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Super Duper. But I haven’t tried a full copy for a few years and at least one iMac ago ...

Agree. The drive I had to have ‘recovered’ was in that range.

Thanks. I have bought items from them.

About a year ago, I spent a lot of $$ with a service to recover data from a dead-ish external USB drive. I generally buy Seagate or WD and want to retire them after 2 years or so. Too short? Too long? I’m considering rolling my own, so this is to solicit recommendations for bare drives...

I got rid of that plist and restarted the system and then Safari. No change.

My wife complained to me that when she opens a new Safari page (on her iMac running 10.13.6), instead of the expected Google search page, now she always gets apple.com. I looked in Safari’s preferences and, sure enough, the homepage is set to Apple. When I try to change it, after I click away...

I had a similar problem a couple weeks ago, but with ‘old’ apps. Not all, but some, and frequently used. Click on a dock icon - nothing. Double click an app file - nothing. Right click and select open - nothing. A reboot fixed it.

Thank you.

I have used SuperDuper for years and recommend it highly for working with disks that are in good physical condition. I did try it on my bad drive, which took 20 minutes to mount! After that I started a copy using SuperDuper. After an hour or so, it had copied a couple MB and had brought my...

For the first time (perhaps I'm very lucky) one of my external drives has failed. No problems leading up to it; one day OK, next day a brick. One partition was for Time Machine backups. If that was all, I would cross my fingers, replace it with a new drive, and start from scratch. But ...

The emergency is over. It turned out I was 5 (!) days from expiration of AppleCare. Apple didn’t repair the button, they returned a new (to me) iPad. That was money well spent. I have now. Were you referencing ‘assistice touch’? I’m playing with it now. It works for me. Thanks!

The home button on my iPad Pro (new 7/2016) has become undependable. Since I use a smart keyboard, I try to use cmd-H as much as possible, but it doesn’t work everywhere. When I’m away from the keyboard, I’m SOL. Is there any way to define a keystroke / screen tap combo as a virtual home button?

I have all Apple equipment on a network behind an Apple Extreme router in DHCP+NAT mode. We are reasonably prudent about which websites we visit and which email links to click. Now on the scene is a friend with a Dell laptop running some flavor of Windows. You can probably guess where I'm...

After recovering from turkey-induced coma ... Resetting PRAM accomplished nothing. But, holding down the power button for about 5 seconds provoked a weird 3 second tone I have never heard before, then the familiar bong, then the gray screen with the Apple in the center! But after a few more...

I figured 13 is one for each year of service. Anyhow, when I find time, I’ll try the T startup, but ... In all previous attempts, normal or single-user or whatever, there was never a flicker of anything on the screen.

How can I tell if the HD is dead? The machine won’t boot up. This is a G4 17” laptop, vintage of 2004! It served me well for many years. Now that I have my ancient files in a usable place, I’ll give it a decent burial with a 13 gun salute.

I found a way, but it’s not general at all. I had installed El Capitan in a Parallels virtual machine. After booting it up, it happily ate my old backup. Then I copied everything to a folder on my New machine. All OK.

How can I migrate user files to my iMac running 10.12.6? Migration Assistant says it's too old and refuses to use it.

Yesterday I went to the Updates page - no update for 10.12.4. So I went to the Featured page. There it was, so I clicked it. An alert popped up asking if I really wanted to download the whole installer. So I clicked cancel, went back to the Updates page and .. Lo! .. the update had magically...

I may have stumbled onto a partial solution. It was triggered by an unrelated event where I purchased an item online. On the final step after SUBMIT, the page advised me to look in my spam folder in case I didn't see the email receipt right away and, to prevent future such mishandling, add...