Re: Internet speed test

[Rob Phillips]

You're making me envious. I'm getting 1Mb/s down and 0.5 Mb/s up.  NBN 
not due til end on 2019. But at least it wil be fibre to the Jerb.


Rob

On 13/4/18 8:03 am, Tim Law wrote:

That’s interesting Peter,

For me, the Google internet speed test shows about half that of 
Speedtest and speedof.me 


60 down for Speedtest/30 down for Google


Tim


On 13 Apr 2018, at 7:36 am, Peter Faulks > wrote:


Can someone recommend a reliable Internet speed test, I have just 
moved to NBN and on 3 sites get different readings within a minute.


Test 1 speed.me   = Down 32.92 Mbps Up 15.82
Test 2 http://www.speedtest.net/results = Down 34.67 Mbps Up 14.68
Test 3  Google Internet speed test = Down 9.48 Mbps Up 8.18

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Re:Strange Device

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restart all devices? 





Sent from OPPO MailOn Diana & Graham Stevens , 29 Mar 2018 9:14 a.m. wrote:I have decided I can’t do without WAMUG, I shall pay my dues today.
If this is a bit garbled please bear with me, I am very depressed, any fellow sufferers will know this means no ability to concentrate, accident prone etc.
Present problem, I needed to use my iPad away from home. Set up Graham’s iPhone as hot spot, turned off wifi on iPad to do it. Turned wifi on again. Did not need to use the iPad after all, left it at home, this was on Tuesday.
All well until today, iPhone tells me to turn on wifi for better location services. Didn’t think I had turned it off. Hit the button, I can’t remember what it said but whatever it was I assumed it would turn wifi on. I cursed myself for using 4G for lengthy phone calls but it was necessary because our landline has had an intermittent fault for over 2 weeks, off 50% of time, Telstra technician hasn’t been able to solve it.
Connection unsuccessful. Message make sure “VW BT 3209” is turned on and in range.
But it is connected, icons for Telstra and wifi. I have no idea what this device is.
Looked in Bluetooth which shows both my iPad and this device as unconnected. I get the equivalent message to above. But Find my iPhone on my iPad shows my iPad and my old iPad 4 as connected. No mention of foreign device.
Find my iPhone on the iPhone, logged me out for my own protection, logged in again, it shows my two iPads, the iPhone doesn’t appear.
At one stage I managed to select the foreign device (I can’t remember how). Forget this device was greyed out, I tried to Sync contacts, the only other option got the same error message.
On my iPad the only device in Bluetooth is the iPhone.
I turned off Bluetooth on the iPhone, powered down and restarted. Unknown device still there.
Should I turn Bluetooth off, if warns me against it?
The only other thing that might be relevant is that I noticed Graham has not turned on Two-Factor Authentication.
I haven’t a clue what to do next nor whether this has serious implications. Any suggestions?
Regards Diana 
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Re: Macpro lion freeze - no restart

[Rob Phillips]

Some good advice there...

Rob

On 21/3/18 9:54 pm, gary dorn wrote:

An update

I read something about dust affecting electronics  particularly ram 
chips, so I pulled the graphics cards and ram cards and gave all a 
good vacuum and wipe


I also read that there are 2 buttons on a logic board - a reset and a 
diagnosis button

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/buttons-on-mac-pros-logic-board.924495/

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/363232/Mac+Pro+not+powering+on
Pressed reset button and then put graphic cards and 1 ram riser card 
back plus put hd 's in different trays.


Rebooted into Mac OS 10.5 on hd2.
Plugged in my lion installer USB stick and started process of 
reinstalling on hd 1


Took like 90 mins and it rebooted into lion on hd1 - yippee

Now I'm downloaded 10.7.5 combo client update( 1.9 GB)

Hopefully all will be okay !

Sent from my iPhone

On 21 Mar 2018, at 9:49 am, gary dorn > wrote:



Howdy
Yesterday my macpro 1,1 os 10.7 had a freeze - the 2nd screen got 
thin red lines running across it in both directions - diagonally I think
Upon force restart I got blinking white start button- hmm I 
understand that's a ram error


Sorted out blinking white light by removing ram chips and then 
progressively reinstalling in pairs -


Upon restart boots to grey screen

Can reboot into 500 GB 2 nd hardisk ( os 10.5.8)

Other combinations-
Safe mode- shift key ( gets to about 25% left overnight
Recovery - r key
D key
Option shift P R keys

All Get grey screen freeze

Can boot into system select - option key
Shows hd 1 - 1 tb OS 10.7
Hd2 - 230gb is 10.5.8
HD recovery
Backup efi ( time machine disk ?)
Lion efi ( when USB Instsller stick plugged in)

Except for hd2 all seem to get stuck in a loop of grey screen

I removed hd1 and plugged it into MacBook and did hardisk check via 
disk utility - says all is okay (65 GB free)


Does this likely mean the OS lion is corrupted and needs reinstalling
Can I reinstall lion via the MacBook ( I have new tech USB drive 
adaptor  set).?


Also I gather I need another hardisk - can I use a  WD drive from an 
external hardisk, or do I need to buy an internal sata drive? Or an ssd!


Appreciate any advice.

Specs are
2006 macpro 1,1
Hd1 935 gb Mac is lion 65gb free
Hd2 Mac OS leopard 232 gb 18gb free
Ram - 2x 512, 2x 2, 2x 4=13 gb
ATI Radeon hd5770 slot 1
Nvidia gforce 7300gt slot 4
2x 23" Apple cinema displays

Chow
gary dorn

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Re: Obscure email problem

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Ronda

Sorry about the delay - life has interceded.

I use Thunderbird, but I get no message about inability to deliver.

I looked at the 'all headers' info, and it didn't tell me much...


Still a mystery...
Rob

On 2/3/18 12:12 pm, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hi Rob,
You mentioned “/we tried a direct, person-to-person email, and this 
also failed./”
Did you send this email using Apple Mail, if so did you receive any 
error message as to ‘why your message could not be delivered to his 
address?’
Or look in you sent mailbox. Locate the sent message - Go to View > 
Message > All Headers. It perhaps could give you some hint.


You might find some help through Mailman Users group.
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2017-July/082315.html

Cheers,
Ronni

 Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB



On 2 Mar 2018, at 9:02 am, Tim Law <mailto:t...@peoplehelp.com.au>> wrote:


Has he sent an email to your gmail account so that you are sure you 
have his right email address. I realise you’ve had success using a 
different send account, but not knowing all the details, I’m just 
wondering


Can you get someone else you know with a gmail account to send him a 
message


Sent from Tim's iPhone

On 2 Mar 2018, at 8:55 am, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Initially, they were group emails sent through Mailman (and I 
checked the settings). Once it was clear that this failed, we tried 
a direct, person-to-person email, and this also failed.


I don't think I've BCCed him at all.

Thinking about it, the person with the admin rights to the Mailman 
account is no longer with the organisation, so I haven't seen any 
bounce messages from Mailman. These might give a clue as to the problem.


Any bright ideas?
Rob


On 2/3/18 5:45 am, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Rob,

Are these group emails... bcc‘d? Or emails sent to only one recipient?

 Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB


On 1 Mar 2018, at 10:25 pm, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Greetings

This is a quite obscure problem, and not directly related to Macs. 
I'll understand if there is no response... :-)


I have a gmail email account, which works fine (for most people). 
There is one person (a Windows user) who never receives my Gmail 
emails. Everybody else does!


I have told him repeatedly that the problem must be at his end. He 
has made sure that this email address isn't in his junk or blocked 
list.


He says that he has reviewed all the email security settings on 
his computer.


Re emails - your iinet ones are getting through to me; it's the 
gmails that don't even though it's on my safer senders list and 
not on the blocked one. Can't seem to get around this one but 
have changed the last possible security setting.
I'm just wondering if there's some setting on Gmail which might 
restrict my messages going to him.


If nobody knows, which is a good forum to ask?

Cheers

Rob


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Re: Obscure email problem

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Tim
I have the right email address from my address book.

I got a colleague with a Gmail account to send a message to the 'problem 
person' and it got to him...


I'm thinking of getting the 'problem person' to try his webmail and see 
if he receives messages from me.


I'll keep investigating...
Rob

On 2/3/18 9:02 am, Tim Law wrote:

Has he sent an email to your gmail account so that you are sure you have his 
right email address. I realise you’ve had success using a different send 
account, but not knowing all the details, I’m just wondering

Can you get someone else you know with a gmail account to send him a message

Sent from Tim's iPhone


On 2 Mar 2018, at 8:55 am, Rob Phillips  wrote:

Initially, they were group emails sent through Mailman (and I checked the 
settings). Once it was clear that this failed, we tried a direct, 
person-to-person email, and this also failed.

I don't think I've BCCed him at all.

Thinking about it, the person with the admin rights to the Mailman account is 
no longer with the organisation, so I haven't seen any bounce messages from 
Mailman. These might give a clue as to the problem.

Any bright ideas?
Rob


On 2/3/18 5:45 am, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Rob,

Are these group emails... bcc‘d? Or emails sent to only one recipient?

 Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB



On 1 Mar 2018, at 10:25 pm, Rob Phillips  wrote:

Greetings

This is a quite obscure problem, and not directly related to Macs. I'll 
understand if there is no response... :-)

I have a gmail email account, which works fine (for most people). There is one 
person (a Windows user) who never receives my Gmail emails. Everybody else does!

I have told him repeatedly that the problem must be at his end. He has made 
sure that this email address isn't in his junk or blocked list.

He says that he has reviewed all the email security settings on his computer.


Re emails - your iinet ones are getting through to me; it's the gmails that 
don't even though it's on my safer senders list and not on the blocked one. 
Can't seem to get around this one but have changed the last possible security 
setting.

I'm just wondering if there's some setting on Gmail which might restrict my 
messages going to him.

If nobody knows, which is a good forum to ask?

Cheers

Rob


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Re: Obscure email problem

[Rob Phillips]

Initially, they were group emails sent through Mailman (and I checked 
the settings). Once it was clear that this failed, we tried a direct, 
person-to-person email, and this also failed.


I don't think I've BCCed him at all.

Thinking about it, the person with the admin rights to the Mailman 
account is no longer with the organisation, so I haven't seen any bounce 
messages from Mailman. These might give a clue as to the problem.


Any bright ideas?
Rob

On 2/3/18 5:45 am, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hi Rob,

Are these group emails... bcc‘d? Or emails sent to only one recipient?

 Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB



On 1 Mar 2018, at 10:25 pm, Rob Phillips  wrote:

Greetings

This is a quite obscure problem, and not directly related to Macs. I'll 
understand if there is no response... :-)

I have a gmail email account, which works fine (for most people). There is one 
person (a Windows user) who never receives my Gmail emails. Everybody else does!

I have told him repeatedly that the problem must be at his end. He has made 
sure that this email address isn't in his junk or blocked list.

He says that he has reviewed all the email security settings on his computer.


Re emails - your iinet ones are getting through to me; it's the gmails that 
don't even though it's on my safer senders list and not on the blocked one. 
Can't seem to get around this one but have changed the last possible security 
setting.

I'm just wondering if there's some setting on Gmail which might restrict my 
messages going to him.

If nobody knows, which is a good forum to ask?

Cheers

Rob


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Obscure email problem

[Rob Phillips]

Greetings

This is a quite obscure problem, and not directly related to Macs. I'll 
understand if there is no response... :-)


I have a gmail email account, which works fine (for most people). There 
is one person (a Windows user) who never receives my Gmail emails. 
Everybody else does!


I have told him repeatedly that the problem must be at his end. He has 
made sure that this email address isn't in his junk or blocked list.


He says that he has reviewed all the email security settings on his 
computer.


Re emails - your iinet ones are getting through to me; it's the gmails 
that don't even though it's on my safer senders list and not on the 
blocked one. Can't seem to get around this one but have changed the 
last possible security setting. 
I'm just wondering if there's some setting on Gmail which might restrict 
my messages going to him.


If nobody knows, which is a good forum to ask?

Cheers

Rob

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iDevice repairs

[Rob Phillips]

Hi all

Where is a good place to get my iDevices looked at and repaired.

The 2012 iPad is overheating and just not working most of the time

The iPhone5s case has split open and is about to fall apart.

Is there someone I should go to, or do I just try a corner store? Does 
MacWorx do this work?


Cheers

Rob

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Re: Strange case of "oversize video file" ?

[Rob Phillips]

Strange.

I just inserted one and it came up in disk utility.
Another one didn't come up immediately, but did ask if I wanted to erase it.

Does the thumb drive appear in the finder?

Rob

On 30/11/17 6:45 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Thank you Rob.
Do you know how to format a thumb drive ?
It does not show up in Disk Utility.

On 30 Nov 2017, at 6:38 pm, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Hi Stephen
I've experienced this a few years ago. As I recall

The drives are probably formatted with one of the old Windows formats 
- can't remember the name... FAT?


On these drives the size limit of a single file is around 2GB

If you format the drive with a modern Windows format, it will copy 
OK. Or in a Mac format - but then you can't share with everyone...


Cheers
Rob

On 30/11/17 6:03 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Hi folks.

Today a friend asked me to copy an MOV file onto a thumb drive for him.
The file is 2.23GB.

It will not copy to a 8GB or a 16GB or a 32GB thumb drive because 
“it is too large for the drives”.

I have since burnt onto a DVD for him instead.

But I cannot understand what happened.
Any ideas please folks ?

Regards,
Stephen Chape

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Re: Strange case of "oversize video file" ?

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Stephen
I've experienced this a few years ago. As I recall

The drives are probably formatted with one of the old Windows formats - 
can't remember the name... FAT?


On these drives the size limit of a single file is around 2GB

If you format the drive with a modern Windows format, it will copy OK. 
Or in a Mac format - but then you can't share with everyone...


Cheers
Rob

On 30/11/17 6:03 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Hi folks.

Today a friend asked me to copy an MOV file onto a thumb drive for him.
The file is 2.23GB.

It will not copy to a 8GB or a 16GB or a 32GB thumb drive because “it 
is too large for the drives”.

I have since burnt onto a DVD for him instead.

But I cannot understand what happened.
Any ideas please folks ?

Regards,
Stephen Chape

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Re: FYI - Office 2016 for good price

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I just kept the old version and installed the new version. There was no 
problem keeping the old version installed 'just in case'.


It's a pity that each new version takes away really good functionality, 
just to make it like the Windows version...


Rob


On 3/10/17 2:18 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Hi folks.

I was a little concerned that Microsoft are stopping support on 10 
October for Office 2011.


So after much searching I purchased Office 2016 Home & Business on 
eBay from Lenshop in Mt Waverley Victoria.

It was a download complete with Key Code and only cost $105.00.
Beats Officeworks price of $157.00 (which was next best I could find & 
is only Home & Student edition).


All seems to be working fine.

I had planned to uninstall 2011 before installing 2016.
Which I am told is the best way to go about it.
There is a long list of instructions to uninstall but looked worth 
while to preserve drive space.

But I was not game in case the 2016 download and install failed.

I have now deleted my Office 2011 folder and the Microsoft User Data 
folder.
But I am not game to delete any other associated files in case they 
are critical to 2016.


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Stephen Chape

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Re: Kernel Panic ?

[Rob Phillips]

Suggestions, without specifics of what to do - I don't have Ronni's 
memory for this. :-}


 * Time machine should not have re-installed the OS
 * There may be some corrupt prefs files which were coped back.

 * Use Console.app to look at the logs of what has been going wrong.
   Look at the time things went wrong to see what the problem might be
 * Boot up in diagnostic mode to do a hardware test - maybe done already
 * Boot up in Safe mode and see if the machine works OK. This will tell
   you that it's a system extension which is causing the problem
 * Download the OS-specific version of Sierra Cache Cleaner (e.g. Tiger
   Cache Cleaner), and clear the caches - follow the instructions -
   don't just do them all at once.

Good luck
Rob

On 2/10/17 3:32 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Hi folks.
I put this question up about a week ago but missed any replies.
So just trying again with fingers crossed !

During the last couple of months on a couple of start ups my son has 
got a black screen with what looks like computer code in white text 
down the left hand side. I think on each occasion he has re-started 
and it has been OK. Looks like a Kernel Panic ?


He has a 27 inch iMac 2012 with the latest OS.

However a few days ago he got this on every start up.
So he went to the Dubai Apple Shop.
They ran checks and said the hardware is fine but the issue is with 
the OS.

So they reformatted the HD and re-installed the OS for him.

When he got home he used Time Machine to recover his files.
But he now thinks Time Machine re-installed the corrupt OS.
Because the issue has returned.

He and I are unsure of the best procedure to follow to correct this issue.

Because he is an Emirates Captain his emails and data are very 
important to his work.
Although he also has a SuperDuper backup it is too far behind to be a 
viable source for his latest emails.


Any suggestions of best procedure to follow would be gratefully 
appreciated ?


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Re: Download and upload speeds

[Rob Phillips]

I'm VERY envious. :-\

Rob

On 2/10/17 3:13 pm, Ronni Brown wrote:

Hi Graeme,

What NBN Plan are you on? Are you FTTP or FTTN. You must be on a 
fairly low NBN Plan to be receiving the download & Upload speeds you 
mentioned below.


With NBN Download Speeds & Upload Speeds depend on what NBN Broadband 
Plan you are paying for.
/I’ve been on NBN FTTP since May 2014 with/ *iiNet/Westnet on a/$94.90 
per month plan/*
/*My Plan is 100GB + 100GB (Peak + OffPeak) + 50Mbps Download / 20Mbps 
Upload + Fibre Phone (my own phone).*/

/
/
I rarely reach the 50/20 Mbps speeds of my Plan.
*My SpeedTest results taken today:*
1. Turn Off WI-FI - Connected via Ethernet CAT6 cable directly into 
the NBN Termination Box UNI-D 1 Port

*Ping**Download  Upload*
4.8ms-47.6Mbps18.9Mbps

2. Connected via WI-FI 5GHz Network  (3TB Time Capsule)
*PingDownload Upload*
4.9ms47.7Mbps18.9Mbps

3. Turn Off WI-Fi - Connected via Ethernet port on TC
*PingDownload Upload*
4ms47.6Mbps            19Mbps

*Note:* I use and recommend CAT6 Ethernet cables, CAT5e can be used by 
CAT6 are faster for Broadband


Also what Neil mentioned and I Quote from Neil’s reply:
/Begin Quote
Your results sort of confirm what worries me about the NBN – the 
network/technology gives better speeds but, because of the high 
wholesale costs, the service providers don’t buy enough bandwidth to 
give good user speeds when congested.

/End Quote

Yes Neil, the smaller ISPs don’t have enough ‘Backhaul’ to handle 
congestion times - a lack of virtual capacity on the network that 
slows some connections to a crawl.


Regards,
Ronni


On 1 Oct 2017, at 8:21 pm, Graeme Winters > wrote:


I ran a test this week using Speedtest.app following my download of 
High Sierra not that I thought the speed would improve by reason of 
the latest download but I thought that
the speeds reflected by my test may be useful for comparison with 
members in other areas.
I accept that the speed recorded was that at the time of the test but 
comparisons may be helpful


I live in the Mt Pleasant area and have had the NBN for over 12 months
My recorded speeds were as follows

Ping2ms
Download11.1 Mbps
Upload2.47 Mbps

Are these details of interest to members?

Graeme
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Re: Download and upload speeds

[Rob Phillips]

In the wilds of Wanneroo, my download speeds (ADSL) average around 
2Mbps. Uploads are, of course, slower. No NBN until possibly mid 2018.

Rob

On 1/10/17 9:09 pm, Neil Houghton wrote:

Re: Download and upload speeds Hi Graeme,

Down in darkest Albany, not on broadband:

Ping 37ms
Download 11.31Mbps
Upload 0.95 Mbps

This seems fairly typical for me and ping time does not seem to 
influence download speed (one test had a ping of 64ms but a download 
speed of 12.88Mbps.



Your results sort of confirm what worries me about the NBN – the 
network/technology gives better speeds but, because of the high 
wholesale costs, the service providers don’t buy enough bandwidth to 
give good user speeds when congested.


I’m more than happy with my existing package and speed (happily stream 
iView & SBS on demand) until I am forced to change to NBN – I expect 
it will cost me more but offer me no real benefit.


Part of the trouble is that the ISPs seem to base their expected 
traffic on pre-NBN usage – but as Smart TVs and other streaming 
devices become more widely used bandwidth consumption increases 
rapidly and NBN wholesale costs are expensive – so to maintain their 
margins they either have to scrimp on bandwidth or charge much more.


I expect quite a lot of consumer complaints about actual service 
standards.


Just my 2c worth   ;o)



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on 1/10/17 20:21, Graeme Winters at g.winters1...@gmail.com wrote:

I ran a test this week using Speedtest.app following my download
of High Sierra not that I thought the speed would improve by
reason of the latest download but I thought that
the speeds reflected by my test may be useful for comparison with
members in other areas.
I accept that the speed recorded was that at the time of the test
but comparisons may be helpful

I live in the Mt Pleasant area and have had the NBN for over 12 months
My recorded speeds were as follows

Ping 2ms
Download 11.1 Mbps
Upload 2.47 Mbps

Are these details of interest to members?

Graeme
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Re: U Tube video

[Rob Phillips]

I have experienced the same. I did some searching, but didn't find any 
good answers. Using a different browser helps.


Ideas from others?

Rob

On 22/9/17 5:48 pm, Graeme Winters wrote:
Sorry my earlier email contained an image which should not have been 
sent. Content now shown below

I would like some assistance and guidance on the following


I created a video last year and posted this onto Utube  and now find 
that I am unable to open this and instead receive the message as follows


“ Your browser does not currently recognise any of the video formats 
available. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about 
HTML5 video "



However I have downloaded Chrome and when I searched for this same 
video I was able to watch it in full. It is about 24 minutes long but 
I cannot watch this using Safari


The video is simply a collection of photographs taken some 60 years 
ago and was a useful reminder at our Reunions


I am using an IMac 27  and Sierra 10.12.6

Any thoughts

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Keyboard covers MB Pro 2016?

[Rob Phillips]

Hi all

I've been trying to get a keyboard cover for my 2016 model MacBook Pro. 
Macworx, Apple Store Perth and JB HiFi don't sell these.


I bought one online from HK, but it was for the older model with 
Function Keys - waste of money!


Does anyone know where I can reliably source one?

Cheers

Rob

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Re: Speccing a MacBookPro 15"

[Rob Phillips]

I've been away - hence the delayed reply...

I bought a 2016 15" MB Pro last December.

I decided on the 1TB SSD, because I couldn't justify the cost of the 2TB 
drive. I added a 3TB magnetic drive to 'archive' stuff not often used.


I also bought an OWC Thunderbolt 2 dock, with USB, Firewire, and 
Thunderbolt ports. This was a mistake, because I overlooked the fact 
that this was Thunderbolt 2, not Thunderbolt 3. At the time, I don't 
think there was a Thunderbolt 3 dock available. The dock and cables cost 
me about $500. I guess there are Thunderbolt 3 docks available now.


Certainly, the 1TB SSD drive boots very quickly, but the peripherals and 
SSD upgrades were expensive.


Re dongles - I don't think there are enough ports to connect all the 
peripherals you may need with dongles - I regularly use 3-4 usb ports, 
and an HDMI port.

Cheers
Rob

On 13/7/17 3:18 pm, Brian Risbey wrote:

Hi All,
after 8 or so years it is time to move on from my MacBookPro 17”, ( think I 
have had my money’s worth ;-P)

So, if building a MacBookPro to order, should I go with the 1TB internal SSD 
and buy an external SSD 2TB, with USB -C, perhaps from Samsung, for movies and 
Photo Storage, cheaper option, or
  Max out the internal SSD to 2 TB, expensive, but may have performance 
advantages?

Also, what are people’s thoughts on dongles vs and all-in-one dock?

Brian
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Re: Second hand macbook?

[Rob Phillips]

book will significantly improve it’s
performance. If you are sticking with SL it should definitely
perform better than the 2008 laptop. If you stay up-to-date with
Sierra the extra RAM will definitely improve performance – but I
wouldn’t know how that would compare to SL on the 2008 Macbook.



Anyway, just my thoughts  ;o)


HTH


Cheers



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on 30/5/17 21:29, Rob Phillips at r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote:



Greetings


My 88yo father-in-law has a 2008 Macbook. Its battery died and he
went with my brother-in-law to a northern suburbs mac dealer.


He was sold a second hand Macbook as a replacement. Today, we
picked this up, and he said it seemed slow compared to the old one
- he has created some PPT photo shows with hi-res photos - file
size ~250Mb. I know he should reduce the size of his photos, but
the learning curve is high for an 88yo.


The Feb 2008 MB 4.1 has these specs:

  * OS10.6.3
  * Intel Core Duo 2.1Ghz
  * 4Gb 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM



The $400 late 2009 replacement has:

  * OS10.12.1
  * Intel Core Duo 2.26Ghz
  * 2Gb 1027Mhz DDR3 SDRAM
 *



This doesn't seem like a good deal. The slight increase in CPU
speed is offset by 50% of the RAM and a slow-down of the later OSX.


Maybe battery replacements are no longer available for the 2008
model, but I would have expected he would have been offered an
improved model. We'll go back and talk to them.


Nevertheless, he's looking for a better machine, but it doesn't
have to be the latest model. Does anyone have an older macbook
which is surplus to requirements. Something later than 2010 for up
to $1000?


I guess the other option is to try to find a RAM upgrade for the
2009 model he just bought.


Any help/advice welcomed.


Rob



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Second hand macbook?

[Rob Phillips]

Greetings

My 88yo father-in-law has a 2008 Macbook. Its battery died and he went 
with my brother-in-law to a northern suburbs mac dealer.


He was sold a second hand Macbook as a replacement. Today, we picked 
this up, and he said it seemed slow compared to the old one - he has 
created some PPT photo shows with hi-res photos - file size ~250Mb. I 
know he should reduce the size of his photos, but the learning curve is 
high for an 88yo.


The Feb 2008 MB 4.1 has these specs:

 * OS10.6.3
 * Intel Core Duo 2.1Ghz
 * 4Gb 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM

The $400 late 2009 replacement has:

 * OS10.12.1
 * Intel Core Duo 2.26Ghz
 * 2Gb 1027Mhz DDR3 SDRAM

This doesn't seem like a good deal. The slight increase in CPU speed is 
offset by 50% of the RAM and a slow-down of the later OSX.


Maybe battery replacements are no longer available for the 2008 model, 
but I would have expected he would have been offered an improved model. 
We'll go back and talk to them.


Nevertheless, he's looking for a better machine, but it doesn't have to 
be the latest model. Does anyone have an older macbook which is surplus 
to requirements. Something later than 2010 for up to $1000?


I guess the other option is to try to find a RAM upgrade for the 2009 
model he just bought.


Any help/advice welcomed.

Rob

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Advice sought: internet-based home intercom

[Rob Phillips]

Hi

I hope this isn't too far off-topic.

Our property has 3 households (us, mother-in-law, sister-in-law) 100m 
apart. There is an ethernet cable between 2 of the houses which goes 
past the elderly mother-in-law, and wifi in each of the other dwellings. 
All traffic goes out to the world through our house, so it's all on one 
sub-net.


Now, mother-in-law is recovering from a broken hip.

Does anyone know of an intercom device which can operate between the 3 
houses over the existing ethernet? It has to be extremely simple for Mum 
to operate.


Thanks in advance

Rob

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Re: VueScan

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Peter.
The Pro version of Adobe Acrobat lets you do this, but you might not 
want to pay for this.  Maybe the free Acrobat Reader does this...


Rob

On 13/4/17 4:15 pm, Peter Curtis wrote:

Hi all

I’m using VueScan for some documents which I need to email to another person on 
their phone. I scan as .pdf yet the file sizes are large (3.5MB) for a 12 page 
document. I’ve looked through the settings and preferences on ViewScan and 
can’t see any way of reducing the size. Is this size normal for a 12 page 
document? Is there any way I can reduce the size of the .pdf?

Kind regards
Peter
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Re: web browser keep saying can't connect

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Gary

Suggestions:

 * quit and relaunch Safari
 * restart the Mac
 * if this doesn't work, check if it is only one (or some) websites
   which cause the problem. It could be that the Mac/ OS/ Safari
   version is too old to run new websites. If so,
 * Try a different browser

Of course the delete cache option might also work. If you can't remember 
how to do this, google it - on a different machine


Hope this helps

Rob

 * On 23/3/17 7:47 pm, gary dorn wrote:


hello wamug

my wifes account on our home iMac keeps saying since yesterday that
" connection to server was reset."  or "connection to www… was interrupted 
while the page was loading  “  whenever a web page via Safari or Firefox is attempted to open.
email seems to be okay

the other accounts function okay.

iMac late 2009
mac os 10.11.6
connected to apple airport basestation by ethernet
iMac wifi is off

any idea on what we need to do.

If has happened before a few months ago - I think we deleted the cache and 
worked okay afterward.

thanks for any advice

chow
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Re: Telstra

[Rob Phillips]

Who are your accounts with, and do they use IMAP or POP? Without this 
information Ronni won't be able to solve your problem.. :-)

Rob


On 15/3/17 10:16 am, Alan Fenton wrote:

Hello.
Telstra lost 5 email accounts Monday when I updated my mobile hotspot modem and 
 added to my Telstra account.
Tuesday night I got back 4 accounts.
Today rang telstra to get last account. Waiting for return call.
I have  this problem when I update telstra hardware due I think to having 
Bigpond and Telstra faulty links between my account.
A person at Telstra shop in Armadale suggested I get a Gmail or Hotmail account.
Any suggestions?
  From Alan.
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Re: TechTool Pro Failure Alert

[Rob Phillips]

You're right. It was point 1. Time Machine backup to external drive. Thanks 
Oracle!

Rob Phillips' iPhone

> On 2 Mar 2017, at 6:29 am, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Do you use Time Machine for backups to an external drive?
> TechTool Protection might not be inaccurately reporting a lack of free space 
> on the volume.  
> If you open Apple System Profiler or Apple System Information, it should 
> agree with TechTool Protection. The Finder is not taking into account two 
> types of data:
> 
> 1. Backups that were stored locally because the intended destination volume 
> was not available when the backup was created. Time Machine stores these 
> backups, called Local Snapshots, in the invisible folder named /Volumes, in 
> an invisible folder named .MobileBackups. Please see Time Machine 
> MobileBackups: Apple Support Communities.
> 
> 2. The data used to keep track of versions of files (the feature introduced 
> in Lion), which is stored in an invisible folder named 
> .DocumentRevisions-V100 at the root (top) level of the volume.
> 
> In Apple System Information (About This Mac-->More Information), there is a 
> Storage tab at the top of the window. The Storage tab shows disk space 
> allocated to backups. The Finder does not take that disk space into account.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> 
>> On 1 Mar 2017, at 5:08 pm, Rob Phillips  wrote:
>> 
>> Since we've been discussing TechTool Pro, can someone advise about this 
>> issue I have.
>> I have set up TTP to warn me when my free disk space goes down to 15%. See 
>> below.
>> 
>> However, I am getting this message when I have 253GB of 1000Gb free - 25%. 
>> This is an SSD drive.
>> 
>> Are there some cache files which are taking up the other 100Gb? How do I 
>> clear these?
>> Cheers
>> Rob
>> 
>>  Forwarded Message 
>> Subject: TechTool Pro Failure Alert
>> Date:Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:47:21 +0800
>> From:r.phill...@iinet.net.au
>> To:  r.phill...@iinet.net.au
>> 
>> TechTool Pro Failure Alert
>> 
>> The machine can be located by the following information:
>> 
>> Date & Time: 1/3/17, 4:47 pm
>> 
>> User Name: rphillip
>> 
>> Computer Name: macbook-pro.local
>> 
>> Computer Address(es): , fe80::a4fb:91ff:fece:89f1%awdl0
>> 
>> Mac OS X: Version 10.12.3 (Build 16D32)
>> 
>> Failure/Warning:
>> 
>>  The volume "Macintosh HD" has 15% free space remaining. The Volume 
>> Usage threshold is configured in the TechTool Protection Mac OS X System 
>> Preferences pane.
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Fwd: TechTool Pro Failure Alert

[Rob Phillips]

Since we've been discussing TechTool Pro, can someone advise about this 
issue I have.


I have set up TTP to warn me when my free disk space goes down to 15%. 
See below.


However, I am getting this message when I have 253GB of 1000Gb free - 
25%. This is an SSD drive.


Are there some cache files which are taking up the other 100Gb? How do I 
clear these?

Cheers
Rob

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Subject:TechTool Pro Failure Alert
Date:   Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:47:21 +0800
From:   r.phill...@iinet.net.au
To: r.phill...@iinet.net.au



TechTool Pro Failure Alert

The machine can be located by the following information:

Date & Time: 1/3/17, 4:47 pm

User Name: rphillip

Computer Name: macbook-pro.local

Computer Address(es): , fe80::a4fb:91ff:fece:89f1%awdl0

Mac OS X: Version 10.12.3 (Build 16D32)

Failure/Warning:

The volume "Macintosh HD" has 15% free space remaining. The Volume 
Usage threshold is configured in the TechTool Protection Mac OS X System Preferences pane.

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Re: iMac periodically slows down ?

[Rob Phillips]

A couple of ideas.

It could be some rogue/corrupt software, e.g. flash doing something on a 
web page.
Start up Activity Monitor from Applications/ Utilities and check for 
anything using lots of CPU.


It could also be some corruption in your file system and/or 'indexing' 
of files to make searching easier.


It's time to boot off an emergency disk and run Disk Utility. I can 
never remember the magic keys to hold down to do this - one choice is to 
hold down the Option key while rebooting...

Hope this helps
Rob



On 28/2/17 9:44 am, Stephen Chape wrote:

That’s what puzzles me Peter.
I only use it for Excel, Word and PDF files.
My total use is 2.6 GB of my free 5 GB.


On 28 Feb 2017, at 7:24 am, Peter Hinchliffe 
mailto:hinch...@multiline.com.au>> wrote:



On 27 Feb 2017, at 11:06 pm, Stephen Chape <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote:


Every so often my iMac slows down considerably.
I can hear the HD humming away but I have no idea what it is doing.
It seems to happen more often just after start up, but not always.
Sometimes everything grinds almost to a halt and I have to simply 
sit and wait.


A couple of weeks ago I uninstalled Intego Net Barrier & Intego 
Virus Barrier thinking they were the cause.

However it happened again yesterday several times.
But it has not happened today.

I have checked Activity Monitor and noticed that DropBox seems very 
prominent a lot of the time.
There are quite a few websites claiming that DropBox can slow a Mac 
down.
I am not convinced that DropBox is the culprit though because it is 
so popular and well respected.


Any ideas please folks ?

iMac 21.5 inch Late 2012.
i7 processor 3.1GHz
16GB RAM
Latest Sierra macOS


Regards,
Stephen Chape




Dropbox could well be involved, depending on what you have stored 
there. Just as an example, Dropbox has the annoying habit of asking 
you if you want to store your photos there, every time you attach a 
mobile device or an SD card. A friend of mine brought her work’s 
network to its knees after unwittingly agreeing to this, at which 
point Dropbox commenced syncing over 1200 photos to its servers. The 
activity saturated their little wireless router, rendering the 
network virtually unusable while her computer was on.


I’m not saying this is necessarily the problem in your case, but it 
would be instructive to have a look at just what you have in your 
Dropbox folder. Dropbox is certainly a safe, reliable service, but 
like everything it does need a little care and attention. I make sure 
I only use it for smallish files. The really important stuff I keep 
at home.


Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

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Re: Attachments to incoming mail in Mail not able to be opened second time

[Rob Phillips]

Which email program are you using?

Is it still occurring after a restart?
Rob

On 26/1/17 8:47 pm, Graham Rabe wrote:
When receiving an email with an attachment - from only some senders  - 
I can initially open the attachment. But when I go back to the email a 
second time to open the attachment, the attachment is now a file name 
in blue between brackets .


Clicking on that does nothing at all.

How can I re-open the attachment?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Graham Rabe

iMac late 2012
macOS Sierra 10.12.2

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Re: Crashes with Sierra

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Ronni
Your google skills are indubitably superior to mine! :-)
Thanks.
Not that it solves my problem... :-(
Rob

On 17/1/17 3:12 pm, Ronni Brown wrote:


On 17 Jan 2017, at 12:03 pm, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Greetings

I recently bought the bullet and purchased a new Macbook Pro with a 
1TB SSD drive. MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 
GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3


It's running Sierra 10.12.2.

I'm relatively pleased with the machine, except for the touchbar. I 
was able to turn the touchbar back to function keys for specific 
apps, so I can keep using Keyboard Maestro - THE BEST productivity 
software there is.


A problem is that I have quite large hands, and when I'm using the 
laptop on my lap, my left pinkie finger tends to touch the touchbar, 
and then strange things happen, depending whether I touch Esc, F1 or 
other functions in different modes. With the old function keys, just 
touching didn't matter.


Now to my problem. Since I've had the machine, I'm getting regular 
crashes of certain Apps, mainly Mozilla: Thunderbird. Mozilla crash 
reporter also crashes! And last night my Garmin Basecamp software did 
the same.


Has anyone had any problems with the new MBP, Sierra and Mozilla 
apps? I've done some searching on the web, and nothing has come up.


Apparently this affects Mozilla apps because they build with an older SDK.

<http://indiestack.com/2016/12/touch-bar-crash-protection/>

“These crashes seem to affect all apps that were built with a certain 
toolchain. Most likely it affects all apps that were built against an 
SDK of a certain vintage. For example, some of my apps that are still 
built against a 10.6 SDK crash on Touch Bar Macs, either frequently or 
infrequently, depending upon the user.”


<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320048>

Cheers,
Ronni

*13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)*
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

macOS Sierra 10.12.2


Cheers

Rob

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Crashes with Sierra

[Rob Phillips]

Greetings

I recently bought the bullet and purchased a new Macbook Pro with a 1TB 
SSD drive. MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2133 
MHz LPDDR3


It's running Sierra 10.12.2.

I'm relatively pleased with the machine, except for the touchbar. I was 
able to turn the touchbar back to function keys for specific apps, so I 
can keep using Keyboard Maestro - THE BEST productivity software there is.


A problem is that I have quite large hands, and when I'm using the 
laptop on my lap, my left pinkie finger tends to touch the touchbar, and 
then strange things happen, depending whether I touch Esc, F1 or other 
functions in different modes. With the old function keys, just touching 
didn't matter.


Now to my problem. Since I've had the machine, I'm getting regular 
crashes of certain Apps, mainly Mozilla: Thunderbird. Mozilla crash 
reporter also crashes! And last night my Garmin Basecamp software did 
the same.


Has anyone had any problems with the new MBP, Sierra and Mozilla apps? 
I've done some searching on the web, and nothing has come up.


Cheers

Rob

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Re: Problem with Magic Mouse

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It sounds like you've got a flat battery in the magic mouse.

Rob


On 6/1/17 10:57 am, David Noel wrote:

With my new iMac (Sierra 10.12.2), when I opened up this morning, the
behaviour of the (wireless) Magic Mouse was strange. Moving the mouse
would only move the on-screen arrow jerkily, and only a short
distance.

I disconnected it, and plugged in the mouse from my older iMac. This
worked normally, and I'm writing this message with it.

Going to System Preferences/Mouse with the old mouse was also normal.
When I disconnected the wired mouse and switched on the new wireless
mouse, the message "wait for a Bluetooth mouse to be discovered" came
up' followed by "Found Magic Mouse 2" and then, almost immediately,
"No mouse found". Turning the wireless mouse off and on again at first
repeated this sequence, but afterwards showed no recognition.

Is there anything further I can do to check the wireless mouse, or
should I seek help from Apple?

David Noel
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Re: Mobile Broadband problem

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Alex
Intriguing...
I guess you have credit on the device?
Restarted?
Getting enough signal?

Rob

On 3/1/17 9:27 pm, Alex wrote:

Hello WAMuggers

I would appreciate some advice on this problem I have with my mobile 
broadband through Highway1/ZettaNet.  (I also have a normal adsl for 
home through them)


I have a MacBook Pro Retina early 2013 running Mac OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite.

In October the MBB was working when I was in Pemberton.  Today I am in 
Melbourne & it is not working.  I have not changed the OS in this time.


They asked me to test on another machine which I did on an Acer & 
ostensibly it was working.  So they say they can’t help me as it is 
something to do with my machine.  They did send me a solution from 
Lion/Mountain Lion days through pasamio.com  which 
I followed but it only partially fixed the problem - now the the 
dongle is recognised & I get a signal but there is no connection made. 
 I have responded to them saying their response is not good enough.


So any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  My response 
time are a bit limited as I am attending a conference but I will 
respond when I am free.


Cheers,  Alex



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Re: Resetting iCloud - Photos sync data

[Rob Phillips]

I agree wholeheartedly!
Rob

On 1/1/17 10:40 am, Michael Hawkins wrote:

Thanks Tim. What underpinned my email was my frustration with what I see as 
Apple's  less than open tactic of making uploading to iCloud the default 
setting when iOS updates are released. I don't know what the privacy laws are 
in whichever Country the server is housed, and the debacle with the Australian 
census last year illustrates that no system is safe from database corruption.

If someone has more than one Apple device and wants to share content between 
the devices or make it possible for one device to access another, it should be 
that person's decision to set the system up so that that can be done.

We don't all live in a location with ready Internet access, or quick upload and 
download speeds. Nor do we all live in a place where access to the Internet is 
cheap.

In other words the decision to transmit data over the internet should be a 
conscious deliberate decision made by the person who owns the data, and causing 
the data to be uploaded by default for commercial gain is reprehensible.

Cheers,

Michael
Sent from my iPhone


On 1 Jan 2017, at 10:14 am, Tim Law  wrote:

Fair question Michael,

The advantage of iCloud syncing as I see it, is that you can have one ‘master’ 
computer where you download and store the originals photos, AS WELL AS storing 
the full sized versions on the cloud. This enables Time Machine and Super Duper 
to back up the photos if iCloud flies away into dark matter.  I’ve lost many 
photos before due to hard disk failure and don’t want to go through that again.

The other advantage is that it only downloads smaller images to all the other 
devices, sized to suit that device. The entire photo library is on each of 
these devices, all 15000, not like using Photo Stream which only put 1000 
photos on the mobile devices.   I am not likely to NEED to view all those on 
the other devices, but inevitably when I wanted to show someone a photo from a 
year before for example, when using Photo Stream, and iTunes sync, it was not 
in either folder.

I did try to do what you suggest, but the MacBook Pro did not have enough 
storage capacity for the full Photos Library, and there was really no need to 
have more than one computer with full sized images. If you need to edit or 
print the full sized images, they are downloaded from iCloud as needed to the 
specific device.

I trust this explains my logic.

I have stopped taking photos in RAW which complicates matters somewhat when 
sharing via iCloud. What I have found is that a photo that has both JPEG and 
RAW version is impossible to select between in iOS devices. So if I want to 
attach a photo to an email, it must be in JPEG not RAW, and several times I 
have done it, only the RAW version - at some 20mb - is able to be attached. I’m 
now taking full sized JPEG instead and these run to around 8mb per image, and 
the size is managed by Mail when sending. I am not sure if there is a way 
around the way iCloud manages RAW image syncing to iOS devices - happy to hear 
suggestions.

Regards

Tim



On 31 Dec 2016, at 8:45 PM, Michael Hawkins  
wrote:

Pardon me for asking this, but wouldn't have been faster and simpler to 
physically connect one computer to the other?

Michael

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Re: Disk Utilites

[Rob Phillips]

G'day

I've just had a problem on one of my backup/ archive drives, and I was 
fiddling around trying to recover it.


Diskutil didn't work, even though I tried it several times - this 
sometimes works to recover a disk.


I bought Techtools last year, on a special advertised through WAMUG. It 
didn't do anything extra to recover my volume (although it is useful 
otherwise).


Some google searches told me of specific Terminal commands to try, but 
they didn't help on this occasion.


I was left with no option but to reformat the disk. :-(

After reformatting, I thought to recover the lost files. TechTools could 
do nothing because I hadn't turned on its file recovery function for 
this drive. :-(


If I had a copy of DiskWarrior, I could probably have recovered my data 
(movies) with it. However, I stopped buying this a few years ago, 
because they were charging USD100 for an upgrade with each OSX upgrade.


I hope this is helpful background.
Rob

On 28/12/16 5:44 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Thank you Ronni.
I had been reading on the web pretty much what you have stated.
But was just looking for some local confirmation.

I have only ever owned Techtool Pro but have not updated it for quite 
a while.

Something else I need not be concerned about I reckon.

Thanks again.


On 28 Dec 2016, at 11:44 am, Ronni Brown > wrote:


Hello Stephen,

My comments in Situ below.

On 27 Dec 2016, at 6:50 pm, Stephen Chape > wrote:


Hi folks.

Does anyone know if it is really worth buying third party disk 
utility these days ?

EG: Disk Warrior or Tech Tool for example.


If you are running El Capitan or Sierra, My short answer is /*“No, 
its not worth buying third-party Disk Utilities these days”*/
I've always had Disk Warrior, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius and other 
third-party utilities installed on my earlier Macs and used them 
quite frequently.
But I don’t even have these utilities installed on my current Macs 
since probably Yosemite OS X 10.10 - my current Macs are running 
Sierra 10.12.2

(I still have the above utilities installed on my Support Drive).



Or can most things be covered by Mac Disk Utility ?


“Apple has made ongoing hardware and software improvements that keep 
disks running happily more of the time.
OS X performs certain disk maintenance tasks automatically in the 
background—for example, it defragments smaller files on the fly, 
keeping all their segments contiguous on a hard disk so they’ll load 
faster. (Solid-state drives don’t require such defragging.)


And, when you perform a Safe Boot (starting your Mac with the Shift 
key held down), OS X runs a more extensive set of diagnostic and 
repair procedures without you doing anything else.
These and other improvements to OS X have reduced frequency of disk 
errors. In addition, Disk Utility has gained a number of new features 
in recent years, and it can now repair faults that might once have 
been out of its reach.”


If you look over the feature lists of the major disk utilities, you 
will find that they all advertise capabilities that Disk Utility 
already offers for free. The three third-party programs can check a 
drive’s SMART (self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology) 
status, repair disk permissions, and repair at least some types of 
volume corruption. Drive Genius and TechTool Pro can create a 
bootable duplicate of your disk and securely erase free space, and 
Drive Genius can also initialize and format drives.

/*But Disk Utility does all that, too.*/

Disk repair always requires you to start up from a separate volume. 
But as long as your Mac is running at least Lion or new OS X , you 
don’t need a second drive; simply restart while holding Command-R to 
use OS X Recovery, which boots your Mac from a hidden partition (or, 
in some cases, over the Internet) so you can run Disk Utility.


The third-party utilities, by contrast, ship on bootable DVDs—except 
that they can’t boot the newest Mac models (not even if you use an 
external SuperDrive, for Mac models that lack an internal one). So in 
order to repair your startup disk, you’ll need to create a separate 
boot volume with the disk utility installed. (TechTool Pro’s eDrive 
is the sole exception here, behaving much like OS X’s Recovery HD.)


I get the occasional slow down and more rarely freeze at start up 
and want to run some checks.


  * *Try Safe Mode:*
  * Some problems can be solved with Safe Mode. Restart your Mac. As
soon as you hear the startup chime, press and hold the Shift key
until you see the grey Apple logo.
  * The startup process may take a while; once it’s done the words
“Safe Boot” should appear in red in the login screen menu bar.
  * Log in and you’ll see a progress bar as Sierra runs diagnostics
and clean-up processes. (It also disables software that loads at
startup and login.)
  * If the problem goes away, restart again normally. The problem is
most likely due to third-pa

Re: Spam purported to be from Apple

[Rob Phillips]

It's not google - it's a scam. The actual address, hidden in the long 
google string is 'staging.btvin.com'.


I get these regularly, and ignore them.
Rob


On 23/11/2016 2:12 pm, clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote:

Just a heads-up:

Received an email supposedly from Apple about resetting my Apple ID password — 
claiming I recently requested a password reset for my Apple ID  — I didn’t. 
Hovered my mouse over the several links in the email, and this is what it said 
( crippled the link):

ww.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwimsKmOvL3QAhVEGJQKHZfjB-UQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstaging.btvin.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNEV3TjhrU5cVKWDbrekPApkUz-shw&bvm=bv.139250283,d.dGo

The body of the email starts out:

"Dear costumer,
You recently requested a password reset for your Apple ID. To complete the 
process, click the link below.…”

If this really is from Google, I would really like to know why — it seems to me 
Google is getting far too big with tentacles into far too many things. I sent 
the information to Scamwatch.

Cheers,
Pat
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Re: Linux

[Rob Phillips]

Hmmm. That could be a good transition plan. Thanks. I'll look into it 
when I get a chance.


Rob

On 22/11/2016 9:59 am, Ronda Brown wrote:


On 22 Nov. 2016, at 8:57 am, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Time to start investigating Linux??? I've been thinking this for a 
while...


If you're serious Rob, you could test it out, running Linux from a 
flash drive on your Mac.


/Quote:
"Turns out it’s fairly easy to run Linux on your Mac without using up 
any bit of your hard drive. Using a flash drive and some Terminal 
commands, you can check out a distribution like Ubuntu running right 
on your Mac without having to sacrifice a thing."

/End Quote:

http://www.cultofmac.com/405509/how-to-try-linux-without-risking-your-mac/

A early member of WAMUG, Rod Lavington if I remember correctly is a 
long time Linux man... but he's a Dockers fan... so go figure ;-))


Ronni

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Linux

[Rob Phillips]

Time to start investigating Linux??? I've been thinking this for a while...

Rob

On 22/11/2016 7:14 am, Ronda Brown wrote:

Yes Brian,

Apple are concentrating on the social media and entertainment 
customers. That's the way forward...
They seem to be forgetting us customers that actually want/need to do 
'Real Work' with their equipment!


Regards,
Ronni

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On 22 Nov. 2016, at 6:23 am, Brian RISBEY > wrote:



'They're' dissolving the team, sorry for the spelling :-/

Brian
On 22 Nov. 2016, at 06:18, Brian RISBEY > wrote:


Hi all
And their dissolving the team:(
Apple is heading in a different direction to the past 20 years...

Brian Risbey
🌊🏊


On 22 Nov. 2016, at 05:31, Rod Blitvich > wrote:


Thanks for the heads up Daniel.
So I guess I should talk to Santa?

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On 21 Nov 2016, at 10:36 PM, Daniel Kerr > wrote:


http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/21/apple-ceases-airport-wireless/

Grab them while you can! lol :)
I love my Time Capsule(s). So handy!!

Kind regards
Daniel

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Re: Unwanted e-mail address

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Tony
I've been trying to reconstruct what I did...

I think https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT205064 will give you the info 
you require. Let us know if this doesn't work.


Rob

On 13/11/2016 2:59 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis wrote:

Hi Guy's
Ok, Lynette has deleted all of her apps from her iPhone, and the 
activ8 request is still coming up. So, how do we delete the iPhone 
from iCloud??


Thank you

Tony

Sent from my iPhone

On 12 Nov. 2016, at 12:57, Anthony (Tony) Francis <mailto:antne...@mac.com>> wrote:



Hi Rob,
After reading Ronni's reply, and the message reading " To log into 
iCloud" we figured that we would need to find the App(s) that we 
downloaded through activ8 and remove them. Then download them again.

Thank you both for your advice.

Kind Regards
Tony

Boddington

Sent from my iPhone

On 12 Nov. 2016, at 10:32, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


A.  I think I had this problem. I changed the email address that 
i logged into iCloud with.  This was fine on my mac and iPhone, but 
not with my iPad, where it still wanted me to login with my old 
email address. After faffing around for ages trying various options, 
I finally deleted the iPad from iCloud and added it again. Problem 
solved.


Hope this helps
Rob


On 12/11/2016 8:02 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis wrote:
Sorry Ronni for the late return. Yes we cancelled our account with 
activ8.

The message is asking for the password to gain access to iCloud??
I have tried going into settings,
Anything that I can think of, although I haven't yet had a look at 
iTunes. Away from home at present Ronni.


Kindest regards

Tony


Sent from my iPhone

On 11 Nov. 2016, at 07:36, Ronda Brown <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:



What App is asking for this password?
When does the request for this password appear?

Did you close your account with Activ8 when you changed over to 
Telstra?


Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 10 Nov. 2016, at 5:36 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis 
mailto:antne...@mac.com>> wrote:


Sorry Ronni, I can't find an address for activ8, although the 
request to "enter the password for activ8" is still popping up. I 
have tried putting in any password in the hope of opening the old 
account but without success.

Kindest regards
Tony

Sent from my iPhone

On 10 Nov. 2016, at 09:32, Ronda Brown <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:



Hi Tony,

On her iPhone go to:
Tap Settings > Mail > Accounts - then if there is any Account 
'Active8.net.au <http://Active8.net.au>' Tap it and then scroll 
to the bottom and Delete Account.


Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 10 Nov. 2016, at 8:58 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis 
mailto:antne...@icloud.com>> wrote:



Good morning to one and all

I have a question, on my Wife’s iPhone she keeps getting a 
request for a password from an old e-mail / server address: 
Activ8. We no longer have or can remember the password.


The message reads, “Enter the Password for 
“nett...@activ8.net.au <mailto:nett...@activ8.net.au> in settings”.


We haven’t used ACTIV8 for two or three years now, I have 
trashed the e-mail address in Contacts, I have been into 
settings without much luck, I have checked that our server is 
now Telstra.

So, where would I find the ACTIV8 address and remove it, please.

Thanks everyone

Kind Regards

Tony

BODDINGTON.

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Re: Unwanted e-mail address

[Rob Phillips]

A.  I think I had this problem. I changed the email address that i 
logged into iCloud with.  This was fine on my mac and iPhone, but not 
with my iPad, where it still wanted me to login with my old email 
address. After faffing around for ages trying various options, I finally 
deleted the iPad from iCloud and added it again. Problem solved.


Hope this helps
Rob


On 12/11/2016 8:02 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis wrote:
Sorry Ronni for the late return. Yes we cancelled our account with 
activ8.

The message is asking for the password to gain access to iCloud??
I have tried going into settings,
Anything that I can think of, although I haven't yet had a look at 
iTunes. Away from home at present Ronni.


Kindest regards

Tony


Sent from my iPhone

On 11 Nov. 2016, at 07:36, Ronda Brown > wrote:



What App is asking for this password?
When does the request for this password appear?

Did you close your account with Activ8 when you changed over to Telstra?

Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 10 Nov. 2016, at 5:36 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis > wrote:


Sorry Ronni, I can't find an address for activ8, although the 
request to "enter the password for activ8" is still popping up. I 
have tried putting in any password in the hope of opening the old 
account but without success.

Kindest regards
Tony

Sent from my iPhone

On 10 Nov. 2016, at 09:32, Ronda Brown > wrote:



Hi Tony,

On her iPhone go to:
Tap Settings > Mail > Accounts - then if there is any Account 
'Active8.net.au ' Tap it and then scroll to 
the bottom and Delete Account.


Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 10 Nov. 2016, at 8:58 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis 
mailto:antne...@icloud.com>> wrote:



Good morning to one and all

I have a question, on my Wife’s iPhone she keeps getting a request 
for a password from an old e-mail / server address: Activ8. We no 
longer have or can remember the password.


The message reads, “Enter the Password for “nett...@activ8.net.au 
 in settings”.


We haven’t used ACTIV8 for two or three years now, I have trashed 
the e-mail address in Contacts, I have been into settings without 
much luck, I have checked that our server is now Telstra.

So, where would I find the ACTIV8 address and remove it, please.

Thanks everyone

Kind Regards

Tony

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Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE NC

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Marcus
I like the way you're doing your troubleshooting. Very systematic. I 
don't use Mail myself, but it could be that the Mail database is 
corrupt. Google this, and see what you need to do to repair the database.


Cheers
Rob

On 10/11/2016 9:31 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote:

Hi Rob and Ronni,
I ran Disk Doctor on my WD Time Machine backup disc.
Although it’s overloaded it seems OK.
Here is the resulting test message.
DiskDoctor
Repairing file system.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking multi-linked directories.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume My TIME MACHINE appears to be OK.
File system check exit code is 0.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Operation successful.

Anyway I ejected the backup disc and disconnected it from the iMac. [I 
have ordered a 4TB Mac formatted WD backup disc. Meanwhile I will save 
important docs to thumbdrives.]


Activity Monitor read NC as using 0.1%CPU and it opened and closed 
correctly until I commenced using MAIL.
So, ten minutes later it’s doing it again. 90% CPU, 600MB Memory, but 
refusing to respond.

Ten minutes later, the MAIL alerts appear again.
I have turned off Safari and with no web browser running NC is non 
responsive.

It’s Gotta be MAIL thay’s causing this.
I have to delete most of my INBOX and maybe the ARCHIVE.
OR Should I uninstall MAIL and reinstall it?
How to do this efficiently is my new question?
Cheers
Marcus

On 9 Nov. 2016, at 7:16 pm, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


HI Marcus
Just a quick reply which may save guru Ronni some time. :-)

 1. You don't need a Time Capsule to run Time Machine (if I
understood you correctly)
 2. Backing up lots of files to Dropbox may be OK in Singapore, but
it isn't really an option in poor old Australia...
 3. I suspect that your backup disk (time machine or time capsule)
may be having some problems. Look in Applications/ Utilities to
find Disk Utility. Do a 'Repair Disk' on your backup drive and
see what it says...
 4. If you buy a new external backup disk, you can certainly reformat
it. Disk Utility is once again your friend.

Cheers
Rob

On 9/11/2016 6:34 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote:

Hi Ronni, An update.

I deleted the issues you quoted from EtreCheck System report.

Then I ran it again and it redlines the backup WD Time Machine as 
not large enough.

This may well be an issue.

I went to buy another Time Machine, but the locals only had outdated 
models formated for PC  in stock.
Another issue maybe transfering files to DROPBOX. I mean the web 
product Dropbox, Inc.

This is a continuous process as is Backup.

Anyway, it takes some time…minutes before NC appears and then it 
refuses to respond.


I checked Activity Monitor and it stated NC was using 90% of CPU 
until all the Alerts appear and then +/- % CPU until I try to delete 
the Alerts then it’s Back to 90%.

I saved the Activity Monitor Stats if that’s any use.

I’m still thinking it could be a MAIL conflict.

When I log out and log in to my other Account, I have no trouble 
with Sierra or NC. There’s only 10 emails and no Backup or Dropbox 
on that account


Oh well, I will get another Time Machine HDrive and see if that 
sorts it out.


Do you think WD or Seagate are ok reformatted?

Cheers for now

/Marcus/


Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Marcus F Harris <mailto:cryptodo...@me.com>>

*Subject: **Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE NC*
*Date: *8 November 2016 at 9:55:56 am AWST
*To: *wamug@wamug.org.au <mailto:wamug@wamug.org.au>

Dear Ronni,
You have certainly given me a lot of great advice.
I'm going to follow it carefully, but it will take me a few days.
I will report back when done.
Thanks so much
Marcus

Sent from Marcus iPhone 5

On 6 Nov. 2016, at 10:50 pm, Ronni Brown <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:



Ok Marcus,
I’ve had a look at your EtreCheck system report. The items that 
stand out I’ve indicated below.
I also feel you need to check all your applications especially 
third party apps & plugins for updates.


 CS2 applications were written for the PowerPC processors that ran 
older Macs.
The last version of Mac OS X to run PowerPC software was OS X 
10.6.8 Snow Leopard.


There is no way to run Adobe CS2 software on macOS 10.12 Sierra. 
The only option is to use a newer version of the software.
*Startup Items:* ⓘ 


AdobeVersionCueCS2: Path: /Library/StartupItems/AdobeVersionCueCS2
TuxeraNTFSUnmountHelper: Path: 
/Library/StartupItems/TuxeraNTFSUnmountHelper

Startup items no longer function in OS X Yosemite or later

Uninstall these startup items - Startup items are obsolete since 
OS X Yosemite


*Launch Agents:* ⓘ 

*  [not loaded] *net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist (2016-03-25) 
*[Support]*

Re: Fwd: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE NC

[Rob Phillips]

HI Marcus
Just a quick reply which may save guru Ronni some time. :-)

1. You don't need a Time Capsule to run Time Machine (if I understood
   you correctly)
2. Backing up lots of files to Dropbox may be OK in Singapore, but it
   isn't really an option in poor old Australia...
3. I suspect that your backup disk (time machine or time capsule) may
   be having some problems. Look in Applications/ Utilities to find
   Disk Utility. Do a 'Repair Disk' on your backup drive and see what
   it says...
4. If you buy a new external backup disk, you can certainly reformat
   it. Disk Utility is once again your friend.

Cheers
Rob

On 9/11/2016 6:34 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote:

Hi Ronni, An update.

I deleted the issues you quoted from EtreCheck System report.

Then I ran it again and it redlines the backup WD Time Machine as not 
large enough.

This may well be an issue.

I went to buy another Time Machine, but the locals only had outdated 
models formated for PC  in stock.
Another issue maybe transfering files to DROPBOX. I mean the web 
product Dropbox, Inc.

This is a continuous process as is Backup.

Anyway, it takes some time…minutes before NC appears and then it 
refuses to respond.


I checked Activity Monitor and it stated NC was using 90% of CPU until 
all the Alerts appear and then +/- % CPU until I try to delete the 
Alerts then it’s Back to 90%.

I saved the Activity Monitor Stats if that’s any use.

I’m still thinking it could be a MAIL conflict.

When I log out and log in to my other Account, I have no trouble with 
Sierra or NC. There’s only 10 emails and no Backup or Dropbox on that 
account


Oh well, I will get another Time Machine HDrive and see if that sorts 
it out.


Do you think WD or Seagate are ok reformatted?

Cheers for now

/Marcus/


Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Marcus F Harris mailto:cryptodo...@me.com>>
*Subject: **Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE NC*
*Date: *8 November 2016 at 9:55:56 am AWST
*To: *wamug@wamug.org.au 

Dear Ronni,
You have certainly given me a lot of great advice.
I'm going to follow it carefully, but it will take me a few days.
I will report back when done.
Thanks so much
Marcus

Sent from Marcus iPhone 5

On 6 Nov. 2016, at 10:50 pm, Ronni Brown > wrote:



Ok Marcus,
I’ve had a look at your EtreCheck system report. The items that 
stand out I’ve indicated below.
I also feel you need to check all your applications especially third 
party apps & plugins for updates.


 CS2 applications were written for the PowerPC processors that ran 
older Macs.
The last version of Mac OS X to run PowerPC software was OS X 10.6.8 
Snow Leopard.


There is no way to run Adobe CS2 software on macOS 10.12 Sierra. The 
only option is to use a newer version of the software.
*Startup Items:* ⓘ 


AdobeVersionCueCS2: Path: /Library/StartupItems/AdobeVersionCueCS2
TuxeraNTFSUnmountHelper: Path: 
/Library/StartupItems/TuxeraNTFSUnmountHelper

Startup items no longer function in OS X Yosemite or later

Uninstall these startup items - Startup items are obsolete since OS 
X Yosemite


*Launch Agents:* ⓘ 

*  [not loaded] *net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist (2016-03-25) 
*[Support]* 



SIMBL needs to be uninstalled - EasySIMBL does not work anymore 
because of the System Integrity Protection introduced in El Capitan


Time Machine:
  Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 1.00 TB < (Disk used 350.63 GB X 3)

Your iMac’s Macintosh HD is *2TB size* and you are backing up to a 
*1TB size drive*.
Your Time Machine backup Drive should be at least 2 times the size 
of all the data you are backing up.


Time Machine requires that your destination volume have, as a bare 
minimum, 2 times the space occupied by the data you’re backing up. 
(That gives some extra space to store multiple versions of at least 
some files.)
So, as a first pass, multiply the “Used” value you see in the Get 
Info window by 2 to find out the smallest partition size Time 
Machine can use.


You’ll be far better off setting aside *3 times the amount of space 
used on your disk for backups*.


The reason is simple: the more space Time Machine has to work with 
on the destination drive, the more backups it can store—and the 
farther back in time you can reach when you restore data.


My Time Machine backup of my MacBook Pro 1TB HD is to a 3TB Time 
Capsule drive and the backups go back to January 2012

—
Click the *[Support]*links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the *[Details]*links for more information about that line.

*Diagnostics Information:* ⓘ 

Click the [Details] for more information especially the 
NotificationCenter lines (the details will only show on your Mac not 
mine)
NotificationCenter_2016-11-06-124035_[redacted].cpu_resource.diag 
*[Details] 
*


Cheers,
Ronni

*13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)*
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turb

Re: Update to new iOS for iPhone 5 ?

[Rob Phillips]

Hi
The issue will will be the version of OSX that the iPhone will try to 
pair with.


If that's on old mac - you might not be able to sync contacts, music, etc.

Rob

On 5/11/2016 5:02 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:

Hi Stephen, I 'upgraded' from a 5S to a 6 last week. Prior to the upgrade I had 
updated the 5S to the latest iOS 10 with no problems. All good - a number of 
good features included and no apparent flaws - fatal or otherwise.

Regards


Pete


On 5 Nov 2016, at 4:24 PM, Daniel Kerr  wrote:

Hi Stephen

Had my wife’s iPhone 5 on iOS 10 and no problems at all.
(i’m just in the process of swapping her to my “old” iPhone 6 now though,…hehe)

Kind regards
Daniel

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On 5 Nov 2016, at 4:19 pm, Stephen Chape  wrote:

Hi folks,

I have just returned back from 5 weeks in the UK and installed the new iOS on 
my iPhone 6s.
I deliberately waited till I got back thinking this would be sufficient time 
for any bugs to be ironed out.
Seems OK since yesterday.

However before I left there were suggestions that it should not be installed on 
the iPhone 5 yet (my wife’s).
Does anyone know if it is now safe to upgrade on the iPhone please ?

Regards,
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Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE

[Rob Phillips]

Good to be careful...

Just type in the 'instructions' after the 'cryptodomus$' bit, and press 
Return. That sends the 'instruction/command' to the processor, and it 
does things...


Cheers
Rob

On 3/11/2016 9:08 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote:

Hi Ronni,
Great but I’ve not attempted to work in terminal before.
I found the app and opened it.
the text “Marcus-F-Harris-iMac27:~ cryptodomus$“.appears.
Do I then delete this and enter the instructions you sent “killall 
NotificationCenter” ?

Or do I open a new window?
Then what?
Hate to stuff up in terminal.
Cheers
Marcus

On 2 Nov. 2016, at 9:31 pm, Ronda Brown > wrote:


Hi Marcus,


Is it possible to reset NC somehow?


*Reset/Restart Notification Center:*

You can forcibly restart the Notification Center in Terminal.app by 
issuing the following command string:


|killall NotificationCenter|

*Note* there is no space between the names

Cheers,

Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4

On 2 Nov. 2016, at 4:41 pm, Marcus F Harris > wrote:



Hi Ronni,
Thanks for your advice. Yes, Sierra otherwise operates just fine.
I pretty much know how NC works as I had no issues before with El 
Capitan.


I wouldn’t be concerned except when NC is functioning it reveals 
Mail alerts which cover the RHS of the screen and cannot be deleted. 
In fact if I point the mouse any where near the alerts, the system 
will freeze with the spinning wheel turning for up to 20 seconds.


I have turned all the NC alerts off  and that clears that up. As 
soon as I turn Mail back on the alerts reappear and block the screen.

Then I have to restart.

I have a lot of emails in iCloud as I’m uncertain how to delete them 
en masse so maybe that’s an issue


Is it possible to reset NC somehow?
Cheers

Marcus
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
iMac 27D Late 2009
OS10.12.1
3 GHz Intel Duo Core
8Gb Ram



On 1 Nov. 2016, at 9:36 pm, Ronda Brown > wrote:


Hi Marcus,

I have not experienced any problems with Notification Center in 
Sierra or iOS 10 on my Macs and iDevices. So I don't think your 
issue is caused by Sierra.


Have you had a good read on how to use Notification centre in Sierra?
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25142?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


  macOS Sierra: Use Notification Center.

Alerts, alarms, reminders, email-chances are you see a steady 
stream every day. Notification Center is Sierra's Grand Central 
Station for the information competing for your attention. It's 
settings control which apps can post messages to the upper-right 
corner of your display, as well as how those messages look.
The Notification Center sidebar, which slides in from the right of 
your screen, gives you an overview of it all.


Have you set control Notifications' look? Individual notifications 
appear at the top-right of the screen. You can tweak how they 
appear, or whether they appear at all, on an app-by-app basis.
Go to System Preferences > Notifications and select an app from the 
list at the left. Now set up the way that app will notify you at 
the right. You can pick from three Notification styles.


Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 1 Nov. 2016, at 7:29 pm, Marcus F Harris > wrote:



Hi,
I’m still trying to resolve this corruption of (NC) Notification 
Centre.

NC operated well with El Capitan but is problematic with Sierra.

I think it is due to interference between Google and Apple mail 
accounts.
I have tried turning them on and off alternately and the freezing 
of NC arises when email notices present to be either closed or 
replied to.
If I try either of those options, nothing happens and the NC 
freezes for up to 20 seconds.

As long as these email notices don’t appear I can switch on NC.

BY THE WAY the email notices that appear are all from my gmail 
account.


I’m going to turn off gmail completely and access them from the 
website and see if that makes a difference.

If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let me know.


Cheers

Marcus
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
iMac 27D Late 2009
OS10.12.1
3 GHz Intel Duo Core
8Gb Ram



On 28 Oct. 2016, at 2:04 pm, Marcus F Harris > wrote:


Thanks Peter and Ronni,
I have an apple Bluetooth mouse only.
I have two gmail accounts and one iCloud account.
I will try turning off the gmail accounts and see if that helps.
Let you know ASAP.
Cheers
Marcus

Sent from Marcus iPhone 5

On 28 Oct. 2016, at 7:58 am, Peter Hinchliffe 
mailto:hinch...@multiline.com.au>> 
wrote:



On 27 Oct. 2016, at 10:56 pm, Marcus F Harris 
mailto:cryptodo...@me.com>> wrote:


Someone else may have problems with the Notification Centre 
since installing Sierra and had feedback that I missed.


Notifications appear as before on the RHS of the screen. These 
are

Re: New Macbook Pros?

[Rob Phillips]

Re dongles. A colleague suggested:

i’m using a caldigit thunderbolt2 box & that gives me

audio stereo in/out 1x
usb 3x
e-sata  2x
cat5 / rj45 / lan 1x
hdmi1x

that means 1box & power pack you have to lug around…..

But still - $1920 for an internal 2TB drive upgrade is ridiculous. I bought an 
external one for $200 last year. I'll investigate more before I buy...


On 30/10/2016 10:18 pm, Brian Risbey wrote:

Hello Ronni, Susan and Rob,
I will be getting one of these MacBookPro 15”. As I mentioned, $6k is 
expensive but that has been the same price of the top specced models 
for the last 20 years when I purchased my last 3 Apple laptops, 
starting with a PowerBook 5300, a MacBookPro 15”, then my current 17”. 
I see that as becoming ‘cheaper’, factoring in inflation. I get 6 to 8 
years out of the machines, which are used daily at work or at home.
I will wait until the new year, when demand settles and I start back 
to work. I think maxing out a machine speed is good idea and it 
appears that ,in some initial reports, they may be upgradeable in the 
SSD storage area but not RAM, after purchase. A few choice dongles to 
connect to VGA overhead projectors and off I go. (Hope they exist!)


Brian


On 30 Oct 2016, at 21:39, Ronda Brown <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:


Hi Rob, Susan and Brian,

The new MacBook Pros with two Thunderbolt 3 ports on each side, all 
four of which can be used for charging and expansion. (And no, it 
won’t charge faster if you plug in two chargers; it just picks one.)


Thunderbolt 3, which provides throughput up to 40 Gbps, uses the same 
connector as USB-C and supports DisplayPort (and thus HDMI and VGA, 
plus Thunderbolt 2, via adapters) and USB 3.1 Gen 2, which runs at 10 
Gbps and is backward compatible with older USB devices.

These new machines can drive two 5K displays or four 4K displays.
That’s impressive.

Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 30 Oct. 2016, at 6:04 pm, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



He doesn't hold back, does he?  :-\

Rob

On 30/10/2016 7:30 am, Susan Hastings wrote:
Hi Rob, you might like to read Mike Johnson's comments on the new 
MacBook Pros. It's the second article down on his blog page. That 
is, if you are interested in someone who shares your dismay at 
Apple's choices...


http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html

Sent from my iPad

On 28 Oct. 2016, at 9:18 pm, Brian RISBEY <mailto:risb...@bigpond.com>> wrote:



Hi Rob
I did exactly the same sums this morning, $6k+ but then I 
considered external SSD hard drives and speed of connection ports 
and maybe just 1Tb internal drive might do.

My PowerBook 5300 cost $5k in the early 90s :-)
Over the years all my maxed out MacBooks 15" & 17" have been close 
to $6k. So, they are in fact becoming cheaper, relatively speaking. 
The last, a 17", now 8 years old, is still humming along.
I don't know how upgradable this new one will be. Has ifixit torn 
one down yet? Maxing a special build maybe your only option if you 
don't want an external drive.

My 2c worth, (& the other $6499.98)
Brian Risbey
🌊🏊


On 28 Oct. 2016, at 18:57, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Hi everyone

I've just been looking at the new Macbook Pro. It looks pretty 
cool, but what about the price?


The top of range machine costs A$4,249.00 for 512Gb storage. I've 
got 400Gb of photos!


And then they want  A$1,920.00 to upgrade to a 2TB SSD drive...

This is up to the price level that the first Mac IIs were in the 
late 1980s...


And then there's nothing in the box to connect my existing devices 
to.  I've got to buy all sorts of adaptors (from $30 to $110) to 
keep working...


Are Apple going to price themselves out of the market?

Do I have to carry around al sorts of cables and 3rd party devices 
to use my computer as I move around?


Any ideas about how to resolve the issue?

Rob

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Re: New Macbook Pros?

[Rob Phillips]

He doesn't hold back, does he?  :-\

Rob

On 30/10/2016 7:30 am, Susan Hastings wrote:
Hi Rob, you might like to read Mike Johnson's comments on the new 
MacBook Pros. It's the second article down on his blog page. That is, 
if you are interested in someone who shares your dismay at Apple's 
choices...


http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html

Sent from my iPad

On 28 Oct. 2016, at 9:18 pm, Brian RISBEY <mailto:risb...@bigpond.com>> wrote:



Hi Rob
I did exactly the same sums this morning, $6k+ but then I considered 
external SSD hard drives and speed of connection ports and maybe just 
1Tb internal drive might do.

My PowerBook 5300 cost $5k in the early 90s :-)
Over the years all my maxed out MacBooks 15" & 17" have been close to 
$6k. So, they are in fact becoming cheaper, relatively speaking. The 
last, a 17", now 8 years old, is still humming along.
I don't know how upgradable this new one will be. Has ifixit torn one 
down yet? Maxing a special build maybe your only option if you don't 
want an external drive.

My 2c worth, (& the other $6499.98)
Brian Risbey
🌊🏊


On 28 Oct. 2016, at 18:57, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Hi everyone

I've just been looking at the new Macbook Pro. It looks pretty cool, 
but what about the price?


The top of range machine costs A$4,249.00 for 512Gb storage. I've got 
400Gb of photos!


And then they want  A$1,920.00 to upgrade to a 2TB SSD drive...

This is up to the price level that the first Mac IIs were in the late 
1980s...


And then there's nothing in the box to connect my existing devices 
to.  I've got to buy all sorts of adaptors (from $30 to $110) to keep 
working...


Are Apple going to price themselves out of the market?

Do I have to carry around al sorts of cables and 3rd party devices to 
use my computer as I move around?


Any ideas about how to resolve the issue?

Rob

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School of Education, Curtin University
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Re: Storage.

[Rob Phillips]

But this doesn't resolve your orignal question about wanting to delete 
unneeded photos on your Mac...


Still, if you're happy, that's all that matters...
Rob

On 29/10/2016 7:52 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis wrote:

Thanks Bill, along with yourself, Susan and Rob I now have it figured

I save my Cards onto my Hard Drives, and usually keep my cards as I have kept 
my negatives in the past, I may lose my Electric ‘Back up’s but I won’t lose my 
cards. In case of Fire, grab cards and run!! Oh and my Camera’s. A little 
expensive but I have all of my photo’s.

Thanks again all

Tony
BODDINGTON.

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Re: Storage.

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Tony

I'm not familiar with PS Elements...
But if you look at all the Preferences options, one of these should tell 
you where the photos are stored...


The alternative is to google something like
"Photoshop Elements file locations OSX"

Hope this helps
Rob

On 28/10/2016 11:12 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis wrote:

Hello Rob

I use a card reader, open the Card reader icon on the desktop showing all 
photo’s, click on a photo ( RAW File) and PS Elements will open showing the 
photo ready for processing.I understood that when I process the Raw image to a 
jpeg image,a copy is also made, it is the copies that I am attempting to find.

Thanks Rob

Tony

BODDINGTON

W.A.

On 28 Oct 2016, at 6:37 pm, Rob Phillips  wrote:

In other words, do you use iPhoto/ Photo to import your photos?

If you do, you'll have to delete them using the app you imported them with, so 
the database remains intact.

If, as seems unlikely, you import them directly to a folder, you'll need to 
find out where that folder is, then delete the files manually.

Using the preferences for the import app you use should tell you where.

If this doesn't make sense, plug your camera in and write down the steps you 
take to import the photos (with screen grabs - oh no - we're not allowed...). 
This will help to clarify the situation...

Rob



On 28/10/2016 1:49 pm, Susan Hastings wrote:

Hi, you open your RAW images in Elements, but what process do you use for 
getting the photos off your camera and onto the computer? Are you in control of 
where they go? Cheers, Susan

Sent from my iPad


On 28 Oct. 2016, at 11:54 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis  wrote:

Thanks Susan

I do open my RAW images using Photoshop Elements, so I’ll go look and see where 
that leads me.

Enjoy your weekend


Tony

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New Macbook Pros?

[Rob Phillips]

Hi everyone

I've just been looking at the new Macbook Pro. It looks pretty cool, but 
what about the price?


The top of range machine costs A$4,249.00 for 512Gb storage. I've got 
400Gb of photos!


And then they want  A$1,920.00 to upgrade to a 2TB SSD drive...

This is up to the price level that the first Mac IIs were in the late 
1980s...


And then there's nothing in the box to connect my existing devices to.  
I've got to buy all sorts of adaptors (from $30 to $110) to keep working...


Are Apple going to price themselves out of the market?

Do I have to carry around al sorts of cables and 3rd party devices to 
use my computer as I move around?


Any ideas about how to resolve the issue?

Rob

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Re: Storage.

[Rob Phillips]

In other words, do you use iPhoto/ Photo to import your photos?

If you do, you'll have to delete them using the app you imported them 
with, so the database remains intact.


If, as seems unlikely, you import them directly to a folder, you'll need 
to find out where that folder is, then delete the files manually.


Using the preferences for the import app you use should tell you where.

If this doesn't make sense, plug your camera in and write down the steps 
you take to import the photos (with screen grabs - oh no - we're not 
allowed...). This will help to clarify the situation...


Rob



On 28/10/2016 1:49 pm, Susan Hastings wrote:

Hi, you open your RAW images in Elements, but what process do you use for 
getting the photos off your camera and onto the computer? Are you in control of 
where they go? Cheers, Susan

Sent from my iPad


On 28 Oct. 2016, at 11:54 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis  wrote:

Thanks Susan

I do open my RAW images using Photoshop Elements, so I’ll go look and see where 
that leads me.

Enjoy your weekend


Tony

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Re: iphone/ipad backups

[Rob Phillips]

Hi
It is possible that this issue is caused by a newer version of iOS not 
working with an older version of OSX. My wife had this message last 
week. I looked into it and came up with this site:

http://www.mac-forums.com/iphone-hardware-and-accessories/328322-sync-issues-itunes-11-4-ios-9-0-1-osx-10-6-8-a.html


Sync issues itunes 11.4 IOS 9.0.1 OSX 10.6.8
Last year, A version of iTunes 11.4 was available for people who were 
unable to sync their music when a certain update in IOS 8 was issued.
It worked and all was good. I purposely did not update my iPhone to 
9.0 when it came out, because i figured I would run into the same 
issue. I DID update to 9.0.1 the other day, and sure enough, my iTunes 
version 11.4 won't sync to my iPhone w/ IOS 9.0.1.

There doesn't seem to be an easy workaround.

Gary, are you running an old version of OSX - e.g. 10.6.8?
Rob


On 13/10/2016 3:34 pm, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hello Gary,

What was your result please?

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 3 Oct. 2016, at 2:25 pm, Ronni Brown > wrote:



Hello Gary,


I went to backup up my iPhone and get the

"iTunes could not connect to the iPhone " Gary Dorn iPhone" because 
an invalid response was received from the device”


1. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home Button at the 
same time for at least 10 seconds.
2. Ignore the Red Slider that appears on the screen and keep holding 
both buttons until the Apple Logo appears.

Release the buttons, the iPhone will restart.

You might need to Reboot both iPhone and your computer.
Somewhere between the phone and the computer something in the 
software is frozen and not allowing the connection.


If still having the problem:
Check your USB connections - use the cable that came with your 
iPhone, switch to another USB port on your computer.


If still having the problem - Is this a jailbreak iPhone?

Cheers,
Ronni


On 3 Oct. 2016, at 12:19 pm, gdorn@me > wrote:


Hi WAMUG

The other day, a family members  iPhone accidentally dropped into a 
toilet bowl! and no longer starts ups .   This phone hadn't been 
backup up for  some time, thus a few months of photos, lecture 
notes, ideas  and the like evidently can not be recovered - so say 
Apple.


Thus I take this opportunity to remind members to routinely back up 
your iPhones ; if you have anything important on them you want to 
keep - just in case a wet accident occurs.


I went to backup up my iPhone and get the

"iTunes could not connect to the iPhone " Gary Dorn iPhone" because 
an invalid response was received from the device"



chow


gdorn
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Re: Mouse problems

[Rob Phillips]

i.e. in System Preferences.  Although why both would change at the same 
time is a mystery...


Rob

On 13/09/2016 1:07 pm, Susan Hastings wrote:

Have you checked the mouse settings on both computers?

Sent from my iPad


On 13 Sep 2016, at 12:17 PM, Juliet Kitson  wrote:

Help please today for some reason both my MacBook Air and iMac have developed 
mouse problems left and right have swapped and this applies to an external 
mouse left and right keys don't work properly ,both are running El Capitan 
latest version.
Regards Bill
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Re: OSX on non-mac hardware?

[Rob Phillips]

:-(

I'm not sure I can wait so long because my wife's 8-9 yo Macbook is 
really getting to the end of its days, and I was going to pass my old 
MBP on to her before she goes on a long cruise in early October...


Oh well :-(
Rob

On 11/09/2016 9:40 pm, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hi Rob,

Hang on for a bit longer as we're expecting the new 15" MacBook Pro to 
be announced in October, alongside an upcoming iPad.


Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 11 Sep 2016, at 9:27 PM, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Thanks, Ronni for the advice.

It is time to replace my old Macbook Pro (15" 1Tb), and (last time I 
looked) the new MB Pro was only available in 13" and 500Gb. This 
comprised less functionality than my current 4yo model.


I was considering if I could leverage other hardware to provide a 15" 
1Tb solution, but this seems problematic.


I also now see that Apple provides a 15" 1Tb model, but it's /bloody/ 
expensive.


I guess I could go with the 13" 500Gb model and use it with and 
external flash drive and screen, but that's sort of clumsy.


How have others handled this problem?

Any feedback welcome...

Rob


On 10/09/2016 7:23 pm, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hello Rob,

I certainly would not recommend it, or give advice on Hackintoshing.

" Apple designed Mac OS X so that only Macs can run it. If you 
attempt to stick a Mac OS X installation disc into any computer that 
isn't made by Apple, it simply won't work. Unlike the Windows or 
Linux operating systems, Mac OS X normally requires a very specific 
set of hardware to run.


Hackintoshing is the process of overcoming these limitations, by 
installing extra software with Mac OS X that adds support to a wider 
range of hardware


Having compatible hardware in a Hackintosh (a PC running Mac OS X 
<http://www.macbreaker.com/p/what-is-hackintoshing.html>) makes the 
difference between success and failure. If you're interested in 
installing Mac OS X on your PC, it's important to know what hardware 
is compatible and what isn't. Hackintosh compatibility varies, 
depending on whether your computer was self-built or prebuilt, and 
whether it's a desktop PC or a laptop."


Regards,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 10 Sep 2016, at 6:38 PM, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Greetings

I'm looking at upgrading my hardware.

Is it still the case that you can install OSX on non-mac intel 
based hardware?


Rob
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Re: OSX on non-mac hardware?

[Rob Phillips]

Thanks, Ronni for the advice.

It is time to replace my old Macbook Pro (15" 1Tb), and (last time I 
looked) the new MB Pro was only available in 13" and 500Gb. This 
comprised less functionality than my current 4yo model.


I was considering if I could leverage other hardware to provide a 15" 
1Tb solution, but this seems problematic.


I also now see that Apple provides a 15" 1Tb model, but it's /bloody/ 
expensive.


I guess I could go with the 13" 500Gb model and use it with and external 
flash drive and screen, but that's sort of clumsy.


How have others handled this problem?

Any feedback welcome...

Rob


On 10/09/2016 7:23 pm, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hello Rob,

I certainly would not recommend it, or give advice on Hackintoshing.

" Apple designed Mac OS X so that only Macs can run it. If you attempt 
to stick a Mac OS X installation disc into any computer that isn't 
made by Apple, it simply won't work. Unlike the Windows or Linux 
operating systems, Mac OS X normally requires a very specific set of 
hardware to run.


Hackintoshing is the process of overcoming these limitations, by 
installing extra software with Mac OS X that adds support to a wider 
range of hardware


Having compatible hardware in a Hackintosh (a PC running Mac OS X 
<http://www.macbreaker.com/p/what-is-hackintoshing.html>) makes the 
difference between success and failure. If you're interested in 
installing Mac OS X on your PC, it's important to know what hardware 
is compatible and what isn't. Hackintosh compatibility varies, 
depending on whether your computer was self-built or prebuilt, and 
whether it's a desktop PC or a laptop."


Regards,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 10 Sep 2016, at 6:38 PM, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Greetings

I'm looking at upgrading my hardware.

Is it still the case that you can install OSX on non-mac intel based 
hardware?


Rob

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OSX on non-mac hardware?

[Rob Phillips]

Greetings

I'm looking at upgrading my hardware.

Is it still the case that you can install OSX on non-mac intel based 
hardware?


Rob

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Re: Switching to Naked DSL?

[Rob Phillips]

I've been thinking of VOIP (Naked DSL) as well, but It's been hard to 
find out information about running several phones in the house on the 
Naked system. What sorts of hands-free phone systems can you plug in?


Cheers
Rob

On 27/01/2016 6:51 pm, Alan Smith wrote:

Hi Rod

My experience with Naked DSL is all good.  My sister has naked with 
ADSL2+ (with good bandwidth) and I have naked with NBN fibre 
broadband.  We have frequent phone calls of excellent quality, even 
when computers are in use simultaneously.  Standard “Telstra” type 
instruments are used. Very little downtime - occasionally modem needs 
to be restarted.


I understand that modern modems can set the quality of service to 
ensure there is no voice degradation during data transmissions.


Cheers
Alan

On 27 Jan 2016, at 5:10 PM, Brian Risbey > wrote:


Hi

I don’t personally have this service, but have you tried making a 
phone call to check for clear voice and good quality signal?  I have 
heard that there maybe some problems with this. Seek others’ opinions.


Brian

Brian
On 27 Jan 2016, at 5:02 PM, Rod Blitvich > wrote:


Hi WAMGers
We are on iiNet ADSL2+ Homephone-2 at $90 per month.  1000GB quota
Don’t use home landline phone
Considering changing to Naked DSL plan 1 which gives netphone plus 
1000 GB internet for $70/month.


Please - any reason why I shouldn't make this change?
(i want to stay with iiNet)
ta
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Re: Annual Mamber Fee Payment

[Rob Phillips]

I haven't received an invoice...

Rob

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Re: Recording Skype conference calls

[Rob Phillips]

A technique I have used with webconferencing software is to record the 
minutes on the fly, while sharing the screen with everyone. This way, 
everyone sees the minutes as they are being written and can point out 
inaccuracies in the moment. The other advantage is that the minutes are 
available almost as soon as the meeting is over.


Of course, this means that the software you use has to have screen 
sharing capability, and Skype probably doesn't have this.  How about 
Google Hangouts?


Cheers
Rob



On 24/12/2015 1:51 am, Alex wrote:

Hi WAMUG members,

I need to take minutes for meetings held by conference call using Skype.  What 
I would like to do is record the calls so that I can do the minutes truthfully. 
 This would be done only if all agree to it being recorded.

Can anyone recommend a good program?  I have looked into it briefly & one or two seem to 
imply that it works on incoming & outgoing streams & one said it did not work on  group 
chats (is this different to group calls?).  Ideally I do not want separate recordings for 
incoming & outgoing streams.

Thanks in advance,

Alex
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Re: What is process PID 208?

[Rob Phillips]

On 12/12/2015 4:10 pm, Ronni Brown wrote:

Hi Alan,

Just a quick reply. I don’t know why you are so obsessed with viewing 
System Logs…




It's probably more fun than most TV shows... :-)
Rob
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Re: Telstra

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First find out when the NBN is coming to you. They might be locking you 
into something inferior once the NBN arrives.


Cheers
Rob

On 23/10/2015 8:51 pm, John Daniels wrote:

I know there have been many discussions about Telstra service over the years 
but I'm interested to know if they have improved.
I'm with Westnet ADSL 2 but my speeds vary from 0.5Mb to a max of 2Mb sometimes 
being so slow it's frustrating.

Telstra are offering cable connection 30Mb and 25G data signing on for 2years. 
Same price within $2 of Westnet.

Can anyone tell me how cable really compares with my ADSL2

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New Macbook

[Rob Phillips]

Hi everyone

I'm a little bit confused/annoyed.

I bought my 15" Macbook pro (2.6 GHz I7 4 core, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) late 
in 2012.


Since my 3 year Applecare is running out, and the machine is slowing 
down, I'm looking at 'upgrading' to a new laptop.


I went in to Macworx today to see what was available. The top end 
machine available was a 15" 3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, 16Gb RAM and 
512GB 'storage'.


Most of the tech specs seem hardly changed - what happened to Moore's 
Law? The price doesn't seem to have changed much either - if anything it 
has gone up. What is even more disturbing is that the storage has 
decreased from 1Tb to 512Gb - in the top-end machine! Are they serious???


My current system uses 650Gb - 350 Gb in photos. I can't upgrade without 
splitting up photo libraries or deleting old photos. This is 1990s 
thinking, and the Apple hardware is forcing me backwards. In almost 30 
years of Mac use, I can't recall storage capacity going down.


What are my options for a portable machine which exceeds to capability 
of my current machine? A few years ago I heard that it is possible to 
install OSX on non Mac hardware. Is this still an option?


Hoping for some creative solutions...
Rob

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Re: QT problem

[Rob Phillips]

Another example of Apple deciding what we can or cannot do?

Rob
On 16/10/2015 1:53 pm, Ronni Brown wrote:

Hi Severin,

Are you running El Capitan 10.11?
The QuickTime plugin is no longer supported on OS X 10.11.

Apple disables the QuickTime plug-in in 10.11.

If the QT movies are the ones on Jenny’s website, I tried moving the 
disabled “QuickTime Plugin.plugin” back into Internet Plug-Ins as 
below as a Test to see if it would work... but unfortunately NO.


I went to  "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Disabled Plug-Ins" and checked 
if "QuickTime Plugin.plugin" was there, it was, so I moved it to 
"/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ , restarted Safari and checked on Safari 
-> Preferences -> Security -> Plug-in settings.
Then opened Safari, went to Jenny’s website tried to play ‘The Stream’ 
but no go - still receive ‘Missing Plug-in’ click the -> to see 
message “This webpage has content that requires the “QuickTime” 
plug-in etc


I imagine it is to do with file handling via Safari and probably the 
move to HTML5.
The developers of the sites have to change, doesn't look like the 
browsers will change.


Cheers,
Ronni

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1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

El Capitan OS X 10.11

On 15 Oct 2015, at 5:29 PM, Severin Crisp > wrote:


I have just noticed that the QT movies in my own webpages will not 
play on my iMac.   They are fine on my iPad.   Safari says " plugin 
failure", Firefox requests activation of QT then plays and Chrome 
plays straight off.   I have removed the plugin from DIVX after a 
recent upgrade.   I am not sure how long this has been happening, 
only discovered by chance.

Simple solution I am sure.
Severin Crisp

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Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

[Rob Phillips]

I guess this should all work, as long as you don't get one of your POP 
accounts to delete messages from the server when you download it.


Rob

On 14/10/2015 7:08 pm, Neil Houghton wrote:

Hi Pete, Hi Daniel,

I've been following this thread with some interest. If I understand the
thread, the decision as to whether an account is IMAP or POP should be set
at the hosting server and then the account in the email program has to be
set to match (ie use the same protocol).

Georgie & I have our own domains and generally use email accounts we have
set-up on those. We have VERY limited email storage associated with these
accounts and so we use POP and download everything from the server. No
problems here except that there is also limited bandwidth and so
occasionally we can hit the bandwidth limit. At some stage I will upgrade
the hosting package which will address the storage/bandwidth limitations.


Our broadband provider (Internode) also provides email and so I set-up an
internode email address for each of us - more as a back-up, we don't really
use them as they would disappear if we changed Broadband providers.


I set these up several years ago, so I don't really remember the steps
involved - but I can see that the email accounts on the computer are set as
POP accounts and everything works fine (test emails to and from both mine &
Georgies accounts.


Now, here's where it gets confusing

Recently Georgie was getting (and due to get) quite a lot of emails with
large phoo files attached - so I suggested she use her internode email
address to avoid running into bandwidth/storage limitations on her personal
email accounts. She had forgotten that she had this account and it was only
configured on the computers so she asked me to set-up the account on her
iPhone - which I did - only to find that mail on IOS automatically set up an
IMAP account!

So now it seems that there is an IMAP account on the iPhone and POP accounts
on several computers all connecting to the same basic Internode email
account. All seem to work well and send and receive email OK.

The IMAP account leaves messages on the server (as you would expect). The
POP accounts on the secondary computers also leave messages on the server
(as they have been set to do) and the POP account on her main computer
downloads messages from the server (as it has been set to do).

I currently have 15 email accounts set-up in my email client on my computer
and ALL are POP - so I would prefer to just keep everything the same.
However Mail on IOS on the iPhones just automatically sets the internode
accounts to IMAP and does not let me select POP.


So I seem to have a hybrid IMAP/POP set-up - which just seems wrong!
However, it all seems to work OK!


Any comments? Am I likely to run into any problems with this set-up?


Cheers



Neil


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Re: Food for thought

[Rob Phillips]

This is an interesting discussion, and it resonates with the way I have 
been thinking.


I agree with Bill

"I want stuff that works when I need it."

Over recent years, I've become increasingly dissatisfied with Apple Mac 
products, because they continue to remove functionality that I have been 
used to using efficiently. I'm a 'messy' user, and I like to have 
multiple windows open at once. Recent OS upgrades have made it harder 
for me to do this. Unless I hide the Finder Toolbar, I can't open 
Folders in a new window without right-clicking. It took me months to 
find out about this by trial and error. Apple should have told me! 
Previously, I had a preference about how this behaved.


In other words, I'm getting sick of Apple telling me how I should use my 
computer, and removing my options for doing things differently. E.g. 
taking away scroll bars because you can swipe on iphones.


Forcing me to move to Photos, with reduced functionality, was another 
example which I didn't ask for.  I didn't even know I would lose many of 
my smart albums until AFTER I upgraded.


It seems like Apple has a philosophy that everyone is a new user, and 
doesn't recognise long-term users.


I'm seriously considering other options, but I guess a Linux variety is 
the only option,and this will take an extended learning curve.


One day I'll reach a tipping point, but, in the meantime, I can hope 
that Apple will stop trying to control my behaviour.


My 2c
Rob


On 10/10/2015 7:18 am, Bill Parker wrote:

Phillipe I can  sum it up this way.  I want stuff that works when I need it.  
The comparison with Windows still has Mac in a different league and vastly 
superior.   However, the way things are going, I get limited or no value from 
the constant upgrades.  And as you may have seen in the recent past I had to 
open a document in Pages.  I had to upgrade the system.  the very LEADT Apple 
could do is alert users to some very simples to take before you download ( 
thanks Ronni for the help!)

What stuff do I need?   Office ( because I need to keep compatible with group I 
work with).  Word for Mac 2011 was assuredly worse that it predessor.  And 
Power point.  if going to El Capitan wrecks that critical operation I an 
stuffed.

Security?   I do not use iCloud.  I do not use anything Google and do not need 
to.  I have a Time machine sitting next to me, not in California!

Bill


On 10 Oct 2015, at 00:46, Philippe Chaperon  wrote:

Hi All,

The previous emails on this thread are interesting but I somehow do not grasp 
what exactly some users are looking for with regards to the OS. Is it the 
Operating System which is becoming too complex or powerful or is it the amount 
of Application Softwares which come with a computer that is the problem?

For those who want basic application softwares they are available, albeit for a 
price (most are quite cheap). Some of the applications I use are fairly basic 
e.g. for my photos I use Graphic Converter because I have problems in 
constantly having my Photos, ex iPhotos, libraries converted etc. Although I 
have MS Office, most of my word processing is done with Mellel, a powerful 
application but not as ‘bloated’ as Word. In fact for a quick and short 
document Text Edit comes to my rescue quite happily.

With regards to the operating system itself, unfortunately the computing world 
is constantly evolving and what with the hotly contested competition from 
Windows and Android, if Apple does not keep up with the latest technologies it 
will loose ground very quickly. A good analogy is the car industry. A current 
car manufacturer who dares produce a car without electric windows and/or an 
electric starter motor, side valves operated by push rods etc would not survive 
the highly competitive modern car market. The current consumers, in the 
majority, are looking for the very latest in technology for safety and economy 
and will not hesitate to swap brands if this requirement is not met by the car 
or computer or camera etc manufacturer.

Although the above analogy is  simplistic, this is the argument I use to 
convince myself to install the latest OS on my Macs. The latest technology 
provides greater efficiency, uses the latest technology, which once learned, 
will make my life much easier. And above all the updates allow me to surf the 
net which itself keeps evolving using new technology. Many ‘old’ browsers would 
not be able to cope with all that latest internet technology.

I agree that it is difficult to keep learning the new  OS, but at least we Mac 
users have not had to suffer the pains our brothers from that ‘other’ OS have 
go through with each major update. Having used Apple products since the IIc 
came out I am surprised at how consistent the OS has been, from the user’s end. 
But I have to add that I am not a heavy user and admit that I possibly use only 
2% or so of the OS available functions.

By the way Allen, I also use Snow Leopard on my now ancient MacBook, and t

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Pete

Daniel's suggestion is the best way to go.

However, note that I suggested (perhaps not very clearly) that you 
recreate your old email 'account' in mail.  The important thing to 
recognise is that your email account with Westnet still exists. It's 
just that the connection to that account in the Mail email browser is 
being changed. Unfortunately, Mail calls this an 'account', so it gets 
confusing.


Good luck
Rob

On 14/10/2015 6:02 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:
Hi Rob, the issue is I want to retain my existing email address. To 
change that means a massive undertaking in alerting the many places 
where my email address is embedded - Apple store, wine sellers just to 
name a couple. So the point being I only want to change the account 
/type /but keep the rest unchanged/. /Daniel has chimed in with a 
suggestion which I will try tonight. I'll advise the group of success 
(hopefully).


Regards

Pete

On 14 Oct 2015, at 2:54 PM, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Hi Pete
I think the problem might be in trying to use the same email address.

A possible way forward is (with lots of backups and care - including 
downloading recent emails onto a second device)


  * create a new email address - gmail - or even better a second
westnet address associated with your account
  * try to create an IMAP account for this
  * Move your old messages into new new mailbox
  * try the disable/ enable thing again. Maybe you can change the
server settings now.  Failing this, delete that old mailbox and
create a new IMAP one.
  * Copy your old messages back.

I hope this helps
Rob

On 14/10/2015 7:55 am, petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
Hi Rob, thanks for the suggestion. The process in Mail to go from 
POP to IMAP requires establishment of a new account, you;re unable 
to just change the server address as the Account Type (POP) is 
superior to that. Unfortunately I am unable to get past the first 
dialogue where entry of the account detail (Name, email address and 
password) are required before getting to selecting IMAP/POP and 
server details. That is the problem I have. I have altered the Name 
and password of the account from the disabled account detail (no 
point changing the email address as the old address is MY address) 
and still no joy. Might have to ring Apple or chat.


Thanks.

Pete.


- Original Message -
From:
wamug@wamug.org.au

To:

Cc:

Sent:
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:03:09 +0800
Subject:
Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP


I use Thunderbird not Mail, but have you changed the mail server
address? It should be something like imap.westnet.com.au
<http://imap.westnet.com.au>, instead of pop.westnet.comau.

Hope this helps.
Rob

On 13/10/2015 8:13 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:

Hi, have any of you done the below process of moving from a
POP Mail account to an IMAP account? I tried again and I get
the same result as below here. Not able to Create a new
account as Mail simple re-enables the account I disabled.

Regards

Pete...


On 12 Oct 2015, at 9:16 pm, Peter Crisp
 wrote:

Hi folks, I am getting a moment to make this change to
my westnet account from POP to IMAP. The text (in
different font) below is that from a previous thread on
the topic back in Feb 2014. I am running V8.2 Mail and
OS X 10.10.5. Maybe Mail is a little different now and
the instructions altered or maybe I am doing something
wrong. I’ve made the copy of Inbox and Sent items into
temp folders “On My MAC”. Then I uncheck the Enable
button in my current account. No problem to here.

Then I choose Mail > Add Account and select “Add other
Mail account”. This is where I am unsure. I used the
same account name, email address and password (as I am
trying to change to IMAP) as current account and once I
select Create, it simply enables the existing account
which I just disabled. Perhaps this is not unexpected. I
tried a different password and account name (same email
address) - same thing - re-enables the existing disabled
account.

What am I doing wrong or is the procedure different in 8.2?

For the moment I have re-enabled my Mail so I can still
use it for this.

Regards

Pete.



Hi Laura,

I have cc'd your iinet &  Laura Webb http://me.com/>> addresses, so hopefully
you receive at least one of them.

Step 2. is VERY IMPORTANT:
To avoid any potential disasters, save all the messages you have on 
your Mac to
a different mailbox before you convert to IMAP.

   

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Pete
I think the problem might be in trying to use the same email address.

A possible way forward is (with lots of backups and care - including 
downloading recent emails onto a second device)


 * create a new email address - gmail - or even better a second westnet
   address associated with your account
 * try to create an IMAP account for this
 * Move your old messages into new new mailbox
 * try the disable/ enable thing again. Maybe you can change the server
   settings now.  Failing this, delete that old mailbox and create a
   new IMAP one.
 * Copy your old messages back.

I hope this helps
Rob

On 14/10/2015 7:55 am, petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
Hi Rob, thanks for the suggestion. The process in Mail to go from POP 
to IMAP requires establishment of a new account, you;re unable to just 
change the server address as the Account Type (POP) is superior to 
that. Unfortunately I am unable to get past the first dialogue where 
entry of the account detail (Name, email address and password) are 
required before getting to selecting IMAP/POP and server details. That 
is the problem I have. I have altered the Name and password of the 
account from the disabled account detail (no point changing the email 
address as the old address is MY address) and still no joy. Might have 
to ring Apple or chat.


Thanks.

Pete.


- Original Message -
From:
wamug@wamug.org.au

To:

Cc:

Sent:
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:03:09 +0800
Subject:
Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP


I use Thunderbird not Mail, but have you changed the mail server
address? It should be something like imap.westnet.com.au, instead
of pop.westnet.comau.

Hope this helps.
Rob

On 13/10/2015 8:13 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:

Hi, have any of you done the below process of moving from a
POP Mail account to an IMAP account? I tried again and I get
the same result as below here. Not able to Create a new
account as Mail simple re-enables the account I disabled.

Regards

Pete...


On 12 Oct 2015, at 9:16 pm, Peter Crisp
 wrote:

Hi folks, I am getting a moment to make this change to my
westnet account from POP to IMAP. The text (in different
font) below is that from a previous thread on the topic
back in Feb 2014. I am running V8.2 Mail and OS X 10.10.5.
Maybe Mail is a little different now and the instructions
altered or maybe I am doing something wrong. I’ve made the
copy of Inbox and Sent items into temp folders “On My
MAC”. Then I uncheck the Enable button in my current
account. No problem to here.

Then I choose Mail > Add Account and select “Add other
Mail account”. This is where I am unsure. I used the same
account name, email address and password (as I am trying
to change to IMAP) as current account and once I select
Create, it simply enables the existing account which I
just disabled. Perhaps this is not unexpected. I tried a
different password and account name (same email address) -
same thing - re-enables the existing disabled account.

What am I doing wrong or is the procedure different in 8.2?

For the moment I have re-enabled my Mail so I can still
use it for this.

Regards

Pete.



Hi Laura,

I have cc'd your iinet &  Laura Webb http://me.com/>> addresses, so hopefully
you receive at least one of them.

Step 2. is VERY IMPORTANT:
To avoid any potential disasters, save all the messages you have on 
your Mac to
a different mailbox before you convert to IMAP.

How to convert a POP email account to IMAP
Most email providers let you choose between two ways to get your 
messages. You
can have a POP (Post Office Protocol) account that downloads all 
your messages
to your Mac, iPhone or iPad. Or, you can have an IMAP (Internet 
Message Access
Protocol) account that leaves some or all of your messages up on 
the mail
server so you can access them from any device. For example, with a 
POP account,
if you check email on your iPhone, the messages downloaded there 
will only be
there; when you get back to your Mac, you won’t see them in your 
inbox. With
IMAP, they’ll be on all your devices.

If you’ve been using a POP account, but have grown frustrated with 
inaccessible
messages, you can usually convert your account to IMAP. Most 
hosting companies
and providers offer both options. However, making this conversion 
requires that
you take precautions so you don’t lose any messages. Here’s how to 
make the
switc

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

[Rob Phillips]

I use Thunderbird not Mail, but have you changed the mail server 
address? It should be something like imap.westnet.com.au, instead of 
pop.westnet.com.au.


Hope this helps.
Rob

On 13/10/2015 8:13 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:
Hi, have any of you done the below process of moving from a POP Mail 
account to an IMAP account? I tried again and I get the same result as 
below here. Not able to Create a new account as Mail simple re-enables 
the account I disabled.


Regards

Pete...


On 12 Oct 2015, at 9:16 pm, Peter Crisp > wrote:


Hi folks, I am getting a moment to make this change to my westnet 
account from POP to IMAP. The text (in different font) below is that 
from a previous thread on the topic back in Feb 2014. I am running 
V8.2 Mail and OS X 10.10.5. Maybe Mail is a little different now and 
the instructions altered or maybe I am doing something wrong. I’ve 
made the copy of Inbox and Sent items into temp folders “On My MAC”. 
Then I uncheck the Enable button in my current account. No problem to 
here.


Then I choose Mail > Add Account and select “Add other Mail account”. 
This is where I am unsure. I used the same account name, email 
address and password (as I am trying to change to IMAP) as current 
account and once I select Create, it simply enables the existing 
account which I just disabled. Perhaps this is not unexpected. I 
tried a different password and account name (same email address) - 
same thing - re-enables the existing disabled account.


What am I doing wrong or is the procedure different in 8.2?

For the moment I have re-enabled my Mail so I can still use it for this.

Regards

Pete.



Hi Laura,

I have cc'd your iinet &  Laura Webb http://me.com/>> 
addresses, so hopefully
you receive at least one of them.
Step 2. is VERY IMPORTANT:
To avoid any potential disasters, save all the messages you have on your Mac to
a different mailbox before you convert to IMAP.

How to convert a POP email account to IMAP
Most email providers let you choose between two ways to get your messages. You
can have a POP (Post Office Protocol) account that downloads all your messages
to your Mac, iPhone or iPad. Or, you can have an IMAP (Internet Message Access
Protocol) account that leaves some or all of your messages up on the mail
server so you can access them from any device. For example, with a POP account,
if you check email on your iPhone, the messages downloaded there will only be
there; when you get back to your Mac, you won’t see them in your inbox. With
IMAP, they’ll be on all your devices.

If you’ve been using a POP account, but have grown frustrated with inaccessible
messages, you can usually convert your account to IMAP. Most hosting companies
and providers offer both options. However, making this conversion requires that
you take precautions so you don’t lose any messages. Here’s how to make the
switch safely:

1. Check with your email host

If you manage your email account yourself, check on your hosting company’s
dashboard to make sure you can use IMAP. (It’s very rare that this is not
available.) If you get email through your business or school, check with the IT
department. Find out what settings you will need to access your email as an
IMAP account, and whether anything needs to be changed on the server side. If
you use Gmail, this help page will tell you how to change your Gmail account
from POP to IMAP. (You have to enable IMAP on the Gmail website.)

2. Protect the message you’ve already downloaded

To avoid any potential disasters, save all the messages you have on your Mac to
a different mailbox before you convert to IMAP.

IMAP stores some or all of your email on the mail server. The problem is, this
means that any folders that are on your Mac may get overwritten, or deleted, if
you don’t save their messages before making the switch. So, in Mail, choose
Mailbox -> New Mailbox, and, with the location as On My Mac, create a new
mailbox. Call it something like My Old Inbox. When you’ve done this, move all
the messages currently in your Inbox to this folder. Do the same for your Sent
Mail folder, and any Drafts you may have. Once this is done, you can change the
settings for your email account.

3. Find your IMAP settings

Either your hosting company, your IT department, or your email provider will
provide the settings you need to switch your account over to IMAP. For example,
for Gmail, you will need to know the new Incoming Mail Server (imap.gmail.com 
),
but your outgoing mail server won’t change. In most cases, you will just need
to change the prefix in the Incoming Mail Server setting from pop to imap.
Write these down. You'll need them in Step 5.

4. Disable your POP account

In Mail, choose Preferences -> Accounts, click on the name of your POP account,
then on Advanced, then uncheck Enable this account.

5. Create a new IMAP email account

In Mail, you can’t change an email account from POP to IMAP. Instead, you need
to c

Re: OSX 10.9.5 Finder won't show Folder contents

[Rob Phillips]

Was the machine working OK until you tried to access the folder?

I suggest you Shut Down, wait a minute and then restart.

If the problem persists, run Disk Utility and repair the disk.

Cheers
Rob

On 24/09/2015 2:19 pm, Graham Green wrote:

Hi Ronni

Thanks for the suggestions.
When I go to user/home folder, nothing shows, only a spinning wheel in the 
bottom corner.

Also, Documents folder and other sub-folders show nothing, only spinning wheel.

When I tried your 3. below, nothing showed, so couldn’t remove plist.:
  3. When the View options opens, check ?Show Library Folder?.

That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  
Nothing showed

Fortunately, Path Finder is operating OK.

Any other advice greatly appreciated.

Regards

Graham

On 23 Sep 2015, at 10:42 pm, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au 
wrote:


Message: 5
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:47:25 +0800
From: Ronni Brown 
To: WAMUG 
Subject: Re: OSX 10.9.5 Finder won't show Folder contents
Message-ID: <3220f755-b59e-4b87-8fbe-f519bcf3d...@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"

Hello Graham,

Have you tried 'refreshing' the Finder .plist?

1. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder.
2. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder-View-Show 
View options or go command - J.
3. When the View options opens, check ?Show Library Folder?.
That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.
4. Select Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.
Move the com.apple.finder.plist to your desktop.
5. Re-launch Finder by logging out/in and test.

If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the same, return the .plist to where you got it  from, overwriting the newer 
ones.

Note: "You might need to redo the View settings" after.
For example:
If experience the hard drive icon not showing on the desktop after refreshing 
the plist,
Go to Finder > Preferences and under "Show these items on the desktop" check the box next 
to "Hard disks" and the icon will reappear.

Cheers,
Ronni

13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

OS X Yosemite 10.10.2


On 23 Sep 2015, at 6:22 pm, Graham Green  wrote:

In recent days, the Finder has stopped showing the documents in various 
Sub-Folders that I have used.  These sub-folders are frequently used folders 
that I have dragged onto the side-bar - they have worked fine until recently.

I also have Path Finder in the Dock, and use it only occasionally for sorting 
and organising files.  It is working OK, and so i can find the documentsI want.

I?ve searched WAMUG Files and Google - seems I?m not the only one suffering, 
and couldn?t find any clear solutions.

(The only new thing, I recently downloaded ABBYY FineReaderPro.)

Any help appreciated.

Regards

Graham
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Re: yosemite - HD full

[Rob Phillips]

It could be that your hard disk is corrupt and some sectors aren't 
available for use.  This means running Disk Utility to verify and/or 
repair the disk.


You will probably need to boot up in 'diagnostic mode' to do this. Hold 
down 'd' when restarting and then choose Disk Utility from the menu at 
the top.


I'm sure Ronni will have the precise instructions if you're not sure 
about this...


Cheers
Rob

On 24/09/2015 2:41 am, gary dorn wrote:

macbook 2009 with 320 GB HD
mac OS 10.10.1
5 users

320 GB hardisk message coming up saying HD is full

Finder says
Users 157 GB
Library  22.21 GB
Applications  24.56 GB
System  6.5 GB

that totals 210 GB

where has the remainder 100 GB gone?

note - we don’t have photoshop


any advice appreciated

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Re: Epson printer network visibility

[Rob Phillips]

Thanks. Good tip.
Rob

On 15/09/2015 9:27 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:
Hi all, with Ronni’s help again off list Ronni (with permission) 
reviewed my printer status report. The report indicated that the 
bonjour service was not enabled. Ronni indicated this should be 
enabled. Once on the trail I was able to go into the Epson Netconfig 
software and browse to the TCP/IP area and select the “Bonjour” enable 
option. A few minutes later I was printing ok. I have also been able 
to AirPrint for iOS devices. I am yet to set up a Scan wirelessly back 
to a folder or MBP. Will work through the User Manual to configure that.


I am unclear on why the bonjour service became disabled following the 
decommissioning of my previous Epson printer but it’s a tip to verify 
when any of you are setting up a new printer. Was very frustrating to 
be able to know it was connected to the Network, could Cloud print ok, 
but not simple config over the network.


Regards

Pete.






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Re: How to wrap your power adapter.

[Rob Phillips]

Cool!

On 30/08/2015 6:33 pm, Brian Risbey wrote:

Hi All

Anyone else seen this?

http://www.cultofmac.com/257538/heres-much-better-way-store-transport-macbook-power-cord-os-x-tips/

Brian


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[Rob Phillips]

The best option is to contact iiNet support.  I've had this issue at 
various times, and they are usually very helpful.


Rob

On 17/08/2015 8:45 am, Graham Rabe wrote:

Hi Ronni,

That shows an issue for sure. On the iMac (the machine that has the 
delays when sending emails) the SMTP account connection shows as 
“failed”. The account name is “iinet.net.au <http://iinet.net.au>”  On 
my Macbook Air (where there is no delay when sending emails) the SMTP 
account shows that the connection succeeded. That account name 
is “mail.iinet.au:gr…”


Changing the account name on the iMac to that of the MBAir will 
probably solve the problem, but how can I find out what the full name 
of the account is on the MB Air and change it on the iMac to that name?


Thanks Ronni.

Cheers,

Graham


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Off-topic: museum/ collectors for old electronic devices

[Rob Phillips]

Sorry this is off topic, but there seem to be some people on this list 
who collect old electronic stuff.


We've just replaced our old, 1980s Toshiba microwave. It's in good 
working order, and it seems a shame to just throw it away.


Does anyone know anybody who collects this sort of stuff, or is there a 
museum?


Please reply to me directly, so it doesn't clog the list.

Cheers
Rob

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Re: VPN

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Peter,
I don't currently use a VPN on my home network. I am considering it.

My son, who has been living in China, has had to use a VPN service to 
circumvent the Chinese government's blocking of particular sites (like 
Facebook), and potential eavesdropping on his traffic.


With the Federal Government's new data retention laws, we are all at 
risk of the same treatment from the Australian government. If you don't 
want people prying into what you do on the internet, you should be using 
a VPN.


My son recommends a VPN provider called Astrill 
(https://www.astrill.com/what-is-vpn.php).


This is a paid service. Others may know of free services, but I haven't 
looked into it yet.


Hope this helps.
Rob

On 30/07/2015 12:29 pm, Peter Curtis wrote:

Hi
Thanks Ronni
I was reading about the VPN on Choice and was wondering if I should as a matter 
of course use one.
Therefor my question to you.
Security of and on computers is becoming more complex and I just wish to make 
sure I am doing what is necessary for my own safety.
Your comment that you use a VPN when connecting to a Public Wireless Network, 
does that mean you don’t feel the need for it in normal circumstances at home 
(or work)?
I value your input on these matters.
Kind regards
Peter


On 30 Jul 2015, at 12:04 pm, Ronni Brown  wrote:

Hello Peter,

Why are you asking... what do you wish to know about a VPN (Virtual Private 
Network)?
I do use a VPN when I require to connect to Public Wireless Networks, like 
those found at coffee shops, hotels, airports, and conferences.

A virtual private network, or VPN, is a special type of network connection that 
encrypts all Internet traffic flowing between your device and
a VPN server somewhere on the Internet. Think of a VPN as a tunnel running 
through your physical (Wi-Fi, cellular, or wired) Internet connection that’s 
impenetrable from the outside but open on both ends. Since VPNs can encrypt 
everything, they even make it safe to use an unencrypted Wi-Fi connection.



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Re: Mail problem

[Rob Phillips]

Yes.  In Thunderbird, check the Offline submenu under the File Menu.

Rob

On 17/07/2015 10:55 am, Kaye and Geoff wrote:

Hello Bill

On 17/07/2015, at 8:13 AM, Bill Parker wrote:


I should have said all servers are said to be "offline"

I have an old version of Mail, but if yours is similar to mine, look at the 
Mailbox menu and check that all accounts have not been taken offline. The menu 
gives you the opportunity to take them online.

In general being offline implies no internet connection, but since Thunderbird 
works this would appear not to be the problem

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Re: Data transfer MBPro to imac

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Chris

It sounds like Target disk mode is what you need. At least, it was last 
time I did this a few years ago.


Connect the cable, and then hold down T while you boot the old machine.

Hope this helps
Rob


On 22/12/2014 1:00 pm, Chris Burton wrote:

Hi Wamuggers

I have just returned home from my work off Gabon, with a jam packed
hard disk on my MBPro (Snow Leopard) and I would like to transfer data
to my new imac (Mavericks) and I just cant remember (or find anything)
on how to do it, which is really frustrating?

Both machines have thunderbolt and I have tried connecting them but
without success, and am not sure if I need to use Target mode to do
this?

I would be most grateful for any advice to assist me with this as I
just cant seem to work it out!

With many thanks

Chris
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Re: Traveling with Apple products (Europe) info

[Rob Phillips]

Replying to a thread from a year ago

We're going to Europe in a couple of days, but my spies over there tell 
me that mobile roaming services will be required to provide a 
Europe-wide tariff from the end of 2015. In other words, no matter where 
you buy your European SIM, you'll get the same price in every country...

Rob

On 15/05/2013 3:47 pm, Peter Faulks wrote:

Using a Mac in Europe

Just a follow up to Peter's traveling question, I
though this might broaden the scope of answers.

We are currently traveling around Europe with a
Mac Book Pro lap top, iPad 4 and iPhone 4. I
purchased an international power adapter and set
up a two pin plug to Aussie line socket top,
which I plug into an Aussie small 4 way power
board. I can then plug in all our Australian
plugs and keep items charged up and working. I
also purchased an iPad car adapter and universal
car adapter to use ipad and other devices in our
hire car.

England
In England we found hotels charged about .50p per
minute Internet and we were in England for four
weeks so I purchased a  3G Wi Fi Huawei E5331 for
£39 plus one months service (2gb download) £30
from Three UK, (this allows 10 connected devices)
however the device is locked to the UK and could
only be topped up at the Three store because you
need a UK address to purchase this device and a
passport to obtain a Sim Card.

Worse they will not accept Internet top up unless
you have a UK post code and UK Credit Card, so we
found this quite inconvenient having to find a 3
store to purchase a top up voucher. However the
device worked brilliantly with the iPad as a GPS
using Maps but once we left England we obviously
lost Internet connection.

Italy
We traveled to Italy where I purchased a Wind ZTE
MF63 Wi Fi for 69 Euro, (allows 5 connected
devices) our hotels were charging .65c US$ per
minute for very slow connections, (double rip
off, high cost and slow to gather emails etc.),
this included 5 Euro and two weeks service and
worked fine in Italy (12 days). Although the
salesman advised that this device was unblocked
it proved later not to be the case.

Spain
When we arrived in Spain, I purchased a Wi-Fi sim
from Vodaphone, (20Euro) but this would not
connect through either Huawei (UK) or ZTE MF63
(Italy) devices, so I purchased another Huawei
E5331 Wi Fi from Orange for 39Euro plus one
months service 2Gb for 40Euro. This works fine in
Spain but again will be blocked for other
countries.

For the Phone we purchased 3G sim cards in
England which only worked in England unless you
pay 28p per minute for Roaming, but we later
found a world sim card in Spain for 20 Euro that
works in 10 countries (Lebara movil World Card).
A better alternative would have been purchase a
cheap UK phone these work throughout Europe, and
can be puchased for abouth £30.

I did try to organize something in Perth before
leaving but no one seemed to know what was best,
our service provider thought roaming on our phone
over 7 weeks would be excessive.

Sorry for the ramble but I just though I would
pass this on to future travelers. If anyone has
better methodology I would be pleased to hear it
because we are still in Europe.

There are some places where free Wi-Fi is
available but we needed to carry on working
whilst traveling and to keep in touch with family
and for Internet searches for hotels and venues.
Plus the GPS for driving.

Faulksy



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I lost a key on my Logitech iPad keyboard.

The very helpful Josh at MacWorx in Joondalup provided me this 
information, which might be useful to others


Cheers
Rob

I found a website however that specialises in replacement keys, believe 
it or not. I've attached a link to your keyboard and you can purchase a 
missing key which also comes with the mechanism. Predictably they are in 
the US but they are very cheap (<$10).


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Re: Travelling to south of France

[Rob Phillips]

Interesting discussion.

Can I confirm, Peter, that the SIM card you purchased worked at the same 
rates across countries. It used to be that you had to pay roaming costs 
if you went outside the country where you bought this. I had heard that 
this was going to change to a European-wide solution, but I'd like 
confirmation.


Can you explain the difference between the Huawei and Lebara. I'm not 
completely sure what these are... :-\


Rob

On 4/04/14 7:07 AM, Peter Faulks wrote:

Re: Travelling to south of France

Hello Jon,



We found the  best option is to purchase a wifi device in France with 
a monthly pay as you go sim card, this will give you complete control 
over your wifi needs and it will seamlessly connect to you ipad or iphone.


We travelled through Europe last year UK, France, Italy, Spain and for 
the cost (about $40-$50) we   had wifi everywhere for about 8 weeks. I 
purchases a Huawei MiFi (E5331) - £29 in UK (2gb) then got it unlocked 
for use everywhere and it worked great with ipad (maps) and our 
iphone. In France Orange,  3G etc all have shops selling wifi devices.


We did purchase a Lebara international Sim card but hotspotting this 
to the ipad we estimated costs would be high for wifi so we just used 
Huawei and Lebara  for making phone calls, we simply phoned all our 
relatives and friend and then they had our new international number. 
Our friends purchased a cheap phone whilst overseas and that worked OK 
but only in the country of purchase.


Hope this helps

Have a great holliday



Hi everyone. I'm sure this has been discussed before, but as 
technology changes so quickly I wonder if is any easier now.


I am going to south of France for a month from next Monday, and wish 
to use my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro.
I'll be staying pretty much in one place that has no WiFi, so am just 
wondering what the best thing to do is:
Do I buy a sim card over there? or sign up with the local telecom for 
a service over there?
Or does Telstra offer any help with this? I'll probably have to 
use my HotSpot on my phone for WiFi access?


Any help from anyone who has recently done a similar thing would be 
gratefully received.


Kind regards
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OK. It's all under the View menu. Yours certainly looks strange

I recreated your symptoms, then I had to spend a while getting back to 
normal!


In the View/Layout sub-menu, you need to have Folder Pane and Message 
Pane ticked. These items appear only to be active when you are in the Inbox.


This will get you back to a normal looking mailbox view. You can then 
play around with the other View/ Layout options...


Cheers
Rob


On 27/03/14 4:29 PM, Kevin Lock wrote:

Rob,

screenshot shows top LH scroll to inbox   RH top shows scroll to last 
message.


I'll look again in preferences,

Cheers,

Kev


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Hi Kevin
I use Thunderbird (24.3.0) and I can't understand what your issue is. I 
don't have a scroll bar across the top.


Check out the View Menu and Layout Options. Also possibly Toolbars.

I use the Classic layout. Tabs across the top, Folders down the left; 
Mailbox at top right and message content at bottom right.


This probably doesn't help Now if we were able to share screen 
grabs... ;->


Rob


On 27/03/14 3:25 PM, Kevin Lock wrote:
Do any listers use Thunderbird?   I like it except for one annoying 
feature which I have not been able to fix.  It has an Inbox scoll bar 
across the top which replaces the regular inbox/mail in tab.
Most annoying when I have to scroll back through all the emails in to 
get to inbox.


Has anyone heard of a way of deleting the scrollbar function?

TIA

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Re: emails: unwanted deletion

[Rob Phillips]

If it's POP mail then the message gets downloaded directly to your computer.

So if the emails appear on the laptop, and then disappear, then I don't 
think this can be a server problem.


I'm not familiar with how Mail works. If it uses a file system, then 
disappearing messages implies a flaky hard disk.


If it uses a database, disappearing messages implies a flaky database - 
which /may/ be related to a flaky hard disk.


I'd be running disk utility and a hardware test. Boot up with the d key 
pressed - I hope I remembered this correctly!


Can you google 'repair mail mailbox' or similar?

Hope this gets you started.

Rob


On 19/02/14 2:37 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote:
Our service provider is Zetta net, formerly Highway1, and we have been 
with them for many years.  We use Mac Mail and I believe it to be a 
POP account.  It seems only to be happening on the lap top. we receive 
mail also on desktop, iPhone and iPad.  Deleting on the iPhone deletes 
from the server, but this doesn't affect those already downloaded and 
these are the ones going missing and as far as I know only from the 
laptop.


I hope that helps,
Jennifer


On 19 February 2014 13:09, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:


Before Ronni gets in :-), what email client are you using, and
what service provider?

The harder to answer question is what email delivery mechanism you
are using? Is it POP or IMAP. You might need to look at your
account settings to answer this...

Cheers
Rob


On 19/02/14 11:09 AM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote:

Good Morning,
My husband uses a Logitech wireless mouse M525  with his Mac
Laptop Version OS X 10.5.8.  Lately he has complained of losing
emails he does not believe he has deleted and which do not appear
in trash.  Yesterday when I was trying to help (!), had my hand
on the mouse and the highlighted email disappeared, was not in
trash and I had to recover it from Time Machine.  I have not
found a solution on Google.

I have looked at the archives and also tried Google without
finding anything relevant.

Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

Many thanks,
Jennifer


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Re: emails: unwanted deletion

[Rob Phillips]

Before Ronni gets in :-), what email client are you using, and what 
service provider?


The harder to answer question is what email delivery mechanism you are 
using? Is it POP or IMAP. You might need to look at your account 
settings to answer this...


Cheers
Rob

On 19/02/14 11:09 AM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote:

Good Morning,
My husband uses a Logitech wireless mouse M525  with his Mac Laptop 
Version OS X 10.5.8.  Lately he has complained of losing emails he 
does not believe he has deleted and which do not appear in trash. 
 Yesterday when I was trying to help (!), had my hand on the mouse and 
the highlighted email disappeared, was not in trash and I had to 
recover it from Time Machine.  I have not found a solution on Google.


I have looked at the archives and also tried Google without finding 
anything relevant.


Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

Many thanks,
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Re: map app

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Tim

I wasn't clear.  I didn't want a turn by turn solution as I was 
following the old telegraph line from Cocklebiddy to Israelite Bay!  :-)


But I did want to know if the next turn off on the map was 200m away or 
2km! A direct distance mechanism would be great, or even an indication 
of map scale at the given zoom level, like WikiCamps does. Memory Map 
doesn't seem to be doing this.


And yes - the QPA maps are good, except for the odd inaccuracy.

Cheers
Rob

On 2/02/14 11:49 AM, Tim Law wrote:

Rob

All these 'off-road' maps use GPS to make their calculations. They use 
a geocalibrated map in combination with the device's GPS to show where 
you are. If you mark a waypoint on the map at the destination, it 
should tell you, somewhere, how far it is. But it will alwAys be 
direct point to point, and not follow the road, track etc


If you want this feature then you need a turn by turn mapping app such 
as Sygic, tomtom, etc. these are generally setup for city and major 
routes, not navigating tracks off road


I found Sygic works on the iPad without 3G connection, if I recall, 
but nice features like search, what's around, etc need the internet to 
work.


ExplorOz is a good site for keeping up with what's around for remote 
travel, including mapping, but I've not yet seen a 'perfect Mac 
supported system' that suits iPad users, which there are many. We all 
want it cheap too!


Hema make good maps with plenty of extra details. I always carry the 
good spiral bound 'Roads and TrAcks Western Australia' by QPA as it 
has 250k and 500k mapping, in conjunction with the electronic mapping. 
The latter shows me where I am, the former provides the bigger picture 
of where I am going.


Tim

Sent from my iPhone

On 2 Feb 2014, at 11:29 am, Rob Phillips <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Yes. This area needs lots of research.

I found that printed HEMA maps weren't good enough. WikiCamps is a 
cool app for finding camping sites, but it uses Apple maps, and the 
detail is woeful.


I did some research in December, and came across ExplorOz's EOTopo. 
This has higher resolution than most other maps (I think). However, 
the requirements aren't clear. After paying $90-100 for the maps, I 
found I needed an app for them, and these are mainly PC-based.


They allowed me to swap my purchase for the Memory Map version.  This 
is pretty good. It shows you where you are, but doesn't tell you how 
/far/ you are from the next place you're going to.


If anyone knows of a better iPad solution with Exploroz maps,I'd love 
to hear it.


Cheers
Rob

On 2/02/14 11:13 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote:

Thanks Barry Ronni and Tim
I have time to do homework before i go further
It takes a LONG time to earn enough brownie points to be allowed on 
another Kimberley sojourn!!!

:)

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On 2 Feb 2014, at 9:06 am, Tim Law <mailto:t...@peoplehelp.com.au>> wrote:


Rod I use Memory-Map on my iPad 1 connected to an external GPS 
receiver made by Bad Elf. It's powered in series with the iPad. 
Later iPads have built in GPS I believe.


The iPad sits on the jesus bar in front of of the passenger held in 
place with big bulldog clips.


I downloaded AusTopo 250k for free with Memory-Map and this is 
quite adequate for all the offroad adventures I've ever done, and 
there's been a few. 250k resolution is the same as the GeoSciences 
series of maps that many people use with OziExplorer.


The map takes 470mb of space.

The downside is that MM don't have an Apple app to connect with the 
mobile device. To get around this I use Crossover on my Mac, an 
emulator programme, to run the MM software with very little drain 
on my Mac resources..


Once the map is loaded, and any tracks and waypoints you might like 
to have, it works fine on the iPad. I find I never need the 
extensive capacity of OziExplorer which doesn't run on the iPad anyway.


Tim

Sent from my iPad

On 01/02/2014, at 20:23, Rod Blitvich <mailto:rb...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Good point
it says 1.75 GB

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On 1 Feb 2014, at 6:35 pm, F.W. Hänel <mailto:whae...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



Hi Rod,

I would be interested in how much disc space it requires on the 
iPhone/iPad since all maps are pre-loaded ?

Certainly not cheap.

Walter
On 1 Feb 2014, at 16:54 , Rod Blitvich <mailto:rb...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:



https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/4wd-maps-hema-australia-offline/i

Re: map app

[Rob Phillips]

  
  
Yes. This area needs lots of research.
  
  I found that printed HEMA maps weren't good enough. WikiCamps is a
  cool app for finding camping sites, but it uses Apple maps, and
  the detail is woeful.
  
  I did some research in December, and came across ExplorOz's
  EOTopo. This has higher resolution than most other maps (I think).
  However, the requirements aren't clear. After paying $90-100 for
  the maps, I found I needed an app for them, and these are mainly
  PC-based.
  
  They allowed me to swap my purchase for the Memory Map version. 
  This is pretty good. It shows you where you are, but doesn't tell
  you how far you are from the next place you're going to.
  
  If anyone knows of a better iPad solution with Exploroz maps,I'd
  love to hear it.
  
  Cheers
  Rob
  
  On 2/02/14 11:13 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote:


  
  Thanks Barry Ronni and Tim
  I have time to do homework before i go further
  It takes a LONG time to earn enough brownie points to be
allowed on another Kimberley sojourn!!!
  :)

  
 

Rod Blitvich  - Amy & Sam’s Dad
  . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
   0409 681 256  
 rb...@iinet.net.au 

  
A Life? Cool!
  Where can I download one of those from?
  

  


  On 2 Feb 2014, at 9:06 am, Tim Law 
wrote:
  
  

  Rod I use Memory-Map on my iPad 1 connected to an
external GPS receiver made by Bad Elf. It's powered in
series with the iPad.  Later iPads have built
  in GPS I believe.
  
  
  The iPad sits on the jesus bar in front of of the
passenger held in place with big bulldog clips.
  
  
  I downloaded AusTopo 250k for free with Memory-Map
and this is quite adequate for all the offroad
adventures I've ever done, and there's been a few. 250k
resolution is the same as the GeoSciences series of maps
that many people use with OziExplorer.
  
  
  The map takes 470mb of space.
  
  
  The downside is that MM don't have an Apple app to
connect with the mobile device. To get around this I use
Crossover on my Mac, an emulator programme, to run the
MM software with very little drain on my Mac resources..
  
  
  Once the map is loaded, and any tracks and waypoints
you might like to have, it works fine on the iPad. I
find I never need the extensive capacity of OziExplorer
which doesn't run on the iPad anyway.
  
  
  Tim

Sent from my iPad
  
On 01/02/2014, at 20:23, Rod Blitvich 
wrote:

  
  

Good point
it says 1.75 GB
  

  
  

Rod
Blitvich  - Amy
& Sam’s Dad
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681 256  
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The
  day Microsoft makes something
  that doesn't suck 
  is probably the day they start
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On 1 Feb 2014, at 6:35 pm, F.W. Hänel 
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  Hi Rod,

 

Re: Typing drops off into hole

[Rob Phillips]

I have a similar problem, except I miss only a few characters, 
especially after I type a 'c'!  It doesn't matter which app, or 
keyboard, and it's intermittent.  Weird...


OS 10.8.5

Rob

On 24/01/14 10:01 AM, David Noel wrote:
I'm experiencing a strange thing which I can't work out. I'm typing 
text, say into a text editor, and at some point the app stops 
accepting characters (no cursor) and the typing from then on is lost. 
Selecting the last insertion point brings back the cursor. It's not 
one particularly application, and I haven't noticed yet what's 
different about the loss point. It's as if the operating system just 
stops listening (alright, it's getting bored). Any insights, please?


David Noel
2014 Jan 24



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[Rob Phillips]

Well done Daniel. This is a good suggestion to a problem that was 
puzzling me. I couldn't think of a sensible answer, but if Sev's system 
uses (or replaces) a document font which doesn't have a printable 
version, then this could be the solution.


If Daniel's idea is correct, I would suspect that the section of the 
table which prints properly will use a different font than that which 
doesn't.


Season's greetings

Rob

On 23/12/13 5:07 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:

Hi Severin

Just as something different,...have you tried selecting the whole 
spreadsheet and selecting a different font.

Then see how it goes as a pdf and/or printing.


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On 23/12/2013, at 2:48 PM, Severin Crisp > wrote:



Hi Ronni
from any view the numbers look fine on screen. It is only when 
actually printed or saved to PDF that corruption of just a few 
occurs.  To be shelved till after Christmas.

Have a good one yourself, Ronni!
Severin

On 23 Dec 2013, at 10:47 am, Ronda Brown > wrote:



Hi Severin,

Are you printing from Layout view?
"This view shows you exactly what you'll see in the printed 
document, along with nonprinting formatting marks. It uses more 
system memory than normal view, but lets you see the entire layout 
of your pages. Use print layout view when working on page layouts or 
with tables or graphics."


Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad


On 20 Dec 2013, at 3:41 pm, Severin Crisp > wrote:



Thanks for the comments, Peter.
Let me emphasise the problem again.
 1. The document basically a table (Word .doc from 93 PC version) 
opens and displays correctly in my MS Office 2011, Word 14.3.9
 2.  When I print, on any of three printers, a few values, which 
are calculated within Word are incorrect, some are unaffected.  Non 
calculated values are fine.
 3. When I save as PDF from the print dialog corruption occurs as 
in printing

 4. If I open the document in Acrobat 11, the same corruption occurs
 5. Text Edit can not open the document sensibly
 6.  Preview opens and prints correctly, though the setting out is 
disturbed
 7. If I save from Word as .rtf, then open and print from Text 
Edit, the numbers are fine but once again the setting out is 
disturbed.


All in all, most annoying!

Severin Crisp

On 20 Dec 2013, at 7:40 am, Peter Hinchliffe 
mailto:hinch...@multiline.com.au>> wrote:




On 19 Dec 2013, at 3:47 pm, Severin Crisp > wrote:


I regularly receive a report in Word.doc format from someone with 
a PC and Word 2003.  The document is in fact a table and has some 
calculations embedded in it.  It displays correctly on screen but 
some, not all, of the calculated cells have incorrect values in 
them when printed.  The same thing happens when I save as PDF so 
I suspect a postscript mismatch is the culprit.  Though it looks 
awful it saves as .rtf correctly.  I have latest MS Office and it 
gets it wrong if I save as a .docx.

Most annoying, comments please!


A few ideas:

1. What happens if you open the file in something else that will 
read .doc files, eg, TextEdit or Open Office or any of its clones 
(NeoOffice, etc - assuming have any of the latter)?


2. Do you know the syntax of the calculations? Could you re-enter 
them into your onscreen document? A bit of a nuisance but it might 
work.


3. I'm also wondering if there isn't some reliance on a macro set 
up which isn't available to you


Sorry I can't of more help. It does seem likely that there may be 
some internal structural problems with the file.


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Digital video/ quicktime question

[Rob Phillips]

Hi people

Is there anyone out there who knows about interactive digital video?

I recall from a decade ago that it was possible to create a 'title 
track' on a Quicktime video. This was like a table of contents that you 
could click onto go directly to the relevant frame. The video would be 
embedded in a web page.

Is this still a quicktime feature? Can you do this with other video 
formats?

Cheers
Rob
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Re: iOS7 battery drain!

[Rob Phillips]

Could it be iCloud?  Doing syncs in the background?  Just a guess...

Rob

On 1/11/13 10:44 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
I updated to iOS7 on my iPad mini some days ago, a smooth process and 
I am happy with the result, like all changes they take a bit of 
getting used to but in the end the benefits are well worth it.  When 
the iOS7.0.3 update showed I went ahead with that and again all seemed 
fine.  Next time I went to the iPad after some hours with it asleep, 
i.e. the cover closed, all I got was the flat battery symbol, quite 
unexpected.   Recharged and all working fine.  Quite a few comments on 
the internet on heavy drain with iOS7 so I went through and disabled 
everything in sight while still retaining basic functionality.  While 
asleep the battery discharge remained at 10% per hour though it ceased 
when iPad shut down.  Switching off Carrier/Automatic  then selecting 
Telstra implicitly (vodafone AU and YES OPTUS) also appear in the list 
seems to have cured it for the moment.   I will obviously watch 
carefully and run on minimum options before selecting back the ones I 
would like to have.
I am in quite unfamiliar territory, would you believe I do not have a 
mobile phone!  I believe I have a 3G SIM installed, from memory, but 
see 4G as an option to use for faster transfer.  Normally I use WiFi 
but the other is useful first thing in the morning before other things 
power up and when away from home for whatever.

Informed comment/advice would be most welcome!
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Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

[Rob Phillips]

And I use the free/ shareware (remember that term!) app TinkerTool to 
set a bunch of settings like this.


Not sure if it's available for Mavericks yet.

Rob

On 29/10/13 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown wrote:

Hi Mavericks "adoptees",

Mavericks hides the user Library folder ( ~/Library) by default, just 
as Lion and Mountain Lion do.
You can open it easily enough by holding down *Option *while choosing 
Library from the Finder's*Go* menu, or you can use*Terminal.app 
*and**type the command  "chflags nohidden ~/Library" (without the 
quotes) and hit*Enter* and your User Library shows in Finder.


Mavericks introduces an easier way to make the user Library folder 
visible all the time---no more fiddling in Terminal.
All you need to do is* open your Home Folder in its own window*, 
choose*View > Show View Options*, and select the "*Show Library 
Folder" *checkbox.


I would imagine Mavericks will behave the same way Mountain Lion & 
Lion do; so ever time an update appears (10.9.1 or 10.9.2), the User 
Library will be re-hidden and you'll have to repeat this procedure... 
but it will be much quicker than having to go into Terminal every time 
after each update to the OS to have ~/Library folder visible all the time.


Cheers,
Ronni

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Re: iPad with Internet ?

[Rob Phillips]

Just beware.

I used a 12 month prepaid card in a 4G modem in my camper van on a 
recent trip. I ran the ipad, iphone and 2 macbooks of the wireless 
network generated by the modem.

I was chewing through the quite limited download quota very quickly and 
it was costing a fortune.  I had to carefully look at all the services 
running on the ipad and iphone. I recall that iCloud and Dropbox were 
the culprits, but there might have been others.

So, check things out carefully when you first get the prepaid SIM.

Cheers
Rob

On 28/10/13 7:59 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
> On 26/10/2013, at 10:56 AM, Susan Hastings  wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen, they could consider the 16gig iPad with pre paid 4g access. I 
>> find the best way with Telstra is to pay for a year of access, rather than 
>> month by month. Unless you set it up to automatically renew each month. 
>> Otherwise, its a pain to remember and if you forget, you lose any left over 
>> credit from the previous month.
>>
>> The iPad does not use the same amount of data as a computer so it would be 
>> fairly easy to stay within a small amount of data for email and light 
>> surfing of the internet.
>>
>> cheers, Susan.
> I agree with Susan on this one. The Telstra 12 month prepaid plan works 
> extremely well for an unsophisticated user like your friend's mother is 
> likely to be. By "unsophisticated" I mean they are not going to be consuming 
> large amounts of data by downloading music and movies. It will be pretty much 
> just email and web browsing.
>
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Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library

[Rob Phillips]

ave not backed up iPhoto.

The upshot is that right now I can't access anything from May onwards except 
for some shots saved onto iCloud.  Of course I expected that all my shots from 
May onwards would be on iCloud.  There are 117 photos on iCloud from my 
expected about 1800.  They are parts of events starting from the beginning of 
the Kimberley cruise and coming up to material from last Saturday week.  I'm 
glad to have the 117, but what about the rest?

I have just repaired my Database, but it didn't find any more shots.

I have checked AppleTV.  It has helpfully selected about 20 shots of the 500 I 
Shared and plays them when the main screen goes off.  They are a good set.  I 
would like to get them back, but I can't see any way to do that.

Ronni, I hope you have some magic commands to find the shots which went 
missing, apparently this morning or perhaps earlier.  Perhaps they were 
deleted.  Is it possible to recover from iPhoto Trash?

David



On 06/08/2013, at 4:33 PM, Ronni Brown  wrote:


Hi Rob,

I don't like to sound picky and disagree with you but your instructions to 
David for Rebuilding the iPhoto 11 9.4.3 Library is incorrect.

To rebuild the iPhoto library:
1. Quit iPhoto if it is open.
2. Hold down the 'Command and Option' keys on the keyboard.
3. Open iPhoto.
4. Keep the Option & Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild 
the library.
5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to 
use.
6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to 
complete.

Cheers,
Ronni

On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips  wrote:


Hi David

If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the
'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again.

Hope this helps.
Rob

PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library

On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote:

Hello all

I have had a strange problem today.  When I opened iPhoto I had a message that 
my Library needed to be repaired.  Of course I accepted that and it went ahead. 
 But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like  Can't find the disk 
so can't save the Library.  To the best of my knowledge I hadn't made any 
changes since I last opened it two days before.

Using my first line of defence, I rebooted.  Now I had a friendly display 
saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it.

My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by 
Daniel.  According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting 
there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine.  
So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it.

I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular 
problem.  iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally.  Can anybody help me to 
reconnect iPhoto to its Library?

David Nicholas

iMac OS X  10.8.4
2 GHz Intel Core i7
8GB 1600 MHz DDR3

iPhoto 11  9.4.3
iTunes 11.04
iMovie 11  9.0.9

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Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library

[Rob Phillips]

OK. I stand corrected. :-) and I wasn't as precise as you.

I just wanted to get a response in before you did! :-)

Rob

On 6/08/13 4:33 PM, Ronni Brown wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> I don't like to sound picky and disagree with you but your instructions to 
> David for Rebuilding the iPhoto 11 9.4.3 Library is incorrect.
>
> To rebuild the iPhoto library:
> 1. Quit iPhoto if it is open.
> 2. Hold down the 'Command and Option' keys on the keyboard.
> 3. Open iPhoto.
> 4. Keep the Option & Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild 
> the library.
> 5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to 
> use.
> 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to 
> complete.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips  wrote:
>
>> Hi David
>>
>> If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the
>> 'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>> Rob
>>
>> PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library
>>
>> On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote:
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> I have had a strange problem today.  When I opened iPhoto I had a message 
>>> that my Library needed to be repaired.  Of course I accepted that and it 
>>> went ahead.  But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like  
>>> Can't find the disk so can't save the Library.  To the best of my knowledge 
>>> I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before.
>>>
>>> Using my first line of defence, I rebooted.  Now I had a friendly display 
>>> saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it.
>>>
>>> My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up 
>>> by Daniel.  According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library 
>>> sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the 
>>> machine.  So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me 
>>> off from it.
>>>
>>> I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my 
>>> particular problem.  iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally.  Can 
>>> anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library?
>>>
>>> David Nicholas
>>>
>>> iMac OS X  10.8.4
>>> 2 GHz Intel Core i7
>>> 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3
>>>
>>> iPhoto 11  9.4.3
>>> iTunes 11.04
>>> iMovie 11  9.0.9
>>>
>>> David Nicholas
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Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library

[Rob Phillips]

Hi David

If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the 
'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again.

Hope this helps.
Rob

PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library

On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have had a strange problem today.  When I opened iPhoto I had a message 
> that my Library needed to be repaired.  Of course I accepted that and it went 
> ahead.  But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like  Can't find 
> the disk so can't save the Library.  To the best of my knowledge I hadn't 
> made any changes since I last opened it two days before.
>
> Using my first line of defence, I rebooted.  Now I had a friendly display 
> saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it.
>
> My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by 
> Daniel.  According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting 
> there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine.  
> So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it.
>
> I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular 
> problem.  iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally.  Can anybody help me 
> to reconnect iPhoto to its Library?
>
> David Nicholas
>
> iMac OS X  10.8.4
> 2 GHz Intel Core i7
> 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3
>
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Re: Laptops and tea

[Rob Phillips]

Thanks Daniel

We'll see how it goes.

Rob

On 6/05/13 7:34 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> Hi Rob
>
> I'm not a "Service Tech" per say,..but have worked (or had) a few of these of 
> late that I can offer some advise.
> Depending on how much has "Stuck" to the Motherboard then yes it can slowly 
> degrade to the point of other things not working. This can be weeks, months 
> (years?). Sometimes things work fine and it keeps going for ages, other times 
> it can blow or stop things working straight away. And the liquid spilt can 
> affect what happens as well also.
> I had a machine just the other day that a client had spilt cold coffee into 
> the laptop. (on the a,s,d etc key side). The laptop worked semi well, but the 
> screen would flicker in and out. Eventually the screen would sometimes power 
> up and sometimes not. So although it "would" work, it wasn't going to last.
> So I took into to get looked over to be sure. And yeh, sure enough the 
> motherboard needed replaced.
> But I've had others for different clients with different liquids spilt on it, 
> still working fine to do this day.
> (One of the reasons I have Keyboard covers on all my keyboards and laptop 
> keyboards, just to "help" in these situations.) ;o) (I had water spill over a 
> home keyboard and it never touched the keyboard. I just took it off, washed 
> it and bought it back on. Saved it very well).
>
> Their isn't a protective cover under the keyboard. Each point under the 
> keyboard goes to different things. Just depends on where it was spilt. (And 
> each machine has different "indicators" under it show if it's had water 
> damage or not. I remember reading on one of the websites that one of the new 
> machines has about 9 indicators built into to detect "damage".
>
> The cost of the motherboard can differ from model to model. But they range in 
> the price range of $700-$900+ depending on the model. (Sorry don't have the 
> info close to me, but a service centre should be able to advise).
> And yes, some insurance policies will cover "spillage", it just depends on 
> your insurance.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Kind regards
> Daniel
>
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> On 06/05/2013, at 12:31 PM, Rob Phillips  wrote:
>
>> Hi people
>>
>> This is one for the hardware people...
>>
>> We're 6 weeks into a camping trip around Australia and we've run into a 
>> little problem. I was working on my new Macbook Pro when a strong gust of 
>> wind pushed the awning against my tea cup, which then partly spilt over the 
>> laptop keyboard. It was black tea with sugar.  I immediately tipped the 
>> laptop over to get the liquid off.
>>
>> Since then, the keyboard keys have been a bit sticky, but work OK. However, 
>> the lightning? port which I use to connect to data projectors has been flaky 
>> and hardly ever works. I took the machine into a Mac shop in Launceston and 
>> the guy confirmed the problem with the lightning port, but noted the sticky 
>> keyboard.
>>
>> He said the motherboard would slowly fail through corrosion and I should 
>> contact my insurers.
>>
>> My questions are:
>>  • Is the guy right?
>>  • Is there a protective cover under the keyboard?
>>  • What is the cost of a replacement motherboard?
>> MacBook Pro
>> 15-inch, Mid 2012
>> Processor  2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
>> Memory  8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
>> Graphics  Intel HD Graphics 4000 384 MB
>> Cheers
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Laptops and tea

[Rob Phillips]

Hi people

This is one for the hardware people...

We're 6 weeks into a camping trip around Australia and we've run into a 
little problem. I was working on my new Macbook Pro when a strong gust 
of wind pushed the awning against my tea cup, which then partly spilt 
over the laptop keyboard. It was black tea with sugar. I immediately 
tipped the laptop over to get the liquid off.


Since then, the keyboard keys have been a bit sticky, but work OK. 
However, the lightning? port which I use to connect to data projectors 
has been flaky and hardly ever works. I took the machine into a Mac shop 
in Launceston and the guy confirmed the problem with the lightning port, 
but noted the sticky keyboard.


He said the motherboard would slowly fail through corrosion and I should 
contact my insurers.


My questions are:

 * Is the guy right?
 * Is there a protective cover under the keyboard?
 * What is the cost of a replacement motherboard?

MacBook Pro
15-inch, Mid 2012
Processor  2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory  8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics  Intel HD Graphics 4000 384 MB

Cheers
Rob

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Re: Wi Fi provider in Europe

[Rob Phillips]

Yeah.  Reinforcing Tim's comments. You'll probably need an address in 
the country you're going to.

When I was in Europe last year, there was talk of the EU requiring 
carriers not to price gouge on cross-country roaming rates.  It would be 
worth checking that out, because I don't know when it comes into force.

Cheers
Rob

On 25/02/13 7:16 AM, Tim Law wrote:
>> http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with_data
>
>
> That looks like a useful site.
>
> Bear in mind that your expectations and Australian experiences will NOT stand 
> you in good stead, be prepared for many differences. We have it pretty good 
> here.
>
> For example, in countries such as France and Germany, they have restrictions 
> on who can buy a Sim card. I was fortunate enough to have a national be able 
> to buy one for me.
>
> As you cross country borders, which you may do several times a day, you will 
> be on roaming rates for your sim.
>
> I used Orange.fr   Their data, and I suspect all other providers, is charged 
> on a time basis, not only volume. And there is a flag fall. So each time the 
> iPhone checks the time, or checks for emails etc etc, there is a charge. My 
> first night cost me €35, and that was in France, with a French sim, and that 
> was me not using the iPhone at all.
>
> The solution for most travellers it seems is to use the plentiful free wifi 
> spots. Many accommodation places have free wifi, or you buy it in time 
> blocks. Also Geneva has a town wide free wifi. You might be going there, but 
> its an example of what is around. Often the free wifi is not very good, but 
> it's better than nothing.
>
> Enjoy your travels, like I said above, we have it pretty good here - in many 
> ways
>
> Tim
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 25/02/2013, at 6:53, Robin Belford  wrote:
>
>> Hmm, big ask.
>> May I suggest you have a good look through this site and then you might be 
>> able to plan your trip's communication needs.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> robin
>>
>> http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with_data
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/02/2013, at 6:25 AM, Peter Faulks  wrote:
>>
>>> My wife and I are travelling to Europe next month taking my Mac Book
>>> Pro laptop and iPad 4 (3G) Wi-Fi Cellular  which I wish to use with a
>>> SIM card to set up hot spot on the ipad tethering to the Mac Book Pro
>>> for email and internet whilst travelling.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a good network provider or SIM card that will
>>> work in Europe (Italy, Spain England)  or even throughout the world
>>> that I should consider?  We will be away for 8 12 weeks.
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Re: Onno

[Rob Phillips]

I met up with him a couple of weeks ago. He's back in perth and still running 
his ITMaze business. He's not much of a Mac user anymore. 
Rob

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On 02/02/2013, at 3:06 PM, "Curtis Peter"  wrote:

> I liked Onno!
> plus he knew what he was talking about, in relation to macs that is.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 02/02/2013, at 12:03 PM, Kevin Lock  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I remember him well.
>> 
>> Kev
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/02/13 5:51 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
>>> Yes..enthusiastic is one way of putting it... caused a bit of excitement
>>> for a little while!
>>> 
>>> On 1 February 2013 21:28, Brian Risbey  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Didn't he travel up North at one stage?, there were some enthusiastic
>>>> discussions at the time! ;-p
>>>> 
>>>> Brian
>>>> Sent from my iPhone5
>>>> 
>>>> On 01/02/2013, at 20:59, Reg Whitely  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi dear WAMUGgers
>>>>> 
>>>>> Whatever happened to Onno? I'd love to talk with him again. He was a
>>>> wonderful, very focussed person, so much focussed on WAMUG protocols.
>>>>> Reg
>>>>> 
>>>>> Reg Whitely
>>>>> 
>>>>> Home: 08 9921 7272
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>>>>> Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net
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More: clock keeps stopping

[Rob Phillips]

Looks like it might have been istat menus.

There was a recent update which:

Fixed an issue where items wouldn’t update.
Fixed an issue where where the world clocks list didn’t display correctly.

I've installed it. I'll report if the problem recurs.

Rob

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Re: My clock keeps stopping

[Rob Phillips]

Hi Ronni, others

I delayed responding until I had more evidence.

Quitting SystemUIServer does work - for a while. Rebooting does work - 
for a while, then the clock stops again.

Resetting the NVRAM/ PRAM does work - for a while. In other words, there 
is still a problem.

The symptom/*may* /have arisen after I updated iStatMenus recently.

Any other bright ideas? :-\

Rob


On 10/01/13 4:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
> Also Rob i just noticed you did not mention if you had Reset the NVRAM / PRAM?
>
> Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
> 1. Shut down your Mac.
> 2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R.
>  You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
> 3. Turn on the computer.
> 4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
> 5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup 
> sound for the  second time.
> 6. Release the keys.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>
> On 10/01/2013, at 2:32 PM, Ronda Brown  wrote:
>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> You might be experiencing  problems with SystemUIServer. If you look in 
>> activity monitor and see that using a lot of CPU/RAM then just "Quit 
>> Process". After doing this you will see the clock and date immediately 
>> change to the correct current time and date.
>>
>> You have Apple Asia (time.asia.apple.com) set, and must have the same 
>> settings in System Preferences > Date and Time as in the menu bar. If you 
>> have Digital in System Preferences, have digital in Menu Bar.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>
>> On 10/01/2013, at 2:05 PM, Rob Phillips  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi people
>>>
>>> This is a strange one.  For the last two days, the system clock which
>>> shows in my menubar has been stopping.
>>>
>>> I have Date and Time Preferences set to 'set date and time
>>> automatically' (but this probably isn't relevant). The symptoms are that
>>> the menu clock doesn't increment as the minutes go by. If I go to Date
>>> and Time Preferences, then the time updates again sometimes. The correct
>>> date and time is displayed in Date and Time Preferences, but not on the
>>> menu bar.
>>>
>>> I've rebooted, and it worked for an hour, then stopped again. Has anyone
>>> experienced this?
>>>
>>> MB Pro 17" 2.4GHz i7 OS10.7.5
>>>
>>> Rob
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My clock keeps stopping

[Rob Phillips]

Hi people

This is a strange one.  For the last two days, the system clock which 
shows in my menubar has been stopping.

I have Date and Time Preferences set to 'set date and time 
automatically' (but this probably isn't relevant). The symptoms are that 
the menu clock doesn't increment as the minutes go by. If I go to Date 
and Time Preferences, then the time updates again sometimes. The correct 
date and time is displayed in Date and Time Preferences, but not on the 
menu bar.

I've rebooted, and it worked for an hour, then stopped again. Has anyone 
experienced this?

MB Pro 17" 2.4GHz i7 OS10.7.5

Rob

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Re: dropbox

[Rob Phillips]

Hi everyone

Dropbox is great for sharing things.  I use it as a collaborative file 
share with others.  However, there are 2 'gotchas'.

 1. Just because I have 10Gb space doesn't mean other users can access
all of this.  A normal user still only has 2Gb. The folder for each
group you share with should remain at 2Gb, otherwise others can't
access all of it
 2. If user A drags a file out of a dropbox folder, other users have
lost access to this file.  Be sure to option-drag any file forom a
dropbox folder to another location. (you can recover such 'deleted'
files thru the web interface.

Cheers
Rob


On 3/01/13 10:40 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In actual fact, it is even better than Ronni says - everybody signing up to
> Dropbox gets 2GB free but using a referral link also gives the person
> signing up an extra 500MB - so you actually get a free 2.5GB to start.
>
> It also gives the person supplying the link an extra 500MB (these bonuses
> used to be 200MB but were increased to 500MB some time back).
>
> It all works very well for all concerned and I received quite a few bonuses
> from WAMUG members using my link - including Ronni ;o))
>
> Thanks to you all :o))
>
>
> Now that Ronni has posted HER referral link any WAMUG listers not yet with
> Dropbox can reward her for all her help by signing up via HER link. This
> particular reward caps out at a generous 16GB - ie after 32 friends use your
> referal link - I've still a way to go before I get capped out but, for the
> WAMUG list, I am more than happy to step back and suggest you all use
> Ronni's link ;o)
>
>
> And, I have to say, I would be surprised if anyone DIDN'T find Dropbox
> useful and very easy to use ;o)
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
>
> Neil

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