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I wanted to do a follow-up of acquiring a version of Excel that works in Catalina. I can not find my thread, but I think possibly one of the members either on MacSupportCentral or IOMUG suggested DigiPinIt (dot) com in the UK as a source for a license for MS Office 2019. They offered a livetime license for it. In other words a purchase, not a subscription. The site was up enough for me to make a purchase, but has had technical difficulties ever since. They have been overwhelmed to respond to support requests, and have had a change of management since February. But they have time to send out marketing emails. They have only auto responded that they are overwhelmed, but otherwise not made any attempt to resolve my problem. My guess is that it is a one man, part-time operation, and less than legit. What they sent be instead of a purchase license for Office 2019 for Mac, was a (subscription) license for Office 365, which will not run on my Mac running Catalina. DO NOT MAKE PURCHASES FROM DIGIPINIT! Randy Singer, please take note. Contact me off line if you want to validate my review, to add to your files. Brent On my Mac mini running 10.15.7

This came up a while ago, and at that time there was no upgrade path for SSD on Mac Studios and M4 mac mini. This article indicates that the Kickstarter project has borne fruit. https://www.macworld.com/article/2546773/the-first-mac-studio-ssd-upgrade-is-here-for-way-less-than-apples-prices.html Roger

Ever since I switched to Sequoia, my windows resize large when I move it certain ways or click on the header. I have to click on the header to get them back to where they were. This is an annoyance. I can't find a setting to disable this unwanted behavior. Anyone solve this? TIA, Paul

Greetings: Is anyone aware of an app that functions like a graphic equalizer for their entire Mac OS? I often watch YouTube videos where the sound is muffled or just plain bad. I'm seeking some sort of app that will boost the high end to make the dialogue more understandable. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Rob Frankel

I found this of more than passing interest. After reading a long, damning article on how Amazon manipulates their products, I thought I would see what I could learn. Using Safari, I went to Amazon.com, and in their search bar put [mens beard trimmers]. At the top of the results, clearly marked as sponsored, were those items whose manufacturers had paid Amazon to place them at the top of their search results. So far, so good. Oh, when I did a search on that page for “sponsored”, I got 19 matches. Next, using Brave, I did exactly the same thing. Not one single item was identified as sponsored and when I did a search on that page for “sponsored”, I got no matches. Finally, Google Chrome produced the same results as Brave: no sponsored items were so marked. I find it disturbing that only Safari correctly identified all those items which paid to be sponsored whereas Brave and Google Chrome do not. An argument for using Safari when you go shopping on Amazon? Can anyone else replicate these findings? Happy Thanksgiving to those of us in the U.S. Bob ===== 割れ鍋に綴じ蓋 — Warenabe ni tojibuta. “A perfect lid for any cracked pot.” There is someone out there for everyone.

MacBook Pro, mid 2012, non retina, macOS Mojave 10.14.6 2TB internal SSD (third party, OWC) about 1/3 full. 16 GB ram (third party, OWC) After over a decade of flawless service this MacBook is glitching. Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Spam Sieve, other apps freezing, or throwing error messages. I suspect the battery be slightly swollen, but not a lot. This MacBook has continued to operate with a previous (since replaced a couple of years ago) very swollen battery. Booted into recovery mode and ran Disk Utility. Nothing to fix. Diagnostic mode indicated no problems. Attempted to boot into single user mode (shift key down restart), but boot hangs at the very end of the progress bar with otherwise blank screen. I have been running a Time Machine backup to an external drive on another Mac over the local network. I have also been making clones with SuperDuper! to external ssd drives. Question: If there is macOS software corruption would there be any difference to do a restore from an external Time Machine drive or from an external cloned ssd? Would one type of restore (Time Machine) or another (cloned ssd) be more likely to avoid transferring over the software glitch, if that is what the problem is?

Reading an NYT Wirecutter, here was the beginning and end of a long comment made to an article about buying Macs: Began with: Mac user since the 80s here. Ended with: If you get a Mini, get the most memory you can afford at Apples nutty prices. You'll thank me. For the longest time I have been reading posts saying Mac knows how to allocate RAM efficiently, you don't need lots of RAM, but lately I am seeing just the opposite. Is there something about the M chips that is different? I really need some help here because the seniors who turn to me for help in getting new Macs rely on my advice. TIA!

This subject hasn't come up in a long time. What are the preferred DNS choices among iomug members these days? I use CloudFlare. Bob

In Books on iPhone, iOS 18, how can one either “scrub” through pages or go to a particular page?

Hello Brent Maybe this can take you a little further: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/06/27/biome-isnt-about-biometrics-but-suggestions/ On 17 Nov 2024, at 07.00, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote: I understand that Peter has found an possible solution to his issue. I am trying to learn more about this Biome thing, but I am having difficulty finding info on it. I understand Peters description of it, I found one article in Apple Discussions, that described either a memory leak or runaway cache, with what seems like behind the scenes software. I get no other relevant hits from a web search. I get no hits from a search on Apple Support. When I search my Library for biome, I get a bunch of hits for long forgotten, unrelated documents, that I have viewed before, but nothing called “biome”. I may have viewed these documents, but did not save copies of then, or bookmark them. Things that I would normally call detritus. I seldom use Siri, and some of these documents are from possibly before Siri existed. I had wondered that this might be something from Sequoia, until I got the hits on my Mac running Catalina. Can someone explain Biome to me? Brent On my Mac mini running 10.15.7 On Nov 15, 2024, at 10:04 PM, Peter Rasmusen <peter@...> wrote: Hello Brent Biome is a folder in the user Library and it is apparently a part of Apple’s system for analyzing and personalizing user data, like usage patterns and interactions with the device. The data is used for features like personalized suggestions, app usage tracking, and improvements in system behaviours (Siri and typing predictions and such). I deleted it, and instantly the system created it again. And it seems to have helped, because my backups are runnning now. :-) Peter On 15 Nov 2024, at 23.37, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote: Peter what is Biome? I did a web search and came up with a ecosystem and many apps or video games with that name. As well as an issue in Apple Discussions that sounds like a memory leak or cache overflow. Brent On my iPhone Xr On Nov 15, 2024, at 00:59, Peter Rasmusen <peter@...> wrote: Biome folder

I have written before with my numerous issues after upgrading from Sonoma to Sequoia One of the issues, thatr is still not solved, is Time Machine backups. 2 out of the backups fail with a red info badge saying: Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Data-2-8TB” Time Machine did not finish backing up because some files were unavailable. Backups will resume when your Mac is unlocked. This happens even dyuring the day as I am working on the Mac. Well, ok, I may leave it for 1+0-15 minutes to talk on the phone og make lunch and stuff, and it falls asleep, but that does not seem to cause this … and I don’t have “put hard disk to sleep when possible” enabled. So what is it, I need to unlock? I feel i have unluck! :-) Peter

My trusty 27" iMac has been served by a 1.5 TB external drive for Time Machine backups. the drive has now failed so it needs to be replaced. Recommendations welcome please for a suitable external device.

Yesterday I bought a new 27-inch Apple Studio monitor to be my second monitor with my Mac Studio, replacing an ancient Cinema Display. My first monitor is also a 27-inch Studio monitor. They were working perfectly. This morning, after a while the mouse stopped being able to move over to the second monitor and I couldn't move windows from the first monitor to the second. A few minutes later I got an update message that there's a software update for the new monitor. I installed the update, but still no use of either monitor as a second monitor. Both monitors are still turned on and displaying the background wallpaper showing on whichever monitor I designate as the second monitor via DIsplays in the Settings box. Any ideas what's going on and what I can do to be able to have the second monitor as expanded real estate? Steve Tiano

Earlier this week I went out of town for a short business trip. I turned on the Mega VPN since I was going to be on airport/hotel wifi. no idea if this was related. but I noticed at some point that all my notes were gone from both my iPhone and iPad. it was a busy trip and when I got home last night I checked on iCloud and all my notes where there. I simply went into settings and saw that the option to sync notes was checked. after I did that (I didn't even toggle the settings) the notes repopulated. so, anyone have a similar thing happen? sort of scary since I have hundreds of notes and keep many things only in there. I used to have confidences since it's synced to iCloud and it sort of was good, but very strange they disappeared on both devices and reappeared when I poked around a bit. Jeff