External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Sorry for cross posting but i need help with this strange problem. I bought a 6 Tb hard drive and got it yesterday. Upon connecting it to my iMac i noticed that the disk was formatted in NTFS, which is a no go if you want the mac to be able to write to it so i thought i would reformat it to a

Hard disk formatting problem solved

2017-10-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. The problem with the hard drive that i couldn’t format due to lack of free space is now solved. Turned out i formatted or tried to format a partition not the disk itself and that didn’t work. Now i have done it the right way and it works. /Krister -- The following information is impo

RE: Sharing a folder between my windows 7 and my mac

2017-10-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Ramy, Try putting SMB:// at the start of your computer name that the shared drive is on, The problem you may get here is that the mac wont write to a windows NTFS file system So unless your wifes windows computer is an xfat or fat32 file system you will only be able to read from the windo

RE: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

2017-10-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yes it’s called preview, Also if you have Microsoft office 2016 on your mac then try opening the pdf file in word as it will now open pdf and I know in windows works pretty well. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa Sent: Thur

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

2017-10-06 Thread -dan d.
I don't know. It is intended for reading science journal pdf pages which often have info in table format. The ability to grab the text and put it elsewhere is a bonus feature. It's free, get it and try it on a pdf known to have the formats of interest to you. On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Mary Ott

Re: translating with Siri

2017-10-06 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Jurgen. It's working fine here. The trick to getting Siri's translation to work is you have to set his/her language to US English. That's the only language so far that can translate things to other languages. HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Hand

Posting a Mac laptop for sale

2017-10-06 Thread Terri Stimmel
Hello everyone, First of all, let me say that Mark Taylor gave me permission to post this to the list. If anyone is interested, please contact me off-list. This is my email address. icecreamlove...@outlook.com Now I will be honest with you all. I don't know what to ask for this Mac. I don

Re: External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-06 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
You might want to blank the drive first--no telling what little trivia might be lurking there. In any case that's what I'd do. Drop into the Terminal and do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[drive] where [drive] is the correct designation as shown under /dev. Be careful you use the correct one! This wil

Re: translating with Siri

2017-10-06 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello Shawn, OK, that makes it clear. :-) Thanks for this hint. All the best Jürgen > Am 06.10.2017 um 14:51 schrieb Shawn Krasniuk : > > Hi Jurgen. It's working fine here. The trick to getting Siri's translation to > work is you have to set his/her language to US English. That's the only > l

E-Mail Signatures

2017-10-06 Thread Bill Gallik
I have three e-mail accounts and a number of signatures; some I’d prefer to be available for only one of the accounts and many that I would like to be available to all three accounts. Perhaps I misunderstand the concepts of signatures in Mac OS, but I thought a person could create a number of

Re: E-Mail Signatures

2017-10-06 Thread E.T.
I have not done this in High Sierra so do not know if its changed. It appears to be the same as in Sierra. In Mail preferences, signatures tab, there is a table with all your accounts plus All Signatures. This is where you decide what sig you want to associate with any account, or all of

RE: External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Try partitioning the drive rather than just eraising it. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Friday, 6 October 2017 8:43 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: peel-the-ap...@groups.io Sub

RE: Pixel Buds translates voice, but it's not the first - CNET

2017-10-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Mark, Again thanks for a great article, These things sound bloody impressive, I'm interested to hear what they are like, I deal with a number of people with diferent languages and to speak to them in their own language would be so much easier. -Original Message- From: macvisionari

KGI: iPhone 8 Plus selling better than expected as iPhone X delay pushes ‘super cycle’ into 2018 | 9to5Mac

2017-10-06 Thread Maria Reyes
KGI: iPhone 8 Plus selling better than expected as iPhone X delay pushes ‘super cycle’ into 2018 Chance Miller - Oct. 6th 2017 7:16 am PT @ChanceHMiller 52 Comments KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo is today out with a new investor note in which he further analyzes the iPhone X supply chain and productio

The iPhone Didn't Emerge From Nothing. Here's What Came Before It

2017-10-06 Thread M. Taylor
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on the MacWorld stage in his jeans and a black turtleneck. "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," he declared. "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone." The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the Wor

Apple's tricky iOS 11 photo tech gets a helping hand - CNET

2017-10-06 Thread M. Taylor
CNET News - Friday, October 6, 2017 at 5:57 AM Apple's tricky iOS 11 photo tech gets a helping hand - CNET Apple's new phone software means your photos take up half the space they used to, and that's great. But it also can bring some complications. Good news: New tools are emerging to help you avo