Tag: macOS

NTFS for Mac – Read Windows Hard Drive in Hibernation Mode

by Greg Johnson, posted in Tech Tips

If you are using an Apple computer and need to read hard drives formatted as NTFS for Windows computers you will want NTFS for Mac by Paragon. While it’s usually possible to read NTFS formatted drives on an Apple Mac computer, it’s not possible to write to such drives.

If you’re using the NTFS for Mac software, you may occasionally plug in an NTFS drive and see a Recovery or System Reserved partition show up on the desktop, but the main Windows OS hard drive will not show up.

This happens when the Windows computer was not shut down properly, but instead turned ‘off’ by going into hibernate mode.

If you go into the NTFS for Mac software you will see the OS drive listed in the left column. When you select the drive, and attempt to manually mount the drive, a message will indicate that the drive can’t be mounted because it was shut down in hibernate mode.

You will need to choose the “Mount in Read-only mode” option and then try mounting again. This will allow you to read the drive.

Siri – Apple macOS User Identification Issues

by Greg Johnson, posted in Tech Tips

If you use Siri on an Apple computer, and share an iCloud account with someone, including contacts, it’s possible that Siri will incorrectly identify who you are based on what is set for “My Card” in contacts.

To clarify, we’re talking about having an additional shared iCloud account in System Preferences > Internet Accounts. Not, System Preferences > iCloud.

So, let’s say you share a list of contacts through iCloud with someone in this way. Even if you subsequently disable the shared contacts, Siri may still remember your name based on that original “My Card” information.

To repair this, make sure the Contacts are activated under Internet Accounts. Then select another contact as “My Card” in the shared Contacts. Test Siri by saying “Hey Siri, What’s my name?” Siri should tell you the name you selected as the My Card contact. Then change the My Card to a contact in your own personal iCloud contacts. This should fix the problem.