Re: [WAMUG] Strange issue logging in to iCloud ??

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
My only suggestion is: If you’re logging with Safari, go to Safari > Settings > Passwords and find the entry for your iCloud login. You can’t edit it, so delete it using the — symbol at the botton of the passwords list. Close the window and try logging in again. This time Keychain

Re: [WAMUG] Apps to Hide and Password protect a Folder on Mac

2024-01-15 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
The quickest an cheapest (i.e. free!) way is with the Terminal. Even if the idea of using Terminal frightens you to death (as it does with a lot of people) the following article makes it easy. https://beebom.com/how-hide-file-folder-macos/ How to Hide a File or Folder in macOS beebom.com >

Re: [WAMUG] ChatGPT

2023-04-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
Not really. The discussion was more about ChatGPT generally and its emerging implications. If we focussed on anything it was the impending release of Ask AI for the Quicklook replacement Raycast, which showed how AI may be used increasingly in every day productivity. For those who haven’t heard

Re: [WAMUG] Recording a video of my screen

2023-02-21 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
Yes, this would have been my immediate response. I think it’s been around since at least Sierra (corrections invited!). > On 21 Feb 2023, at 10:25 am, Tim Law via WAMUG > wrote: > > Thanks Mike, > > I’ve found command shift 5 works too. > > Regards > > Tim Kind regards, Peter

Re: [WAMUG] Lurker unmasked

2023-02-07 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
> On 7 Feb 2023, at 9:24 pm, Tim Law via WAMUG wrote: > > Thanks for welcoming me onto the Zoom WAMUG meeting tonight. Nice to put > faces to names. > > I’ve run Apple products since….. oh way back well before the turn of the > century. Probably around 1987 and been a WAMUG participant for

Re: [WAMUG] Photos

2023-01-08 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
On 6 Jan 2023, at 2:55 pm, Rosemary Spark via WAMUG <[1]wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> wrote: Ah yes, I got muddled...I thought it was the latest of course it isn't but it looks like this computer doesn't update to Ventura. My "newer" computer is stuffed. it's so

Re: [WAMUG] Photos

2023-01-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
> On 5 Jan 2023, at 7:35 pm, Rosemary Spark via WAMUG > wrote: > > Hi, > I've run into a weird problem. I have Photo libraries on an external > hard drive. > Now (after updating Monterey) when I try to open them I get a strange > message. > > Unsupported Library > > The

Re: [WAMUG] Connecting iMac to iMac with 5G

2022-10-09 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
> On 8 Oct 2022, at 6:14 pm, Matt Falvey via WAMUG > wrote: > > Hi, I have just joined Telstra 5G to improve my NBN download speed from an > average of 27 Mbps. > > I normally have 3 iMacs linked via wifi but since I have started using the 5G > I have been unable to link them up. I normal

Re: [WAMUG] Decision time: MacBook Pro battery

2022-09-29 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
> On 29 Sep 2022, at 11:28 am, Daniel Kerr via WAMUG > wrote: > > Hi Tim > > On a new Apple Silicon machine you’ll have a bit of a nightmare getting > VMWare to work - as we tried to do one for another client and it was a > nightmare. You definitely can’t use the same “VM File” you have -

Re: [WAMUG] Resetting author

2022-09-07 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
> On 7 Sep 2022, at 7:15 pm, Rosemary Spark via WAMUG > wrote: > > Hi there, > > My husband’s computer has set me up as the author instead of him. Don’t > know why. > >Is there a way to set up Automator to change the author name? > > This’ll is on multiple word and pages

Re: [WAMUG] Gmail - a cautionary tale

2022-09-06 Thread Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
> On 6 Sep 2022, at 3:55 pm, Tim Law via WAMUG wrote: > > Good afternoon > > Not specifically Mac related > Ages ago I set up a Google Account and used my regular email address. > This happens to be a private domain under [1]com.au > I clearly missed something fairly important from