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My 2015 iMac running Sierra (latest, I assume) is stuck on the login screen. I enter my password, the mouse pointer spins for a second or two, the screen goes black, then it dumps me back at the login screen. Google suggested reinstalling from recovery mode but that didn't help, the same thing keeps happening. It happens in safe mode too, but with a screen flicker in addition to going black for a second.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Weird question: does OSX keep track of the day you installed the OS or date you restored it from a time machine backup? Just curious to see how long it'd been since I installed this hard drive. /var/log/install.log
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The idea of the Google Home and the Amazon Echo intrigue me but not enough to buy them sight unseen. Is there anything like them for macOS? I keep my computer on all day anyway. (Don't say Siri, it lacks the "voice-activated" thing)
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Dec 3, 2016 22:51
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gmq posted:The idea of the Google Home and the Amazon Echo intrigue me but not enough to buy them sight unseen. Is there anything like them for macOS? I keep my computer on all day anyway. The appletv is apple's home automation hub if you want to do lights and stuff. If you just want to look up sportsball or something buy an iPhone 7 and just shout "Hey Siri" at it. If you have the ATV and $600 lightbulbs, you can shout "Hey Siri dim lightbulb DX-12_living_room\fxGLR.office" and you will be in the future after two or three attempts!
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tuyop posted:The appletv is apple's home automation hub if you want to do lights and stuff. If you just want to look up sportsball or something buy an iPhone 7 and just shout "Hey Siri" at it. If you have the ATV and $600 lightbulbs, you can shout "Hey Siri dim lightbulb DX-12_living_room\fxGLR.office" and you will be in the future after two or three attempts! I was at my dad's house at the weekend and he just got an Echo. It's night and day difference to using Siri. When Alexa misunderstood something it was actually surprising, rather than expected. I hope Apple do something with Siri because they're really falling behind here.
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Dec 5, 2016 12:26
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I'm a fan of the Echo's always on microphone.
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i have an echo and it feels functionally limited compared to how i use siri, even though i know you can download tons of skills for it not being able to call or text from it is a big miss
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Dec 5, 2016 13:08
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Tippis posted:Ah, Apple being their usual logical selves, then. I ran into Apple logic with my old copy of iPhoto. Right click menu when in a number of views has options to Trash and Remove From Album. So I was going through a bunch of pics in an album and right click -> Trashing them. Except it didn't actually trash them, just removed them from the Album. Right click -> Trash in any other view (All Photos, Events, Rolls, etc.) will actually move them to the Trash.
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Dec 5, 2016 13:54
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Chris Knight posted:I ran into Apple logic with my old copy of iPhoto. Right click menu when in a number of views has options to Trash and Remove From Album. So I was going through a bunch of pics in an album and right click -> Trashing them. Except it didn't actually trash them, just removed them from the Album. The best piece of Apple logic I've come across was in iMovie: 1. Go through hours of raw footage, marking segments as "favourite" or "rejected" 2. Use some menu option to the tune of "Remove rejected clips" 3. Find that all clips containing rejected segments have been deleted (including the favourite parts), rather than the clip being split up and the rejected parts thrown away 4. Restore raw footage from NAS (lucky!) and repeat step 1 I think the option's been removed now, or at least I can't find anything similar in the current UI. Is there any better way of managing all of this, or any better software than iMovie that doesn't cost hundreds of pounds? I only use it a few times a year (and still have unedited footage from January due to putting off the pain), but it feels like organising the footage could be a lot easier. There used to be keyword functionality but that got stripped out with the new iMovie UI too. Maybe I should just get a huge external drive for my iMovie library to live on, and stop worrying about it filling up my internal drive?
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Dec 5, 2016 14:50
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iMovie makes zero loving sense and crashes all the loving time and is just a pile of poo poo.
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Yeah, I find that people learn FCP much more quickly than iMovie, even though FCP is mega overkill for most projects I help with. And it doesn't help you in this case because $$$, even though you'd love the library>events>projects organizational scheme.
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Anyone have Google Home? Can I call/text from it if I have an iPhone? Does it compare favorably to Echo?
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tuyop posted:Yeah, I find that people learn FCP much more quickly than iMovie, even though FCP is mega overkill for most projects I help with. And it doesn't help you in this case because $$$, even though you'd love the library>events>projects organizational scheme. I once started up a little home movie project and decided I'd just do it in iMovie as I didn't need all the bells and whistles of FCPX. Got frustrated after about 5 minutes and just did it in Final Cut. I kno
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Dec 5, 2016 19:45
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tuyop posted:The appletv is apple's home automation hub if you want to do lights and stuff. If you just want to look up sportsball or something buy an iPhone 7 and just shout "Hey Siri" at it. If you have the ATV and $600 lightbulbs, you can shout "Hey Siri dim lightbulb DX-12_living_room\fxGLR.office" and you will be in the future after two or three attempts! But it still sucks compared to an Echo/Dot. For controlling stuff, at least.
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Dec 5, 2016 20:39
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My MBP is on the Sierra beta track (currently 10.12.2 Beta) and I'd like to get back on the release track. I have everything backed up on a Time Capsule. If I restore my laptop to factory 10.12.1 will I be able to restore from that backup or will I have to wait until 10.12.2 is out? I ask because I know iOS can't restore a backup made from a newer version, but I don't know if macOS does the same.
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Endless Mike posted:My MBP is on the Sierra beta track (currently 10.12.2 Beta) and I'd like to get back on the release track. I have everything backed up on a Time Capsule. If I restore my laptop to factory 10.12.1 will I be able to restore from that backup or will I have to wait until 10.12.2 is out? I ask because I know iOS can't restore a backup made from a newer version, but I don't know if macOS does the same. macOS does the same, I believe. At this point 10.12.2 final is probably imminent in the next week or two, so I would just sit tight.
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Cool. I've mostly been annoyed since I turned off the beta updates but it keeps turning them on, but I locked the preferences so *hopefully* it doesn't happen again.
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Dec 6, 2016 00:45
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Looks like someone ported uBlock Origin to Safari. https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari Anyone try it yet?
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Can anyone recommend me a desktop client for Soundcloud? Ideally one that respects media keys like Spotify or iTunes does.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Looks like someone ported uBlock Origin to Safari. Nice!!! I just built the extension and will be using it all day at work, I'll report back
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Dec 6, 2016 16:43
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It doesn't look like it blocks YouTube ads effectively 
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Dec 6, 2016 16:58
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Endless Mike posted:Cool. I've mostly been annoyed since I turned off the beta updates but it keeps turning them on, but I locked the preferences so *hopefully* it doesn't happen again. I had similar issues being stuck on the beta channel. Try running this command: BobHoward posted:^^^^ Well why don't we bring the solution in here since multiple people need it. I searched a bit, looks like the command should be:
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Last Chance posted:It doesn't look like it blocks YouTube ads effectively It actually makes them worse because it lets the ad videos play but hides the button to skip them. EDIT: They fixed it sometime last night. Works fine now. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Dec 7, 2016 05:56
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The best YouTube adblocker is still ClickToPlugin to get HTML5 videos.
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well why not posted:Can anyone recommend me a desktop client for Soundcloud? Ideally one that respects media keys like Spotify or iTunes does. I remember VOX having SoundCloud support when I tried it a couple years ago.
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kefkafloyd posted:The best YouTube adblocker is still ClickToPlugin to get HTML5 videos. Correct
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So it looks like they changed console.app and I'm not sure how I get logs from before the computer's current power-on. I really want to see why my computer randomly rebooted. EDIT: Found it, but it doesn't seem helpful at all. wdarkk fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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wdarkk posted:So it looks like they changed console.app and I'm not sure how I get logs from before the computer's current power-on. I really want to see why my computer randomly rebooted. Select "system.log" under the Reports section, and search for "BOOT_TIME". That'll give you the time stamp for the most recent boot, then you can look around that time. EDIT: Oh sorry, just re-read what you posted. You can click the "/var/log" folder under the Reports, and check the "system.X.log.gz" files in the new column for older system logs. NeuralSpark fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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NeuralSpark posted:Select "system.log" under the Reports section, and search for "BOOT_TIME". That'll give you the time stamp for the most recent boot, then you can look around that time. I don't really see anything that stands out: quote:Dec 7 19:34:28 Tilia com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
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well why not posted:Can anyone recommend me a desktop client for Soundcloud? Ideally one that respects media keys like Spotify or iTunes does. This one is just a simple browser frame for the web site that supports media keys: https://soundcleod.com/
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Any idea why certain iCloud application folders don't show up in macOS? For example, my Playgrounds folder (from Swift Playgrounds) exists in my iCloud drive app on my iPad, but I can't see it in macOS or on iCloud.com My other application folders like Pages work just fine, as well as user-created folders. edit: Manually typing what I think is the path name in the Go menu doesn't bring up the folder PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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PRADA SLUT posted:Any idea why certain iCloud application folders don't show up in macOS? I just don't think they've enabled it.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Any idea why certain iCloud application folders don't show up in macOS? I had a similar problem with Final Draft for iOS except I was able to find the folder in my iCloud.com Drive (but not on macOS ) the solution for me was to add a file to the folder through iCloud.com but if you can somehow add an unrelated file through your iPad to the folder, it may show up.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I had a similar problem with Final Draft for iOS except I was able to find the folder in my iCloud.com Drive (but not on macOS ) the solution for me was to add a file to the folder through iCloud.com but if you can somehow add an unrelated file through your iPad to the folder, it may show up. I tried this.. I put a file into it from my iPad but nothing shows up on my Mac or iCloud web. I can see the folder on my iPad only, and can read/write it. Can't see it on the iCloud iPhone app either.
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cbirdsong posted:This one is just a simple browser frame for the web site that supports media keys: https://soundcleod.com/ this works pretty well! thanks!
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wdarkk posted:So it looks like they changed console.app and I'm not sure how I get logs from before the computer's current power-on. I really want to see why my computer randomly rebooted. A possible cause of spontaneous reboots is a system panic - look for panic reports in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel*.panic, or in Console under the System Reports folder.
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Are there any simple video editing programs for Mac? My 11 year old wants to edit YouTube videos and will be getting a GoPro for Christmas. At least initially it'd be nice if she could use something simpler than iMovie and then maybe advance to FCP. I don't mind teaching her to use those programs, but I'd like her to do as much as she can herself. I guess YouTube has a web interface for simple video edits, but I have no idea how that works.
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iMovie isn't bad. FCPX has gotten very simplified in the last few years so I'd say start on iMovie and then you should be able to move on to FCPX in a few years. Lynda have amazing tutorials but there's loads of good free ones on YT
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chimz posted:A possible cause of spontaneous reboots is a system panic - look for panic reports in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel*.panic, or in Console under the System Reports folder. Nothing there from yesterday unfortunately.
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I have a work email account that I like to check on my Mac at home, but when I'm not at work I don't want to be bothered by notifications or badge counts. Is there a way to disable those for a specific account with mail.app, or am I better off just removing my account entirely from mail.app and only checking it through the web interface?
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