Re: Ventura Wifi woes
Sorry, I was wrong. I forgot that KisMac stopped working a while ago and I switched over to NetSpot <https://www.netspotapp.com/download-mac.html>. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelarson@... ?? ?The
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Lee Larson
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Re: Ventura Wifi woes
I¡¯ve been using KisMac <https://kismac-ng.org/>. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelarson@... ?? ?I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well
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Lee Larson
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Re: Reassurance on best path
A completely off-topic reply... This is great... It reminds me of 'Universities are where knowledge accumulates. The freshmen enter knowing everything and the seniors depart knowing nothing, so the
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Bill Rising
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Re: Ventura Wifi woes
Hi Lee, I have both networks and they have different names, because the router is too old to allow switching). The guest network is shut off. This is at
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Bill Rising
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#1561
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Re: Reassurance on best path
I spent some time thinking about this and I think your safest bet is to now overwrite the current installation of MacOS on the system volume. The problem you run into with a normal installation is
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Lee Larson
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Re: Reassurance on best path
Lee, I turned on FileVault, I copied the key, I didn¡¯t store in iCloud since I¡¯m going to sell the computer. I was ask to Reboot, now two dialog boxes appear, one with my name and one as Guest. If
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John Robinson
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Re: Reassurance on best path
Apple calls it a firmware password. I shouldn¡¯t have listed it because, if FileVault is enabled, it won¡¯t help you to get into the data. The firmware password is an extra level of protection most
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Lee Larson
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Re: Ventura Wifi woes
Few things to check: Are they connecting to the same WiFi? For example, do you run both 2.4 and 5 GHz, or have a guest network? Are there some neighbors using the same channels? If I¡¯m sitting on my
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Lee Larson
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Re: Reassurance on best path
Lee, when you say "master password for the computer¡± do you mean my logon password? What is the user password? Is that different from the "master password for the computer¡±? And when I turn on
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Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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Re: Ventura Wifi woes
Bill, This happens frequently on my M1 iMac and sometimes on my older iPads or my iPhone 12. Usually I have to restart the computer or the iPad or the phone to get the wifi to connect. Occasionally I
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Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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Re: Reassurance on best path
Lee and Harry, what great help you are, thanks ever so much. John
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John Robinson
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Re: Reassurance on best path
If the data is encrypted with FileVault, the only way the data can be decrypted is with a user password, master password fot the computer or FileVault recovery key.. Without decryption, the data is
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Lee Larson
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Ventura Wifi woes
Hi all, Has anyone else run into the problem of their Ventura-powered Mac going into a cycle where the wifi drops out, reconnects, stays reconnected for a few seconds, drops out, reconnects, etc? This
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Bill Rising
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Re: Reassurance on best path
John, CMD R will reboot your machine in recovery mode. From there you can access disk utility and wipe the hard drive (you can do a simple erase a medium erase, or a most secure erase) and then you
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Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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Reassurance on best path
This note is asking for clarification, I did as Harry suggested and used Disk Utility to do a 7 pass to clear out a 4tb drive. Must have done a good job, it took three days! Harry, this was the first
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John Robinson
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Re: Off & Running
Wow!
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Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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Re: Off & Running
It¡¯s taken longer to recover the deleted files than it took to build the Titanic. Of course once the weeks of Discovery were done (the second time) I was informed the amount of data required the Pro
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John Robinson
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Re: Did you know
I do that with my Costco Visa card - I have only done it when purchasing phones.
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Harry Jacobson-Beyer
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Re: Erasing hard drive
Harry the folks at Apple have done this for me several times, most recently three weeks ago. Such service! John
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John Robinson
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Re: Did you know
Also, if you are a student or otherwise associated with an educational institution. Buying for a business also. My other favorite technique is to buy on the Apple Card with payments. You pay 0%
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Jonathan Fletcher
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