Re: Pittsburgh

2024-05-15 Thread Stan Halpin
45-50 years ago, my then wife got into a graduate program at Carnegie Mellon, I was working in the D.C. area. She came home some weekends, I drove to Pittsburgh some weekends. So, I did spend quite a bit of time there over several years. But I must say I never really payed attention to the city

Re: OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread Larry Colen
> On May 15, 2024, at 2:48 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > > You may wish to check your energy savings settings on your new iMac, to see > if you have the external drives set to sleep when not in use. It could be, > depending on the drive, that they go to sleep and vanish from the sidebar. > > As

Re: OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread Doug Brewer
You may wish to check your energy savings settings on your new iMac, to see if you have the external drives set to sleep when not in use. It could be, depending on the drive, that they go to sleep and vanish from the sidebar. As always, if you change a setting, restarting the computer is the

Re: OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 15.05.24 um 22:33 schrieb mike wilson: There's an aphorism about letting sleeping animals lie but I'm not sure it would be useful in this case. Maybe the one about teaching an old animal new tricks would be more apt? As in ... http://www.fotoralf.de/Neutriks.png Ralf -- Ralf R.

Re: OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread mike wilson
There's an aphorism about letting sleeping animals lie but I'm not sure it would be useful in this case. Maybe the one about teaching an old animal new tricks would be more apt? > On 15/05/2024 15:11 BST David J Brooks wrote: > > > I should add, its not always the case of the HD's not

A semi-gallery of recent photos

2024-05-15 Thread John Sessoms
I don't quite remember which of my photos I've shared here recently, but I know I hadn't yet shared photos from my eclipse trip. Plus, I spent Mother's Day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Eclipse Photos: https://flic.kr/p/2pRmz2q https://flic.kr/p/2pRoPmh https://flic.kr/p/2pRoPmc

Re: Pittsburgh

2024-05-15 Thread Alan C
What a city! I have never seen anything remotely like that. Alan C On 14-May-24 04:32 AM, Rick Womer wrote: We took a short trip to Pittsburgh last month, and were able to enjoy this pleasant city in beautiful weather. The city is where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers join to form the

Re: OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread paul stenquist
Hi Dave, You might have a format problem with the older drives. If there’s enough free space on one to hold all the files, you might want to move them over and reformat the empty drive. Then, repeat with the other drive. Or simply by a hard rive of 2T or more and move the files to that drive,

Re: OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread David J Brooks
I should add, its not always the case of the HD's not appearing but once in a whale, especially if it sleeps a long time Dave On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM David J Brooks wrote: > Hi gang > > So my new iMac 24" is working reasonably well, and am happy with it so > far, M3 chip. > > However I

OT Mac help

2024-05-15 Thread David J Brooks
Hi gang So my new iMac 24" is working reasonably well, and am happy with it so far, M3 chip. However I have two older external HDs that are about 6 or 7 years old and a new external HD that is my new Time machine. My back us are labeled 7 and 7a, for the most part 7 does not show up at all