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Astro7x posted:Oh gently caress you Apple... I'm in the same boat with feature cuts. I take photos everywhere and often times in the middle of nowhere and iPhoto gave you the option to look at a big map and go "I took the photo here" and zoom in to where I was for a particular series, which I can then export as needed. These photos take place over multiple years, so having them organized by place is ideal. Photos replaced this functionality with "Look at this list with vague location names sorted by date and if you shift click on them we'll pop up a super-zoomed in single-pin on a map." I'm going to have to use iPhoto until OS X stops supporting it and then stay on that version of OS X forever. 
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Whoever made this decision regarding Apple Music is a disgrace to humanity: If you go to Settings -> Music and set "Show Apple Music" to off, that goes away.
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Question: I've recently started using Word and Excel on my Mac (Because I have extra installs, so why not) but every time I start one of them, it feels like it's loading the library of congress - even on small files. Is there a trick to opening word documents in word without needing bed rest?
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Pivo posted:Does your Mac have an SSD? Because Word 2016 is a 1.9GB application on my machine for example. Off the SSD, it starts instantly. I tried to time how long but it starts so fast that I literally could not get any kind of accuracy with a stopwatch. But I've seen people with platter drives try to use it and yeah it's slow. It's a big application. I do have a platter drive, though. I was planning on upgrading once those nice 1TB SSDs that released last year come down in price from "Ridiculous" to "Pricey." Thanks Ants posted:If it does what the Windows versions do and query printers before loading then check you don't have any printers with hosed driver packages installed.
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Pivo posted:Nah, it only loads the binary, it'd be funny if it loaded 1.9GB of data just to launch you into a blank page. But it is a large application in general. It's going to feel slow on a platter drive. We're hooked on fast IO now. I have 16. I've been told I can support 32 (which is not what Apple's specs say), but I haven't tried that. I would have gotten an SSD when I got this Mac, but the upgrade was ridiculously expensive and there weren't any large SSDs at the time. I simply can't exist on 256GB. The only applications that load slow are the Office apps. Even my VMs start up nice and quick without so much as a hint of slowness. I was hoping it was a configuration issue.
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Pivo posted:Have you ever used OS X with an SSD? You might re-think your 'nice and quick' assessment then. No, but I am fully aware of an SSD's speed increase, I've just, literally, never needed it in OSX. Fusions' Win8.1 Pro VM starts in 32 seconds. I don't even have enough time to burn my tongue with the coffee cup next to me before I have to actually work in it. So throwing an SSD in there was never a priority. It seems ridiculously crazy that I need an SSD for Office.
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NeuralSpark posted:I've seen massive speed increases in launching Office apps by validating fonts in Font Book, and removing the dupes / "bad" ones. YMMV Thank you, kind sir. I had 47 fonts with errors and 127 fonts that were duplicated. Purging them made Word and Excel start in under 10 seconds. 
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Bigsteve posted:Tried that, just sits at the menu on the pc. No option to run anything. Will try again just incase. If you have the ISO of Windows 7, load up Bootcamp and say "Create Install Disk" and then have it use the flash drive. (Note that I think this is restricted for 64bit windows images, just in case you are trying to install on the Sempron or something.)
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Bigsteve posted:Just tried this and all I can is a flashing cursor in the top left of the screenn Weedle posted:Boot Camp installers are only designed to work on Macs. If your PC supports UEFI booting, you might check the boot menu and see if there's a UEFI option for your flash drive. If not, or if you've already tried this, I'm afraid I'm stumped.
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What is good for document (and non-document) file management? DevonThink crashed, burned, and took all my meta-data with it. Again.
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tuyop posted:Evernote, onenote, Google keep, Notes.app Evernote and one note both are terrible for archives of documents. They throw everything into a zip file. (OneNote cloud version doesn't even allow documents inline last I used it) Keep and Notes app are just xRTF editors, no document management. flosofl posted:Yeah, when it worked DevonThink was awesome.
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tuyop posted:I'm not sure what the difference is, sorry. Most of my "documents" are scans and PDFs and they display inline and download in their original formats. A document manager is something that will toss your file either into a database format that is recoverable or onto the file system itself. In both cases, it will then store additional meta data about that document in a searchable way - and the good ones allow you to apply the same metadata to multiple objects that are similar (e.g. A report that comes out once a week is the same thing, just with a new date as the one that came out last week). Adding notes to this is generally useful, too. Ever/OneNote lets you put documents into them, but they store them in a zip file. Both will let you search the contents if they are OCRd, and you can just toss stuff in the same page as the document you are displaying inline (such as searchable terms) but then you just have a giant mess to go back to later. And if you ever need to switch, you don't have a useful way to get information out of OneNote, either - it's manual. I have my entire DevonThink data in an CSV that I can then use to populate just about any format that I end up going to. I use OneNotes for notes, and it works well, but to actually store and manage documentation, it's a nightmare. For instance, just in my notes that are simply dated pages under a tab, I toss in PDFs that I annotate here and there. The last two years of OneNote notes is over 700MB in a single file. I back this up religiously because, as has happened over the last couple of years, Microsoft inevitably effs that file up something fierce. I've had to restore it almost a dozen times. I usually hedge my bets on loss by taking the older tabs out to a new OneNote file and archiving it. They're okay for they do, but it's not great if you wish to archive multiple types of documents and files long term and will want to find them again.
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japtor posted:EagleFiler comes up now and then, not all that often but people generally seem to like it. Found some links about it vs other options: I will check out eagle filer, thanks! I don't use places like "alternativeto" because they invariably gather programs that don't belong together because they share a feature. I was also hoping that other people here were digital pack rats like me and knew of an awesome program I could use. 
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Ratjaculation posted:Powercunt Go on....
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EL BROMANCE posted:It can open stuff fairly quick (although the sheets I worked with could take several minutes) but manipulating that data it's a dog, and throwing hardware at it doesn't resolve this. When you get past a certain point, every new line seems to drag it even further behind. That's the threading in Excel, actually. If your system uses hyper threading, then once you max the number of threads equal to the physical cores in your machine, then it actually slows down calculations because the threads start fighting with each other to monopolize single cores. To make Excel run the most effectively on Windows (which is great advice in the Mac software thread ) set the number of threads to Physical Cores - 1.
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Question: What is Time Machine's backup strategy? Is it Weekly + daily and hourly diffs or Main + Unlimited Incrementals or...? I ask because I'm looking to update my three year old external drive that I use for TM and trying to extrapolate how much space I need. Right now, it is holding 17 months of backups on a system that runs at about 400GB of storage and it's using 1.9TB of 2.1TB. Theoretically, I need to maintain about 24 months of backups for reasons that don't matter. Would 3TB do it or should I plan on having more like a 4/5TB drive for overhead in case I max out the 1TB system drive?
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I was asking about the form of those backups. For instance, there is a huge space difference between: Full backup Monthly with Weekly Differentials plus Full Daily Backups with the Last Day being Hourly Incrementals vs One Full Backup and everything else being Incremental. japtor posted:Just a general backup suggestion here, check your backups now and then. I don't know if it can still happen, but there was a TM bug a while back where a bunch of stuff could get added to the exclusions list without notice, and without showing up in the prefpane. I'd guess it was something to do with temporary exclusions (which apps can request) getting stuck or something. I backup my Time Machine drive to a NAS, which also syncs the backup files to AWS. If you don't back up, even your back ups, you are begging for trouble.
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Froist posted:They're all incremental. If you dive into the backups folder each timestamped backup looks like a complete mirror of your hard drive at that point, but all the unchanged files are symlinks to the previous backup. Once the drive fills up, the oldest backups are pruned (and the required "real" files moved to the next oldest backup) until there's enough space to backup the new deltas. Awesome! Thanks! Last Chance posted:uhh, I'm not sure if this is a good idea due to the symlinks and craziness involved with TM backups. Does this really work? Disk images with change deltas are what get stored on the NAS. MacOS or Windows could create a recursive folder structure and the backups don't care in the least.
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BobHoward posted:Not only does it use hard links, Apple added support for making hard links to directories just for Time Machine. In traditional UNIX systems you can only hard link files. So, could I make an HFS+ disk image on my NAS and mount it on MacOS and have it store the time machine backups there? I would love to be able to ditch the local drive (as I do with Windows using the same HD-Image-On-NAS-for-Backups method I just asked about) and go purely to the NAS which backs itself up offsite.
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flosofl posted:I just turn on the "TimeMachine" switch on mine (WD MyCloud X2) and assign a share to it. TimeMachine creates a sparse bundle for each machine on the same share. I haven't had an issue backing up multiple machines or restoring data. Sadly, my NAS doesn't have a TimeMachine option.... It would do almost everything else if I hadn't disabled most of it, though. Does the MyCloud series also backup to AWS(Edit: or elsewhere) by itself, or would that have to be handled by a computer?
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flosofl posted:are you talking about currently? Or for why iPay won't completely live in macOS? Wouldn't it be because Apple needs to follow the standards set by the card issuers and/or banks in storage of the financial detail? I'm also somewhat certain that Apple Pay is tokenized and the CVV is the 2FA for access to that token information from a new device. 1Password, on the other hand, is just a local encryption vault. It doesn't have to care that banks exist at all.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Just stick it in iCloud Drive This. The 50GB plan is 99cents a month. Casual movement of files is easy and cheap.
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flavor posted:It's interesting to me that scrolling is such a huge issue for some people here. I'm not even thinking of how to scroll when I change between Windows and OS X (using default scrolling settings on both), but many people are very kefkafloyd posted:Natural scrolling makes sense when you're touching something (and I have no problem scrolling that way on an iPhone or iPad) but as soon as you're not touching the screen a disconnect comes in for me. I'll use old-style scrolling until the option goes away. This. The trackpad (or iOS screen, as the case may be) or even how the magic mouse is a touch-enabled scroll wheel is perfectly natural and useful for me to use in the "natural scrolling" style. The minute I have a mouse with a real scroll wheel, my brain screams at me like a banshee in heat if rolling the wheel towards me makes the screen go down. On the last few revisions of
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about it. Explains a lot of the whining about new releases of anything.
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Pivo posted:Well I think I've complained about the Aperture sunset quite a bit in Apple threads already, but yeah, that was a better one. The library was better, it worked on OS X better, it was a superior product. Does light room have a map to show you where images were taken?
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kefkafloyd posted:Yes, but it's a half-baked feature that doesn't work very well. At this rate, I'm going to keep using iPhotos until we have to transition to 128bit Operating Systems.
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kefkafloyd posted:I have a camera with GPS support (Sony a99) and while it will show you a map of where photos were taken, it doesn't seem to really do much more than that. Syncing GPS info is rather easy but entering in manual location info (aside from lat/long if you know it) is a pain and / or annoying. It's a bullet point feature, nothing more. There's no real logic or intelligence to the location info. Why can't it use the lat/long to automatically know what city/town I took it in? Why can't it know that some photos were taken at a particular point of interest? It's because Adobe doesn't have Google's kinds of hooks into that sort of info. As long as it plots those points on a map, that's really all I need. I will start at the North America level and then zoom to the photo I'm interested in because half of my pictures are miles from a nearby town. It'll be like "Lusk, WY" and the photo was actually taken 50 miles away in the Badlands (which has fewer Cardassians than you might have been led to believe).
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Yossarko posted:If I try and log out (from this screen) it freaks me out because it says it will "stop using iCloud with this computer" and that i'll have to "set a password for my mac". I'm a little afraid that if I do things, there may be some weird consequences. I use iCloud for basically everything on my mac. I guess everything should "come back" when I connect back again but I'm a little wary (especially considering how it keeps forgetting my password). Yes, they are removed from your Mac....but they are still in iCloud. When you connect back to iiCloud again, it'll resync all of that.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:2GHz vs 5GHz has nothing to do with that. Being on the same network doesn't even have anything to do with it. They just need an Internet connection. If your 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks are segregated by your router, it will affect Continuity, but that's about it in terms of network choice.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Right. Syncing iMessage history doesn't use Continuity. Sorry, I meant that as a continuation of your thought and not as an argument.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:How dare you not be trying to argue If I don't dare, who else will? 
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enojy posted:To be completely honest, I'm not sure if my problem is with iMessage, Messages.app, or some other sort of disconnect between my iPhone and MacBook. All I know is it will work (i.e. complete parity sending/receiving messages on both devices) for a while, then the MacBook will stop getting texts until I intervene in some way, whether it's cycling my Apple ID sign in, iMessage on my phone, signing in and out of iCloud, etc. I am still able to successfully send texts via the MacBook when this happens, though. If cycling your Apple/iCloud ID works, then there's a glitch somewhere with either the encryption keys (getting deleted because of age, etc) or with the Apple account or with the sync to your devices (bad internet?). I'd lean more towards the keys getting removed from service. I thought there was an option about key lifetime somewhere, but I can't find it now.
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Bob Morales posted:What do you guys rip DVD's with? Can't stand having physical media around. I've noticed handbrake does that if you use the Normal preset instead of the High Profile preset for media that works better on the the High Profile.
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eddiewalker posted:You unlock the watch and it stays unlocked till it loses contact with your wrist. You just would need to stick a finger in and done, no taking it out. I do this with paying all the time as most of those payment terminals are at hip level. Turn to the side, press my thumb in until a beep and then I'm done!
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is there a good iPad app that supports the Apple Pencil for taking notes in class? I've seen a few for general notes, drawing, etc, but I'm hoping for something a bit more robust in its organizational capabilities. OneNote. Gives you a three-level hierarchy (Section -> Page -> SubPage) and supports pencil writing fairly well, especially in the full-screen mode. It'll also sync (via Microsoft Account) to your other devices. Only down side is it takes a few days to get fully used to it on the iPad. It works a lot differently on Windows than on iOS or Android.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Is there any software that will let me mirror folders from iCloud Drive into Dropbox? E;nm: I are dum.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Yeah, you have to go to their site to get it rather than Apple's extension page. I thought uBlock was bad and you needed to get uBlock Origin?
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Does anyone have any information on the new file system's readiness?
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Pivo posted:It's only a preview and a lot of features are unimplemented. You can't use it as a boot drive or as a TM drive. Use at your own peril. Full release tentatively scheduled for 2017. Damnit, pivo. You give me the  .
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Pivo posted:Have you ever used OS X with an SSD? You might re-think your 'nice and quick' assessment then. I disassembled my iMac to try out some 16GB DIMMs. Great news! The 2013 iMac supports 16GB DIMMs. Bad news: OS X doesn't recognize TWO 16GB DIMMs at the same time. During the endeavor, I threw in a 1GB SSD because I, of course, had to take out all of the things so it seemed an opportune time. I was wrong, Pivo. So wrong. Hold me.
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Pivo posted:It's alright bby. I'm here. Always. Seeing the light of the SSD is something that only happens once. I was glad to be part of this experience. The contrast is way more apparent than Windows. I wonder why that is.
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