Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Software : Mac Tips: How to repair the Photos library in Mac OS X Yosemite

Software : Mac Tips: How to repair the Photos library in Mac OS X Yosemite

Mac Tips: How to repair the Photos library in Mac OS X Yosemite

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Mac Tips: How to repair the Photos library in Mac OS X Yosemite

Photos is Apple's photo-management app that recently replaced iPhoto with the release of OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. It certainly gets the job done, but it can still be prone to errors once in a while. If you're experiencing a crashing app at launch, failed imports, or missing thumbnails or photos, then you may want to try repairing your Photos library to recover from these issues.

Before performing a repair, it's best to make a backup of your library via Time Machine or by manually copying it to another location. Once you've done that, follow these steps to recover your Photos library:

1. If opened, close the Photos app.

2. Relaunch the Photos app while holding the Command + Option keys.

3. The "Repair Library" dialog will appear asking if you'd like to repair the library.

4. Select "Repair."

After performing these steps, the Photos window will change to a "Repairing Library" view with a progress bar indicating the current state of repair. Depending on how much content you have in your library, this process can take quite a while as it rebuilds and repairs the library on your Mac.

Repair Photos

This process will only repair the default Photos library on your Mac. If you have multiple libraries, you will need to switch to the one needing repair before performing these steps. To do so, open the Photos app while holding down the Option key and select the desired library.

Google launches free radio service ahead of Apple Music

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Google launches free radio service ahead of Apple Music

Apple has been dealing with some community uproar ahead of its Apple Music launch (thanks, in part, to Taylor Swift), and now it looks like it's facing competition from rival Google's own radio streaming service.

Starting today, users in the US can sign on to a free, ad-supported Google Play Music, with the option, of course, to sign on to its ad-free subscription if so desired. Apple Music will be available from June 30.

Given the hot water Apple landed in with disgruntled artists and indie labels for initially not offering to pay royalties during Music's free, three-month trial period, Google made sure to note its free, ad-supported service would still be "giving artists another way to earn revenue."

What Google music can do

Like Google's subscription radio service, the ad-supported option will let users listen to curated stations, search artists, albums or songs to create stations, as well as store and play up to 50,000 songs from their own collection.

You'll will need the paid subscription if you want to "take your music offline, create your own playlists, and listen to any of the 30 million songs in our library on any device and as much as you'd like."

"You'll also get ad-free, offline and background features for music videos on YouTube," as part of the deal, Google said.

Users can access the service on the web from today, with the app set to turn up on Android and iOS later this week.

Google will also likely roll out the new service to the rest of the world at a later date, though no specifics were given yet.

iOS Tips: How to erase all email on an iPhone or iPad

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iOS Tips: How to erase all email on an iPhone or iPad

Got an Apple, Mac or iOS tech question? We have the answer. This time we have reader question that sounds simple: how do you delete all your emails from a device running iOS 8? It's trickier than you might think, but we'll show you how it's done.

Question

What's the best way for me to permanently remove all the email messages I have on my iPad or iPhone? I'm running iOS 8.

Answer

Erase All Mail

Deleting all of the email from an iOS device is surprisingly tricky, but it can be done. If you have more than one email account on your device, you should start by opening the Mail app, then hitting the Edit button. Scroll down the list that appears; near the bottom you'll find an option called All Trash.

Check this option (see image to the left) so that an All Trash mailbox appears on your main mailbox page.

Next, select All Mailboxes (or, if you have only one mailbox on your device, go to the inbox). Press Edit, then press the circle to the left of one of your emails to check it (see image below).

Now comes the tricky part: press and hold the Move button at the bottom of the screen with one finger, then, with another finger, uncheck the email you previously checked.

Erase All Mail

When you release your finger from the Move button, all of your email should be selected to be moved to a new location. (This could take a while if you have a lot of messages; also, if you're having trouble selecting all your messages at once, try marking them all as read or unread a few times.) Choose to move it all to the Trash.

Go to the All Trash folder that you setup earlier (or your Trash folder if you have only one account). Choose Edit, then Delete All.

Actually deleting all your email could take some time depending on your email setup and the amount of mail you have, so you may want to wait a while before performing any additional tasks in Mail.

Going through these steps should erase all the mail from your inbox, but if you want to clean out other folders as well (such as your sent mail), you'll need to repeat the process.

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