Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
[Have you emptied your Trash?] Oh yes, several times. After I cleaned the caches, it took five hours to empty the trash. Now it's empty.
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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I¡¯m on my iPad now so can¡¯t test it out, but one way I¡¯ve gotten around it is to start typing, move the mouse, click, then move it back.? Sent from Barry¡¯s iPad
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
?On Nov 1, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote: ???
This is a text character just like a letter a or b.?
Type Option Shift k
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I had previously done this in? ? System Preferences / Keyboard / Text I then create some shortcuts like these (screenshot because if I type them, they will?be replaced with their substitutes): <Screen Shot 2019-11-01 at 5.51.08 PM.jpg>
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Re: autotext in Office 365-Mac Word2016
It's my understanding that autotext entries are part of the Preferences > Autocorrect tab, so probably embedded in the preferences .plist file...
The only helpful suggestions I may offer otherwise is to identify and locate the Word preferences file, and once you have that filename, copy it down somewhere. Then try to locate the same file in TimeMachine backups at a date that you know it worked, then copy the old file somewhere. Once you exit TimeMachine, over-write the new preference file with the recovered old one and restart Word. That SHOULD work, but in any case, clone your system and make a TimeMachine backup immediately before you do this, in case it does not...
It turns out that the preference file is a *.plist file as per this document...
So if you can find your old one in TimeMachine, you should be able to replace the new one with the old working one without having to reinstall Word....
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I suppose Paul's suggestion begs the question of where are the autotext entries actually stored? In my Word 2011? I found them in Word > Preferences > Autocorrect
Are they part of the preferences file ¨C as I posited above ¨C or are they included in the "Normal" document template that is stored elsewhere?
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Paul wrote:
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
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Re: How to type Apple symbol/logo ?
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On Nov 1, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote: ???
This is a text character just like a letter a or b.?
Type Option Shift k
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I had previously done this in? ? System Preferences / Keyboard / Text I then create some shortcuts like these (screenshot because if I type them, they will?be replaced with their substitutes): 
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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Nov 1, 2019, Tom_Kirshbaum wrote: 3. I quit OnyX and checked storage available in About this Mac, thinking it?would have increased somewhat from 5 GB. ?What a shock: I now had MBs?instead of GBs. What happened to it while I was running OnyX? I have no?idea.?
4. Now I'm back to not being able to run apps. Why are there no snapshots?? Might it have to do with the fact that I turned off Time Machine yesterday?and ejected, disconnected and turned off the TM backup drive?
If Time Machine is turned off, then it will not create snapshots.
Anyway, I don't know where to go now. I removed over 60 GBs from the drive,?cleaned out caches and logs, ?found no snapshots, and have too little memory?(again) to run apps. My computer is crawling. ?I'll continue to go through?the suggestions I've received, doing whatever I can with nearly zero storage?memory and watching a spinning beachball by the hour, but the takeaway is?that 2/3rds of my 250 GB HD is System files and my computer is circling the?drain. What a mess!
Have you emptied your Trash? After deleting a bunch of things, the drive space isn¡¯t freed up until the Trash is emptied.
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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
?Thanks Dan and Otto. By adding the space before "/" I got a chance to add my password, but the system ignored me (or so I thought):
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Password:
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$?
Now I think it's not ignoring me, it's answering my query with "none." Here's the very discouraging result from last night:
1. Armed with 5 GB of new storage from deleting caches, I was able to run Onyx.
2. I deleted logs and checked for snapshots (which OnyX will do). Guess what? No snapshots! Huh?
3. I quit OnyX and checked storage available in About this Mac, thinking it would have increased somewhat from 5 GB. ?What a shock: I now had MBs instead of GBs. What happened to it while I was running OnyX? I have no idea.
4. Now I'm back to not being able to run apps. Why are there no snapshots? Might it have to do with the fact that I turned off Time Machine yesterday and ejected, disconnected and turned off the TM backup drive?
Anyway, I don't know where to go now. I removed over 60 GBs from the drive, cleaned out caches and logs, ?found no snapshots, and have too little memory (again) to run apps. My computer is crawling. ?I'll continue to go through the suggestions I've received, doing whatever I can with nearly zero storage memory and watching a spinning beachball by the hour, but the takeaway is that 2/3rds of my 250 GB HD is System files and my computer is circling the drain. What a mess! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Tom Kirshbaum?
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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!
On Nov 1, 2019, Daniel Settles ?wrote: ?I wasn¡¯t able to find a batch delete for this
Dan, do you mean something that will delete 2 or 3 or 27 local snapshots, but not ALL of them?
If so, then correct. I have done this in the past, but not now under Catalina. I just discovered something that even Dan and Otto might not know.
I was wondering if listing successive dates would allow me to delete multiple local snapshots in a single command (answer: no).
As usually happens in Terminal when you try something not allowed, I got a short lesson on command format:
Usage: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots [<mount_point> | <snapshot_date>]
Meaning, ¡°a single date, OR the mountpoint¡±
So I tried:
Usage: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /
And successfully deleted ALL the local snapshots at that mountpoint with a single command.
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my approval is so vigorous i think it can be counted as double!
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:33 PM Bob Beckham via Groups.Io <rbeckhm= [email protected]> wrote: No, we ALL are NOT annoyed.? It appears that three folks are annoyed and causing all the bickering.? If the moderators agree that it is ok for the picture, then it is ok.? Either ignore or remove the picture if you want.? There have been two or three folks that have expressed approval.? ?
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At 1:12 PM -0600 10/31/19, Patsy Price wrote: I wrote about Jim's signature graphic:
it's an embedded graphic that gets deleted when I delete the message in Eudora. Attachments, however, stay in the attachments folder till I move or delete them. In Eudora -> Settings -> Attachments, there is an option to "Trash attachments with messages". Have you enabled that setting? I have always had that box checked and when I delete a message, its attachment is moved to the Trash.
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This is a text character just like a letter a or b.
Type Option Shift k
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Re: My unhappy MacBook Pro
On Nov 1, 2019, at 1:44 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Jim, it is most likely that you put it in a backpack.
Before the 2017 fire, I had three separate but beautifully cushioned and perfectly sized laptop carrying cases from Brenthaven, one a briefcase-styled unit, one a backback, and one a delicious leather weekender. Nos. 2 & 3 perished in the fire, but I still use #1, which looks as good as it did when I bought it more than 5 years ago. My guess is that if the lid opened partially and the Mac heated because of inadequate ventilation while it was in the carrying case it was more my carelessness than a problem with the carrying case.
If that¡¯s the issue, though, is it likely what I experienced might be the result? Again, when I pulled the Mac from its carrying case, it was at the ¡°your mac has restarted because of a problem¡± screen, and it was not warm, and the battery hadn¡¯t drained. Moreover, it kept restarting within a minute or two intentional reboots, and none of this was accompanied by any signs of the computer overheating. Disk Utility (when I examined the computer from the recovery partition) reported some problem with the pre-boot blocks of my encrypted SSD, and after I unlocked the encrypted boot partition to run the ¡°repair¡± module of DU, ?on all partitions, the problem has not recurred (even though Disk Utility did not report that it had done any repairs).
I was required to enter my admin PW before Disk Utility could examine the SSD. DU reports now that the main bootable partition remains encrypted, which is what I¡¯d expect.
Maybe it¡¯s an oddity that will remain unexplained.
I do have another issue with this laptop. I¡¯ve had keyboard issues for at least the past two years. I did spill some liquid onto the case before this started, but that was confined to the upper left corner of teh keyboard, and affected primarily the backslash and bracket (angle and squiggly) keys. We cleaned the keyboard with compressed air and application of an electronics cleaner that my son had used on many occasions to revive Windows keyboards at the auto parts store where he worked, and where the keyboards generally looked as thought they¡¯d been painted with used motor oil. The stuff worked, but a year later the ">/.¡± key became less responsive. In the interim Apple had issued its service bulletin for all MacBook Pro keyboards beginning with 2015 However, when i took the computer to my local Apple retail store, they discovered traces of the original liquid spill, and that terminated all discussions, even though the only misbehaving key was now the period.
The action of that key improved with whatever the Genius Bar wizard did in the back room, but it¡¯s beome less responsive again in the past few weeks, and of course now I¡¯m almost 200 miles distant from an Apple Retail Store.
I¡¯m of a mind to call Apple telephone support and describe my tale of woe about the keyboard, but I fear they¡¯ll agree to examine the computer, send me a box, then contact me in a few days and tell me they¡¯ve levied a charge of a few hundred dollars to diagnose the issue, that they blame the recalcitrant ¡°period¡± key¡¯s sluggishness on the liquid spill, and need to charge me another $1500 for repairs.
Jim
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Re: "Trust This Computer?"
When I traveled for work, my electronics devices went into a backpack, and supporting things like GPS, chargers, convertors, extension cord, adapters, etc all went into a toilet kit or ditty bag into the backpack.
On Nov 1, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Dane Robison via Groups.Io wrote:
Oh, I have all the charging stuff, but it's in *my* car. I ended up out of state yesterday in my wife's car so I didn't have any of my goodies with me and charging from the laptop was my only option. I was fortunate to stumble across the ability to charge by turning Airplane Mode on, but still curious why the "Trust this computer?" message loop started up again as soon as I'd turn Airplane mode back off. And, of course, the real problem is that once that loop begins I can't charge, presumably because I can't answer the question.
It seems to me the phone is "protecting" itself from being plugged into a potentially malicious computer, but it would be much more helpful if it could somehow only block data transmission while allowing the charge to happen.
Dane
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Re: "Trust This Computer?"
I will vouch for Jim's claim that distance from the transmitter greatly increases drain, and not signal and searching increases the drain even more. I used to literally work in some farmers field, where cell signals might not be present. I was often at construction sites in farm land in very rural areas. Cellular and wi-fi signals were scarce.
CyberPower makes a very good convertor/charger for use in a vehicle, which have very "dirty" power. These will clean up the power and protect your devices.
Brent
On Nov 1, 2019, at 9:44 AM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io wrote: Dane Robison wrote: 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.
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.
We mostly never turn off the various radios on our iPhones ¨C the Wifi, the Cellular,?the Bluetooth, and even the GPS receiver. But the farther we are from their targets, the more energy those radios use to?maintain(or TRY to maintain a connection.? Turning them off (i.e., Airplane Mode) can greatly reduce the iPhone¡¯s energy use. Also, charging from the laptop is limiting your charging rate to about 5 watts or less?(I think; later model MBPros with USB-C ports *may* do it faster). But you can get a good dual PD (power delivery) car charger that will provide 18?watts: <> You will need a quality USB-C to Lightning cble, of course, if you don¡¯t already have one.
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Re: autotext in Office 365-Mac Word2016
What else did you do about that time, like upgrade or trash something?
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 7:28 AM, julie 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.
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Julie
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Re: My unhappy MacBook Pro
Jim, it is most likely that you put it in a backpack. Get iStat anyway. It is a great indicator of what is going on when you have an issue, and if you have a draining new app installed. Just like Activity Monitor, or auto insurance.
Besides Hardware Monitor, I have have the CPU History displayed on the desktop for nearly 20 years. Trying to open them after a problem is almost useless, especially if the Mac froze up.
Brent
On Nov 1, 2019, at 6:08 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote:
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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Re: My unhappy MacBook Pro
I meant to reply to the question about the temp range. I believe when you get to 140F you will start noticing issues, but don't quote me on that. I use Hardware Monitor, and old app, and keep the display visible on the desktop. I monitor the temp and fan speed. I have done this for years, so that when I notice and increase or problems, that is where my eyes glance. Each machine is different and each sensor, will vary some. If I physically do some repairs, especially something that requires removing the heat sink, that is something I check.
I have had this app displayed on the desktop since my 2000 G4 Pismo.
On Nov 1, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 00:05, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson= [email protected]> wrote: That is possible. Typically when I¡¯m using the laptop away from its usual locations, when I finish using it I¡¯ll just slip it into my laptop carrying case and leave. Once or twice (at least) I¡¯ve arrived somewhere else, removed it from its case, and found it very warm with almost no battery charge remaining. However, that¡¯s very infrequent, and when I witnessed multiple restarts yesterday the computer was not unduly warm at any time.
I¡¯ve not yet downloaded iStat Menus but plan to do so and monitor it to see if it provides some clues.
Thanks for suggesting this as a possible cause.
Although iStat Menus is not expensive, it's not free. Have you done the obvious and looked at energy usage in Activity Monitor?
Otto
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Re: My unhappy MacBook Pro
There you have it Jim R. If you travel with a MBP and it gets jostled, it can waken it. Remember, it is only a magnet that is causing it to go to sleep. The MBP then starts up and needs circulation for cooling. It can either overheat, or run down the battery.
This used to happen to me when I went to the library. Luckily for me, the library is only 5 blocks away.
On Oct 31, 2019, at 5:05 PM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote: On Oct 31, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Did you travel with the MBP in sleep mode, could it have overheated from lack of circulation?
That is possible. Typically when I¡¯m using the laptop away from its usual locations, when I finish using it I¡¯ll just slip it into my laptop carrying case and leave. Once or twice (at least) I¡¯ve arrived somewhere else, removed it from its case, and found it very warm with almost no battery charge remaining. However, that¡¯s very infrequent, and when I witnessed multiple restarts yesterday the computer was not unduly warm at any time.
I¡¯ve not yet downloaded iStat Menus but plan to do so and monitor it to see if it provides some clues.
Thanks for suggesting this as a possible cause.
Jim Robertson
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Also, look at your Internet activities. Are they the types of activities that anyone in, let's say China, cares about? Folks in China have no interest in your pron viewing, for instance. Most of the stuff that you want to keep secure, you want to keep out of the hands of your family, your community, your business rivals, or your local government. No one in China likely cares about any of that type of stuff. ... Randy Singer For the most part, true. Until you¡ªor someone you have influence with, or your job¡ªbecomes interesting to those who have your particular information. Then ¡°leverage¡± becomes an option. Remember a little-known judge¡ªat least to most of the US public¡ªnamed Robert Bork? He was nominated to the Supreme Court in the 80¡¯s, and during the senate nomination hearings the judge¡¯s video rental tastes were mentioned in the press. Prior to his nomination no one really cared what he watched in the privacy of his home. Until... that information became valuable to someone. In this case is was simply a journalist, but I think I make my point. Privacy doesn¡¯t seem important until you wish you had had it. Dave
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Re: "Trust This Computer?"
Admittedly, I don't do that often. But I did it last night and it made no difference. The only thing that helped was putting the phone in Airplane Mode. It would charge fine that way without asking any questions, but the problem returned whenever I turned Airplane Mode off.
Dane
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Howdy
When is last time you shut all devices off and restarted?
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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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Re: "Trust This Computer?"
On Nov 1, 2019, at 12:44 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io < jimdoc@...> wrote:
Dane Robison wrote: 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.
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.
We mostly never turn off the various radios on our iPhones ¨C the Wifi, the Cellular,?the Bluetooth, and even the GPS receiver. But the farther we are from their targets, the more energy those radios use to?maintain(or TRY to maintain a connection.? Turning them off (i.e., Airplane Mode) can greatly reduce the iPhone¡¯s energy use. Also, charging from the laptop is limiting your charging rate to about 5 watts or less?(I think; later model MBPros with USB-C ports *may* do it faster). But you can get a good dual PD (power delivery) car charger that will provide 18?watts: <> You will need a quality USB-C to Lightning cble, of course, if you don¡¯t already have one.
Oh, I have all the charging stuff, but it's in *my* car. I ended up out of state yesterday in my wife's car so I didn't have any of my goodies with me and charging from the laptop was my only option. I was fortunate to stumble across the ability to charge by turning Airplane Mode on, but still curious why the "Trust this computer?" message loop started up again as soon as I'd turn Airplane mode back off. And, of course, the real problem is that once that loop begins I can't charge, presumably because I can't answer the question.
It seems to me the phone is "protecting" itself from being plugged into a potentially malicious computer, but it would be much more helpful if it could somehow only block data transmission while allowing the charge to happen.
Dane
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