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What I know is my Mail program on my Mac died instantly when I tried to start it. I rebooted and that didn't help. I could get to the mail servers via my iPad and I deleted about five pieces of junk mail that had come. The iPad doesn't have Rules (I guess) but the Mac does. That "solved" my...

About this Mac says Ventura 13.3.1. I click Mofe Info... and it puts me into System Settings -> General About. Now I click System Report... and it puts me into System Information. Now I click "Disabled Software" under Software and I see the driver that I need to use. The install script does...

Have you found that the Mail app has become almost unusable? It use to have a button on the top to load the content. That button is gone. It displays the message for a while and then it decides to change the format AFTER a long timeout. I think it is trying to fetch something via the Private...

I have a number of edge case questions about Passkeys but I'll start simple. I am developing the ability to use Passkeys for my web application. In the process, I've already created one or two passkeys that I would like to delete eventually. But I suspect I will need to create several more...

This is the second time in (I'm guessing) a week that my Apple Watch 4 running the latest WatchOS tells me it is out of space. I go to iPhone => Watch => General => Storage and over half the space is consumed with "Other" (white). Last time, I removed all the apps and music, etc and the "Other"...

Can any of you get this to work? I have a PDF that is writable. I "add bookmark" and it shows up just fine. I save the file. But when I close and reopen the file, the bookmark is gone. Is there some trick to it maybe? This is true for PDFs in the cloud (Books) as well as those saved...

In Safari => Preferences => Security there is the 2nd option from the top "Hide IP address". Right now, it has a pull down with two choices of "from Trackers and Websites" and a 2nd option of "From Trackers Only". In the text, there is a link "Learn more..." which pops you over to System...

I have a car load of old disk drives that I'm going through and pulling off what I hope will be useful and then reformatting them and either sell them or give them away. I have a disk (just as one example) that came from a Mac laptop and the latest date is 2007. It is the Macintosh HD disk...

Time was, I was more on the pulse of things and so I would know about a bad update before I would apply it. But now days I tend to just apply the updates. Which begs the question, why not just enable automatic updates? Opinions?

The title pretty much says it all. I’m buying a NAS and I assume will mount it via NFS but perhaps SMB. In either case, I want to have a huge cache on the laptop — like 2TB which may involve getting another proxy file system to do the caching. But all this comes down to finding what NFS (or...

When a file is just remote (not local) with iCloud and I've been told the same is true with DropBox, there is a stub and an application can't just open the stub and have the file system fetch the pieces of the file at it is read by the app without the app knowing anything about it. NFS is an...

I woke up today and there was a message on my Mac that said that my Apple Id was being used by "Dolly". Dolly is an old iPhone 6+ I have and it does have my Apple Id password but I had not been using it. I thought it was powered off but I'm not sure at this point. Dolly seems fine. I can log...

My brother is asking me... it sounds like on Windows (and I've found web pages that appear to confirm this) you can do set options via the command line to show only the WiFi networks that you want. He isn't talking about the "Auto Join" option. He doesn't want to see them listed in the drop...

I have the current belief (which I'm hoping is incorrect) that in Calendar I can have an event with multiple notifications such as on the day and a month before the day but I can't mark it as having been completed. In Reminders, I have the opposite. I can create a reminder and I'm able to make...

I have a Mac running the latest (10.14) along with an iPhone also running the latest (12.4). I also have a couple iPads (12.4). I also have a Watch. I think I have 7 podcasts that I subscribe to via iTunes on the Mac and Podcasts on the iOS devices. I tend to listen to them on the iPhone but...

I'm going to complicate my life since that always leads to more frustration and... hey! we can all use more frustration!!! :) I want to enable QoS on my router and then tell my Apple products to keep themselves updated. My problem is I have a fairly small internet link that can easily...

I'm hoping there is a setting to change this back... I updated to 10.14.4 and now I have to touch the touch-id to get Safari to use the passwords that it has stored away. There appears to be some web sites where that isn't the case. I have the check box checked in Safari => Preferences =>...

I was listening to a video via VLC in full screen mode. TimeMachine has been doing a backup for some time. I saw some dialog box show up for a few seconds... disappear... show up again for a few seconds, and then disappear again. I think it said "Mounting base.dmg" but it was fairly quick...

Well... this didn't work (so far). Back in 2015 (before Apple Music) I put my ripped music on an external hard drive and put my "iTunes Media folder location" to the external drive. It took a few tries to get it to really work right. Then some time later I signed up for Apple Music and I had...

I just had an interesting GUI idea. Perhaps it is already implemented somehow. Often I am looking at a web page and want to copy a bit of it. Due to various reasons, using the mouse often doesn't work. So what I do now is go to the search box, type what I need, the select all and cut. It...