Big Mac Attack
Oct. 16th, 2011 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushner. . . . And NOT in a GOOD way.
Have returned home from Cleveland to my laptop, to find that on my laptop I am having sudden ghastly trouble with Apple 3.6 Mail: it seems to have updated itself somehow without warning, and now refuses to *send* anything. As in, the "Send" glyph is dark, and unresponsive, and even the pulldown menu MESSAGE>SEND is greyed out. I'm receiving just fine.
I've also got the mail working fine on my iPhone & iPad - I think it did some kind of stealth upgrade when I started with the new iPad last week, since that's when it started making dear little whooshing noises when it sent mail. But I was having no trouble with it then. I turned it off Friday, and turned it on this afternoon, and the Mail told me there were exciting new things I could do. (I can now think of a few exciting new things I can think of for it to do . . . but never mind.)
I have OSX 10.5.8.
I am not clever at any of this, so unless you know a quick & obvious fix, please don't leave elaborate suggestions here which I won't understand. Instead, please Comment here with a time that I can IM or phone you. Thank you.
BONUS POINTS: So I added some new Apps to the iPad (under my brother Philip's tutelage), and they are all trying automatically to load themselves onto my iPhone without even being asked. I bet there's a button I can push for that (to make it not happen, I mean). Isn't there?
Have returned home from Cleveland to my laptop, to find that on my laptop I am having sudden ghastly trouble with Apple 3.6 Mail: it seems to have updated itself somehow without warning, and now refuses to *send* anything. As in, the "Send" glyph is dark, and unresponsive, and even the pulldown menu MESSAGE>SEND is greyed out. I'm receiving just fine.
I've also got the mail working fine on my iPhone & iPad - I think it did some kind of stealth upgrade when I started with the new iPad last week, since that's when it started making dear little whooshing noises when it sent mail. But I was having no trouble with it then. I turned it off Friday, and turned it on this afternoon, and the Mail told me there were exciting new things I could do. (I can now think of a few exciting new things I can think of for it to do . . . but never mind.)
I have OSX 10.5.8.
I am not clever at any of this, so unless you know a quick & obvious fix, please don't leave elaborate suggestions here which I won't understand. Instead, please Comment here with a time that I can IM or phone you. Thank you.
BONUS POINTS: So I added some new Apps to the iPad (under my brother Philip's tutelage), and they are all trying automatically to load themselves onto my iPhone without even being asked. I bet there's a button I can push for that (to make it not happen, I mean). Isn't there?
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Date: 2011-10-17 12:04 am (UTC)I'll need to be reminded how to iChat, but you're welcome to try. Fastest way to reach me is by emailing me at the edress on my Profile page; I'll check it to see when you might have a moment. It can actually wait a day or so, really, as I'll be in the studio all day & night tomorrow (recording pickups on SWORDSPOINT audiobook) - and I can do mail w/Gmail online, and even with the iPad, so it's not a serious crisis - except in that awful way that knowing a tool you need just Isn't Working and Is Not Reliable.
But you sound like you are Wise in the Ways of Science, so go for it!