Re: Another clean install for me and a question

Hello, Okay this is getting wierd. I did the clean install and now I have three volumes labled macintosh hd data plus the system volume. Does anyone know if I can just delete the two extra volumes? If not what else can I try? Thanks, Greg Wocher Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2020, at

Re: PDF reader for Mac?

Adobe reader is also surprisingly accessible on both Mac and iOS. > On Jan 10, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Bradford Snyder wrote: > > Have you tried using Preview? Preview comes with the macOS, so you can find > it in your Applications folder. Check it out. > > HTH > > - Brad - > > > > On Jan 10,

Re: PDF reader for Mac?

Have you tried using Preview? Preview comes with the macOS, so you can find it in your Applications folder. Check it out. HTH - Brad - On Jan 10, 2020, at 11:57, Matt Turner wrote: Hi folks. Just wondered if there was a good pdf reader for the Mac? -- The following information is

Re: iCloud Drive and Editors

Hi ET, I haven't had time to mess with this for a while, but no, I did not have that problem. I was able to open a file that had been edited in Windows. Cheers, Donna > On Jan 10, 2020, at 10:08 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Donna, > I was testing different things and was not

Re: Notifications

I looked today, and there is no short cut for “answer”. I did see a shortcut action that could be useful for Sysadmin folks. Run ssh and pipe a set of commands to remote server. I did not look at how one configures Host/Id/Certificate/password but I could see where one could set up Restart

Re: Another clean install for me and a question

Did you erase the volume group or just volume? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 1/10/2020 12:06 PM, Greg Wocher wrote: Hello, Okay this is getting wierd. I did the clean install and now I have

Re: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

Hi, Officially, it's not necessary, but I recommend that you do sign out of both. With respect to iTunes, I suggest you De-Authorize the computer first if it is authorized to play your content, then sign out of your iTunes account. Then, sign out of iCloud including turning off of Find My

Re: iCloud Drive and Editors

I'm not sure if I could open my windows edited file in writer. If I get some time this weekend, I'll try and re-test. Donna > On Jan 10, 2020, at 4:59 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hmm! Well I will try to figure things out this weekend. On the iPhone I > got to where if I

Re: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

And just to check: if I do choose to erase the HD and reinstall, should I sign out of iCloud and iTunes before restarting the MacBook in Recovery mode? Harry > On 10 Jan 2020, at 17:22, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > Go in to System Preferences, Users & Groups, press

Re: Is there a way to disable Voiceover announcement of braille pattern dots for braille Unicode?

Hello Jonathan and Simon, Thanks for your replies brothers! Yes, I think you understand the exact issue we are facing. NVDA on windows, and Jaws I think, don't announce the braille Unicode characters as voiceover does on the Mac. What was interesting to me that Jonathan thinks that this is a

Re: Another clean install for me and a question

Greg, Likely that happened if you did not erase the volume group. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 1/10/2020 9:25 AM, Greg Wocher wrote: Hello, I discovered that for some reason in my last clean

Re: Is there a way to disable Voiceover announcement of braille pattern dots for braille Unicode?

The user can easily silence the speech, so I wouldn’t regard this as a problem. However, for anyone who uses speech without a braille display, the braille material would otherwise just be treated as whitespace, I suppose, and I’m not sure that’s desirable. Perhaps a punctuation/symbol setting

Re: Notifications

Hi, I have posted something on Apple Discussions to the wider community in hopes that someone has an idea, or is better at Shortcuts than my limited knowledge. So far, my requests to Apple directly have not had any traction as far as I can tell. Then again, Apple isn't known for telling you

Re: iCloud Drive and Editors

Hmm! Well I will try to figure things out this weekend. On the iPhone I got to where if I open a file in either Pages or Writer it would open in iCloud Drive. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On

Re: PDF reader for Mac?

Preview is already installed. Another interesting and freely available option would be the PDF reader in Google Chrome. Also, Adobe Reader for Mac has some accessibility features, but I don't know how effective they are currently. On 1/10/20, 11:57, "Matt Turner" wrote: Hi folks.

Re: Another clean install for me and a question

Hi, Do not delete the other volumes. APFS works different than older styles of disk formatting. Those volumes are not rigid and are resized as required. See this link for details on APFS: https://www.amsys.co.uk/apple-file-system/ This is an

Re: iCloud Drive and Editors

Donna, I may be overdriving this. I want to settle on which rtf editor I use on the Mac and on the iDevices. I copied the same document to the native TextEdit folder in iCloud Drive. But on the iPhone, when I want to the TextEdit folder and selected that file, it opened in Voice Dream

RE: Another clean install for me and a question

Hi greg, why not start the machine up in to recovery mode using cMd plus R then under utilities go to disk utility and find the internal drives macintosh HD volume and eraise that. Then back to utilities and install If you have more than one volume called Macintosh HD then use a USB Flash

Re: iCloud Drive and Editors

Donna, Perhaps if I could impose upon you, it might help me if you can tell me how you do it. Using Voice Dream Writer, what steps do you take to create or edit an rtf document? Do do all of it from the Voice Dream Writer on iCloud Drive? When I edit the document, I do not see a

RE: Notifications

Yes Tim I do agree, But I’m sure I’ve seen / heard something somewhere about a don’t notify if on a call It could have been from a completely different device / system but it for some reason rings a bell. I’ll have to go through my phone and check everything again to figure out where I got

RE: Is there a way to disable Voiceover announcement of braille pattern dots for braille Unicode?

Hi Mohammad, Hmm, Yeah I’m kind of wondering if this shouldn’t be left as it is, I don’t see much being wrong with the way it works currently, As for points on a graph, is the graph something that excel might be able to with VO represent with voice announcements as to points on the given

RE: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

Hi ET, Could you create a new user account / profile and then delete your account / profile which should give you the option to remove all data with that particular account? Would think that to be easiest option. -Original Message- From: 'Harry Bell' via MacVisionaries Sent:

RE: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

Tim, Great minds think alike, Not sure in our case but that was my thought also. From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2020 6:23 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Erasing data without reinstalling OS? Hi, Go in to System Preferences, Users &

Re: Notifications

Simon, Yes, that seems extreme though. I would never know when messages were received unless I went into the Messages app. I do do that for Mail notifications, as I don't want my phone dinging all day when I'm busy in meetings or whatever. Messages are a different level of action in my

Re: iCloud Drive and Editors

Donna, I was testing different things and was not looking in the app specific folder. But now a question. If say, on Windows, I edit an rtf file then try to view it on the iPhone, I get an error message saying it failed to import, file must be in plain text. This happened in both Voice

Re: Notifications

Hi, If there is, I haven't found it yet. Maybe you're thinking of it because I've mentioned it before, or it's just a darn fine idea, or that it's the way it should be, so you thought about it so hard that it became reality in your mind :). Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple

PDF reader for Mac?

Hi folks. Just wondered if there was a good pdf reader for the Mac? -- 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 member's post is inappropriate, please contact

Another clean install for me and a question

Hello, I discovered that for some reason in my last clean install I ended up with two macOS data volumes instead of just one. I think this is what is causing some of my weird issues. So I am going to do another clean install this weekend. Hopefully this time I will get it right. I wonder if I

Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

I have an old MacBook 2009 running Mavericks which I want to give away to a blind friend. Is there a way of removing all my data without having to reinstall the OS? I no longer have a copy of Mavericks to use to reinstall the OS. Any help would be great! Thanks Harry -- The following

Re: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

Hi, Go in to System Preferences, Users & Groups, press the lock and enter your password to unlock this pane. Press on the Add User button and create a new user. There is a pop-up menu to the VO-left of the Name field that you need to change from Standard to Administrator. After setting this

Re: Another clean install for me and a question

Hi, Do the following: 1. Restart your Mac. 2. Hold down the cmd and r keys to make sure it starts in Recovery Mode. 3. At the MacOS Utilities window, select Disk Utility then press Continue. 4. In Disk Utility, in the Disk Selection table, select the first Macintosh HD item. 5. Stop

Re: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

Thank you so much, Tim, for such a practical step by step set of instructions! So Apple keeps relatively old OS installers we can use to reinstall online? Harry > On 10 Jan 2020, at 17:22, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > Go in to System Preferences, Users & Groups,

Re: Erasing data without reinstalling OS?

Hi, Yes, they do. All the way back to Lion for sure. Best. Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 10, 2020, at 10:42, 'Harry Bell' via MacVisionaries wrote: Thank you so much, Tim, for such a practical step by