OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

I work on a rapidly expanding web site, using BBEdit 11.0.2, the newest version. I used to be able to use Quicklook on raw html files: it would give me a view of how the file looked on Safari. This is enormously useful and saves a lot of time as it is not necessary to open a file to see what it

Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

Hi, Peter, Thanks for your reply. I looked through the very long list of plugins, but didn’t see one for html. However, I also wrote to Bare Bones and they replied, “Since Quicklook is an OS service which does not depend on applications but rather file info, I'm reasonably sure the cause of thi

Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

Hi, Ronni, Thanks very much for your reply. I just did as you said, deleted the com.apple.LaunchServices.plist, rebooted, but it did not solve the problem, and the plist has not been recreated. I see that there is also a directory called com.apple.LaunchServices and in it is com.apple.launchse

Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

Thank you, Ronni. Unfortunately, it didn’t fix the problem. I will write to Bare Bones again and see if they have any other solution. I appreciate your help very much. Pat > On 3 Feb 2015, at 13:01, Ronni Brown wrote: > > Hi Pat, > > After you moved the .plist file to the Trash. > Make sure

Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

Hi, Neil, I just tried your expanded explanation, but it still didn’t work. Even if it did, it wouldn’t help because the point is, trying to avoid opening the files. Just trying to get a view of how the file displays without opening it in a browser. Thank you, anyway. Just now, I am downloadi

Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

Hi, again, Neil, Nothing dirty about my code. With BBEdit hanging over my shoulder with every keystroke, there’s little chance of that. I always verify the code on every page just to catch the little oversights. Thanks, Pat > On 4 Feb 2015, at 11:22, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Hi Pat, > > Yes

Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

Well, I have now downloaded Combo Update 10.10.2, backed up everything, repaired permissions, verified Disk. Repair Disk returned ‘OK’. So I then installed the Combo Update. It only took a few minutes, and, sadly, I still get blank pages when I use Quicklook on .html files. Bare Bones asked me

Getting Apple ID unblocked

Dear WAMUGers, I received an email, supposedly from Apple, that says someone has used my ID to sign in on Face Time and iMessage on a phone that is not mine. The page looks authentic, (and probably is), but as I filled out the form to unblock my ID, some of the questions are: all the details of

Re: Getting Apple ID unblocked

Thanks, Tim, Geoff and Ronni, I was very cautious, but I did hover my stylus over the address. It had id= and then 14 repetitions of ‘z9171a962l8h’. I looked at the long header later, but have since flushed it away. Hopefully, no damage was done. It was a very realistic ‘Apple’ page, but I wil

Re: Transfer books & PDFs to new iPad

Hi, John, Have you considered using an app? I find that File Browser (for iPad and iPhone) is very quick to connect and easy to transfer files to and from a computer by WiFi. It costs $7.49 from the app store. I have never had a problem transferring PDFs with it. Cheers, Pat > On 3 Jun 2015,

Another scam attempt

Hi, yet another bad email arrived. This one said it was a receipt for a purchase from the iTunes store with a convenient link to click, which I didn’t. It had a much cruder appearance and was probably from a different source. I asked Mail to show the long header, which contained a URL for a web

Re: Zip File.

Hi, Tony, Pardon me for sticking my beak in here. Some years ago, someone sent me a file that he couldn’t open. It was from a good friend (he thought), so it was safe. I tried every trick I could think of. The end result was that my Mac (mind you it was a tangerine iMac) had quite a few files s

Another scam

Don’t open any letters from ‘Mrs Julie van der Stel’. This is listed on the Scamwarner’s website. There was a letter from ‘her' to my address, so I googled it. Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

Re: Another scam

Hi, Tim, Thanks for your comment. I don’t really receive many junk letters, at most 2 or 3 per month (usually less). I prefer to scan the senders and message lines while they are still on the server, and delete the suspicious ones there. Maybe I am paranoid, but I have never felt that sending t

Photo album

Hi - I have a vague memory that there used to be a way to have your photos made up into a nice-looking album. I never did that before, but now I have a need. My sister just lost all her family photos in the Valley Fire in California. So I will go through my photos and copy out the ones that are

Re: Photo album

Thanks, Stephen! That’s exactly what I wanted. Pat > On 21 Sep 2015, at 17:42, Stephen Chape wrote: > > Hello Pat, > Check out Photos\File\Create Book > >> On 21 Sep 2015, at 5:27 pm, clamsh...@iinet.net.au >> wrote: >> >> Hi - I have a vague memory that there

Re: Photo album

Thanks, Ronni, for the detailed information about the process. I have been avoiding Photos. I use PhoneView to download my camera shots, put them in a directory of my own making, and use Photoshop to do any modifications. I didn’t like the way Photos takes command and seems to limit what the use

Re: Photo album

Hi, Peter, Thanks for your suggestion. I tried to follow it up, but when I clicked the dealsextra link, I was swamped with pure commercialism; first, I had to sign up and agree to their conditions, cookies, etc., and then I was deluged with hundreds of ‘deals’ of all sorts. It was not possible

Re: Photo album

Thanks again, Ronni, I did some more searching on Photo Books and came up with 3 choices, which I will evaluate over the next few days: 1. Apple 2. VistaPrint, an Australian enterprise, reasonably competitive prices 3. Lulu.com. As the book (or books) will be delivered in

Re: iPhone issues

Hi, Ronni, Unfortunately when I dialed this number the recorded message says there is no such number, and clicking on the guide link returned “can’t connect with the server”. I have to suspect that Telstra likes to keep the ring time short so the ringee has to make another phone call to answe

Blinking monitors

One of my monitors started blinking today. It is a 21 cm Apple monitor, 8 years old. It blacks out totally for between 1 and 5 seconds. And then the other monitor, a Samsung, 5.5 years old started. Sometimes it is one of them blinking, and sometimes both, and always very randomly. When it happe

Re: All Contacts lost

Michael, I agree completely with what you write. I hated to do it, but I decided to stick with Yosemite (and I wish I had stuck even farther back.) Apple is really losing the plot. Maybe it’s just change for change’s sake. Pat > On 2 Jun 2016, at 20:10, Michael Hawkins > wrote: > > I don't

Items trapped on Desktop

My Desktop (Mac Pro, OS 10.10.5) seems to have an intermittent problem of somehow ‘trapping’ something: in today’s case, I downloaded two fonts, and one of them is trapped. It is on the Desktop, slightly dimmed, and my mouse is not able to touch it. So I can’t select it or move it to put it in t

Intruder in 'Find My Friends'

There is only one ‘Friend’ entered into my ‘Find My Friends’ app on my iPhone 5 — my husband. He is there because he does a lot of solitary bushwalking, and I want to be able to locate him if he is very late returning or needs help. I turned it on last night because he was very late: I found h

Re: Intruder in 'Find My Friends'

Oh, Ronni, thank you so much. This obviously came in the iOS 10 update and I didn’t notice it. It’s bizarre, frankly, as the system was just fine in previous versions. Very grateful! Pat > On 30 Sep 2016, at 13:05, Ronni Brown wrote: > > Hi Pat, > > Me (hiding my location from you) will be

Re: iPhone hackers.

I have often wondered if it is necessary to change the password on my computer; when installing something new, the wifi is on and I am required to type in the password to complete the installation. Does this password need changing on a regular basis? Pat > On 13 Oct 2016, at 13:09, Ronni Brown

Spam purported to be from Apple

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?

Re: Horrible Catalina

Hi, Alan, It’s not just disliking Catalina; it is interfering with what I am trying to do. I use a Wacom tablet and stylus. Just moving the stylus around causes the interface to switch to another, random location, or go totally blank. And, I have 2 small Western Digital external disks. On the p

Bad Catalina

I have just struck another obstacle because my computer does not have facial identification. I wanted to buy a certain game app from the app store. I can only provide a thumb print, so no new game for me. Gr. Pat Scott -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Private Browsing

Hello, I accidentally put Safari into private browsing mode on the iPad. I looked for the removal solution on the Apple web site, but the only info was about getting it off of phones. I tried it anyway but it didn’t work. And I don’t know what I did to pick it up in the first place. It is tru

Private Browsing

Hello, I accidentally put Safari into private browsing mode on the iPad. I looked for the removal solution on the Apple web site, but the only info was about getting it off of phones. I tried it anyway but it didn’t work. And I don’t know what I did to pick it up in the first place. It is tr

Private browseing

Hi, Tim, Thanks for your reply. I did a lot of fiddling on windows until suddenly, the privacy went away. It isn’t as easy on an iPad as on the computer. The reason that I called it diabolical is because all that you do in privacy mode vanishes away when you close the window. I didn’t choose t

I need some suggestions

Hello, WAMUG, I am currently living in Brisbane, and my Mac Pro computer seems to be dying. I am hoping someone will recognise the symptoms and possibly have some suggestions that might help. When I press the start button, the chime happens as it should, and it seems to start. But all too soon