Safari "tracker blocking"
Several updates ago, I noticed Safari "Tracker blocking" statistics. I thought it was interesting and would check it every time I launched. I noticed it was always between some number between 80 -
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Budd Turner
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#21357
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
Because for certain operations hardware needs to be plugged directly into each other. My best guess is that some of the needed status signals between the two pieces of hardware get muddled when going
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Brent
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#21356
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
Thank you but I am a little uncertain as to what you mean. ?The Mac Mini (is this what you are referring to as "the unit"?) works fine on its own. ?I have plugged the hub into the Mac Mini with two
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Jim Willett
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#21355
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
You don¡¯t appear to have tried the unit without the hub?? Try plugging directly into the Mini and see what happens. cjc
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Christopher Collins
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#21354
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
Yes, exactly, I named the disk Time Machine. ?And it displayed in Disk Utility as ?well as my desktop. ?Today I did your suggestions: -verified that the disk is APFS -verified that Time Machine
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Jim Willett
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#21353
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
I thought of one more after sending that. A while back I watched a YouTube review of the "RayCue M4/2024 Mac Mini Hub & Stand with NVMe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im8ZV4jgnTI&t=900s He indicated
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Bev in TX
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#21352
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
I'm not sure what you meant by the drive showing up in Disk Utility as Time Machine? When I look at my TM (Time Machine) drive in Disk Utility, the only indication that it has anything to do with TM
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Bev in TX
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#21351
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Re: Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
Have you checked the preferences to make sure that there¡¯s not some condition not being met? Otto
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Otto Nikolaus
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#21350
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Re: New Mac - Music question
That¡¯s great news! As an aside, I¡¯ve learned a bit about iTunes/Music over the years. Our collection became too big for our Macs and was moved to a NAS years ago. I¡¯ve found that despite some
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Otto Nikolaus
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#21349
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Help with an old PowerMac
I have an old PowerMac that choked on something on an external SD. It now won¡¯t finish booting. I recently had this problem, but somehow resolved it. I get to the gray screen with the logo, in
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Brent
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#21348
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Time Machine - Not connected? But on desktop
I got my wife a new Mac Mini and a hub containing an MVMe SSD that I set up as the Time Machine drive. ?This all about ten days ago. ?I checked today and found that the Time Machine is not backing
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Jim Willett
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#21347
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Re: New Mac - Music question
Thank you so much for your help Otto. ?I went back in Time Machine and Restored the Music Library.musiclibrary from there and everything is working. ?I now have 10,081 songs, not 1,199. ?And all
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Jim Willett
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#21346
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Re: New Mac - Music question
When you first used Music on your new Mac it will have created a library file if there wasn¡¯t one already where it was expected to be. You need to find it so you can replace it with the one from the
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Otto Nikolaus
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#21345
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Re: New Mac - Music question
Oh. ?Pardon me, please. ?No I do not have a music library file there. ?I will get out my old Mac and copy it over. ?Thank you very much for your help. - Jim
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Jim Willett
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Re: New Mac - Music question
No, that¡¯s not what I said. Is there a *file* called Music Library.musiclibrary in your Music *folder*? Otto
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Otto Nikolaus
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#21343
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Re: New Mac - Music question
Jim, not at the mac now, but when I did this, I had to set a preference or setting to tell Music/iTunes that the library was located on the external drive, and that the music files should not be
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Bayswater
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#21342
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Re: air tag battery change ugh11
Why ruin the gloves when you could use them as they are? Otto
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Otto Nikolaus
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#21341
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Re: air tag battery change ugh11
I have a box of nitrile gloves. I could cut off a couple fingers from one of those gloves and see whether those are tacky enough to turn the battery cover. Thanks for the idea! -- Bev in TX
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Bev in TX
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#21340
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Re: air tag battery change ugh11
Only some of the bitterant coated batteries won't work. Per Apple, "Look for packaging that states "Compatible with Apple AirTag". Some CR2032 batteries with bitterant coatings might not work with
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Bev in TX
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#21339
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Re: air tag battery change ugh11
I used the Duracell bitter coated ones and they are fine, both fit and power. hugh
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Hugh
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#21338
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