August 17, 2020

Do Attachments Last Forever? — Mac Geek Gab 829

1 hour 30 minutes

What happens to Mail attachments in your archive? Have you ever done a three finger drag? How do you manage your trash can? We mean *really* manage it? All these questions — and a lot more — are answered for you this week as Dave and John pour through the mailbag and help you learn at least five new things. Press play and enjoy listening as your two favorite geeks help make it all happen!Note: Shownotes are in progress…

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 829 for Monday, August 17, 2020

Quick Tips

00:02:19 Dale-QT-Use Notes to Scan Documents

00:05:12 Todd-QT-Duplicate a Safari Tab

00:06:51 Juan-QT-Apple Pay on the Mac Dropdown List

00:08:15 QT-Delete Immediately instead of Emptying ALL Trash

00:10:37 Dmitry-QT-Three Finger Drag

00:13:27 Thomas-QT-827-Control Contrast with Keyboard

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Mail

00:18:56 Andrew-Encrypted/Secure Email with Free 1-Year Cert from Actalis

Using Email Encryption in Apple’s Mail

Set S/MIME as Default with GPGTools Enabled

00:26:05 Dave’s Wonky Network Issues

00:27:18 JP-Do Mail Attachments Last Forever?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203093 – MailDrop

Photos

00:33:28 Mark-Manual Photo Syncing is Duplicating my Pictures

00:40:28 Kent-Photos lost my albums

00:45:46 Brent-How to fix Image Burn-In

Apple: Fixing Image Persistence

Avoiding image persistence (old article)

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Follow-up/Tips

00:55:54 Jon-827-Parallels Tools Runs Hot

00:58:45 Ben-827-Changing the User Account Name

01:00:36 Nick-828-Upgrade to Fastmail

01:05:49 Geeks talkin’ Broadband Upgrades

Lightpath Broadband

01:08:12 Jeff-Relocating Photo Booth photos and videos

Hazel Noodlesoft

Cool Stuff Found

01:11:59 Clive-CSF-Apple Explains Its Wireless Roaming Strategy

01:15:10 Bob-CSF-EarthDesk for Apple TV

01:16:03 Don-CSF-828-Microphone Live app for Broadcasting Sound from iPhone

01:17:23 Peter-CSFs-82x-Lightspeed Tek for Classroom Audio and Golden Chaos for Touchbar

Setapp

BusyCal

01:23:28 DLH-CSF-Seagate 16TB Expansion Desktop contains Enterprise-Grade Exos Drives

01:29:03 MGG 829 Outtro

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