I used to back up my iPad regularly but for some reason have not done so for, literally, years. I’ve just done so, backing it up to my MacBook Pro, and get a message about films and videos not syncing because I need the TV app and the Video app from (surprise!) the App Store. I have looked for these before but was unsure about which was the correct app to download. Sounds stupid really but have you done this and what are the correct apps called please?
I backed up my iPhone to my ageing iMac which has the old standard USB sockets and my iPad to the MBP because both use the USB-C type.
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Susan
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My boss tells me this is actually a problem with Windows - oh, now, there’s a surprise! :D
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Susan
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On 3 Oct 2022, at 12:30, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Oooh, techie stuff! I’ll pass that on to my overseer! :D
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Susan
On 1 Oct 2022, at 05:09, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Have you tried accessing your modem via browser window and ascertaining what is on your network and which position it is on the network so you can address it ? Type in ….
Jude
On 29 Sep 2022, at 10:49 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
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
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Oooh, techie stuff! I’ll pass that on to my overseer! :D
Best
Susan
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On 1 Oct 2022, at 05:09, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Have you tried accessing your modem via browser window and ascertaining what is on your network and which position it is on the network so you can address it ? Type in ….
Jude
On 29 Sep 2022, at 10:49 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
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
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Harvey uses Dropbox but at the minimum configuration, so no charges. We could not really justify paid versions of that or iCloud but, it you have a use for it, as you say, it keeps you in your all-Apple régime, which is obviously a Good Thing. Best Susan
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On 2 Oct 2022, at 11:19, zuiko via < ftog@...> wrote: I thought that I’d start a new thread on the subject of iCloud. ?
I’ve been using it for a few years now and it’s been reliable, mostly. ?The glitches are only where I have a slow connection and large files to sync, but that happens with any cloud-based network: the normally fast and reliable Sync cloud coughs a little when I have a large video file, or a stitched image file, of more than 100Mb to sync. ?Large PowerPoint files have caused bottlenecks too – files from my work which I might still need and which have large media content.
I also use Private Relay and Hide My Email from iCloud: ?the former is a VPN system, as far as I can make out, structured using CloudFlare’s Internet systems. ?I tried adding CloudFlare’s privacy systems, but Private Relay told me that it had disconnected and I found out why: ?CloudFlare is part of Private Relay. ?So I have merely changed my router’s and my computers’ DNS settings to CloudFlare’s, as recommended here:?? (scroll down to the instructions).
I started fiddling around in the DNS because my Internet connection at home slowed down – was slow to start a connection when looking for a website, for instance. ?Since changing DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 the connections have been faster. ?I have a 70 download and 18 upload connection, as tested by , with reasonable Ping results (9 or 10ms), so it wasn’t my established conneciton.
I had iDisk in the early days as well, Susan; but iCloud is much more capable than that. ?In fact it’s the ecosystem that keeps me “Apple” and paying for it is par for the course. ?I pay ?6.99 a month for 2Tb, but if I were using something else the free 5Gb would be sufficient to run my devices with storage on Sync, say. ?I looked at Dropbox’s prices a few days ago and they were comparable. ?If Private Relay, which is currently in beta, becomes chargeable, I’ll consider binning it and using CloudFlare’s system.
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We seem - and I do emphasise “seem”! - to have it working most of the time now. My iMac had a slight break in transmission yesterday evening but got back again. I do hope this is the end of the panic! :D? Best Susan
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On 2 Oct 2022, at 11:05, zuiko via < ftog@...> wrote: 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 – except that my router is 192.168.0.1 . . .
Chris
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 ??< ftog@...> wrote: 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
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I thought that I’d start a new thread on the subject of iCloud. ?
I’ve been using it for a few years now and it’s been reliable, mostly. ?The glitches are only where I have a slow connection and large files to sync, but that happens with any cloud-based network: the normally fast and reliable Sync cloud coughs a little when I have a large video file, or a stitched image file, of more than 100Mb to sync. ?Large PowerPoint files have caused bottlenecks too – files from my work which I might still need and which have large media content.
I also use Private Relay and Hide My Email from iCloud: ?the former is a VPN system, as far as I can make out, structured using CloudFlare’s Internet systems. ?I tried adding CloudFlare’s privacy systems, but Private Relay told me that it had disconnected and I found out why: ?CloudFlare is part of Private Relay. ?So I have merely changed my router’s and my computers’ DNS settings to CloudFlare’s, as recommended here:?? (scroll down to the instructions).
I started fiddling around in the DNS because my Internet connection at home slowed down – was slow to start a connection when looking for a website, for instance. ?Since changing DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 the connections have been faster. ?I have a 70 download and 18 upload connection, as tested by , with reasonable Ping results (9 or 10ms), so it wasn’t my established conneciton.
I had iDisk in the early days as well, Susan; but iCloud is much more capable than that. ?In fact it’s the ecosystem that keeps me “Apple” and paying for it is par for the course. ?I pay ?6.99 a month for 2Tb, but if I were using something else the free 5Gb would be sufficient to run my devices with storage on Sync, say. ?I looked at Dropbox’s prices a few days ago and they were comparable. ?If Private Relay, which is currently in beta, becomes chargeable, I’ll consider binning it and using CloudFlare’s system.
Chris
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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 – 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 < ftog@...> wrote: 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
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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
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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 < ftog@...> wrote: 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
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Have you tried accessing your modem via browser window and ascertaining what is on your network and which position it is on the network so you can address it ? Type in ….
Jude
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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
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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
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On 30 Sep 2022, at 2:41 am, zuiko via < ftog@...> wrote: 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
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on older Macs Drop Copy works between Macs on network. ?I use the usual airdrop between the modern Macs but the old iMac I use DropCopy. I don’t use iCloud at all except its backing up the new iPad Pro. My old Canon Digital Rebel long ago lost its software and I use one of those multi card readers to transfer photo to Mac.?
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Thank you for all that, Chris. ?Harvey is in a hard place over this and it is a good thing he does not have a proper job to complicate matters; being on the local Parish Council does not quite count as “proper”! ?I’ve given him the ?URL and we’ll see if that helps. He has, after a quick look at the Networks section, decided he may well go back to static IP addresses, although Zen did say that letting DHCP decide them was the thing to do. He has threatened me with Dymo labels on my Macs!! ?Nooooooo!! ??
We don’t use iCloud; the nearest I’ve come to it is Airdrop for transferring photos from my iPhone XR. Photos from my little camera are moved over via a Ugreen USB-C Multifunction Card Reader. ?Harvey resents being asked to pay for iCloud, after iDisk was free. I have an old MacBook that our daughter gave us, running 10.5 I think, which still displays iDisk on its desktop - aww! I use it with the old software that works with our old scanner, so as to transfer documents to the Primary network drive that we can’t reach at present! ?/sigh! ?It also runs a little platform game called Io, created in India by a one man and a dog kind of setup. Fun, for a “bear of little brain”! Best, Susan ? On 29 Sep 2022, at 17:41, zuiko via < ftog@...> wrote: 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
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Thank you for all that, Chris. ?Harvey is in a hard place over this and it is a good thing he does not have a proper job to complicate matters; being on the local Parish Council does not quite count as “proper”! ?I’ve given him the ?URL and we’ll see if that helps. He has, after a quick look at the Networks section, decided he may well go back to static IP addresses, although Zen did say that letting DHCP decide them was the thing to do. He has threatened me with Dymo labels on my Macs!! ?Nooooooo!! ??
We don’t use iCloud; the nearest I’ve come to it is Airdrop for transferring photos from my iPhone XR. Photos from my little camera are moved over via a Ugreen USB-C Multifunction Card Reader. ?Harvey resents being asked to pay for iCloud, after iDisk was free. I have an old MacBook that our daughter gave us, running 10.5 I think, which still displays iDisk on its desktop - aww! I use it with the old software that works with our old scanner, so as to transfer documents to the Primary network drive that we can’t reach at present! ?/sigh! ?It also runs a little platform game called Io, created in India by a one man and a dog kind of setup. Fun, for a “bear of little brain”! Best,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Re: An Unusual Summer for the UK
I have an old-fashioned mercury max-min thermometer in the greenhouse and the most it’s been recently is 35C. I did have a magnet to zero it but it got lost so I’m using one of those “secret” keyholders you used to put inside the wing of you car. Oh, so secure…not! At the back of our little terraced house is 27C today and I’ll be out soon to do the Big Butterfly Count, wearing my BBC Radio 4 Test Match Special hat! :D
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On 28 Jul 2022, at 07:37, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
My cousin Karyn (now retired as a GP) is in the Southbourne area - not had word from her about the weather and she knows what Australian weather is like as she was here for a couple of years some years back.
She’s probably having jokes with her husband (also retired GP) about Aussie weather. They have a yacht in the Chichester Harbour I think — probably is sailing weather I imagine.
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Re: An Unusual Summer for the UK
Understand that. We have tropical heat here and its muggy. Been to Calais on a day when it was 39degC and it was awful. Hard to explain to people unless you've experienced both.?
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Re: An Unusual Summer for the UK
Our temperature in west Dorset got up to over 30?C for a couple of days last week, but dropped to mid-20s for the rest of the week. It’s fine here because we’re countryside and hilly with breezes; I couldn’t bear to be in the city or town at those levels. I’ve lived in many hot countries, Bahrain, Aden and Mukalla come to mind, but England in the heat is a bit different.
Chris
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On 28 Jul 2022, at 07:37, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
My cousin Karyn (now retired as a GP) is in the Southbourne area - not had word from her about the weather and she knows what Australian weather is like as she was here for a couple of years some years back.
She’s probably having jokes with her husband (also retired GP) about Aussie weather. They have a yacht in the Chichester Harbour I think — probably is sailing weather I imagine.
Jude
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Re: An Unusual Summer for the UK
My cousin Karyn (now retired as a GP) is in the Southbourne area - not had word from her about the weather and she knows what Australian weather is like as she was here for a couple of years some years back.
She’s probably having jokes with her husband (also retired GP) about Aussie weather. They have a yacht in the Chichester Harbour I think — probably is sailing weather I imagine.
Jude
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Re: An Unusual Summer for the UK
We have gas instantaneous HW and Falcon gas oven and in the bush we get big bottles delivered. Cheap to run. No air con, but thick industrial batts in the roof - well worth doing. We do run a 30x15 pool - that takes a bit of power. ?Our electricity bill went down last bill ?- due in part I suspect of me turning lights off fast as husband turns them on. If worst comes to the worst we can always wander down the paddock and grab a log or two and cook outdoors. Petrol is up 30% on this time last year.?
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On 27 Jul 2022, at 9:42 pm, zuiko via groups.io <ftog@...> wrote:
? We’re not looking forward to cold weather again, Jude, although it felt quite autumnal a couple of days ago. ?When it gets cold a lot of people will not be able to heat their homes as well as eat. ?We’re not in that situation, but now that we’re fully electric with a heat pump we will be a little stingier with the thermostat. ?In addition, we have bought a gas fire to heat the house when the power goes off in the middle of winter (Sod’s Law). And we have paraffin lamps for the dark nights without leccy.
Turning off your devices sounds wise anyway, to reduct heating in the house.
Chris
Believe it or not we are back to single digit mornings (6-8degC) and getting to about 20deg C during the day or thereabouts....but there is wind and it has a cold side to it.?
We have fire built in the hearth ready if we want a night in front of the TV in comfort.?
Otherwise electric blanket getting a work out.?
The pool has had a new filter installed with glass medium in it - never had one of those before - last one had sand in it. This one is smaller but seems to be doing a far more efficient job. So when we get past this cold bit we are ready for swimming weather.?
Come the very hot weather here I often turn the Mac off in the middle of the day - even though Apple probably makes for Aussie conditions I think somewhere I read not to operate it over a certain temp.?
Jude
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Re: An Unusual Summer for the UK
That’s the Air that I’m aiming for, Susan, although I gather you need to spec the 512Gb RAM to achieve full speed (according to the Internet).
My wife’s old iMac (2011) will probably need replacing, but it will all have to wait until I get paid by a US company for work I’ve done.
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Thanks Chris, yes we are now back to full function on our network and, most important, I am back to playing EverQuest! ?:D?Did you see there is a new MacBook Air out? ?I would not have noticed but I play Words With Friends on my iPad and each turn is punctuated by ads and the Apple one was freezing my game! I seem to recall this happening before, on an Apple ad, but it doesn’t take long to do a restart of WWF.BestSusanOn 18 Jul 2022, at 19:03, zuiko via <ftog@...> wrote:
Hi Susan
We’re in good shape, thanks. The temps are high here in Dorset (33-34, according to our two thermometers) but the house is well insulated and we’re on the side of a hill which gets us whatever breeze is blowing.
Had some good news a while ago (stop me if I’ve told you already :-)): ?my 2017 MacBook Retina 12” started playing silly buggers with the battery so I enquired of Apple if they would sort it out. ?It had had only 400 charge cycles and had gone below 80% capacity. ?The answer was, “yes”, and they sent a box for a courier to collect it. ?It was back within ten days and had had the logic board replaced as well as the battery. ?It’s as good as new!
I’ll still get myself a new Air M2 when my boat comes in, but I’m very pleased.
I hope that your network recovers . . .
Cheers
Chris
On 17 Jul 2022, at 16:17, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I suppose it must be autumn or even winter in Oz, Jude, and here we are in the usually damp and cloudy United Kingdom being warned to stay at home if we can, because of the heat! ?I’ve just been out in the garden, doing the annual Big Butterfly Count, and managed to snap a peacock butterfly sunning itself on the path. I’m a bit clumsy with the tiny buttons on my little digital camera, a Panasonic DC-TZ90 that I’ve had for a good while now. I accidentally set it to video but never realise I’ve done it until too late. Maybe I should RTFM a bit better!
We are only partly back online after an outage; the Mac side of things is working but we can’t access our network drive. The Windows side is still on the fritz. ?Oh, our router is a Fr!tzbox by the way! Funnily enough, when I returned to Facebook, it turned out that a number of our fellow villagers in Clyst St Mary had also experienced outages. Coincidence or not, I don’t know.
I do hope everyone is thriving.
Best
Susan
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