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Re: Real problems with Apple Mail of late

 

Bill,
Your Dementia? Or Your computers? :-)

I am sorry but I don¡¯t have a clue. Could this problem be related in anyway to your iPhone issue??

Harry

On Oct 23, 2024, at 2:40?PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hey folks,

I've been having real trouble with Apple's mail of late.

* I wrote two emails, and sent them. Despite having left my laptop open, the emails never got sent after their 'Undo send delay'. In fact, when I poked around in Mail.app more carefully 2 days later, both were stuck in Outbox > Scheduled. Neither could be sent, either by opening them and sending them, or by dragging them to drafts and then sending. So... I had to copy and paste their contents and resend them.

* I wrote a very long, possibly contentious email, and saved it as a draft (which is what I do whenever an email needs extra care). The next day, the draft was gone, so I had to rewrite the email.

* I could not find the confirmation email for a bus ticket I bought last month. I had to have had the original email at some point, since I already used one half of the round trip. It was not in my trash, though other emails from the same day were happily in the trash. I called to get it resent. It never arrived. So I got the bus company to send it through an email forwarding address from my alma mater. It arrived.

What would cause instability like this? Is it because I have waaaaaay too many emails I still drag around?

It could be dementia starting to set in, too, but before jumping to that conclusion, I'm wondering what I could do to try and fix something more mechanical.

Thanks for any info or ideas,

Bill
Re: Real problems with Apple Mail of late

 

Oh, and I forgot .... Mail can sit for 5 minutes first saying "Checking for Mail..." and then "Downloading 1 message". This could be a symptom of it trying to traverse all the endless email folders I have in my account (mostly for old travel info)?

Bill

On Oct 23, 2024, at 14:40, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hey folks,

I've been having real trouble with Apple's mail of late.

* I wrote two emails, and sent them. Despite having left my laptop open, the emails never got sent after their 'Undo send delay'. In fact, when I poked around in Mail.app more carefully 2 days later, both were stuck in Outbox > Scheduled. Neither could be sent, either by opening them and sending them, or by dragging them to drafts and then sending. So... I had to copy and paste their contents and resend them.

* I wrote a very long, possibly contentious email, and saved it as a draft (which is what I do whenever an email needs extra care). The next day, the draft was gone, so I had to rewrite the email.

* I could not find the confirmation email for a bus ticket I bought last month. I had to have had the original email at some point, since I already used one half of the round trip. It was not in my trash, though other emails from the same day were happily in the trash. I called to get it resent. It never arrived. So I got the bus company to send it through an email forwarding address from my alma mater. It arrived.

What would cause instability like this? Is it because I have waaaaaay too many emails I still drag around?

It could be dementia starting to set in, too, but before jumping to that conclusion, I'm wondering what I could do to try and fix something more mechanical.

Thanks for any info or ideas,

Bill
Real problems with Apple Mail of late

 

Hey folks,

I've been having real trouble with Apple's mail of late.

* I wrote two emails, and sent them. Despite having left my laptop open, the emails never got sent after their 'Undo send delay'. In fact, when I poked around in Mail.app more carefully 2 days later, both were stuck in Outbox > Scheduled. Neither could be sent, either by opening them and sending them, or by dragging them to drafts and then sending. So... I had to copy and paste their contents and resend them.

* I wrote a very long, possibly contentious email, and saved it as a draft (which is what I do whenever an email needs extra care). The next day, the draft was gone, so I had to rewrite the email.

* I could not find the confirmation email for a bus ticket I bought last month. I had to have had the original email at some point, since I already used one half of the round trip. It was not in my trash, though other emails from the same day were happily in the trash. I called to get it resent. It never arrived. So I got the bus company to send it through an email forwarding address from my alma mater. It arrived.

What would cause instability like this? Is it because I have waaaaaay too many emails I still drag around?

It could be dementia starting to set in, too, but before jumping to that conclusion, I'm wondering what I could do to try and fix something more mechanical.

Thanks for any info or ideas,

Bill
Slow downloads on my iPhone

 

Hi all,

I've run into a problem at home, where my iPhone suddenly will start downloading at less than 1 Mbps instead of the usual ~90 Mbps, and upload at ~30 Mbps instead of the usual ~90 Mpbs. My laptop will still be uploading and downloading full speed at the same location as the phone.

Neither restarting my iPhone, nor turning of private relay fixed the problem, but power cycling the router has fixed the problem 2 out of 2 times, so it seems that the problem is with the router (or with something my iPhone is doing to the router's memory).

What would cause this?

Bill
Re: Mac OS 15

 

Thanks.

On Oct 17, 2024, at 7:19?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Oct 15, 2024, at 4:47?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1?

Any concerns or problems?

I¡¯ve had no problems with it.

L^2
Re: Mac OS 15

 

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On Oct 15, 2024, at 4:47?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1?

Any concerns or problems?

I¡¯ve had no problems with it.

L^2
BUSINESS INSIDER: We¡¯re about to enter the digital dark ages

 

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I hope you can read this, it¡¯s pretty foreboding.?

John

We¡¯re about to enter the digital dark ages
The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post. Published on July 18, the post's headline sounded pretty arcane. "Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available," it declared.

Read in Business Insider:


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Re: Mac OS 15

 

Sorry. My computers can't handle even macOS 14.

I'd like to hear what others say, though.

Bill

On Oct 15, 2024, at 16:47, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1?

Any concerns or problems?

Thanks.
Mac OS 15

 

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1?

Any concerns or problems?

Thanks.
Re: MASHABLE: Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips ¨C and it can't be patched

 

This is a mighty late reply, but when I looked around to see if, maybe, the M4 chip fixed this bug, I did see that this prefetch vulnerability can only be exploited if the hacker had physical access to the device. So... I would guess you're safe.

Bill

On Mar 23, 2024, at 13:49, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I have an M1 iMac and an M2 MacBook Pro. I don¡¯t think I do encryption- how much danger am I In? Can the access passwords?? Or password containers like LastPass?

On Mar 23, 2024, at 9:24?AM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

Bummer!

John

Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips ¨C and it can't be patched
Hackers can harvest encruption keys from Macs and MacBooks.
Read in Mashable:

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Ad Blocker for Safari on iPhone

 

Good morning,
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Does anyone use any ad blocking software for Safari on the iPhone? I've seen a few (AdGuard, Wipr, AdBlock) and wanted to hear from someone with some "real world" experience with them to see what you use and how you like them.?
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Thanks!
Beth
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Article about Apple in today's Courier

 

Analysis Is Apple thinking differently enough?
Looking for a used iPhone - not too old

 

My older brother, 86, who lives in Connecticut, is in a nursing home/rehab facility. He will probably be there the rest of his life. He gets dialysis three times a week and is currently applying for medicaid. For the second time in 3 months he has lost his fairly new iPhone. He found it the first time but we have been searching for six weeks and have been unable to locate it. We contacted the dialysis center, the transportation company, the nursing home and the hospital where he is now - in a state of delirium due to who knows what - he clawed at his dialysis port and developed sepsis.

He seems to be doing okay now and will be returning to the nursing home in a day or two.

Anyway we are looking for used cell phone to send to him. We plan to get a lanyard for it so he can keep it around his neck 24/7.

If any of you have an older unlocked iphone (or Verizon) you are not using and are willing to sell it to us reasonably it will be greatly appreciated. He just needs to be able to make/receive calls, texts and maybe do email so it doesn¡¯t have to be sophisticated - just a decent battery and the ability to be wiped clean so I can reset it for him.

(A friend recently got a new iPhone and gave us her old iPhone 6s (11-12 years old). However she doesn¡¯t know her iCloud password so we can¡¯t wipe the phone - we can¡¯t even update the OS because it requires a connection to a computer with iTunes!

Thanks to everyone on this list for all you do.

Harry
Re: Apple Mail and rules

 

Working via iCloud works, it¡¯s just frustrating¡­ kinda like it being 2024, but I still need to select letters on a querty keyboard using arrow keys on Netflix. Netflix: 21st century. Arrow keys: so much like Frogger in an arcade in the 1980¡¯s.

Bill

On Aug 16, 2024, at 16:58, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

?Bill,
I suffer the same problems (Problem 1 and Problem 2) as you. I am interested in a solution.

One that I have thought about doing is putting my laptop on the table with my iMac and opening up the mail rules setting and just creating what¡¯s on one computer on the other - but it seems so time consuming and I have other things I wish to do.

A second solution would be to take screen shots of the rules on computer A and using the shots to create the rules on computer B but again that seems time consuming, etc.

On Aug 16, 2024, at 1:30?PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.

Suppose I have two devices.

Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied.
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices

Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.

Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)

Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?

Thanks,

Bill
Re: Apple Mail and rules

 

Bill,
I suffer the same problems (Problem 1 and Problem 2) as you. I am interested in a solution.

One that I have thought about doing is putting my laptop on the table with my iMac and opening up the mail rules setting and just creating what¡¯s on one computer on the other - but it seems so time consuming and I have other things I wish to do.

A second solution would be to take screen shots of the rules on computer A and using the shots to create the rules on computer B but again that seems time consuming, etc.

On Aug 16, 2024, at 1:30?PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.

Suppose I have two devices.

Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied.
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices

Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.

Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)

Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?

Thanks,

Bill
Apple Mail and rules

 

Hi all,

I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.

Suppose I have two devices.

Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied.
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices

Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.

Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)

Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?

Thanks,

Bill
Re: Scanning slides

 

That was it Lee. Thanks.

On Aug 14, 2024, at 2:26?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 13, 2024, at 7:26?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

So I set the number of samples from one to two and no change - still get the white on the second scan. Then I changed it to three and now the third scan is the white screen.

Maybe you have Infrared clean turned on in the Filter menu. This will cause an extra infra-red pass that VueScan uses for its own clone of the Digital ICE dust and scratch mitigation.

L^2

PS/ VueScan does not use Digital ICE because the patent is owned by Kodak, and Kodak apparently charges a lot for it.
Re: Scanning slides

 

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On Aug 13, 2024, at 7:26?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

So I set the number of samples from one to two and no change - still get the white on the second scan. Then I changed it to three and now the third scan is the white screen.

Maybe you have Infrared clean turned on in the Filter menu. This will cause an extra infra-red pass that VueScan uses for its own clone of the Digital ICE dust and scratch mitigation.

L^2

PS/ VueScan does not use Digital ICE?because the patent is owned by Kodak, and Kodak apparently charges a lot for it.
Re: Scanning slides

 

So I set the number of samples from one to two and no change - still get the white on the second scan. Then I changed it to three and now the third scan is the white screen.

Oh well.
Thanks Lee

On Aug 13, 2024, at 6:18?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

Lee,
I checked my app. I always use the professional option. My number of samples was set to 1 - so I don¡¯t know why the second pass. I¡¯m going to set it to 2 and see if that makes a difference. I¡¯ll get back to you.

Harry

On Aug 12, 2024, at 9:00?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:14?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I am scanning slides with my new (to me) Epson V600 photo scanner. It¡¯s doing a great job. But it does something I don¡¯t understand.

It scans the slide twice - 1st time is normal but the second is a blank white but the image of the side is barely visible - It¡¯s almost like a translucent white mask over the slide. Yet when I save the slide the white isn¡¯t visible at all - there is only one image not two.

With the ¡°Professional¡± options chosen in VueScan, there is a field in which you can set the number of passes. It¡¯s called ¡°Number of samples¡±. I always use two or three because that seems to give better color. I haven't noticed any difference with more.

L^2
Re: Scanning slides

 

I ran an update on the Epson Scan software and now it sees the V600 - thanks.

On Aug 12, 2024, at 8:54?PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 11, 2024, at 4:31?PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer via groups.io <hejb44@...> wrote:

I thought I would give Epson Scan 2 a shot at scanning slides on the Epson V600 scanner but it doesn¡¯t see the scanner which is directly connected to my Mac. It only sees the Epson printer/scanner which is connected through wifi.

I don¡¯t think the V600 can be connected via network.

I have looked through the Epson software but don¡¯t see an option to connect to a scanner that is connected to the Mac via us.

My Epson Scan 2 sees the USB-connected V600 without a problem. Try running the Epson Scan 2 Utility to see if there¡¯s a ghost scanner in the list.

L^2
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