Re: Black "dot" on iPhone 11 Pro iOS 13.3.1: what IS it?
Howdy. Jim, I'm not sure this is a solution to the black dot. iPhones with a Home Button have had an option to put a movable Home Button on the screen. If that is still an option, maybe that's what got triggered on. No idea if it could have been. This feature was turned on somewhere in Settings but I just check on my iPhone X (side button) and couldn't find that feature. Denver Dan On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 07:40:23 -0700, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote: I awoke this morning before sunrise (iPhone therefore still in Dark
Mode), but because my home screen photograph contains lots of light
colored elements, I noticed a black ¡°dot¡± (not perfectly round¨D
there were two little appendages in the locations where "Mickey Mouse
¡± ears would be if it were an emoji). It was a bit larger than the
little dots that show which of the app icon screens is foreground.
If i moved the screen, the little dot did not move, unless I placed
my finger on it, in which case it WOULD move directly beneath my
fingertip; if those movements were horizontal, the screen would move
in the direction I was swiping; if my movements were vertical, the
screen would NOT move (but the dot did, beneath my fingertip).
Tapping the dot itself did nothing, unless the dot was situated over
an interface element which normally would respond to a tap.
After a minute or so, the dot began moving spontaneously down the
screen at a slow but constant rate (perhaps 5 seconds to reach almost
the bottom, where it stopped). Placing my fingertip on it again, I
was able to reposition it. So long as I didn¡¯t swipe SO far
horizontally as to bring up the previous or next icon page, the page
would recenter when I lifted my finger from the screen.
I had many apps open; I thought perhaps it was associated with one of
them, but running in dark mode.it might be impossible to tell, so I
terminated all running apps one by one, noticing that it was a tiny
bit different shade of black that the background screen of each of
these apps, and it remained on screen after I¡¯d terminated them all.
I took a screenshot, but the dot wasn¡¯t captured in a screenshot of
my home screen, so I opened my photos app, saw that the dot was still
visible, so did another screen capture with a predominantly light
colored photo, but it wasn¡¯t captured on a screenshot of a photo,
either. I selected another photo to capture, centered the dot on that
photo, and then the little bug(ger) disappeared. It was still too
early for dark mode to have auto converted to light mode. I cannot be
certain that I didn¡¯t cause the disappearance somehow by preparing
to take the screenshot.
Has anyone else seen this? If so, WHAT WAS IT?
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It¡¯s really helpful, Randy Thanks very much Julie On 2 Mar 2020, at 03:38, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
On Mar 1, 2020, at 6:09 PM, Paul wrote:
I suggest adding Nisus InfoClick () under the Apple Mail Utilities.
Great search capabilities. Thanks! Great tip!
I'm also debating on whether to add Mail add-ons.
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Re: Mail: advanced search
Thanks for those tips. I¡¯m going to try the InfoClick app that Jim suggested, but these are good to have handy as well.
?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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Howdy. Karen, one of the reasons that I use GyazMail instead of Apple's Mail app is that GyazMail has much better filters and rules. ??However, Apple's Mail has improved in recent versions in this area. Some possible alternate things to try. There are some filter tricks to try. ? If you have several filters, try changing the pecking order for them. ? Put the problem filter at the top of the list, or, at bottom, then test. Spotlight indexes Apple's Mail messages. ? Try doing a Find command in a Finder window. ?Select a drive, or a folder. ?Then press Command f. ?The Finder window turns into a dialog for creating Find/Search commands. ?They can be multilevel commands. ? If you also click the Kind popup then Other (at bottom of popup list) you can elevate more than 100 search commands to the higher level for convenience. ?You can construct a Smart Find command and save it as a sort of app. ?It will in the future find the things your Smart Find is set to do and do it instantly. Spotlight indexes the continents of Apple's Mail messages and you can use a Finder Find command to search for things like a name, a project, etc. ? Denver Dan On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 12:57:19 -0500, KarenP wrote: I¡¯m trying to do a search in Apple Mail with more than one filter
where one of those filters is a ¡°not.¡± It¡¯s not working the way I
would intuitively think it should.
First, I¡¯m searching for a specific subject, and from there I¡¯d
like to narrow it down by excluding one or more particular mailboxes.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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Re: Mail: advanced search
oooooo - thank you!! This looks pretty perfect. I¡¯m going to give it a try.
?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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On Mar 2, 2020, at 9:12 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io < jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Does anyone know how to do this?
Sure. Use a better search tool ?
InfoClick can do this. It¡¯s built from the ground up to do complex searches in Apple Mail, and it comes with an incredibly well organized and logical user guide. When you launch it for the first time, it will spend many minutes combing through your mail database to build the links that enable it to search quickly after it¡¯s done. My one quibble with the product is that it doesn¡¯t take a long time to update that database when you launch it, so I wish it would do the update whenever it launches.
Here¡¯s a screen capture from the user guide illustrating what you¡¯re interested in:
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You¡¯ll master simple searches quite quickly because it¡¯s so well designed, and your can tailor the search based on your initial find. What frustrates me most about using Apple¡¯s own search tool is that if you peek at ONE of the suggested results and it¡¯s not what you were seeking, you have to start over. That¡¯s not true with InfoClick.
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I kept a careful eye on my iPad charge yesterday. Charged it up in the morning to 100%. That held for a while, but once it started going down, it started going down quickly. I was not on it for very long. Mostly just playing a few games of solitaire, checking my email briefly, and my things software. By the time I went to sleep, it was at 15%. I shut it down completely, as Jim suggested. In the morning, simply opening it up again brought it to 12%. And from there, I could actually see it going down one by one, within the space of just a few minutes. ?A full charge on my iPad used to last me two or even three days. So this is definitely unusual.?
Here are some screenshots of the battery setting. In the second one, it shows the last few days where battery usage was way up, but time usage was way down. Which is of course opposite of what one would expect:
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Re: Mail: advanced search
Howdy. Karen, one of the reasons that I use GyazMail instead of Apple's Mail app is that GyazMail has much better filters and rules. However, Apple's Mail has improved in recent versions in this area. Some possible alternate things to try. There are some filter tricks to try. If you have several filters, try changing the pecking order for them. Put the problem filter at the top of the list, or, at bottom, then test. Spotlight indexes Apple's Mail messages. Try doing a Find command in a Finder window. Select a drive, or a folder. Then press Command f. The Finder window turns into a dialog for creating Find/Search commands. They can be multilevel commands. If you also click the Kind popup then Other (at bottom of popup list) you can elevate more than 100 search commands to the higher level for convenience. You can construct a Smart Find command and save it as a sort of app. It will in the future find the things your Smart Find is set to do and do it instantly. Spotlight indexes the continents of Apple's Mail messages and you can use a Finder Find command to search for things like a name, a project, etc. Denver Dan On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 12:57:19 -0500, KarenP wrote: I¡¯m trying to do a search in Apple Mail with more than one filter
where one of those filters is a ¡°not.¡± It¡¯s not working the way I
would intuitively think it should.
First, I¡¯m searching for a specific subject, and from there I¡¯d
like to narrow it down by excluding one or more particular mailboxes.
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Re: Time Machine isn't working
On Feb 29, 2020, at 11:23 AM, Barry Austern via Groups.Io < barryaus@...> wrote:
My 2? here: Time Machine will write any file that is at all changed, leaving others alone.
Obviously, I misspoke in an earlier answer. Dan is entirely correct. Any easy way to overwhelm a Time Machine backup drive is to update a tiny text file in a 100 GB virtual machine file once a day, which will generate 1 TB of backups in < 2 weeks.
What I think I meant to say (and this could be wrong, too, so I hope others will address this), is that Time Machine needs to keep track of what¡¯s NOT changed as well as backing up what HAS changed, and that generates a huge number of directory links that can make evaluating?a backup drive with Disk Utility take a LONG, LONG time.
Of course, one other element can be your WiFi (you¡¯re backing up to a time capsule). If your WiFi performance isn¡¯t stellar, that will create a major impact on the speed of backups. I don¡¯t think you mentioned what generation of Time Capsule you have, but it¡¯s old enough that it¡¯s initial drive has failed¡
Each of these of course is not what¡¯s bedeviling you as far as the backup not happening AT ALL¡
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Re: Mail: advanced search
Does anyone know how to do this?
Sure. Use a better search tool ?
InfoClick can do this. It¡¯s built from the ground up to do complex searches in Apple Mail, and it comes with an incredibly well organized and logical user guide. When you launch it for the first time, it will spend many minutes combing through your mail database to build the links that enable it to search quickly after it¡¯s done. My one quibble with the product is that it doesn¡¯t take a long time to update that database when you launch it, so I wish it would do the update whenever it launches.
Here¡¯s a screen capture from the user guide illustrating what you¡¯re interested in:
You¡¯ll master simple searches quite quickly because it¡¯s so well designed, and your can tailor the search based on your initial find. What frustrates me most about using Apple¡¯s own search tool is that if you peek at ONE of the suggested results and it¡¯s not what you were seeking, you have to start over. That¡¯s not true with InfoClick.
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Jim Robertson
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On Mar 1, 2020, at 6:09 PM, Paul wrote: I suggest adding Nisus InfoClick () under the Apple Mail Utilities.
Great search capabilities. Thanks! Great tip! I'm also debating on whether to add Mail add-ons. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance ___________________________________________
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Howdy.
Starting March 1, 2020, there was a big jump in email problems with
Gmail.
Here's a Gmail web site that shows problems. Click the Live Outage Map
to see a world map of outage hot spots.
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Denver Dan
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Re: testing email - last message failed
thank you for that explanation. -karen
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On Mar 1, 2020, at 5:08 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Is it possible the popup saying that you need to subscribe was for something in Chrome, and not iTunes, since your Mac was frozen by Chrome and not iTunes, even though your attention was towards iTunes.
I occasionally get a freeze, caused by Chrome while trying to work on something else. Chrome is not my favorite browser, but I use it because I am running an old OS.
Brent
On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:25 PM, KarenP wrote: That¡¯s a good question! I have no idea. I was trying to download a whole bunch of podcasts at one time, which normally does not cause a problem. But this time, it hung up iTunes so badly that I could not force quit. I even went to activity monitor and closed out all of the iTunes processes but still had no luck force quitting iTunes. After trying numerous times, I finally went ahead and closed chrome. Then I tried iTunes again and lo and behold, it quit.
¨C Karen On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:23 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Obviously, you are and have been. Servers make mistakes too.?
What concerns me is why did you having Chrome open affect anything to do with iTunes?
Brent
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HI Randy,
Excellent site and resource.
Thank you.
I suggest adding Nisus InfoClick () under the Apple Mail Utilities. Great search capabilities.
Paul
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On Mar 1, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Randy B. Singer < randy@...> wrote:
I just put up a new Web site. ?Apple's Mail under Catalina has a nasty bug that causes it to lose data. ?Some users have been looking for an alternative. ?I created a page listing all of the available Macintosh e-mail programs!
Macintosh Email Software
Please let me know what you think!
___________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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I just put up a new Web site. Apple's Mail under Catalina has a nasty bug that causes it to lose data. Some users have been looking for an alternative. I created a page listing all of the available Macintosh e-mail programs!
Macintosh Email Software
Please let me know what you think!
___________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
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Re: Time Machine backup disk question
Howdy. This longish quotation may answer your question. I didn't post the link because I think the original post was on a Scandinavian language site and part was perhaps in Swedish. But this part in English Is, I think, from an Apple KB. Denver Dan - - - - - - - - The oldest backups will be deleted when Time Machine requires the space they occupy, but they will only be deleted after Time Machine creates a new backup. Before it does that, Time Machine resorts to a number of increasingly desperate attempts to create enough space for that backup, while retaining an absolute minimum of one and only one complete backup. Apple does not provide guidance for the backup device capacity because it is simply not possible to do that. Two or three times the total amount of data that needs to be backed up is usually OK. However, it is also usually much more than necessary. If Apple told us we must purchase (for example) a 4 TB hard disk drive it would result in a lot of users not even attempting to use Time Machine, and that would be bad. ? The absolute minimum required capacity of a Time Machine backup volume is as follows: sufficient capacity to retain one complete backup of the source volume's contents, plus additional capacity to create a subsequent backup consisting of all files that have been altered since that previous backup, plus an amount of "overhead" that is a function of the number and aggregate size of those files¡ªa value difficult to calculate with any degree of precision, but 15% of the size of one complete backup is a useful approximation. ? Time Machine relies upon that estimate before initiating a backup: ? You may only have (for example) 90 GB of new data that needs to be backed up. Time Machine will then require (for example, and bearing in mind that ~15% figure is my approximation, and not TM's calculated estimate) 105 GB of free space¡ªthat is in addition to whatever the older backup required. ? Unless TM is able to reclaim that amount of space on the backup volume, it won't even begin. ? When Time Machine finishes, you may find that only 90 GB of data was actually written. ? Rarely occurring circumstances can result in Time Machine's estimate being insufficient, in which case it will resort to a number of alternatives before giving up. ? Time Machine guarantees an absolute minimum of one and only one backup:The previous system backup will not be altered until after a subsequent backup is complete and intact, which means that none of its contents will be deleted (even if they are "older and expired") until after that subsequent backup finishes. Bottom line: If Time Machine tells you it needs more space, then it needs more space. Obtain a larger backup drive and create a new backup, after which you can consider erasing the existing one because it might contain a large backup you no longer need (a large virtual machine disk image is a popular reason). That will defer the problem to another day. On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 09:21:11 -0800, billgr0248 wrote: This may be a stupid question but I would like to know when & how TM
supposedly "deletes" older backups. I have watched my 1Tb G-DRIVE ev
RaW rapidly fill up until this AM it has only 52.24Gb free. The
internal drive in my 2017 MBP is a 1Tb SSD with 572.1Gb free. My
concern is that in a lot of the posts I've read the suggestion is to
get another/larger external backup device & carry on like nothing
happened.
As I understand it I can't delete the older backups myself manually &
still be able to recover if necessary...correct? At what point
should i bite the bullet & re-format my backup drive? Will the force
it to create a full backup of my MBP & start the process over? I
don't believe there is anyway to know what all will be permanently
lost to the ages so I am reluctant follow this path.
Any pertinent advice or guidance is appreciated.
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Re: testing email - last message failed
Is it possible the popup saying that you need to subscribe was for something in Chrome, and not iTunes, since your Mac was frozen by Chrome and not iTunes, even though your attention was towards iTunes.
I occasionally get a freeze, caused by Chrome while trying to work on something else. Chrome is not my favorite browser, but I use it because I am running an old OS.
Brent
On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:25 PM, KarenP wrote: That¡¯s a good question! I have no idea. I was trying to download a whole bunch of podcasts at one time, which normally does not cause a problem. But this time, it hung up iTunes so badly that I could not force quit. I even went to activity monitor and closed out all of the iTunes processes but still had no luck force quitting iTunes. After trying numerous times, I finally went ahead and closed chrome. Then I tried iTunes again and lo and behold, it quit.
¨C Karen On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:23 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Obviously, you are and have been. Servers make mistakes too.?
What concerns me is why did you having Chrome open affect anything to do with iTunes?
Brent
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Re: Can AirPods Pro earbuds be paired to smart TVs?
On Mar 1, 2020, at 12:07 PM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io < jimrobertson@...> wrote:
My wife just purchased AirPods Pro. They¡¯re impressive indeed as regards sonic fidelity (and even the amount of bass they reproduce), but today I tried to pair them with my LG 4K OLED TV, which I¡¯ve been able to pair with Bose Headphones, my Beats Pro X Bluetooth buds, and even my Phonak hearing aids, but I could NOT seem to pair them to the TV.
Am I just doing something wrong, or is this something the AirPods Pro cannot do?
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Jim Robertson
As I recall, when I got first generation AirPods, the instructions say that to pair with an iPhone you merely have to open the case near the phone, but to pair with something else you have to push the button on the back of the case. If you just got them you are probably covered, as with other Apple equipment for 90 days free phone support. Give them a call.
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Re: Time Machine isn't working
This is what I have done so far. I erased the LaCie drive (after backing up up my iMac to a drive connected to my Airport Extreme which took FOREVER!) using Disk Utility. Then I turned off Filevault as suggested by Denver Dan and it took over 24 hours! He did caution patience. Now I am doing a Time Machine backup of my iMac hard drive, using after having added the LaCie drive and my drive connected to Airport Extreme to the ¡°Excluded list. That first TM backup to LaCie has just started and it claims that it will take an hour. I¡¯m not holding my breath.
I read the BackBlaze article on How to Use Multiple Backup Drives with Time Machine. But I am wondering what OS they are talking about because when I open TM Preferences,there is no ¡°Select Disk¡± instruction, but rather a list of disks that I can click on (I am using Sierra 10.12.6 on a Late 2014 27-inch iMac). There does not seem to be a Use Both option. II did select the LaCie backup which was listed. I am wondering if there isn¡¯t the option to select a second backup disk, in my case the one connected to AirPort Extreme, while TM is still in the process of backing the hard drive to the LaCie. I will check if there is a ¡°Use Both" option when this first TM backup is over.
I have another question, namely when this is over, should I turn File Vault back on? When this problem first started Time Machine said it couldn¡¯t back up the hard drive because the LaCie disk was unencrypted. If such is the case and I turn File Vault back on, will this whole TM issue reoccur?
I used to understand how computers worked way back in the 80s using DOS with floppy disks and no hard drive. I took a course as part of my MBA requirements and even learned a little BASIC. Things were pretty simple" back then. Now there are so many layers underneath the user interface and both Apple and Windoze are basically saying, "there there dears don¡¯t worry your little heads about how this works, we¡¯ll take care of it.¡± Same with cars I suppose. I don¡¯t like the resulting lack of direct control. to say nothing of what the computer is actually doing!
Joan
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I have had a similar experience with my iPad mini 4 recently. I went to Settings/Battery (using iOS 13) and found that I had opened VPN and it was left on, so I am assuming that it was running in the background. I don¡¯t need VPN where I live because there are no houses within a mile of my house so there is no other WI-Fi around. Once I turned off VPN, the battery held for a longer period of time.
Joan
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If you haven¡¯t already done it, take a look at Settings>Battery to see if you can determine what is causing the drain if it¡¯s software related.
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On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:55 AM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:
? ok, I¡¯ll try that. I can¡¯t imagine what it might be. I¡¯m not aware of any changes I¡¯ve made to it recently and since it¡¯s in my own home, it shouldn¡¯t be continuing to search wifi connections overnight. -karen On Mar 1, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Barry Austern via Groups.Io < barryaus@...> wrote:
It happened again this morning, but the scenario was much worse. I charged it to 94% prior to going out to dinner at 5 PM. I think I used it once for about two minutes during the evening. The rest of the time it was closed. And this morning it was completely dead again.
Is it the battery or something draining it overnight? Turn it off and leave it overnight and see if it still goes down.?
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Re: Time Machine backup disk question
billgr0248 wrote: This may be a stupid question but I would like to know when & how TM?supposedly "deletes" older backups. ?I have watched my 1Tb G-DRIVE ev RaW?rapidly fill up until this AM it has only 52.24Gb free.
The ?internal drive in my?2017 MBP is a 1Tb SSD with 572.1Gb free. ?My concern is that in a lot of the?posts I've read the suggestion is to get another/larger external backup device &?carry on like nothing happened.
You could get the (free) BackupLoupe: <> which gives you visual insight into what Time Machine has been doing and the sizes of your Time Machine backups.
My normal recommendation is to have the space available for Time Machine to be at least 2? - 3 times the space occupied by data being backed up. You have a little over 400GB of data, and 1000GB of Time Machine space, so you¡¯re right at the edge. And remember that when you first start running Time Machine, it will backup the whole 400GB the first time.
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