On May 29, 2025, at 3:02?PM, Gary Gildner <gary@...> wrote:

Bit frustrated to as this is the second time in two years that 3-4 months of email data just vanishes.? Host is IONOS.com have been with them for more than 10 years, and twice this has happened just recently.? They claim they can only restore the past 7 days.?

SO - I am on the search for a new host.? Note that back in 2021 Randy highly recommending ICDSoft, just visited their site and ready sign up and transfer.?

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Just wanted to ask the group if any updates to that recommendation and/or other options.?

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Thanks in advance - love this board when I encounter Mac challenges.?

Blessings,

Gary

On May 28, 2025, at 12:08, Budd Turner via groups.io <n7eoj@...> wrote:

Since Apple MacOS 15.1 update, I noticed clicking any button or URL in social media sites causes the cursor to jump back a couple frames and require one or more clicks to follow through.
Yesterday, I discovered my space bar is disabled in Second Life (Virtual World simulation). Users suggested clicking on the space key in the Keyboard Viewer. It did not show my extended keyboard, until after a reboot., but, even now it only displays the U.S. keyboard. I have scanned for possible virus. Guess I Need to downgrade to 15.0…

M1 iMac,

MacOS15.1

Safari 18.5

On May 25, 2025, at 12:32, Barbara Mende <barbara@...> wrote:

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I'm trying to substitute for Pocket and think I have installed the Instapaper extension in Firefox, but can't figure out how it works. I saved something and can't find it. Help anywhere? Or will accept another substitute.

Thanks,

Barbara

Good job recovering storage! I would use the extracted SSD in an enclosure that natively works with your new Mac.

Also, what are you doing for automated backup? (Generally I discourage manual backup because I burned myself once upon a time by copying in the wrong direction.)

On May 23, 2025, at 20:06, Howard Kirsch via <howard.k65=[email protected]> wrote:

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Thanks for all the help and suggestions. It turns out that I was able to find quite a bit more files that I was able to download to my external drive so that I only had 130GB left on the internal drive of the iMac. Because of that I bought I bought the 512GB version of the Mac mini today, and did a migration this afternoon that went smoothly. However there are a number of questions after the fact. Here's one. I have an old 6TB G technology hard drive with a firewire 800 port that I had adapted to a thunderbolt 2 to go into my iMac. I use it as a manual back-up for important files, as well as workflow and storage for my Final Cut Pro files. I have a 2 yr old 4TB SSD drive in my? iMac which I'm having removed at M.A.C. on Monday.? Should I get a thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 adapter to make the G technology compatible with the mac mini, or transfer the files to the SSD from the old computer? My thought was to use the removed SSD drive as my new media drive, and transfer the Final Cut libraries to it. I hope you all can follow! Any ideas??

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Howard

On May 23, 2025, at 20:06, Howard Kirsch via groups.io <howard.k65@...> wrote:

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Thanks for all the help and suggestions. It turns out that I was able to find quite a bit more files that I was able to download to my external drive so that I only had 130GB left on the internal drive of the iMac. Because of that I bought I bought the 512GB version of the Mac mini today, and did a migration this afternoon that went smoothly. However there are a number of questions after the fact. Here's one. I have an old 6TB G technology hard drive with a firewire 800 port that I had adapted to a thunderbolt 2 to go into my iMac. I use it as a manual back-up for important files, as well as workflow and storage for my Final Cut Pro files. I have a 2 yr old 4TB SSD drive in my? iMac which I'm having removed at M.A.C. on Monday.? Should I get a thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 adapter to make the G technology compatible with the mac mini, or transfer the files to the SSD from the old computer? My thought was to use the removed SSD drive as my new media drive, and transfer the Final Cut libraries to it. I hope you all can follow! Any ideas??

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Howard

On May 23, 2025, at 05:31, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:

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On May 22, 2025, at 8:47 PM, Peter Rasmusen <peter@...> wrote:

Yes, I think it would be wise to choose the 1 TB drive.

The wildly popular Samsung T7 is on sale right now:

SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD, External Solid State Drive
1TB $98



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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice

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On 22 May 2025, at 17:32, Jaqi Thompson via groups.io <yywomyn@...> wrote:

Oh, Otto,
I wasn’t gonna engage on this classwork marking, but you asked … in my Oregon elementary school in the 1950’s and high school in the 1960’s, we usually got a red pencil slash through a wrong answer, no marks on correct answers. Then the same red pencil was used to write the percentage of correct answers, plus a grade, at the top of the test.

Getting every single answer correct meant a big red “100% A+ “ at the top right of the first page. Getting two wrong, out of say, 10 questions, got two red slashes, then an “80% B-“ written at the top. A’s were always from 90% - 100%; B’s were usually from 80% - 89%, but maybe as low as 75%; C’s were usually from 60%-79% but could stop at 75%; D’s were usually from 50% - 60%, but still a passing grade, though shamefully low; and F’s were a failing grade, which was anything less than 50%. In short, the more red marks throughout the test, the worse you did.

On May 22, 2025, at 20:47, Peter Rasmusen <peter@...> wrote:

?Hello Howard

Yes, I think it would be wise to choose the 1 TB drive. It’s a one-time expense that you will appreciate later.

:-)

Peter

On 23 May 2025, at 00.13, Howard Kirsch via groups.io <howard.k65@...> wrote:

Hi Peter,

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Thanks for your advice. I found a file in Containers labeled Vimeo. That was the culprit. I upload my videos to Vimeo for distribution, but apparently they keep the files on the local computer as well. I trashed it and found a few other movies that I moved to external storage so now my local hard drive shows about 295 GB of used storage. Do you still think I need to go up to the 1 TB drive?

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Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with this.?

On 23 May 2025, at 00.13, Howard Kirsch via groups.io <howard.k65@...> wrote:

Hi Peter,

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Thanks for your advice. I found a file in Containers labeled Vimeo. That was the culprit. I upload my videos to Vimeo for distribution, but apparently they keep the files on the local computer as well. I trashed it and found a few other movies that I moved to external storage so now my local hard drive shows about 295 GB of used storage. Do you still think I need to go up to the 1 TB drive?

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Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with this.?

On May 21, 2025, at 1:53?AM, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:

I think that there have been several good answers, and Kurt just needs to decide which is preferred.

(I’ve also enjoyed learning about how classwork was marked in the USA in the 1950s!)

Otto

On 21 May 2025, at 08:46, Peter Rasmusen via <peter@...> wrote:

I think this has gone a bit off … but I wonder if Kurt had his problem solved??

:-)