Electronics

[Dinaki]

On 1/4/2014 Allegheny said:

Dinaki, I also have a MacBook Pro and have a question regarding the information you listed below. About once a week I go into Privacy and remove website data manually. If I select "Remove all Website Data", will that erase data needed to operate sites I use frequently? I would love to use the remove all. Thanks!

"click Safari (top left), choose Preference, Privacy, then click "Remove All Website Data"

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Yes, all passwords shall also be deleted by removing Website Data

[glb613]

I have a Macbook Pro, iMac and iPad, don't delete my website data on a regular basis and they run as fast as ever. Letting your grandson use your computer is the problem. He's done something to your machine.

If it was a Windows computer, I'd recommend a system restore. I'm not sure if there is the same option with a Mac.

[dooBdoo]

On 1/4/2014 Dinaki said:

On 1/4/2014 Allegheny said:

Dinaki, I also have a MacBook Pro and have a question regarding the information you listed below. About once a week I go into Privacy and remove website data manually. If I select "Remove all Website Data", will that erase data needed to operate sites I use frequently? I would love to use the remove all. Thanks!

"click Safari (top left), choose Preference, Privacy, then click "Remove All Website Data"

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Yes, all passwords shall also be deleted by removing Website Data

Actually, passwords saved in the keychain aren't deleted when using "Remove All Website Data."

I clear mine several times a day (I know, that's a lot, but it's my crazy browser housekeeping quirk) and the passwords are intact (that's not where they're stored).

(edited to add for clarity: You can see the stored passwords if you select Safari’s Preferences—>Passwords or open your Keychain Access.)

[Allegheny]

Thanks everyone! I'm going to give it a try. Some of them just say cookies, cookies, local storage and the ones that I am confused about say cookies, plug ins.

[Lynnj]

The Mac computers have the keychain technology on them to store your passwords. Are you using this? If so, then when you clear your websites and cookies, the passwords have already been saved in keychain, and will then show up the next time you go to the site. Keychain is encrypted technology, I feel safe storing my information within it. When you logon to a website for the first time, a pop up will ask if you want to save the info to keychain. I click yes, and all of my info is saved here on my computer. But, make sure you have that set up with admin passwords and stuff. In the event your computer was stolen, you wouldn't want someone to easily gain access to your keychain information. Please read more online about Mac keychain and securing the info within.

[Allegheny]

On 1/5/2014 Lynnj said: The Mac computers have the keychain technology on them to store your passwords. Are you using this? If so, then when you clear your websites and cookies, the passwords have already been saved in keychain, and will then show up the next time you go to the site. Keychain is encrypted technology, I feel safe storing my information within it. When you logon to a website for the first time, a pop up will ask if you want to save the info to keychain. I click yes, and all of my info is saved here on my computer. But, make sure you have that set up with admin passwords and stuff. In the event your computer was stolen, you wouldn't want someone to easily gain access to your keychain information. Please read more online about Mac keychain and securing the info within.

Thanks Lynnj.

Yes I do use the keychain. I am going to double check to see if I set it up with my administrator passwords.

It is such a pleasure to post and read here, I have learned so much about my Mac. I do have a couple of books and am aware of Mac basics, but sometimes they just don't give the guidelines I am looking for and I get frustrated. When I purchased my MacBook I also purchased the one on one training , but foolishly didn't take the class.

[Lynnj]

On 1/5/2014 Allegheny said:

On 1/5/2014 Lynnj said: The Mac computers have the keychain technology on them to store your passwords. Are you using this? If so, then when you clear your websites and cookies, the passwords have already been saved in keychain, and will then show up the next time you go to the site. Keychain is encrypted technology, I feel safe storing my information within it. When you logon to a website for the first time, a pop up will ask if you want to save the info to keychain. I click yes, and all of my info is saved here on my computer. But, make sure you have that set up with admin passwords and stuff. In the event your computer was stolen, you wouldn't want someone to easily gain access to your keychain information. Please read more online about Mac keychain and securing the info within.

Thanks Lynnj.

Yes I do use the keychain. I am going to double check to see if I set it up with my administrator passwords.

It is such a pleasure to post and read here, I have learned so much about my Mac. I do have a couple of books and am aware of Mac basics, but sometimes they just don't give the guidelines I am looking for and I get frustrated. When I purchased my MacBook I also purchased the one on one training , but foolishly didn't take the class.

You are welcome. If you are using keychain already, I am sure you have it set up correctly. I just switched to Mac from PC last year, and am amazed with myself on how much I have learned. I would have loved the one on one classes, but like you probably wouldn't have used them. My schedule gets crazy at times. I learned with books, reading online, the apple community site on their website, from posters here, and lastly a UK site that dooBdoo posted called screen casts online. It was $70 for the annual membership, and I probably won't renew, but this guy teaches how to use the Mac and applications online. He has hundreds of videos on his site. He also has lesions for iOS devices, hundreds of them. Watching these videos gave the basics I needed, which really helped when reading books and stuff online about macs and iOS. For free, maclife dot com is an online Mac magazine, and they have a lot of how to videos for both Mac and iOS devices. Love the people here that post, and together we will all learn this technology.

[Buck-i-Nana]

I know a lot of Mac users don't feel the need for maintenance programs, but I started having issues with my MacBook Pro slowing down as well. I have a lot of photos and do a lot of photo editing and such on mine.

I tested something called MacKeeper and decided to buy it (not the deluxe version, just the basic). It wasn't expensive and it is also an anti-virus program as well. I run it about once a month and it deletes all the temp files so many programs create. It can also scan for duplicate files ( a big problem when working with photos, at least for me).

[Lynnj]

I will have to look,into that mackeeper, buk-I-nana. Does that come with online backup too? I have an external hard drive, and use time machine to back up to that. But I am starting to think what if something happened to my external hard drive (like crashed)? I wouldn't have a back up. I would like to have two backups, one of the external and maybe another online. Or maybe I will just get another external hard drive, and do two backups on two devices often. Haven't decided what approach to take yet.

[Lynnj]

Hmm, I just found this advice of warning about installing mackeeper on Mac on the apple community site. Might want to take a look at this, and do additional research. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3691