On Nov 1, 2019, Dane Robison wrote: When Adobe Lightroom is churning away importing or exporting a large batch of?photos on my MacBook Pro, it routinely gets into the 1000-1500% range, whatever?that means!
I have a quad-core i7 CPU, with hyperthreading. So when needed, it can devote 8?computational threads to a task. Like you, I noted when batch-importing and pre-processing a days photography?(over 100 shots), CPU activity maxed at over 600% (i.e., an average of 75% on both?threads of each of 4 cores). Dane, do you have the 15¡± MBPro (2019), Model A1990, with the Core i9 processor? With 8?cores, hyperthreaded?
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Re: Deep-Fusion on iPhone 11
Howdy. Pat, as you experiment with Deep Fusion, keep the group informed! And, can I assume that Deep-Fusion is only on the iPhone 11 at this time?? Denver Dan On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 10:10:39 -0600, Pat Taylor via Groups.Io wrote: I could see a slight difference in definition of the texture of my
couch upholstery between using this feature versus a regular shot. I
haven¡¯t tried it beyond that yet!
Pat
On Nov 1, 2019, at 9:18 AM, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.
A new photography capability is built into the iPhone 11 called
Deep-Fusion.
Here's an article.
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Re: Screenshot won't open with Preview
On Nov 1, 2019, Debbi wrote: Google hasn't been very helpful with this issue. I updated to Catalina a couple days?ago. Took a screenshot this morning using Command+Shift+4. Preview displays?this error message when I try to open it:
The file ¡°Screen Shot 2019-11-01 at 6.33.49 AM¡± couldn¡¯t be opened.
?
I can open other files in Preview. I tried changing the name of the screenshot to?include .png at the end. That didn't help.
I¡¯m not sure when or where it¡¯s determined, but my screenshots default to being?JPEG files. I normally use <Command><Shift><5> (not <4>), so I tried doing a ¡°4¡± just now. When I pressed <Return>, the thumbnail appeared on the desktop; I double-clicked?that to open it up fully, then clicked on the ¡°Send To¡± box in the upper right, and?chose Preview. The image opened fully. When I went to my Screenshots folder, I could see that it was a .jpg file.
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Howdy.
For those who follow Apple financials, stock price, and dividends, two
days ago Apple reported quarterly results and surprised everybody with
a roaringly good quarter
Apple stock just hit what I think is a big all-time high of $253.21 USD
per share. Up, at this hour, about $4.42 USD per share.
Apple dividend is 0.77 US cents per share for the quarter.
Apple wearables had a very good quarter.
Apple is at $1.441 Trillion USD for market capitalization (current
value of all outstanding shares). To compare Exxon-Mobile is at
$293.18 Billion USD for market cap.
Apple stock is traded on the US NASDAQ exchange but it has been
"indexed" on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This Dow Jones is not
for stock trading but it is an index average of 30 companies and their
stock prices. The DJIA is almost the oldest index of all and is used
for understanding of market and financial performance. The DJIA was
first published in 1896.
A number of years ago Apple stock was trading at about $50 USD /
share. It then rose to about $735.00 / share and in June 2016 split 7
for 1. If you owned 10 shares of Apple in May 2016 at $735.00 USD per
share and it split 7 for 1, you then owned 70 shares but the stock
price also reduced in the same ratio.
Denver Dan
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Re: Deep-Fusion on iPhone 11
I could see a slight difference in definition of the texture of my couch upholstery between using this feature versus a regular shot. I haven¡¯t tried it beyond that yet!
Pat
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Howdy.
A new photography capability is built into the iPhone 11 called
Deep-Fusion.
Here's an article.
<>
Denver Dan
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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
Howdy. Otto has you on the right track but here's a screen capture of my Terminal window. I just deleted the first snapshot in the list. Once you see the list of snapshots in Terminal do the delete command . . . . sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots Press Spacebar once after deletelocalsnapshots and copy/paste the date part only from ONE of the listed snapshots. sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 1019-18-31-115431 And press Return. In the above example, the 115431 is a digital time of day stamp. In the screen capture attached, each line with com.apple.TimeMachine is a snapshot. The "sudo" part of the Unix/Terminal command is often called Super User Do. It's an override and when you type your Admin account password (which remains invisible) a sudo command lets you be like god on a Unix system. You can copy/paste from this email or from an online article so you don't have to learn the Unix command line structure. Good luck! Denver Dan p.s. And now, with my Terminal open, I'm going to delete some snapshots. I've removed and turned off my Time Machine drive and instructed TM
to stop making backups. As a result, the System files on my HD have
finally stopped growing! So next, Dan, I'm trying to get a list of
snapshots on my HD. I think that would be very important. But I've
never used Terminal before and I don't speak a word of Unix, so your
command isn't working. Here's what happens:
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots/
Password:
Usage: tmutil listlocalsnapshots <mount_point>
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$
It looks to me as though Usage is a formatting suggestion, then
Terminal reverts to the beginning, inviting me to try again. Yes?
But I have no idea what to do with <mount_point>. Can you or someone
help me get this command working? That would be a huge positive
step. Thanks one and all. Usage is telling you that the parameters are not recognised.
You need a space before the /. / is the mountpoint. So, it should be
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Otto
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Re: "Trust This Computer?"
For anyone interested, I still don't have an answer but I found that putting the phone in Airplane Mode allowed it to charge. I've since restarted the phone and it still exhibits the same behavior when not in Airplane Mode.
Dane
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On Oct 31, 2019, at 7:38 PM, Dane Robison via Groups.Io <macdane@...> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm in a bad spot ¡ on the road, no wifi, and a dying iPhone battery. When I plug my iPhone X (running iOS 13.1.3) into my MacBook Pro (running Mojave 10.14.6) using the USB-to-Lightning cable that came with my phone and charges it every night, I get the usual "Trust This Computer?" message with options to Trust or Don't Trust it. The problem is, that message isn't on the screen long enough to click a button before it disappears. It then comes back and repeats the cycle 9 times, after which the phone does not indicate it's receiving a charge.
Any quick ideas? Thanks!
Dane
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 11:36 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io < jimrobertson@...> wrote:
in activity monitor what percentage of cpu is a red flag?
If you¡¯re doing something processor-intensive, you may see transients up to >50%, but basic things like composing/reading email, working on the web, etc., will rarely use more than a few per centage points of a typical Mac processor, which spends most of its time waiting for you to tell it to do something.
Jim Robertson
Ha! I guess it all depends on what you're doing. When Adobe Lightroom is churning away importing or exporting a large batch of photos on my MacBook Pro, it routinely gets into the 1000-1500% range, whatever that means!
Dane
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Generally true, but there are exceptions. For example:
Something seemingly I/O rather than processor intensive can get processor intensive if it quickly creates a lot of files, due to Spotlight indexing of the new files. Even more so if an on-access virus scanner is running, since it will also examine each file. If you have VMs storing their virtual disk images in big files, make exceptions for the virus scanner so that it doesn't look at those files, because it won't understand them anyway, and they'll change every time the VM changes any file on its "disk", generating a lot of pointless scanning activity. If running big software builds, and you can manage to avoid risky activity like web browsing while they run, temporarily turn off on-access virus scanning, so that it won't be constantly triggered during the builds; also, some open source apps tend to generate false alarms while being built, causing the antivirus software to quarantine their files and break the build process.
Some web pages have so much active content (ads, animation, etc) that they're pigs ?too.
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in activity monitor what percentage of cpu is a red flag?
If you¡¯re doing something processor-intensive, you may see transients up to >50%, but basic things like composing/reading email, working on the web, etc., will rarely use more than a few per centage points of a typical Mac processor, which spends most of its time waiting for you to tell it to do something.
Jim Robertson
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Re: autotext in Office 365-Mac Word2016
HI
Which version of Word are you using?
If its 2011,
The Normal.dotm used by Word 2011 is located in:
UserName:Library:Application Support:Microsoft:Office:User Templates
I take it that your personal library of AutoText Entries isn't showing up when you go to?Insert> AutoText -- AutoText, right??
What I'd suggest is that you first go to?Word> Preferences - File Locations?& confirm that the location for?User Templates?is set to the path mentioned above. Then,?Quit?Word. Next:
- Navigate to the?User Templates?folder in Finder
- Rename the?smaller?Normal.dotm [anything is fine, even something like?xNormal.dotm]
- Copy or move the?larger?Normal.dotm from the?My Templates?folder to the?User Templates?folder (you can keep the original as a backup if you Copy)
- Launch Word & check to see if your missing AutoText is restored.
If all goes as expected you can then delete the file you renamed.
My assumption above is that a new normal.dotm file was created and the older one is there.
For Office 2016 (or Office 365) the Normal.dotm file location is?
UserName:Library:Group Containers:Microsoft: some random number.Office:User Content:Templates
You should also be able to navigate to those folders, launch Time Machine, and restore the file from when it worked into the appropriate current location.
Hope that helps.
Paul
MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529
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Hi again, I posted this back on 20 October and haven¡¯t seen any responses to my query.
I¡¯m wondering... is it inappropriate to post this here or is it just that there is no one here who has experience of this?
Thanks
Julie
I seem to have lost (or lost access to) all my Autotext entries.
I¡¯ve Googled and haven¡¯t found any useful information so far.
I¡¯ve never had any trouble before, and I¡¯m not sure if this happened right after an update or before (I know this isn¡¯t very helpful).
They¡¯ve always worked no matter what template I'm using. I¡¯ve checked the keystroke I assigned and it¡¯s the same. I¡¯ve tried to find them using the pull-down menu and only the Word standard Autotext entries are visible.
I¡¯ve tried a few other tests and found a few random Autotext entries by trying different templates but none of these make any sense.
Does anyone have any clues, please? Where might I look? What might I try? I hope very much I don¡¯t have to recreate all these.
thanks
Julie
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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 11:37:42 +0000, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:12, Tom_Kirshbaum <tom.kirshbaum@...> wrote:
Thanks so much for all the great answers. Both upper-level AppleCare
specialists I spoke with told me the only solution would be to do a
clean install and bring everything over one item at a time. I'd
rather eat worms. Thanks to all your answers I now have hope. I'm
going through your suggestions one at a time. By erasing caches in
the Library I've picked up 5 GB of storage, up from 8 MB! It's not
much but it enabled me to open some apps. Other apps still crash due
to the small amount of storage memory, such as Omnisweep, which I
hoped might tell me about my biggest files. Someone suggested
Whatsize and Daisy-Disk. I'll try them next. I've installed OnyX,
but I don't think I have enough storage for it to run yet.
I've removed and turned off my Time Machine drive and instructed TM
to stop making backups. As a result, the System files on my HD have
finally stopped growing! So next, Dan, I'm trying to get a list of
snapshots on my HD. I think that would be very important. But I've
never used Terminal before and I don't speak a word of Unix, so your
command isn't working. Here's what happens:
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots/
Password:
Usage: tmutil listlocalsnapshots <mount_point>
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$
It looks to me as though Usage is a formatting suggestion, then
Terminal reverts to the beginning, inviting me to try again. Yes?
But I have no idea what to do with <mount_point>. Can you or someone
help me get this command working? That would be a huge positive
step. Thanks one and all. Usage is telling you that the parameters are not recognised.
You need a space before the /. / is the mountpoint. So, it should be
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Otto
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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
funniest thing i've ever read in this group!
?Both upper-level AppleCare specialists I spoke with told me the only solution would be to do a clean install and bring everything over one item at a time. I'd rather eat worms.
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in activity monitor what percentage of cpu is a red flag?
If you¡¯re doing something processor-intensive, you may see transients up to >50%, but basic things like composing/reading email, working on the web, etc., will rarely use more than a few per centage points of a typical Mac processor, which spends most of its time waiting for you to tell it to do something.
Jim Robertson
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in activity monitor what percentage of cpu is a red flag? sometimes i see 3% and wonder if that's a problem...i'm guessing it's not.
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Howdy.
A new photography capability is built into the iPhone 11 called
Deep-Fusion.
Here's an article.
<>
Denver Dan
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Re: autotext in Office 365-Mac Word2016
This refers to Word for Macintosh?
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 10:58 AM, Pat Taylor via Groups.Io <pat412@...> wrote:
?My guess is that no one had helpful information.
Pat
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 8:29 AM, julie <wordsetc@...> wrote:
?Hi again, I posted this back on 20 October and haven¡¯t seen any responses to my query.
I¡¯m wondering... is it inappropriate to post this here or is it just that there is no one here who has experience of this?
Thanks
Julie
I seem to have lost (or lost access to) all my Autotext entries.
I¡¯ve Googled and haven¡¯t found any useful information so far.
I¡¯ve never had any trouble before, and I¡¯m not sure if this happened right after an update or before (I know this isn¡¯t very helpful).
They¡¯ve always worked no matter what template I'm using. I¡¯ve checked the keystroke I assigned and it¡¯s the same. I¡¯ve tried to find them using the pull-down menu and only the Word standard Autotext entries are visible.
I¡¯ve tried a few other tests and found a few random Autotext entries by trying different templates but none of these make any sense.
Does anyone have any clues, please? Where might I look? What might I try? I hope very much I don¡¯t have to recreate all these.
thanks
Julie
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Re: autotext in Office 365-Mac Word2016
My guess is that no one had helpful information.
Pat
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 8:29 AM, julie <wordsetc@...> wrote:
?Hi again, I posted this back on 20 October and haven¡¯t seen any responses to my query.
I¡¯m wondering... is it inappropriate to post this here or is it just that there is no one here who has experience of this?
Thanks
Julie
I seem to have lost (or lost access to) all my Autotext entries.
I¡¯ve Googled and haven¡¯t found any useful information so far.
I¡¯ve never had any trouble before, and I¡¯m not sure if this happened right after an update or before (I know this isn¡¯t very helpful).
They¡¯ve always worked no matter what template I'm using. I¡¯ve checked the keystroke I assigned and it¡¯s the same. I¡¯ve tried to find them using the pull-down menu and only the Word standard Autotext entries are visible.
I¡¯ve tried a few other tests and found a few random Autotext entries by trying different templates but none of these make any sense.
Does anyone have any clues, please? Where might I look? What might I try? I hope very much I don¡¯t have to recreate all these.
thanks
Julie
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autotext in Office 365-Mac Word2016
Hi again, I posted this back on 20 October and haven¡¯t seen any responses to my query.
I¡¯m wondering... is it inappropriate to post this here or is it just that there is no one here who has experience of this?
Thanks
Julie
I seem to have lost (or lost access to) all my Autotext entries.
I¡¯ve Googled and haven¡¯t found any useful information so far.
I¡¯ve never had any trouble before, and I¡¯m not sure if this happened right after an update or before (I know this isn¡¯t very helpful).
They¡¯ve always worked no matter what template I'm using. I¡¯ve checked the keystroke I assigned and it¡¯s the same. I¡¯ve tried to find them using the pull-down menu and only the Word standard Autotext entries are visible.
I¡¯ve tried a few other tests and found a few random Autotext entries by trying different templates but none of these make any sense.
Does anyone have any clues, please? Where might I look? What might I try? I hope very much I don¡¯t have to recreate all these.
thanks
Julie
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Re: Screenshot won't open with Preview
Howdy. Debbi, you may be having a problem that is caused by the Optimize Storage feature. The Optimize Storage feature might be turned on and some images could be stored on iCloud Drive instead of locally on your boot drive. Please note I keep typing "may, might, could." These are conditional words because I'm not sure I have an exact solution. There are several different places that control this feature. It's a bit scattered. I strongly recommend exploring and learning about Optimize Storage first and then making changes last after you are better informed about this topic. Composing this message is making me better informed about the topic!! Start with this article for learning purposes: <> However, this article is for a previous version of macOS X and Catalina seems to have moved the iCloud panel from System Preferences to the Internet Accounts panel. So here's another article that I think is more up-to-date. <> To investigate this oddly complex feature start with: - About This Mac... - Click Storage tab - Click the Masnage... button next to your boot drive. Explore the Store in iCloud... item. Explore the Optimize Storage item. Then open - System Preferences and open Internet Accounts panel. - Click iCloud in left column. - Is iCloud Drive checked on or off? - Click the Options... button Is the Desktop & Documents Folders check box checked or not? Good luck on this but keep exploring this. Denver Dan On Fri, 01 Nov 2019 03:46:08 -0700, Debbi wrote: Google hasn't been very helpful with this issue. I updated to
Catalina a couple days ago. Took a screenshot this morning using
Command+Shift+4. Preview displays this error message when I try to
open it:
The file ¡°Screen Shot 2019-11-01 at 6.33.49 AM¡± couldn¡¯t be opened.
I can open other files in Preview. I tried changing the name of the
screenshot to include .png at the end. That didn't help.
I frequently need to attach screenshots to emails, and when I try to
do that, I get this message:
This message contains attachments that are still being loaded.
Please wait for the attachments to complete and try again.
Any ideas for a fix? Thanks.
Debbi McNeer
MacBook Air (early 2015)
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Re: My unhappy MacBook Pro
Have you done the obvious and looked at energy usage in Activity Monitor?
Yes. I didn¡¯t find anything untoward. I think the suggestion to obtain iStat Menus was so I could see readings from temperature sensors, which all seem OK in the hour or so I¡¯ve been monitoring them with my machine disconnected from a/c power
Looks as though I have 14 days to see if iStat Menu will tell me anything for free and to decide whether it¡¯s a tool I should be paying for anyway.
Thanks for your input.
Jim Robertson
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