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A little search shows that the step can also be a solution for other problems with Synology Cloud Station. The comparison had to be run through again, but since then everything has worked again. For some reason at least for me, this step got Cloud Station working again without any issues. When setting up, you can specify the same folder that you used before. Now you install the latest version of the Cloud Station client, which you can best download directly from the Download section of Synology website pulls. You delete the Cloud Station profile folder via the terminal and you can solve the problem It works with the latest version Don't worry, the Cloud Station files you synced will not be deleted during this process, which is especially helpful in the next step. This deletes the (hidden) database directory of the Cloud Station client from your Mac, which is also retained during uninstallation. Now open a terminal and enter the following command: To do this, you must first exit the Cloud Station client on the Mac and then uninstall it. Especially the high CPU usage of the Cloud Station Manager is a real pain on the Macbook After a lot of research, I came across a solution in the Synology forum that seems to have solved the synchronization problems with Cloud Station for me - as of now. Unfortunately, reinstalling Cloud Station didn't do much for me like reinstalling the service on the NAS side, and apparently I'm the same with the problems not entirely alone. When Synology Cloud Station syncs to death, a little terminal tweak can help But that's not all: The Cloud Station client caused almost complete CPU utilization under Mac OS X, and a look at the activity monitor also identified the Synology process "cloud-daemon" as a bad CPU eater. However, the display in the status bar said that a fluctuating number of several thousand files had to be processed. In the specific case, the Synlogy Cloud Station stopped syncing after the update on my Macbook Air - at least apparently, because the folders on the hard drive were up to date. At least for Mac users, we can provide you with a possible solution to the synchronization problems with the Synology Cloud Station. But every now and then the CloudStation comes to a standstill - for me, for example, after the recent update of the Synology Disk Station Manager to version 5.2. without detours via external servers such as Dropbox and Co.), with which you can easily synchronize any number of folders and files between the NAS and any devices, in my case a Macbook for example Air and a Mac Mini. My favorite is clearly Synology Cloud Station. This is mainly due to the very cool additional tools that upgrade the network storage from a pure data grab to a real all-rounder. 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The burning question then becomes: How did Joseph Smith at age 23 Of us would be pleased in a lifetime to have two or three memorable quotes that Have the divine eloquence of the Book of Mormon – one masterful quote afterĪnother – scores of them – such as “men are, that they might have joy” (2 NephiĢ:25) or “when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the Plates, cement and domesticated barley, all of which the critics claimed wereĪnachronisms in the Book of Mormon, until they were later discovered to exist In addition, time is on the side of the Book of Mormon as additionalĪrchaeological evidences are unearthed, such as the discovery of ancient metal Recanted, whatever the pressures may have been. Truthfulness even under conditions threatening their lives or questioning their Witnesses, men of honor, who repeatedly confirmed their testimony of its There are about 200 statements from the 11 There exist multipleīible prophecies of its coming forth. Of God, then what witnesses do we have to that effect? Fortunately, we have many witnesses, both That would be a fraud, and a fraud does not produce a final moral treatise. Likewise, how can one say that the Book of Mormon is a fine moral treatise on one hand and yet at the same time believe there were no golden plates, no angel Moroni, no Nephite prophets and no visit of Christ to America, all as represented by Joseph to be true. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. Either this man was and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. Lewis addressed a similar proposition with regards to the divinity of the Savior: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish things that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’. That I believe, is exactly how God wants it to be – no lukewarm believers (seeĮxistence, there are to be no fence sitters on this issue.Ĭ.S. Once Joseph crossed the line and said theĪngel was real, the plates were real, and the history and doctrine were real, Ground, and the inspired nature of the Book of Mormon is one of them. Life after death, or whether or not Christ was the literal Son of God. Ground on issues such as whether or not God exists, or whether or not there is One might as well claim that there is middle Yet somehow the work is still divinely directed. Somehow believe that God “inspired” Joseph Smith and subsequent prophets to lieĪbout the reality of Moroni, the gold plates, the appearance of the Savior, theĮxistence of ancient prophets, and the entire history of the Nephite civilization, Nephites and ministered to them as corroborated by all our prophets or suchĮvent is a fabrication. 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