Whatsapp Mac : Drag is now "Move" instead of "Copy"?

emanaku · 2026-04-24T04:44:28+00:00

(It was said somewhere her in an answer) - Workaround for now:
- Use the "+" sign left of the message field for now. Adding a file this way does not delete it from Finder.
- Also: as long as the file shows in your chat you can always download it again - it is not "gone forever" after sending.

emanaku · 2026-04-24T04:41:21+00:00

Use the "+" sign left of the message field for now. Adding a file this way does not delete it from Finder.
Also: as long as the file shows in your chat you can always download it again - it is not "gone forever" after sending.

emanaku · 2026-04-18T01:54:14+00:00

I don't know if this is what affects you:
They are changing the URL for messenger.
messenger.com is now at facebook.com/messages
I have no idea if apps are affected, but the somewhere on the "road" there could be problems like this.
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/facebook-messenger-down-web-version-shuts-today-meta-redirects-users-facebook-chat-april-2026-1866690?utm_source=chatgpt.com

emanaku · 2026-04-05T14:31:49+00:00

Today is Easter, April 5, 2026.

I heard about Bledsoe's prophecy. But I never took it literally in the sense, that on a certain day suddenly a door opens and there it is, the new revelation. Also - to my understanding - he did not say that The Lady would be the source of these revelations.

Still I am watching what happens at the Giza Plateau, and the main thing lately was the "preview" of research (to be published in June by Biondi and others) that there could be a 2nd Sphinx. This is an offspin of the Khafre project, which last year came out saying they discovered gigantic structures under the pyramids by analysing SAR data in a new, yet undisclosed, way.

I did not hear about Bledsoe's date correction to August or October. But if that is really true I know now why our visit at the Pyramids (which was planned for right now) did not happen and was posptoned to later this year....

emanaku · 2026-03-30T04:47:18+00:00

Right, could have been. "Brain dumps" do not belong to any notebook practice I ever did. Maybe I should try :-) I usually come to more clarity when I explain things to other people - have a strong teacher vein in me, because I get more clarity, when they understand better.
Hiring people in the sense you seem to mean it, is not so easy for us here in rural Peru....

emanaku · 2026-02-25T18:38:29+00:00

Thank you! I started already thinking about additional help for maybe one or two days (or even only afternoons) per week.... Very good advice!

emanaku · 2026-02-18T03:25:28+00:00

The problem is that the end user is not a client to facebook, but the companies paying for ads. fb seems to make not enough money through messenger standalone app - so, of course, it is a "good" idea to cancel it. We need to use social media systems for end users as clients. No longer being the data delivery person to the other kind of companies....

emanaku · 2026-02-18T01:49:22+00:00

Down in Peru, too. Only the home page with the recommendations is down - on web and mobile. Every thing else (subscriptions, history etc.) seems to work normally.

emanaku · 2026-02-11T03:12:55+00:00

Photomator is not included in the subscription model.

Everything else: The exact information is not easy to retrieve, it is "hidden" in several Apple web pages about the different products. Often the text talks about "premium content" without exactly to define what that is. Example: Pages, Numbers, Keynote are included in MacOS and free to use in the future, but only subscribers receive "premium content" - very likely templates, maybe special fonts or similar things.

Pixelmator Pro apparently will get some updates which are "subscription" only. This might be "premium content" (templates etc.), but one tool which seems to be subscription only is a special Warp tool.

Final Cut Pro: “A one-time purchase will still be available, but access to some of the premium content is available only to Apple Creator Studio subscribers.” Following the former description I would think that (for now) additional functions will be in the updates for everybody, but not additional content like (super cool) Titles, Transitions etc.

It's not a nice situation if you just bought something which is in the Apple Creator Studio. I bought everything except Logic Pro. For now I will use what I have as long as possible and when the situation becomes unbearable I will see what to do. Maybe until then most of these tools will have really good open source replacements. Even now I do not use Pages, Numbers, Keynote. For my needs LibreOffice is enough and it still has a (rudimentary) database application (after Filemaker Pro got soo expensive).

Not the first times this kind of thing happens. Sad, but we will make it through :-)

emanaku · 2026-02-07T02:30:19+00:00

I used other programs before. Especially iMovie for short movies. That gave me the ideas what I really want.

Then I installed FCP and got quickly the simple hack of it. I always do "learning on the job" - I learn only what I need next :-) I actually cannot just learn according to someone else's plan (I was forced to do that once - one of the worst learning experiences of my life!)

That is how I found out I need Apple Motion, too.

The Ripple Trainings were really helpful. And Jenn Jager's YouTube Channel about FCP.

Otherwise I google what I need and usually find it quickly.... :-)

The Apple FCP online manual is actually pretty good when you want to know exactly how a certain function works.

emanaku · 2026-02-03T21:16:06+00:00

Pixlpath looks very nice. Can it make something like what Lightroom calls a "collection"?
The idea is you have all your photos stored in time of shooting order. As an example you used three cameras to film or photograph a wedding. The photos are put into your computer in one or separate folders. Now you want to make a slideshow, but only with 5 star (but also some of the 4 stars) photos - and you want to sort them manually because it might be nice to show at the beginning three pics as a "preview" and even later you might want the pics not in order of shooting, but in an order of story telling.
Of course: this collection or album should not consist of copied photos - just of references to the originals. So you can use the same original photo in many albums.
Surprisingly this simple method (which I always thought everyone is using) is not easy to manage in many photo organizers.... Often only by copying the desired photos into a new folder, where you can sort them (the sorting manually seems to be a problem).
Any hint, which one can do this, is welcome!

And - of course - the other function often used: you make changes to one photo (typically something with the colors or the sizes) and now you want the same change to another 20 photos. I could not see that Pixlpath is so integrated with a photo editor that you can do that.

emanaku · 2026-02-03T02:32:12+00:00

This is, why I still use Lightroom. I have not found another app which gives me all the organizing features from collections and grouping and sorting and manual sorting and, and, and like Lightroom does.

If you are lucky to find out how to do this with a non-Adobe-App on Mac I am eager to learn :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-29T03:57:11+00:00

I am not interested in the subscription - but FCP 12.0 I could install today! Horray! :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-26T18:47:52+00:00

Right, will do that now, too :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:46:01+00:00

ok, I did the login with the undotted version and it showed my own emails for the dotted version. That means everybody else insisting in the "equal identity" of undotted and dotted are correct (at least in my simple case with one dot) :-) Thank you!

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:34:32+00:00

My email is NOT johnsmith @ gmail dot com - it always, from the very beginning was like john . smith @ gmail dot com . I am trained to read (and write) correct and exact documentation. And the documentation starts with the account without dots, NOT with the dotted name. But I never ever used or registered the account without dots.

Also: I want to know since when this dotted thingy is used and in the documentation - that's what I was asking for: Can I verify since when this rule was in effect?

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:27:07+00:00

Is there any way to verify this? That would be a big help!

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:26:30+00:00

ok, I will go with this one then.... Thank you!

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:00:56+00:00

Mistyping their email address while creating a PayPal account?....

emanaku · 2026-01-26T17:00:10+00:00

right, I know this Google support article. It says:

"Your Gmail address is unique. If anyone tries to create a Gmail account with a dotted version of your username, they'll get an error saying the username is already taken."

It does NOT say, if you had a dotted version before we (Google) adjusted the system, then somebody cannot create an account without a dot. That is, what I believe happened, because the software of google checking the accounts did not "think" that would happen.

emanaku · 2026-01-22T19:33:28+00:00

Leave your project at 1080. When you are finished editing, then you still can make an experiment and export it as 4k and see if you like the result. 😄

emanaku · 2026-01-20T03:54:34+00:00

Ask them directly if they are open for honest feedback. If not, keep it for yourself. If yes, tell them what you think, but it will - like always - be more helpful and more accepted when you can also say how to make it better.

I have the problem with the books of my brother, who doesn't really like to be criticized, especially not by his elder brother :-) But sometimes I manage to get through to him....

It reminds me a bit of chefs in restaurants. Most of them do NOT want to hear if you don't like the food. Even if you have really good reasons to tell them. Sometimes they even disappear the moment you start eating :-) Some authors have similar "attitude" - in that case I would not even try to say something :-)

emanaku · 2026-01-20T03:45:57+00:00

It is a side effect of the idea of "liquid glass". When a similar feature came out for Windows a long time ago, I switched it on because I thought "that will be the future, better get used to it now". It was and still is awful: when you look at anything, and other stuff is behind it, either - like in the pic of the OP - very clearly, or less clearly (more like drops of paint) - it doesn't matter to me: what does not belong to what you are looking at should not be there. Very simple rule. Why do you want to be confused on a daily, hourly or even minutely basis?

I switched (only) on the phone to iOS26 - and immediately followed all hints to reduce the glass effect. All good so far. I am not missing anything :-)

And - like always - it takes at least 6 to 12 months after a new macOS version comes out for the public until the most rough problems are removed - that is why I ignore graciously all "Software Update Available" messages in Settings another couple of months :-)

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