Can anyone please tell me what this is. I have a nasty feeling I may have been scammed

Where does Apple Mail get the passwords that it uses to check for mail? And how can you find out what the passwords are

I have 3 gmail.com accounts (don’t ask) and one verizon.net accounts. If I look in Chrome or at Google I find 3 passwords for one of the gmail.com accounts, none for the other 2 gmail.com accounts and 4 for the Verizon.net account.

I regularly get e mails on 2 of the 3 gmail accounts and the Verizon account

I normally keep the passwords on a spread sheet (I have 184...

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Desktop or laptop - same problem. signal breakup/disconect.. Originally assumed desktop being faulty. So, I started using my laptop to prove the point. No joy! Issue realized on both. Changed provider from Verizon Fios to T-mobile 5G cellular. Used hardwire andWifi on desktop and wifi with Tmobile 5G. No change. Perplexing to say the least! Especially after changing provider. Next move will be to change software, thinking of using Google Meet, What's app or Signal to see if problem...

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Just today I found myself needing to make a voice call to Australia in order to save myself AU$1,500.00. from Indonesia. In the past I have always used used Skype for these occasional necessities but as most people will know MS in their wisdome decided to scrap it back on May 5, 2025. (MS Teams is not a VOIP)

So, suddenly I found that an insurance policy I had thought cancelled was about to charge me for renewal on the 25th of this month and I definitely did not want that. I was unable...

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Just had surgery to remove a cancerous prostate and sitting here (ouch) updating some personal agendas. One is my email service. Lately I have been receiving hundred's of emails arriving in my junk folder. No sooner than I clear it out, within the hour another hundred pop up. Thinking maybe its time to reconsider my email service and upgrade email and/or change my address. Still using an @hotmail.com address that I have had for a very long time. I currently have a microsoft 365 subscription...

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When I clink on a picture in Facebook I am getting these odd renderings. In the top it says shop now? I do not have this issue using brave or Firefox. I have turned on and off ad blockers, iOS is up to date. Any ideas?

Some time ago MacInWin suggested Amphetamine as an app/utility to prevent my system from sleeping which had frequently resulted in the system notification "Your disk (name) was not ejected properly." even though it showed as connected on the Desktop on waking. An AI search states, "The "Disk Not Ejected Properly" message on macOS indicates that an external drive disconnected from the system unexpectedly, often due to sleep settings, hub issues, or connection...

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Opening the file in vi only shows some kind of header data. The actual file contents are somewhere else and possibly uneditable in vi. I need to access the data to edit in vi, use grep or apply other Unix tools.

I accidentally deleted a Calendar and can't figure out how I can retrieve it, if at all. I am on a Macbook Air running 10.9.5 and Calendar 7.0. I have an external disk that runs Time Machine. I tried looking in Time Machine but I don't know where the files are stored there, what they are called, or the steps needed to restore the calendar to may laptop. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

My brother recently got a Macbook Pro and he asked about being able to write to his old external HDD which had most of his data. The drive was formatted in NTFS since he was on Windows. Formatting wasn't an option.
In my search for a solution, I came across a solution that I liked. But it wasn't obvious or apparent and most links showed to use either a 3rd party paid app OR Homebrew; neither of which appealed to me.

So I decided to write an article in my blog explaining the steps to make...

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I'm just curious if any other iMac users, running macOS 15.7.9 Sequoia, are having trouble with a recently released macOS 15.7.9 anmd SuperDuper 4 NOT creating a bootable clone.

Both software updates were recently installed and have been reinstalled, but I cannot get SuperDuper! 4 to create a proper clone.

I switched back to SuperDuper 3, it created a nice new bootable clone just as it always has.

I haven't contacted the developer yet, and I haven't seen much on the web about the new...

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So I have 2 laptops: An Air for work and a Pro for home. I set up I-cloud to maintain the same files on each device. When I enter data, or do an edit on one, it updates instantly on the other. The other day I entered a significant amount of data on one computer. A couple of days later I went in to add more data and everything from the previous entry was gone.
I checked the other computer...gone there too.What happened?
This has been working perfectly for a long time, and now I have no...

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I have a trail camera and it records in .avi, which will not play in iMovies or Quicktime, a quick search of the forum does not come up with anything after 2013. I have downloaded Elmedia Video Player, which works, but was wondering what other forum users use.

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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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 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!

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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