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Howdy.

Joan, the Screen Shot of your SysPref>Time Machine items to exclude
shows the LaCie drive, both partitions.

So you have it in the list of drives to NOT backup with Time Machine.
You can remove it by selecting with a click and then clicking the minus
sign below.



I'd do that first, then restart your Mac, check the available free
space on the LaCie unit (enough?) and then try a Time Machine backup
and see what happens.

As a separate and next step, turn off FileVault and let it go through
the time to un-encrypt your boot drive. Depending on how much is
encrypted it could take some time to finish.

Then attempt another Time Machine backup as a test. Tell the group
what happens.

Note: There are valid reasons to exclude some drives from a Time
Machine backup. I exclude a RAID enclosures drives because they are
backed up with CarbonCopyCloner. Note that I use the CCC backup
feature and not the CCC clone part.

I have a set of drives in a RAID and they are backed up to another set
of drives in a different RAID. I exclude the 2nd RAID's drives from
being indexed by Spotlight (see SysPrefs>Spotlight>Privacy tab.

Good luck!

Denver Dan



On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:33:28 -0500, Joan Sax via Groups.Io wrote:

Below is a screen shot of both my Time Machine Options window and of
my LaCie drive showing its capacity. Filevault is turned on. Before I
do anything, are you saying that I should turn Filevault off? Also,
the LaCie Drive isn’t the only one stating "Time Machine couldn’t
complete the backup to “Joan’s AirPort Extreme.local” There are no
disks to back up This can happen if all available disks are in the Do
not backup list. Click Options to edit the list.” And as you can see
from the screen shot, my iMac time machine drive is not listed under
the Exclude these items from backup.
So are you suggesting that I turn off Filevault and also reformat my
LaCie drive without the LACIE Share section? I do have a SuperDuper
backup of my drive on the LaCie Drive and I will not make sure I have
one on the Airport Extreme connected drive using Super Duper.
I will wait for further instructions before I do either turning off
Filevault and/or reformatting the LaCie drive

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To Denver Dan,

Start by working through:


Paul

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 5:16 PM Joan Sax via Groups.Io
<jsax@...> wrote:

I keep getting a message that Time Machine was unable to do a backup. I have two backup disks, a LaCie backup disk directly connected to my iMac (27-inch late 2014 running Sierra, 10.12.6) and a backup disk connected to my AirPort Extreme router. When I click on the Time Machine preferences, there are little notifications besides my LaCie disk and my iMac Time machine disk that say “There are no disks to back up. This can happen if all available disks are in the “Do not back up “ list. Click Options to edit the list.”

I did click options and the LaCie disk and LACIE SHARE (I’m not sure what that is) are the only ones listed in “Exclude these items from backups”. My iMac is not listed. Furthermore when I try to add a disk I see iMac time machine (the one connected to my AirPort Extreme) and it won’t allow me to add it to the excluded list. I also see “Joan’s iMac.sparsebundle” as an “invisible item”. What on earth is going on and how can I get back to normal Time Machine backups?

Joan

Howdy.

Joan, several questions and comments.

1. Do you have FileVault turned on?
See System Prefs>Privacy & Security>FileVault.

2. Can you do a screen capture and attach it to your reply?
Do the screen capture of the Sys Prefs>Time Machine>Options window.
You can drag the edge of the Options (exclusions) window to make it
larger, if necessary.

3. A sparse bundle is a specialized form of a Disk Image File.
When FileVault is turned on it can convert a backup into an encrypted
sparsebundle file.
If you turn FileVault off, it may take some time to un-encrypt your
files so patience is needed.
Sparsebundle on Mac was introduced with macOS X 10.5 Leopard while the
Disk Image File has been around much longer.
Some drives intended for backup may do a sparsebundle automatically. I
do Time Machine backup to an NAS Mirrored RAID drive enclosure. NAS =
Network Attached Storage (connected to my Ethernet network. Mirrored =
two twined HDDs that each have a copy of each file. RAID = Redundant
Array of Individual Disks. The Time Machine backups are in the form
of a sparsebundle.

4. A "share" may be a partition on a drive. Some LaCie drives
intended for backup may have two partitions and one may be a Share.
Getting rid of a Share means using the Disk Utility Partition command.
Another way to think of this is getting rid of the Share partition by
creating one large partition on the LaCie.
The first time you do that it might be confusing. IF YOU DO partition
the LaCie into one partition, Make sure the data on the LaCie is not
lost and is available on a different drive.

What is the total capacity of the LaCie drive?
What is the capacity of the Share partition on the LaCie drive.
What is the amount of available (free) space on the LaCie Share
partition and on the other partition?

Denver Dan



On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:16:36 -0500, Joan Sax via Groups.Io wrote:

I keep getting a message that Time Machine was unable to do a backup.
I have two backup disks, a LaCie backup disk directly connected to my
iMac (27-inch late 2014 running Sierra, 10.12.6) and a backup disk
connected to my AirPort Extreme router. When I click on the Time
Machine preferences, there are little notifications besides my LaCie
disk and my iMac Time machine disk that say “There are no disks to
back up. This can happen if all available disks are in the “Do not
back up “ list. Click Options to edit the list.”

I did click options and the LaCie disk and LACIE SHARE (I’m not sure
what that is) are the only ones listed in “Exclude these items from
backups”. My iMac is not listed. Furthermore when I try to add a
disk I see iMac time machine (the one connected to my AirPort
Extreme) and it won’t allow me to add it to the excluded list. I
also see “Joan’s iMac.sparsebundle” as an “invisible item”. What
on earth is going on and how can I get back to normal Time Machine
backups?

Joan

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I keep getting a message that Time Machine was unable to do a backup. I have two backup disks, a LaCie backup disk directly connected to my iMac (27-inch late 2014 running Sierra, 10.12.6) and a backup disk connected to my AirPort Extreme router. When I click on the Time Machine preferences, there are little notifications besides my LaCie disk and my iMac Time machine disk that say “There are no disks to back up. This can happen if all available disks are in the “Do not back up “ list. Click Options to edit the list.”

I did click options and the LaCie disk and LACIE SHARE (I’m not sure what that is) are the only ones listed in “Exclude these items from backups”. My iMac is not listed. Furthermore when I try to add a disk I see iMac time machine (the one connected to my AirPort Extreme) and it won’t allow me to add it to the excluded list. I also see “Joan’s iMac.sparsebundle” as an “invisible item”. What on earth is going on and how can I get back to normal Time Machine backups?

Joan

On Feb 25, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

It certainly puts to bed the lie that there is no malware for the Mac because there aren't enough Macs being used. 13% of the U.S. market is many millions of Macs in use. (Apple estimates over 10 million.)

Sorry, that should have been 100 million.

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

___________________________________________

Hi guys,

I had an incident today where an appointment was already set up, and I
received a mail saying it had a response from one for one of the
people invited. This is normal for Calendar and I click on the mail
attachment to which Calendar then tried to create an event from the
response. This then overwrote the original invitation rather than
updating it but in the process wipe it (and cancelled in this case)
the invite from all the attendees calendars. However, when I tried to
set the invitation back up again it would not allow me to do this as a
recurrent event despite the calendar now all having free time due to
the cancelation of the previous scheduled event. The only way around
this was to set the events up on a one by one basis. I have not
experienced this behaviour from Calendar before (as clicking on
responses I mail I am sure just used to update the invite in the
calendar with the persons response.)

Can anyone shed any light?

Best regards,

Paul Harrison

On Feb 25, 2020, at 8:56 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote:

And I would argue that this is a ringing endorsement of macOS and Apple products.

It certainly puts to bed the lie that there is no malware for the Mac because there aren't enough Macs being used. 13% of the U.S. market is many millions of Macs in use. (Apple estimates over 10 million.)

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

___________________________________________

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Interesting article.
My observation: 22 seconds after the Bong, my inherited 21.5" iMac 10.1 gives a loud "Pop".
My previous 24" iMac and 2014 miniMac have only Bonged.
All other audio is just fine with it.
Suggestions?

21.5 iMac, Late 2009, s/n: W8950YY95PC
3.08GHz, Core2 Duo
16GB 1067MHz DDR3,
NVidia GeForce 9400 w/256MB
MacOS 10.13.6

Gartner numbers for 4Q19: Apple US share 13.6%, Global share 7.5%



This is all PCs including laptops, not including other smart devices. Effectively this is Windows versus Mac OS, though a small portion of the non-Macs are linux.

In my Washington DC world you can generally sort government workers from private sector by their laptops. If it’s a Mac, it's private sector. Yes, some government employees buy their own Macs, if they can afford one. Most of the time they cannot use these for work though, so they stay home.

tod

Great news! I’m so glad it worked for you, as I had no way to test it. I hope it works for all who want to restore the “throaty” chime.

Bill

Bill. Bill. Bill.

Howdy. Howdy. Howdy.

You get three Gold Stars.

My new MacPro is now doing a fine throaty 3-part chord startup chime.

Yeaaaaa! Yeaaaaa!! Yeaaaaaaaaa !!!







Denver Dan
Denver Dan
Denver Dan



On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:58:05 -0800, Bill Castine wrote:

Today's issue of Tidbits explains a method of turning on the startup
chime. I have not tried it, as my iMac is old enough never to have
lost the chime. Note that the command may not work on all Macs.

Bill
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Today's issue of Tidbits explains a method of turning on the startup chime. I have not tried it, as my iMac is old enough never to have lost the chime. Note that the command may not work on all Macs.



Bill

Howdy.

There is a way, in current Pages program, to do a mail merge.

Here's an article on the process

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It is done with an AppleScript app. You can download the app via link
in the article.

Denver Dan


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On Feb 24, 2020, at 8:08 AM, jsm5320432 via Groups.Io wrote:

The one place I don't see Apple computers is in the hands of State of California employees

Many businesses, including the government, buy their computers in bulk. They purchase huge number of Windows "white boxes" (specially made cheap computers) for all of their lesser staff and other grunts. Apple doesn't sell based on price. There is no Apple low-end, an area where Apple doesn't even try to compete. Apple only sells premium computers, and thus anywhere that a business can save money by forcing their workforce to all use POS computers, that's what you will find.

Conversely, anywhere that folks can use their own money to purchase a computer, or can negotiate with their business to get the computer that they want, you will find lots of Apple computers. Apple overwhelmingly dominates the market for over $1,000 computers.

NPD: Apple has 91% share of PCs priced over $1,000


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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

___________________________________________

Jobs would have been 65 years old today, February 24.

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Howdy.

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Article on Macs at IBM. From 2016

Denver Dan



On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:36:33 +0000, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io wrote:

A few years ago there was a prominent story about IBM giving their
employees the choice of Windows or Mac. They had trialled a few Macs
and found that, despite higher initial cost, the TCO was lower
because of greater reliability and reduced need for support staff. In
2018 Macs made up 25% of IBM's 537,000 laptops. Does anyone know
where that stands now?

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