Re: USB-C power connector
My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct.
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 5:30 PM, Jim McGarvie via < jim@...> wrote:
I haven’t had that problem, but then I usually use the Mag-safe connector. On Jan 2, 2025, at 12:22, Jim Showalter via <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: USB-C power connector
After wiggling the cable to see what might be loose, one thunderbolt port has completely stopped working. Guess that port was the problem. The other seems ok.
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Is the plug (male connector) loose in the port or the port loose in the chassis? Otto On 2 Jan 2025, at 19:22, Jim Showalter via <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Hi:I have a lot of photos and would like to delete some off my phone without losing them on my Mac. Everything is in the Cloud. When I have tried to delete something, it is deleted off everything. Thanks. Carol
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Re: USB-C power connector
I haven’t had that problem, but then I usually use the Mag-safe connector.
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 12:22, Jim Showalter via groups.io <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: USB-C power connector
Is the plug (male connector) loose in the port or the port loose in the chassis?
Otto
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On 2 Jan 2025, at 19:22, Jim Showalter via groups.io <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: USB-C power connector
If it is under warranty, take it in. If it is out of warranty, sounds like a user issue.?
I am currently going thru a deceased friends electronics to reset them to factory default, and many of his connectors are loose and there are several damaged cables. These are newer than my hardware which doesn’t have any loose connectors.?
Brent ?
On my Mac mini running 10.15.7?
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 11:22 AM, Jim Showalter via < jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: iPadOS 18 Control Panel’s Sound Control Icon
On Dec 31, 2024, at 10:18?AM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Yesterday I noticed that even though audio is being routed to my HAs, the icon displayed on the Sound control is a headphone, not the ear as I expected.
I listen to my MacBook Pro frequently through my BT enabled hearing aids (they’re not over-the-ear acoustic wonders, but even gargantuan things like Mahler symphonies sound better than not listening—and of course, after 2 trips to the local Cinema to see A Complete Unknown, my end-of-eighth decade ears are being treated to a reverie of growing of age memories from the 1960s).
But, on topic: I’ve NEVER seen an “ear” icon in the menubar, and my iPhone also shows an image of over the ear headphones.
FWIW.
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Jim Robertson
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iPadOS 18 Control Panel’s Sound Control Icon
I wear HAs (Hearing Aids) that I connect to my iPad. ?In the past, I was always able to readily see that they were connected by looking at Control Panel’s Sound control, where:
? ? ?speaker = iPad’s speaker
? ? ?headphone = headphones?
? ? ?ear = hearing aids
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Yesterday I noticed that even though audio is being routed to my HAs, the icon displayed on the Sound control is a headphone, not the ear as I expected.
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I’m wondering whether anyone else has noticed this? ?I’m running iPadOS 18.2.
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As an aside, I’m also having more HAs connectivity issues. ?I used to very infrequently encounter such problems.
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Both actually, but more the second.
One can format a rotating disk drive with APFS, it does not have to be HFS+.
99% of all website programmers program for windows, not accepted standards. Because it is easier for them.
cjc
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On 30 Dec 2024, at 10:06?am, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 29, 2024, at 2:41?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
What a foolish thing to assume.
Were you referring to my misunderstanding regarding SSDs vs. rotating platter drives, or to the likelihood that a major website platform hires skilled programmers?
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Jim Robertson
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 2:41?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
What a foolish thing to assume.
Were you referring to my misunderstanding regarding SSDs vs. rotating platter drives, or to the likelihood that a major website platform hires skilled programmers?
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What a foolish thing to assume.
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On 30 Dec 2024, at 4:43?am, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 29, 2024, at 9:35?AM, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
Yes. ?Why do you suppose that it wouldn’t it be possible?
Because I simply didn’t know (that current versions of macOS could run on a rotating platter drive and/or one formatted HFS).
One theory that I’ve just now discarded is that the problem is just sloppy html wrangling by an amateur site designer or coder, because after watching the magnificent?A Complete Unknown last night I’ve buried myself in interviews and reviews about the film and Dylan himself (because the same Bob Dylan who ?refused to go to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize sat with the movie's director for 18 hours discussing it while it was in preparation and production), and one of the things that's turned my Mac into a sea anchor this morning is the ?website. I’m pretty sure ITS owners have sufficient resources to make certain they employ skilled developers and programmers…
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 9:35?AM, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
Yes. ?Why do you suppose that it wouldn’t it be possible?
Because I simply didn’t know (that current versions of macOS could run on a rotating platter drive and/or one formatted HFS).
One theory that I’ve just now discarded is that the problem is just sloppy html wrangling by an amateur site designer or coder, because after watching the magnificent?A Complete Unknown last night I’ve buried myself in interviews and reviews about the film and Dylan himself (because the same Bob Dylan who ?refused to go to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize sat with the movie's director for 18 hours discussing it while it was in preparation and production), and one of the things that's turned my Mac into a sea anchor this morning is the ?website. I’m pretty sure ITS owners have sufficient resources to make certain they employ skilled developers and programmers…
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 6:23 AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Is it even possible to DO that (boot from a rotating platter external drive) in Sonoma on an M3 MacBook Pro? Yes. Why do you suppose that it wouldn’t it be possible? __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 01:20, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
Especially if you are booted from a rotating disk hard drive. Is it even possible to DO that (boot from a rotating platter external drive) in Sonoma on an M3 MacBook Pro?
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On Dec 28, 2024, at 10:09?PM, Christopher Collins via < maclist@...> wrote:
Try a different browser with the same sites & see what the result is.
It may well be a problem with how the site itself is written.
Thanks for your suggestions, Chris. I think that what I’ve done on my spouse’s new Mac Air (sporting slightly earlier versions of macOS Sonoma and Safari coming out of its shipping box), with the same site NOT causing these problems offers clues that it’s not JUST the site’s coding that’s causing the issue.
You say “JUST the site’s coding” but isn’t it the job of any browser to deal with any such issues as part of what it routinely does?
Otto
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On 16 Dec 2024, at 19:22, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Thank you Jim Robertson for including a link to this article.
This is unrelated to the OP’s issue, but did me resolve one I had, an shows the similarities between the current macOSes and iOSes.
I recently posted about getting a message that I needed more Storage (I got it correct this time) to install iOS 18 on my iPhone.
While skimming the article, I looked in Settings> General> iPhone Storage and noticed Apple usd the same graphic format as the article showed used in more current macOSes. So I dug around and deleted a few unused Apps, then checked to see if iOS 18 was agreeable to being installed. It was.
My issue was resolved. Thanks , Jim.
And it showed me why there was so much vocal resistance to change with iOS 18. There are many changes in this version. Yes! I don’t recall any iOS version having so many changes compared with the previous version, as 18. Otto
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On Dec 28, 2024, at 9:20 PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Are you saying that I’ve not documented that a problem exists? I’m not sure that one does. Does this happen when you have very few tabs open and/or not a lot of other apps running? Even with great memory management, it’s possible to run out of real RAM. Once your Mac starts having to use virtual memory, things will slow down noticeably. Especially if you are booted from a rotating disk hard drive. There is nothing wrong with Sonoma, so there is no reason to presume that moving to Sequoia is going to fix anything. However, if there is something amiss with YOUR installation of Sonoma, you can rule that out quickly by booting into Recovery and installing a fresh copy of the OS. I doubt that will help either, though, because these days the OS is well protected and mostly foolproof. __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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Dear All? Thanks all I downloaded Maccleaner Pro. Did the job and I reclaimed 250 GB. I am still not sure of what other files are? Happy for now!!
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On Dec 16, 2024, at 10:22?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
On Dec 15, 2024, at 07:54, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Many of these articles discuss “System Data” as excessive when it exceeds 40-50 GB, but almost 90% of ALL the space on a 1 TB internal SSD drive is just enormous.
Unless you have AppleCare, your Mac is likely out of warranty, but if you describe your problem to Apple on its support page, you might get lucky and be able to talk live to a support engineer.
Here’s one of the articles I found on the topic:
Thank you Jim Robertson for including a link to this article.? This is unrelated to the OP’s issue, but did me resolve one I had, an shows the similarities between the current macOSes and iOSes.?
I recently posted about getting a message that I needed more Storage (I got it correct this time) to install iOS 18 on my iPhone.?
While skimming the article, I looked in Settings> General> iPhone Storage and noticed Apple usd the same graphic format as the article showed used in more current macOSes. So I dug around and deleted a few unused Apps, then checked to see if iOS 18 was agreeable to being installed. It was.?
My issue was resolved. Thanks , Jim.?
And it showed me why there was so much vocal ?resistance to change with iOS 18. There are many changes in this version.?
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Jim, an OS upgrade seldom fixes problems, unless there specifically is a bug fix.?
Some sites have a lot of crap-activity going on. That happens to be a popular web site, so may also be popular with hackers.?
Try the Restore, but if the problems follow over, do a Clean install. The reason I suggest a clean install it that when Apple releases whole number upgrades, they often reset the default setting to highlight new features. So it is a good time to run thru them all.?
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On Dec 28, 2024, at 12:38, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Dec 28, 2024, at 1:26?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Now I might be talking out of my hat, but it might not be just the silicone. It might also be the component of the OS, namely that version of Safari. It evolves as does the OS.?
It sounded like you closed tabs in Safari. ?Next time, try quiting Safari, and reopen it then see if that lowered the demand by clearing caches.?
Thanks for the suggestion, Brent, but my latest post demonstrates (to me at least) that clearing caches and updating Safari to the latest decimal release doesn’t solve the problem, nor does clearing Safari’s entire history.
And, as for the cooking website, I actually was amazed at how much better my popovers turned out following the explicit and demanding instructions in “Mile High Popovers.”?
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Brent