If we could, perhaps a reminder to carry the conversation forward when we post. AT this point I don’t know to whom you are responding.
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Your 8G ram should be adequate. More ram may help but it might not make any difference. Is it faster loading if you don't have any other apps running?
It kind of sounds like your Finance software might be trying to load its database into ram (for faster access?). maybe not.
I think you should contact the developer of your software and see if they know about this problem. There may be some sort of maintenance procedure that will help keep the app running smoothly.
Dave?
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Apparently you haven’t joined iMacChat group yet. Click on the invitation link again and make sure it shows you’re looking at the iMacChat group. To?Subscribe to iMacChat send an email to? [email protected]??or go to? /g/iMacChat? Dave?
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Underscan on TV set - Mojave - 10.14.6
Every time I start or restart my computer, only half of the icons on the bottom of screen show and none of the words at the top of the screen show. I bring up the control box for the display, click on the adjustment for underscan and the screen is imediately the adjusted to the proper size. Then I adjust the screen with a large border and try again… same behavior. This was true also with the two previous operating systems.
It is only a nuisance, but there must be a way to correct this.
Lyle Syverson
Mac Mini (Late 2014)
Memory 8 GB
Display - SONY TV 73.5-inch (1920 x 1080)
1.12 TB fusion drive
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You still need to join each group. Go to? scroll?down, and select?Join This Group.
Otto
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 18:00, Tony M via Groups.Io <nyrngrz= [email protected]> wrote: I just joined the iMacChat group and when I go to ?and look at Your Groups, iMacChat is shown this Group macsupportcentral does not appear. Why is that?
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Perhaps you haven’t subscribed to THIS group? ?I ask because I did subscribe to both and both are appearing on my list of groups along with several others that I’ve joined.
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? I just joined the iMacChat group and when I go to ?and look at Your Groups, iMacChat is shown this Group macsupportcentral does not appear. Why is that?
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I figured it out. For some reason I had to search for this group and click on Join Group again. Now it appears in Your Groups.
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I just joined the iMacChat group and when I go to ?and look at Your Groups, iMacChat is shown this Group macsupportcentral does not appear. Why is that?
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I just joined the iMacChat group and when I go to ?and look at Your Groups, iMacChat is shown this Group macsupportcentral does not appear. Why is that?
Tony M
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Unless they changed something recently, that is true of the 27” iMacs, but not the 21.5” ones, and he said he had the smaller one. On Oct 21, 2019, at 11:22 AM, Dave Kelly via Groups.Io < drkelly@...> wrote:
By the way, adding RAM does not require taking the iMac appart. There are 2-3 screws holding a cover at the bottom center of the screen that lets you access the RAM slots.?
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By the way, adding RAM does not require taking the iMac appart. There?are 2-3 screws holding a cover at the bottom center of the screen that lets?you access the RAM slots.?
Not, I think, on the model of iMac he described…
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On Oct 21, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Dave Kelly via Groups.Io < drkelly@...> wrote:
Your 8G ram should be adequate. More ram may help but it might not make any difference. Is it faster loading if you don't have any other apps running?
I quit from the app, then relaunched it and reached a fully loaded UI by about 20 seconds. I should mention that I’m experiencing the same thing in Excel and Word, now that I’m Office 365/2019 for Mac (subscription based). I think that’s unforgiveable, too. I don’t blame my computer or my OS installation because everything else I do seems to run as quickly as it used to. In the early days of VW Dieselgate, (2015) I was a frequent user of an online Excel workbook that summarized the experience of many thousands of unhappy VW owners whom VW made happy by buying back their cars; the entire workbook was reachable by mere mortals only online, and it loaded and calculated incredibly quickly. I’ll have to try to see if I can find that amazing bit of work again and ask its author if he’s had the same experience with the newest versions of Excel and Word. It kind of sounds like your Finance software might be trying to load its database into ram (for faster access?). maybe not.
You’re right. I should contact the developer. I’ll post again after I’ve done so.
By the way, adding RAM does not require taking the iMac appart. There are 2-3 screws holding a cover at the bottom center of the screen that lets you access the RAM slots.? Actually, that’s not the case for my computer (iMac 18.1, 18.2. OWC, MacFixit, and many others have videos showing how to do it. Given that the back of the Motherboard IS reachable though that little cupboard on many iMacs, one must wonder whether perversity rather than the “runway model, you can never be too rich or too thin” distorted body image was the motivation for this design. Watch the videos; they will terrify some, but the one I watched ended with its author saying it had been a “fun” project.
Jim Robertson
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I'm no where near Catalina, nor the current iTunes. I'm still on OS X 10.7.5.
I listen to a lot of audio books, and I rip them from discs to listen to them on my iPhone. I don't store the ripped files in iTunes, because of previous lost files.?
On occasion, I discover a title is missing. While the iTunes link to the file has disappeared, the file ?is where I left it. So all I have to do is drop the file or manually open it from iTunes to re-establish the link.?
I had seen the issue mentioned before, but did not think of the link before. i did ask if they made An external copy of ripped files or a copy of all media to an external drive.? ,?
Brent
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On Oct 21, 2019, at 6:19 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io < otto.nikolaus@...> wrote: Surely all your ripped (transferred from CD) music will remain in Music > iTunes (or wherever you keep it) after the upgrade? Can someone confirm?
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I’ve learned that all of the music I laboriously transferred from CD to iTunes will be gone (only iTunes purchases will transfer), but I mostly use streaming services for music now, so I don’t think that will be too hard to handle.
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By the way, adding RAM does not require taking the iMac appart. There are 2-3 screws holding a cover at the bottom center of the screen that lets you access the RAM slots.?
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Your 8G ram should be adequate. More ram may help but it might not make any difference. Is it faster loading if you don't have any other apps running?
It kind of sounds like your Finance software might be trying to load its database into ram (for faster access?). maybe not.
I think you should contact the developer of your software and see if they know about this problem. There may be some sort of maintenance procedure that will help keep the app running smoothly.
Dave?
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My desktop Mac is a late 2017 21 inch 4K iMac, 8 GB RAM (2 4 GB DIMMs), 1 TB fusion drive, 3.4 GHz Quad Core i5 processor. It’s upgradeable by the brave to 16 or 32 GB RAM.
I switched from Quicken 2007 to SEE Finance for 3 reasons: - Death knell for 32-bit Quicken
- Subscription model inevitable for Quicken
- SEE finance seemed to have reporting capabilities that came closest to approximating Q2007.
However, it’s been a struggle. I really dislike many of the UI elements. However, what’s killing me is the launch time, which has climbed steadily and now can be as long as a full minute after clicking its icon in the dock (I’m on 10.14.6).
Just now, Activity Monitor tells me that only WindowServer is consuming more RAM (1.2 GB) than SEE Finance just after lanch (866 MB), although right now I have 14 apps with a UI open.
Apple says the computer can be upgraded to 32 GB RAM; OWC says 64 GB, with 2 32 GB DIMMs, for < $200 and < $400 respectively.
Activity Monitor says I have a > 1 GB swap file at the moment, but “memory pressure” is low.
Fusion drive seems to be working normally, but I think if I were to venture inside it would go bye-bye in favor of an internal SSD.
My question:
First, for other SEE Finance users, are launch times like this typical on relatively current hardware?
Second for iMac users who’ve been inside, is this kind of surgery something a non-stupid but non EE-certified user can accomplish on the dining room table (without ruining my marriage)?
And for experienced macOS users in general, is a RAM upgrade likely to help enough to make this worthwhile?
I’ve done lots of screwdriver and Torx-driver requiring upgrades on Macs over the years, including processor swaps, and even snipping a motherboard resistor and a bit of soldering on an early Mac Plus (to bring it up to the then astounding RAM of 4 MB (remember, the original Mac could talk and Captain Magneto could step around that tiny screen powered by only 128 KiloBytes of RAM).
However, I’ve never lifted the screen off any iMac, nor replaced a car windshield using suction cups. The nearest Apple Retail store is 256 miles and two states away in Spokane. (I know because I suggested a pilgrimage to Spokane to my spouse when we learned that a little wrinkle in our Audi Q5’s left rear fender meant that the car has to be flatbed-transported there—also the closest Audi dealership—for collision avoidance sensor recalibration after someone in an unidentifiable pickup of indescribable color, somewhere between primer and baby-poop, backed into it while we were “securely stationary" in a parking garage eating sandwiches; far from attempting to flee, instead the somewhat confused “other party" pulled forward for another attempt. which in his cannabis fueled state likely would have been no more successful than the first). My wife was uninterested in the trip; of course, I “forgot” to mention it’s also the closest Nordstrom Retail Store.
Jim Robertson
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The Pixma MX922 printer is listed on two separate Canon webpages as being compatible with macOS Catalina:
The following shows a green check mark, indicating compatibility for the MX922:
And the following Canon knowledge base question answer shows the MX922 listed in their Catalina compatible printers table under multifunction:
With that said, I personally have no experience with that printer or macOS Catalina (my Macs are not upgradable to Catalina). Bev in TX
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On Oct 21, 2019, at 6:53 AM, Debbi < djmcneer@...> wrote: Here’s my issue: I’ve Googled and checked Canon’s website to see if my MX922 printer will be compatible and I guess I just don’t know enough about what I’m reading to figure it out.
... It’s really just the laptop-to-printer I’m worried about.
At this point, I continue to postpone the Catalina install, only because of the printer. Do any of you have a Canon MX922, and does it still work with Catalina?
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Debbi wrote: After reading the many messages of Catalina issues, I’m reluctant to pull the trigger. I’ve never made a back-up copy of my current OS prior to installing an update.
Do you mean that you *never* make backups, period? Because if you EVER make ‘em, this is probably the single most important time to do so, before an OS upgrade.
I have Time Machine set to automatically back up alternately to two separate external drive, and I also periodically make SuperDuper! clone backups to alternating drives.
I rarely *NEED* the backups to recover something, but the one time that I accidentally deleted my entire Documents folder – and emptied the Trash – I was able to salvage everything easily by using the backup(s).
Also, I plan to double the size of my internal SSD soon, and clone the last Mojave backup back to a 2nd partition on the new drive, so I can dual-boot, and keep using some 32-bit stuff (games, mostly). I understand that some applications won’t work as they currently do (have been getting that warning for some time now), but I also understand that I can upgrade some and substitute others. I think I can work around that.
Some applications won’t work. Period. You can download (free) Go64 :(<>) This will tell you which apps are 32-bit (and won’t run), and which are 64-bit (and will run). And which are mostly 64-bit but have a unit that isn’t. Then you can intelligently decide about apps on a case-by-case basis. I’ve learned that all of the music I laboriously transferred from CD to iTunes will be gone (only iTunes purchases will transfer)…
The huge majority of my music is ripped from CDs, and is not only still present on my drive, and available to the Music app, it is still located here: /Users/<username>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music even though there is no longer an iTunes APP in Catalina. Here’s my issue: I’ve Googled and checked Canon’s website to see if my MX922 printer will be compatible and I guess I just don’t know enough about what I’m reading to figure it out.
If you get Go64, and set it to show ALL apps, you can then search for “Canon” and see whether the driver is 32- or 64-bit.
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Thanks Pat. That is exactly what I expected: nothing is lost, and don't we all have backups just in case?
Otto
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 14:27, Pat Taylor via Groups.Io <pat412= [email protected]> wrote: That’s what I’ve read in the tech press, but have not yet upgraded to Catalina myself.? Here’s one article on the subject:
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All of my music is still there.
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Surely all your ripped (transferred from CD) music will remain in Music > iTunes (or wherever you keep it) after the upgrade? Can someone confirm?
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That’s what I’ve read in the tech press, but have not yet upgraded to Catalina myself. ?Here’s one article on the subject:
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On Oct 21, 2019, at 7:19 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
Surely all your ripped (transferred from CD) music will remain in Music > iTunes (or wherever you keep it) after the upgrade? Can someone confirm?
Otto I’m a lazy MacBook Air user. And I’ve always trusted that system upgrades are going to improve my computing experience. I blithely click on the Install, it does its think, and I haven’t lost any functionality so far.
After reading the many messages of Catalina issues, I’m reluctant to pull the trigger. I’ve never made a back-up copy of my current OS prior to installing an update. I understand that some applications won’t work as they currently do (have been getting that warning for some time now), but I also understand that I can upgrade some and substitute others. I think I can work around that.
I’ve learned that all of the music I laboriously transferred from CD to iTunes will be gone (only iTunes purchases will transfer), but I mostly use streaming services for music now, so I don’t think that will be too hard to handle.
Here’s my issue: I’ve Googled and checked Canon’s website to see if my MX922 printer will be compatible and I guess I just don’t know enough about what I’m reading to figure it out.
I’ve updated my iPhone Xr and my iPad mini, with no issues. It’s really just the laptop-to-printer I’m worried about.
At this point, I continue to postpone the Catalina install, only because of the printer. Do any of you have a Canon MX922, and does it still work with Catalina?
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Surely all your ripped (transferred from CD) music will remain in Music > iTunes (or wherever you keep it) after the upgrade? Can someone confirm?
Otto
I’m a lazy MacBook Air user. And I’ve always trusted that system upgrades are going to improve my computing experience. I blithely click on the Install, it does its think, and I haven’t lost any functionality so far.
After reading the many messages of Catalina issues, I’m reluctant to pull the trigger. I’ve never made a back-up copy of my current OS prior to installing an update. I understand that some applications won’t work as they currently do (have been getting that warning for some time now), but I also understand that I can upgrade some and substitute others. I think I can work around that.
I’ve learned that all of the music I laboriously transferred from CD to iTunes will be gone (only iTunes purchases will transfer), but I mostly use streaming services for music now, so I don’t think that will be too hard to handle.
Here’s my issue: I’ve Googled and checked Canon’s website to see if my MX922 printer will be compatible and I guess I just don’t know enough about what I’m reading to figure it out.
I’ve updated my iPhone Xr and my iPad mini, with no issues. It’s really just the laptop-to-printer I’m worried about.
At this point, I continue to postpone the Catalina install, only because of the printer. Do any of you have a Canon MX922, and does it still work with Catalina?
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