I am using an Epson v850 Perfection scanner with my iMac on MacOS 15.7.7. Occasionally the connection fails and does not reconnect after starting and restarting the scanner and scanning utility. All cabling seems to be okay. I try again later or next day and it works fine.

The scanner is about 3M [10'] away so is the distance an issue?

Finally went to the Apple Store and bought my Series 11 watch. Unfortunately my phone is too old for it and I had to buy an iPhone 17 also. I sure hope I can become comfortable with using it. Plan on taking some tutorials also. Took an hour on the phone with ATT to get it paired. Frankly it was an exhausting day. But at least if I fall off the ladder someone will know about it.

Just got a warning from Apple that OS27 and up will no longer support Intel-based apps. I've used Open Office for 15 years, and have several gigs of documents. Can't use Pages to open them - I just tried. I contacted Open Office support, and they've gone radio silent. Am I doomed to Microsoft Office or is there a work around? TIA

I greatly appreciate all these suggestions for other free programs, but they all run on Intel. Apple is updating to Rosetta, and none of these programs are going...

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I recently discovered endnotes in Pages and am getting carried away with them in the document i am working on.

Just discovered something very handy. When i am reviewing a document and i come to an endnote, i double click on the endnote and the document jumps down so i can see the endnote. Saves a ton of scrolling time.
Endnotes BTW put the note at the end of the document.

Pages/Format (toolbar)/Footnotes (Rt. side, top of sidebar)/Type -

Three choices ;

1...

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I have recently encountered a problem where I cant login to building society accounts. Its seems I need the current OS to do this but my Mac is 2017 and wont update.
Is there any solution apart from a new Mac?

My son, bless his heart gave me a Google Gemini for Home speaker for my birthday;



Honestly, I dont know what to do with it. I didn't have the heart to explain (again) my anti Google policy and I did set it up with him. Yes, its AI is better than Siri, yes, you can have a conversation with it and yes, it has fantastic sound quality. I tried pairing it with my iPhone and played a playlist on Spotify, it's far superior to my Sony Bluetooth Tube but it requires AC power so it's...

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Hi there,

I recently switched to a Mac, coming from a Windows background. There are a few things about the Mac OS that are quite annoying wich I'm trying to compensate through tools.
One major downside (for me) I've yet to "fix" is the click behavior of background windows. In Mac OS there is this "feature" that prevents a mouse click from performing an action on a background window and brings it to the front instead. I really would like to disable this behavior and have "click through"...

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My iMac (Tahoe) has been running Office for Mac for a very long time with a valid licence. I only use Word and Excel and the rest is rubbish! It is suddenly now not allowing me to save any files (greyed out). Microsoft say I have to buy an Office product at great expense as they no longer support Office for Mac! If I want to continue using it I have to active the product again. When I click on "Activate" it requests me to "Sign in" to my account. And surprise, surprise, it refuses my...

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Thought I would share something funny/curious regarding forum management.

Member MacInWin (Jake) reported a Spam post today...turns out it was from a Mac-Forums member who joined all the way back in 2012...and after 14 years decided to post some spam. Lol

Hard to say if it was an actual "human" registration from 2012...or a registration via bot.

I'm leaning towards it being a Bot...since who in the world waits 14 years to post spam??

"Let's see (note to self)...put on to-do...

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Hi, I would like to know if I want to download video and audio free online, is the use of homebrew and yt-dlp an appropriate and safe way?

I was expecting an email, and when it didn't appear in my Inbox, I naturally looked in the Junk folder. To my surprise, nothing has been put there for nearly 2 months, and the few messages that are there are really things that I manually put in Trash! What happened to my Junk folder?

I have an external SSD with several partitions, one of which doesn't show in Path Finder's sidebar (though it does in Finder). I've narrowed it down to a permissions problem: in Disk Utility the other partitions show 'Ownership: Disabled', but this partition it says 'Enabled'.

So I tried to change permissions. The other partitions show:
(Me) Read & write
staff Read & write
everyone Read only
but this partition shows:
System Read & write
wheel Read only
everyone Read only
so I...

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Hi all,
I bought a used Macbook Pro 2019 with a "screen issue", and am just trying to determine where the fault lies before doing any work.

Hardware Overview:

• Apple MacBook Pro 2019 A2141, MacOS Sonoma 14.8.3
• i7-9750H 2.6 GHz,
• 32 GB DDR4, 1TB Storage,
• Dual GPU (Intel and AMD)

Here's the synopsis:

• There is a visible erratum on part of the screen, that does not seem to cause issues with usage.
  It however is a nuisance, and does cause some readability issues...

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I understand that there have been many post on web-browsers and search engines and everyone has their own personal favorite. The ChatGPT browser is a game changer! I have been using it for a few weeks now and it's like science fiction come true! You will find yourself in back and forth coversations with it! It has been a truly exciting experience and I recommend it to anyone looking for a new internet experience!

The display on my 2024 M3 MacBook Air is no longer working properly (see attachment). I can still work using an external monitor but the interior display is completely on the fritz.

I want to take the machine into the Apple Store to see what a new video card or screen would cost, but I would want to format the main ssd first because I do online banking on this machine and have other relatively sensitive information and I did not have the drive encrypted. Because the drivers for the...

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I'm thinking about getting some SSDs & setting up a RAID1. A RAID1 with a hot spare would be extra nice to have. It's easy to do with Disk Utility. I have a 2023 mini with a M2 CPU. I'm limited to 2 USB-A & 2 USB-C. Do I need a NAS? I think that I use a Thunderbolt port, correct? I reckon that I need some kind of device to place the SSDs, correct? I've been thinking about getting a USB dock.

What do you suggest?

I updated the OS yesterday to Tahoe 26.5.2.

Today, I noticed that the 1Password app icon in the Dock has been replaced by an opaque "?", and that the app no longer shows in Finder > Application (although the Safari extension app is still there). In Safari, the 1Password extension is still there and still works! Also, everything is fine with 1Password on my iPhone and iPad.

Has anyone had this happen before?

A search suggests to download the app again from 1Password Releases. Does...

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