00:09:41 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:11:22 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): The next Q&A will be on the 19th. Please send a few details of your questions or shares to SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:17:40 Tom Trottier: RAM check https://www.crucial.com/store/systemscanner 00:17:49 Tom Trottier: for type of RAM 00:18:09 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Double your Android phone’s battery life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL9vhtl3YSs 00:18:15 E O'Driscoll: iPhone to PC? I download the photos from iCloud. 00:18:23 Gail Eagen: I did a presentation on transferring photos from an iphone to a PC a couple of years ago. (Over two weeks) 00:19:54 Daniel Byrne, Ottawa: I use "Send Anywhere" to move files from my iPhone to my computer. Very easy to use. 00:21:37 Tom Trottier: on android, Accubattery 00:22:02 Tom Trottier: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=accubattery&c=apps 00:22:17 Tom Trottier: Does not limit, rather alarms at your set point 00:22:48 Tom Trottier: Document with phone camera or screen shot 00:22:51 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Time for a Linux phone https://postmarketos.org 00:24:16 Lynda Buske: Replying to "I use "Send Anywhere..." Have you done it recently because my friend tried your exact instructions and it didn't work.. Her son said Apple had change the way it works to try to get you to download from a special site (not just icloud) that charged money. Not sure what the final solution was. but perhaps I could find out. 00:24:22 Martin Rice: I copy photos from my iPhone to my PC each month, numbering in the many hundreds after a trip. I simply use a cable (Lightning to USB-C) and copy from the Photos app to the desired folder on my PC. I find it takes four or five minutes to do several hundred. I generally move individual groups of files by type (e.g., JPG, MOV, etc.). It just seems to go smoother that way. 00:24:34 Timothy: Connect the phone to the PC. Allow the phone to be connect to the PC. Go to the file DCIM on the iPhone. Click on it. Now drop it to a drive on the PC. Select copy. and that's it. 00:25:07 Tom Trottier: For photos, you can upload to cloud, icloud or Google photos 00:28:52 Daniel Byrne, Ottawa: Replying to "I use "Send Anywhere..." WOW! That's terrible. I have used 'Send Anywhere' in the last few days. Perhaps it worked because I downloaded the softwhere some months earlier. 00:29:31 Tom Trottier: [\t      　] SPACE ' ' NO—BREAK SPACE ' ' EN quad “ ” EM quad “ ” EM SPACE ' ' thin space " " Ogham space “ ” Ideographic space “　” 00:31:04 Tom Trottier: I just copy from a text file. Hyphens https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Pd 00:32:27 Tom Trottier: Various spaces and hyphens are useful in social media. HTML brushes multiple ordinary spaces together into one space 00:33:37 Tom Trottier: "crushes" 00:35:11 Tom Trottier: Browser addon "language tool" will prompt you to replace hyphens surrounded by spaces by various dashes. Also does spell/grammar check. 00:37:30 Bob Herres: Dashes Made Easier- Thank you Chris! Very good ✅✅ 👍 00:38:32 E O'Driscoll: Ens and Ems - interesting. 00:38:46 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Ens and Ems - intere..." with ❤️ 00:38:50 Tom Trottier: Never leave your hard drive out in the snow. 00:38:55 Steve Parker: what character will give you the last one in sorting? 00:39:06 Harvey Hope: Replying to "Ens and Ems - intere..." Em&Em's are better 00:40:40 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Em&Em's are better" with 👍 00:41:03 Tom Trottier: In Windows, deleted items stay in the Recycle Bin until the bin exceeds its size limit or you manually empty it; there is no fixed time limit. The default size is typically around 5-10% of your drive's capacity, and once full, the oldest items are permanently deleted to make space for new ones 00:41:05 E O'Driscoll: Recycle bin OMG...I just deleted 200 files. 00:43:41 Tom Trottier: To save space, you can also Compress drives. 00:44:11 Sherida Harris: Where do I find my recycle bin 00:45:10 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." In file Explorer, you can type "Recycle" into the "address bar" 00:45:15 Timothy: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." Usally in the upper left corner of your screen. 00:45:55 Tom Trottier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#System_compression 00:47:56 E O'Driscoll: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." My Recycle Bin is an icon on my desktop. I'm sure it is elsewhere too but that's where I look for it. 00:48:25 Tom Trottier: "Del" key moves to recycle bin "shiftDel" deletes forever. Sort of. 00:48:27 Sherida Harris: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." Found it, thank you. 00:48:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Spring-clean drive in the fall https://opcug.ca/Reviews/TreeSizeFree.pdf https://www.jam-software.com/treesize 00:49:07 Sherida Harris: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." If I have saved a download may I safely remove it from my download file 00:49:58 Tom Trottier: In Everything by Voidtools, you can sort all the files in your computer by size so you can consider the biggest first 00:50:06 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." I would say yes - this is the proper thing to do - anything in your downloads folder you want for the future, move it to somewhere else. 00:50:33 Sherida Harris: Replying to "Where do I find my r..." Thank you. 00:51:31 Tom Trottier: Works with folders, too 00:54:15 Tom Trottier: You can also remove Apps in the Settings of Windows 00:58:22 Harvey Hope: Thanks Alan ... a great improvement to Copilot 👍 00:58:48 Steve Parker: I found a character "一" that seems to sort last Anyone have any idea what it is? 01:00:26 Tom Trottier: Replying to "I found a character ..." find on https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Pd 01:00:34 Harvey Hope: Replying to "I found a character ..." The character "一" (pronounced yī in Mandarin) is a Chinese character meaning "one." 01:01:17 E O'Driscoll: What is hibernation? (sleep?) 01:02:42 Steve Parker: no. hibernation save current memory state to hard drive and powers off 01:03:12 Tom Trottier: Usually in Windows, as an administrator, if you try to delete a file or folder owned by someone else, Windows will prompt you to take ownership of the items 01:04:08 Tom Trottier: Also, if you compress a drive, you may have faster access if you have a fast CPU 01:06:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Alan's most used apps - part 2 PDF-XChange Viewer https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor 01:06:57 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: PDFsam Basic https://pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-basic/ 01:07:22 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: TreeSizeFree https://www.jam-software.com/treesize 01:07:38 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: PatchMyPC https://patchmypc.com 01:08:05 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Ashampoo Burning Studio Free https://www.ashampoo.com/en-us/burning-studio-free 01:08:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: 7-Zip https://www.7-zip.org 01:08:58 Tom Trottier: Cab PatchMyPC or other similar utility save the set of applications so you can load them into another computer? 01:09:08 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: GtkHash https://gtkhash.org 01:09:56 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Advanced Renamer https://www.advancedrenamer.com 01:10:36 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Veracrypt https://veracrypt.io/en/Home.html 01:11:17 Tom Trottier: Veracrypt can also hide files without giving a clue to prying eyes 01:11:32 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Double Commander https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io 01:12:22 Tom Trottier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWDXRH1mWHM Hide & Encrypt Your Secret Files With VeraCrypt 01:12:46 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Cab PatchMyPC or oth..." Patch my PC has a setting to export your app list to a file to use on other machines 01:12:50 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Q&A-Index https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/Q&A-Index.pdf 01:14:49 Tom Trottier: @alan Is there some massive index to ALL OPCUG presentations AND newsletter articles? 01:15:39 Gail Eagen: Thank you! 01:15:43 Bob Herres: Wow! Awesome Presentations! Thank you Chris & Alan! 💕💯 01:16:07 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "@alan Is there some ..." You can use the search function on the home page which should find most things through a Google search of our site 01:16:46 E O'Driscoll: Great session tonight. I just sent an email to SuggestionBox about a problem I have deleting a folder. Perhaps for a future Q&A as it is not an urgent issue. 01:17:15 Bob Herres: Home Automation - Sounds interesting! 01:17:29 Line Lessard: Thank you so much! 01:17:45 Deborah: Thank you! 01:17:48 Dave: Thank you, I snuck in here late. Appreciate the discussion