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Re: Warning: Cuteness alert!! - 5 days ago

Sweet!

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Re: No one's talking about the Chauvin trial? - 9 days ago

QuoteLux Interior Quotehal Sure seems like this guy is going DOWN. I'll believe it when I see it. That's my feeling as well. A slap on the wrist might be all we see.

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Re: Email question - 10 days ago

+1 for Fastmail.

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member sekker - 12 days ago

Happy day!

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Re: FU: Need opinions - are these two different photos of the same person? - 17 days ago

So glad you were able get confirmation on your hunch. And I'm sorry for your loss.

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Re: Time Machine: Part 56 - 23 days ago

QuoteSarcany Any hints about forthcoming features on M1 Macs? Will it make a full bootable copy of all APFS volumes from an M1 Mac to a standard USB HD or SSD that can simply be restored back to the original drive? Got a trick to clone a drive with a result that's bootable on *both* a M1 Mac and an Intel Mac? ...Or are those just pipe dreams? (Yeah, I know that even just booting

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Re: I need a digital food thermometer - 24 days ago

+1 for Thermapop. I swear, every time I use it I wonder why I struggled for so many years with other brands.

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member Dennis R - 25 days ago

Belated best wishes!

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Re: About to lose my mind with new MS Word 365 - 4 weeks ago

Ok, I *think* I found the issue. I might have had "web layout" clicked on the bottom right instead of "print layout." Because of course the icons look different than on my older Word version. I apologize for the panic attack. But in my work life, having a problem with Word means having a Very Big Problem. And while I'm sure there are less angst-y options out there, my clie

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About to lose my mind with new MS Word 365 - 4 weeks ago

Seriously ready to lose my mind. New MS Word on new Mac with Big Sur: when I change the enlargement (view) of a document, the page maragins grow or shrink accordingly. This is NOT what I've experienced in decades of MS Word use. In the past, the zoom button (bottom right of page) does that and only that: increase or decrease the magnification of the text. Margins were never impacted. All I want i

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Re: Have you tried this AI? - 5 weeks ago

Pretty amazing. I did a few experiments with images of people I didn't know. Not mentally prepared to do so with images of the dearly departed I miss the most.

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Re: Stand up for your rights: new Mini + OWC dock - 5 weeks ago

QuoteOWC Larry thanks!!! We need to offer, if not produce something like this. Absolutely! I was a tiny bit hesitant about impacting the black plastic bottom cover on the Mini but once I started fiddling with the stand, it became apparent that it does not have to be super tight in order to keep the Mini stable. Also, there's about a 10mm gap between the dock and the Mini, so plenty of room

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Re: Stand up for your rights: new Mini + OWC dock - 5 weeks ago

QuoteZoidberg QuoteOWC Larry Nice setup in all respects! What stand is that? That's a nice stand too.... Quoteprymsnap Pardon the un-tidy cables (I'm still rearranging) but I wanted to share how nicely my brand-spankin' new M1 Mini works with our dear sponsors' indispensable Tbolt 3 dock and a vertical dual laptop holder. With desk space at a premium, this is working out great for me. I was

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Re: Stand up for your rights: new Mini + OWC dock - 5 weeks ago

You know, I was wondering if that was a feature vs. a bug.

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Stand up for your rights: new Mini + OWC dock - 5 weeks ago

Pardon the un-tidy cables (I'm still rearranging) but I wanted to share how nicely my brand-spankin' new M1 Mini works with our dear sponsors' indispensable Tbolt 3 dock and a vertical dual laptop holder. With desk space at a premium, this is working out great for me.

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Re: Happy Anniversary to Grateful11 and wife since '87 - 5 weeks ago

Happy anniversary!

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Re: Just noticed wrong modification date in "Get Info" - 5 weeks ago

Very informative! Yes, this is an APFS formatted drive w/Big Sur. I have a lot to learn about both. Thanks, all.

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Just noticed wrong modification date in "Get Info" - 5 weeks ago

Looking at the "get info" on the 1TB internal boot drive for my M1 Mini and noticed that the "modified" date says January 1, 2020 which is also the "created" date." The "modified" date should be updating to the current, right? Any thoughts on why it isn't doing that? Thx!

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Re: M1 Mini in the house - 6 weeks ago

Waiting for the FedEx truck as we speak!

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

QuoteSarcany Looks right for what you're telling me. I've seen in Catalina that external APFS "Data" vols mount with no access to the contents of user-folders. It may be that one of the Mojave updates did something similar when I wasn't looking. If this is the same thing then the way to get around it is to either 1. Connect the drive to a Mac running High Sierra which should allow

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

QuoteSarcany Would you run this one command from the Terminal, please: diskutil list ...and then post the result. Last login: Thu Feb 25 06:26:42 on console joansmabookpro3:~ JoanMBP$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Thanks! Will do first thing tomorrow.

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

QuoteSarcany 1. How did you make the backup, and what software was used? (Clone? Disk Utility? Drag-Drop?) 2. What OS was running on the Mac used to make the backup? 3. What OS is running on the Mac that you are using to access the backup? 1. SuperDuper. 2 & 3. Old machine: High Sierra. New machine: Mojave (which makes me wonder about possible APFS issues). • Disk First Aid and PRAM

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Did the Terminal command. Does it normally take a long time to complete?

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Quoterz This would be so much easier to do with a Unix command line. I would have assumed that when you clicked the lock and gave your admin password, it would have allow you to change the ownership. If you're willing to give it a try, here's what I would try in a command line in the terminal: sudo chown -R joanMBP /Volumes/TEMPTEMP/Users/joanpro It will then prompt for your admin passw

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Quoterz You do not appear to be the owner of that folder. Try this. Click the lock and unlock the folder. Highlight your name in the above window, then click on the gear. You should get a menu that says "make JoanMBP the owner". Select that. Wow, I didn't know about that option!. When I highlight my name and click on the gear, I see "make JoanMBP the owner" but it's gra

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Quoterz Right click on the Pictures folder and do a Get Info. If possible, send a screenshot of that Get Info window. What the heck is with the Zero KB? That's not possible. BTW, clicking on the gear at bottom does not yield any additional options.

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Quotehal click the little wheel and select 'Apply to enclosed items'. It may take a while to change ownership of EVERY file within. Ok, I did that: an alert asked me to confirm, which I did. After about five seconds I heard a quick "boop" and then the confirmation box disappeared. Nothing changed within the folder. Could it be that it takes a REALLY long time and I'm not being pati

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

As you can see, the "ignore ownership" box is checked and all users have read & write permission. And still several of the folders under my username (on the external non-boot drive) have the red circle.

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Re: Why can't I open Pictures folder from BU drive? - 6 weeks ago

Thanks for all the helpful advice. I've tried everything to no avail, including searching for the volinfo.database on the external (non-boot) drive and could not locate it. Disheartening.

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