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Pretty Sure I'm the Last to Know™: Change Archive to Delete on iPhone - 4 days ago

Been wanting to remove "Archive" email option to "Delete this MF" option for years. Just never researched how until now.

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Re: Photos: searching for name or keywords - 5 days ago

Thanks, Onamuji, doing that now.

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Re: Photos: searching for name or keywords - 5 days ago

QuoteOnamuji Is Spotlight working for other purposes? For example, when you use the Spotlight menu item to search for email messages by sender, or MS Word documents by name? It is. And it does show some pictures that are only located in Photos. But it's never picked up most of the keywords or titles. Even if I use the search "kind:image" or "kind:jpg" etc at the end of the S

by tuqqer - Tips and Deals

Photos: searching for name or keywords - 5 days ago

I finally switched over from iPhoto to Photos last month, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to do deeper searches. I have photos with the SMITH in the name and keyword and Descriptions, but when I use the upper right Search field, they don't come up. I've tried multiple search words (putting a space between words), and using Spotlight (verifying that Photos is checked in the System Pr

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Re: School Me: External Mac SSD Startup Drives - 12 days ago

I'm open to trying anything; I'll purchase that case and see if it makes a difference. Thanks jdc. And sorry for sidetracking your thread a bit, steveroberts

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Re: School Me: External Mac SSD Startup Drives - 12 days ago

I'm using one of those Sabrent enclosures now, along with a SanDisk 960GB drive. The issue may be my Mac Pro's hardware.

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Re: School Me: External Mac SSD Startup Drives - 12 days ago

I've got the Mac Pro (Late 2013) model, Filliam. All 4 of its USB ports are USB 3. And I'm plugging my external SSD directly into those. I do think the issue is sleep.

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Re: School Me: External Mac SSD Startup Drives - 12 days ago

I haven't cracked the answer to this yet. I've tried a couple of external SSD drives (one Inateck enclosure and now another), using a high-end USB3 cable to connect directly to my Mac Pro tower, and so far, none of them work well. As a Time Machine backup, I'm constantly getting errors that it not seeing the drive. The only solution is to turn the SSD enclosure off and on, or do a restart. My

by tuqqer - Tips and Deals

Re: Spike in opioid deaths in Georgia - 17 days ago

There is zero mystery to this. It's the Fentanyl-Carfentanil range. That's it. End of story. Look at the image, and mystery is over. Lifelong friend of mine has worked for decades as the head vet at Disney and now at Kruger Park in South Africa. She says they wear gloves and eye protection when using Carfentanil for the elephants and hippos, to prevent dying.

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Re: YEAH! New FULL wireless Magic Keyboard (pics) - 18 days ago

In the days of laptops and cell/pads, really nice full keyboards are a bit of a throwback. But man, for those who live at their desks, it's a thing of beauty when you get a damn good one. Apple's current wired one is a brilliant design, so having it wireless will be a nice surprise. I already have a sweet Logitech M510 wireless mouse (battery needs changing about every 4 months).

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YEAH! New FULL wireless Magic Keyboard (pics) - 18 days ago

Well that was a nice surprise. I haven't purchased anything new from Apple in years, but as a desktop junkie (dual monitors, Mac Pro, etc), this will be a welcome addition (and I know it's not for most folks)

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Re: external SSD often isn't recognized for TimeMachine backup - 5 weeks ago

Well I'll be damned: reformatted the SSD into one partition, restarted, had Time Machine redo its initial backup, and I've tested it by restarted a few times and each time, it mounts correctly and TM reads it no problems. No idea what the partition was an issue, but don't care! thanks all for brainstorming on this and helping solve this. Much appreciated.

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Re: external SSD often isn't recognized for TimeMachine backup - 5 weeks ago

Quotejdc I think repartioning into 1 volume is a good idea. TM doesnt need its own partition, and assuming its split in half, then your backup is only half 996 GB...? Your drives were spinning up because they went to sleep. You must have had external drives set to sleep. Portable drives are near silent, the same dimenions as a SSD, and 4TB is $100. Can't believe I hadn't thought of that unt

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Re: external SSD often isn't recognized for TimeMachine backup - 5 weeks ago

QuotePeterW Which Mac Pro and, if a 3,1 4,1 or 5,1, what type of USB 3.0 PCI card is installed? My Mac Pro model number is : MacPro6,1 and the USB PCI card is the one that came with it (info below). And I'm plugging this external SSD directly into one of the USB ports in the Mac Pro. One detail I didn't mention, and I'm now wondering if this is part of the problem: I partitioned the 996

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external SSD often isn't recognized for TimeMachine backup - 5 weeks ago

I purchased an non-powered USB-3 enclosure and a SanDisk 960GB SSD a couple months ago to use as a steady TimeMachine backup for my Mac Pro tower. But damn, it almost never is recognized. It mounts successfully on the Desktop each startup, but TimeMachine can't see it, says "looking for backup", and the only way to make it work is pull up Sys Preferences and re=point it to this SSD.

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10.12.5 fixes stuttering audio - 5 weeks ago

well that's nice. Normally upgrades don't do anything noticeable. But for 10.12.5, it fixed a stuttering audio that I had with certain USB headsets/phones. Nice!

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Re: mail chimp question - 8 weeks ago

What Mike suggested. Had the same issue when I first started using MC in January. A simpler reformatting of the excel file (I pasted it into a text file) corrected the issue.

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Re: More deep hatred for Apple, inspired by Music app - 2 months ago

iCloud and iTunes have gotten pretty irritating. For music on my iPhone, I use Stezza.

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Re: Anyone else experiencing audio stuttering on 10.12.4 upgrade? - 2 months ago

Ok, here's one more potential clue: when I restart the MacPro in the morning (which I've turned off at night), the audio sound (Output) changes, weirdly), to one of my 2 monitors, which is hooked up through a DisplayPort cable. Every time/morning. How odd is that? If I could find the .plist or other file related to audio, I'd delete that sucker, but not sure where it is.

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Re: Anyone else experiencing audio stuttering on 10.12.4 upgrade? - 2 months ago

Yeah, it's open now, and even with it open I can plug/unplug it, play it with variable ways, and still the stutter.

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Re: Anyone else experiencing audio stuttering on 10.12.4 upgrade? - 2 months ago

QuoteFritz Try leaving Sound prefs open to Input with Plantronics selected. System Prefs definitely recognizes the Plantronics device (Plantronics.Audio 655 DSP) in both Output and Input. But the second it's selected, even with no audio going on, I can immediately hear the staccato happening through the earpieces. Oddly, the microphone works fine to those hearing it (via Zoom or Skype). Many

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Anyone else experiencing audio stuttering on 10.12.4 upgrade? - 2 months ago

I upgraded 3 computers (11" MBA, 2013 Mac Pro, and an older MacBook) to 10.12.4 and my Plantronics Audio 655 USB wired Headset stutters in all audio. My attempts at fixing so far: -- Reset SMC and PRAM -- Tried on multiple Macs, all experience it. -- Unplugged all devices, did hard restart -- plugged in only headset, using multiple USB ports -- Downloaded and played with Plantronics

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Re: How do I turn off iCloud backing up my Desktop, Previews, Documents and not lose whats on Mac - 2 months ago

From the article: "Again, it’s a little weird that macOS automatically removes the files from your desktop and Documents folder and puts them only in iCloud Drive. " No, it's not a little weird; it's outright wrong, boneheaded, and takes advantage of the uninformed. Part of my job requires getting my sales team up to speed on new Macs and Apple currently has it set up so that the

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Re: Can Mini Displayport-to-DVI monitor cables support 1440p ? - 2 months ago

I'm on it, Gareth. Two cables coming. Thank you!

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Re: Can Mini Displayport-to-DVI monitor cables support 1440p ? - 2 months ago

(always appreciate your insights, jdc)

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Re: Can Mini Displayport-to-DVI monitor cables support 1440p ? - 2 months ago

I may have just found my answer. This Wikipedia page says that yes, the mini DisplayPort will support resolutions up to 2560×1600 (WQXGA). Looks like my standard cables will work just fine.

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Can Mini Displayport-to-DVI monitor cables support 1440p ? - 2 months ago

I'm about to purchase two of these Acer G257HU 25-Inch WQHD (2560 x 1440) Widescreen Monitors and am seeing conflicting info on whether the Mini Display to DVI cables can support it. (I'm reading that they'll only support up to 1080p). My Mac Pro tower (Late 2013) stats say it supports: MONITORS: • Three 5K displays • Six Thunderbolt displays And has these connectors: • 4 USB

by tuqqer - Tips and Deals

10.12.4 brings bolded System font? example image included - 2 months ago

Huh. Is this a temporary glitch, or did those of you who updated to OS X 10.12.4 see a new bold font in the system font, such as the Menu, Safari bookmarks, Safari URL, and others.

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Audiophiles- need USB behind-ear headset with boom mic for Skype training - 2 months ago

Been looking for days for this, so perhaps it doesn't exist. I'm looking for a low-profile, dual-ear, behind-the-ear headset with a low-profile boom, preferably USB but would also take one that used the single 3.5 mm audio/mic port on the 2013 Mac Pro tower. This pair about fits the bill, except I'd prefer something with a lower earphone profile, and the headband behind the head, not over

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Re: Favorite hiccups cure? - 3 months ago

I do have the cure, and I challenge anyone to prove it ineffective. I've won bar bets, party bets, had friends swear it wouldn't work, and I do it on them and it stops their hiccups. Learned it about 12 years ago, and so far, 100% success (no exaggeration). Here's how it works. It's based on the idea of the diaphragm (the thoracic diaphragm to be exact) is in spasm. Since it's located directl

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