Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
Correct. Is the problem that your SSD is full? You didn¡¯t say that. Correct. How to Restore SSD to Peak Performance
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
OK Randy, I have obviously remembered wrong. It must have been someone else then :-) As I recall it was something about ¡°resetting¡± an SSD after extensive use, where it had been filled up or
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: One for Randy: Failing SSD
Doesn¡¯t ring a bell. SSD¡¯s should always be formatted as APFS. Assuming that your SSD was formatted as APFS, the only repair utility in existence that will work to repair while it is attached to a
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Randy B. Singer
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One for Randy: Failing SSD
I have this 2 TB Samsung EVO 870 SSD that is use to make a bootable clone of my internal hard drive before I do system updates - so I can go a step back if anything fails. And today I was going to
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: Periodic Scripts
The only ¡°runaway logfile¡± I have ever metwas once where I by some weird accident had enabled ¡°log connection activity¡± in Mail - it filled my harddrive completely in a matter of days. So
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: Periodic Scripts
I completely agree, but most of those logs are located elsewhere and should be maintained by a different macOS method. And these scripts actually write more logs than they would likely delete if they
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Al Varnell
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Re: Periodic Scripts
Except that they kept a lot of trash from accumulating and taking up hard drive space. This isn¡¯t a big deal in the short term, but it can become significant in the long term. If you have a runaway
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Periodic Scripts
I haven't updated this since Mojave, but these scripts never did anything important for most Mac users. They are just leftovers from macOS' Unix underpinnings. Periodic Maintenance Scripts Jeffrey
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Al Varnell
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Reply: [iomug] Periodic Scripts
I was about to ask Jerald what he needed the periodic scripts for, but I think Randy answered that question. By removing the logs, it makes the scripts unneeded. The one time I had a run away log, a
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Brent
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Re: Periodic Scripts
Thank you for pointing this out. I have mixed feelings about this. Sequoia no longer runs daily, weekly and monthly "maintenance" scripts. I'm assuming that's because the logs that those scripts used
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Randy B. Singer
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Advanced Notebook App Now Free!
Obsidian, an advanced, extensible, and shareable note-keeping app, is now free! Obsidian (free) https://obsidian.md __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The
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Randy B. Singer
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Periodic Scripts
In reading the recent emails about periodic scripts (daily.out, etc.) and Mac maintenance, I looked for them on my MBA (Sequoia) and, lo and behold, Apple has removed them.
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Jerald Levinson
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2TB SSD Deal - $100
The following popular 2TB external SSD is on sale currently at an amazing price: Crucial X6 2TB Portable SSD - Up to 800MB/s - PC and Mac - USB 3.2 USB-C External Solid State Drive - CT2000X6SSD9,
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: A good article on USB C adapters
Thanks, Dutch! Great article! I¡¯m on iPhone 11, and have been thinking about a 15, as well as exploring what USB C could do. Can¡¯t wait to hear others¡¯ takes on this MacWorld article. Jaqi
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Jaqi Thompson
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A good article on USB C adapters
https://www.macworld.com/article/2630712/iphone-usb-c-display-hard-drive-ethernet.html?utm_date=20250316005502&utm_campaign=Macworld%20Daily&utm_content=slotno1-title-9%20ways%20to%20use%20your%20iPho
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Dutch Junge
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Re: Is this a phishing attempt?
Hello Steve I¡¯m on Sequoia 15.3.2 and I have never used HomeKit nor have I any intentions of using it. The pop-up began to appear when I upgraded fra 15.3.1 to 15.3.2 And yes, everything is turned
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: Apple Mail is very slow
That fixed the problem! Thank you!
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Paul Blumstein
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Re: Apple Mail is very slow
Try rebuilding Mail¡¯s Envelope Database: http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html Item #10 __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th,
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Randy B. Singer
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Apple Mail is very slow
Hi, I have an M1 MBP running the latest Sequoia. My ISP is gmail. On many occasions, I have to wait a long time before mail received in gmail is seen in Apple Mail's inbox. I can look at the unread
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Paul Blumstein
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Re: Is this a phishing attempt?
Peter, you don't say what OS you are using but I will assume that it is fairly recent. You also don't say if you are or have ever used or experimented with the Home app or HomeKit. The changes made to
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Steve Bee
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