Here is a tip that is simple, easy to implement, but which should be extremely valuable. It only applies if your Macintosh has a solid state drive (SSD). It will be most useful if you have an internal (boot) SSD, but it should also be useful if you have an external SSD.
You can determine if you have an internal SSD (as opposed to a rotating disk hard drive) by going into:
Apple menu --> About This Mac --> System Report --> Hardware --> [click on the disclose triangle to the left of "Hardware" if there isn't a list of stuff under Hardware] --> Storage --> Medium Type
If it says "rotational" you don't have an internal SSD.
I've been researching a problem with Mac SSD's, and that is that they tend to start slowing down when they reach roughly 50% full.
"In practice, an SSD¡¯s performance begins to decline after it reaches about 50% full."
SSD's slow down because when data on your SSD is deleted, the registers that data occupies aren't erased, they are just marked as being available to be re-written. The problem is that once every register in the drive is written to once, it takes several operations to write new data to one of the available locations because there is already data there and it must be erased first. This noticeably slows down drive access.
Why Solid-State Drive (SSD) Performance Slows Down As It Becomes Full
Unfortunately, the Mac OS doesn't have any software tools that can erase full but available registers. (Such tools exist for Windows, so it is frustrating that there isn't something similar for the Macintosh.) I've been researching this, hoping that there might be a Unix command that would do this, but while there are "secure erase" commands (which write zeros or similar to the designated space), there are no Unix commands that will completely erase registers marked as available.
But some sleuthing turned up the fact that most SSD's (or your OS's TRIM function) include "garbage collection" routines. These are routines that do exactly what I was looking for. Garbage collections occurs during times when your Mac is completely idle. The problem is that most Macs are set so that the garbage collection routines never run, even when your Mac is in sleep mode, which would be the most advantageous time for them to run. However, this can easily be remedied!!!
So, to prevent your SSD's performance from degrading you can adjust your Mac's settings to ensure that your SSD stays powered on when your computer goes into sleep mode, which will allow garbage collection to run.
Do this:
- Go into System Preferences (in your Apple menu or in your dock)
- Go into Energy Saver
- Unlock things by clicking on the lock icon on the lower left (if necessary) and putting in your password
- Uncheck: "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"
- Lock things back up
Your SSD should now retain its full performance even after it is well past 50% full, and it is likely to have a longer service life than it might have previously!
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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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I would try going to the Canon website to see if there might be an update for your printer
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Recently I can¡¯t print from certain apps using my iPhone and my iPad. This includes my banking ads and forms from ?various insurance and financial companies. I can print from some other types of apps.
I don¡¯t receive any error messages. Nothing happens.
Canon MF216n printer.
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I was able to print using my 2011 MacBook Pro.
my iPad Pro, iPad mini and iPhone 13 ?have the latest OS.
A couple of weeks ago I saw an email about 5his subject but a Google search returned nothing helpful.
Thanks, Bobby
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Recently I can¡¯t print from certain apps using my iPhone and my iPad. This includes my banking ads and forms from ?various insurance and financial companies. I can print from some other types of apps.
I don¡¯t receive any error messages. Nothing happens.
Canon MF216n printer.
? ? ? ??
I was able to print using my 2011 MacBook Pro.
my iPad Pro, iPad mini and iPhone 13 ?have the latest OS.
A couple of weeks ago I saw an email about 5his subject but a Google search returned nothing helpful.
Thanks, Bobby
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If you haven¡¯t already done so, you might want to report this to Apple as a bug:
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On Jan 30, 2024, at 10:31?AM, Steve <srickaby@...> wrote:
?Be aware that under the 'right' circumstances this release of Apple Mail can irretrievably lose outgoing mail.
I cannot be absolutely sure of the sequence of operations that lead to this loss, but it was of a very long email that's I'd worked on for about an hour. The bug is associated with the 'undo send' feature. I'd set this to a thirty second delay, and after executing 'send', realised that Mail's autofill for the addressee field had put in the wrong person.
So I cancelled 'send'. I'm not entirely sure what happened after that, but it involved Mail asserting that it would send the email later, and then losing all trace of it. By 'all trace', I mean that the draft was not recoverable by searching all mailboxes, rebuilding all mailboxes, and as a last resort searching Mail's entire database using BBEdit.
In the end I had to draft the entire thing again.
My advice to anyone intending to send a long and carefully worded email in Mail is to draft it in TextEdit. At least then you have a copy if Mail barfs.
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Steve
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I don¡¯t put the address on long complicated emails until I am 100% ready to send. This almost always spares me grief of one sort or another.
Becky
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On Jan 30, 2024, at 3:59?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
My best suggestion would be to check the To: address BEFORE you click SEND!
cjc
On 31 Jan 2024, at 3:31 am, Steve <srickaby@...> wrote:
Be aware that under the 'right' circumstances this release of Apple Mail can irretrievably lose outgoing mail.
I cannot be absolutely sure of the sequence of operations that lead to this loss, but it was of a very long email that's I'd worked on for about an hour. The bug is associated with the 'undo send' feature. I'd set this to a thirty second delay, and after executing 'send', realised that Mail's autofill for the addressee field had put in the wrong person.
So I cancelled 'send'. I'm not entirely sure what happened after that, but it involved Mail asserting that it would send the email later, and then losing all trace of it. By 'all trace', I mean that the draft was not recoverable by searching all mailboxes, rebuilding all mailboxes, and as a last resort searching Mail's entire database using BBEdit.
In the end I had to draft the entire thing again.
My advice to anyone intending to send a long and carefully worded email in Mail is to draft it in TextEdit. At least then you have a copy if Mail barfs.
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Steve
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My best suggestion would be to check the To: address BEFORE you click SEND!
cjc
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On 31 Jan 2024, at 3:31 am, Steve <srickaby@...> wrote:
Be aware that under the 'right' circumstances this release of Apple Mail can irretrievably lose outgoing mail.
I cannot be absolutely sure of the sequence of operations that lead to this loss, but it was of a very long email that's I'd worked on for about an hour. The bug is associated with the 'undo send' feature. I'd set this to a thirty second delay, and after executing 'send', realised that Mail's autofill for the addressee field had put in the wrong person.
So I cancelled 'send'. I'm not entirely sure what happened after that, but it involved Mail asserting that it would send the email later, and then losing all trace of it. By 'all trace', I mean that the draft was not recoverable by searching all mailboxes, rebuilding all mailboxes, and as a last resort searching Mail's entire database using BBEdit.
In the end I had to draft the entire thing again.
My advice to anyone intending to send a long and carefully worded email in Mail is to draft it in TextEdit. At least then you have a copy if Mail barfs.
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Steve
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Just for clarification, it wasn¡¯t me (Julie) who rewrote the whole thing. It was Steve, the OP. On 30 Jan 2024, at 17:51, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
julie wrote:
I rewrote then entire darned thing :-)
A nuisance for sure, but it¡¯s done...
When I know I am going to compose a long message for email, I will often write it in TextEdit or Notes, where I KNOW I cannot accidentally send it unfinished or unedited, then when I have reviewed, spell-checked, and edited it, copy and paste it into Mail. I do a version of this also. Julie
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julie wrote: I rewrote then entire darned thing :-)
A nuisance for sure, but it¡¯s done...
When I know I am going to compose a long message for email, I will often write it in TextEdit or Notes, where I KNOW I cannot accidentally send it unfinished or unedited, then when I have reviewed, spell-checked, and edited it, copy and paste it into Mail.
jimdoc@...
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I rewrote then entire darned thing :-)
Steve
A nuisance for sure, but it¡¯s done...
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On 30/01/2024 16:50, julie wrote: Oh, that¡¯s unfortunate. Have you looked for any Recovered Messages folders? If you scroll down on the left panel, they should show up if any have been created. There are none. I don¡¯t know how emails end up there but sometimes they do. You might find that a Draft of the email shows up in a few days. Again, I have no idea how this happens, but it does. Then I would rate that as a bug. I¡¯ve also had Mail switch the addressee after I¡¯d carefully chosen the correct one (both email addresses were listed for the same contact). Mail defaulted, without my noticing, to the one listed first in Contacts. It was a very unfortunate switch. I¡¯ve now separated those out in separate Contacts.
It was an earlier version (I¡¯m no on Ventura) and there was no ¡®Unsend'¡¯ available. Or, if there was I was not aware.
Hope you find a draft. Sometimes I send these emails to myself occasionally through the composition period, just in case. I rewrote then entire darned thing :-) Steve
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Oh, that¡¯s unfortunate. Have you looked for any Recovered Messages folders? If you scroll down on the left panel, they should show up if any have been created. I don¡¯t know how emails end up there but sometimes they do. You might find that a Draft of the email shows up in a few days. Again, I have no idea how this happens, but it does.
I¡¯ve also had Mail switch the addressee after I¡¯d carefully chosen the correct one (both email addresses were listed for the same contact). Mail defaulted, without my noticing, to the one listed first in Contacts. It was a very unfortunate switch. I¡¯ve now separated those out in separate Contacts.
It was an earlier version (I¡¯m no on Ventura) and there was no ¡®Unsend'¡¯ available. Or, if there was I was not aware.
Hope you find a draft. Sometimes I send these emails to myself occasionally through the composition period, just in case.
Julie
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On 30 Jan 2024, at 16:31, Steve <srickaby@...> wrote:
Be aware that under the 'right' circumstances this release of Apple Mail can irretrievably lose outgoing mail.
I cannot be absolutely sure of the sequence of operations that lead to this loss, but it was of a very long email that's I'd worked on for about an hour. The bug is associated with the 'undo send' feature. I'd set this to a thirty second delay, and after executing 'send', realised that Mail's autofill for the addressee field had put in the wrong person.
So I cancelled 'send'. I'm not entirely sure what happened after that, but it involved Mail asserting that it would send the email later, and then losing all trace of it. By 'all trace', I mean that the draft was not recoverable by searching all mailboxes, rebuilding all mailboxes, and as a last resort searching Mail's entire database using BBEdit.
In the end I had to draft the entire thing again.
My advice to anyone intending to send a long and carefully worded email in Mail is to draft it in TextEdit. At least then you have a copy if Mail barfs.
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Steve
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Be aware that under the 'right' circumstances this release of Apple Mail can irretrievably lose outgoing mail.
I cannot be absolutely sure of the sequence of operations that lead to this loss, but it was of a very long email that's I'd worked on for about an hour. The bug is associated with the 'undo send' feature. I'd set this to a thirty second delay, and after executing 'send', realised that Mail's autofill for the addressee field had put in the wrong person.
So I cancelled 'send'. I'm not entirely sure what happened after that, but it involved Mail asserting that it would send the email later, and then losing all trace of it. By 'all trace', I mean that the draft was not recoverable by searching all mailboxes, rebuilding all mailboxes, and as a last resort searching Mail's entire database using BBEdit.
In the end I had to draft the entire thing again.
My advice to anyone intending to send a long and carefully worded email in Mail is to draft it in TextEdit. At least then you have a copy if Mail barfs.
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Steve
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Can't Enable VIP Flag in Mail - Solution
I¡¯m going to skip the whining about how poorly this is implemented in Mail and go straight to the new ¡°lesson."
You can¡¯t enable VIP ¡°status¡± for a send in Mail unless the email address is in your contacts. Not just the sender, but the email. AND it may actually be in your contacts but apparently Mail can forget. If you try to enable VIP status, you won¡¯t get an error, or any indication that ¡°adding¡± won't work, except for the fact that it does not.
So if this happens to you, right click the sender in Mail and select Add to Contacts. In my case, this changed nothing in Contacts (the email was already there), but it unlocked the VIP status.
If anyone knows how to directly access the VIP list, I¡¯d dearly love to know!
Cheers,
tod
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Re: Apple Watch not showing temperature
Yes, it seemed to fix itself.
Regards,
Joan
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Re: Apple Watch not showing temperature
This happened to me, too.? The problem lasted less than a day and it's working fine now.? I did nothing to fix it.? I blame the weather app on the Apple Watch.
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Re: Mother of all security breaches!!!
Randy:
Thanks for the heads up! I checked all my email accounts and thankfully only my Yahoo non-business account was compromised.
John Mills
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Re: Apple Watch not showing temperature
It might be worth unpairing your watch and then pair it again. Good luck!
Pat
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On Jan 26, 2024, at 9:44 AM, Joan Sax via groups.io <jsax@...> wrote:
For some reason my Apple Watch is not displaying the temperature even though the weather app on my phone is working. reset it, removed the ¡®complication¡¯ (dumb description in my opinion) using the Watch app on my phonr , added it back. Still no temperature reading, just a few dots.
Anyone else have this problem? If so, how have you resolved it?
Joan
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Apple Watch not showing temperature
For some reason my Apple Watch is not displaying the temperature even though the weather app on my phone is working. reset it, removed the ¡®complication¡¯ (dumb description in my opinion) using the Watch app on my phonr , added it back. Still no temperature reading, just a few dots.
Anyone else have this problem? If so, how have you resolved it?
Joan
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Re: Mother of all security breaches!!!
Thank you for the links, Randy.
Donna Ellis
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On Jan 25, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
Personal data link checker:
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Re: Mother of all security breaches!!!
Randy, thanks for this.
The Cybernews personal data leak check shows that my data has been leaked on sites that I have never logged into so have never entered my email or created a password (eg PeopleDataLabs.com). I think that suggests they acquired my info from the other things listed (eg Collection #1), right?
Madeline
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On Jan 25, 2024, at 08:58, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
Security experts are referring to the recent discovery of a massive database that is composed of data from thousands of previous breaches, leaks, and private data databases as "The mother of all breaches".
¡°Why should I care? How does it impact me?¡±
The breach includes over 26 billion records. That¡¯s staggering. And that means if any of your accounts are included (or if you reuse passwords anywhere), you need to take action in order to protect yourself and your family.
Who¡¯s impacted? The database includes data from a wide variety of commonly used websites, including:
- Tencent
- Deezer
- Dropbox
- LinkedIn
Personal data link checker:
More info:
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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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