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Thanks again, KJ. I have fiddled a little with the external-drive backup system in Dropbox, and find it clunky and unintuitive. Actually I've always found DB to be clunky, except for the DB Folder itself on my internal drive, which enables you to add, delete, and share files without much trouble. But the backup function is different; looks like an add-on.
I'm thinking of just moving stuff of
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I've started using Mountain Duck on older (High Sierra) systems. It adds Dropbox to my Favorites menu but it's a remote volume. I can then use Chronosync to update specific folders, or drag and drop.
Very interesting, KJ! I've been out of touch with the computer world and never heard of Mountain Duck, or Chronosync. Not sure how these would fit in with my current mess: TM backup
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Thanks Rolando— Looks like this 'Backup' function is new (this year?). I just started testing. Seems rather clunky, defaulting to whole drive and automatic backups every time I open. Have to experiment some to make sure it will work, and will leave originals on drive alone even you delete in DB.
I'm increasingly nervous about synching between my two computers via DB, too. That does enab
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I've used Dropbox for many years, but I'm not sure I ever really understood it, and it's doubtless changed in ways that I understand even less. I went looking for some basic instructions recently, and found nothing.
My impression has always been that to have something backed up on Dropbox, you have to put it in the Dropbox folder on your computer. Is this true?
That's what I've always don
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A friend who was into Astrology at the time, used to say that when everything started breaking and otherwise going to hell, that "Mercury was in retrograde," or something like that. I use it still, though I've no idea what it means, other than everything has decided to fail at once.
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I am not a boomer...but agree with most of those
As do I, being decades behind the times.
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Apollo 8 was also famous for the Christmas greeting from the three astronauts (William Anders, Jim Lovell, Frank Borman) just returning from the Moon; I posted about it in 2014:
That reminded me of the book that Robert Zimmerman wrote on the Apollo 8 mission, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, The First Manned Flight to Another World (New York, Random House, 1998; Dell paperback 1999). I wro
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Actually, I kinda like small engines. Run them dry before storing, and they'll generally start up fine next season.
Except leaf blowers, at least the neighbor's: it generally prevents me from napping.
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That video was aimed at iPhone users, so not sure it's the same attack I got on my iMac. In my case following the Malwarebytes instructions that Tiangou posted seems to have worked; the fake notifications have stopped.
I'm fairly knowledgeable, but found that guy on the video hard to follow.
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QuoteTiangou
Thanks. Went through and denied notifications for most all. Maybe that'll stop the fakes.
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After the mowing season in the fall, I just let the engine run until it expires from lack of gas: nothing in the tank, nothing in the carb. Always starts right up with fresh gas in the spring.
Now of course I've jinxed myself. Well, we'll see in May. . .
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I'm getting these notifications of 'virus' and 'Trojan' intruders. Restarting doesn't get rid of them. Malwarebytes (free) scan finds nothing.
Is this something real? I expect it's just phishing attempts. But how do I get rid of them?
After seeing them, I checked System Preferences and saw that a Safari update was due, which I OK'd. Safari did update, uneventfully.
/Mr Lynn
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Happy Birthday, Jack! I'm still using the wood splitter you sold me some years ago. Hope you're still up and at it!
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QuoteiaJim
Talked to a relative who lives near Flagstaff, and he said you'd be fine.
Thanks, iaJim, for taking the trouble. And to Speedy, ztirffritz, zachdog, for the reassuring words.
I'd forgotten about Meteor Crater; have to see if we can fit it into our rather full touring schedule.
/Mr Lynn
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Quoteanonymouse1
Have you ridden Amtrak much before?
Yes, across the country and back on Via and Amtrak, and many times between Boston and Richmond on the NE Corridor. Not for the last four years, but we accumulated a lot of Amtrak Rewards points, so this trip to and from the SW is mostly free.
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We're heading out to Arizona on Amtrak in a couple of weeks, for a month-long sojourn in AZ and environs. The Southwest Chief gets to Flagstaff c. 8:30pm; we've got a hotel nearby (the Highland Country Inn) reserved for the night, and then next day we're renting a car and heading to the Grand Canyon.
What I'm wondering is whether it's safe for an elderly couple towing suitcases to walk from t
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QuoteRAMd®d
The Mac corner at 'my' CompUSA was a joke.
There was a guy there from time to time, but not all the time.
He spent a lot of time reconfiguring Macs that had been tampered with by PC priks
It was slow getting the latest and greatest. . . .
As I recall, that was pretty much the same at the Mac 'corner' at 'my' CompUSA, too.
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Quotewurm
I remember buying my first "new" Mac (a Performa, but I forget which model) from Lechmere back in the day.
Wonder how many here have heard of Lechmere (which is pronounced 'LEECH-meer'). I was in there quite a lot, back in the day, first in East Cambridge, and then frequently after they opened a satellite store in Framingham (where I live). Not for computers, though.
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QuotePeterW
Audacity can batch convert -
Woo hoo! Audacity can do it with a macro! Just tried, and it worked great.
wurm, that mediahuman looks great, too!
Now where am I gonna put all these converted files?
Thanks!
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I've got a disc someone gave me with a couple thousand songs in MP4 format. I need to convert them to MP3 to use them.
A cursory search finds a whole bunch of on-line services that claim they will do this. Are any better than others? Is it possible to download a conversion program that will work locally?
I can import files into Audacity and convert them, but one-at-a-time is pretty s
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You're lucky to have that conscientious a primary-care doctor.
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What is that guy doing? Plating a pice of wood?
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When you don't see SMART status for the individual drives, you're just seeing the bridge reporting its status. That's not helpful. Sorry.
...the small SSD component has double the Power On Hours as the HDD component. How can that be?
Hard drives spin down.
Not helpful, indeed. I did run First Aid in Disk Utility on that RAID unit, and it was successful. Not much else I can
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Apparently the version of SMART I had downloaded earlier was not the latest. Trashed that and downloaded a newer version. This enabled me to install the SAT driver. After restarting, SMART was able to assess all four external USB drives, including the RAID drive.
The RAID drive passed, though SMART does not show any Attributes, Errors, or Tests. An old external a friend gave me (with music
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Thanks for the advice, Tiangou.
Tried to install the SAT driver, but got a message saying it was "incompatible with this version of the OS."
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QuoteTiangou
Which two-drive RAID are you using?
Is it a hardware RAID or are you running software?
Have you any capability of checking the SMART status of the drives?
Sometimes, RAIDs unmount when the drives are failing.
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual RAID USB 3.1 eSATA Enclosure Kit; with 2 4.0TB Toshiba 3.5" 7200RPM Hard Drives. Purchased Sep2019.
Haven't checked SMART status.
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Oops! Spoke too soon. Left the iMac on while in went to dinner, and when I came back the RAID drive had been "Not Properly Ejected." Sigh.
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I use SuperDuper! for a nightly backup/bootable clone of my internal drive. It does incremental backups, i.e. copies any changes since last backup, but AFAIK does not save previous iterations like TM does.
So are these SuperDuper clones bootable on M1 Macs? This is my area of confusion.
Didn't know, so I went to the website, which says yes:
QuoteVersion 3.8 support
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I use SuperDuper! for a nightly backup/bootable clone of my internal drive. It does incremental backups, i.e. copies any changes since last backup, but AFAIK does not save previous iterations like TM does.
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Unchecking "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" seemed to work last night. Will continue to watch and experiment. . .
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