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Re: New iPad - No bluetooth
I tried making sure they were both totally off ?(the old iPad was also off) and then starting them up again. ?Now the new iPad finds the laptop but they “can’t pair.” ?And some other device (a neighbor’s? - not real close) came up. ?Meanwhile the MacBook is telling me that I have no Bluetooth devices. ?(I just upgraded this yesterday to Sonoma and I think that’s what caused the problem although I certainly did need a new iPad anyway.)?
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On Dec 22, 2023, at 4:30?PM, David G Brooks via groups.io <davidandtrishab@...> wrote:
I tried to send this message to you ……. And it was rejected twice!
You are very welcome, Becky. ?
More information from Apple here if needed: ?
Warm regards,
David
With regard to your current situation …………… I take the simple way out first!
Turn OFF - completely - your MacBook Air AND your iPad (slide bar off!)
Restart both and see if there is any change.
D.
On 22 Dec 2023, at 22:25, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@...> wrote:
I got my new iPad but I and I think it’s all set up after I spent an hour with tech support. We had to go around and download the apps etc from the iCloud because I really didn’t have enough space to update the iPad. ?(Old and full)
Now I still can’t get the Bluetooth to work between my MacBook Air (Sonoma) and the new iPad. . It wasn’t working on the old iPad because I didn’t have enough space. ?Now it’s not working on the new iPad either and there’s plenty of space. ??(And I really used that quite a lot.)
The iPad says “This iPad is diccoverable as Becky Lindroos’ iPad (2) while Bluetooth Settings is open."
Then, same screen, where it says “Devices” the wheel just keeps going around searching.
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The MacBook says This Mac is discoverable as “MacBook Air” while Bluetooth Settings is open. ?
And under My Devices. - “No Bluetooth Devices” ?and it says “Nearby Devices”.
Becky
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Re: New iPad - No bluetooth
I tried to send this message to you ……. And it was rejected twice!
You are very welcome, Becky. ?
More information from Apple here if needed: ?
Warm regards,
David
With regard to your current situation …………… I take the simple way out first!
Turn OFF - completely - your MacBook Air AND your iPad (slide bar off!)
Restart both and see if there is any change.
D.
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On 22 Dec 2023, at 22:25, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@...> wrote:
I got my new iPad but I and I think it’s all set up after I spent an hour with tech support. We had to go around and download the apps etc from the iCloud because I really didn’t have enough space to update the iPad. ?(Old and full)
Now I still can’t get the Bluetooth to work between my MacBook Air (Sonoma) and the new iPad. . It wasn’t working on the old iPad because I didn’t have enough space. ?Now it’s not working on the new iPad either and there’s plenty of space. ??(And I really used that quite a lot.)
The iPad says “This iPad is diccoverable as Becky Lindroos’ iPad (2) while Bluetooth Settings is open."
Then, same screen, where it says “Devices” the wheel just keeps going around searching.
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The MacBook says This Mac is discoverable as “MacBook Air” while Bluetooth Settings is open. ?
And under My Devices. - “No Bluetooth Devices” ?and it says “Nearby Devices”.
Becky
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I got my new iPad but I and I think it’s all set up after I spent an hour with tech support. We had to go around and download the apps etc from the iCloud because I really didn’t have enough space to update the iPad. (Old and full)
Now I still can’t get the Bluetooth to work between my MacBook Air (Sonoma) and the new iPad. . It wasn’t working on the old iPad because I didn’t have enough space. Now it’s not working on the new iPad either and there’s plenty of space. (And I really used that quite a lot.)
The iPad says “This iPad is diccoverable as Becky Lindroos’ iPad (2) while Bluetooth Settings is open."
Then, same screen, where it says “Devices” the wheel just keeps going around searching.
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The MacBook says This Mac is discoverable as “MacBook Air” while Bluetooth Settings is open.
And under My Devices. - “No Bluetooth Devices” and it says “Nearby Devices”.
Becky
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Re: New iPad won't "open" -
Oh thank you soooooo much! ? ?I figured out how to open it (accidentally found out) because it doesn’t a power button like my old one. ?
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On Dec 22, 2023, at 1:52?PM, David G Brooks via groups.io <davidandtrishab@...> wrote:
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Good luck!
David
On 22 Dec 2023, at 19:44, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@...> wrote:
I got a new 5th generation iPad - it won’t open - ?it’s turned on and I found how to to turn it off but I swipe and swipe - up, like it says, and nothing happens.?
Becky
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Good luck!
David
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On 22 Dec 2023, at 19:44, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@...> wrote:
I got a new 5th generation iPad - it won’t open - ?it’s turned on and I found how to to turn it off but I swipe and swipe - up, like it says, and nothing happens.?
Becky
I got a new 5th generation iPad - it won’t open - ?it’s turned on and I found how to to turn it off but I swipe and swipe - up, like it says, and nothing happens.?Becky
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Re: Entering password on a Mac Studio 2023
Tanya Metaksa wrote: I purchased a Mac Studio several months ago. The only people who could access it are my husband and myself. I am having a person come into our home to help my husband for medical reasons two times a week. Until now my Lock Screen was set to after Require password after screen saver begin with the setting of 4 hours. Now I want to turn it back to 5 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but leave it at 4 hours the rest of the week. Is there any automatic way to have the computer perform such a task?
When I was transitioning from living on a laptop to living on a desktop setup – before I had even purchased my M1 Max Studio – I bought an Apple Magic Keyboard with TouchID.
I have the “password after screensaver” set to just 1 minute, since the TouchID on this keyboard works very well, and I also have “Unlock using Apple Watch” set as well.
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Re: Entering password on a Mac Studio 2023
Vince Winterling wrote: Safest thing, if you have trust issues, is turn it off during the visit.
My M1 Max Studio running macOS 14.2.1 Sonoma takes all of about 15 seconds or less to cold boot from pushing the button to login screen being ready for input.
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Re: Entering password on a Mac Studio 2023
Or make it 5 mins every day while these visits continue.
Otto
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On 20 Dec 2023, at 17:18, Vince Winterling <vincentwinterling@...> wrote:
Safest thing, if you have trust issues, is turn it off during the visit.
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Re: Entering password on a Mac Studio 2023
Safest thing, if you have trust issues, is turn it off during the visit.
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Vincent Winterling
Vineland, NJ
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On Dec 20, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Tanya Metaksa <tanya.metaksa@...> wrote:
I purchased a Mac Studio several months ago. The only people who could access it are my husband and myself. I am having a person come into our home to help my husband for medical reasons two times a week. Until now my Lock Screen was set to after Require password after screen saver begin with the setting of 4 hours. Now I want to turn it back to 5 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but leave it at 4 hours the rest of the week. Is there any automatic way to have the computer perform such a task?
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Entering password on a Mac Studio 2023
I purchased a Mac Studio several months ago. The only people who could access it are my husband and myself. I am having a person come into our home to help my husband for medical reasons two times a week. Until now my Lock Screen was set to after Require password after screen saver begin with the setting of 4 hours. Now I want to turn it back to 5 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but leave it at 4 hours the rest of the week. Is there any automatic way to have the computer perform such a task?
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Re: Print Across Several Pages
Thanks Randy.?
PostRazoe looks promising.
I am aware of Acrobat but have avoided it after previous experiences of it interfering with other apps and settings.?
Yes, I could print as a muiltipage document if the app will translate an image into a muitlipage document. ?That’s what I do with the CAD app, which is the only one I have that does that. ?But I was looking for something simpler. ? ?
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Easy one first: at some point Save As was removed from the default File menu. I can’t remember if was with 10.14 or before. The solution is simple though: ? changes Duplicate to Save As in that menu.
iCloud automatically syncs:
Mail
Contacts
Calendars
Reminders
Safari
Notes
Siri
Keychain
Find My
News
Stocks
Home
and also Photos but that would require much more than the default 5 GB in my case.
iCloud Drive allows syncing of:
Desktop & Documents folders
Automator
Preview
Quicktime Player
Script Editor
TextEdit
GarageBand
Books
iMovie
Keynote
Numbers
Pages
Maps
System Preferences
That’s in 10.14. It might be different in later OSes.
Indeed, 32-bit apps will not run in 10.15. That’s what’s stopped me going there so far.
Otto
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On 18 Dec 2023, at 23:46, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Sorry, the features did not trigger a memory. Aw, I see Apple’s infamous ambiguity has struck again, iCloud vs iCloud Drive. If you figure out the difference, please post it.
Chalk up another for you to not upgrade to Catalina, just yet. And I will back up my former praise of the newer Numbers, until I get this issue resolved. There is no Save As for Numbers v 11.1, which is needed for Catalina. I will call Apple Support later to see if there is a works around. What to you say in Britain to slow a horse down, is is also whoa? Turns our the answer is similar to the solution for Sonoma. Instead of Save as, use Move To, either to Documents or Desktop. I will have to play with it, as to how long it sticks, and if there is a way to sync the Mac with my iPhone like I used to do with Excel and DocsToGo.
Thank you for the clue.
This is a known issue in Sonoma, but this Mac will never get there. That was the thread I was thinking of, from another list. It involves a new Sys Pref / Setting in Sonoma, Desktop & Dock.
Right now, the Mac mini won’t boot if both RAM sockets have a stick in them. I just received larger RAM, and installed them. I called Tech Sup from the retailer and we explored it. Turns out Bank 0 is bad and was also the cause of the extreme slowness of the Mac. It is faster with a singe 4 GB stick of RAM, than two sticks of 2 GB. I have a RMA to send it back for repairs under warranty,
One more issue of Catalina’s need for 64-bit apps, There is a gap on Shirt-Pockets web page. The legacy versions for 10.10 - 10.15 seem to be missing? So I am stuck, because I cannot back up all the work I just spent setting it up, before sending it back.
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SPAMMERS (Spectrum ISP and mobile customers beware)
This morning I received a VERY professional-looking message allegedly from my ISP (Charter-Spectrum), “alerting" me that my contact phone number and email address had been changed, and asking me to click a link or to call Spectrum if I didn’t remember initiating those changes.
The headers and footers in the html message seem to contain genuine links to the SPECTRUM website, but I suspect the contact phone number does NOT, but rather that the fraudsters managed to find a combination of digits that “translate” to the first four characters in the word “Spectrum.”
Fortunately, I was able to get a live person customer service person on the phone using the company’s genuine website, where I learned that other customers have reported similar suspicious emails. Naturally, I did NOT make any attempt to respond directly to the incoming message
The only thing that disappointed me during my support call was that the customer relations support person seemed to have no interest in recording the sending email address or contact phone number listed in the message itself, but I guess it’s likely that knowing them might not help in truncating the fraudsters malicious activities.
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Re: Print Across Several Pages
Did you check the settings of whatever program you’re using? Acrobat, for example, has some options under “Poster" in the paper size and handling section of the print dialogue box — at least the paid program does. Don’t know about the free version. ?Preview doesn’t seem to have that option. You’re looking for “tile” options.
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On Dec 18, 2023, at 17:16, Bayswater <Bayswater@...> wrote:
?Looking for a simple app that will print a PDF or other file in common image formats across several pages. I had a large bed printer but it died and I decided not to spend the money to get another one, so I have a basic printer that does Legal at most. ?
I can do this with a CAD app that generates large drawings that need to be printed on several pages, with a small overlap between the sections so the pages can be pasted together. ?I've seen various convoluted processes, all of them a lot more complicated than just importing an image into a CAD app and using that. ?
I was hoping this would be a common thing, and from what I see, it is in Windows, but seems pretty much absent on the Mac if I do a web search. ?
Is there a simple, preferably free utility to do this?
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I forgot, when you do _any_ OS upgrade, disconnect all external devices, except the monitor, keyboard and pointing device.?
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On Dec 18, 2023, at 21:09, Doris <untoldexpressions@...> wrote:
?All of a sudden I have multiple copies of my playlists on iPhone 8, not all. Some have only one copy and a few just 2 or 3, but many of my playlists have up to 47 copies.?
I have had the phone connected to my MacBook Pro which has just been updated to Sonoma at the insistence of apple support.?
Anyone have any idea what is?going on?
Doris?
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First, disconnect the iPhone from your Mac. Then restart the iPhone. Check the playlist.?
If that doesn’t resolve it, then try starting up Music. Give it time to start and make any adjustments it needs to make. Once it is ready, then try syncing the iPhone to the Mac. I just installed Catalina, so I am guessing that is done thru Finder.?
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On Dec 18, 2023, at 21:09, Doris <untoldexpressions@...> wrote:
?All of a sudden I have multiple copies of my playlists on iPhone 8, not all. Some have only one copy and a few just 2 or 3, but many of my playlists have up to 47 copies.?
I have had the phone connected to my MacBook Pro which has just been updated to Sonoma at the insistence of apple support.?
Anyone have any idea what is?going on?
Doris?
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Re: Print Across Several Pages
Can you print it as a multi-page doc, then trim 1 or 2 edges to remove the border? Then overlap and paste, as before.?
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On Dec 18, 2023, at 17:16, Bayswater <Bayswater@...> wrote:
?Looking for a simple app that will print a PDF or other file in common image formats across several pages. I had a large bed printer but it died and I decided not to spend the money to get another one, so I have a basic printer that does Legal at most. ?
I can do this with a CAD app that generates large drawings that need to be printed on several pages, with a small overlap between the sections so the pages can be pasted together. ?I've seen various convoluted processes, all of them a lot more complicated than just importing an image into a CAD app and using that. ?
I was hoping this would be a common thing, and from what I see, it is in Windows, but seems pretty much absent on the Mac if I do a web search. ?
Is there a simple, preferably free utility to do this?
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Thank you.?
I had already written him…. ?and his dog. His reply was that v3.8 works, the current version. I’m currently about 1/3 of the way done making a clone.?
macOS 10.12 to 10.15 are omitted on the SD! page, and I have had problem installing too new versions of 3 apps. I wanted to avoid doing that yet again.?
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On Dec 18, 2023, at 17:05, Vince Winterling <vincentwinterling@...> wrote:
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Drop Dave an email at S-D. If he has a legacy copy, he’ll send it to you.
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Sorry, the features did not trigger a memory. Aw, I see Apple’s infamous ambiguity has struck again, iCloud vs iCloud Drive. If you figure out the difference, please post it.
Chalk up another for you to not upgrade to Catalina, just yet. And I will back up my former praise of the newer Numbers, until I get this issue resolved. There is no Save As for Numbers v 11.1, which is needed for
Catalina. I will call Apple Support later to see if there is a works around. What to you say in Britain to slow a horse down, is is also whoa? Turns our the answer is similar to the solution for Sonoma. Instead of Save as, use Move To, either to Documents
or Desktop. I will have to play with it, as to how long it sticks, and if there is a way to sync the Mac with my iPhone like I used to do with Excel and DocsToGo.
This is a known issue in Sonoma, but this Mac will never get there. That was the thread I was thinking of, from another list. It involves a new Sys Pref / Setting in Sonoma, Desktop & Dock.
Right now, the Mac mini won’t boot if both RAM sockets have a stick in them. I just received larger RAM, and installed them. I called Tech Sup from the retailer and we explored it. Turns out Bank 0 is bad and was
also the cause of the extreme slowness of the Mac. It is faster with a singe 4 GB stick of RAM, than two sticks of 2 GB. I have a RMA to send it back for repairs under warranty,?
One more issue of Catalina’s need for 64-bit apps, There is a gap on Shirt-Pockets web page. The legacy versions for 10.10 - 10.15 seem to be missing? So I am stuck, because I cannot back up all the work I just
spent setting it up, before sending it back.
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Brent,
Yes, I assumed that the list of features would trigger some memory of what you’re trying to find.
I’m not quite clear what you’re after. If it helps, I was initially confused by the distinction between iCloud and iCloud Drive. Most of my stuff syncs to my iPhone using iCloud but I need iCloud Drive for Numbers.
The iCloud stuff syncs automatically but for Numbers I need to 'Save As' to get sheets I've worked on on the Mac onto my iPhone.
I’m still on 10.14. This might have changed in 10.15.
Otto
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Thanks, Jim R, that is involved and was enough to find the thread I was looking for on another list. Reading that and researching that will keep me busy for a
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Otto, that URL is the features of Catalina and a link to download it. Got both. I’m looking for a how-to.
Thanks, folks.
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All of a sudden I have multiple copies of my playlists on iPhone 8, not all. Some have only one copy and a few just 2 or 3, but many of my playlists have up to 47 copies.?
I have had the phone connected to my MacBook Pro which has just been updated to Sonoma at the insistence of apple support.?
Anyone have any idea what is?going on?
Doris?
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Becky Lindroos
David G Brooks
Jim Saklad
Brent