Tuesday

Most of my pre-2000 information so far has come from spec sheets/sales brochures on archive.org (uploaded as PDFs, as well as a handful of documents scraped from Apple.com via the Wayback Machine), but I believe I'm still missing a fair amount.

I'm going to be doing some more research soon to expand this answer further — does anyone have any suggestions for where to find data about bundled and/or preinstalled games on Mac computers, particularly pre-2000? apple.stackexchange.com/a/405406/12285

Been a while since I hung out in here 24/7… How's everyone? :)

Finally got a hat that I can line up with my icon! :D

Nothing quite like the feeling of posting a long, well-researched answer. :) sighs happily

@SB87 Does the same problem happen in a guest user account or in Safe Mode?

This question was just closed as a duplicate, but it really sounds like a different question to me... could someone who voted to close explain? apple.stackexchange.com/questions/261319

@bmike Oh, good idea! But how do I get from that to copying filenames? Would I still need to handle that part manually?

Is this in any way possible?

What I'd like to be able to do is have some program match them up by audio content, and then I want to take the filenames from the MP3s and transfer them to the matched WAVs.

I have a folder with 133 MP3 files, and a folder with 200+ WAV files. All of the recordings in the MP3 folder are represented in the WAV folder, plus some other recordings as well.

I need some advice:

@Edity Basically, your best bet for keeping your iPad virus-free is to keep it up to date. Besides the fact that malware is almost non-existent on iOS, considering how sandboxed everything is, an antivirus app really wouldn't be able to do much — Besides, Apple doesn't allow "antivirus" apps on the App Store anymore.

@Edity Jailbroken?

thanks, bmike :)

Hey mods, this answer from a year ago has gotten 7 upvotes in the last week. It's possible this is just a recent spike from search results or something, but I'm worried they might be from Duet Display puppet accounts.

@knzhou I haven't forgotten about you! School has been busy. Have you found any new information since we spoke?

Yikes! Okay, I'll finish making these test files and upload them when I'm done. We'll talk more tomorrow, presumably :)

I'm going to try an experiment on my end, might take a little while.

sure, might as well

You could; is there something you hope to test by doing that?

Does the delay seem to entirely correlate with length?

Is the one you sent me the shortest that makes Preview hang?

Ah, that would't be sufficient. I was going to propose some editing.

Do you have Adobe Acrobat?

Good point, we should try to test that.

Hm, okay.

Thank you for this interesting problem, by the way, I love troubleshooting haha :)

I assume you're back in your account, in normal mode?

Can you open Activity Monitor and see if any processes have "tex" in their name, or are otherwise TeX-related?

hmm

Oh, okay. That would be surprising if that was the issue then; Sublime packages are pretty sandboxed within Sublime Text.

What is its name?

You mentioned you made some of the PDFs yourself, so you must have a LaTeX editor of some sort?

Okay, progress!

I'll keep brainstorming; let me know if anything changes when you try those.

Keep in mind that for Guest mode you will need to have the file in a location that you can access from another account.

One way is to enable the Guest account in system preferences and log into that. This will negate any of your user settings. Another thing to try is Safe Mode, which doesn't launch any unnecessary processes when you boot/log in. You can enter Safe Mode by rebooting and holding Shift until you see the login screen.

For certain types of thing, yes, but I'm not sure if they would be relevant here. It's absolutely worth a try though:

Do you have any TeX software installed which has plugins that might be affecting Preview?

Still nothing for me, and I'm on exactly the same version as you.

Okay, what happens if you export it from Preview and open the exported PDF?

welcome to Ask Different, by the way :)

Pardon the obvious question, but have you tried rebooting? :) What is the source of these files; did they all come from the same place?

Hm, it's not freezing for me. What version of macOS are you running? What happens when you download a copy of the file you just uploaded and try to open it? Is the file on an internal drive?

Do you have a tool selected? What happens when you have no tool selected and you use the other type of selection (text vs. rectangular)? Can you upload a sample PDF that does this?

You beat me to it!

Is there any active SE site that would be suitable for questions about non-sci-fi/fantasy books?