Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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On Nov 2, 2019, at 9:15 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
I remember (correctly, I hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.
That sounds like the 3rd-party application PopChar. --PSmith MacBook Pro (early 2013) w/ Mac OS 10.15, iPad Pro 9.7 inch and iPhone XS Max w/ iOS 13?
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 16:16, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io <jimdoc= [email protected]> wrote:
Is that a bootable backup? Do you have ANY external volume that is bootable? If you do, you could boot from the external and clone your internal to an external volume before wiping it and doing a re-install.
Yes, boot from a backup. Then install Grand Perspectve or Whatsize to see what's going on.
Otto
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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On Nov 2, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote: Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X. ?
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little?
hollow square in it.
It still looks like a flag in my 10.15.1 :
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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You are thinking of the Input Menu (used to have a flag icon for your?
selected language) and the default items on it called:
I remember the flag in the menubar. In the early days of the single-user Mac that flag saved me from a trip to the CooCoo’s nest. My precocious son bedeviled me by installing various romance language keyboard maps; just enough so that my touch-typing produced many misspellings.
What I’m mourning is the loss of font-specific display of glyphs on the Keyboard Viewer. I don’t remember when it disappeared, or why.
Jim
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Nov 2, 2019, Tom_Kirshbaum wrote: Now, I’m afraid, the end is near. Available memory is 5 MB. Safari won’t open any?web sites, Time Machine fails on backup, and I can’t run any software. I’ve done all?the tests my resources allowed and now the OS doesn’t allow me to do anything at?all. Looks like I’ll have to do a clean install.
Since my most recent successful backup?was over a week ago, I’m going to lose a lot of recent financial and message records.?Without the ability to back up, I can’t figure out a way to save the last week’s files.?I’m sure not looking forward to this.?
Is that a bootable backup? Do you have ANY external volume that is bootable? If you do, you could boot from the external and clone your internal to an external volume before wiping it and doing a re-install.
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
Hi
When you are in the Recovery Mode Disk Utility, what does it say is the free space on the disk?
If you don’t have storage capacity, you won’t be able to reinstall the operating system.
Paul
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
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On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 06:19 AM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
Can you install Grand Perspective? It's only?4 MB.
Can't dl it.
If not, try Finder > Go > Go to Folder > /private/var/log
and see what's in there.
All small files and folders. One at 2 MB, then all in the KB range
Next step is to use Finder to drill down. Start with opt-cmd-i on Macintosh HD (for whatever your drive is called) then move down through the folder hierarchy, getting?the size for each.
I just don't see any unexpectedly large files anywhere. They must be hidden.
Here's what strikes me as strange: in About this Mac, System size fluctuates at 170 GB - 180 GB, while in the Finder and elsewhere, it is 10GB with "7GB on disk." I don't know what that means, but look at that anomaly. Doesn't that suggest a system malfunction rather than large files? Remember, I can't make a current backup. I don't want to lose my recent files, especially in Users. Recovery Mode seems to have the option to replace the OS without erasing the disk. What would happen if I tried that?
Another odd thing started happening just a few minutes ago: the dock has lost about half its icons which have been replaced by ?generic ones.
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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Howdy. You are thinking of the Input Menu (used to have a flag icon for your selected language) and the default items on it called: Show Emoji & Symbols And Show Keyboard Viewer The icon is a square box as attached below. The Input menu is turned on (added to Menu bar) in Catalina and some earlier versions of OS X by going to System Preferences>Keyboard panel then click the Input Sources tab and check on Show Input menu in menu bar box. Denver Dan On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 07:14:41 -0600, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote:
On Nov 2, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984. But less useful than it used to be, I think. I remember (correctly, I
hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the
entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up
the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.
Of course, it’s possible that was provided by some 3rd party program
I no longer use, but I think it was an Apple freebie.
Jim Robertson
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 06:19 AM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
Can you install Grand Perspective? It's only?4 MB.
Can't dl it.
If not, try Finder > Go > Go to Folder > /private/var/log
and see what's in there.
All small files and folders. One at 2 MB, then all in the KB range
Next step is to use Finder to drill down. Start with opt-cmd-i on Macintosh HD (for whatever your drive is called) then move down through the folder hierarchy, getting?the size for each.
I just don't see any unexpectedly large files anywhere. They must be hidden.
Here's what strikes me as strange: in About this Mac, System size fluctuates at 170 GB - 180 GB, while in the Finder and elsewhere, it is 10GB with "7GB on disk." I don't know what that means, but look at that anomaly. Doesn't that suggest a system malfunction rather than large files? Remember, I can't make a current backup. I don't want to lose my recent files, especially in Users. Recovery Mode seems to have the option to replace the OS without erasing the disk. What would happen if I tried that?
Another odd thing started happening just a few minutes ago: the dock has lost about half its icons which have been replaced by ?generic ones.
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
Hi
Can you boot it up in target mode and copy the information?
Perhaps a bootable system with SuperDuper and/or Carbon Copy Cloner and make a copy of the system to an external drive? That way you won’t lose information as you do a fresh installation of the system, then use migration assistant for the Applications and user folder?
Paul
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
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Can you install Grand Perspective? It's only?4 MB.
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If not, try Finder > Go > Go to Folder > /private/var/log
and see what's in there.?
Next step is to use Finder to drill down. Start with opt-cmd-i on Macintosh HD (for whatever your drive is called) then move down through the folder hierarchy, getting?the size for each.
Otto
Each time I bump up the available storage by deleting or transferring to an external drive, the gain starts disappearing.?
Now, I’m afraid, the end is near. Available memory is 5 MB. Safari won’t open any web sites, Time Machine fails on backup, and I can’t run any software. I’ve done all the tests my resources allowed and now the OS doesn’t allow me to do anything at all. Looks like I’ll have to do a clean install. Since my most recent successful backup was over a week ago, I’m going to lose a lot of recent financial and message records. Without the ability to back up, I can’t figure out a way to save the last week’s files. I’m sure not looking forward to this.?
BTW, I can’t increase the storage BBC SSD because in the 2017 MacBook Pro it is soldered in place. Besides, as the System eats up more and more storage, increasing the amount of storage would only delay the inevitable.
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I'm running Mohave; my wife has installed Catalina on her iMac.
It seems her older Microsoft applications for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc are now obsolete?
on Catalina. And I see a notice on Mohave that once I update, the same will be true.
Apparently the App Store has updated Microsoft ?applications for Catalina but so far my
wife has had great difficulty downloading them.
Would someone guide me through a seamless process to install?
Any advice would truly be appreciated.
Rick
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 05:09 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
So, you've tried deleting all logs and that hasn't helped?
I ran OnyX a few days ago; now it is freezing and crashing.
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Hi Julie! I don’t have Microsoft Office of any variety and have no idea what you are talking about. I use Apple Pages which serves my meager needs. Sorry. But I thought that since I had no useful information to offer that I would not reply. On Nov 1, 2019, at 10:28 AM, julie <wordsetc@...> wrote:
Hi again, I posted this back on 20 October and haven’t seen any responses to my query.
I’m wondering... is it inappropriate to post this here or is it just that there is no one here who has experience of this? Bob ’The Beckster’ Beckham FCC RadioTelephone Licence P1-6S-2422 w/Radar endorsement. Apple iMac 27” Late 2012 - macOS 10.15.1 - RAM 16 Gig 2016 Harley-Davidson FLHTKL 1993 Allen MDS Theater 2
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Once the service is activated on your new device, it is automatically available on your others. ?I set mine up on my new phone yesterday and then watched one of the new shows on my iPad. ?It’s also available for free on my Apple TV.
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Thanks I got the offer, and it was really easy to get the "one year free" on my new device, it wouldn't let me make that choice on my old device.?
Will it be just as easy to set up the "one-year free" on my Apple TV that I already use with the TV to watch everything else?
Thanks.
Carol Corley
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around?
in one form or another since 1984.
But less useful than it used to be, I think. I remember (correctly, I hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.
Of course, it’s possible that was provided by some 3rd party program I no longer use, but I think it was an Apple freebie.
Jim Robertson
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Thanks I got the offer, and it was really easy to get the "one year free" on my new device, it wouldn't let me make that choice on my old device.?
Will it be just as easy to set up the "one-year free" on my Apple TV that I already use with the TV to watch everything else?
Thanks.
Carol Corley
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
Can you install Grand Perspective? It's only?4 MB.
<>
If not, try Finder > Go > Go to Folder > /private/var/log
and see what's in there.?
Next step is to use Finder to drill down. Start with opt-cmd-i on Macintosh HD (for whatever your drive is called) then move down through the folder hierarchy, getting?the size for each.
Otto
Each time I bump up the available storage by deleting or transferring to an external drive, the gain starts disappearing.?
Now, I’m afraid, the end is near. Available memory is 5 MB. Safari won’t open any web sites, Time Machine fails on backup, and I can’t run any software. I’ve done all the tests my resources allowed and now the OS doesn’t allow me to do anything at all. Looks like I’ll have to do a clean install. Since my most recent successful backup was over a week ago, I’m going to lose a lot of recent financial and message records. Without the ability to back up, I can’t figure out a way to save the last week’s files. I’m sure not looking forward to this.?
BTW, I can’t increase the storage BBC SSD because in the 2017 MacBook Pro it is soldered in place. Besides, as the System eats up more and more storage, increasing the amount of storage would only delay the inevitable.
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Re: it’s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
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On Nov 2, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
? On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 16:56, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io <jimdoc= [email protected]> wrote:
I just discovered something that even Dan and Otto might not know.
I was wondering if listing successive dates would allow me to delete multiple local snapshots in a single command (answer: no).
As usually happens in Terminal when you try something not allowed, I got a short lesson on command format:
Usage: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots [<mount_point> | <snapshot_date>]
Meaning, “a single date, OR the mountpoint”
So I tried:
Usage: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /
And successfully deleted ALL the local snapshots at that mountpoint with a single command.
That is what I would expect.?
Do wild cards work, e.g. tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 1019*
? I?don't have any to?try this with, but wild cards?are?standard in most Unix commands.
Otto
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 08:13 PM, jimrobertson wrote:
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Thank you SO much, and I’m happy it turned out well. The grounding strap is something I’ve wondered about, because I’ve watched a bunch of OWC and iFixIt and other independent videos, and none of the people doing the disassembly/reassembly seem to be wearing them. Back in the days of the cute little box 128 K Mac, there could have been several thousand volts on the back end of the CRT for people who ventured inside, and there was no space to do what we could without being quite close to that gun. My understanding is that the threat to US is when working around the power supply, but the threat to the iMac itself is always there.
You're welcome Jim. When working on equipment where there are programs stored is where you need to make sure you don't have a static build up on your body. It only takes a few volts to scramble a program. Better safe than sorry.?
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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Yes. A change. ?I tried to use Screeshot (Catalina) to capture the little menu but Screenshot is often buggy. It sort of froze in a kind of dark mode, menu brightly highlighted, and no screen cap file. I had to restart Mac.?
I’ll do a different cap and edit it had to gallop out the door for an early appointment.?
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On Nov 2, 2019, at 7:38 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
? Dan,
Its proper name has always been "Input Menu" but I call it "Flag" because?that is what I see in the?menu bar. So that's changed after all this time?
Otto
Howdy.
Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.?
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.?
Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.?
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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Dan,
Its proper name has always been "Input Menu" but I call it "Flag" because?that is what I see in the?menu bar. So that's changed after all this time?
Otto
Howdy.
Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.?
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.?
Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.?
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