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If you're feeling nostalgic for the 90s a developer turned a MacOS 8.1 system into an app that can be installed on Windows, Mac or Linux and includes playable versions of some 90s era games.
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Hail to the king, baby.brian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:50 pm If you're feeling nostalgic for the 90s a developer turned a MacOS 8.1 system into an app that can be installed on Windows, Mac or Linux and includes playable versions of some 90s era games.
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Any C# people here? (I think Shirley does C#, but don't remember)
Anyways, here's my issue: Our instruments allow for doing remote archiving, using SSH. But sometimes our users set up the remote disc with a password that has a non-standard character in it (something like a '$' or '!' seems to trigger it). So I need to make to make it so that we 'escape' those wonky characters.
I initially put a regexp bit in the javascript code, but then was told 'No...we want to do that as close to the ssh call in the server side as possible'. So then I started to hunt around for how to do it in C#, but of course there's not a similar function (at least that I can find).
In scanning StackOverflow, I found this:
But I'm not sure if that's really the best way to handle it. I do know, from reading the defect ticket, that the work-around is putting the password, when entered on the instrument, in single quotes.
Any help would be appreciated!
Anyways, here's my issue: Our instruments allow for doing remote archiving, using SSH. But sometimes our users set up the remote disc with a password that has a non-standard character in it (something like a '$' or '!' seems to trigger it). So I need to make to make it so that we 'escape' those wonky characters.
I initially put a regexp bit in the javascript code, but then was told 'No...we want to do that as close to the ssh call in the server side as possible'. So then I started to hunt around for how to do it in C#, but of course there's not a similar function (at least that I can find).
In scanning StackOverflow, I found this:
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// Used to escape any non-standard characters that might be found in the remote archive password
private static string ToLiteral(string input)
{
using (var writer = new StringWriter())
{
using (var provider = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("CSharp"))
{
provider.GenerateCodeFromExpression(new CodePrimitiveExpression(input), writer, null);
return writer.ToString();
}
}
}
Any help would be appreciated!
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1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Totally Kafkaesque
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1. Yeah, but for some reason the ! and @ breaks things. Why? Who knows...Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
2. The users set up a shared disk on a remote computer with a password. The issue is when they try to enter that password on our Instrument.
3. I ran it past our C# guru, and he thought it looked ok as well. I'm still a C# neophyte, so when things start calling all kinds of strange libs I get nervous.
4. Yeah, that was my problem, at first. I wanted to escape the characters on the Client side (when the user enters the password) which would have meant the 'escaped' password would have been encrpyted and saved in the system. I was told that was frowned upon.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Okay ... so what is the easiest way to post a photograph from my iPhone onto the Swamp?
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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See the Attachments tab/button down there when posting?
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WHO THE HELL KNEW?!?!?
Hold on, I'm trying to see if Jack London ever gets this fire built or not.
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Hm. I do see that button. (How long has that been there?)
But when I try it, I get a "file too large" error message.
(Even when I'm doing it with a screen cap that's 271 KB.)
But when I try it, I get a "file too large" error message.
(Even when I'm doing it with a screen cap that's 271 KB.)
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Well...that didn't work. The $ character, in the middle of a password, didn't work.Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Grrr...
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Since I posted the original question, here's what the answer was:DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:47 pmWell...that didn't work. The $ character, in the middle of a password, didn't work.Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Grrr...
So the issue wasn't with how c# escapes characters, it was how SSH handles the special characters. Gah...3.1.2.2 Single Quotes
Enclosing characters in single quotes (') preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes. A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash.
3.1.2.3 Double Quotes
Enclosing characters in double quotes (") preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of $, `, \, and, when history expansion is enabled, !. The characters $ and ` retain their special meaning within double quotes (see Shell Expansions). The backslash retains its special meaning only when followed by one of the following characters: $, `, ", \, or newline. Within double quotes, backslashes that are followed by one of these characters are removed. Backslashes preceding characters without a special meaning are left unmodified. A double quote may be quoted within double quotes by preceding it with a backslash. If enabled, history expansion will be performed unless an ! appearing in double quotes is escaped using a backslash. The backslash preceding the ! is not removed.
The special parameters * and @ have special meaning when in double quotes (see Shell Parameter Expansion).
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I think I have had to resize photos when posting from my phone...Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:55 pm Hm. I do see that button. (How long has that been there?)
But when I try it, I get a "file too large" error message.
(Even when I'm doing it with a screen cap that's 271 KB.)
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And now I've got it to working with all of the special characters...with the exception of a double quote...or a comma. Even when escaping those, the password field in the SSH command breaks.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:47 pmWell...that didn't work. The $ character, in the middle of a password, didn't work.Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Grrr...
If we weren't in the middle of a global pandemic..and an economic meltdown...and with a kid in private school...i would just fucking quit. That frustrated.
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A common handling of a double quote within a double-quoted string is to use two consecutive double quotes, a quadruple quote, if you will. Not sure about the comma. Another common way to protect characters like that is to just put a slash, \, in front of them.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:51 pmAnd now I've got it to working with all of the special characters...with the exception of a double quote...or a comma. Even when escaping those, the password field in the SSH command breaks.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:47 pmWell...that didn't work. The $ character, in the middle of a password, didn't work.Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Grrr...
If we weren't in the middle of a global pandemic..and an economic meltdown...and with a kid in private school...i would just fucking quit. That frustrated.
So if your password is Hey"do,od
You'd turn it into this - "Hey""do\,od"
Or maybe - "Hey\"do\,od"
Try those
Totally Kafkaesque
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Its not the password per se that the issue...its putting the password (with the escape characters included) in the string that makes up the SSH command that gets sent out, where it breaks.Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:54 amA common handling of a double quote within a double-quoted string is to use two consecutive double quotes, a quadruple quote, if you will. Not sure about the comma. Another common way to protect characters like that is to just put a slash, \, in front of them.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:51 pmAnd now I've got it to working with all of the special characters...with the exception of a double quote...or a comma. Even when escaping those, the password field in the SSH command breaks.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:47 pmWell...that didn't work. The $ character, in the middle of a password, didn't work.Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Grrr...
If we weren't in the middle of a global pandemic..and an economic meltdown...and with a kid in private school...i would just fucking quit. That frustrated.
So if your password is Hey"do,od
You'd turn it into this - "Hey""do\,od"
Or maybe - "Hey\"do\,od"
Try those
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And, just like that....I think your post sparked a brainstorm. I think that you have to escape the backslash as well...so if the password is Hey"do,od its needs to be Hey\\\"do\\\,odShirley wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:54 amA common handling of a double quote within a double-quoted string is to use two consecutive double quotes, a quadruple quote, if you will. Not sure about the comma. Another common way to protect characters like that is to just put a slash, \, in front of them.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:51 pmAnd now I've got it to working with all of the special characters...with the exception of a double quote...or a comma. Even when escaping those, the password field in the SSH command breaks.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:47 pmWell...that didn't work. The $ character, in the middle of a password, didn't work.Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:54 am 1. Every password should include some punctuation characters, so that should be expected.
2. I'm not really clear on what your problem is. Where are these characters causing you problems?
3. Escaping off the characters is a pretty standard technique to protect "special" characters in strings. I don't know those C# libraries being used, but it generally looks correct. If it got good reviews in Stack Overflow, it's probably a safe bet.
4. Make sure you aren't storing these passwords in any sort of plaintext file, even if you escaped them first.
Grrr...
If we weren't in the middle of a global pandemic..and an economic meltdown...and with a kid in private school...i would just fucking quit. That frustrated.
So if your password is Hey"do,od
You'd turn it into this - "Hey""do\,od"
Or maybe - "Hey\"do\,od"
Try those
Gonna go try it in a few minutes....but I really think that might be it.
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Yeah, I was going to suggest something like that. Often, in these cases, your string is actually getting interpreted twice - once by C# and again by SSH. So, you do need to double slash things to make them work.
Totally Kafkaesque
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Didn't work...I'm definitely falling back to the 'Tell the Users don't be a dumb ass by putting a double quote or a comma in their password". Well...and putting a question up on StackOverflow.
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Is there a way to turn off auto-capitalizing the next word you type after pasting something in Outlook?
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I think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
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And Al Gore created the internet. Congrats.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
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This worked, but it's stupid i have to because it's very rare that I paste something into a sentence that ends up being the last word of a sentence. There's not even a period when this happens.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
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Yeah, this actually makes way more sense when you understand how Word stores formatting at the letter, sentence, and paragraph levels. If you are old Word Perfect person you think, oh it is like Reveal codes (dating myself) or HTML with a block around it. However word does not store formatting that way. Once you understand that formatting is often on the paragraph mark it makes dealing with bullets and tables way more understandable.Giff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:39 pmThis worked, but it's stupid i have to because it's very rare that I paste something into a sentence that ends up being the last word of a sentence. There's not even a period when this happens.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
You know another option maybe to use the paste special as text. This way you don't bring the formatting over. You can also access the ghost button after pasting (that was the actual genesis of the feature) to bring up paste special.
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May not have gotten credit for that one...but did on this one....duff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:57 pmAnd Al Gore created the internet. Congrats.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US742 ... &oq=egorin
which was subsequently removed from the product several versions later because nobody used it
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1. That’s pretty awesome.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:08 pmMay not have gotten credit for that one...but did on this one....duff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:57 pmAnd Al Gore created the internet. Congrats.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US742 ... &oq=egorin
which was subsequently removed from the product several versions later because nobody used it
2. Just seeing the phrase “Reveal Codes” makes me bitter all over again that Word beat out WordPerfect. After twenty-plus years of using Word I still have no idea how to control the formatting. I’ll cut and paste something in Times New Roman, plug it into a different paragraph in Times New Roman, and it’ll change itself to Calibri.
3. What’s a “ghost button”?
2. What’s the Ghost Button?
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Go to Word...type in something that autocorrect or paste something into word. Take you mouse and move it over the light gray bar that shows where the auto correct triggered or at the end of what you pasted. When you mouse over a button shows up right there. That is the ghost button. It is a context sensitive control that brings options forward (example: paste special when you paste or stop auto correcting).Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:56 pm1. That’s pretty awesome.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:08 pmMay not have gotten credit for that one...but did on this one....duff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:57 pmAnd Al Gore created the internet. Congrats.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US742 ... &oq=egorin
which was subsequently removed from the product several versions later because nobody used it
2. Just seeing the phrase “Reveal Codes” makes me bitter all over again that Word beat out WordPerfect. After twenty-plus years of using Word I still have no idea how to control the formatting. I’ll cut and paste something in Times New Roman, plug it into a different paragraph in Times New Roman, and it’ll change itself to Calibri.
3. What’s a “ghost button”?
2. What’s the Ghost Button?
Called the Ghost button because it is slightly transparent until you put your mouse on it. I have memories of very fun comments from watching users who never knew that existed usability test that.
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Steve--here is the Word trick. Normally formatting is applied to the Paragraph mark. So when you copy something, if you select the paragraph mark (which you can see if you hit that button that makes paragraph marks show up) or past over it you get certain behaviors like you describe. I have found that it is best to paste special as text (or use the ghost button). But even better than that, just don't fight it and use the the format painter to fix the craziness. Format painter is the brush with the copy/paste options. You select the format you like, hit the format painter, and then select what you want to match the format you just grabbed. Pro tip. If you double clip the format painter you can paint multiple things (i.e. select, double click format painter, select, select, select, and hit esc when you are doing format painting.)Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:56 pm1. That’s pretty awesome.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:08 pmMay not have gotten credit for that one...but did on this one....duff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:57 pmAnd Al Gore created the internet. Congrats.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:27 pmI think you are hitting autocorrect to start a sentence. You can turn this off. Best way to do so is hit the ghost button (start a new email and type "the" -leave the quotes out). Take your mouse and go back over the capitalized item. A button shows up right below the thing that corrected. Click on that. You will see a stop auto correcting for this scenario option.
Best use of the ghost button is quick fixes for paste (i.e. you paste and you want it to be a paste plain text or other paste special behavior).
Fun side note...I am the inventor of that ghost button feature.....Did not get credit for it as it was not my area but I basically gave that idea to the person who did all the hard work making it happen.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US742 ... &oq=egorin
which was subsequently removed from the product several versions later because nobody used it
2. Just seeing the phrase “Reveal Codes” makes me bitter all over again that Word beat out WordPerfect. After twenty-plus years of using Word I still have no idea how to control the formatting. I’ll cut and paste something in Times New Roman, plug it into a different paragraph in Times New Roman, and it’ll change itself to Calibri.
3. What’s a “ghost button”?
2. What’s the Ghost Button?
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Does anyone have any experience with using Amazon as a cloud photo backup?
LA is having an issue with it. She was in her college roommate's wedding last fall and they shared the wedding album with her via an iPhone/iCloud share. She only downloaded the pics from the album that she wanted.
Anyway, all of the pics from that album keep syncing to her Amazon account somehow and we can't figure out why. There's nothing in the photo sync settings that I can find that would have the link to the photo album and they always appear after she goes through and manually deletes them (it's over 1,000 pics). This has happened at least four times and we get more and more perplexed each time.
Any idea what we need to do? She even recently got a new iPhone and it's still happening. There's some sort of cloud linkage going on here but I have absolutely no idea where to go to break this chain.
LA is having an issue with it. She was in her college roommate's wedding last fall and they shared the wedding album with her via an iPhone/iCloud share. She only downloaded the pics from the album that she wanted.
Anyway, all of the pics from that album keep syncing to her Amazon account somehow and we can't figure out why. There's nothing in the photo sync settings that I can find that would have the link to the photo album and they always appear after she goes through and manually deletes them (it's over 1,000 pics). This has happened at least four times and we get more and more perplexed each time.
Any idea what we need to do? She even recently got a new iPhone and it's still happening. There's some sort of cloud linkage going on here but I have absolutely no idea where to go to break this chain.
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Does she have the Amazon Photos app on her phone? If you have Prime, they do give you a lot of free storage that you can use as a backup.
Totally Kafkaesque
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I'll check on the photos app and yes, she has Prime so she's using their storage as her photo backup and that's how the random album keeps popping over there. Wonder if it's something in the app permissions if she has it. I'll find out.
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she had deleted the amazon photos app from her phone -- hasn't even been on her new phone. so I'm even more perplexed.
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Did she def share the album via Apple/iCloud and not Amazon photos? If it was the latter, maybe it's some action by someone else with access to the album causing this?
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My phone (OnePlus 6) likes to suddenly not send push notifications for random periods of time throughout the day then BAM I get everything at once and most of it is hours old. Texts, email notifications, sports scores, you name it. But what's odd is that I'll still get the periodic push note here or there so it seems like nothing's wrong.
I've reset my phone, finagled with apps individually, messed with "power save" settings, and nearly anything else short of hard factory resetting.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. Hopefully the new OnePlus 8T that comes out in 2 weeks is decent enough AND works in both Korea and America so I just use that here soon.
Otherwise, this shit is fucking frustrating.
I've reset my phone, finagled with apps individually, messed with "power save" settings, and nearly anything else short of hard factory resetting.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. Hopefully the new OnePlus 8T that comes out in 2 weeks is decent enough AND works in both Korea and America so I just use that here soon.
Otherwise, this shit is fucking frustrating.
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EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
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Do not disturb setting off by accident?
Hold on, I'm trying to see if Jack London ever gets this fire built or not.
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Nope. Option is not enabled at all so I get all notifications.
I feel like there was something in the latest update a little while back that triggered a "battery save" mode of some sort, but when I go through the settings it's fine.
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EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
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My pixel was not getting any coverage yesterday. I removed and reset my SIM and perfect. So maybe give that a try?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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My oldest's laptop keeps losing camera and mic access. Windows 10 on whatever those Samsung touchscreen laptops are. Both are being allowed under the privacy settings and app access settings, but neither are recognized by Zoom or Discord or testing them in the settings, etc...
It happened last week and I ended up just wiping it and starting over and it worked. We just got it last month so other than re-installing a few things, it wasn't a big deal. But now they just disappeared again.
ETA: I forgot to actually ask if anyone had any ideas. This is a cry for help post.
It happened last week and I ended up just wiping it and starting over and it worked. We just got it last month so other than re-installing a few things, it wasn't a big deal. But now they just disappeared again.
ETA: I forgot to actually ask if anyone had any ideas. This is a cry for help post.
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I had a similar problem with my work laptop. The first time we did a family Zoom meeting, Zoom couldn't find the camera.Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:10 pm My oldest's laptop keeps losing camera and mic access. Windows 10 on whatever those Samsung touchscreen laptops are. Both are being allowed under the privacy settings and app access settings, but neither are recognized by Zoom or Discord or testing them in the settings, etc...
It happened last week and I ended up just wiping it and starting over and it worked. We just got it last month so other than re-installing a few things, it wasn't a big deal. But now they just disappeared again.
ETA: I forgot to actually ask if anyone had any ideas. This is a cry for help post.
Turned out the problem was that my laptop is so old that it doesn't even have a camera.
(So, sorry, no help.)
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.