Hi Randy,
Thanks, as always, for your very useful tips! However, I'm afraid all the changes in language used between the various Mac O/S versions has me stumped as to how to set things to have my hard drive powered when my Mac goes to sleep.
When I go to System Settings >? Battery > Options button, I'm confronted with a dialog box that says "Wake for network access. While sleeping, your Mac can receive incoming network traffic, such as iMessages and other iCloud updates, to keep your applications up to date" and then I have to choose between these 3 options: Only on Power Adapter, Always, and Never. So which would I choose?
Thanks,
Mary
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 3:18 PM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:
With that said, the option doesn’t show up on my 2019 16” MacBook Pro. It has an internal SSD The goal is to either have the hard drive powered when your Mac goes to sleep, or to only sleep your monitor but not the rest of your Mac. I’m afraid that the settings available for some MacBooks is different than the settings available for a laptop. Somewhere in there there is probably a setting that will accomplish the above. __________________________________________________ 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 Feb 2, 2024, at 12:02?AM, David Brostoff <davchbro@...> wrote:
On Feb 1, 2024, at 7:42?PM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:
I am at macOS Ventura 13.6.4. I’ve attached what my Options are … I see with an older MacBook Pro I have running Ventura that "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" is not there, but I am certain I had it with at least some previous macOS versions. Yes, I remember that too. But I haven’t looked at that setting for quite a long time so I don’t know when it vanished. I’m going finally bite the bullet and upgrade to Sonoma. I’ll be backing up everything (TM & Clone) and then doing the upgrade either later today or tomorrow. -- Bev in TX
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 7:42?PM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:
I am at macOS Ventura 13.6.4. I’ve attached what my Options are …
I see with an older MacBook Pro I have running Ventura that "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" is not there, but I am certain I had it with at least some previous macOS versions. David
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 8:21?PM, David Brostoff <davchbro@...> wrote:
With that said, the option doesn’t show up on my 2019 16” MacBook Pro. It has an internal SSD and I currently do not have any HDDs attached. I have the same model, running Sonoma 14.3. I am at macOS Ventura 13.6.4. I’ve attached what my Options are … -- Bev in TX
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 3:18?PM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:
With that said, the option doesn’t show up on my 2019 16” MacBook Pro. It has an internal SSD and I currently do not have any HDDs attached.
I have the same model, running Sonoma 14.3. Here is a screenshot of the setting:
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 4:39?PM, Julian Thomas <jt@...> wrote:
On Feb 1, 2024, at 08:32, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
Do this:
- Go into System Preferences (in your Apple menu or in your dock)
- Go into Energy Saver Not an option on my M1 MacBook pro still on Monterey. If the setting exists for a laptop on later macOS versions, it will be under: Apple > System Settings > Battery > Options button With that said, the option doesn’t show up on my 2019 16” MacBook Pro. It has an internal SSD and I currently do not have any HDDs attached. -- Bev in TX
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laptop, black screen, vertical varied lines…
Hello,
I have a LG monitor hooked up to my laptop. when working earlier this evening the laptop screen suddenly went black with vertical lines and rectangles of varying sizes and colours. I stopped, closed all my open programs and did a time machine backup followed by a Carbon Copy Cloner backup.
It’s a 2018 Quad Core ? Intel i7. not sure if I have these in the right order. Ventura. AppleCare has expired. I’m in London, UK, so easy access to an Apple store if necessary.
Of course, I’m under pressure working towards a deadline.
An online search showed this has happened to others and suggested rebooting in Safe mode to allow the computer to check itself?? it’s late… i’m tired.
I’ve left the monitor connected, shut the laptop lid and power off to the monitor.
Can I continue working (in the morning) - it seems fine on the monitor - and deal with this after I’ve finished the work I have to do?
Will I possibly do more damage?
Would it be worth trying just a normal Restart?
Any other things to consider?
I’m off to bed now but perhaps there might be some comments waiting for me when I’m up and about.
Thanks in advance.
Julie
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 08:32, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
Do this:
- Go into System Preferences (in your Apple menu or in your dock)
- Go into Energy Saver Not an option on my M1 MacBook pro still on Monterey. — jt - jt@... Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell
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Keynote - Unsolicited Slide Component Movement
I use Keynote for presentations every few months and I'm frustrated by unrequested advancing of the presentation periodically. ?So for example, while presenting a slide, with an animated component, either that component will animate without being commanded, or the slide will advance to the next slide without being commanded. ?The behavior is erratic and unpredictable.
I typically use either the right arrow key or the Return key to advance through animations or slides and sometimes I'll hit the key, and the presentation instantaneously moves through two or three elements.
Anybody else experience this? ?Any suggestions or workarounds?
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Creating and Managing User Accounts
Recently for the first time ever I created a new User Account on my Mac (Ventura OS). I haven’t been successful however as the sole administrative user in establishing permissions for this new user account. I set up the new account as a ‘Standard’ account with its own password. From my own Administrative account I clicked 'Get Info’ on a folder for which I want to allow access for the new user by granting the user ‘Read Only’ permissions for the content within the folder which contains substantial amounts of sub folders and files. Also, I went into ‘File Sharing’ in the system settings to include the folder I wish to share.
Upon re-booting under the newly created account I’ve discovered that the folder for which I granted permissions cannot be accessed as it resides in the Desktop folder which appears to be locked along with the Documents and Downloads folder.
What’s more all the content within my administrative user folder IS accessible as is the content of external drives plugged into the computer though I never assigned Permissions for any of this content to be accessed or shared.
I’ve gone onto Apple support pages and other sites to see what I am missing and yet clearly I am doing this incorrectly. Any guidance and/or suggestions on how to set up and manage a User Account is much appreciated and welcome.
—罢辞苍测--
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Thank you for this easy tip!
Pat
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On Feb 1, 2024, at 6:32 AM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
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!
__________________________________________________
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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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!
__________________________________________________
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.
? ? ? ??
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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Bev in TX
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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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