Moving tabs between windows, in macOS Safari

Great feature; drag a tab from one window to another - works like a charm!

(No tabs showing, to drag? Create a new tab - at which point, you'll see a tab, for your original, to drag.)

Drag not working? You always end up with a separate window? Likely because (interestingly): It's disallowed to drag tags between a "private" window, and a normal window - looks like the private-ness is per-window.

Recover lost Safari windows

You know how macOS Safari has that great feature (I believe credit goes to other browsers, for getting it earlier), where when you quit the app (or restart or it crashes), and when you start it up again, all your windows are right back where they were? And what a huge weight off your mind that is?

My Mac just had a Kernel Panic, and when I restarted, all the windows were gone - what a feeling of letdown and loss.

Luckily, I remembered another feature - which is apparently built on the same saved data:

History -> Reopen Last Closed Window

(If you like command-key shortcuts: shift - command - T)

And - faith restored: It saves a _bunch_ of them; just keep hitting it, to open the N last closed windows.

I don't know what the max of N is, but I did about 30, no sweat.

Phew!

more about delight in the Apple Human Interface

Cool; I just used the "Back" function in Apple's Safari web browser - and happened to be paying attention enough, to see that what it actually did, was what I _wanted_, rather than what I asked for:

I happened to be in a tab created by a command-click of a URL in the previous tab; there was no "back" in this case - so it did _exactly_ the right thing - it closed the tab and returned me to the previous tab.

This is precisely the thoughtful design that Apple is known for:

• Some of us (developers) know it directly, and know how much work it takes.
• And the rest of us who use a Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc., know it simply because, when the interface surprises us, it's usually a pleasant surprise.

A delight if you will - which is actually an explicit part of the official Apple Human Interface Guidelines.

That's a lot of hard work, which is usually (by design!) unnoticed - the point is not the device, but what _you_ want to do with it.

Although, every once in awhile, it's nice to appreciate - thanks, folks!

Delving Into Outlook / Exchange Server-Side Rules

Got a lot of rules?

Tired of paging through the GUI, trying to find just which rule is (mis)handling those emails?

Here's how to get the "code" for the rules, as text:

Use OWA - something like this, modified for your realm:

https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=YOUR-REALM-HERE&path=/options/inboxrules

Manual navigation (if the above URL doesn't work):

• InBox Rules (under Options > Mail > Automatic Processing - or use Help)
• At page bottom: "click here to generate a diagnostic report"

The resulting email contain your rules - now you can at least grep / search through them!

The file most people will be interested in, is "InBoxRules.txt"; here are some highlights from one:

• Name="the name you gave your rule"
• ExecutionSequence="101" <-- important; rules are executed in order
• StateFlags="Enabled, ExitAfterExecution" <-- no further rules will be used
• <Restriction
• SubType="RecipientRestriction" <-- this rule is based on recipient
• <Action…
• Type="OP_MOVE"
• FolderName="Deleted Items" <-- and the action is to delete the msg

Notes:

• An XML browser helps a lot; I use BBEdit.
• Yes; this is read-only - you do have to go back to the GUI to make any changes.
• Since this web UI shows the contents of rules as text, it may be enough to use it directly (ex: using the browser's "Find" function) - with the added benefit of being able to make any desired changes directly. It is however, necessary to click through each rule, to see the full definition...
• My previous post may also be helpful: How-To recover / export Outlook for Mac "Smart Folder" AKA "Saved Search" configs