I've got a few decently-specced Synology servers out there that seem to be constantly running with nearly 100% CPU usage caused by synoelasticd. This task is the main process behind Synology Universal Search. From what I've read, the issues often...
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I have a client with a strange, ongoing issue with their email. Particular emails – in this case invoices I send them from Xero, land in the Inbox and then a few seconds later they disappear and end up in...
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I've seen a couple of Apple Silicon MacBook Pros recently with an incorrect date and time set, even though "Set time and date automatically" is switched on and pointed to a reliable time source, like time.asia.apple.com or time.apple.com. If you...
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As of December 2023, Dropbox have finally updated their app to run natively on Apple Silicon. They say that you're supposed to be updated to it automatically, but I checked my Mac and it was still running the Intel build....
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WireGuard is an excellent, secure and fast VPN with full support for macOS. It is frustrating however that the official macOS app is only made available via the Mac App Store, necessitating an Apple ID to sign in with. Whilst...
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It's frustrating that out of the box WireGuard only allows admin users to open the main WireGuard window. The error you receive says "WireGuard may only be used by users who are a member of the Builtin Administrators group" Fortunately...
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I've had a client creating quite a few forms on Microsoft Forms recently and quite inexplicably two of the forms were locked by Microsoft as being phishing. Generally this should only happen if a form is asking for a password,...
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If you've got a lot of email in Outlook on Windows, you'll sooner or later come across a rather cryptically worded error message that doesn't really clearly say what the problem is. The error message is: The Sent Items folder...
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Synology Drive occasionally gets out of sync when you're making changes at both ends of a synced folder. Fortunately, there's a command you can run, either once-off via ssh, or set as a scheduled task in the Control Panel >...
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This script will count the files in the current directory and all the subdirectories - it's useful for checking if you have sync issues with Dropbox as Dropbox seems to flip out once you have more than around 300k –...
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