Susan
I¡¯ve found that a NAS needs a fixed IP address on the LAN to be reliable; DHCP can take a little while to re-allocate IPs sometimes, perhaps on older or mixed systems.
I hope that your cable connection works out, but Jude¡¯s idea of checking what¡¯s showing on your network map is a good one ¨C except that my router is 192.168.0.1 . . .
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It turned out - cross fingers - that there needed to be a cable connection to set the thing up to start with. Now, it seems to be functioning normally via wifi but, of course, we shall see! ?
Best
Susan
I got spotlight to rescan the whole drive. Helped a little not much. Basically its not like how it used to be. Part of this I think is my own fault in that in some cases I have buried files too deep and I am in the process of getting them back to one or two max 3 levels.?
Jude
On 30 Sep 2022, at 2:41 am, zuiko via <
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Susan
That sounds pretty tricky! ?And I¡¯m sorry that you have found incompatibilities, but I¡¯ve started using Howard Oakley¡¯s prolific bits of advice on ?when seemingly insoluble problems start.
My latest problem has been Spotlight, which seems less and less likely to find files when I need them. ?Likewise with Mail, in which Search is not as effective as once it was. ?It might be because of my proliferation of emails and accounts, but I do try to maintain order with Onyx and Rebuild Mailbox processes. ?Anyway, I hope that your home network is rescued.
And in answer to your question, no. ?We use iCloud mainly, but Sync is a useful adjunct, as is Day One for storing events and their corresponding files and scans, but we don¡¯t have a network with a single Home drive.
Chris?
Do you run a home network? We have had one for years and never had any setup difficulties - until now. Harvey decided that his ageing MacBook Air was not agile enough to be the main man, so to speak, so he laid plans to replace it with my old 13in MacBook Pro, which had an SSD fitted. ?After some time in process, the plans became a struggle, then the struggle was replaced by a lot of research. ?It seems there is a (groan) known problem with Catalina, which the MBP was running, when it comes to networks. ?Apple have done those things which they ought not to have done and made it pretty impossible to use Catalina for our purposes and we are not alone in feeling annoyed at them.
Next stage, Harvey is replacing Catalina on the MBP with the Air¡¯s Mojave installation. Watch this space! ?I have Catalina on my 16in MBP but still have Mojave on my nearly ten-year-old 27in iMac. ?
I do hope this works, because I am accumulating scans and downloads that need to go onto what we call ¡°Primary¡±, which will hopefully be the MBP once it¡¯s been converted from its heresy! ?Oh I¡¯ve just remembered: I have a thumb drive to put these docs on!
Best,
Susan
zuiko