Re: Keychain loosing passwords

['John Hobbs' via iMac Group]

Russell
I hear you and used to have the same problems but not now. I let the password 
manager do its thing even for important stuff and it just seems to work then 
again I ditched my 2009 iMac for a 2017 model on high Sierra 
John

> On 8 Aug 2020, at 21:32, 'Russell Courtenay' via iMac Group 
>  wrote:
> 
> This is what I fear: Apple suggests a ‘secure’ password there is no way 
> you’ll remember so you try it. Then it never gets saved in your password! 
> Sometimes I enter a password on a website and in never asks ‘do you want to 
> save that password?’
> 
> Is this unusual? It has happened to me several times, I have a password file 
> in my file cabinet but seriously, with 500 plus online logins, it is not up 
> to date. Now with greater security on Google and the like, I guess they are 
> physically reviewing reset requests and it takes days...
> 
> Thinking about using password manager software but isn’t that what iCloud is 
> supposed to be doing?
> 
> Now I am in the recovery process with Google that will take a couple days. I 
> am still logged in on my iPhone (password not saved there) but of course, 
> google now blocks messages from downloading to my phone so only the previews 
> are there. 
> 
> This is a family email account I started in April of 2019 and never used, I 
> use it today and- locked out. 
> 
> I don’t use my iMac much but it still the family server and backup machine, 
> maybe it is time to replace it...
> 
> 2008 iMac 
> Mac OS X El Capitan
> Gmail account 
> 
> Russell Courtenay
> Solemnity and profundity are sublime in inequity. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Forgot Keychain password

['John Hobbs' via iMac Group]

What were you doing when this happened?


On 19 Mar 2017, at 17:39, Fred Thiel  wrote:

> My iMac running SnowLeopard 10.6 asked me for my Keychain password. The 
> menulet isn't even showing up in the menu bar anymore. I tried every 
> combination of every password I could think of, but none worked. I need to 
> know how I can reset the password without knowing the password.
> any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Error 36 while copying a file

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Nice to know you got sorted.
And nice to know that after all these years this list is still here for us all.

On 29 Jan 2017, at 13:29, Bill Spencer wrote:

The solution was for my source to add the file to his Dropbox account and then 
have me download it from there. Everything is now fine. Many thanks for 
everyone's suggestions! Bill

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Re: Mac for Windows PC dummies

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On 12 Sep 2016, at 15:09, J Janks wrote:

I'm not the Mac user the hubby is but he is NOT tech friendly in the least.  He 
has a desktop iMac 5.2 (I did find that is produced week 34 of 2006) that is 
running OS X Tiger.   I found the update log but can't find it again so based 
on memory last update was 2010/11 (sound about right??).  I ran updater this 
morning just to make sure it had been updated and there were not outstanding 
updates and there weren't so Mac has stopped supporting Tiger??  Issue is at 
start up sometimes it doesn't want to load anything, it just runs and runs, so 
you have to reboot usually just once but a few times now it has taken 2 - 3 
reboots.   He thinks he needs a new Mac but I'm thinking just an update to the 
operating system may be in order, maybe an optimization/clean up or he just get 
a non-Mac Windows based PC.  He has NO extra programs that he has installed on 
it, using Safari to check email, do some scheduling online and online research 
for his dad's coin business is the extent of his computing, seriously.   Would 
he use it for anything else if it could do it - no, so no need for a new $1,500 
computer IM (humble wife) O if we can update the OS or if there is something I 
can optimize or do clean up so it boots right.

This is the system info:
Intel Core 2
1.83 GHZ
only 512MB of memory though
running at 667 MHZ

I have spent the past 3 hours trying to figure out if I can update this to at 
least Snow Leopard and I don't talk tech so partitioning this or that is not 
anything I know how to do.   I need to know, in non tech terms, if I buy Snow 
Leopard can I do a straight install off the disc?  I don't think he has enough 
memory, doesn't Snow Leopard need at least 1G of memory but even if I can 
update to SL what are some complications that could happen?   Fail to install 
and corrupt the current OS??   I highly doubt he has any discs from when he 
bought it, if it even came with any so reinstall of Tiger is out if it screws 
up.  

FSF, if I need to increase memory, by time we put money in that and time 
installing Snow Leopard (my business gets crazy this time of year so time is at 
a premium) he could have bought a Window's based PC for what he does IM (humble 
wife) O again.  But seriously, I do photography and digitize designs on a PC so 
why spend more on one that is not going to be fully utilized and no, I don't 
want a new one at the moment, I don't have time for learning curves or 
installing/setting up my software on a new one.  I'm just wanting to 
(hopefully) do a quick install of SL on his machine, optimize/clean it up so it 
boots right or just buy him a Windows PC and tell him to deal with it.  Yeah 
I'm a mean wife.

I don't see why changing operating system would help.
If it boots sometimes then the os is ok.
does this mac have an internal battery?

look under the apple menu/ about this mac/more info
copy the serial number and paste it into the identifier at

http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/

this should tell you everything you need to know concerning ram and os.

Good luck
John

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