Howdy. Battery may need replacement. Or, note that lithium Iron batteries sometimes lose the proper calibration that is the real battery charge level and what is reported on the charge/batter icon. This is usually fixed by letting the battery run down so the iPad shuts itself down due to no battery power. Then plug in and start it. Could help. Denver Dan On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:12:23 -0500, KarenP wrote: I have a 2017 iPad Mini 4. I noticed it loses its charge much quicker
these days than it used to and I suspect it’s because the battery is
getting old. But I don’t quite understand how it works. Last night, I
had about 15-20% charge left when I closed the cover and put it on my
nightstand to go to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, the charge
was completely gone. I had to plug it in to see anything at all as
the unit would not even turn on. How does an iPad that’s not being
used go from 15- 20% charge to nothing overnight? Is it because the
Wi-Fi is still working the whole time so it actually is using battery?
Am I correct that the battery on this is simply old? Do people get
new batteries for these things, or is it better to just get a new
iPad altogether? I still plan to use mine for a while longer yet, but
want to know what the best options are in this instance. [|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|][|] iSent from iDan's GyazMail on my MacPro
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Re: Time Machine isn't working
It's because you have excluded the LaCie from being used for backups. On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:26:36 -0500, Joan Sax via Groups.Io wrote: Sorry to keep going at this but Time Machine is still not doing a
backup of my Macintosh Hard Drive to the LaCie drive which is what I
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Re: Time Machine isn't working
Hi
If its in the exclude box it will not be backed up.
Try restarting the computer is Safe Mode -hold down the Shift key at reboot and continue holding until you get the login credentials are- and then see if you can remove the Macintosh HD from the exclude list.
Paul
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On Feb 29, 2020, at 3:26 PM, Joan Sax via Groups.Io < jsax@...> wrote:
I am still confused by the wording. If the LaCie drive is listed in the “Exclude these items from backups:” dialogue box, does that mean that the LaCie drive will not be used as a destination for a backup, or that the LaCie drive will not itself be backed up. Obviously I want my iMac hard drive backed up to the LaCie drive. This is my current situation. I used Disk Utility to erase and reformat the LaCie drive which I would like to use for my Time Machine backup (as well as for backing up my hard drive using Super Duper). Now when I open that Exclude these items from backups dialogue box, both the LaCie Drive and my Macintosh HD are listed (the latter grayed out) and if I press the minus sign beneath the window, it will allow me to exclude the LaCie drive (is that what I want if I am using that drive to backup to?) but not the Macintosh HD which is grayed out. What am I doing wrong?
Sorry to keep going at this but Time Machine is still not doing a backup of ?my Macintosh Hard Drive to the LaCie drive which is what I want.
Joan
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I am still confused by the wording. If the LaCie drive is listed in the “Exclude these items from backups:” dialogue box, does that mean that the LaCie drive will not be used as a destination for a backup, or that the LaCie drive will not itself be backed up. Obviously I want my iMac hard drive backed up to the LaCie drive. This is my current situation. I used Disk Utility to erase and reformat the LaCie drive which I would like to use for my Time Machine backup (as well as for backing up my hard drive using Super Duper). Now when I open that Exclude these items from backups dialogue box, both the LaCie Drive and my Macintosh HD are listed (the latter grayed out) and if I press the minus sign beneath the window, it will allow me to exclude the LaCie drive (is that what I want if I am using that drive to backup to?) but not the Macintosh HD which is grayed out. What am I doing wrong?
Sorry to keep going at this but Time Machine is still not doing a backup of my Macintosh Hard Drive to the LaCie drive which is what I want.
Joan
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On Feb 29, 2020, at 2:44 PM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote:
? Does that mean the battery costs as much as getting a new one??
?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
On Feb 29, 2020, at 3:39 PM, Bob Buscaglia via Groups.Io < rbuscag@...> wrote:
If it is indeed the battery, Apple will give you a new unit for the cost of a battery.
Bob On Saturday, February 29, 2020, 2:12 PM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote: I have a 2017 iPad Mini 4. I noticed it loses its charge much quicker these days than it used to and I suspect it’s because the battery is getting old. But I don’t quite understand how it works. Last night, I had about 15-20% charge left when I closed the cover and put it on my nightstand to go to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, the charge was completely gone. I had to plug it in to see anything at all as the unit would not even turn on. How does an iPad that’s not being used go from 15- 20% charge to nothing overnight? Is it because the Wi-Fi is still working the whole time so it actually is using battery?
?Am I correct that the battery on this is simply old? Do people get new batteries for these things, or is it better to just get a new iPad altogether? I still plan to use mine for a while longer yet, but want to know what the best options are in this instance.
Thank you, ?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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Does that mean the battery costs as much as getting a new one??
?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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On Feb 29, 2020, at 3:39 PM, Bob Buscaglia via Groups.Io < rbuscag@...> wrote:
If it is indeed the battery, Apple will give you a new unit for the cost of a battery.
Bob On Saturday, February 29, 2020, 2:12 PM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote: I have a 2017 iPad Mini 4. I noticed it loses its charge much quicker these days than it used to and I suspect it’s because the battery is getting old. But I don’t quite understand how it works. Last night, I had about 15-20% charge left when I closed the cover and put it on my nightstand to go to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, the charge was completely gone. I had to plug it in to see anything at all as the unit would not even turn on. How does an iPad that’s not being used go from 15- 20% charge to nothing overnight? Is it because the Wi-Fi is still working the whole time so it actually is using battery?
?Am I correct that the battery on this is simply old? Do people get new batteries for these things, or is it better to just get a new iPad altogether? I still plan to use mine for a while longer yet, but want to know what the best options are in this instance.
Thank you, ?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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If it is indeed the battery, Apple will give you a new unit for the cost of a battery.
On Saturday, February 29, 2020, 2:12 PM, KarenP <waystation9@...> wrote: I have a 2017 iPad Mini 4. I noticed it loses its charge much quicker these days than it used to and I suspect it’s because the battery is getting old. But I don’t quite understand how it works. Last night, I had about 15-20% charge left when I closed the cover and put it on my nightstand to go to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, the charge was completely gone. I had to plug it in to see anything at all as the unit would not even turn on. How does an iPad that’s not being used go from 15- 20% charge to nothing overnight? Is it because the Wi-Fi is still working the whole time so it actually is using battery?
?Am I correct that the battery on this is simply old? Do people get new batteries for these things, or is it better to just get a new iPad altogether? I still plan to use mine for a while longer yet, but want to know what the best options are in this instance.
Thank you, ?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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I have a 2017 iPad Mini 4. I noticed it loses its charge much quicker these days than it used to and I suspect it’s because the battery is getting old. But I don’t quite understand how it works. Last night, I had about 15-20% charge left when I closed the cover and put it on my nightstand to go to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, the charge was completely gone. I had to plug it in to see anything at all as the unit would not even turn on. How does an iPad that’s not being used go from 15- 20% charge to nothing overnight? Is it because the Wi-Fi is still working the whole time so it actually is using battery?
?Am I correct that the battery on this is simply old? Do people get new batteries for these things, or is it better to just get a new iPad altogether? I still plan to use mine for a while longer yet, but want to know what the best options are in this instance.
Thank you, ?? Karen ? ?organizing my iMac to the Nines999
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Re: Time Machine isn't working
Howdy.
Exclude means it won't be backed up. ?No Time Machine backup when the
drive is excluded.
Note: ?You can add a folder to the exclusion list. ?It's not just for
drives. ?
Denver Dan
My 2? here: Time Machine will write any file that is at all changed, leaving others alone. If you use something such as Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, the “volumes” seen by the emulator look to MacOS as simply very large files, so any time you make a change within the emulator program Time Machine will see it as a changed file and so write the 30 or whatever gigabyte file to the backup. In other words, do exclude those?
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2.) Run disk utility on the back-up devices.
And, be prepared to let Disk Utility run for a LONG time if you’ve been using the backup disks for a while, because a huge amount of what’s on Time Machine backup disks is links within the directory (Time Machine doesn’t copy entire files if they change).
At least that’s my (limited) understanding.
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Jim Robertson
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Joan,
I occasionally have had this happen. Not sure why. Two solutions that I have tried that work but not consistently.
1.) Shut down all the components. Restart them - most often this solves the problem and they will start backing up.
2.) Run disk utility on the back-up devices.
Hope one of these methods help.
Jay
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On Feb 27, 2020, at 11:16 AM, Joan Sax via Groups.Io <jsax@...> wrote:
I keep getting a message that Time Machine was unable to do a backup. I have two backup disks, a LaCie backup disk directly connected to my iMac (27-inch late 2014 running Sierra, 10.12.6) and a backup disk connected to my AirPort Extreme router. When I click on the Time Machine preferences, there are little notifications besides my LaCie disk and my iMac Time machine disk that say “There are no disks to back up. This can happen if all available disks are in the “Do not back up “ list. Click Options to edit the list.”
I did click options and the LaCie disk and LACIE SHARE (I’m not sure what that is) are the only ones listed in “Exclude these items from backups”. My iMac is not listed. Furthermore when I try to add a disk I see iMac time machine (the one connected to my AirPort Extreme) and it won’t allow me to add it to the excluded list. I also see “Joan’s iMac.sparsebundle” as an “invisible item”. What on earth is going on and how can I get back to normal Time Machine backups?
Joan
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Howdy.?
The following Macs have a new Apple chip called T2.? - iMac Pro.
- Mac Pro introduced in 2019.
- Mac mini introduced in 2018.
- MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later.
- MacBook Pro introduced in 2018 or later.
The T2 is heavily involved with security and encryption.?
Other Macs have had a T1 chip.?
I’m attaching a link to an article on what the T2 does.?
<>?
After trying to deal with an Apple Tech Support case (for 4 very un responsive weeks) on boot problems with my new MacPro, this evening I took it to an Apple Store for them to diagnose the problems.?
It won’t boot into Recovery, Safe Disk, Option, zap PRAM, or boot from USB bootable installer. Otherwise it runs well.?
At Apple Store, I provided an hour of entertainment as every employee came around to check out the MacPro. None of them had ever seen one. ? Great interest. Hummmm? ?That may have been worth the price.?
I did learn about something called Secure Boot which is part of the T2 and is on by default. This prevents external bootable drives from booting the MacPro. However, apparently Secure Boot can be turned off when in Recovery mode.?
Except I can’t boot in Recovery.?
I suspect the T2 may have altered precisely how maintenance boots are done. ?No proof of this at this time. ?More info if I learn something about this.?
The T2 chip also deals with FileVault encryption and decryption almost instantly.?
I strongly urge folks with a T2 chip Mac to read the article.?
I’m sure more info will come out about the T2.?
Denver Dan?
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Howdy. Exclude means it won't be backed up. No Time Machine backup when the drive is excluded. Note: You can add a folder to the exclusion list. It's not just for drives. Denver Dan On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:46:41 -0800, Joan Sax via Groups.Io wrote: I am confused by the wording in the Time Machine System Preference.
under the Options window. When it says "Exclude these items from
backups", does it mean that these disks listed are not to be backed
up, but rather receive backups, or are these disks listed to be the
destination disks for backups? I at first understood this in the
first meaning, as these disks were not to be the source of backups -
ie. were not to be backed up, but you seem to be saying that they
should be the destination of backups and should therefore not appear
in the "Exclude these items from backups".
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Re: testing email - last message failed
That’s a good question! I have no idea. I was trying to download a whole bunch of podcasts at one time, which normally does not cause a problem. But this time, it hung up iTunes so badly that I could not force quit. I even went to activity monitor and closed out all of the iTunes processes but still had no luck force quitting iTunes. After trying numerous times, I finally went ahead and closed chrome. Then I tried iTunes again and lo and behold, it quit.
– Karen
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On Feb 28, 2020, at 7:23 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Obviously, you are and have been. Servers make mistakes too.?
What concerns me is why did you having Chrome open affect anything to do with iTunes?
Brent
On Feb 28, 2020, at 1:15 PM, KarenP wrote: Hi Brent - that would be a logical reason, but the message I got back said: But clearly, I am subscribed.
-karen
On Feb 28, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Perhaps you sent it to yahoo by mistake? Brent, on my iPad Howdy.
Karen, your message "I tried to send..." came through OK.?
I just checked logged in to group and your membership looks normal.?
Perhaps a temporary glitch??
Denver Dan
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Obviously, you are and have been. Servers make mistakes too.?
What concerns me is why did you having Chrome open affect anything to do with iTunes?
On Feb 28, 2020, at 1:15 PM, KarenP wrote: Hi Brent - that would be a logical reason, but the message I got back said: But clearly, I am subscribed.
-karen
On Feb 28, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Perhaps you sent it to yahoo by mistake? Brent, on my iPad Howdy.
Karen, your message "I tried to send..." came through OK.?
I just checked logged in to group and your membership looks normal.?
Perhaps a temporary glitch??
Denver Dan
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Re: Time Machine isn't working
I am confused by the wording in the Time Machine System Preference. under the Options window. ?When it says "Exclude these items from backups", does it mean that these disks listed are not to be backed up, but rather receive backups, or are these disks listed to be the destination disks for backups? I at first understood this in the first meaning, as these disks were not to be the source of backups - ie. were not to be backed up, but you seem to be saying that they should be the destination of backups and should therefore not appear in the "Exclude these items from backups".
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Hi Brent - that would be a logical reason, but the message I got back said: But clearly, I am subscribed.
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On Feb 28, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Brent via Groups.Io < whodo678@...> wrote:
Perhaps you sent it to yahoo by mistake? Brent, on my iPad Howdy.
Karen, your message "I tried to send..." came through OK.?
I just checked logged in to group and your membership looks normal.?
Perhaps a temporary glitch??
Denver Dan
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Thanks for checking, Dan. It probably was a glitch. It happened while I was trying to shut down my iMac and could not force quit iTunes for the life of me. I used my iPad to send the message so maybe something was going on with the connection at that time.
(Once I shut down chrome, iTunes then allowed me to force quit it and I was able to restart my computer)
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On Feb 28, 2020, at 3:07 PM, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
?Howdy.
Karen, your message "I tried to send..." came through OK.?
I just checked logged in to group and your membership looks normal.?
Perhaps a temporary glitch??
Denver Dan
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Perhaps you sent it to yahoo by mistake? Brent, on my iPad
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On Feb 28, 2020, at 12:04 PM, Daniel Settles < denver1.dan1@...> wrote: Howdy.
Karen, your message "I tried to send..." came through OK.?
I just checked logged in to group and your membership looks normal.?
Perhaps a temporary glitch??
Denver Dan
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Re: testing email - last message failed
Howdy.
Karen, your message "I tried to send..." came through OK.?
I just checked logged in to group and your membership looks normal.?
Perhaps a temporary glitch??
Denver Dan
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