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I am not sure if I am alone in experiencing severe problems with Mac's Preview and file permissions since about 6 months. The files which you yourself have created on the same machine start giving problems with permissions. This happened with Mac's own Pages too. Despite making sure that the file has full edit permission for everyone, Mac's softwares are randomly generating file permission errors. I hope Mac's reputation for user friendliness remains intact for long despite such pesky file permission problems.

#mailtags A hack is to use hashtags in emails. I have been using it since a year and it's worked out fabulous. This is how it works: if you include custom hashtags, the emails are far more searchable. It's like poor man's Slack!

The main benefit is the flexibility of creating hashtags based on projects, people, phases of an arbitration, categories of projects, etc. The great benefit of custom mail hashtags is that it needs no plugin and no additional steps. Just type the hashtag in footer of emails and make it far more search friendly.

It's easy to mess this up if the hashtag usage is not consistent. Also, the recipients of your emails may find the hashtags to be a curiosity. Best to keep a 'Note' or a sticky to keep hashtag usage consistent across all mails.

I had thought of filing a patent on this, but felt that getting over a 35 USC 101 or 103 would be hard :-)

I used to code in FoxPro/Clipper two decades ago. I want to hack some projects. I find setting up a database, creating entry/report forms and scripting in current RDBMS environments quite demanding. Any suggestions for a RAD tool that is similar to FoxPro for my type of coders. I am comfortable with RDBMS concepts but would like a IDE and database with plug-n-play simplicity of FoxPro.