers stay complicated well I’ll be good. Seriously though, the airport was one of the easiest to set up. I was hoping for a nice MIMO TRI band option but I guess that’s

Apple offers free iPhone 6S battery replacement

2016-11-21 Thread Dan D.
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-free-iphone-6s-battery-replacement-unexpected-shut-down/#ftag=CAD590a51e XB -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Barry Hadder
I'm still using an old 4th gen and it still works like a charm. I never had any other brand last this long. Then there's the question of the future of air play. On Nov 21, 2016, at 16:57, Scott Granados wrote: Put me down in the complicated puff pastry category for

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread E.T.
If this is what is called "sin" then count me in. We can always drag out the calorie counters on Black Friday. That soon? Black Friday 2017, that soon enough? Now where are those cheesecakes From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/21/2016

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
Well I’m not sure it’s a real big deal. Granted I have, use and like the airport routers a lot but they aren’t really that full featured. I personally use a different router and use the airports as access points but I was just starting to think it was getting long in the tooth and head in

RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

2016-11-21 Thread Dan D.
http://www.macworld.com/article/3143604/hardware/rip-airport-apple-may-abandon-wireless-routers-and-time-capsule.html#tk.rss_all XB -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Mary Otten
Well I'm really sorry to see it happen. I was hoping for new Apple routers. I know they charge more than some others. But setting up one of those on a Mac was a total piece of cake. I'm all about pieces of cake when it comes to setting up routers. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2016,

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
Hahaha in all seriousness I’m completely down for very easy to use home models and for that matter with very good easy to set up security options. I’d much rather see a more secure home and that made as simple as possible for the end user. People like my mother who shouldn’t have to depend on

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Mary Otten
Oh definitely, for you Scott you would want the double crème brûlée stuff baklava whatever the most possible complicated thing could be. And you're welcome to it. Smile. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Put me down

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Kliphton Miller
Scott, what net gear router would you recommend for the average home user, who wants good range, and a secure network that has an accessible UI? > On Nov 21, 2016, at 11:23 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Everything is going to go to a WiFi standard I suspect. With AD

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
Everything is going to go to a WiFi standard I suspect. With AD coming out for high speed in room access and AC becoming pervasive it makes sense to handle everything natively over WiFi. You can also prioritize each class of data nicely. Bluetooth won’t be the spec, it’s to short range.

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
The Netgear stuff is very doable. They make some highly rated routers now. > On Nov 21, 2016, at 10:38 PM, Kliphton Miller wrote: > > How accessible are those net gear routers? I loved the accessibility of the > time capsule, hope they release some firnwhear updates at

can't close preview pane in Mail on new MBP?

2016-11-21 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm very excited to say that I just took possession of a 2016 MacBook Pro with TouchBar. I'm running into an odd problem, though: the preview pane in Mail won't close to less than 25%. I like to close it completely, so that messages stay unread if I arrow past them. Is there anything I

Re: Trying this again. Wanting to install windows in a boot camp partition from a vm. Can this be done without sited help.

2016-11-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi matthew, I'm afraid not. If you want to make a virtual machine from the Bootcamp partition, you have to set up your Bootcamp partition first, including getting Windows up and running, then you can use Fusion to create a virtual machine to run that partition in MacOS. This is completely

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Kliphton Miller
How accessible are those net gear routers? I loved the accessibility of the time capsule, hope they release some firnwhear updates at least. > On Nov 21, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Well I’m not sure it’s a real big deal. Granted I have, use and like

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I used a Netgear back in the days, and found it to be quite doable. Unless things have changed, they're not that bad. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Kliphton Miller To:

Re: can't close preview pane in Mail on new MBP?

2016-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Alex, I can provide you the AppleScript I wrote to do this with UI Scripting. I only tested it with El Capitan. The code first drops the user into classic view then changes the position of the scroll bar and then switches back to standard view. Best wishes, Jonathan > On

Re: Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products - Mac Rumors

2016-11-21 Thread E.T.
Netgear's web interface is fine. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/21/2016 7:38 PM, Kliphton Miller wrote: How accessible are those net gear routers? I loved the accessibility of the time capsule, hope they release some firnwhear

Re: VM from Bootcamp on a different machine?

2016-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Yes, VMWare Fusion does have a migration tool to migrate from a windows computer. My test lab staff did the migration for me from my HP laptop. I did have to uninstall some drivers on the VM using a remote terminal session before control-alt-delete would work. Also, if the your windows software

Question about playlists in iTunes

2016-11-21 Thread David Chittenden
How does one export playlists from iTunes on one computer so the playlists can be imported to another person's library on a different computer. Both are macs, and both accounts have permission to use each other's apps and playlists (this can be done when each account is in a different country).

Re: Trying this again. Wanting to install windows in a boot camp partition from a vm. Can this be done without sited help.

2016-11-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Matthew, you first need to set up Bootcamp, then you can use VMWare Fusion to make a virtual machine from the Bootcamp partition. I've not done this yet since at present my VM runs side-by-side with OS X, but I've been reading about this on the VMWare site recently, and it looks quite

VM from Bootcamp on a different machine?

2016-11-21 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have a Mac Mini on which is a Bootcamp partition. This weekend I'm getting the new MacBook Pro and getting rid of the Mini. What I'd like to do is use VMWare on the Mac instead of Bootcamp, as rebooting just to do a quick task in Windows is annoying. However, I want to keep what I

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

2016-11-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Frustratingly the Paralells desktop is still inaccessible. I have mailed them a few times about this but with no luck. /A > 18 nov. 2016 kl. 01:07 skrev Scott Granados : > > Very good. For a goof I just tried parallels with their trial option. Talk > about less

Re: VM from Bootcamp on a different machine?

2016-11-21 Thread Phil Halton
I imagine you would first convert the Boot Camp to a VM on the mini, and then transferred to your new Mac and imported into VM there. During the import VMware will recognize that the virtual machine is from a different Computer and you will be asked if you wish to move or to copy the VM. I

Re: Question about playlists in iTunes

2016-11-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, • Select the playlist you wish to export. • Go up to the File menu, down to Library, right and down to Export Playlist. this will export a .txt file and place it in the location you wish to save it. I usually put it on the Desktop. You can then get the txt file to the other individual

Re: VM from Bootcamp on a different machine?

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
Alex, I’m sure there’s a cleaner way of doing this but let me offer you a suggestion. Why not build the VM with the assistant first with a new install of windows then share over your network the contents of the boot camp partition you wish to keep then copy across what you want to keep in the

Re: The control-G vm fusion question again

2016-11-21 Thread Scott Granados
I noticed this as well. It looks like an interesting product and the installation is very accessible but it all goes sideways once you run the application for the first time. To bad bu I like fusion well enough so at least we have a very good option there and virtual box will be the next