Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
Bayswater, I was thinking exactly that, I created a new Admin User to get things done, and was wondering about just changing its name. I have skimmed through the article on renaming and I have flying
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Brent
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#19166
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
Yes, Apple _may_ announce an update worldwide at one time, but when it is available in different countries is often different. And when a notification that it is available to an individual device
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Brent
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Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
If the aim is to use the original account name, and you can establish a working admin account, you can set that second account up and rename it. ?I had some uninterpretable problems with my account
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Bayswater
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
Although Apple does release all OS updates at the same time, they can¡¯t provide downloads to everyone simultaneously. Some folks will see those updates before other folks, as you yourself saw. --
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Bev in TX
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
Jim R, in retrospect, I did have one instance where I was trying to copy one word, but a whole paragraph highlighted. I could not change what was highlighted. I don¡¯t remember seeing your post. My
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Brent
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
Perhaps a bit of context would be useful here. I first posted about my encountering this bug in macOS to this listserv about a week ago. Only ONE other user confirmed it experience. Although I use iOS
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jimrobertson
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Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
Correct to this point. I can log into the primary User account and many functions work, except some critical ones. Second user account seems to work fine. I chose the HDD option, problems started
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Brent
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Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
Brent wrote: OK 2012 Mini (with Intel CPU) Catalina (macOS 10.15) installed Boots successfully, but cannot log into primary account DOES log into new, secondary account Questions: Hard disk drive or
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Jim Saklad
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Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
I recently bought a used late 2012 Mac mini. Somewhere in the process of setting it up my long time User account got corrupted. I don¡¯t know where or when, and don¡¯t care, other than I want to use
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Brent
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
Even Apple doesn¡¯t have enough servers to roll out every update, on every OS, world wide simultaneously. Btw, I¡¯m installing it as I write this. Brent
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Brent
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
<https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/08/apple-releases-macos-sonoma-14-3-1/> -- Jim Saklad jimdoc@... ?
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Jim Saklad
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
Jim Robertson wrote: Sonoma 14.3.1 *IS* released today. I just updated my installation. -- Jim Saklad jimdoc@... ?
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Jim Saklad
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Re: Strange happenings when composing text in Apple Mail
AND, this morning I read that Apple has released an iOS 17.3.1 update that sounds as though it is an attempt to deal with exactly this issue, except that there¡¯s no macOS update being released
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jimrobertson
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#19154
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Re: Email delivery stopped two days ago [SOLVED]
i understand gather that the domain is hosted on his (cloud) server where the MX records are resolved. The DNS there went offline, thus couldn't connect the domain and Google. This is the first such
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HappyChris
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Re: Email delivery stopped two days ago [SOLVED]
What was the issue? Help the rest of us learn. Brent
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Brent
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Re: Email delivery stopped two days ago [SOLVED]
This issue was sorted out by my son who set the system up. I was reminded how much I have forgotten - or never understood in the first place. I¡¯ll dig out my old copy of Tannenbaum (Networks) to
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HappyChris
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Re: SSD Tip!!!
I¡¯ve tried caffeinate and similar tricks to keep uncooperative drives alive, but always with side effects that caused me to stop using them. For instance, the last time I tried Caffeinate, it caused
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todhop
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Re: Internal Drive has become Unbootable
Hello Tony I¡¯m so very pleased to learn that you found the answer to your dilemma within the information which I sent to you. My apology for not being more ¡®hands on¡¯ but I was busy doing other
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David G Brooks
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Re: SSD Tip!!!
That¡¯s very interesting! This command is going into my notebook of useful macOS commands and I¡¯ll be uti
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Bev in TX
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Re: Internal Drive has become Unbootable
David, I did arrive on the other side with some good news using Internet Recovery Mode which I never knew existed before following the instructions on the page that you provided for me. I wasn¡¯t
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Tony Troiano
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