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The Black Oil · 25-04-2019 9:50am

19 hours to back up Time Machine - 26GB. Thought it was faster than that.

FourFourRED · 25-04-2019 12:49pm

The Black Oil wrote: »

19 hours to back up Time Machine - 26GB. Thought it was faster than that.

Slow internal and external drive?

Sad Professor · 25-04-2019 12:51pm

The Black Oil wrote: »

19 hours to back up Time Machine - 26GB. Thought it was faster than that.

The estimate is a moving target and will change as the backup progresses.

5uspect · 25-04-2019 1:14pm

Time Machine is deliberately throttled to save power. You can temporarily speed it up.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6338/time-machine-backup-is-slow-how-can-i-speed-it-up

The Black Oil · 08-05-2019 9:04pm

Ah here.

https://twitter.com/9to5mac/status/1124286682814144512

Creamy Goodness · 08-05-2019 9:05pm

The Black Oil wrote: »

Ah here.

https://twitter.com/9to5mac/status/1124286682814144512

How could that happen...?

“The Daily Mail reports.”

It didn’t :pac:

Sad Professor · 08-05-2019 9:07pm

Assuming it's true, he's lucky the battery didn't explode in his stomach.

The Black Oil · 09-05-2019 7:46pm

Guts of $20k for an original iPod. Imagine seeing that sort of money exit your bank account for what, nostalgia? https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/09/rare-original-ipod-ebay-auction/

Actual ebay listing. https://www.ebay.com/itm/273838925310?ul_noapp=true

whippet · 15-05-2019 8:58am

The Black Oil wrote: »

Guts of $20k for an original iPod. Imagine seeing that sort of money exit your bank account for what, nostalgia? https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/09/rare-original-ipod-ebay-auction/

Actual ebay listing. https://www.ebay.com/itm/273838925310?ul_noapp=true

I had one of those !!! I remember at the time being blown away by the thoughts of not having to carry CDs around for my Discman!

Endless hours of ripping CDs on to the iMac and editing Album and Tracknames - getting art work etc ... and then once you go running the iPod skipped !!

Sad Professor · 09-06-2019 3:04pm

RIP to my mid-2011 MBA whose battery has just swollen to twice its size. Apart from the deformity this has caused, it's still working! But I think it's time has come. It's my own fault for leaving it plugged it all the time and not getting the battery replaced. Until I get a replacement machine I'm now back to using my even older 2009 MBP, though I'm going to have to see about disabling charging so I don't have a repeat of what happened to my MBA.

NUTZZ · 10-06-2019 8:22am

Sad Professor wrote: »

RIP to my mid-2011 MBA whose battery has just swollen to twice its size. Apart from the deformity this has caused, it's still working! But I think it's time has come. It's my own fault for leaving it plugged it all the time and not getting the battery replaced. Until I get a replacement machine I'm now back to using my even older 2009 MBP, though I'm going to have to see about disabling charging so I don't have a repeat of what happened to my MBA.

I had the same with my 2007 MacBook Pro, the battery was at the end of it's life-cycle, 'service battery' warning. I continued using it plugged in pretty much all the time and after a while the battery started to swell. They are easily replaced on those models and it's still working to this day, on OSX Yosemite!

The Black Oil · 20-06-2019 10:06am

What do you guys use for cloud storage? I've used SugarSync for a few years, over 30GB of stuff. It's acting up a bit at the moment and folders are not updating.

5uspect · 20-06-2019 4:10pm

iCloud Drive drove me nuts last night. It refused to sync on a MacBook Pro and a PC (running the new and improved version) and I needed a folder in a hurry. Of course you can’t airdrop a folder from iCloud Drive on iOS or download one from iCloud.com. Eventually it worked after disabling and enabling it on the Mac. What should have taken seconds cost me an hour.

jack presley · 20-06-2019 8:22pm

I preferred the days when you bought a computer program and it was yours but I was looking to add Microsoft Office and ended up getting the yearly subscription that comes with 1TB of storage on their OneDrive site. So even if you didn't use Excel or Word or whatever, you still get 1TB for €69 a year.

Type 17 · 23-06-2019 11:22am

You can still buy MS Office Home & Student as non-subscription download (was €149 last December).

They warn you that you won't get any updated features because it's not a subscription, and there's no cloud storage, but security patches and bug fixes still update automatically for (I think) five years.

jack presley · 23-06-2019 12:00pm

Type 17 wrote: »

You can still buy MS Office Home & Student as non-subscription download (was €149 last December).

They warn you that you won't get any updated features because it's not a subscription, and there's no cloud storage, but security patches and bug fixes still update automatically for (I think) five years.

Yeah I realise that but when combined with the storage I thought the sub was a better way to go.

Type 17 · 23-06-2019 12:03pm

Of course, it depends on one's needs, I was just mentioning that a non-sub solution still exists, in case someone is reading this later...

The Black Oil · 23-06-2019 12:25pm

jack presley wrote: »

I preferred the days when you bought a computer program and it was yours but I was looking to add Microsoft Office and ended up getting the yearly subscription that comes with 1TB of storage on their OneDrive site. So even if you didn't use Excel or Word or whatever, you still get 1TB for €69 a year.

I went with this. Cheaper than a streaming subscription. I had Office 2008, but hadn't used it in yonks. Also had 2011...after wiping and reinstalling yesterday it asked for the activation key which I no longer have. Anyway, both of those are past support. OneDrive's uploading now. It says there are 336 problems with file names with spaces, full stops, etc. Yesterday it 500+. Daft, really. We'll see.

The Black Oil · 04-07-2019 11:34am

Any of ye use Bootcamp these days?

Type 17 · 04-07-2019 11:45am

The Black Oil wrote: »

Any of ye use Bootcamp these days?

Yes, working fine on a 2015 MBP with windows 10.

I use it for win-only programs for administrating my car, and bicycles (wife’s e-bike and Di2 gears on mine).

Hate windows though, mostly use MacOS on it.

Sad Professor · 06-07-2019 8:03am

Speaking of Bootcamp, are VMWare and Virtual PC still around?

5uspect · 07-07-2019 12:09am

I run a few VMs with Parallels for various work odds and ends. Works well.

calum · 08-07-2019 1:01am

Sad Professor wrote: »

Speaking of Bootcamp, are VMWare and Virtual PC still around?

VMWare: yes. Virtual PC: yes but not as a Mac product -- Microsoft never ported it to Intel Macs.

Your other options for running a Windows VM are Parallels and VirtualBox. For running individual Windows apps there's Wine, and its commercial cousin, CrossOver.

hetuzozaho · 09-07-2019 2:32pm

See the 12 inch Macbook discontinued today.

I love mine, would have like to see the form factor become more powerful.

calum · 09-07-2019 2:45pm

hetuzozaho wrote: »

See the 12 inch Macbook discontinued today.

I love mine, would have like to see the form factor become more powerful.

My wife has one, and about the only thing she likes about it is that it's pink...

Certainly a bit sad that we only have Airs and Pros again for now, but they did need to thin out that end of the range somehow I guess.

Royale with Cheese · 09-07-2019 2:50pm

https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5

Had to follow the instructions above earlier having previously installed Zoom for my girlfriend to do some remote job interview in the US.

The Black Oil · 09-07-2019 9:31pm

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5

Had to follow the instructions above earlier having previously installed Zoom for my girlfriend to do some remote job interview in the US.

Haven't seen Zoom in action. Have used Blue Jeans for video conferencing, at the host's request. Are these all just competitors with Skype, more professional?

hetuzozaho · 09-07-2019 9:44pm

Mr.S wrote: »

I like the design but from a price / spec point of view it made no sense, still a nice little machine though.

I just wanted iPad portability that I could develop on.
Have used it everyday since.... I have it over 3years now actually! (just checked Apple mails for receipt) Still doing everything I need.

Bargain haha

(and no fan FTW!)

Royale with Cheese · 10-07-2019 10:29am

The Black Oil wrote: »

Haven't seen Zoom in action. Have used Blue Jeans for video conferencing, at the host's request. Are these all just competitors with Skype, more professional?

Couldn't tell you, I never even used it myself! It seems popular with US companies though, fairly annoying I've had a massive security flaw on my Mac for months because of it.

5uspect · 11-07-2019 10:56pm

Services like Zoom are more like Cisco’s Webex than Skype. They’re for hosting enterprise teleconferences.

You could have an employee delivering some talk with PowerPoint and dozens of people with the meeting ID can connect watch and listen, take over control, text chat ask questions etc.

Webex is the big one in the enterprise market, and it’s an awful unreliable bloated mess (as is tradition), so Zoom appeared to be attempting to be make their service just work, security be damned.

whippet · 12-07-2019 1:35pm

I got myself an iPad Pro 12.9” with the Smart Keyboard a few weeks back .. increasingly I am finding it now properly replacing my MacBook Pro 13”

When you get used to it the functionality is quite good .. finally all the apps I use in work are now either iOS native or work perfectly fine on iOS safari.

And with MS 365 most of what we do is within the Teams environment which works really nicely.

I was due to replace the MacBook Pro this year but I think I’ll sweat it out for a while yet.

The Black Oil · 25-07-2019 3:08pm

Forum seems to be ticking away nicely.

Finally sorted out my One Drive errors completely.

HairySalmon · 01-08-2019 7:57pm

John Lewis and Curry’s UK have the 12” MacBook for £799, but my card keeps getting declined when I use my AddressPal address.

Any idea what’s going on here so I can get it sorted?

01-08-2019 8:13pm

HairySalmon wrote: »

John Lewis and Curry’s UK have the 12” MacBook for £799, but my card keeps getting declined when I use my AddressPal address.

Any idea what’s going on here so I can get it sorted?

Maybe because the registered address of the card is not the same as the address pal address (if that makes sense).

HairySalmon · 01-08-2019 8:21pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Maybe because the registered address of the card is not the same as the address pal address (if that makes sense).

If that’s the case then what would my options be?

01-08-2019 8:31pm

Don’t know about those particular sites, some , you can pay with proper address and select a different delivery address, or maybe PayPal might work,If they accept that form of payment, sorry I can’t be more helpful.

Sad Professor · 01-08-2019 8:49pm

I often have to use Paypal when getting items delivered to Parcel Motel. However, it's also possible they just won't deliver such an expensive item to a virtual address/po box.

whiterebel · 01-08-2019 8:51pm

HairySalmon wrote: »

John Lewis and Curry’s UK have the 12” MacBook for £799, but my card keeps getting declined when I use my AddressPal address.

Any idea what’s going on here so I can get it sorted?

They won’t ship to forwarders. AddressPal say they don’t take laptops/ LI batteries in their T&Cs either.

Spocker · 02-08-2019 12:01am

HairySalmon wrote: »

John Lewis and Curry’s UK have the 12” MacBook for £799, but my card keeps getting declined when I use my AddressPal address.

Any idea what’s going on here so I can get it sorted?

John Lewis deliver direct to Ireland, unless it excludes items with batteries? https://www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/delivery-information/international-delivery

[Edit] Found it, items with batteries excluded, apologies https://www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/delivery-information/international-delivery-terms-and-conditions

The Black Oil · 20-09-2019 9:14am

Safari 13 is out.

calum · 20-09-2019 9:32am

The Black Oil wrote: »

Safari 13 is out.

Reminder: don't install if you don't want all your legacy extensions (i.e. those acquired from the Extensions Gallery rather than the App Store) to disappear.

Type 17 · 20-09-2019 8:34pm

calum wrote: »

Reminder: don't install if you don't want all your legacy extensions (i.e. those acquired from the Extensions Gallery rather than the App Store) to disappear.

Now you tell me :rolleyes:

The Black Oil · 22-09-2019 7:33pm

Too often I've hit command + Q, when I meant command + W. Just lost a long post.

Type 17 · 22-09-2019 7:36pm

CMD + W would have lost you the post anyway (?)

calum · 22-09-2019 7:37pm

The Black Oil wrote: »

Too often I've hit command + Q, when I meant command + W. Just lost a long post.

I suppose that's why Chrome has switched to "long press Cmd-Q to quit" by default. Annoys the heck out of me on the odd occasions I use Chrome, though...

calum · 22-09-2019 7:40pm

Type 17 wrote: »

CMD + W would have lost you the post anyway (?)

Not if it was in a different tab...

Sad Professor · 22-09-2019 7:42pm

calum wrote: »

I suppose that's why Chrome has switched to "long press Cmd-Q to quit" by default. Annoys the heck out of me on the odd occasions I use Chrome, though...

It’s stupid and usually results in me accidentally quitting several other apps. Thankfully you can disable it.

Type 17 · 22-09-2019 7:56pm

calum wrote: »

Not if it was in a different tab...

Fair enough

Obskure · 11-10-2019 4:24pm

Folks, has anyone here had the 2015 Pro Retina recalled? My unit is due in and I'm wondering what exactly gets fixed before I send it off. Read reports stating that because the battery is glued, that new keyboards, and bottom covers, were being retrofitted as well as the new battery.
Just wondering of any other experiences.

speedfreak · 12-10-2019 9:34am

Hi all,

have any of you sold your old iMacs privately? I have a late 2013 model I’m looking to move on but not a whole lot of uptake on adverts.ie. Just wondering where people have had success in selling. Prices are a bit all over the place on adverts but it’s keenly priced and in perfect nick. Cheers.

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