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Re: testing email - last message failed

KarenP
 

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thank you for that explanation.
-karen


On Mar 1, 2020, at 5:08 PM, Brent via Groups.Io <whodo678@...> wrote:

Is it possible the popup saying that you need to subscribe was for something in Chrome, and not iTunes, since your Mac was frozen by Chrome and not iTunes, even though your attention was towards iTunes.

I occasionally get a freeze, caused by Chrome while trying to work on something else. Chrome is not my favorite browser, but I use it because I am running an old OS.

Brent


On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:25 PM, KarenP wrote:

That’s a good question! I have no idea. I was trying to download a whole bunch of podcasts at one time, which normally does not cause a problem. But this time, it hung up iTunes so badly that I could not force quit. I even went to activity monitor and closed out all of the iTunes processes but still had no luck force quitting iTunes. After trying numerous times, I finally went ahead and closed chrome. Then I tried iTunes again and lo and behold, it quit.

– Karen


On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:23 PM, Brent via Groups.Io <whodo678@...> wrote:

Obviously, you are and have been. Servers make mistakes too.?

What concerns me is why did you having Chrome open affect anything to do with iTunes?

Brent
Re: New Web Site!

 

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HI Randy,

Excellent site and resource.

Thank you.

I suggest adding Nisus InfoClick () under the Apple Mail Utilities.
Great search capabilities.

Paul
MacTech Services --
?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles?
Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529

On Mar 1, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:

I just put up a new Web site. ?Apple's Mail under Catalina has a nasty bug that causes it to lose data. ?Some users have been looking for an alternative. ?I created a page listing all of the available Macintosh e-mail programs!

Macintosh Email Software


Please let me know what you think!


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

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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New Web Site!

 

I just put up a new Web site. Apple's Mail under Catalina has a nasty bug that causes it to lose data. Some users have been looking for an alternative. I created a page listing all of the available Macintosh e-mail programs!

Macintosh Email Software


Please let me know what you think!


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

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance

___________________________________________
Re: Time Machine backup disk question

 

Howdy.

This longish quotation may answer your question.

I didn't post the link because I think the original post was on a
Scandinavian language site and part was perhaps in Swedish.

But this part in English Is, I think, from an Apple KB.

Denver Dan
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The oldest backups will be deleted when Time Machine requires the space
they occupy, but they will only be deleted after Time Machine creates a
new backup.

Before it does that, Time Machine resorts to a number of increasingly
desperate attempts to create enough space for that backup, while
retaining an absolute minimum of one and only one complete backup.

Apple does not provide guidance for the backup device capacity because
it is simply not possible to do that. Two or three times the total
amount of data that needs to be backed up is usually OK. However, it is
also usually much more than necessary. If Apple told us we must
purchase (for example) a 4 TB hard disk drive it would result in a lot
of users not even attempting to use Time Machine, and that would be bad.

? The absolute minimum required capacity of a Time Machine backup
volume is as follows: sufficient capacity to retain one complete backup
of the source volume's contents, plus additional capacity to create a
subsequent backup consisting of all files that have been altered since
that previous backup, plus an amount of "overhead" that is a function
of the number and aggregate size of those files—a value difficult to
calculate with any degree of precision, but 15% of the size of one
complete backup is a useful approximation.
? Time Machine relies upon that estimate before initiating a backup:
? You may only have (for example) 90 GB of new data that needs to be
backed up. Time Machine will then require (for example, and bearing in
mind that ~15% figure is my approximation, and not TM's calculated
estimate) 105 GB of free space—that is in addition to whatever the
older backup required.
? Unless TM is able to reclaim that amount of space on the backup
volume, it won't even begin.
? When Time Machine finishes, you may find that only 90 GB of data was
actually written.
? Rarely occurring circumstances can result in Time Machine's estimate
being insufficient, in which case it will resort to a number of
alternatives before giving up.
? Time Machine guarantees an absolute minimum of one and only one
backup:The previous system backup will not be altered until after a
subsequent backup is complete and intact, which means that none of its
contents will be deleted (even if they are "older and expired") until
after that subsequent backup finishes.

Bottom line: If Time Machine tells you it needs more space, then it
needs more space. Obtain a larger backup drive and create a new backup,
after which you can consider erasing the existing one because it might
contain a large backup you no longer need (a large virtual machine disk
image is a popular reason). That will defer the problem to another day.



On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 09:21:11 -0800, billgr0248 wrote:
This may be a stupid question but I would like to know when & how TM
supposedly "deletes" older backups. I have watched my 1Tb G-DRIVE ev
RaW rapidly fill up until this AM it has only 52.24Gb free. The
internal drive in my 2017 MBP is a 1Tb SSD with 572.1Gb free. My
concern is that in a lot of the posts I've read the suggestion is to
get another/larger external backup device & carry on like nothing
happened.
As I understand it I can't delete the older backups myself manually &
still be able to recover if necessary...correct? At what point
should i bite the bullet & re-format my backup drive? Will the force
it to create a full backup of my MBP & start the process over? I
don't believe there is anyway to know what all will be permanently
lost to the ages so I am reluctant follow this path.
Any pertinent advice or guidance is appreciated.
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Thanks in advance,
billgr0248
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Re: testing email - last message failed

 

Is it possible the popup saying that you need to subscribe was for something in Chrome, and not iTunes, since your Mac was frozen by Chrome and not iTunes, even though your attention was towards iTunes.

I occasionally get a freeze, caused by Chrome while trying to work on something else. Chrome is not my favorite browser, but I use it because I am running an old OS.

Brent


On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:25 PM, KarenP wrote:

That’s a good question! I have no idea. I was trying to download a whole bunch of podcasts at one time, which normally does not cause a problem. But this time, it hung up iTunes so badly that I could not force quit. I even went to activity monitor and closed out all of the iTunes processes but still had no luck force quitting iTunes. After trying numerous times, I finally went ahead and closed chrome. Then I tried iTunes again and lo and behold, it quit.

– Karen


On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:23 PM, Brent via Groups.Io <whodo678@...> wrote:

Obviously, you are and have been. Servers make mistakes too.?

What concerns me is why did you having Chrome open affect anything to do with iTunes?

Brent
Re: Can AirPods Pro earbuds be paired to smart TVs?

 

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On Mar 1, 2020, at 12:07 PM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

My wife just purchased AirPods Pro. They’re impressive indeed as regards sonic fidelity (and even the amount of bass they reproduce), but today I tried to pair them with my LG 4K OLED TV, which I’ve been able to pair with Bose Headphones, my Beats Pro X Bluetooth buds, and even my Phonak hearing aids, but I could NOT seem to pair them to the TV.

Am I just doing something wrong, or is this something the AirPods Pro cannot do?
--?
Jim Robertson

As I recall, when I got first generation AirPods, the instructions say that to pair with an iPhone you merely have to open the case near the phone, but to pair with something else you have to push the button on the back of the case. If you just got them you are probably covered, as with other Apple equipment for 90 days free phone support. Give them a call.

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Barry Austern
Re: Time Machine isn't working

 

This is what I have done so far. I erased the LaCie drive (after backing up up my iMac to a drive connected to my Airport Extreme which took FOREVER!) using Disk Utility. Then I turned off Filevault as suggested by Denver Dan and it took over 24 hours! He did caution patience. Now I am doing a Time Machine backup of my iMac hard drive, using after having added the LaCie drive and my drive connected to Airport Extreme to the “Excluded list. That first TM backup to LaCie has just started and it claims that it will take an hour. I’m not holding my breath.

I read the BackBlaze article on How to Use Multiple Backup Drives with Time Machine. But I am wondering what OS they are talking about because when I open TM Preferences,there is no “Select Disk” instruction, but rather a list of disks that I can click on (I am using Sierra 10.12.6 on a Late 2014 27-inch iMac). There does not seem to be a Use Both option. II did select the LaCie backup which was listed. I am wondering if there isn’t the option to select a second backup disk, in my case the one connected to AirPort Extreme, while TM is still in the process of backing the hard drive to the LaCie. I will check if there is a “Use Both" option when this first TM backup is over.

I have another question, namely when this is over, should I turn File Vault back on? When this problem first started Time Machine said it couldn’t back up the hard drive because the LaCie disk was unencrypted. If such is the case and I turn File Vault back on, will this whole TM issue reoccur?

I used to understand how computers worked way back in the 80s using DOS with floppy disks and no hard drive. I took a course as part of my MBA requirements and even learned a little BASIC. Things were pretty simple" back then. Now there are so many layers underneath the user interface and both Apple and Windoze are basically saying, "there there dears don’t worry your little heads about how this works, we’ll take care of it.” Same with cars I suppose. I don’t like the resulting lack of direct control. to say nothing of what the computer is actually doing!


Joan
Re: iPad Battery Life

 

I have had a similar experience with my iPad mini 4 recently. I went to Settings/Battery (using iOS 13) and found that I had opened VPN and it was left on, so I am assuming that it was running in the background. I don’t need VPN where I live because there are no houses within a mile of my house so there is no other WI-Fi around. Once I turned off VPN, the battery held for a longer period of time.

Joan
Re: iPad Battery Life

 

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If you haven’t already done it, take a look at Settings>Battery to see if you can determine what is causing the drain if it’s software related.

Pat

Pro

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:55 AM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:

?ok, I’ll try that.
I can’t imagine what it might be. I’m not aware of any changes I’ve made to it recently and since it’s in my own home, it shouldn’t be continuing to search wifi connections overnight.
-karen


On Mar 1, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Barry Austern via Groups.Io <barryaus@...> wrote:



On Mar 1, 2020, at 11:16 AM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:

It happened again this morning, but the scenario was much worse. I charged it to 94% prior to going out to dinner at 5 PM. I think I used it once for about two minutes during the evening. The rest of the time it was closed. And this morning it was completely dead again.

Is it the battery or something draining it overnight? Turn it off and leave it overnight and see if it still goes down.?
—
Barry Austern
Re: Time Machine backup disk question

 

billgr0248 wrote:
This may be a stupid question but I would like to know when & how TM?supposedly "deletes" older backups. ?I have watched my 1Tb G-DRIVE ev RaW?rapidly fill up until this AM it has only 52.24Gb free.

The ?internal drive in my?2017 MBP is a 1Tb SSD with 572.1Gb free. ?My concern is that in a lot of the?posts I've read the suggestion is to get another/larger external backup device &?carry on like nothing happened.

You could get the (free) BackupLoupe:
<>
which gives you visual insight into what Time Machine has been doing and the sizes of your Time Machine backups.

My normal recommendation is to have the space available for Time Machine to be at least 2? - 3 times the space occupied by data being backed up. You have a little over 400GB of data, and 1000GB of Time Machine space, so you’re right at the edge. And remember that when you first start running Time Machine, it will backup the whole 400GB the first time.

--?
Jim Saklad
jimdoc@...
Re: iPad Battery Life

 

KarenP wrote:
I charged it?to 94% prior to going out to dinner at 5 PM.
I think I used it once for about two?minutes during the evening.
The rest of the time it was closed.
And this morning?it was completely dead again.

“Closing it” turns off the screen.
It does NOT turn off anything else (e.g., Wifi, background apps, …).

You could try turning Wifi OFF before closing it,
OR putting it in Airplane Mode (which should turn off any radios it has),
OR turning it off completely.

If I remember correctly, that would be pressing the On/Off button until “Slide to turn off” appears on the screen, then doing that ?(slide to turn off).

--?
Jim Saklad
jimdoc@...
Mail: advanced search

KarenP
 

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I’m trying to do a search in Apple Mail with more than one filter where one of those filters is a “not.” It’s not working the way I would intuitively think it should.

First, I’m searching for a specific subject, and from there I’d like to narrow it down by excluding one or more particular mailboxes.

Does anyone know how to do this?


?? Karen
? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
Re: iPad Battery Life

KarenP
 

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ok, I’ll try that.
I can’t imagine what it might be. I’m not aware of any changes I’ve made to it recently and since it’s in my own home, it shouldn’t be continuing to search wifi connections overnight.
-karen


On Mar 1, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Barry Austern via Groups.Io <barryaus@...> wrote:



On Mar 1, 2020, at 11:16 AM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:

It happened again this morning, but the scenario was much worse. I charged it to 94% prior to going out to dinner at 5 PM. I think I used it once for about two minutes during the evening. The rest of the time it was closed. And this morning it was completely dead again.

Is it the battery or something draining it overnight? Turn it off and leave it overnight and see if it still goes down.?
—
Barry Austern
Re: Can AirPods Pro earbuds be paired to smart TVs?

 

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I would still try the method I sent. ?While the AirPods Pro do pair to many devices automatically, mine do still have the button on the back to force them into pairing mode.

Pat

Pro

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:17 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

?
Thanks for your response Pat. The AirPods Pro pair differently from the first and second generation AirPods, virtually automatically as soon as you open the case. I’m not able to make that happen with my smart TV, but I will review everything I can find on Apple published support.

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:15, Pat Taylor via Groups.Io <pat412@...> wrote:

?If you already tried this unsuccessfully, a call to Apple support might be in order:

IF YOU DON'T HAVE Apple?TV?AND IT SUPPORTS BLUETOOTH
Go to Bluetooth setting on your smart?tv. Press the button at the lower back on?AirPods?and wait till white light in on. This?will?put?AirPods?in pairing mode. Select your?AirPods?for bluetooth search from your Smart?Tv.

Pat

Pro

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:07 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

?My wife just purchased AirPods Pro. They’re impressive indeed as regards sonic fidelity (and even the amount of bass they reproduce), but today I tried to pair them with my LG 4K OLED TV, which I’ve been able to pair with Bose Headphones, my Beats Pro X Bluetooth buds, and even my Phonak hearing aids, but I could NOT seem to pair them to the TV.

Am I just doing something wrong, or is this something the AirPods Pro cannot do?
--?
Jim Robertson

Time Machine backup disk question

billgr0248
 

This may be a stupid question but I would like to know when & how TM supposedly "deletes" older backups. ?I have watched my 1Tb G-DRIVE ev RaW rapidly fill up until this AM it has only 52.24Gb free. ?The ?internal drive in my 2017 MBP is a 1Tb SSD with 572.1Gb free. ?My concern is that in a lot of the posts I've read the suggestion is to get another/larger external backup device & carry on like nothing happened.

As I understand it I can't delete the older backups myself manually & still be able to recover if necessary...correct? ?At what point should i bite the bullet & re-format my backup drive? ?Will the force it to create a full backup of my MBP & start the process over? ?I don't believe there is anyway to know what all will be permanently lost to the ages so I am reluctant follow this path.

Any pertinent advice or guidance is appreciated.
--
Thanks in advance,

billgr0248
Re: Can AirPods Pro earbuds be paired to smart TVs?

 

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Thanks for your response Pat. The AirPods Pro pair differently from the first and second generation AirPods, virtually automatically as soon as you open the case. I’m not able to make that happen with my smart TV, but I will review everything I can find on Apple published support.

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:15, Pat Taylor via Groups.Io <pat412@...> wrote:

?If you already tried this unsuccessfully, a call to Apple support might be in order:

IF YOU DON'T HAVE Apple?TV?AND IT SUPPORTS BLUETOOTH
Go to Bluetooth setting on your smart?tv. Press the button at the lower back on?AirPods?and wait till white light in on. This?will?put?AirPods?in pairing mode. Select your?AirPods?for bluetooth search from your Smart?Tv.

Pat

Pro

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:07 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

?My wife just purchased AirPods Pro. They’re impressive indeed as regards sonic fidelity (and even the amount of bass they reproduce), but today I tried to pair them with my LG 4K OLED TV, which I’ve been able to pair with Bose Headphones, my Beats Pro X Bluetooth buds, and even my Phonak hearing aids, but I could NOT seem to pair them to the TV.

Am I just doing something wrong, or is this something the AirPods Pro cannot do?
--?
Jim Robertson

Re: Can AirPods Pro earbuds be paired to smart TVs?

 

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If you already tried this unsuccessfully, a call to Apple support might be in order:

IF YOU DON'T HAVE Apple?TV?AND IT SUPPORTS BLUETOOTH
Go to Bluetooth setting on your smart?tv. Press the button at the lower back on?AirPods?and wait till white light in on. This?will?put?AirPods?in pairing mode. Select your?AirPods?for bluetooth search from your Smart?Tv.

Pat

Pro

On Mar 1, 2020, at 10:07 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

?My wife just purchased AirPods Pro. They’re impressive indeed as regards sonic fidelity (and even the amount of bass they reproduce), but today I tried to pair them with my LG 4K OLED TV, which I’ve been able to pair with Bose Headphones, my Beats Pro X Bluetooth buds, and even my Phonak hearing aids, but I could NOT seem to pair them to the TV.

Am I just doing something wrong, or is this something the AirPods Pro cannot do?
--?
Jim Robertson

Can AirPods Pro earbuds be paired to smart TVs?

 

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My wife just purchased AirPods Pro. They’re impressive indeed as regards sonic fidelity (and even the amount of bass they reproduce), but today I tried to pair them with my LG 4K OLED TV, which I’ve been able to pair with Bose Headphones, my Beats Pro X Bluetooth buds, and even my Phonak hearing aids, but I could NOT seem to pair them to the TV.

Am I just doing something wrong, or is this something the AirPods Pro cannot do?
--?
Jim Robertson

Re: iPad Battery Life

 

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On Mar 1, 2020, at 11:16 AM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:

It happened again this morning, but the scenario was much worse. I charged it to 94% prior to going out to dinner at 5 PM. I think I used it once for about two minutes during the evening. The rest of the time it was closed. And this morning it was completely dead again.

Is it the battery or something draining it overnight? Turn it off and leave it overnight and see if it still goes down.?
—
Barry Austern
Re: iPad Battery Life

 

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On Feb 29, 2020, at 10:58 PM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:

Thanks for the link. Mine would cost $300 to repair according to this. So for $100 more I could get a Mini 5.
I’ll keep this one going long as I can and then I guess it’s time to upgrade after that.

And honestly disclose the problem on this one and sell it on eBay or somewhere else and you probably would recoup at least the additional $100.?
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Barry Austern
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