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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Standards Are Great Because There Are So Many of Them – Mac Geek Gab Podcast 691

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Your two geeks are traveling in Las Vegas for CES, but that doesn’t stop them from bringing you their weekly dose of help, tips, and Cool Stuff Found. Listen as John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton help you understand how to manage the /Volumes folder, resolve a Contacts syncing problem, and decipher just how Location Services knows where you are when you have no GPS or Cell radio active. And that’s just the beginning. You’ll have to tune in for more! Press play, download, and enjoy.

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Gab episode 691 for Sunday, January 7th, 2018. reading's fun. readings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek at the show

0:30.0

where you come to Las Vegas and confuse your hosts.

0:35.0

This is, of course, Matt Geekyab,

0:41.0

and the goal here is that we answer your questions, we solve your problems, we share

0:46.9

your tips, we share your cool stuff found so that every single one of us can learn at least five new things each and every time we get together.

0:55.6

And one of the things that I'm learning right here in Las Vegas is how to

0:59.4

podcast from a different setup because here in Las Vegas getting ready for

1:05.0

C. Yes I'm Dave Hamilton. And here also in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1:11.2

John F. Braun sitting right across from me in fact. And just marveling at the

1:16.2

rats nest of wires in front of me here. They well you know we've got to make this

1:21.8

work. It's um yeah so John and I are sitting in in my

1:26.0

hotel room here at the Mirage in Las Vegas where we flew in yesterday for

1:31.7

CES where we're going to be here covering it both for you folks and for our

1:36.8

readers at Mac Observer. Our CES sponsors this year are Elgato, other world computing and smile.

1:46.0

So we really thank those folks for doing what they do to make it possible for us to do what we do, frankly.

1:53.4

Let's dive right in and see if we can get a little more comfortable,

1:56.4

even though we're not in our comfortable setup.

1:58.2

So we're going to go to Daniel, who has a great question.

2:04.0

He says,

2:05.0

I was poking around in disk inventory 10

2:08.0

and I found a hidden folder

2:11.0

at the root of my hard drive called Volumes.

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