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Re: Macintosh Slowdowns Harold Appel All Messages By This Member #108751 Edited Thanks for this Randy. So helpful. With regards to the "not enough free space problem," however: ?perhaps I'm missing something but your site seems to say that when I got my new M1 iMac with a 2 TB SSD and transferred my files from my old 27" iMac (with a 3 TB fusion drive) and overfilled my new drive I was already doomed to slowdowns as deleting files from the SSD doesn't free up the needed space as I thought it did when I moved some stuff to eternal drives. Here's what it says: "You can't simply trash (delete) apps and files to free up space on an SSD that is too full to cure the slowdown problem.? Doing so only marks the registers that they occupied as available, it doesn't erase them." I kept my previous machine for 10 years and bought this one a year ago. I cannot buy a new one now. No other options? -- Harold Appel, NYC iMac 24-inch, M1, 2021 MacOS?13.4
Macintosh Slowdowns Randy B. Singer All Messages By This Member #108750 There has been a noticeable uptick in the number of users who are reporting that their Macintosh has suddenly gone from being a good performer, to being a very disappointing performer. Folks are reporting that they are seeing the rotating beachball cursor way too often, or that their computer is showing signs of "built-in obsolescence" (people love their conspiracy theories) even though their Mac was a rocket when it was new, and that nothing helps. I already had a Web page to help users whose Mac's had slowed down, but suddenly a lot of folks are reporting that none of the recommendations on that page are helping. So, after going through a bunch of troubleshooting with a number of users, and doing a lot of research, it turns out that there are several new things that are commonly causing Macs to suddenly slowdown. Not a lot of Mac users are aware of these new things. I've added them right at the top of my Web page at: Macintosh Slowdown Solutions Please let me know if the page helps with your Macintosh slowdown problem! __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
Re: MCAFEE ADWARE! Please Read! Adrian Godfrey All Messages By This Member #108749 I'm not sure about other browsers, but Firefox certainly gives a warning and provides an option at the time to allow the pop-up. You should also look at the settings for the pop-up blocking in the browser and add exceptions. AG Friday, June 16, 2023, 7:02:06 PM, Bob Gerard rowerbob@... wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Are you warned that a required pop-up has been blocked by your browser?? Thanks, Bob
Airdrop Paul Lundgren #108748 My wife has an iPhone 8 (iOS 16.5). Her Airdrop does not see anyone, “No People Found”. Her phone shows up on my iPhone 7 and my iMac (Catalina 10.15.7). I can send her photos by Airdrop from my phone and I can send her photos from the iMac. Her Airdrop is turned on ("Contacts Only" - even tried “Everyone for 10 minutes”). Bluetooth is on. I rebooted her phone as well. Nothin’. I don’t know what else to try. Paul
Re: Older WhatsApp compatible with iOS 15? Jerald Levinson All Messages By This Member #108747 开云体育 Looks like the solution is to put WhatsApp on your phone and set up an account. Then get the app onto your iPod using one of the links Jim Warthman sent. (The first looks easy enough, but I don’t have an iPod to test.) Then open the app on the iPod and login. You can also try linking devices, that’s a new feature that I haven’t tried. An alternative would be to buy an old iPhone (such as the 5S that runs iOS 12) and use that. I bought one in prefect condition for $25 on eBay last year and WA works fine on it. I put my regular phone’s SIM into the 5S to create the account, then put it back in the other phone. Jerry toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jun 16, 2023, at 9:20 AM, scissors <scissors@...> wrote: We support iOS 12 or newer, but we recommend using the latest version available. …. To properly set up a new WhatsApp account, your phone must be able to receive SMS or calls during the verification process. We don’t support setting up new accounts on WiFi only devices. On Jun 16, 2023, at 8:27 AM, Denny Packard via??<denny.packard@...> wrote: It has been something like 10-15 years since I last posted here! I often have questions, but never get around to asking them. I'd like to start using WhatsApp, but the desktop version doesn't work unless linked with an iOS device. Can anyone tell me how I can find an?older version of WhatsApp that is compatible with my 2019 iPod Touch, whose latest compatible?iOS is 15.7.6? I've gone to their website and contacted them, but their reply is only a standard one that doesn't answer my question about installing an older version on my iPod Touch. Many thanks! Denny Packard --? ?? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Denny Packard?? ??? ?? Paris, France ?? ??? denny.packard@icloud.com ?? Did Gregor Mendel attend the botany conference just to show off his jeans? Love Me Tenderloin?is an award-winning documentary about 4 homeless people from San Francisco's Tenderloin?district bringing?happiness to others. English subtitles: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .?
Re: MCAFEE ADWARE! Please Read! Brent All Messages By This Member #108746 开云体育 You are normally requested to (at least temporariky) requested to turn iff the pop-up blocker. Since it is a trusted site, your financial institution, why not?? Brent On my iPhone Xr toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jun 16, 2023, at 10:02, Bob Gerard <rowerbob@...> wrote: ?On Jun 16, 2023, at 10:51, John Hay via groups.io <OceanCity@...> wrote: Yes. That is a problem.? Be aware. Cheers, John Does anyone know what happens when you visit, for instance, a bank which requires pop-ups to work properly and you have set Safari and Brave settings to not allow them? Are you warned that a required pop-up has been blocked by your browser?? Thanks, Bob ——— "We must not?always talk in the?marketplace, of?what happens to us?in the forest.”? - Hester?Prynne
Re: MCAFEE ADWARE! Please Read! Brent All Messages By This Member #108745 I use a couple of sites that want me to turn off the pop-up blocker in Brave. It asked, I decline and the item continues without 99% of the ads. Brent On my iPhone Xr toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jun 15, 2023, at 22:58, maclists <maclists@...> wrote: ?You probably need to allow pop-ups for specific websites. I have that issue with the way web banking does some of its authorisation. Redirects are a pain. Even "reputable" websites do redirects based on whatever your IP address is at the time. A VPN usually stops that, but could also result in "captchas" AG Friday, June 16, 2023, 3:07:26 AM, Randy B. Singer randy@... wrote: go back to Site & Shield Settings —> Popups and Redirects —> set Don't allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects
Re: Sharing via Notes.app Brent All Messages By This Member #108744 开云体育 It is not defeat, it is an alternate solution.? Brent On my iPhone Xr toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jun 15, 2023, at 14:04, Bob Gerard <rowerbob@...> wrote: ?On Jun 15, 2023, at 4:57 PM, Brent via <whodo678@...> wrote: It is their job to “make it work as it should”, not yours. You and our members have covered the regular things, it is time to escalate it.? It is so rare that, with help from folks on this and other Groups, that I can’t solve problems they raise and it kills me to admit defeat….but that’s what I shall tell her to do. Bob _____ Don’t forget: ?“Good?health is merely the?slowest possible rate?at which one can die."
Re: Sharing via Notes.app Bob Gerard All Messages By This Member #108743 开云体育 On Jun 16, 2023, at 04:43, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote: Surely it can’t be that simple, and that it wasn’t checked before? Full confession: ?I have using Macs since 1996, probably set up the very first one to use Mail.app as the default and never changed it…and therefore forgot that it was even possible to do so. ? I’ll check on her settings next Tuesday, at a Zoom session, and report back. Bob? —— I changed all my passwords to <incorrect> so that when I forget, it will tell me my password.
Re: MCAFEE ADWARE! Please Read! Bob Gerard All Messages By This Member #108742 开云体育 On Jun 16, 2023, at 10:51, John Hay via groups.io <OceanCity@...> wrote: Yes. That is a problem.? Be aware. Cheers, John Does anyone know what happens when you visit, for instance, a bank which requires pop-ups to work properly and you have set Safari and Brave settings to not allow them? Are you warned that a required pop-up has been blocked by your browser?? Thanks, Bob ——— "We must not?always talk in the?marketplace, of?what happens to us?in the forest.”? - Hester?Prynne
Re: Older WhatsApp compatible with iOS 15? Jim Warthman All Messages By This Member #108741 开云体育 Hi Denny, Welcome back! Unfortunately, WhatsApp requires a phone with cellular connectivity - either iPhone or Android. I’ve read some articles that describe a method for installing on an iPod Touch, but they are tedious at best. Take a look here: