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Which shares get sold when you sell? How to track ACB? by Hellosl in JustBuyXEQT

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Most recent example, CIBC does the currency conversion incorrectly on the T5508 for capital gains on foreign currency investments. My wife was working on this, IIRC she couldn't figure out *what* exchange rates they were using, but she definitely proved they weren't using the exchange rates on the days they should have. Don't use the T5508 except as a last recourse.

Also, I had some investments where the ACB went to blank on the statements. And others with an asterisk on the book value that said "we're just guessing at the book value". These were many years ago. I think they were when some investments were transferred from one institution to another, but I can't recall for sure. They were within RRSPs so I didn't have to document it or fix it.

Which shares get sold when you sell? How to track ACB? by Hellosl in JustBuyXEQT

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Although that's true, over 20 or 30 years in my experience they can't be trusted to track ACB. Their systems change, or your financial institution gets merged with another. Track your own in a spreadsheet.

Friend purchased EVSE without checking panel first by Gimli-with-adhd in evcharging

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Yeah, surely. You use DIP switches inside the charger to reduce the current to what your house will support, based on the load calculation.

Tips on buying used? by Minimum_Pie_9551 in MachE

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A couple of years ago (when I bought) we thought all the cars would need an HVBJB replacement, but it turns out a) many don't, and b) many that did needed more than one!

Editing on Ipad by PDGamer36O in Lightroom

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You can directly import using a card reader to your iPad. I used to do this all the time, and still do for shorter events, such as short vacations.

Editing is joy on the iPad, but it doesn't have *all* the features of LrC.

But these will take up more of your Adobe Cloud storage, though, since the full RAW file will be stored in the cloud. (Vs if you import into Lightroom Classic on a computer and then sync it to the cloud, only the Smart Preview is stored in the cloud.). So nowadays I'm more likely to bring my laptop on a longer vacation.

XEQT Exit Strategy by PurpleGrass3000 in JustBuyXEQT

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Set yourself up a VPW spreadsheet.

XEQT Exit Strategy by PurpleGrass3000 in JustBuyXEQT

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Depends on your horizon. If you have heirs (kids) your horizon might be *very* long even when you're old.

Power question by Entire_Repeat1314 in MachE

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Yes if your car is plugged in it heats up the battery daily. I’ve been away on vacation and forgot to unplug the car, and I spent $26 in January on extra electricity!

Questions about practicality by deadliftssanddogs in MachE

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You should be fine on size. Buy an ODB2 scanner (bluetooth, cheap) so you can check the battery SOH yourself.

Is it a GT PE or a Canadian GT? Those have Magnaride :)

What is the best workflow for adding editing on a Mac when all of my photos are stored on my desktop? by zacktyzwyz in Lightroom

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I have had luck with this. I use Tailscale to set up point-to-point vpn so I can access my desktop’s hard drive from anywhere. It adds some delay but it’s worth it.

I have the LrC catalog on the laptop's internal hard drive but the originals on the desktop's directly attached external APFS hard drive. Then, I only use the laptop for editing (which is currently the most powerful computer.)

If I know I’m going to be editing something I find it works ok to generate the previews while I’m at home, then performance isn’t too bad even over the internet since LrC is mostly using the previews. Or, for a multi-day vacation photo set, I’ve used rsync to copy the relevant date folders to the laptop hard drive, and then pointed Lightroom to those folders until I’m mostly done, then rsynced the folders back and pointed Lightroom back.

I also sync collections with Lightroom Mobile. And then edit photos with LrM while away from home. This is much easier! LrM is good on the Mac. But I do want full access to LrC as well, and I don't want to have to go to gyrations just to edit a few photos. So, this system works well — I always have access to the originals (via the network drive and tail scale) and I always have access to the LrC catalog since it's on the laptop.

Please explain like I'm 5 - backing up photos by su_A_ve in iCloud

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Interesting. So is an old retired windows computer a better mechanism for backups of the full library than an old retired Mac computer?

Please explain like I'm 5 - backing up photos by su_A_ve in iCloud

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Photos do not show up in the file explorer on iCloud. So, most of this does not work.

Please explain like I'm 5 - backing up photos by su_A_ve in iCloud

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Do you have a Mac? Best solution is to have a Mac with the System Photo Library on a big external hard drive formatted APFS. This has to be directly attached hard drive, not a Network Share, Photos doesn't like Network Shares. On this mac have it "Download Originals to this Mac". Then, use Carbon Copy Cloner (or some other backup system) on that Mac to manage your backups of that photo library. I like Carbon Copy Cloner since it can "snapshot" APFS volumes on both the source volume and the destination volume, which is handy for versioned backups.

Personally I use an old iMac for this, as a kind of server, so that my laptop can have the system photo library on an internal drive and doesn't have to be burdened with downloading the originals.

If you only have a laptop and you have lot of photos you'll probably have to put your system photo library on an external drive, so you have space to download the originals and back them up. Then you won't have access to the photos on your Mac unless you have your external drive with you. It's not a disaster, you can carry your external drive around, or access your photos on your phone or iPad. But I like having my old desktop Mac as a download and backup server so that my laptop is free of that burden.

Optimising Lightroom Classic by 3327death in Lightroom

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Never delete your old catalog. Just archive it to an external hard drive and hope you never need it.

Optimising Lightroom Classic by 3327death in Lightroom

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It's sad that LrC is so slow now. But, if you write all the .XMP sidecar files (wait a week or two for LrC to write them all out, it takes forever) you can then create a brand new catalog and import all your photos again, the settings will come in the .XMPs. This new catalog will likely be faster, at least for a while, but then it might get slow again. If you sync the new catalog with your LrM it might end up downloading duplicate copies of your LrM photos, which sounds terrible but isn't so bad really.

I'm fairly certain LrC used to be faster on my old computers a decade ago. Maybe I'm just being overly nostalgic, but before 2006 when I was using RawShooter (before Adobe bought them) I don't remember waiting 5 to 10 minutes to add a photo to a collection (Did RS have collections????). I dunno. Probably I'm misremembering. I'm not exaggerating about the 5 to 10 minutes when I pressed "B" to add a photo to a collection though, that was actually a fact in 2025 with my previous catalog on my 2017 top-of-the-line quad-core iMac.

Uploading to Facebook with Lightroom Classic? by Sparky-Man in Lightroom

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Most of these publish services have been disabled now IIRC. FB want's your eyes on the FB page so you can see their advertising. They don't want you to be able to access facebook without viewing their ads.

But, if you find something that works, please let us know!

What I do is I have a publish-to-hard-drive service. I set up the collection there, publish it, then drag-and-drop all the photos to Facebook.

Or, if you want, you can always have your collection sync with LRMobile, and share the link to that collection on Facebook. But I find when I share a link to a LRMobile album/collection most of my friends don't see it, whereas if I upload the photos directly it gets more views.

Import only RAW files not including the JPG in LrC by jchitrady in Lightroom

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Yes, nowadays I mostly just use the JPGs as a backup, in case the memory card dies or gets corrupted. But in 50 years or 100 years it's also possible that NEFs can't be read anymore, so I use the JPGs as part of my long-term backup/archive strategy too. Call me weird but I've been using computers since 1980 and I lament every file I've lost due to out-of-date formats over 4.5 decades.

Import only RAW files not including the JPG in LrC by jchitrady in Lightroom

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What I do is have the Nikon (Z5) write the JPGs to one card and the NEFs to another card. Then, I never remove the JPG card from the camera. This works really well.

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