macOS Sierra |OT| What can your Mac do now? Just ask

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Ambitious said:
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Try to restart your modem and router or contact your ISP.

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Am I incorrect in assuming this is one of those "I'll wait for things to fix themselves" dialogs where the No is cancel and the Yes would be to leave it open until you do what it asked you to do, i.e. restart the modem?

Or is the problem that it says "No" in the first place instead of "Cancel"?
 
Anyway, I found my old 4GB RAM from my old 2010 Mac mini and reinstalled it and am setting the machine up to be a server for something to take some load off my iMac. I enabled iCloud Drive Documents and Desktop syncing but it hasn't started syncing at all yet and I don't know why. Everything else iCloud related synced. Notes, Calendar, Photos Library, Safari stuff. But it hasn't even started downloading a single file as if it doesn't know it exists. I don't know why. I tried disabling and reenabling it and nothing. I created a folder to see if it synced but nothing. If I go to iCloud.com the files are all there like they are on all my machines. I don't know why it's delaying here. Maybe it'll kick into gear later, I dunno.

Side note though, stuff it taking forever to install on the HDD. I don't know if it got slower or that's how it was, but installing Sierra took much longer than it calculated with each minute ending up being 3-5 minutes and iTunes has been "installing" an update for 15 minutes now. But oddly enough, launching apps still feels faster than my 2013 iMac HDD. If this machine wasn't on the edge of becoming "vintage" status and losing support from updates I'd look into replacing it with a SSD. Instead I'll probably just put that money into getting someone to upgrade my iMac to a SSD and upgrading to 32GB RAM and not have to bother worrying about the Mac mini anymore.

Edit: It's finally downloading now. It must have been calculating everything. I have like 40GB in my Documents folder. I just wish it had a status icon in the menubar or something in the Finder window. It shows status now, but before it even started it didn't even give me any notice that it was in the process of thinking.
 
How about upgrading the Mac Mini anyway to an SSD? Apart from the cost there is nothing to lose. You don't need to put 1TB in there but you could source a 128GB or 256GB drive fairly cheap.
 
Ninja Dom said:
How about upgrading the Mac Mini anyway to an SSD? Apart from the cost there is nothing to lose. You don't need to put 1TB in there but you could source a 128GB or 256GB drive fairly cheap.
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I'd have to get someone to do it for me because I've watched instructions, and like the iMac, it seems too involved for my taste. Besides it's really old. It's still USB2. I'd rather just max out the iMac and then merge the two servers back together once the iMac can handle everything smoothly again. (Seriously, HDDs are such a bottleneck. I don't know how any computer company can justify using them as boot disks these days at all. Every computer should have at least a small SSD included for booting if not a secondary HDD for storage.

Edit: Anyway, for some reason on my iMac, every time I switch focus from Safari while a video is playing, or a fullscreen space where a video is playing, on YouTube, the video pauses. Even if it's PIP mode it pauses, even though that's the one situation in which having that as a feature would not make sense. I am sure it's a bug. It doesn't do it on my MacBook. And both machines are updated to the same Public Beta version. It's not a setting in Safari that I can find. It's really annoying because my iMac is my main YouTube watching machine.

Oh, and another really strange bug in the current PB. On both my MacBook and iMac, whenever I get a FaceBook notification, I get 64 of them at once. Instead of it saying "So and so commented on your post" it says "You have 64 new notifications" and when I open the Notification Center, sure enough, there's 64 identical notifications in there. WTF? lol
 
The Real Abed said:
I'd have to get someone to do it for me because I've watched instructions, and like the iMac, it seems too involved for my taste. Besides it's really old. It's still USB2. I'd rather just max out the iMac and then merge the two servers back together once the iMac can handle everything smoothly again. (Seriously, HDDs are such a bottleneck. I don't know how any computer company can justify using them as boot disks these days at all. Every computer should have at least a small SSD included for booting if not a secondary HDD for storage.
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Yeah I hear you. It was a daunting task changing the HDD to SSD on my iMac earlier this year.

infiniteloop said:
anyone know of a way to re-index the faces/people in Photos? used to be able to do it in iPhoto.
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I'm disappointed with the faces/people facility in Photos. Years ago I manually named everyone in iPhoto for all the photos I had at the time. I then updated the names as I added more photos over the years. All in iPhoto.

Photos app comes along and I never carried on. But now, iOS 10 seems to do a nice job of auto recognising the faces in your libraries - once they have been transferred from Mac. So I then correctly named all of my faces in iOS on my iPhone hoping that it would transfer over to the Mac (Sierra) with a sync.

Nope, it completely disregarded all of the naming I had done on my iPhone and deleted the names I had done.
 
Not sure if this is the right thread to ask this but can someone please point me in the right direction to fix this VLC issue I am having ..

Every single time I wake my MBP from sleep I get an error message from VLC that says "VLC quit unexpectedly". Every single time.

I tried uninstalling via AppCleaner and re-installing and still the issue is there. Is there something else I can do? It's annoying enough to make me want to use another video player.

Thanks.
 
Drifters said:
Download link?
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This is.. a really strange question to ask. When's the last time an OS or even piece of software needed to be updated by visiting a link and downloading it? I can't even remember. macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, pretty much every modern piece of software for the past decade or more...
 
The Real Abed said:
This is.. a really strange question to ask. When's the last time an OS or even piece of software needed to be updated by visiting a link and downloading it? I can't even remember. macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, pretty much every modern piece of software for the past decade or more...
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I used to download the combo updater. I'm not entirely sure why. At one point I think it was so I could update other computers, but I never really did.

I think it was a good idea in theory to maintain a repository of those updaters, like if you had to restore, and then get back to latest.

That was back in the day when I had data caps, and really low speed broadband.

But even then, I'd just have a bookmark to Apple's downloads page.
 
Anyone else use a bluetooth mouse? Since this last update for some reason it wont find my mouse until I open the bluetooth settings. Very strange and annoying
 
Why is apple sticking with the opaque volume icon? It obscures the most important part of the video whenever I want to change the volume. Now, I just pause a video before I raise or lower the volume out of habit. Who the hell that this was a good idea, and why have they kept it for so long?
 
kame-sennin said:
Why is apple sticking with the opaque volume icon? It obscures the most important part of the video whenever I want to change the volume. Now, I just pause a video before I raise or lower the volume out of habit. Who the hell that this was a good idea, and why have they kept it for so long?
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At this point, I'm used to it.
 
Drifter_InA_Cage said:
Worth the update from El Capitan yet?
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Between Picture in Picture mode (though, it only works on so many players), universal clipboard, the changes to iCloud Drive, tabs in stuff like Pages? I found it worth it.

iMessage changes aren't groundbreaking or anything, Siri I never touch, Apple Pay is fine but I've never used that either. And apparently you can now unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch?

Some annoying stuff currently with Photos, bluetooth is wonky for wireless mice with this last update (so if you have one, maybe wait 'til the next one). I've had some funny issues where even right clicking on an app I want to install, they try to tell me it's damaged, so I had to use a terminal workaround to disable a thing, then enable again afterward. Oh, and Safari still ain't shit, so I've been using the Tech Preview since the betas on my rMBP 13" mid 2014. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's all about what effects you, what increases your own productivity, right. I mean, I'd upgrade anyway. If you choose not to, though, they're still throwing up security updates for El Capitan, p sure, so.
 
I just upgraded from Yosemite. Everything's fine so far, but why is Mission Control so slow? I can't get used to it. Maybe it was like this in El Capitan too, but I skipped that one. In Yosemite it was so snappy.
 
Any good sleeping timer for sierra?
I was using good night timer on el capitan but its not compatible with sierra.
 
Sorry for the double post, but, mail app has been crashing on me as of late. Anyone else experiencing the same? I'm fully updated, feel like this has only started in the past few days, though. Kind of annoying since I've gone back to it as my main client over AirMail/PolyMail etcetc in terms of equivalents.
 
Sch1sm said:
Sorry for the double post, but, mail app has been crashing on me as of late. Anyone else experiencing the same? I'm fully updated, feel like this has only started in the past few days, though. Kind of annoying since I've gone back to it as my main client over AirMail/PolyMail etcetc in terms of equivalents.
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You're not running out of space on the phone?
 
Zeyphersan said:
You're not running out of space on the phone?
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This is actually on my rMBP 13", not my iPhone (plus, I only use the gmail app on that since the native mail app is hot garbage to me on iOS). I've got about 50GB of free space, so it's not an issue of that. It's also not an issue of too many things open, 'cause I restarted the thing and only opened mail up, and it's still giving me this issue. Not sure what's causing it at all.
 
Sch1sm said:
This is actually on my rMBP 13", not my iPhone (plus, I only use the gmail app on that since the native mail app is hot garbage to me on iOS). I've got about 50GB of free space, so it's not an issue of that. It's also not an issue of too many things open, 'cause I restarted the thing and only opened mail up, and it's still giving me this issue. Not sure what's causing it at all.
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Sorry, I'm subbed to all the Apple threads so sometimes I forget where I'm posting
 
Weird. Deleting my mail accounts (outside my default iCloud address) seems to have fixed it. No more crashing. Wonder what was in my other emails that was causing it, 'cause it's a relatively recent deal. If this just starts up again after I add them into Internet Accounts again from sysprefs I'll pretty much have no choice but to go back to some other mail app.
 
My MacBook Pro (retina 2014) with the latest update, has been having an odd behaviour.

Basically even if I’m just light browsing (couple of tabs) it warms up and spins the fans, and eats up the battery like there’s no tomorrow.

Then when it reaches critical battery it chills down at every level. Cools down, fans stop, battery stops dropping and holds for quite a while. Takes longer to go from 5 to 3% than from 20 to 5.

Happened twice in a row, with a restart in-between.

There’s this “recentsd” process I see in activity monitor using a whooping 50+GB of memory (compressed). Possible culprit?
 
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