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TestDisk is the best free option but requires using the command line. Their website has a lot of good documentation and the result will be as good or better than any spyware solution. DiskDrill is probably the best reasonably priced option for payware. Unfortunately there is a metric crapton of sca...

Upgrading a 2012 MacBook Pro with an SSD can only (at best) allow the 2012 device to startup, open apps and manipulate files at a comparable speed to a 2016 MacBook (or possibly even faster if the 2016 has a traditional platter HD). As soon as you start using the CPU or GPU the 2016 will clearly be ...

Nostalgia for the past is great but don't let it hold you back from present and future technology.

I'm not exactly sure what could be causing this, but have you tried doing this first: http://blog.nasolab.com/?p=62 ?

Can you send a screenshot of what you see in System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement

Have you disabled Spaces as described here: http://blog.nasolab.com/?p=70 ?

Unfortunately there isn't a way to disable the MacBook internal video, but that's a good idea for a future update that I hadn't thought about.

What you are experiencing is most likely a codec issue. ArraySync’s precise frame-accurate synchronization won’t work with a high-compression distribution codec such as H.264. Instead you’ll want to use a production codec, which will result in larger files but much smoother playback and sync. Most p...

One question for you — is your mail configured to use IMAP or POP?

Indeed she/it can: https://www.imore.com/how-manage-variou ... -ipad-siri

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Does this happen at system startup? Or are you saying this custom sound has replaced the Mac's hardware startup chime?

I vaguely recall some system extension that would play a sound as system extensions were loaded.

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Never heard of it. Did some research, seems very obscure and the only references I can find also refer to a compression utility called B6Zip that looks and sounds very sketchy. Sounds like potential malware of some sort if you ask me. I would avoid it if possible. Did you download or receive .b6z fi...

It might have been something that had been deleted sometime between 1998-2002. The Info-Mac Archive available today are basically frozen in time from 2002. There are files that existed previously which were deleted before this time as requested by developers. I apologize it isn't here, but good luck...

sward wrote:Thank you!

You can sync two separate videos from one computer to two projectors?

That's right!

Yes it is!

What you're really describing in the first part is setting a custom icon for the file in question, not necessarily a poster image. When you drag from your browser you're dragging over copied pixels of a photo, which does not have an icon set because it's not a saved file. But when you drag from a fi...

Are you downloading from the iCloud website? If you're using Safari you might want to disable the "Open safe files after downloading" setting (see screenshot). It sounds like this might be what is causing each file to open? Alternatively simply connect your Mac to your iCloud account in System Prefe...

If you have a Time Machine backup they should be accessible. Have you tried following these instructions?

Also see this and this.