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    Article Your Printer Runs Out of Ink and Suddenly You Can't Even Use it To Scan Images?

    If it's of any use to someone, I was that soldier too! I was buying on average two printers a year, just to avoid ink costs. I realised what a disgrace these manufacturers were, thrashing the environment, and our finances. Even buying printers, you're constantly aware of how much you're...
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    Question Crucial External SSD stopped showing up!

    Brilliant, thank you so much! I'll weave this in with "essential work" and get it done and report back. Maybe there's an end to this afterall! Thank you so much Jim
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    Question Crucial External SSD stopped showing up!

    I see both points! Why would an OS change cause something like this. However, having used Apple since 2015, nothing would surprise me! I'm old enough to remember Windows 1.0! I had my complaints with Windows, but if you were willing to research and learn, you could do most anything! With Apple...
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    Question Crucial External SSD stopped showing up!

    Unfortunately no! When I upgraded from imac to the mini, I used the Apple Support advice which was basically an idiot proof "Just agree and obey, everytime we tell to to press a key!" I did so, and for reason I don't understand, it upgraded the Mojave OS to Monterey and only then started to...
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    Question Crucial External SSD stopped showing up!

    Hi everyone, I've just moved over from a Late 2015 iMac running Mojave to a new Mac Mini M1 Monterey. My grief is as follows: On the old system I was running a: Crucial MX200 2.5 SSD 1000GB 6Gb/s mounted in a: Inateck FE2007 USB 3.0 TO SATA6G Enclosure Until the day of transfer it was...