Re: Will the ipod Touch Announce the time somehow?

[Steve Matzura]

If I tap in the upper right corner of my iTouch 64, it announces the
time.  I don't even think it's a button I'm tapping, so it may e that
if you tap anywhere on the screen other than on a button, you get this
behavior.  I'll have to try it out after I recharge the thing.

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Did I lose my network?

[Steve Matzura]

My iMac booted up fine last week--got on the network, did what I
wanted, then shut it off.  THree days later, I boot it up and poof, no
network.  The wire that goes from my iMac back to the router in the
next room is well over 50 feet long, probably closer to 70.  Well
within the hundred-meter limit of your standard Cat 5 or 6 cable run.
However, since the iMac has Wi-Fi capability, is it possible it's been
switched over to that and there's some way I can press a key to
disable Wi-Fi?  IN the meantime, I'll turn myself into a snake and
start crawling around, looking for breaks in this cable run.

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Networked Fixed

[Steve Matzura]

For some reason, my wife did not see the box in the upper right corner
of the screen which said it was looking for an Airport connection.
Turned that off, and bingo, back to the net we went!

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Re: One Password

[Steve Matzura]

There's a shortcut key to copy the hidden password to the clipboard, but 
since it's a phone you're talking about here, that option probably 
doesn't exist. However, all is not lost. In Preferences you'll find a 
setting to show passwords. Your is probably not checked,which is the 
usual setting. Turn that on, and you'll see passwords when you select 
logins.



On 5/5/2018 9:34 PM, E.T. wrote:
Perhaps there is a second entry that has your password? That can 
happen sometimes when adding a new site into 1Password.


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On 5/5/2018 6:17 PM, Marie Lyons wrote:
I need to find a password so I can input it into my phone. One 
Password is on my Mac but not the phone. When I went into the app the 
table listed my user name but not passwords. How can I access that info?


Marie Lyons

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Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

As I said, if I had a dead one on which to practice, I'd try it on the 
real thing, but having to get it right the first time is more than I'm 
willing to risk. With machines with large cabinets where there's lots of 
space for more than two or three fingers,or two fingers and a tool, I'm 
quite confident, but not with this small positional stuff. Not without 
practice first.



On 5/14/2018 11:11 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

some of the newer. Minis are challenging to open.  After they're open, 
replacing the drive is actually not particularly difficult.  Most of 
the Apple laptops are also reasonably easy to get at the drive, but 
memory is a different animal, especially for those that have RAM that 
is soldered to the board.  I believe that your model of Mini has RAM 
that is user changeable, but, still getting into it is the challenge. 
 I go inside these fairly often, but I totally understand your 
reluctance and feel that if you're not confident, then your better 
served to have a Tech perform the upgrades.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On May 14, 2018, at 08:31, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Firstly, I don't have a set of Torx screwdrivers. Secondly, the way I 
hear it described, there are lots of short and delicate wires that I'm 
afraid I'd snap without even knowing it. If I had a dead Mini on which 
to try it first, I'd definitely pick that one apart and see what it's 
like in there, otherwise, too risky for me.



On 5/13/2018 5:32 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Why not do it your self?

 The hdd isn't easy but it can be done.

Ram is so simple you'd be crazy not to do it yourself.

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Subject: Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat 
would you do?


I was thinking of doing that, but with the proliferation of computer 
repair joints, I don't know how I'd figure out which ones are 
reputable and which are not. I'm already thinking about where to go 
to have this stuff done. There's actually a place right down the 
street from me that sells Apple stuff, but they're not an Apple Store 
store. I know that sounds gramatically in error, but you know what I 
mean I'm sure. I'm going to give them a call first to find out if 
they'll handle the third-party hardware aspect of this upgrade.



And thanks in advance for the research.


On 5/12/2018 3:54 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
I’ll do some research on parts for your Mini and get back to you in 
a few hours.


Just one thing, if you want Apple to do the upgrade for you, as far 
as I know they won’t allow you to buy your own SSD and RAM. They 
will quote you on their parts and installation, even if the same 
parts you wanted to buy in the first place, it will be a lot more 
expensive going threw Apple.
If you want to buy your own parts you’ll have to get a third party 
shop to do the installation for you. Ask around your area, usually 
there are a lot of third party computer places willing and able to 
work on Apple hardware as well at much better prices.


Nick


On 12 May 2018, at 03:51, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Nick,


If a new Mini is on the near horizon, then I can hold my breath and 
see what it's like when it arrives. But a disk upgrade could always 
be useful, even if I buy the new Mini later.



Re upgrading, memory and SSD are the highest of priorities. I 
already have my eyes on solutions for the disk. I don't think I'd 
want to waste one of four USB ports for a boot device, though, 
except if it was just for short-term testing and setup. I'm 
thinking of paying Apple the dollars, about a hundred fifty of 
them, to swap the drive and double the memory for me (plus parts, 
of course). I just have to obtain the correct sticks, as you say. 
Any advanced info before searching for info thereon would be most 
appreciated.



Re the external MyBook with TM backups and samples on it, the 
samples and other music production library stuff is all 100% 
duplicated on a drive on a Windows machine, and even if that 
breaks, it can all be re-downloaded from the sites from which it 
was purchased. Once the SSD is installed in the Mini, that data 
gets moved there, giving the whole 3TB MyBook drive over to TM.


About the Mac Pro, I think I'm off that idea for good, and not just 
because of your explanation. Yes, the ones I'm seeing on eBay are 
2013 build models, therefore not upgradable. But with eight cores 
and 32GB memory, I don't think any upgrading would even be 
necessary, with the exception of swapping the internal drive it 
come

Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

Firstly, I don't have a set of Torx screwdrivers. Secondly, the way I 
hear it described, there are lots of short and delicate wires that I'm 
afraid I'd snap without even knowing it. If I had a dead Mini on which 
to try it first, I'd definitely pick that one apart and see what it's 
like in there, otherwise, too risky for me.



On 5/13/2018 5:32 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Why not do it your self?

  The hdd isn't easy but it can be done.

Ram is so simple you'd be crazy not to do it yourself.

-Original Message-
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Behalf Of Steve Matzura
Sent: Sunday, 13 May 2018 3:09 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

I was thinking of doing that, but with the proliferation of computer repair 
joints, I don't know how I'd figure out which ones are reputable and which are 
not. I'm already thinking about where to go to have this stuff done. There's 
actually a place right down the street  from me that sells Apple stuff, but 
they're not an Apple Store store. I know that sounds gramatically in error, but 
you know what I mean I'm sure. I'm going to give them a call first to find out 
if they'll handle the third-party hardware aspect of this upgrade.


And thanks in advance for the research.


On 5/12/2018 3:54 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
I’ll do some research on parts for your Mini and get back to you in a few hours.

Just one thing, if you want Apple to do the upgrade for you, as far as I know 
they won’t allow you to buy your own SSD and RAM. They will quote you on their 
parts and installation, even if the same parts you wanted to buy in the first 
place, it will be a lot more expensive going threw Apple.
If you want to buy your own parts you’ll have to get a third party shop to do 
the installation for you. Ask around your area, usually there are a lot of 
third party computer places willing and able to work on Apple hardware as well 
at much better prices.

Nick



On 12 May 2018, at 03:51, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

Nick,


If a new Mini is on the near horizon, then I can hold my breath and see what 
it's like when it arrives. But a disk upgrade could always be useful, even if I 
buy the new Mini later.


Re upgrading, memory and SSD are the highest of priorities. I already have my 
eyes on solutions for the disk. I don't think I'd want to waste one of four USB 
ports for a boot device, though, except if it was just for short-term testing 
and setup. I'm thinking of paying Apple the dollars, about a hundred fifty of 
them, to swap the drive and double the memory for me (plus parts, of course). I 
just have to obtain the correct sticks, as you say. Any advanced info before 
searching for info thereon would be most appreciated.


Re the external MyBook with TM backups and samples on it, the samples and other 
music production library stuff is all 100% duplicated on a drive on a Windows 
machine, and even if that breaks, it can all be re-downloaded from the sites 
from which it was purchased. Once the SSD is installed in the Mini, that data 
gets moved there, giving the whole 3TB MyBook drive over to TM.

About the Mac Pro, I think I'm off that idea for good, and not just because of 
your explanation. Yes, the ones I'm seeing on eBay are 2013 build models, 
therefore not upgradable. But with eight cores and 32GB memory, I don't think 
any upgrading would even be necessary, with the exception of swapping the 
internal drive it comes with for an SSD. What kind of killed the whole idea for 
me is that I think these machines only have SATA2 interfaces.

So let's talk more about booting from a USB-connected SSD. The specifications 
really say it all. Have you any recommendations for an adapter, caddy or 
enclosure for a SATA3 SSD? I don't really need one of those big 
three-and-a-half-inch enclosures, and I've never met one I really liked anyway. 
When I buy the SSD, I'll of course buy the two-and-a-half-inch form factor unit 
that will fit into the Mini, but I'd like to set it up and test with it before 
taking the Mini in for the permanent transplant, which is why I'd want the 
enclosure or adapter.

Other than that, I don't think there are any other considerations to ponder 
before starting to order parts and make appointments to have the surgery done.

On 5/11/2018 4:11 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
Firstly when talking Mac Pro I presume you are referring to the cheese grater, 
since that’s the only Mac Pro which is upgradable, the newer trashcan isn’t at 
all upgradable when it comes to drives and RAM.
The last cheese grater is already older than your current 2012 Mac Mini, 
without some hacking the last model cheese grater can for example not run High 
Sierra where your Mini is still officially supported. The other problem with 
the cheese grater is the wifi and bluetooth on it which can’t be upgraded very 

Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

Oh, the Mini and iMac are definitely upgradable, but with things so 
close together in the box, one wrong move could change everything. I'm 
happy to pay the hundred bucks or so for someone's time to do it for me.



On 5/14/2018 10:42 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Steve I think that’s a good choice.
Personally I also wouldn’t try it and I’ve had my fare share of digging around 
and building computers back in the day when I still had reasonable eye site, I 
was a gamer after all.

You can give me a PC tower or Mac Pro cheese grater any day, something which is 
meant to be upgraded and I’ll happily do the CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM and drives, but 
don’t give me a laptop or something else which is not really meant to be 
upgraded, Mac Mini and iMac falls in this category.
I simply don’t have the confidence to do those anymore without screwing 
something up.

Nick


On 14 May 2018, at 16:31, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

Firstly, I don't have a set of Torx screwdrivers. Secondly, the way I hear it 
described, there are lots of short and delicate wires that I'm afraid I'd snap 
without even knowing it. If I had a dead Mini on which to try it first, I'd 
definitely pick that one apart and see what it's like in there, otherwise, too 
risky for me.


On 5/13/2018 5:32 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Why not do it your self?

  The hdd isn't easy but it can be done.

Ram is so simple you'd be crazy not to do it yourself.

-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On 
Behalf Of Steve Matzura
Sent: Sunday, 13 May 2018 3:09 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

I was thinking of doing that, but with the proliferation of computer repair 
joints, I don't know how I'd figure out which ones are reputable and which are 
not. I'm already thinking about where to go to have this stuff done. There's 
actually a place right down the street  from me that sells Apple stuff, but 
they're not an Apple Store store. I know that sounds gramatically in error, but 
you know what I mean I'm sure. I'm going to give them a call first to find out 
if they'll handle the third-party hardware aspect of this upgrade.


And thanks in advance for the research.


On 5/12/2018 3:54 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
I’ll do some research on parts for your Mini and get back to you in a few hours.

Just one thing, if you want Apple to do the upgrade for you, as far as I know 
they won’t allow you to buy your own SSD and RAM. They will quote you on their 
parts and installation, even if the same parts you wanted to buy in the first 
place, it will be a lot more expensive going threw Apple.
If you want to buy your own parts you’ll have to get a third party shop to do 
the installation for you. Ask around your area, usually there are a lot of 
third party computer places willing and able to work on Apple hardware as well 
at much better prices.

Nick



On 12 May 2018, at 03:51, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

Nick,


If a new Mini is on the near horizon, then I can hold my breath and see what 
it's like when it arrives. But a disk upgrade could always be useful, even if I 
buy the new Mini later.


Re upgrading, memory and SSD are the highest of priorities. I already have my 
eyes on solutions for the disk. I don't think I'd want to waste one of four USB 
ports for a boot device, though, except if it was just for short-term testing 
and setup. I'm thinking of paying Apple the dollars, about a hundred fifty of 
them, to swap the drive and double the memory for me (plus parts, of course). I 
just have to obtain the correct sticks, as you say. Any advanced info before 
searching for info thereon would be most appreciated.


Re the external MyBook with TM backups and samples on it, the samples and other 
music production library stuff is all 100% duplicated on a drive on a Windows 
machine, and even if that breaks, it can all be re-downloaded from the sites 
from which it was purchased. Once the SSD is installed in the Mini, that data 
gets moved there, giving the whole 3TB MyBook drive over to TM.

About the Mac Pro, I think I'm off that idea for good, and not just because of 
your explanation. Yes, the ones I'm seeing on eBay are 2013 build models, 
therefore not upgradable. But with eight cores and 32GB memory, I don't think 
any upgrading would even be necessary, with the exception of swapping the 
internal drive it comes with for an SSD. What kind of killed the whole idea for 
me is that I think these machines only have SATA2 interfaces.

So let's talk more about booting from a USB-connected SSD. The specifications 
really say it all. Have you any recommendations for an adapter, caddy or 
enclosure for a SATA3 SSD? I don't really need one of those big 
three-and-a-half-inch enclosures, and I've never met one I really liked anyway. 
When I buy the SSD, I'll of course buy the two-an

Re: Acrobat DC dual behavior

[Steve Matzura]

OK then,Tim,what would you recommend as a good replacement? I am quite 
happy to remove DC.



On 4/26/2018 10:48 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

No, on Mac.  Adobe claims to have made the reading of pdf documents 
with Acrobat Pro accessible.  I'll admit that they have made 
improvements, but accessible is a huge stretch.  I tried it soon after 
the claim around a year ago, and it was OK until you wanted to do more 
detailed reading or go back over something.  I tried it again 
yesterday after your inquiry, and I got even less results than a year 
ago.  There area number of pdf products on the market right now that 
are very accessible, so any claim by Adobe about the accessibility of 
Acrobat Pro is simply smoke and mirrors.  In this case, it is totally 
an Adobe issue as using the accessibility API hooks is their 
responsibility.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 26, 2018, at 07:45, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


On Windows? Interesting if yes.


On 4/25/2018 5:57 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

Hmmm, interesting.  I opened a 12 page pdf with Preview, it was 12 
with PDFPenPro and 12 with Acrobat Pro.  I still have issues making 
Acrobat work particularly well, but that's probably just me.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 25, 2018, at 14:27, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Seven.


On 4/25/2018 4:07 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

How many pages are there when you open it in Preview?

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 25, 2018, at 13:42, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


I received a PDF which I was asked to sign on page 9. However, when 
opened with Acrobat DC on Mac OS, there were but seven pages. In 
Windows, the pagination was correct. Any clue as to why this might 
be, and how to fix it? I need the Apple Acrobat to match the Windows 
one.



T IA

TIA


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Re: OCR app for mac?

[Steve Matzura]

Well, that's technically not true about the not-free thing, but it 
depends on what you want to use OCR for. If you're talking about using 
it for on-screen stuff, there's one and only one solution: VOCR. If 
you're talking about converting scanned material to text, then yes, 
Abbyy is your new best friend.



On 4/26/2018 3:31 PM, E.T. wrote:

   We all were at some point, Leo.

   Free? No. Paid? Yes. Abbyy FineReader Pro. That is, if you want a 
good app.


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On 4/26/2018 12:23 PM, Leo Bado wrote:

hi, please whatever your answer might be take this in count,

I am a new mac user.

ok, having said that, does anyone know about an good OCR program 
accesible and free?


thanks.






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Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

Agreed on all points.


On 5/11/2018 6:13 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

To upgrade your only going to have 2 hardware options
Tht machine will take 2 8gig sticks of ram for 16GB total.

And
As for the HDD  if you have a 1tb drive in there now,
To replace the hdd with and ssd at the same 1tb drive size you are going to 
have both a large cost and a nice bit of work taking the old drive out,

  The ssd alone might give you nice visible performance changes so I'd check on 
that update first,

If you then still want to update ram then you can.

As for the OS well it's in my thoughts not going to change a lot at this point


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Subject: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and 
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own) 
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook 
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine.
Consequently, once per hour, there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I 
happen to be playing something that draws heavily on sampled content when TM 
runs. Granted, it only lasts for a second or two because the machine does not 
require much in the way of backups, as very little on it changes.


So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?


Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with 
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be 
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009 
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive 
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice 
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other 
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating 
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would 
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not 
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time 
Machine backups.


Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive 
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above.
But how long will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded? 
With the price of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced 
out of upgrading?


Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But 
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?


If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability
quotient? i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most
into the future before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like
my old 2009 iMac turned out to be when Sierra was released.

So, what would you do?



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Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

 a external 
SSD as your boot drive,, but SSD is definately the way to go here. Another 
advantage of doing it this way is that you can very easily reuse that external 
SSD for something else should you stop using your Mini one day.

Before you purchase anything, maybe wait till WWDC next month, a new Mac Mini 
model is long overdue and I hope we will see one announced then.

Nick

On 11 May 2018, at 03:50, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and 
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own) 
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook 
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine. Consequently, once per hour, 
there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I happen to be playing something 
that draws heavily on sampled content when TM runs. Granted, it only lasts for 
a second or two because the machine does not require much in the way of 
backups, as very little on it changes.


So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?


Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with 
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be 
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009 
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive 
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice 
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other 
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating 
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would 
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not 
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time 
Machine backups.


Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive 
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above. But how long 
will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded? With the price 
of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced out of 
upgrading?


Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But 
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?


If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability quotient? 
i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most into the future 
before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like my old 2009 iMac 
turned out to be when Sierra was released.

So, what would you do?

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Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

Jonathan,


No worries about audio and music production on Windows. Got that covered 
with Samplitude.



You gave me a chuckle when you mentioned making my living with sound. I 
haven't been making a living with sound, or anything else for that 
matter, for twelve years now--retired since March, 2006, before which I 
hacked DEC PDP systems, and then OpenVMS, for nearly thirty years. Uncle 
Sam and two pensions are paying me to sit at home and learn all about 
the stuff I wished I had time to learn back when I was working, but are 
way more accessible and fun to use now than they ever were. So maybe 
somebody was saving my best years for me to play with it all when it got 
good and usable.



I think what I'm going to wind up doing is transistorizing my storage 
(upgrading the internal 5400rpm drive to a high-performance 
large-capacity SSD), and at least doubling my RAM. I'll start with the 
disk, which will give me that instrant gratification thing for sure, and 
take my time to shop for memory. When I get the memory in hand, I'll 
make an appointment somewhere to remove and discard the old slow 
mechanical drive and put in the new memory  That'll keep me for years to 
come. Nobody says I have to upgrade the next time Mac OS upgrades.modules.



On 5/11/2018 10:23 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:

If your only issue is that Time Machine is causing a burp because both it and 
your music tools are using the same disk I can think of two possibilities to 
extend the life of your machine.

1. Add an additional hard disk dedicated to TimeMachine. I am not sure what 
efficiencies there are for USB to USB disk copy so it might be that this would 
not work great either. Certainly if the computer has two internal USB 3 hubs 
and your applications end up doing significant I/O it would make sense to try 
and have your disks on separate USB hubs. You can get an idea about this by 
opening the USB row in utilities System Info application. The second panel 
should have a tree view of your USB devices and if there is more than one at 
the first level definitely find out about moving resources to reduce I/O on the 
USB hubs.

The second Option I was thinking of is to just turn off TimeMachine while doing 
your editing.

In any case, if you are thinking of moving to Windows or Linux, and you are 
making your living with sound then, make sure to have enough time to not only 
learn the new platform but also transition all your tools to it. It does seem 
that several blind people are quite comfortable with sound production on the 
PC. I believe Jonathan Mozen even has a book about it.
   

On May 10, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and 
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own) 
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook 
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine. Consequently, once per hour, 
there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I happen to be playing something 
that draws heavily on sampled content when TM runs. Granted, it only lasts for 
a second or two because the machine does not require much in the way of 
backups, as very little on it changes.


So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?


Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with 
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be 
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009 
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive 
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice 
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other 
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating 
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would 
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not 
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time 
Machine backups.


Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive 
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above. But how long 
will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded? With the price 
of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced out of 
upgrading?


Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But 
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?


If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability quotient? 
i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most into the future 
before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like my old 2009 iMac 
turned out to be when Sierra was released.

So, what would you do?

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Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

The new Mini is out, or at least the info about it is? Disappointing to 
hear it's a black-box afair, unupgradable. I'm definitely keeping my 
2012 model.



On 5/11/2018 11:18 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Just remember that the new minis are pre configured so updating isn't possible 
now days.

  The 2012 is the last version of the mini that I believed would allow updating 
of ram and harddrives.

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Subject: Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

Nick,


If a new Mini is on the near horizon, then I can hold my breath and see what 
it's like when it arrives. But a disk upgrade could always be useful, even if I 
buy the new Mini later.


Re upgrading, memory and SSD are the highest of priorities. I already have my 
eyes on solutions for the disk. I don't think I'd want to waste one of four USB 
ports for a boot device, though, except if it was just for short-term testing 
and setup. I'm thinking of paying Apple the dollars, about a hundred fifty of 
them, to swap the drive and double the memory for me (plus parts, of course). I 
just have to obtain the correct sticks, as you say. Any advanced info before 
searching for info thereon would be most appreciated.


Re the external MyBook with TM backups and samples on it, the samples and other 
music production library stuff is all 100% duplicated on a drive on a Windows 
machine, and even if that breaks, it can all be re-downloaded from the sites 
from which it was purchased. Once the SSD is installed in the Mini, that data 
gets moved there, giving the whole 3TB MyBook drive over to TM.

About the Mac Pro, I think I'm off that idea for good, and not just because of 
your explanation. Yes, the ones I'm seeing on eBay are 2013 build models, 
therefore not upgradable. But with eight cores and 32GB memory, I don't think 
any upgrading would even be necessary, with the exception of swapping the 
internal drive it comes with for an SSD. What kind of killed the whole idea for 
me is that I think these machines only have SATA2 interfaces.

So let's talk more about booting from a USB-connected SSD. The specifications 
really say it all. Have you any recommendations for an adapter, caddy or 
enclosure for a SATA3 SSD? I don't really need one of those big 
three-and-a-half-inch enclosures, and I've never met one I really liked anyway. 
When I buy the SSD, I'll of course buy the two-and-a-half-inch form factor unit 
that will fit into the Mini, but I'd like to set it up and test with it before 
taking the Mini in for the permanent transplant, which is why I'd want the 
enclosure or adapter.

Other than that, I don't think there are any other considerations to ponder 
before starting to order parts and make appointments to have the surgery done.

On 5/11/2018 4:11 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
Firstly when talking Mac Pro I presume you are referring to the cheese grater, 
since that’s the only Mac Pro which is upgradable, the newer trashcan isn’t at 
all upgradable when it comes to drives and RAM.
The last cheese grater is already older than your current 2012 Mac Mini, 
without some hacking the last model cheese grater can for example not run High 
Sierra where your Mini is still officially supported. The other problem with 
the cheese grater is the wifi and bluetooth on it which can’t be upgraded very 
easily, same with the USB-2.

I saw a post on another platform the other day of a guy who upgraded a cheese 
grater, it took him a lot of tinkering and hacking, a lot of searching and 
expensive Ebay shopping, but eventually he could upgrade the wifi and bluetooth 
to more current versions, he installed USB-3 and he installed PCI SSD storage. 
The entire modding process eventually costed him more than what he bought the 
second hand machine for, and in the end he commented that it was probably not 
the smartest money he ever spent.

I own a late 2013 iMac which probably has much the same internals as your Mini, 
also 1 TB drive, also 8 GB RAM, I gave this machine of mine some new life the 
other day. The iMac can’t be opened up easily to upgrade the internals and I 
wasn’t willing to pay Apple to do it. I rather decided to get a external USB-3 
SSD to be used as the boot drive. I installed High Sierra on the external SSD 
along with all my other stuff and now I use the internal 1 TB HDD only as mass 
storage. The iMac runs like a dream, it’s nice and fast again, almost as fast 
as my 2015 MBP with 256 GB SSD and double the RAM.

If you are very confident in your abilities or have a friend who can do it, 
then I suggest you install a SSD in your Mini to be used as your boot drive, 
512 GB even 256 GB should do it. I can’t remember off hand, but if I recall 
doing this on the 2012 Mini is still quite easy, I doubt any special tools are 

Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

I was thinking of doing that, but with the proliferation of computer 
repair joints, I don't know how I'd figure out which ones are reputable 
and which are not. I'm already thinking about where to go to have this 
stuff done. There's actually a place right down the street  from me that 
sells Apple stuff, but they're not an Apple Store store. I know that 
sounds gramatically in error, but you know what I mean I'm sure. I'm 
going to give them a call first to find out if they'll handle the 
third-party hardware aspect of this upgrade.



And thanks in advance for the research.


On 5/12/2018 3:54 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
I’ll do some research on parts for your Mini and get back to you in a few hours.

Just one thing, if you want Apple to do the upgrade for you, as far as I know 
they won’t allow you to buy your own SSD and RAM. They will quote you on their 
parts and installation, even if the same parts you wanted to buy in the first 
place, it will be a lot more expensive going threw Apple.
If you want to buy your own parts you’ll have to get a third party shop to do 
the installation for you. Ask around your area, usually there are a lot of 
third party computer places willing and able to work on Apple hardware as well 
at much better prices.

Nick



On 12 May 2018, at 03:51, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

Nick,


If a new Mini is on the near horizon, then I can hold my breath and see what 
it's like when it arrives. But a disk upgrade could always be useful, even if I 
buy the new Mini later.


Re upgrading, memory and SSD are the highest of priorities. I already have my 
eyes on solutions for the disk. I don't think I'd want to waste one of four USB 
ports for a boot device, though, except if it was just for short-term testing 
and setup. I'm thinking of paying Apple the dollars, about a hundred fifty of 
them, to swap the drive and double the memory for me (plus parts, of course). I 
just have to obtain the correct sticks, as you say. Any advanced info before 
searching for info thereon would be most appreciated.


Re the external MyBook with TM backups and samples on it, the samples and other 
music production library stuff is all 100% duplicated on a drive on a Windows 
machine, and even if that breaks, it can all be re-downloaded from the sites 
from which it was purchased. Once the SSD is installed in the Mini, that data 
gets moved there, giving the whole 3TB MyBook drive over to TM.

About the Mac Pro, I think I'm off that idea for good, and not just because of 
your explanation. Yes, the ones I'm seeing on eBay are 2013 build models, 
therefore not upgradable. But with eight cores and 32GB memory, I don't think 
any upgrading would even be necessary, with the exception of swapping the 
internal drive it comes with for an SSD. What kind of killed the whole idea for 
me is that I think these machines only have SATA2 interfaces.

So let's talk more about booting from a USB-connected SSD. The specifications 
really say it all. Have you any recommendations for an adapter, caddy or 
enclosure for a SATA3 SSD? I don't really need one of those big 
three-and-a-half-inch enclosures, and I've never met one I really liked anyway. 
When I buy the SSD, I'll of course buy the two-and-a-half-inch form factor unit 
that will fit into the Mini, but I'd like to set it up and test with it before 
taking the Mini in for the permanent transplant, which is why I'd want the 
enclosure or adapter.

Other than that, I don't think there are any other considerations to ponder 
before starting to order parts and make appointments to have the surgery done.

On 5/11/2018 4:11 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
Firstly when talking Mac Pro I presume you are referring to the cheese grater, 
since that’s the only Mac Pro which is upgradable, the newer trashcan isn’t at 
all upgradable when it comes to drives and RAM.
The last cheese grater is already older than your current 2012 Mac Mini, 
without some hacking the last model cheese grater can for example not run High 
Sierra where your Mini is still officially supported. The other problem with 
the cheese grater is the wifi and bluetooth on it which can’t be upgraded very 
easily, same with the USB-2.

I saw a post on another platform the other day of a guy who upgraded a cheese 
grater, it took him a lot of tinkering and hacking, a lot of searching and 
expensive Ebay shopping, but eventually he could upgrade the wifi and bluetooth 
to more current versions, he installed USB-3 and he installed PCI SSD storage. 
The entire modding process eventually costed him more than what he bought the 
second hand machine for, and in the end he commented that it was probably not 
the smartest money he ever spent.

I own a late 2013 iMac which probably has much the same internals as your Mini, 
also 1 TB drive, also 8 GB RAM, I gave this machine of mine some new life the 
other day. The iMac can’t be opened up easily to upgrade the internals and I 
wasn’t w

Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

Funny you should pick Crucial for this research. My tongue is hanging 
out for their MX500 drive! Big LOL! Thanks very much for this.



On 5/12/2018 5:16 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
This website will tell you everything you need to know regarding 
pricing and compatibility of SSD drives and RAM for your late 2012 Mac 
Mini.

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Apple/mac-mini-%28late-2012%29#

Crucial is a good brand and most places doing Apple upgrades highly 
recommend using only their stuff.
You want to go for the 16 GB RAM kit and then depending on your 
budget, I’d say a 512 or 1 TB SSD.


As for the job of replacing the drive, it looks a bit more complicated 
than I initially thought.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac+Mini+Late+2012+Hard+Drive+Replacement/11716#s27513

Replacing the RAM is very easy though
https://support.apple.com/en-za/HT205041

By all means get a quotation from Apple on this job as well, but don’t 
discount a third party computer shop who will probably be a lot less 
expensive.


As for the external drive enclosure, pretty much any 2.5 inch drive 
enclosure should do it, as long as it’s USB-3, something like this.
https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Inch-Drive-Enclosure-External/dp/B00FCLG65U 



If it was me, I’d buy all the parts and install the RAM myself. I’ll 
then install the SSD in the external enclosure and first try it out 
that way.
Remember by doing only the RAM upgrade you won’t see such a big 
difference in performance, where doing only the SSD upgrade will 
result in a huge difference. So if you can’t do both at the same time 
and you have to choose, rather do the SSD first.


P.S. I don’t know where you people are seeing specs on a new Mac Mini, 
apart from speculation I can find nothing official.


Nick


On 12 May 2018, at 03:51, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

Nick,


If a new Mini is on the near horizon, then I can hold my breath and 
see what it's like when it arrives. But a disk upgrade could always 
be useful, even if I buy the new Mini later.



Re upgrading, memory and SSD are the highest of priorities. I already 
have my eyes on solutions for the disk. I don't think I'd want to 
waste one of four USB ports for a boot device, though, except if it 
was just for short-term testing and setup. I'm thinking of paying 
Apple the dollars, about a hundred fifty of them, to swap the drive 
and double the memory for me (plus parts, of course). I just have to 
obtain the correct sticks, as you say. Any advanced info before 
searching for info thereon would be most appreciated.



Re the external MyBook with TM backups and samples on it, the samples 
and other music production library stuff is all 100% duplicated on a 
drive on a Windows machine, and even if that breaks, it can all be 
re-downloaded from the sites from which it was purchased. Once the 
SSD is installed in the Mini, that data gets moved there, giving the 
whole 3TB MyBook drive over to TM.


About the Mac Pro, I think I'm off that idea for good, and not just 
because of your explanation. Yes, the ones I'm seeing on eBay are 
2013 build models, therefore not upgradable. But with eight cores and 
32GB memory, I don't think any upgrading would even be necessary, 
with the exception of swapping the internal drive it comes with for 
an SSD. What kind of killed the whole idea for me is that I think 
these machines only have SATA2 interfaces.


So let's talk more about booting from a USB-connected SSD. The 
specifications really say it all. Have you any recommendations for an 
adapter, caddy or enclosure for a SATA3 SSD? I don't really need one 
of those big three-and-a-half-inch enclosures, and I've never met one 
I really liked anyway. When I buy the SSD, I'll of course buy the 
two-and-a-half-inch form factor unit that will fit into the Mini, but 
I'd like to set it up and test with it before taking the Mini in for 
the permanent transplant, which is why I'd want the enclosure or adapter.


Other than that, I don't think there are any other considerations to 
ponder before starting to order parts and make appointments to have 
the surgery done.


On 5/11/2018 4:11 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:

Hi Steve
Firstly when talking Mac Pro I presume you are referring to the 
cheese grater, since that’s the only Mac Pro which is upgradable, 
the newer trashcan isn’t at all upgradable when it comes to drives 
and RAM.
The last cheese grater is already older than your current 2012 Mac 
Mini, without some hacking the last model cheese grater can for 
example not run High Sierra where your Mini is still officially 
supported. The other problem with the cheese grater is the wifi and 
bluetooth on it which can’t be upgraded very easily, same with the 
USB-2.


I saw a post on another platform the other day of a guy who upgraded 
a cheese grater, it took him a lot of tinkering and hacking, a lot 
of searching and expensive Ebay shopping, but eventually he could 
upgrade the wifi and blu

Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

Great advice, yes, but would that not be about six times the price? I 
just saw this one from 2017 that looks frightfully good. 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fast-8-CORE-Mac-Pro-OSX-2017-2-8GHz-32GB-Ram-2TB-HD-1GB-HD6870-VIDEO-Warranty/173158663830?hash=item28510f8696:g:ldUAAOSwyXNaRSlf 
Forget the software. The 2T SSD, eight cores and 32GB memory are worth 
the price all by themselves.



On 5/10/2018 10:28 PM, Maria Reyes wrote:

I would wait until the new Mac Pro comes out next year.

Sent from my iPad


On May 10, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and 
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own) 
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook 
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine. Consequently, once per hour, 
there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I happen to be playing something 
that draws heavily on sampled content when TM runs. Granted, it only lasts for 
a second or two because the machine does not require much in the way of 
backups, as very little on it changes.


So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?


Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with 
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be 
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009 
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive 
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice 
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other 
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating 
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would 
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not 
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time 
Machine backups.


Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive 
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above. But how long 
will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded? With the price 
of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced out of 
upgrading?


Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But 
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?


If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability quotient? 
i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most into the future 
before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like my old 2009 iMac 
turned out to be when Sierra was released.

So, what would you do?

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Re: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirely - WWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

It does. I just might go for that 2017 model. For the price, it sure 
looks like one gets a lot. I didn't see anything on the specs about how 
many and what kinds of ports are on it. Will have to look it over again 
more closely.



On 5/10/2018 11:08 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
Hi Steve. Every Mac has a seven year life cycle. Therefore, your 2012 
Mac will still be good until at least next year. With that being said, 
if you do go the Mac Pro route, I'd suggest that you buy the newest 
one you can afford. So if you bought, let's say a 2016 model, that 
machine would still be good until around 2023. Hope that helps with 
your decision.


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On May 10, 2018, at 9:59 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Great advice, yes, but would that not be about six times the price? I 
just saw this one from 2017 that looks frightfully good. 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fast-8-CORE-Mac-Pro-OSX-2017-2-8GHz-32GB-Ram-2TB-HD-1GB-HD6870-VIDEO-Warranty/173158663830?hash=item28510f8696:g:ldUAAOSwyXNaRSlf 
Forget the software. The 2T SSD, eight cores and 32GB memory are 
worth the price all by themselves.



On 5/10/2018 10:28 PM, Maria Reyes wrote:

I would wait until the new Mac Pro comes out next year.

Sent from my iPad

On May 10, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB 
drive and 8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and 
education (mainly my own) with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample 
libraries are stored on an external MyBook 3TB drive which is also 
shared with time Machine. Consequently, once per hour, there's a 
little gligtchiness sometimes if I happen to be playing something 
that draws heavily on sampled content when TM runs. Granted, it 
only lasts for a second or two because the machine does not require 
much in the way of backups, as very little on it changes.



So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?


Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical 
drive with a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, 
which surely can't be upgradable to the next operating system 
forever. I ran into this with a 2009 iMac when Sierra was released. 
For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive for five hundred 
dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice 
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already 
own two other smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I 
changed out the 1TB rotating drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my 
sample libraries to that drive, that would also eliminate the USB 3 
slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not convinced there 
is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time Machine 
backups.



Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 
2TB drive and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as 
above. But how long will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no 
longer be upgraded? With the price of Apple hardware ever 
increasing, will I eventually get priced out of upgrading?



Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a 
drive. But if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?



If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest 
expandability quotient? i.e., which one can I keep the longest and 
expand the most into the future before it won't be expandable/ 
upgradable any more, like my old 2009 iMac turned out to be when 
Sierra was released.


So, what would you do?

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TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?

[Steve Matzura]

I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB 
drive and 8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education 
(mainly my own) with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored 
on an external MyBook 3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine. 
Consequently, once per hour, there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if 
I happen to be playing something that draws heavily on sampled content 
when TM runs. Granted, it only lasts for a second or two because the 
machine does not require much in the way of backups, as very little on 
it changes.



So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?


Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical 
drive with a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which 
surely can't be upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran 
into this with a 2009 iMac when Sierra was released. For disk 
replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive for five hundred dollars--that's 
just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice price. I'm quite fond of 
Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other smaller units used 
in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating drive for a 
2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would also 
eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not 
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for 
Time Machine backups.



Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB 
drive and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above. 
But how long will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be 
upgraded? With the price of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I 
eventually get priced out of upgrading?



Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a 
drive. But if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?



If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability 
quotient? i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most 
into the future before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like 
my old 2009 iMac turned out to be when Sierra was released.


So, what would you do?

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Re: How to Have VoiceOver Report Selected object number in a folder

[Steve Matzura]

OK,thanks. Didn't want to have to increase verbosity just to get this 
info, and I have only needed it once, but it's a good piece of info to 
have in one's back pocket for when one needs it in the future.



On 6/10/2018 12:30 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:

Hello,

In high verbosity I found both current count and total count were spoken in 
column view, when navigating with just the arrow keys.

In list view, vo-R twice or vo-shift-T should provide location information. 
both the vo-r and vo-shift-T commands alternate between two bits of information.



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Re: How to Have VoiceOver Report Selected object number in a folder

[Steve Matzura]

VO R worked only after interacting with a row in the table. Command 
Slash didn't do anything except say Show or Hide Status Bar. I had to 
interact with a row in the table, got a tree view, went to the bottom of 
the list, pressed VO R and got that row number. Kind of a twisted 
method, but I got the answer I needed.



On 6/8/2018 4:45 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

If you have the folder in List view, then press VO-r and the current 
row will be announced.  It won't say 5 out of 10, but will say row 5. 
 You can also know how many items are in the folder by accessing the 
Status bar, which if enabled is at the bottom of the window.  In High 
Sierra, you need to interact with the Status bar to hear its contents. 
 If it's not visible, press cmd-slash while in the folder and you can 
toggle it hidden or not.  I'm not sure if I seen the behaviour you're 
asking of in the Finder, but I know in things like iTunes, it will 
announce row whatever out of whatever.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jun 8, 2018, at 14:38, Steve Matzura <mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


That's a bit ambiguous, I know. What I want to know is how to have 
VoiceOver speak the number of the focused object in the currently 
opened folder--e.g., one of twenty, thirty-seven of five hundre 
fifty-two, etc. Of course, I know about the "Get info" dialog, but 
that only gives a summary of the selected object--i.e., file or 
folder. I should know this, and I'm pretty sure I once did, but of 
course, when one needs such things, they fly out of one's head! LOL


Thanks in advance. Don't beat me up too hard for being so forgetful, 
or I'll invoke the universal answer--wait till you're my age! LOL!


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How to Have VoiceOver Report Selected object number in a folder

[Steve Matzura]

That's a bit ambiguous, I know. What I want to know is how to have 
VoiceOver speak the number of the focused object in the currently opened 
folder--e.g., one of twenty, thirty-seven of five hundre fifty-two, etc. 
Of course, I know about the "Get info" dialog, but that only gives a 
summary of the selected object--i.e., file or folder. I should know 
this, and I'm pretty sure I once did, but of course, when one needs such 
things, they fly out of one's head! LOL


Thanks in advance. Don't beat me up too hard for being so forgetful, or 
I'll invoke the universal answer--wait till you're my age! LOL!


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Re: How to Have VoiceOver Report Selected object number in a folder

[Steve Matzura]

I interacted with the list view table, and VO+R worked. Toggling the 
status bar with Command+/  didn't do anything. What I had to do to find 
out how many rows were in the table was to go to the bottom of the tree 
view after interacting with the table, then use VO+R to tell me the 
number of the last row. Sounds a little twisted, I know, but that's what 
happened and how it worked.



On 6/8/2018 4:45 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

If you have the folder in List view, then press VO-r and the current 
row will be announced.  It won't say 5 out of 10, but will say row 5. 
 You can also know how many items are in the folder by accessing the 
Status bar, which if enabled is at the bottom of the window.  In High 
Sierra, you need to interact with the Status bar to hear its contents. 
 If it's not visible, press cmd-slash while in the folder and you can 
toggle it hidden or not.  I'm not sure if I seen the behaviour you're 
asking of in the Finder, but I know in things like iTunes, it will 
announce row whatever out of whatever.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jun 8, 2018, at 14:38, Steve Matzura <mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


That's a bit ambiguous, I know. What I want to know is how to have 
VoiceOver speak the number of the focused object in the currently 
opened folder--e.g., one of twenty, thirty-seven of five hundre 
fifty-two, etc. Of course, I know about the "Get info" dialog, but 
that only gives a summary of the selected object--i.e., file or 
folder. I should know this, and I'm pretty sure I once did, but of 
course, when one needs such things, they fly out of one's head! LOL


Thanks in advance. Don't beat me up too hard for being so forgetful, 
or I'll invoke the universal answer--wait till you're my age! LOL!


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Esoteric VoiceOver Question

[Steve Matzura]

Is it possible, and if so, how, to turn off/eliminate the on-screen box 
containing what VoiceOver says so that a non-VoiceOver user can access 
what the box covers up? I'm having a problem a sighted person is helping 
me deal with, but the thing they must click on is hidden behind this 
box, and frankly, the whole thing of VoiceOver transcribing what it's 
saying is not necessary, so I want to turn it off, but after looking 
through all the settings in the VO Utility, I can find nothing obvious 
to choose to do this.



Thanks in advance.

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Re: Why it's meaningless to accept a privacy policy, cNet

[Steve Matzura]

This is so ludicrous. The bottom line on all of this is simple: accept 
our policies, whatever they are, whatever you understand them to be, or 
you don't get emails from us any more. Personally, I'm very careful 
about what I tell companies, so if they want to publish my name and 
address in the London Times, let 'em knock themselves out. I want emails 
from these companies, so I have to put up with whatever happens. If I 
don't want to put up with nonsense, then I opt out. It's as simple as that.



On 5/25/2018 10:14 PM, M. Taylor wrote:

Why it's meaningless to accept a GDPR privacy policy
You're drowning in these thanks to the GDPR. But they leave out something
important.
By Laura Hautala, May 25, 2018 8:52 AM PDT

The European Union's General Protection Privacy Regulation takes effect
Friday, and your email inbox has been slowly choking on alerts about the new
privacy law.
You know, the dozens of privacy policy updates you've probably received in
the past few weeks. I'm talking about updates from email providers, social
media companies, banks and what seems like every random internet service
you've ever interacted with -- all letting you know how they're collecting
and using your data.
But here's the thing: When you click "accept" on a privacy policy, even if
you've read it from start to finish, you're most likely still in the dark
about what you're consenting to. That's because privacy policies don't
really tell you about all the things that can be done with your data. With
statistical analysis and, more recently, artificial intelligence, companies
that have your data can draw all kinds of inferences about you. And they use
that in ways you might never predict.
Using information about your browsing habits -- including products you've
shopped for, websites you've visited and search terms you've used --
companies can make informed guesses about your age, location, marital status
and, according to one infamous New York Times report, whether you're
pregnant.
"The typical consumer has no idea how this happens," said Lorrie Cranor,
director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory, who
served as head technologist at the US Fair Trade Commission under President
Barack Obama.
Cue the GDPR, a new law that gives EU residents more say in how their data
gets used. The trouble is, the law doesn't apply to anyone outside of the
EU.
Making inferences from your data
Privacy policies don't make it easy to wrap our minds around how data
collection can affect us. To start with, many internet users don't
understand how data collection tools work.
That's what researchers at Syracuse University and Sapienza University of
Rome concluded after speaking with people who thought their antivirus
software could stop websites and advertisers from tracking their browsing
activity. That's reasonable, but it's also wrong.
Researchers and journalists have also found some clues as to how personal
data collection can have negative consequences, intentional or not. They did
it by creating fake ads and accounts, and seeing what tech companies did
with the data.
Reporters from ProPublica, for example, bought housing-related ads on
Facebook that excluded groups from Facebook-assigned "ethnic affinity
groups." This appeared to fly in the face of housing laws that prohibit
discrimination on the basis or race or ethnicity. The findings prompted
Facebook to stop advertisers from excluding ethnic groups from seeing
certain types of ads.
And researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created fake user accounts and
collected information on Google display ads to see indications that men were
able to view job ads that women couldn't. Google attributed the findings to
factors that weren't based on gender, like an advertiser targeting websites
visited primarily by men.
Cranor said companies don't need AI in order to know to know what they do
about us. Good old-fashioned statistics can get number-crunchers pretty far
in predicting your interests. Things can really heat up when you "add AI to
the mix," she said, and that's when "you're going to see even more powerful
predictions."
This is what has privacy experts like Cranor concerned.
New power in the EU
The GDPR could make things more transparent for residents of the EU. The law
gives people the right to specify how they want their data used. That means
EU residents can say, "Sure, collect my data, but don't use it to tailor ads
for me."
They can also request copies of all the data a company has collected about
them and ask companies to delete their data. The fines for breaking the law
are steep -- up to 40 million euros or 2 percent of a company's annual
global revenue, whichever is higher.

The law is prompting updated privacy policies for the rest of us outside of
Europe -- and not a whole lot else. Yes, some companies including Microsoft,
Apple, Twitter and Facebook have indicated they'll extend at least some
GDPR-based rights to all their global users. But that's not the 

Re: Esoteric VoiceOver Question

[Steve Matzura]

Turning off caption [panels did the trick. Thanks everyone.

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Changing Screen Measurements from Inches or Millimeters to Pixels/points

[Steve Matzura]

I thought it was in System Preferences -> Display, but I can't find it 
there, or anywhere. I tried using the search feature in the tool bar, 
and neither pixels nor points turned up anything. Where is this 
confounded setting?



TIA

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Re: Changing Screen Measurements from Inches or Millimeters to Pixels/points

[Steve Matzura]

I am using a Keyboard Maestro macro that clicks on a spot on the screen 
where a certain VoiceOver-inaccessible control is found. The Keyboard 
Maestro macro is designed to click at a certain position measure in 
pixels, or points, as Apple calls it. I was told somewhere in the VO 
Utility there is a setting for measuring positions on the screen in 
either points or standard metrics (inches or millimeters). The person 
who told me this thinks that my system is set to the inches or 
millimeters setting, not the points/pixels setting, and that's why this 
particular macro doesn't work.



On 5/31/2018 9:05 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Steve

What is it your trying to do?

Screen resolution is measured in picsals but the screen size is measured in 
inchs.

Screen size is a diagonal measurement for example 13.3 inchs but the res is x 
number of dots per inch.

Tell us what your trying to actually do and we might be able to assist more.

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Sent: Friday, 1 June 2018 12:46 PM
To: Mac Visionaries 
Subject: Changing Screen Measurements from Inches or Millimeters to 
Pixels/points

I thought it was in System Preferences -> Display, but I can't find it there, 
or anywhere. I tried using the search feature in the tool bar, and neither pixels 
nor points turned up anything. Where is this confounded setting?


TIA

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Re: Changing Screen Measurements from Inches or Millimeters to Pixels/points

[Steve Matzura]

Yes, that's the one. Someone else off-list pointed me in the general 
direction last night. Seems to have fixed the problem.



On 5/31/2018 9:59 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:

Hello Steve:

I believe you are looking for VO utility-> verbosity-> announcements-> speak 
size and position in:.


On May 31, 2018, at 7:46 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:

I thought it was in System Preferences -> Display, but I can't find it there, 
or anywhere. I tried using the search feature in the tool bar, and neither pixels 
nor points turned up anything. Where is this confounded setting?


TIA



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Re: Esoteric VoiceOver Question

[Steve Matzura]

OK, I was wondering what a caption panel was,or is. I'll turn them both 
off, as neither is needed or wanted, and report.



On 5/26/2018 7:02 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Exactly what ET said. Go to the Visuals category in the table, then 
find the tabs. You probably want to disable the Caption Panel in the 
Panels tab, but may have to turn off the VoiceOver cursor from the 
Cursor tab as well.


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  Look in the Visuals pane of VO Utility.

From E.T.'s Keyboard...
ancient.ali...@icloud.com <mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>
Many believe that we have been visited
in the past. What if it were true?

On 5/26/2018 3:47 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
Is it possible, and if so, how, to turn off/eliminate the on-screen 
box containing what VoiceOver says so that a non-VoiceOver user can 
access what the box covers up? I'm having a problem a sighted person 
is helping me deal with, but the thing they must click on is hidden 
behind this box, and frankly, the whole thing of VoiceOver 
transcribing what it's saying is not necessary, so I want to turn it 
off, but after looking through all the settings in the VO Utility, I 
can find nothing obvious to choose to do this.

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Re: Esoteric VoiceOver Question

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The only thing in there is "show VoiceOver cursor," and if that's what a 
VoiceOver cursor is, that's just weird. I'll try it and let you know if 
it works.



On 5/26/2018 6:57 PM, E.T. wrote:

   Look in the Visuals pane of VO Utility.

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 5/26/2018 3:47 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
Is it possible, and if so, how, to turn off/eliminate the on-screen 
box containing what VoiceOver says so that a non-VoiceOver user can 
access what the box covers up? I'm having a problem a sighted person 
is helping me deal with, but the thing they must click on is hidden 
behind this box, and frankly, the whole thing of VoiceOver 
transcribing what it's saying is not necessary, so I want to turn it 
off, but after looking through all the settings in the VO Utility, I 
can find nothing obvious to choose to do this.



Thanks in advance.





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Time Machine Accessibility

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I seem to remember it was better than it is now. Do I misremember, or 
are there any tips and tricks people have for TM on HS?



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Acrobat DC Hangs When Choosing "Pages" from Print Dialog

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The subject says it all. Soon as I select the "Pages" radio button from 
the Print dialog, either directly from Acrobat DC or from  Quick Look, 
Acrobat freezes and needs to be force-quit. It only happens on one of my 
two machines--the late 2012 Mini. My wife's i5 iMac works perfectly well 
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Re: Acrobat DC Hangs When Choosing "Pages" from Print Dialog

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The download link I used was 
https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/1801120035/AcroRdrDC_1801120035_MUI.dmg 
- I didn't see any previous versions on the download page, which, to my 
way of thinking, means that this is the most current version.



On 2/23/2018 10:53 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
OK, at first I thought you were indicating that in the pages 
application and the Adobe Reader application, that the system hangs 
when the printer dialog opens.


Based on your reply it is more that the system hangs when selecting a 
range of pages in Adobe Reader when you are running VoiceOVer. I 
remember seeing symptoms like that a few years back, but I have not 
printed anything recently where I needed to select specific pages.
In the application menu to the right of the Apple menu you should be 
able to find an about dialog that would list the specific version of 
Reader you are working with, perhaps one system is running an older 
version. Hopefully the one that is failing has an older version of Reader.

Best Wishes,

Jonathan Cohn

On Feb 23, 2018, at 9:54 AM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
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I tried adding a separate non-administrator account. Same deal.


Acrobat DC is the only application I use for printing PDF's.


As far as I can tell, there are no specific configuration or 
accessibility files or settings for Acrobat DC. At least, there are 
none that I installed and none that I could find.



There are no drivers for my printer which I had to or did install. 
The operating system found the device and set it up seemingly 
correctly on both aforementioned systems. It was added through System 
Preferences (I think--it was a long long time ago), and printing to 
it through Acrobat DC works as long as I print all pages or just the 
current page.



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Is it just these two applications where the print dialog fails?

A first test would be to create a new user on the Macintosh with the 
issue and see if you can then print from applications that you are 
experiencing issues with in your account. If the printing works in 
the new account, then you know it is an issue in the 
settings/preferences of your account.


Depending on the results, I would either remove preference files for 
adobe and pages from the Library/Preferences or re-install any 
device specific printer software.



Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



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The subject says it all. Soon as I select the "Pages" radio button 
from the Print dialog, either directly from Acrobat DC or from  
Quick Look, Acrobat freezes and needs to be force-quit. It only 
happens on one of my two machines--the late 2012 Mini. My wife's i5 
iMac works perfectly well on this dialog. Any thoughts anyone?






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Re: Mission Control keeps popping up when I try to change volume

[Steve Matzura]

Not just that, but there's another section where function keys and other 
shortcuts are assigned to launch things, two of which are Mission 
Control and Launchpad. These should definitely be unchecked, as neither 
of them is particularly useful or accessible to VoiceOver users.



On 7/25/2018 10:20 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
IN case this has not been answered. The place to change is in System 
Preferencess:Keyboard


Switch to the Keyboard tab and then look for F1 using the item chooser.

You want:
Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys checked checkbox


Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



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I’ve had to resort to the old VO dash and plus for volume since my 
function keys have suddenly started bringing up mission control. I 
did not make any changes and have no memory of how this was changed. 
Help would be appreciated.

Christine

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Re: FANSPEED for Mac

[Steve Matzura]

Wow, that one's old! https://www.whatroute.net/phantasmic.html


On 7/23/2018 3:21 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote:

hi.
try Phantasmic, it's not 100% accessible but it works.

On 7/23/18, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
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I have an app on my Mac called SMC Fan Control which does what you want. A
friend of mine gave it to me so I don't know the website it was from. A
Google search should do the trick for you.

Sent from my iPhone


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If any of you know the Windows program FANSPEED, is there a like program
for Mac OS, and if so, what's its name, or where might I find it?


TIA

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Re: FANSPEED for Mac

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Thank you. I found it at https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl if 
it's the same one, it has nine open issues, some of which are minor, one 
of which doesn't matter because it's for very old hardware, but there's 
one that intrigued me, as it's for a version of OSX that's not even out 
yet! :-) That's either a typo, or more likely a very advanced beta 
tester or developer having opened that one.



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I have an app on my Mac called SMC Fan Control which does what you want. A 
friend of mine gave it to me so I don't know the website it was from. A Google 
search should do the trick for you.

Sent from my iPhone


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If any of you know the Windows program FANSPEED, is there a like program for 
Mac OS, and if so, what's its name, or where might I find it?


TIA

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FANSPEED for Mac

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If any of you know the Windows program FANSPEED, is there a like program 
for Mac OS, and if so, what's its name, or where might I find it?



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Re: FANSPEED for Mac

[Steve Matzura]

OK. I saw the copyright date of 2010, that's where I got that from.


On 7/24/2018 1:41 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote:

old? it got an update a few weeks ago...

On 7/23/18, Steve Matzura  wrote:

Wow, that one's old! https://www.whatroute.net/phantasmic.html


On 7/23/2018 3:21 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote:

hi.
try Phantasmic, it's not 100% accessible but it works.

On 7/23/18, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
 wrote:

I have an app on my Mac called SMC Fan Control which does what you want.
A
friend of mine gave it to me so I don't know the website it was from. A
Google search should do the trick for you.

Sent from my iPhone


On Jul 22, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Steve Matzura 
wrote:

If any of you know the Windows program FANSPEED, is there a like
program
for Mac OS, and if so, what's its name, or where might I find it?


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Re: VO friendly weay to delete old backups

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Unless you're using your Time Machine drive for other things that may 
cause it to run out of space, you don't have to concern yourself with 
deleting old backups. Time Machine does that for you automatically  as 
the disk fills up, and tells you when it does so.



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Hi Tim,
Many thanks for the tip on looking in the Windows list for time machine 
controls. When I do that I see a button labelled previous and if I pressed that 
several times I can see dates of Time Machine backups. If I then comeback to 
the windows list and move to the finder window to choose my hard disk and then 
go to the context menu I see options to delete backup and delete all backups. 
To free up space I want to safely delete all backups before my chosen backup 
date. So which option should I choose? I do not want to experiment as I do not 
want to risk the integrity of backups newer then the chosen backup date.
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Re: Word Processing on the mac

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Nothing wrong with TextEdit, and you already have it.


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Hello folks,
What accessible word processors do you recommend for the mac?  This is 
particularly for writing papers with paragraph styles, headings, footnotes, 
etc.  Trying to find an accessible straightforward easy to use word processor.  
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Re: Playing audio media on my Macbook

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First off, it's time to get a really good instruction book which will 
take the fear outa using a very different operating system. I know, I 
had it, too, and these books really did the job. Get 
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/MAC-BASICS.html and then 
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/MAC-HIGHSIERRA.html The first one's a 
quick-start,the second one, despite its description, goes into a lot 
more depth. If these two don't do it for you, then it is quite possible 
Mac OS and you just don't get along. If that's so, fear not, I'm 
definitely on your side (LOL). Been trying to hack Mac since 2009, and 
every day I just roll my eyes in wonderment at how it takes just so many 
more keystrokes to do anything. But don't let any of that pull you down. 
Success and triumph over adversity are their own rewards sometimes. Keep 
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Re: Playing audio media on my Macbook

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Oh, and how could I possibly have forgotten to answer  your main 
question! Get the newest VLC Media Player for Mac OS, a fine and 
accessible replacement for iTunes.



On 4/12/2018 6:54 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:

Hello Andy,
First of all, when you plug in your thumb drive, it should show up on 
your desktop. If it doesn’t, press Cmd-comma to open Finder 
Preferences. Interact with the tool bar and select General. Stop 
interacting and navigate right to Show these items on the desktop: 
then check the four checkboxes that you find by navigating right.
Press Cmd-w to close the Preferences. Your thumb drive should now 
appear on your desk top.

Cheers,

Anne


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Hi all.
In brief, I'm a very determined and apparently reluctant learning of 
the Apple operating system.
I've been using windows since Dos 3.1 and like many people, I am 
afraid of this new system.
I Purchased a 27 Imac and a Macbook pro about 2 years ago and have 
hardly moved in my learning.
Despite buying a great book, titled, Janet Ingber - Everything You 
Need to Know to Use the Mac , I cannot get the motivation to "Use the 
mac"!
My fingers tremble at my Macbook and I'm so afraid of doing something 
wrong, I'm paralysed.

So I'm thinking that I should try something really simple.
I'm addicted by the way to talking books, so lets look at that  as a 
method to break the ice.
I've placed the above book on a thumb drive but every time I plug it 
into my Macbook, absolutely nothing happens, so I cannot access this 
media.

On a Windows computer I'm asked "What do you want your computer to do?".
So if anyone can tell me how to access a thumb drive and be able to 
go through some of the easy chapters of this book then listen to 
them, it may be enough to finally break my spirit and get me started, 
hahaha.
Sorry guys for the long message but I'm sure you have all heard it 
before.

Very best wishes.
Andy.
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Re: Playing audio media on my Macbook

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Remember, drives don't show up in Finder by default. This is something 
about which I have never fully comes to intellectual grips. If one were 
to buy a Mac, bring it home, turn it on, and start  using it, drives 
appear in Finder; if one were to install the Mac operating system from 
scratch, taking all the defaults with the exception of File Vault and 
storing the Documents directory in the cloud, no drives appear in Finder 
unless and until they are told to do so.



On 4/12/2018 3:08 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote:

Hi Andy let's start with the basics, in the Finder you should see any external 
media by default, thumb drives included. Unlike Windows, macOS automatically 
mounts these external disks and places them in the Finder. Once you have 
located this, press command-o to open the volume. Note I will not use CMD at 
this stage for simplicity's sake.


On 12 Apr 2018, at 10:48, 'andy' via MacVisionaries 
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Hi all.
  
In brief, I'm a very determined and apparently reluctant learning of the Apple operating system.
  
I've been using windows since Dos 3.1 and like many people, I am afraid of this new system.
  
I Purchased a 27 Imac and a Macbook pro about 2 years ago and have hardly moved in my learning.
  
Despite buying a great book, titled, Janet Ingber - Everything You Need to Know to Use the Mac , I cannot get the motivation to "Use the mac"!
  
My fingers tremble at my Macbook and I'm so afraid of doing something wrong, I'm paralysed.
  
So I'm thinking that I should try something really simple.
  
I'm addicted by the way to talking books, so lets look at that  as a method to break the ice.
  
I've placed the above book on a thumb drive but every time I plug it into my Macbook, absolutely nothing happens, so I cannot access this media.
  
On a Windows computer I'm asked "What do you want your computer to do?".
  
So if anyone can tell me how to access a thumb drive and be able to go through some of the easy chapters of this book then listen to them, it may be enough to finally break my spirit and get me started, hahaha.
  
Sorry guys for the long message but I'm sure you have all heard it before.
  
Very best wishes.
  
Andy.

 From Scotland with Love.
  


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Re: time stamps in E-Mail

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Don't know about mail, but htis is also a problem in Mesages. It says 
"yesterday," or some date in the past, but no time.



On 4/14/2018 11:22 AM, Kristeen Hughes wrote:

Is there a way to get mail older than the same day to show it’s time stamp? I 
have been asked this and I have never cared, so do not know.

Kristeen



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Re: Further to my question about playing external audio files on my Macbook

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May I make two more suggestions, and this time they're people, not 
books. Tim Kilburn of this list is an Apple teacher, I'd bet he could 
sort you in a New York minute via Skype or some other non-batch chat 
exchange, and if he's too far west timewise to be convenient to work 
with, I offer my own expertise such that it is via the same media. I'm 
not yet an ACSP, but should be taking the exam by June, so while I'm 
probably not as good as Tim, I'm closer.



On 4/12/2018 4:34 PM, 'andy' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Hi all.
Thanks to everyone who has written to offer me some help with this 
learning curve, of playing media files on my Macbook.
Unfortunately, it seems that I have multiple issues going on at the 
moment and this is perhaps why I'm experiencing all these other 
problems with my Macbook.
For you who have written to me, I've saved your messages and plan to 
be able to return to them after these other problems can be resolved.
Perhaps my biggest problem is that I live on the West Coast of 
Scotland, some 55 miles north of Glasgow and my nearest VI tech guy.
I cannot get him to visit my home, because he has a standard guide 
dog, whereas, I have a specially trained off-road guide dog that can 
cope with my rural environment as well as the streets of a busy 
Glasgow, so I'm obliged to make an appointment , visit him and secure 
his support  and get help, before I can even think of playing media files.
One of my initial problems is an announcement saying something like 
"This computer cannot connect to Cloud because of a problem with your 
btinternet.com account"!  I've noticed this same message a couple of 
miles away in my local bar, though thought that it was simply 
attempting to connect with my Roughter in my house and I was 2 miles away.
There is no way that I can even begin to sort this out so need to get 
that sorted before progressing to playing media files.
So my next plan is to secure this help in the hope that my problems 
can be resolved away from my home.
I did get all devices set up in Icloud months ago, so perhaps if the 
problems can be resolved on my Macbook, then my Imac will just pick 
these up.
So for the meantime guys, I'll have to disappear for a while but I 
will keep your files and hopefully be able to have a go at playing 
media files on my Apple equipment later.

.
Thanks again for your patience and support.
Very best wishes.
Andy.
From Scotland with Love.
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Re: Playing audio media on my Macbook

[Steve Matzura]

You are correct, I misstated, because I never think about the sidebar, 
which does not appear on my screen.



On 4/12/2018 4:29 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

This is actually not a valid statement.  The drives and other external 
media always show up in the Finder, it is simply the location or style 
of "Showing up" that is handled by the Finder Preferences.  By 
default, these items show up in the Sidebar of any open Finder window 
as opposed to appearing on the Desktop itself.  This, therefore, keeps 
the Desktop less cluttered from some people's point of view.  Many of 
us long time Mac users prefer the items to be on the Desktop itself, 
but many other users, as well as a lot of sighted users prefer to just 
access these items through the Sidebar.  VO users can also access 
these items via the Sidebar, but most of us find it easier to place 
these sorts of items on our Desktop, either for convenience or due to 
being accustomed to operating that way.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 12, 2018, at 13:58, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Remember, drives don't show up in Finder by default. This is something 
about which I have never fully comes to intellectual grips. If one 
were to buy a Mac, bring it home, turn it on, and start  using it, 
drives appear in Finder; if one were to install the Mac operating 
system from scratch, taking all the defaults with the exception of 
File Vault and storing the Documents directory in the cloud, no drives 
appear in Finder unless and until they are told to do so.



On 4/12/2018 3:08 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote:
Hi Andy let's start with the basics, in the Finder you should see any 
external media by default, thumb drives included. Unlike Windows, 
macOS automatically mounts these external disks and places them in 
the Finder. Once you have located this, press command-o to open the 
volume. Note I will not use CMD at this stage for simplicity's sake.


On 12 Apr 2018, at 10:48, 'andy' via MacVisionaries 
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote:


Hi all.
 In brief, I'm a very determined and apparently reluctant learning 
of the Apple operating system.
 I've been using windows since Dos 3.1 and like many people, I am 
afraid of this new system.
 I Purchased a 27 Imac and a Macbook pro about 2 years ago and have 
hardly moved in my learning.
 Despite buying a great book, titled, Janet Ingber - Everything You 
Need to Know to Use the Mac , I cannot get the motivation to "Use 
the mac"!
 My fingers tremble at my Macbook and I'm so afraid of doing 
something wrong, I'm paralysed.

 So I'm thinking that I should try something really simple.
 I'm addicted by the way to talking books, so lets look at that  as 
a method to break the ice.
 I've placed the above book on a thumb drive but every time I plug 
it into my Macbook, absolutely nothing happens, so I cannot access 
this media.
 On a Windows computer I'm asked "What do you want your computer to 
do?".
 So if anyone can tell me how to access a thumb drive and be able to 
go through some of the easy chapters of this book then listen to 
them, it may be enough to finally break my spirit and get me 
started, hahaha.
 Sorry guys for the long message but I'm sure you have all heard it 
before.

 Very best wishes.
 Andy.
From Scotland with Love.

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Re: The problem of no windows when an app starts

[Steve Matzura]

Time for VOCR.


On 4/5/2018 5:56 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:

Ok,
I recently acquired a new machine here and it has high Sierra on board. So, I 
am getting used to a bunch of new stuff here. However, what I didn’t expect 
which was common on my old OS X Lion system was the case of an application 
starting, but not producing any windows. In the current case, the application 
is Onyx (from titanium software). It appears to start normally, but produces no 
windows. Any attempt to interact with the program Bia keyboard is met with a 
bonk sound. It also appears to ignore the terminate program command (CMD Q). It 
does announce a question “would you like onyx to control your machine”, but no 
dialog is visible to voiceover. I have even tried using the application chooser 
to find it, but onyx is not visible there either. I have already sent a support 
request off to Titanium Software, but don’t expect a response in any reasonable 
time.

Anyone got any clues as to how I can work around this?

Thanks,

Eric



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Re: Employment at Apple

[Steve Matzura]

What jobs is Apple interested in filling?


On 4/5/2018 6:40 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:

Hi Simon,
 I cannot speak to your home country.
However just last week I got  an e-mail  about an opportunity here 
where apple is seeking blind and vision impaired individuals for 
possible employment.  they are coordinating the effort with CNIB the 
Canadian National Institute for the blind.  The invitation includes a 
place to share  your resume and if selected states apple will  be 
meeting with prospects later this month or the next.
So, indeed clearly they  are willing to staff an individual who is 
qualified first and sight impaired as an extension.

 Kare


On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Simon Fogarty wrote:


Hi Listers of the Mac user kind and UA bsed,

I’m in the processof a restructure at work that will end in my team 
of 12 saff staff being both disestablished and somewhat unemployed...
Great 10of setvice to the oganisatyion now they think they don’t need 
first or second level IT support.


What I’d like to know is what is aples reaction to employment of the 
blind / visually impaired

I know they say they are Equal opotunity employers but is it true?

The reaso I ask is I’m lookin to apply ofr a coupleof roles there and 
I wasn’t sure of their deal with  people like mself and aalso non USA 
citizans


Any info from anyone that has knowlede of this would be appreciated.\\\

Cheers,


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Re: Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | TechCrunch

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Let's hope somebody will reengineer VoiceOver to not go busy so often. 
It has been said for years that it's because VO insists on not spreading 
its processing requirements over available cores. If that's true, and it 
sounds like it could be and probably is, what's taken them so long to 
fix that? Hopefully it will get done, along with all the spiffy other 
hardware and driver stuff mentioned in that article. We count, too, ya 
know, Timmy-me-boy.



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https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/apples-2019-imac-pro-will-be-shaped-by-workflows/


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Re: Question about VoiceOver and words in all capital letters

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OK, I found the culprit. It's the word "MAC"!


Something else odd is also going on because on some Web pages I hear 
phrases and sometimes entire short sentences spelled out with VO that I 
don't get presented that way in Windows, so there's probably some funky 
punctuation going on that maybe makes VO think the string is one big 
word, something, I just don't know. Next time I trip over this, I'll 
make careful note of it and post about it, along with the object that 
created/caused the spelling behavior.



On 4/20/2018 9:50 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:

That might have to do with how CSS is set up for those advertisements. If I 
type BIG SAVINGS my VoiceOVer reads the words and not the letters. Though while 
typing it it spoke the letters.

I have on occasion put a word into the pronunciation dictionary that did not 
handle the speaking of letters vs speaking of word pronunciation the way I 
wanted it to. And then while doing HTML editing I added
The string indicating the beginning of a HTML comment to say HTML comment. I 
can remember off hand if I added the equivalent dictionary entry for the end of 
comment marker.

Best Wishes,

Jonathan


On Apr 20, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2018 9:33 PM, E.T. wrote:

I think VO as it stands, handles this properly. I opened a document in 
TextEdit and entered several acronyms. VO read them as expected, for example it 
reads ACLU as A C L U. There is a setting you might look at in VO Utility, 
Verbosity category, Text tab. It's an option that affects how capital letters 
are handled.

But that's single letters. Whenever I run into something in all capital letters, like an 
advertisement  with capital letters in a double-height double-wide font that says 
"big big savings" or something similar, I hear this:

B I G  S A V I N G S

without the spaces, of course. Every time I read something with the phrase "MAC address," 
I hear "M A C address." The setting to which you refer is only for single letters. The 
above examples are the kinds of things I want eliminated.

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Re: Question about VoiceOver and words in all capital letters

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On 4/19/2018 9:33 PM, E.T. wrote:
   I think VO as it stands, handles this properly. I opened a document 
in TextEdit and entered several acronyms. VO read them as expected, 
for example it reads ACLU as A C L U. There is a setting you might 
look at in VO Utility, Verbosity category, Text tab. It's an option 
that affects how capital letters are handled.


But that's single letters. Whenever I run into something in all capital 
letters, like an advertisement  with capital letters in a double-height 
double-wide font that says "big big savings" or something similar, I 
hear this:


B I G  S A V I N G S

without the spaces, of course. Every time I read something with the 
phrase "MAC address," I hear "M A C address." The setting to which you 
refer is only for single letters. The above examples are the kinds of 
things I want eliminated.


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Re: Accessible iOS DJ apps similar to Crossfader, Pacemaker etc?

[Steve Matzura]

BossJock perhaps?


On 4/21/2018 10:03 PM, Joshua Tubbs wrote:

Hi all,

Has anyone used apps such as Crossfader and Pacemaker? Ken Downey did a podcast 
on it a while back, but the app has changed quite a bit since then. I also 
think the app has been abandoned by it’s developer.
Enter Pacemaker, another mixing app that is marked as accessible on Applevis 
yet is completely inaccessible.

Perhaps someone has tried something different on this list? I’m curious as to 
your thoughts anyhow.

Thanks.




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Re: Navigating mac, a very basic Question

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I don't like tree views on Windows, I don't like them on Mac OS any 
better. Ditto those sidebars and disclosure triangle objects. What I 
*would* like is the list view feature without having to hear all the 
extras until I whack the CONTROL key to shut VoiceOver up before I 
perform the next action. If I want to hear those things, I can use 
horizontal arrows to read that info item by item, or open the Get Info 
(Command+I) dialog.



On 4/23/2018 1:46 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

I also prefer List view.  Although, I understand why others may prefer 
Column view.  It's just how I'm used to navigating around.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:56, Anne Robertson > wrote:


Simon, Cmd-Down arrow does the same as Cmd-o. It either opens folders 
or documents. I like list view as I can get more information on a file 
or folder by interacting, or just navigate with arrow keys.


Cheers,

Anne


On 23 Apr 2018, at 16:56, Simon Fogarty > wrote:


Try using command  + o to open a folder
Once your in the folder you should be able to either tab between 
files / folders or arrow  up / down


But command + o is the open folder command if you have the view in list.



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Subject: Navigating mac, a very basic Question

Hi all:

Of cores i know that this is a very very basic question, but after 
all this time that am using mac, i still feel not ok when navigating 
inside my mac.

i set my navigation to list view.
and let’s say i hit cmd+shift+C to go my conputer, i find atable, 
sometimes when pressing down arrow i can move inside the table items 
without interacting, and sometimes i must interact with this table.
i found what drive i need to open, i use cmd=Down arrow to open it, i 
find another table, i tried using up and down arrows to move, but can 
not, so i must interact. and so on.
is there a way to enter any folder and navigate it’s contents, open 
or copy what i need etc? or i must interact with each table? what 
thing that am missing? or this is the mac stratigy?

Thanks in advance

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Re: Further to earlier mail re playing audio content on my Mac

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If no one has told you as yet, may I be the first, that message has 
absolutely nothing to do with your ability to connect to a local Wi-Fi 
network. That message is telling you either your iCloud username or 
password is wrong. That's all.



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Thankyou all for offering me your help with Skype or facebook or by 
email, in respect to helping me play audio content on my Mac.
One of the big attractions for me to get a Macbook was because I could 
talk with my family in Sydney and Canada by using Facetime.

Unfortunately, I've not progressed far enough to set these facilities up.
The main reason is that I cannot connect to the internet on my Macbook.
Other devices such as my Iphone, my Wife's Dell lap-top and my Window 
7 computer are all coping with the wired or wy fy facilities of my 
roughter, so the problems I am having lay within my Macbook.

Here is what is happening.
When I boot up my Macbook and after the standard introduction, I get 
the following message:
"Application Alert - System Dialogue -  - This Mac cannot connect to 
Icloud  because of a problem with meikle.ai...@btinternet.com". "Open 
System Preferences of Icloud to fix this problem"
So obviously I'm not on-line and before I can go further in my 
learning with music, I really need to be able to resolve this.
Despite several attempts at going into System Preferences, I just end 
up in a maize.
You see, I simply don't have the knowledge or skills to mess around in 
there.
If this makes my position a little clearer, then that's great and I'd 
welcome any advice.
I have however managed to get one-to one help from SITE Glasgow 
shortly but because I'm going to be on holiday for a week, I cannot 
get this support for a few weeks.
I was actually thinking of taking my Macbook to Spain with me on 
holiday and spend most evenings going through, Janet Ingber's 
wonderful book.
Perhaps I may well yet.  I go on holiday on 21 May for 1 week, so 
perhaps I can resolve this issue befor then.

Very best wishes and thanks again for your on-going support.
Very best wishes.
Andy.
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Question about VoiceOver and words in all capital letters

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I've just been through all the settings in the VO Utility on Mac OS HS, 
not to mention the VO item in System Preferences, and I cannot for the 
life of me find a setting that controls how words written in all capital 
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Re: ftp server clients for the mac?

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Transmit.


On 3/26/2018 6:45 AM, May Anderson wrote:

Good day everyone.

I was wondering if there are ftp server clients for the mac yet?For 
example, like filezilla?


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Re: ftp server clients for the mac?

[Steve Matzura]

I don't think Finder does FTP. Command-K is for connecting to either 
another Mac running as a server, or a SAMBA server, like a NAS box.



If you're serious about FTP, particularly if you want a good and secure 
GUI-based client, the Terminal FTP client does not address either of 
these requirements. Transmit does.

On 3/26/2018 7:48 AM, Devin Prater wrote:
Well, you can use the Finder, just press Command+K, enter server 
details, and press connect. I believe there are also command-line ftp 
clients in the terminal, and there’s always Emacs.


On Mar 26, 2018, at 5:45 AM, May Anderson > wrote:


Good day everyone.

I was wondering if there are ftp server clients for the mac yet?For 
example, like filezilla?


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Re: ftp server clients for the mac?

[Steve Matzura]

Filezilla, which is free, is also available for Mac OS. I just found 
this out recently. Transmit is rather costly, considering the Filezilla 
free alternative.



On 3/26/2018 10:14 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

There are lots of FTP clients for the Mac and have been available since the 
inception of MacOS X and before.  Some are more accessible than others..  I use 
Transmit and find it very accessible.  try entering FTP into the Search field 
in the App Store and see what comes up.

Later...


On Mar 26, 2018, at 06:49, dan d.  wrote:



In terminal there are ftp and sftp.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, May Anderson wrote:


Good day everyone.

I was wondering if there are ftp server clients for the mac yet?For example, 
like filezilla?

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Re: possible scam purporting to be from Apple

[Steve Matzura]

Have  you ever heard the one where the customer keeps asking the scammer 
what the FN key is for, and the phone guy keeps telling her that key is 
for programmers, just ignore it.



On 4/2/2018 10:35 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Hi ET,

  We got a lot of this stuff last year at work,

The record of keeping a spam caller on the phone was 15minutes by one of my 
colleagues.

It's great when they call an it service desk who can play them for everthing 
they are asking.

I confused one caller when he aske if I could see the ctrl key in the bottom 
left of my keyboard,

I said no,

  And when asked what key could I see I said nothing,
Next time I'm telling him what's on the braille keyboard not than I'm a braille 
user.
They're so dum it's not funny.

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Subject: Re: possible scam purporting to be from Apple

 Its pointless to report scam calla/emails. I never answer calls from those 
not in my contacts. If the cal is legitimate, the caller will leave voicemail. 
Amusing to note that I have only received 2 voicemails from scammers in the 
last 5 years.

  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 4/2/2018 10:18 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:

Attention all apple product users..

I recently received a couple of calls on my phone purporting  to be from Apple Care 
notifying me of a breach of their cloud services. Finding this a little 
"phishy", I called apple care directly and discussed this situation with a 
customer support rep. He reports that this is a phishing scam as apple will not, under 
all but the most dire of circumstances, call you about such things. They will attempt to 
notify by email only or they will require you reset your password credentials via their 
apple ID website. If you get one of these calls, report it to reportph...@apple.com and 
include any information you can get (such as caller ID info, time of call, etc).

It appears that the spoofers are getting smarter and using a VOIP line and 
caller ID spoofing service to call phones in an attempt to build a list of 
active numbers for  use in other scams (like IRS, your local bank, etc.).

anyway, report these calls as you get them.

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Re: wi fi headphones for my Macbook Pro

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I have a pair of Koss BT540I's that have taken a beating over the years 
but still work and sound like the day I got them. They are true 
headphones, not these little wimpy in-ear things, or earbuds, or 
anything like that. They weigh a good bit on the head, they cup over the 
ear securely, cutting way down on external  sonic influences, and if you 
didn't know better, you'd think they were wired, which they can also be.



On 3/1/2018 4:33 PM, 'andy' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Hi Anders.
B and W are indeed lovely speakers as I have a pair of outdoor 
wall-mounted ones.  But I'm hoping to identify suitable Bluetooth 
headphones as I already have two very nice wired sets.
Not sure yet if I should go with Boes or Senhizer, so I'm waiting on 
some recommendations.

Very best wishes.
Andy.

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*From:* Anders Holmberg 
*To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

*Sent:* Thursday, March 01, 2018 4:10 PM
*Subject:* Re: wi fi headphones for my Macbook Pro

Hi!
I have a pair of wired headphones from B
They were quite expensive but they’re really good sounding.
THey’re called B P7.
THey are foldable and fits in my jacket.
/A


1 mars 2018 kl. 09:51 skrev 'andy' via MacVisionaries
>:

Hi Simon.  These Ear you are talking about.  Do you not have to
stick them inside your ear cavity and what do you do if you drop
one and cannot find it?
I think I'd be much happyer with a pair of good quality folding
headphones as long as they were light and small in size, not huge
cans.
I think I'll start looking for either Senhizer or Boes.
Thanks for responding.
Very best wishes.
Andy.
From Scotland with Love.
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*From:*Simon Fogarty 
*To:*macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

*Sent:*Thursday, March 01, 2018 5:12 AM
*Subject:*RE: wi fi headphones for my Macbook Pro

Hi Andy,
The apple earpods would be an option, that is the wireless
earpods which apple brought out a year or so ago.
I have these for my phone and think they’re pretty good sound
and a great size.
I also have a pair of boes Bluetooth headphones which are over
the head
They are bulkier than the earpods but again great sound and both
Bluetooth and wired if needed.
The apple earpods fit in to a little plastic box about 30mm *
40mm * 15mm and charge with a standard usb to lighting cable
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*Subject:*wi fi headphones for my Macbook Pro
Hi all.
When in a pub or cafe trying to get used to my 2014 Macbook Pro,
I am very much aware of the voice-over sounds around me
whichenables others to pay attention in what I'm doing.
I'm soon to visit the Apple store in Glasgow for help with an
Iphone and was wondering if I could possible also purchase a
pair of small comfortable wireless headphones and get them
paired to my Macbook.
Never having had such an item, I'm not sure of what to ask for
and how much I'd likely have to pay.
Any advice including brand recommendations and pairing would
help me a lot.
Thanks.
Very best wishes.
Andy.
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Re: Acrobat DC dual behavior

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Seven.


On 4/25/2018 4:07 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

How many pages are there when you open it in Preview?

Later...

Tim Kilburn
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I received a PDF which I was asked to sign on page 9. However, when 
opened with Acrobat DC on Mac OS, there were but seven pages. In 
Windows, the pagination was correct. Any clue as to why this might be, 
and how to fix it? I need the Apple Acrobat to match the Windows one.



T IA

TIA


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Acrobat DC dual behavior

[Steve Matzura]

I received a PDF which I was asked to sign on page 9. However, when 
opened with Acrobat DC on Mac OS, there were but seven pages. In 
Windows, the pagination was correct. Any clue as to why this might be, 
and how to fix it? I need the Apple Acrobat to match the Windows one.



T IA

TIA


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Re: Acrobat DC dual behavior

[Steve Matzura]

On Windows? Interesting if yes.


On 4/25/2018 5:57 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

Hmmm, interesting.  I opened a 12 page pdf with Preview, it was 12 
with PDFPenPro and 12 with Acrobat Pro.  I still have issues making 
Acrobat work particularly well, but that's probably just me.


Later...

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On Apr 25, 2018, at 14:27, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
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Seven.


On 4/25/2018 4:07 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

How many pages are there when you open it in Preview?

Later...

Tim Kilburn
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Fort McMurray, AB Canada

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I received a PDF which I was asked to sign on page 9. However, when 
opened with Acrobat DC on Mac OS, there were but seven pages. In 
Windows, the pagination was correct. Any clue as to why this might 
be, and how to fix it? I need the Apple Acrobat to match the Windows one.



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TIA


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Re: anyone having problems with gmail redownloading old messages in apple mail?

[Steve Matzura]

It's not because of Apple Mail that this happens. For some reason, and 
in I don't know how many years I haven't figured out why, if the email 
client sends the message via iMap to delete messages, Gmail doesn't 
handle it correctly, and they keep coming back. This happens every time 
in Gmail's "All mail" folder. The only way to make messages die forever 
is to not delete them directly, but move them to a trash folder, then 
empty that trash folder. This has worked for me in both Apple Mail and 
Thunderbird on Windows.



On 4/26/2018 12:11 AM, Michael Marshall wrote:

hey,
i've been having a very strange problem with mail on mac for about a week now.
when i open mac mail i tend to get older messages that i removed the last time 
back in my inbox.
Either there is something wrong with mail which I'm starting to doubt or there 
is a problem with gmail and imap.
Anyone else on here having similar issues?

Michael



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Re: Acrobat DC dual behavior

[Steve Matzura]

Thanks, Jessica. I thought I was cuckoo, especially when the person who 
sends me these things is getting a little upset because I don't find the 
correct page to print to sign the things. At least now I have a solution 
that actually matches the sender's page settings.



On 4/25/2018 9:47 PM, Jessica Moss wrote:
It’s not just you.  I use the free version of acrobat reader and have 
had file after file either display as empty documents, or some web 
based forms crash then have to relode safari before they can sometimes 
be read.  I have to view these on a regular basis at work, and the 
strange thing is, I’ll report them, and the fact that they crash on my 
end, but on my supervisor’s end, they don’t, so I have no idea what’s 
bringing that on on my end.
On Apr 25, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com 
<mailto:kilbu...@me.com>> wrote:


Hi,

Hmmm, interesting.  I opened a 12 page pdf with Preview, it was 12 
with PDFPenPro and 12 with Acrobat Pro.  I still have issues making 
Acrobat work particularly well, but that's probably just me.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 25, 2018, at 14:27, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Seven.


On 4/25/2018 4:07 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

How many pages are there when you open it in Preview?

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Apr 25, 2018, at 13:42, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com 
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


I received a PDF which I was asked to sign on page 9. However, when 
opened with Acrobat DC on Mac OS, there were but seven pages. In 
Windows, the pagination was correct. Any clue as to why this might 
be, and how to fix it? I need the Apple Acrobat to match the Windows 
one.



T IA

TIA


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Re: Teamviewer with Voiceover

[Steve Matzura]

Why wouldn't there be some way to hear the remote computer's VoiceOver 
audio by going into TeamViewer's audio settings dialog, jus tlike what's 
possible in Windows?



On 10/16/2018 12:37 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:

Hello Tim,

Yes, you’re right. We use Skype alongside TeamViewer to hear 
VoiceOver. Both ends of the communication need a pretty fast 
connection for it to work.

Cheers,

Anne




On 16 Oct 2018, at 16:16, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries 
> wrote:


Hi,

One caveat to this though, unless things have changed, the VO sound 
does not transfer to the master.  You will have control, but you'll 
need to be on a FaceTime call or something similar with the person at 
the other end so that you can hear what's happening on their computer.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Oct 15, 2018, at 23:34, Anne Robertson > wrote:


Hello Kristeen,

To control another Mac with TeamViewer and VoiceOver, you have to 
turn VoiceOver off on the master machine to be able to use VoiceOver 
commands to control the slave. It works just fine.

Cheers,

Anne




On 15 Oct 2018, at 20:30, 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries 
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If I want to help someone with their Mac, will Voiceover allow me to 
control their mac with my Mac using Teamviewer? If not, is there 
another app that will do this?


Kristeen



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Re: What mac to buy?

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If next week's offerings are anything like the ones six months ago, be 
prepared to be underwhelmed. The 2018 MacBook Pro laptop is in my 
unhumble oopinion nothing to write home about. The mid-line spec machine 
is probably the best offering for the money,but it has problems all its 
own, including the high possibility of overheating,and of course, the 
dreaded touch-bar function keys row which, if you decide to dual-boot 
with Bootcamp, will not serve you in Windows whatsoever. The one 
afternoon's look at it which I got gave me to think it looked like and 
worked like a very tricked-out Air, boasting a big SSD and thirty-two 
gigs of memory, no network or USB ports, which means you have to buy a 
combination adapter from Thunderbolt to USB and ethernet, and a keyboard 
with such minimal key travel making it difficult to type on if you have 
any hint of neuropathy in your fingers because you'll hardly be able to 
feel the keyswitch click when keys are pressed. It does have a full- or 
nearly-full-sized trackpad, but this, too, presents problems if you 
don't type with arched wrists. Fine for pianists and maybe guitarists, 
but so many people don't hold their hands and arms properly when typing, 
so this could be a problem for them which will make them hate the thing.



The top-end 2.9GHz i7 processor will cause the machine to always run 
hot, and we all know heat is the death nell for any electronics. Don't 
even talk to me about the i9 processor and how much better it's supposed 
to be. Mac Rumors and many other Macintosh analysis Websites all 
agree--not enough bang for way too much buck.



I was honestly hoping to consider replacing my 2012 Mini with one of 
these, but I think I'll keep it until it dies of its own accord. If I 
can't upgrade it past Mojave when that time comes, so be it. It has 
served me very well in six years, and I've never found anything to 
surpass its durability. The 2018 Pro just doesn't cut it, again in my 
unhumble opinion. You'd pay way too much for way too little.



I would seriously consider an older machine, but not too much older, 
since Mac hardware seems to be good for only about seven years, after 
which the operating system tells you that you can't upgrade it any more. 
I went through this once already with a 2009 iMac, and I know I'm facing 
the same thing next year with my Mini, but I'd want a machine with a lot 
better real performance than simply adding an overrated processor, an 
SSD and the latest DDR4 memory gives the current models.



Just my two dents' worth.

On 10/24/2018 7:04 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:

Definitely wait till next week, then you will have a complete picture of what's 
available.

Sarai D Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli

-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com  On 
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:46 PM
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Subject: What mac to buy?

Hi folks.

I'm waiting for the 30th, for apples event, where there might be new macs.

In the mean time, I was thinking of buying the mac mini, uping the
processer to the I7, 16 gigs of ram, and the 512 gig SSD.

I was also looking at the macbook air, with the i7, and the 512 gig ssd.

I've played with a macbook air, and like the overall voiceover experience.

I do want to play with logic, or either main stage, in the future.

The mini or  the air, from what I understand, hasn't been updated sents
2014.

So, I await the 30th.

This would be my first mac, and wondered what people thought?



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Re: New mac mini announced!

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I was disappointed that the best thing the new Mini has to offer is six 
cores. Yeah, lots of Thunderbolt, but I don't own any such devices, so 
I'd have to buy a lot of adapters. And just how many USB ports does one 
get out of one Thunderbolt port?


I, too, changed the internal 5400rpm mechanical drive for a 2TB SSD, as 
well as upgrading the memory, and the performance improvements were like 
going from dark night to bright day.


I suspect I would get a lot more out of my 2012 Mini if only Apple would 
fix the problem of VoiceOver not being stuck to using one CPU core. More 
cores would be nice for folks using programs that hog CPU, but so far, 
the only program I've found that ever hogged CPU on my Mini that is now 
in its last year of operating-system upgradability is VO. SO I'll keep 
my 2012 Mini until I absolutely positively cannot use High Sierra any 
more. Yes, I can upgrade to Mojave, but not until Avid says I can (LOL). 
Gotta love companies either not being ready for these things, or for 
being ultra-conservative about OS upgrades.


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Re: What mac to buy?

[Steve Matzura]

My i5 Air with a measly 128GB SSD and 4GB RAM handles Logic just fine. I 
even put Komplete Kontrol on it, with the content on an external SSD.



On 10/25/2018 10:35 AM, Matt wrote:

The pro is really     expensive.

I do want something that will handle logic, or any music making for 
that matter.

That's why I'm thinking the air, or the mini.
On 10/25/2018 10:31 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries wrote:
I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro. I'll definitely wait another year or 
two before considering any upgrade. In any case, I have another, 
newer, non-Apple laptop also, which is currently serving well. I'm 
resigned to the necessity of having two working computers, as I've 
had first-hand experience of how long it can take to resolve problems 
that can render a machine too unreliable for daily use.


Ultimately, the choice depends on what you need most - external 
keyboard, portability, performance, and budget. If I recall 
correctly, you can buy on-site warranty support for Apple desktop 
systems, but not for MacBooks - a factor to consider if you don't 
live near an Apple Store or a third-party service provider. I haven't 
experienced any hardware problems with Apple devices so far, but they 
do of course occur.


On 10/25/18, 07:25, "'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries" 
 wrote:


 I would agree with this.  I bought a Pro last year, and wish I'd 
gotten a new Air instead.  I've gotten somewhat used to the new 
keyboard, but I still make way more typos on it than I did the old 
keyboard.  And I still default back to my 2013 Air when I want 
portability.  It's not that the Pro is not portable, the Air is just 
noticeably smaller and lighter.

 Cheers,
 Donna
  > On Oct 25, 2018, at 2:52 AM, Simon Fogarty 
 wrote:

 >
 > Yeah I to am not a fan of the new keyboard.
 >
 > I don't know if they are going to do anything with the air but 
If I had a choice I'd go an air with up spec'ed everything.

 >
 > My current mac book is an air 11 inch with I7 and 512 GB ssd 
and 8 GB ram and that's now 5 years old.

 >
 > I don't think it can be beaten for portability
 >
 >
 > -Original Message-
 > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
 On Behalf Of Aleeha Dudley

 > Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2018 8:51 AM
 > To: 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries 


 > Subject: Re: What mac to buy?
 >
 > Hi Matt,
 > I don’t think the MacBook Air is going to see an update. It’s 
all going to be MacBooks and MacBook Pros. I personally can’t stand 
the new keyboards, and would rather go with the rumored new Mac mini 
if I was going to buy a new Mac. The only downside to this is that 
you are going to sacrifice portability.

 > Aleeha
 >
 >> On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:45 PM, Matt  
wrote:

 >>
 >> Hi folks.
 >>
 >> I'm waiting for the 30th, for apples event, where there might 
be new macs.

 >>
 >> In the mean time, I was thinking of buying the mac mini, 
uping the processer to the I7, 16 gigs of ram, and the 512 gig SSD.

 >>
 >> I was also looking at the macbook air, with the i7, and the 
512 gig ssd.

 >>
 >> I've played with a macbook air, and like the overall 
voiceover experience.

 >>
 >> I do want to play with logic, or either main stage, in the 
future.

 >>
 >> The mini or  the air, from what I understand, hasn't been 
updated sents 2014.

 >>
 >> So, I await the 30th.
 >>
 >> This would be my first mac, and wondered what people thought?
 >>


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Re: Mac-Mini with wireless keyboard?

[Steve Matzura]

Firstly, keyboards are Bluetooth devices. Anything with an Internet 
protocol (IP) address is Wi-fi; all  else are Bluetooth, or a variant 
such as Airplay.



Secondly, your keyboard will  work fine, with or without an FN key, 
except that you'll have to remember that the Command and Option keys are 
transposed--Command will be the Windows key, and Option will be the Alt 
key. I'm not sure what the Application key does, if anything, in Mac OS. 
Either way, you'll find all of this out when you pair the keyboard with 
your Mini.



Third and finally, the FN key in question is used to switch between 
media control keys and standard function keys. There is a setting in 
MacOS Preferences to set this behavior. Some people prefer their 
function keys to do things like make the screen brighter and dimmer, 
control media playback, etc., and rarely use the F-keys for anything 
else. They need to use the FN key to get the standard F-key 
functionality back. Most visually impaired users, on the other hand, 
prefer things the other way, requiring the press of the FN key to use 
the media and screen control functions since we don't use those much.


HTH

On 11/6/2018 11:08 AM, Matt wrote:

Hi folks, subject says it all.

I've got a USB wireless, not Bluetooth Logitech full size keyboard, 
with a number pad, it even has media keys as well.


I was listening to a podcast, and It was talking about if you can't 
start up voiceover with  command F5, you can hit the FN/ Function key.


This wireless keyboard doesn't have that key, at least I think it 
doesn't.


This keyboard is being used with windows now.

The keyboard also came with a wireless mouse, witch I never used.

So just wondering how I'd get VO started if the keyboard doesn't have 
said Function key?




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Re: major audio issues on my new MacBook pro when running windows ten via bootcamp... driver issue?

[Steve Matzura]

You are not the first person from whom I have heard about this problem. 
A friend of mine was on to Microsoft the other day, and they insist it's 
a bad Apple-provided driver. However, if you connect a USB audio 
interface to the Mac via a Thunderbolt-to-USB adapter cable, that device 
works and sounds just fine.



On 9/29/2018 12:06 AM, Cameron Strife wrote:

Hi everyone.

I have been doing forum searches and reading articles etc and can't
figure out what's going on here. If anybody has any tips, please let
me know! Thanks.

I recently sold my two older macs and bought a new 2018 MacBook pro
with ssd, six core processor, and 16 gigs of ram.

I do some things on the mac side and some on the windows side. I had
been using windows ten on my old iMac. I upgraded from my windows
seven install on that machine and did not have the issues I am about
to lay out here...

I ended up buying a windows ten license and doing a clean install,
setting up everything from scratch. I downloaded the latest version of
bootcamp the day I did the windows ten install.

With any sort of audio playback whether it be audio files through a
media player, screen reader output, audio streaming from a web site,
or good old system sounds, I can hear a noise gate even at low
volumes. This results in the first syllable of every word being cut
off with jaws or NVDA for example when navigating around or typing
etc. Also, everything is squashed. The amount of compression is un
freaking bearable! The odd thing is that with my old machine running
windows ten via the upgrade, I had no issues with audio playback. It
was fine. This... This is just a mess. I don't know what group of
people came to the conclusion that these features/settings were good
for anything under any circumstances.

I have music I am very familiar with and I use a nice set of Marintse
headphones. I know what they sound like normally and they do not sound
like this.

I am aware of the windows ten audio enhancement features that are
turned on by default. I've read all about that and know how to turn it
off. However, when I look in the properties dialogue box, I do not
have a tab called enhancements for the on board headphones or
speakers. According to everything I've read, this is where I need to
be to turn this garbage off but it's simply not here. I can't seem to
find a way to disable them via the command prompt or the registry
either. I do have a tab called spacial sound but even if it's off, it
makes no difference.

The audio on my mac OS partition is fine an I do not have these issues
with my focusrite saffire pro 40.

This leads me to believe that it may be a driver issue with this
version of bootcamp... If the drivers are the culprit however, why can
I not find a single reference to this missing tab?

And yes, I did uninstall the Apple headphones and speaker drivers. I
thought that when windows ten restarts, it may grab a generic driver
and that would solve the issue. No luck though! When I went back into
sound and then device manager, both were back!

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Cameron.



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Re: Any advice on how to remove the VMware?,,,

[Steve Matzura]

I don't, but these people do. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1017838 
Google is your friend.



On 9/27/2018 4:26 PM, Ramy Moustafa wrote:

Hi all:
will gona  remove the vmware from my mac, any advice? or just remove from the 
apps folder?
HOW i will get read of all it's componant etc?

Ramy moustafa saber
licturer at:
faculty of musical education
music arranger and sound engineer
Sent from my iPhone



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Intelligent Mailing List Management

[Steve Matzura]

What I mean by an "intelligent" mailing list is one that will send 
messages to each member with their own name in it. For example, I might 
have a mailing list with Bill Williams, Bob Roberts, and Jim Johnson, 
and I want each message to show up in Bill, Bob, and Jim's inbox with 
their own name in the body of the message., e.g., dear Jim,dear Bob, 
dear Bill, etc. I'd love it even more if a field for custom text could 
be included. For example, Bill needs to be reminded to bring the 
projector system, Bob needs to be reminded to come early to the next 
meeting to help set up chairs, and Jim doesn't need any special 
reminding for anything. So, in my dream mailing list manager, I would 
have a field into which I could type anything,and that text would be 
included. If there's no text, then nothing gets added; simple as that. 
Is there any program such as this which can run alongside standard Apple 
Mail, or possibly an add-on thereto? Does Microsoft Office/Outlook have 
this feature? The Mac on which this system will run has Office 2016 on 
it, so if that exists in Office, I just need to know where to go to set 
it up.



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Re: 4 tb hd, what is the best backup plan?

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Never mind all these multiplication exercises. The first question that 
should be asked about what can and should be backed up is this: How much 
stuff stored on my computer system can I re-download or recover in some 
other way? Do I have, say, instrument libraries I can download again? If 
so, I don't have to back them up. Do I have programs I can re-install 
from the App Store? If so, then I don't have to back them up. Do I have 
documents or other data that, if lost, cannot be replaced, or at least, 
not replaced easily? Then those absolutely *must* be backed up. By 
answering these questions, you can shrink the size of your backup, not 
to mention the amount of time it takes to make it. Of course, it will 
require some thought and maybe making a list and checking it twice, and 
of course customizing your Time Machine backup plan, but it's worth it. 
You can get away with smaller backup volumes this way.



It's also a very good plan to have at least one full disk image 
backup--something to start with that has nearly everything on it that 
you need and/or want in case of a boot-disk failure, otherwise you will 
have to start from nothing if you have to replace the boot disk. Copy 
Cloner and Super Duper are two applications that can make such backups, 
and I think you can boot from those copies to create and set up the 
replaced system volume.



If all else fails and your boot drive is toast, there's always the Mac 
Recovery system. You can read about it at 
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314



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Re: radio automation software for mac?

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There's Nicecast, but nobody seems to like it much when compared to like 
software on Windows. The price is right, though--less than fifty dollars US.



On 12/24/2018 12:52 AM, The wolf wrote:
Hello does any one know of any voice over friendly radio automation 
software that works on the mac?


thanks

Hank





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Re: David Woodbridge demonstrations on the mac

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Try http://davidwoodbridge.blogspot.com. I've not looked there myself, 
but I'm sure his blog has links to his audio programs.



On 12/4/2018 11:28 PM, Hemachandran Karaha wrote:

Dear all,

Kindly let me know where I can get Woodbridge's demonstrations on the Mac. I 
will be grateful for a link to the resource.

Take care,
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Re: Starting An App Automatically At Login

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I'm not on Mojave yet, but here's an easier-to-implement solution. 
Before shutting your system down, open anything you want automatically 
opened the next time you boot. Then, in the Shut Down dialog, check the 
box that lets you reopen all windows on the next boot. That will get you 
around the Preferences/Login problem until you can solve that one.


oopened t

On 11/24/2018 10:35 AM, Pete De Vasto wrote:

Hi all,

I’m having trouble figuring out how to do this under Mojave. I want to have Mail 
and Messages start automatically each time I login. So I go to system Preferences 
> Users and Groups, select my account, then go to the Login Items tab. But only 
one app comes up in the list of available apps, and when I click the Add button I 
can’t seem to find the list of all apps I can choose from. It looks like a 
Finder-type window is opening, but again, I can’t figure out how to get to the 
list of apps. And yes, I did click the lock to make changes. Can someone help me 
with this?

Many thanks,
Pete De Vasto



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Re: Team viewer or what can we use?

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Someone once did a Messages screenshare with me and was able to hear my 
VoiceOver, although they didn't need to. I don't remember the steps to 
initiate this,but it  worked well and solved my immediate problem at the 
time.



On 11/27/2018 12:26 AM, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Hi all. I find that when using FaceTime, nobody can hear my computer 
and I can't hear their's. Because of this, I recommend you use Skype 
if you need to hear the other computer. This is if both parties are 
using Facetime on Macs. However, if both of you use Facetime on your 
iPhones, you won't have this issue.


Regards,
Shawn,




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Re: 4 tb hd, what is the best backup plan?

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1. Concatenation? That's the same thing as striping, and there is no 
such official RAID level called concatenation. The correct designations 
of RAID levels are:



list of 5 items
• RAID 0 (Disk striping): RAID 0 splits data across any number of disks 
allowing higher data throughput. ... (Sounds like concatenation, doesn't 
it?)
• RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring): ... Replicates or "shadows" volumes for 
failover protection; if one disk fails, the volume remains intact and 
accessible.

• RAID 5 (Striping with parity): ...
• RAID 6 (Striping with double parity): ...
• RAID 10 (Striping + Mirroring):
list end


"Raid 10" is a misnomer. Its proper notation is RAID 1+0--mirroring plus 
striping.



2. RAID 5 and 6 are not a simple concatenation of disk space, like 
striping is. A RAID 5 set consists of a minimum of three disks, one of 
which does not contain any usable data. It is the disk that contains the 
checksum information to recreate data in the event that any disk in the 
set is lost or damaged. Therefore, the size of a RAID 5 set is equal to 
the value (n minus 1) times the size of the smallest disk in the set. 
RAID 6 is the same as RAID 5, but with an additional checksum disk, 
giving extra redundancy and protection in case of failure. Synology is 
famous for using RAID 6, although they call their version something 
else, and if I remember correctly, they say it is not compatible with 
what most would call true RAID 6.



3. Striping (RAID level 0) is the most dangerous kind of RAID 
arrangement on which to rely totally because if you lose one disk, you 
lose it all. If I were you, I'd seriously rethink that stripe set of yours.



4. Don't combine striping and mirroring. It's inefficient, and could 
cost you if you do it the wrong way. Plus, whether it's a mirrored 
stripe set or a striped mirror, you're getting the space from  only half 
the disks used. Choose RAID 5 instead; then you'll be getting the disk 
space from n-minus-1 times the size of the smallest disk (see above), 
and you can always add more, one at a time, unlike a mirrored stripe or 
striped mirror, where you'll have to add two disks at a time.



HTH


On 12/16/2018 1:28 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
Well, I have found that to keep the prices down (IOW, keep your wallet 
from going nuclear), it would probably be best to get several of the 
smaller drives (like 4TB) and then raid them together . This will not 
only allow you a larger filesystem, but also increased performance. 
Striping raid is best for performance, while mirroring allows for 
complete redundant backup with a CRC failover. I have several 3 TB 
externals. Here all in raid 1 (striping), which gives me an effective 
12 TB external with the max performance bandwidth that USB 3 can 
provide (it’s not as fast as the 3GPS SATA drives, but it’s more than 
fast enough).


Now, there are three methods of raid you need to be aware of (2 of 
which I just mentioned):

1. Striping
2. Mirroring
3. Concatenation

The third one above simply allows you to append 1 drive to another. 
This is also the easiest method to use if you simply want to add more 
drives to the raid. It doesn’t have the performance of striping or the 
redundancy of mirroring, but as a simple large drive, it works ok.


Basically, it’s up to you what you want to use. Just bear in mind, 
none of the above solutions is for the newbie. A bit of reading will 
be required.


-Eric


On Dec 16, 2018, at 2:49 AM, Ramy Moustafa > wrote:


Aha i understand now.
but all my external HDs will be more than 4 TB, and i will not be 
able to buy 8 TB HD.

All my data now are 8 TB storage, so, must i buy 16 TB hard drive?
so, what will be teh 2nd solution?


On Dec 14, 2018, at 4:31 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries 
> wrote:


Hi,

No, it can be just one backup volume.  First limitation is that the 
backup volume should be about twice as big as the data being stored. 
 So, if you have less than 2 TB of data that needs backed up, then a 
4 TB Time Machine backup volume is perfect.  If the total is greater 
than that, you might be fine, but the backup may run out of space 
too quickly.  All that out of the way, you just go into your Time 
Machine pane in System Prefs, press the Options button and make sure 
that none of your external drives are excluded from the backup. 
 Essentially, that's all you need to do.  Leave all drives connected 
all the time and let Time Machine do its thing automatically.  Note 
that the first backup may take days as the data is being prepared 
for and backed up to the new drive.  All subsequent backups should 
be much faster.


Later...

Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Dec 14, 2018, at 06:32, Ramy Moustafa > wrote:




My friends:
I finally got 4 tb hard disk, that i plan to use it for weekly backup,
I have more than 3 hard disks that i hope to 

Calendar Question

[Steve Matzura]

Is it possible to display only dates with appointments, or is there 
another easy and accessible way to move among appointments with a 
shortcut key? One of my family members swears they have put appointments 
on our family calendar, I've heard the notifications spoken that they've 
made entries on that calendar, but I can't find the appointments on the 
dates where I know they should be. This makes me think they're in 
another month. But who wants to go traipsing through every month and 
every day to find them?



TIA

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Re: Calendar Question

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Thanks, but what if I don't have one? I have no idea what the event is 
called, what date it's on, nothing. That's why I need to just flip 
through appointments only, so I I can find one I don't recognize. For 
instance, I know this person put an appointment in by mistake. They 
typed one letter and pressed ADD, but I had no idea what letter it was. 
Luckily, it was accidentally made for the same day, so it was easy to 
find and delete.



On 6/5/2019 1:57 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:

Hello Steve,

What you can do is enter an element of the event in the Search field, do 
VO-Down Arrow and press Return. Press VO-Cmd-t twice to reach the results table 
where you’ll find all events containing that element.
Cheers,

Anne





On 5 Jun 2019, at 18:12, Steve Matzura  wrote:

Is it possible to display only dates with appointments, or is there another 
easy and accessible way to move among appointments with a shortcut key? One of 
my family members swears they have put appointments on our family calendar, 
I've heard the notifications spoken that they've made entries on that calendar, 
but I can't find the appointments on the dates where I know they should be. 
This makes me think they're in another month. But who wants to go traipsing 
through every month and every day to find them?


TIA




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Re: Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going forward, The Verge

[Steve Matzura]

Believe any of that, and I have a bridge you might want to buy. Just 
like Zuckerberg, they got caught with their pants down, and just like 
Zuckerberg, this won't be the last time.



On 8/28/2019 12:29 PM, M. Taylor wrote:

Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going
forward
By Chaim Gartenberg, Aug 28, 2019, 11:07am EDT

Apple has issued a formal apology for its privacy practices of secretly
having human contractors listen to recordings of customers talking to its
Siri digital assistant to improve the service. "We realize we haven't been
fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologize," Apple's
statement reads.
The company also announced several changes to Siri's privacy policy:
First, by default, we will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri
interactions. We will continue to use computer-generated transcripts to help
Siri improve.
Second, users will be able to opt in to help Siri improve by learning from
the audio samples of their requests. We hope that many people will choose to
help Siri get better, knowing that Apple respects their data and has strong
privacy controls in place. Those who choose to participate will be able to
opt out at any time.
Third, when customers opt in, only Apple employees will be allowed to listen
to audio samples of the Siri interactions. Our team will work to delete any
recording which is determined to be an inadvertent trigger of Siri.

Apple was one of several major tech companies - including Google, Amazon,
Facebook, and Microsoft - that was caught using paid human contractors to
review recordings from its digital assistant, a fact that wasn't made clear
to customers. According to The Guardian's report, those contractors had
access to recordings that were full of private details, often due to
accidental Siri triggers, and workers were said to each be listening to up
to 1,000 recording a day.
In the aftermath of that report, Apple announced that it would suspend the
grading program that would see those recordings reviewed. "We are committed
to delivering a great Siri experience while protecting user privacy," an
Apple spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge at the time.
Previously, Apple policy would keep random recordings from Siri for up to
six months, after which it would remove identifying information for a copy
that it would keep for two years or more.
Per today's announcement, both the non-optional recording and the subsequent
grading policies are now being suspended for good. Apple says it will no
longer keep audio recordings from Siri unless a user specifically opts in.
And in cases where customers do choose to give Apple their data, only Apple
employees will have access (not, it would seem to imply, hired contractors).
The company additionally promises that it will work to delete recordings of
accidental triggers, which The Guardian's report claims were the main source
of sensitive information.
According to Apple's statement, the company plans to resume grading Siri
recordings under those new policies later this fall, following a software
update that adds the new opt-in option to its devices.

Original Article at:
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Re: How to Protect and Clean your Apple Card, Apple Support

[Steve Matzura]

While that may seem funny, if you got the card for its show value, then 
it's to be taken seriously. Titanium is a soft metal, easily scratched. 
The laser-etched logo and holoimaging processes are also easily damaged 
by coming into contact with  rough cloth. What Apple (or the actual 
physical card issuer) should do is issue the card in a protective 
sleeve, even one with a thin foil surrounding it to help protect it 
against magnetic damage as described in the article. EZ-Pass 
transponders come in these kinds of sleeve protectors.



On 8/23/2019 10:08 PM, M. Taylor wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I can hardly catch my breath as I have just been reading the seemingly
endless jokes about the Apple Card and its unique cleaning instructions, on
Twitter, on the Apple Insider feed.

Man!  I've never come across such a wonderful treasure trove of jokes in my
life.

I wonder if Apple is laughing, also.  Probably not but, then again, they are
the ones who released the cards so, let the jokes fall where they may.

All of the jokes are based on the article, posted below:

Enjoy,

Mark

How to clean your Apple Card
See how to protect and maintain the condition of your titanium Apple Card.
  
About the titanium Apple Card

The titanium Apple Card is laser-etched with the card holder's name and the
Apple logo. A white finish is achieved through a multi-layer coating process
that's added to the titanium base material.
If your titanium Apple Card comes into contact with hard surfaces or
materials, it's possible that the coating can be damaged.
  
How to clean your titanium Apple Card

If your titanium Apple Card comes into contact with contaminants that can
cause stains, follow these steps to clean your card:
1.  Gently wipe with a soft, slightly damp, lint-free microfiber cloth.
2.  Moisten a soft, microfiber cloth with isopropyl alcohol and gently
wipe the card.
Don't use window or household cleaners, compressed air, aerosol sprays,
solvents, ammonia, or abrasives to clean your titanium Apple Card.
Some fabrics, like leather and denim, might cause permanent discoloration
that will not wash off.
  
How to safely store and carry your titanium Apple Card

.   Store your titanium Apple Card in a wallet, pocket, or bag made of
soft materials.
.   Place your card in a slot in your wallet or billfold without
touching another credit card. If two credit cards are placed in the same
slot your card could become scratched.
.   Don't place or store your titanium Apple Card card near magnets. If
your card is placed close to a magnetic latch on a purse or bag, the
magnetic strip can become demagnetized.
.   Don't place your titanium Apple Card in a pocket or bag that
contains loose change, keys, or other potentially abrasive objects.
Learn more
.   See how to request a replacement titanium Apple Card
.   Learn how to clean your other Apple products

Original Article at:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210399


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Stopping Display Sharing to Apple TV

[Steve Matzura]

The only way I've found to stop sharing my Mac Mini's display with my 
Apple TV is to turn off Airplay. I suspect that this is not correct. I 
tried unchecking the box in the Extras Display menu that says Mirror 
Fit-Headless, which is the name of the HDMI dongle I have connected to 
the Mini instead of a monitor, but unchecking this box seems to do 
nothing at all. The menu closes, the mirroring continues, and if I check 
again, the box is still checked. So what's the correct procedure to stop 
mirroring a display?



Thanks in advance.

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Re: Synchronizing Messages Between Mac and iPhone

[Steve Matzura]

I've had a similar problem since forever, Dave, even though all my 
devices show I'm using iCloud for the Messages *and* Contacts 
applications. What happens with me is that messages come to all my 
devices--two Macs, one phone, one iPad, and if I delete from one, I'm 
expecting that all the others will have that message deleted, too. But 
they don't. With Contacts, if I add a contact using one device,  I fully 
expect that it should appear on all the others,but it never does. Anyone 
who can offer help on these two problems, which I suspect are related in 
some very esoteric way, I greatly appreciate your efforts in advance.




On 8/22/2019 9:06 PM, Dave Carlson wrote:

Seems not to be working. Mac messages are way out of date. I thought this was 
handled by iCloud?

Dave Carlson


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Re: Synchronizing Messages Between Mac and iPhone

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Yes, Dave. There's definitely something odd about this. I have to say, 
though, that while I'm not pleased about it, I'm a little pleased to 
find out it's not just me. LOL.



On 8/23/2019 9:46 AM, Dave Carlson wrote:

Steve,
Yes, and my wife who is sighted also has the same behavior with her Mac, iPad, 
and iPhone. It seems like we need to have some sort of refresh process for 
iCloud that is either set to update periodically or is set to sync continuously 
when anything changes, whether an addition to , or a removal of items in the 
Messages or Contacts. In my experience, both Mail and Calendar work fine and 
are always in sync — so why not the others? And I’ve not even started looking 
at Notes and Voice Memos  to see if there are any concern there.
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Mirroring a display, but not VoiceOver

[Steve Matzura]

I can mirror my entire Mac--VoiceOver, screen and all--to my Apple TV,  
but I'd prefer to do it without VoiceOver. Rather, I'd prefer to keep 
VoiceOver coming out of the built-in audio interface whichh is connected 
to a jack on the back of the computer. In turn, that is connected to the 
analog input of a mixer to which I have headphones connected. So, it I 
could mirror the display but keep the audio in my own ears, that would 
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Re: Keynote Tips and Tricks

[Steve Matzura]

I know there's text there,  because I can use OpenOffice's program (and 
probably Keynote, too) to extract and save the text. I'll look at it 
further.



On 10/23/2019 5:51 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Hi,

Hmmm.  That's odd.  VO should read everything within a Keynote slide, 
unless of course it is an unlabelled image, or a scanned image thing. 
 There are usually different aspects on the slide itself, including 
headers, footers, body etc.  VO should read the contents of a Text box 
without even interacting with it.  Images are usually just announced 
as Image.  Transitions are announced.  This is my experience anyway. 
 So, if you're not getting any of that feedback, there's something 
funny with the Keynote slide stack or something funny with your 
version of Keynote.


Are you in Slide Show mode, or just view/edit mode?

Later...


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On Oct 23, 2019, at 15:43, Steve Matzura <mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


I sure thought so, too, but I get the title, and that's all. I've 
tried adding a text box from the tool bar, but that didn't help 
either. I then went to the formatter group, but all I could do there 
was move things around and messait up for the people who actually need 
to see what's on the screen.



On 10/23/2019 5:21 PM, Julie Rattray wrote:

Hi,

If you interact with the individual elements of the slide it should 
read everything to you.


On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:12, Steve Matzura <mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


It has come upon me that I need to know a lot more about this 
software than I do. For example, I seem to have become the de facto 
presenter for a group to which I belong whereat I must show a 
PowerePoint presentation. I've discovered that Keynote doesn't read 
the embedded text, but the Windows equivalents--PowerPoint and 
OpeneOffice--do. Is there a way to do this in Keynote for MacOS?



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Keynote Tips and Tricks

[Steve Matzura]

It has come upon me that I need to know a lot more about this software 
than I do. For example, I seem to have become the de facto presenter for 
a group to which I belong whereat I must show a PowerePoint 
presentation. I've discovered that Keynote doesn't read the embedded 
text, but the Windows equivalents--PowerPoint and OpeneOffice--do. Is 
there a way to do this in Keynote for MacOS?



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Re: Keynote Tips and Tricks

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I sure thought so, too, but I get the title, and that's all. I've tried 
adding a text box from the tool bar, but that didn't help either. I then 
went to the formatter group, but all I could do there was move things 
around and messait up for the people who actually need to see what's on 
the screen.



On 10/23/2019 5:21 PM, Julie Rattray wrote:

Hi,

If you interact with the individual elements of the slide it should read 
everything to you.


On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:12, Steve Matzura  wrote:

It has come upon me that I need to know a lot more about this software than I 
do. For example, I seem to have become the de facto presenter for a group to 
which I belong whereat I must show a PowerePoint presentation. I've discovered 
that Keynote doesn't read the embedded text, but the Windows 
equivalents--PowerPoint and OpeneOffice--do. Is there a way to do this in 
Keynote for MacOS?


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Re: Keynote Tips and Tricks

[Steve Matzura]

None of what you just told me was old. I've never done this before.


There was one edit box I found that was filled with 0's. Very strange! I 
don't have the time to study this now because of time constraints, but I 
will, and report back, probably tomorrow.



On 10/23/2019 5:55 PM, Julie Rattray wrote:

Hi again,

So in keynote, and forgive me if I am starting with stuff you already know, you 
get three sometimes four different areas of the screen you can interact with - 
depending on your set up:

1. Slide navigator - this is a list of all the slides in the presentation and 
if you interact with this list you will only get the titles of the slides.  If 
you rest your cursor on one of these and then stop interacting with the slide 
navigator you then ..
2. Can navigate to the slide itself and here you can interact with the 
different elements on the slide and read the text sometimes I need to interact 
with the element - say title and then interact with the edit box and it should 
work - move around the box with vo arrows.
3. You might also have the formatter area which changes depending on what you 
are doing but it is where you can add transitions fonts etc or move things 
around.
4. The notes page where you can add presenter notes.

Hope this helps but get back to me if it still doesn’t work


On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:43, Steve Matzura  wrote:

I sure thought so, too, but I get the title, and that's all. I've tried adding 
a text box from the tool bar, but that didn't help either. I then went to the 
formatter group, but all I could do there was move things around and messait up 
for the people who actually need to see what's on the screen.


On 10/23/2019 5:21 PM, Julie Rattray wrote:

Hi,

If you interact with the individual elements of the slide it should read 
everything to you.


On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:12, Steve Matzura  wrote:

It has come upon me that I need to know a lot more about this software than I 
do. For example, I seem to have become the de facto presenter for a group to 
which I belong whereat I must show a PowerePoint presentation. I've discovered 
that Keynote doesn't read the embedded text, but the Windows 
equivalents--PowerPoint and OpeneOffice--do. Is there a way to do this in 
Keynote for MacOS?


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Re: Keynote Tips and Tricks

[Steve Matzura]

It worked out great! Yes, all I had to do was VO-Right to the next 
collapsed element, the one after the table with the slides in it that I 
could arrow through, interact with that element, and for each slide, the 
text was right there. What threw me, what made me think it wasn't 
working, is I found out that the first two slides were banners with 
nothing on them but the title and a big picture. When I got to slide #3, 
interacting with that center element showed me the text in a nice 
editable window.



Now for my next trick: attaching media and having it play when the slide 
is display to which said media is attached!



On 10/23/2019 5:55 PM, Julie Rattray wrote:

Hi again,

So in keynote, and forgive me if I am starting with stuff you already know, you 
get three sometimes four different areas of the screen you can interact with - 
depending on your set up:

1. Slide navigator - this is a list of all the slides in the presentation and 
if you interact with this list you will only get the titles of the slides.  If 
you rest your cursor on one of these and then stop interacting with the slide 
navigator you then ..
2. Can navigate to the slide itself and here you can interact with the 
different elements on the slide and read the text sometimes I need to interact 
with the element - say title and then interact with the edit box and it should 
work - move around the box with vo arrows.
3. You might also have the formatter area which changes depending on what you 
are doing but it is where you can add transitions fonts etc or move things 
around.
4. The notes page where you can add presenter notes.

Hope this helps but get back to me if it still doesn’t work


On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:43, Steve Matzura  wrote:

I sure thought so, too, but I get the title, and that's all. I've tried adding 
a text box from the tool bar, but that didn't help either. I then went to the 
formatter group, but all I could do there was move things around and messait up 
for the people who actually need to see what's on the screen.


On 10/23/2019 5:21 PM, Julie Rattray wrote:

Hi,

If you interact with the individual elements of the slide it should read 
everything to you.


On 23 Oct 2019, at 22:12, Steve Matzura  wrote:

It has come upon me that I need to know a lot more about this software than I 
do. For example, I seem to have become the de facto presenter for a group to 
which I belong whereat I must show a PowerePoint presentation. I've discovered 
that Keynote doesn't read the embedded text, but the Windows 
equivalents--PowerPoint and OpeneOffice--do. Is there a way to do this in 
Keynote for MacOS?


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Re: Where do I Find "Open to Last Setting"?

[Steve Matzura]

There ya go!


On 1/27/2020 11:40 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Dave,

Go to System Prefs, General and look for "Close windows when quitting 
an app unchecked checkbox".  Unchecking it lets things open where they 
were, and checking it starts you with a blank slate.  I prefer the 
blank slate so that errors are not repeated every time I open the app. 
 There are individual settings within Safari for the same, which I 
don't enable either.


HTH.

Later...


Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jan 27, 2020, at 09:28, Dave Carlson > wrote:


Steve,
You may be right, and a brighter Mac bulb than I. But I was recalling 
that it was more global than individual applications.



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Re: Playing Media Attached to Keynote Presentations

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Tim,


Clicker things? Now I'm more than very interested. Please explain.


I've become the de facto audiovisual guy for a group to which I belong 
that has a monthly discussion meeting surrounding material in a 
PowerPoint slide presentation. Doing this while sitting with my group 
and running it wirelessly, either via a Bluetooth keyboard or a clicker 
device would make big points with the group leader/facilitator and make 
it look like I really know what I'm doing (LOLLOL).



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Hi,

The "On click" should respond to the click of a mouse, the click of a 
TrackPad, the press of the spacebar and I believe that it also 
responds to the press of the return key.  You can also use one of 
those clicker things to do any of these actions as well as move 
through presentations.


Later...


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Re: Playing Media Attached to Keynote Presentations

[Steve Matzura]

Oh thank you. I would never have thought of that! It would be most 
convenient if there was a built-in shortcut key to play that media file 
rather than having to mess around to get it to play.




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Hi,

When the media is inserted into the presentation, you can choose 
whether it starts automatically or upon click.  Navigate to the slide 
where the media resides, select the Animate radio button from the 
Toolbar, then select your desired build process from within the 
Formatter Scroll area.


Later...


Tim Kilburn
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Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Feb 5, 2020, at 08:08, Steve Matzura <mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


How exactly does this work? Can a slide be displayed without 
triggering playback of attached media? If yes, how is media 
playback/replay

triggered?

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Re: Playing Media Attached to Keynote Presentations

[Steve Matzura]

How interesting! If they're cheap enough, I might have to get one.


On 2/8/2020 10:46 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for not being particularly specific.  What I'm calling a 
"clicker thing" is one of those clicker devices that many presenters 
use.  It often has a Bluetooth connection with go forward/go back 
buttons, the play/pause button and some even have up/down volumes. 
 I've used a few and sometimes the Mac believes them to be a keyboard 
and brings up a keyboard selector window which you can just close. 
 The clicker will work properly after closing it as the few buttons on 
it appear to be recognized without going through the process of 
pressing letters that don't exist on the device.  You can usually get 
these off of Amazon, or should be available at any office supply 
retailer such as Staples etc.


HTH.

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On Feb 7, 2020, at 18:09, Steve Matzura <mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:


Tim,


Clicker things? Now I'm more than very interested. Please explain.


I've become the de facto audiovisual guy for a group to which I belong 
that has a monthly discussion meeting surrounding material in a 
PowerPoint slide presentation. Doing this while sitting with my group 
and running it wirelessly, either via a Bluetooth keyboard or a 
clicker device would make big points with the group leader/facilitator 
and make it look like I really know what I'm doing (LOLLOL).



On 2/7/2020 5:58 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Hi,

The "On click" should respond to the click of a mouse, the click of a 
TrackPad, the press of the spacebar and I believe that it also 
responds to the press of the return key.  You can also use one of 
those clicker things to do any of these actions as well as move 
through presentations.


Later...


Tim Kilburn




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Playing Media Attached to Keynote Presentations

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How exactly does this work? Can a slide be displayed without triggering 
playback of attached media? If yes, how is media playback/replay

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Re: Where do I Find "Open to Last Setting"?

[Steve Matzura]

I'm not the brightest Mac user on the planet, but I've never seen that 
setting in System Preferences. However, there are definitely some 
applications (like Pages, TextEdit, Keynote, etc.) that do remember the 
last thing that they opened, and automatically reopen it. You'd most 
likely find settings to control this behavior in the original 
application's preferences dialog.



On 1/27/2020 10:59 AM, Dave Carlson wrote:

Still troubleshooting my mystery on menus. A while back I recall learning about 
something where when closing an app, that it remembers the content and reopens 
with that content net time. This had some impact on how they appeared, and I’m 
trying to find out where that setting is located in the System Preferences. Any 
hints?
And my description may be off the mark, but something about closing or 
reopening...


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Keynote Remote

[Steve Matzura]

Couldn't find that one, but there are a few free ones that look 
promising. Will test and report back. Meanwhile, my free hardware 
clicker plus red laser pointer arrived. The instructions for pairing are 
in several languages on a piece of paper that, when unfolded, is the 
size of a 3x5 file card, hence the printing is micro-small. Even my 
wife's magnifying glass needed a magnifying glass! ;-)


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Re: Some strange issues after clean install

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What's the difference between erase volume and erase volume group?


On 1/9/2020 11:03 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote:
   I don't recall that but when I got to the point of erasing the 
system, I selected the startup disk (Mojave).


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 1/9/2020 3:41 AM, Greg Wocher wrote:

Hello,
I installed using a bootable USB drive. I think I may know what is 
going on. When I did the erase part there were two options. One was 
erase volume and the second was erase volume groups. I think when I 
did the erase, I just erased my files and apps and not any of the 
user data.  I did need to put the finder windows in list view to get 
them back to working as they were before.


Greg Wocher




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