On May 12, 2025, at 7:20?PM, jonbotting via groups.io <jonbotting@...> wrote:

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Jim, although you can have multiple photo libraries, there is only one that iCloud uses. you can merge libraries however I think this video explains it better that I can

Hope that helps

On May 8, 2025, at 4:56?PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

On May 8, 2025, at 2:08?PM, todhop via groups.io <hoplist@...> wrote:

I’ve used “4k Video Downloader+” for a long time. I have not had any issues and it does what it's supposed to well. I use it in its free mode which is fairly generous.

Will it work with Safari?

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Jim Robertson

On 12 May 2025, at 13:14, Jim Willett via groups.io <jimwillett@...> wrote:

Thank you very much, David. ?I followed the directions and have my photos back on my Mac but only through February 20. ?Everything is up to date on iCloud. ?So I am on the way to getting this all straightened out. ?

- Jim?

On 10 May 2025, at 18:04, Jim Willett via groups.io <jimwillett@...> wrote:

I have recently moved via Time Machine from an intel Mac to an M4. Today I attempted to open my photos app and got this message: Photos does not have permission to access the library "Photos Library_1.photoslibrary" Please grant access to the library by double-clicking it in Finder or selecting it in "Open Other...." There is no such file in the Photos folder - it is empty. ?Using Time Machine to look for such a file I find the latest is on February 20. How should I go about correcting this problem? If I restore, will I lose photos from iCloud that have been put there since February 20? ?Should I create a new library instead? If so, what effect would that have on iCloud Photos?

Thanks in advance for any advice/assistance with this matter.?

- Jim?

On May 8, 2025, at 14:05, Paul via groups.io <paul@...> wrote:

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Over 2,800 Hacked Sites Target macOS Users with AMOS Malware

A new campaign, called MacReaper, is targeting Apple users?. The trick??Fake Google CAPTCHA prompts?that urge users to open Terminal and paste a “verification” command that installs the AMOS stealer malware. This malware can swipe Keychain passwords, browser logins, crypto wallets, and files from the Desktop and Documents folders. Even more dangerous: the attack infrastructure hides malicious instructions inside blockchain transactions using EtherHiding. Remember:?Don’t trust CAPTCHAs that ask for Terminal input.?And if you’re managing a macOS fleet, start monitoring clipboard activity and Terminal executions. Paul

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On 9 May 2025, at 2:44?am, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

On May 8, 2025, at 9:51?AM, todhop via groups.io <hoplist@...> wrote:

This is a complicated grey area depending on what content you are downloading and for what purpose, and I am NOT A LAWYER.

Neither am I. I don’t think I could stand the ambiguities.

An example from a totally different sphere (buying a home). We just spent 5 days in another city where there’s a simply exploding population of retirees who want to live without winter. We “think” we purchased a to-be-built home in a 55+ retirement community just LOADED with facilities for people who want to stay active and involved.

However, the purchase process is a joke. Yes, I’m familiar with the endless boilerplate “licenses” that entitle software publishers to sacrifice your firstborn (OK, that’s a bit hyperbolic, but endless 6 pt type clearly is read by almost no one), and the practical import of a license violation or the protection of the publisher from stupid kinks in their word processor is usually small potatoes compared with the consequences of errors in the process of purchasing your retirement home.

We signed a letter of intent and then were told we’d need to do a DocuSign on legal documents presented to us in a pdf 352 pages long, which of course reminds ?us to seek legal counsel before signing to make certain we understand it, AND claim by signing that we DO understand it in ?detail, but of course we’re given only 24 hours to do so and if we don’t they’re free to sell the property to someone else and make veiled threats that they’ll do just that. Meanwhile, I can read quickly enough to know that we’re agreeing they can stop building their 900 planned homes in the middle of pouring my foundation and exit the state with me having no recourse other than getting a refund of my deposits—but of course if ***I*** discover that there’s some issue that makes me change my mind about purchasing somewhere in that 7 month process they get to keep all the money they’ve collected from me. All this while their glossy brochures claim they’re “THE most trusted retirement community developer on the planet.” And, of course, that “developer” is actually a whole bunch of interlocking companies that are legally protected from me if one of them fails to do what all of them should be cooperating to do.

I’d hate to hear stories about “less” trusted developers.

There’s even legal boilerplate reminding me NEVER to trust verbal assertions made by the sales staff, even while they’re saying, “oh, nobody ever reads all that stuff; it’s just what the state statutes require us to put in there to prove we’re complying with the law."

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I’ve yet to be able to make YouTube Premium’s downloader work in Google’s “let’s seen what personal information we can scour from you” Chrome browser, so if I’m not at risk for prosecution by archiving YouTube videos on my Mac in MP4 format that the Finder understands, the question is no longer “how do I make YouTube’s downloader work, but rather "which 3rd party software actually DOES work?" I’ve read elsewhere that many of them do NOT, so I’m interested in any reports regarding software I can obtain from the Apple App Store that will do just that.

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Jim Robertson

On 8 May 2025, at 23:02, FrankRP via <frank@...> wrote:

I’ve lost the address for the iPhone group, so I’m posting this here hoping one of the photographers on the site can help me. After I copied and deleted hundreds of photos on my iPhone I swore I would keep the number down to the minimun I want to share.

I have a number of pictures on my iPhone that I’ve transferred to my MBP. Instead of a trash can icon, the bottom right corner of the screen has three bars. When I click on them I get a pop-up that says these photos are not editable and did I want to copy them and edit the copy. NO. I want to delete them.

Any advice is appreciated.