Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE

[Ronni Brown]

Hi Marcus,

You DON’T delete anything that in Terminal!

You add the command prompt killall NotificationCenter after :~ cryptodomus$ 
killall NotificationCenter
Then hit Return key on your keyboard.
But - If you are not familiar with Terminal I would prefer you use Activity 
Monitor.app.
If you make a mistake in Terminal you can do a lot of damage.

1. Open Activity Monitor.app
2. Use the Search bar in the upper right corner Activity Monitor and type 
“Notif”, then click on “Notification Center”
3. Now click the (X) “Quit Process” button, and choose “Quit” to relaunch 
Notification Center

Notice the Notification Center menu bar icon disappears and reappears when you 
kill it from Activity Monitor, this indicates it has been restarted.

Cheers,
Ronni

13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

macOS Sierra 10.12.1
 
> On 3 Nov. 2016, at 9:08 pm, Marcus F Harris  wrote:
> 
> Hi Ronni,
> Great but I’ve not attempted to work in terminal before.
> I found the app and opened it.
> the text “Marcus-F-Harris-iMac27:~ cryptodomus$ “.appears.
> Do I then delete this and enter the instructions you sent “killall 
> NotificationCenter” ?
> Or do I open a new window?
> Then what?
> Hate to stuff up in terminal.
> Cheers
> Marcus
> 
>> On 2 Nov. 2016, at 9:31 pm, Ronda Brown > > wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Marcus,
>> 
>>> Is it possible to reset NC somehow?
>> 
>> Reset/Restart Notification Center:
>> You can forcibly restart the Notification Center in Terminal.app by issuing 
>> the following command string:
>> 
>> killall NotificationCenter
>> 
>> Note there is no space between the names 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Ronni
>> 
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>> 
>> On 2 Nov. 2016, at 4:41 pm, Marcus F Harris > > wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ronni,
>>> Thanks for your advice. Yes, Sierra otherwise operates just fine.
>>> I pretty much know how NC works as I had no issues before with El Capitan.
>>> 
>>> I wouldn’t be concerned except when NC is functioning it reveals Mail 
>>> alerts which cover the RHS of the screen and cannot be deleted. In fact if 
>>> I point the mouse any where near the alerts, the system will freeze with 
>>> the spinning wheel turning for up to 20 seconds.
>>> 
>>> I have turned all the NC alerts off  and that clears that up. As soon as I 
>>> turn Mail back on the alerts reappear and block the screen.
>>> Then I have to restart.
>>> 
>>> I have a lot of emails in iCloud as I’m uncertain how to delete them en 
>>> masse so maybe that’s an issue
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to reset NC somehow?
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Marcus
>>> Marcus F Harris
>>> cryptodo...@me.com 
>>> Marcus F Harris
>>> cryptodo...@me.com 
>>> iMac 27D Late 2009
>>> OS10.12.1
>>> 3 GHz Intel Duo Core
>>> 8Gb Ram
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
 On 1 Nov. 2016, at 9:36 pm, Ronda Brown >>> > wrote:
 
 Hi Marcus,
 
 I have not experienced any problems with Notification Center in Sierra or 
 iOS 10 on my Macs and iDevices. So I don't think your issue is caused by 
 Sierra.
 
 Have you had a good read on how to use Notification centre in Sierra?
 https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25142?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US 
 
 macOS Sierra: Use Notification Center. 
  
 Alerts, alarms, reminders, email-chances are you see a steady stream every 
 day. Notification Center is Sierra's Grand Central Station for the 
 information competing for your attention. It's settings control which apps 
 can post messages to the upper-right corner of your display, as well as 
 how those messages look.
 The Notification Center sidebar, which slides in from the right of your 
 screen, gives you an overview of it all.
 
 Have you set control Notifications' look? Individual notifications appear 
 at the top-right of the screen. You can tweak how they appear, or whether 
 they appear at all, on an app-by-app basis.
 Go to System Preferences > Notifications and select an app from the list 
 at the left. Now set up the way that app will notify you at the right. You 
 can pick from three Notification styles.
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 Sent from Ronni's iPad4
 
 
 On 1 Nov. 2016, at 7:29 pm, Marcus F Harris >>> > wrote:
 
> Hi,
> I’m still trying to resolve this corruption of (NC) Notification Centre.
> NC operated well with El Capitan but is problematic with Sierra.
> 
> I think it is due to interference between Google and Apple mail accounts. 
> I have tried turning them on and off alternately and the freezing of NC 
> arises when email notices present to be either closed or replied to.
> If I try e

Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE

[Rob Phillips]

Good to be careful...

Just type in the 'instructions' after the 'cryptodomus$' bit, and press 
Return. That sends the 'instruction/command' to the processor, and it 
does things...


Cheers
Rob

On 3/11/2016 9:08 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote:

Hi Ronni,
Great but I’ve not attempted to work in terminal before.
I found the app and opened it.
the text “Marcus-F-Harris-iMac27:~ cryptodomus$“.appears.
Do I then delete this and enter the instructions you sent “killall 
NotificationCenter” ?

Or do I open a new window?
Then what?
Hate to stuff up in terminal.
Cheers
Marcus

On 2 Nov. 2016, at 9:31 pm, Ronda Brown > wrote:


Hi Marcus,


Is it possible to reset NC somehow?


*Reset/Restart Notification Center:*

You can forcibly restart the Notification Center in Terminal.app by 
issuing the following command string:


|killall NotificationCenter|

*Note* there is no space between the names

Cheers,

Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad4

On 2 Nov. 2016, at 4:41 pm, Marcus F Harris > wrote:



Hi Ronni,
Thanks for your advice. Yes, Sierra otherwise operates just fine.
I pretty much know how NC works as I had no issues before with El 
Capitan.


I wouldn’t be concerned except when NC is functioning it reveals 
Mail alerts which cover the RHS of the screen and cannot be deleted. 
In fact if I point the mouse any where near the alerts, the system 
will freeze with the spinning wheel turning for up to 20 seconds.


I have turned all the NC alerts off  and that clears that up. As 
soon as I turn Mail back on the alerts reappear and block the screen.

Then I have to restart.

I have a lot of emails in iCloud as I’m uncertain how to delete them 
en masse so maybe that’s an issue


Is it possible to reset NC somehow?
Cheers

Marcus
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
iMac 27D Late 2009
OS10.12.1
3 GHz Intel Duo Core
8Gb Ram



On 1 Nov. 2016, at 9:36 pm, Ronda Brown > wrote:


Hi Marcus,

I have not experienced any problems with Notification Center in 
Sierra or iOS 10 on my Macs and iDevices. So I don't think your 
issue is caused by Sierra.


Have you had a good read on how to use Notification centre in Sierra?
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25142?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


  macOS Sierra: Use Notification Center.

Alerts, alarms, reminders, email-chances are you see a steady 
stream every day. Notification Center is Sierra's Grand Central 
Station for the information competing for your attention. It's 
settings control which apps can post messages to the upper-right 
corner of your display, as well as how those messages look.
The Notification Center sidebar, which slides in from the right of 
your screen, gives you an overview of it all.


Have you set control Notifications' look? Individual notifications 
appear at the top-right of the screen. You can tweak how they 
appear, or whether they appear at all, on an app-by-app basis.
Go to System Preferences > Notifications and select an app from the 
list at the left. Now set up the way that app will notify you at 
the right. You can pick from three Notification styles.


Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad4


On 1 Nov. 2016, at 7:29 pm, Marcus F Harris > wrote:



Hi,
I’m still trying to resolve this corruption of (NC) Notification 
Centre.

NC operated well with El Capitan but is problematic with Sierra.

I think it is due to interference between Google and Apple mail 
accounts.
I have tried turning them on and off alternately and the freezing 
of NC arises when email notices present to be either closed or 
replied to.
If I try either of those options, nothing happens and the NC 
freezes for up to 20 seconds.

As long as these email notices don’t appear I can switch on NC.

BY THE WAY the email notices that appear are all from my gmail 
account.


I’m going to turn off gmail completely and access them from the 
website and see if that makes a difference.

If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let me know.


Cheers

Marcus
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
Marcus F Harris
cryptodo...@me.com 
iMac 27D Late 2009
OS10.12.1
3 GHz Intel Duo Core
8Gb Ram



On 28 Oct. 2016, at 2:04 pm, Marcus F Harris > wrote:


Thanks Peter and Ronni,
I have an apple Bluetooth mouse only.
I have two gmail accounts and one iCloud account.
I will try turning off the gmail accounts and see if that helps.
Let you know ASAP.
Cheers
Marcus

Sent from Marcus iPhone 5

On 28 Oct. 2016, at 7:58 am, Peter Hinchliffe 
mailto:hinch...@multiline.com.au>> 
wrote:



On 27 Oct. 2016, at 10:56 pm, Marcus F Harris 
mailto:cryptodo...@me.com>> wrote:


Someone else may have problems with the Notification Centre 
since installing Sierra and had feedback that I missed.


Notifications appear as before on the RHS of the screen. These 
are

Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE

[Marcus F Harris]

Hi Ronni,
Great but I’ve not attempted to work in terminal before.
I found the app and opened it.
the text “Marcus-F-Harris-iMac27:~ cryptodomus$ “.appears.
Do I then delete this and enter the instructions you sent “killall 
NotificationCenter” ?
Or do I open a new window?
Then what?
Hate to stuff up in terminal.
Cheers
Marcus

> On 2 Nov. 2016, at 9:31 pm, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcus,
> 
>> Is it possible to reset NC somehow?
> 
> Reset/Restart Notification Center:
> You can forcibly restart the Notification Center in Terminal.app by issuing 
> the following command string:
> 
> killall NotificationCenter
> 
> Note there is no space between the names 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> On 2 Nov. 2016, at 4:41 pm, Marcus F Harris  > wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ronni,
>> Thanks for your advice. Yes, Sierra otherwise operates just fine.
>> I pretty much know how NC works as I had no issues before with El Capitan.
>> 
>> I wouldn’t be concerned except when NC is functioning it reveals Mail alerts 
>> which cover the RHS of the screen and cannot be deleted. In fact if I point 
>> the mouse any where near the alerts, the system will freeze with the 
>> spinning wheel turning for up to 20 seconds.
>> 
>> I have turned all the NC alerts off  and that clears that up. As soon as I 
>> turn Mail back on the alerts reappear and block the screen.
>> Then I have to restart.
>> 
>> I have a lot of emails in iCloud as I’m uncertain how to delete them en 
>> masse so maybe that’s an issue
>> 
>> Is it possible to reset NC somehow?
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Marcus
>> Marcus F Harris
>> cryptodo...@me.com 
>> Marcus F Harris
>> cryptodo...@me.com 
>> iMac 27D Late 2009
>> OS10.12.1
>> 3 GHz Intel Duo Core
>> 8Gb Ram
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 1 Nov. 2016, at 9:36 pm, Ronda Brown >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Marcus,
>>> 
>>> I have not experienced any problems with Notification Center in Sierra or 
>>> iOS 10 on my Macs and iDevices. So I don't think your issue is caused by 
>>> Sierra.
>>> 
>>> Have you had a good read on how to use Notification centre in Sierra?
>>> https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25142?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US 
>>> 
>>> macOS Sierra: Use Notification Center.  
>>> 
>>> Alerts, alarms, reminders, email-chances are you see a steady stream every 
>>> day. Notification Center is Sierra's Grand Central Station for the 
>>> information competing for your attention. It's settings control which apps 
>>> can post messages to the upper-right corner of your display, as well as how 
>>> those messages look.
>>> The Notification Center sidebar, which slides in from the right of your 
>>> screen, gives you an overview of it all.
>>> 
>>> Have you set control Notifications' look? Individual notifications appear 
>>> at the top-right of the screen. You can tweak how they appear, or whether 
>>> they appear at all, on an app-by-app basis.
>>> Go to System Preferences > Notifications and select an app from the list at 
>>> the left. Now set up the way that app will notify you at the right. You can 
>>> pick from three Notification styles.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1 Nov. 2016, at 7:29 pm, Marcus F Harris >> > wrote:
>>> 
 Hi,
 I’m still trying to resolve this corruption of (NC) Notification Centre.
 NC operated well with El Capitan but is problematic with Sierra.
 
 I think it is due to interference between Google and Apple mail accounts. 
 I have tried turning them on and off alternately and the freezing of NC 
 arises when email notices present to be either closed or replied to.
 If I try either of those options, nothing happens and the NC freezes for 
 up to 20 seconds. 
 As long as these email notices don’t appear I can switch on NC.
 
 BY THE WAY the email notices that appear are all from my gmail account.
 
 I’m going to turn off gmail completely and access them from the website 
 and see if that makes a difference.
 If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let me know.
 
 
 Cheers
 
 Marcus
 Marcus F Harris
 cryptodo...@me.com 
 Marcus F Harris
 cryptodo...@me.com 
 iMac 27D Late 2009
 OS10.12.1
 3 GHz Intel Duo Core
 8Gb Ram
 
 
 
> On 28 Oct. 2016, at 2:04 pm, Marcus F Harris  > wrote:
> 
> Thanks Peter and Ronni,
> I have an apple Bluetooth mouse only.
> I have two gmail accounts and one iCloud account.
> I will try turning off the gmail accounts and see if that helps.
> Let you know ASAP.
> Cheers
> Marcus 
> 
> Sent from Marcus iPhone 5
> 
>> On 28 Oct. 20

Apple TV wifi connection

[Severin Crisp]

I have used my Apple TV for some years with nary a glitch.  Recently the Apple 
TV,, for no reason regularly, every few days shows disconnection from wifi and 
reconnects happily immediately for several days. The wifi is shut down from 
midnight to 8.30am daily but earlier the connection was retained through this 
routine.   
This may have started since Sierra but I can not be sure
Severin Crisp


 Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
  ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
   mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 






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