11/03/2011

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1.1.

Re: A question about copying and pasting

Posted by: "Daly Jessup" jessup@san.rr.com

Thu Nov 3, 2011 5:38 am (PDT)



On Nov 2, 2011, at 3:00 AM, <pat30@twcny.rr.com> <pat30@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> What is stickies? Is it an app or is it with iiworks?

It comes with the operating system. It's in your Applications folder. It's a small application that lets you make notes without saving files manually. It pops up, you create a new sticky or modify an existing one, close the application. The stickies persist until you deliberately delete them. Try it! I keep a shortcut for it on my dock. It's been around for years and years. In fact, I just found a Wikipedia entry about it. It was written in 1994.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickies_(software)>

Daly

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Re: A question about copying and pasting

Posted by: "Daly Jessup" jessup@san.rr.com

Thu Nov 3, 2011 5:44 am (PDT)



On Nov 2, 2011, at 7:54 PM, George Barker wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
>
>>> Shortcut for a Sticky note
>>> A pretty cool shortcut that is hidden in the "Services" menu. It
>> takes any text you highlight and transform it into a Sticky note in
>> Apple's Sticky application. You just have to highlight text and
>> press "Shift-Command-Y" and Boom, it opens up sticky and create a
>>> new note with the text you selected.

>> Is this a Lion thing? It is not working for me in snow Leopard, in
>> spite of my trying to change Services settings in System Prefeences.
>
> Definitely not just a Lion thing. I just tried it in SnowLeopard.
> Selected text and image in Safari, pressed "Shift-Command-Y" and
> Stickies opened with a new window containing both text and image!

Okay, I just learned that for me, anyway, Stickies has to be already running for the shortcut to work. Thanks.

Daly
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Re: A question about copying and pasting

Posted by: "James C. Hamm" machamm@gmail.com   jimhamm90

Thu Nov 3, 2011 6:18 am (PDT)



Thanks for the tip. This worked for me in Safari but didn't work in Mail. Wonder if there is a keyboard command that will do the same thing in Mail, in OS X Lion?....JC

On Nov 3, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2011, at 7:54 PM, George Barker wrote:
>
> > On Nov 2, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
> >
> >>> Shortcut for a Sticky note
> >>> A pretty cool shortcut that is hidden in the "Services" menu. It
> >> takes any text you highlight and transform it into a Sticky note in
> >> Apple's Sticky application. You just have to highlight text and
> >> press "Shift-Command-Y" and Boom, it opens up sticky and create a
> >>> new note with the text you selected.
>
> >> Is this a Lion thing? It is not working for me in snow Leopard, in
> >> spite of my trying to change Services settings in System Prefeences.
> >
> > Definitely not just a Lion thing. I just tried it in SnowLeopard.
> > Selected text and image in Safari, pressed "Shift-Command-Y" and
> > Stickies opened with a new window containing both text and image!
>
> Okay, I just learned that for me, anyway, Stickies has to be already running for the shortcut to work. Thanks.
>
> Daly
>
>

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Re: Macbook Pro question

Posted by: "Kim VanderLaan" kimvndlaan@rogers.com   kimvndlaan

Thu Nov 3, 2011 6:06 am (PDT)



Thank you to everyone who helped out answering questions about the Macbook Pro for my nephew!

Kim

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Re: Upgrading to Lion - Need inexpensive alternatives for incompatib

Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com   kernos501

Thu Nov 3, 2011 6:22 am (PDT)



At 10:46 PM -0700 11/2/11, DaveC wrote:
>Both monitors are connected to the new mini. On the new mini, a VNC
>client (currently JollyFast VNC, although I really like open-source
>Chicken) is running, and connects to the old mini in Full Screen mode.

Why not just use Screen Sharing?

Bill

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Re: Upgrading to Lion - Need inexpensive alternatives for incompatib

Posted by: "DaveC" davec2468@yahoo.com   davec2468

Thu Nov 3, 2011 11:07 am (PDT)



>At 10:46 PM -0700 11/2/11, DaveC wrote:
>>Both monitors are connected to the new mini. On the new mini, a VNC
>>client (currently JollyFast VNC, although I really like open-source
>>Chicken) is running, and connects to the old mini in Full Screen mode.
>
>Why not just use Screen Sharing?
>
>Bill

Screen sharing is a bit limited. Can't remember exactly the details,
but I found JFVNC to be superior.

Your experience will differ.

Dave

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New (refurb) early 2011 MacBook Pro 2.0 Quad Core: 1 surprise, 1 que

Posted by: "jamesrob@sonic.net" jamesrob@sonic.net   jamesrob328i

Thu Nov 3, 2011 6:23 am (PDT)



I took the plunge and ordered an early 2011 15" refurb 2.0 GHz Quad Core i7 from the Online Apple Store Monday. It arrived yesterday. I'd planned to sit through 1 hr presentations on iCloud and Siri at the SF Apple Store yesterday afternoon, so I took my receipt with me and tried to purchase a "One to One" membership. Turns out that's not available if one purchases a refurb model! (that was the surprise)

The question: how best to get old "stuff" on new Mac?

I still need Snow Leopard for a few more weeks. My guess is that the best way to do this is to boot the new machine using a Snow Leopard install disk, partition the internal 500 GB drive, and install Snow Leopard (the new laptop came with Lion preinstalled and no test or installation DVDs) on the second partition I've just created. Next, I should network the old (Core 2 Duo 2.8 Ghz, 2009 vintage) MB Pro and the new machine, boot the NEW machine into the brand new install of Snow Leopard, run setup assistant to transfer my user accounts and data from the old machine into the new machine's 10.6.x installation, then run Software Update until it finds nothing more to update.

After that, I'll configure the new Mac's Lion partition in the same manner, bringing in my "stuff" from the old Mac.

Actually, I guess I have additional corollary questions:

1. I think that in order to avoid creating unneeded and confusing (to me) admin accounts, I should integrate my old stuff into the new OS 10.6.x and Lion installations from Setup Assistant, not later from Migration Assistant. However, I think my Snow Leopard Install DVD is 10.6.2, and my old machine has been updated repetitively to 10.6.9, so when I pull in "stuff" from the old machine, I'll likely end up with some "stuff" in the System and Library folders that is newer than what Software Update will encounter as I do all the updates. Will this cause problems?

2. To prevent this, can I run Software Update on the new Snow Leopard installation repetitively before configuring even the first admin account?

3. Perhaps what I REALLY need to do is RESTORE from the old Mac's Snow Leopard partition to the new Mac's blank partition. My concern in trying to do that is that there will be things the new Quad Core i7 will expect to find in its OS 10.6.9 installation that won't have been installed on my old Core 2 Duo machine.

Thanks so much,

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Re: New (refurb) early 2011 MacBook Pro 2.0 Quad Core: 1 surprise, 1

Posted by: "jamesrob@sonic.net" jamesrob@sonic.net   jamesrob328i

Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:57 am (PDT)





--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, jamesrob@... wrote:

> The question: how best to get old "stuff" on new Mac?

Turns out this is at least a bit more difficult than I'd imagined.

I tried to partition the internal hard drive using a Snow Leopard utitilities external FireWire drive. Partition failed, because a newer version of Disk Utility was needed.

Next, I tried to partition the internal drive by booting into the Lion Recovery partition on the internal drive. That got a bit farther, but failed as well, reporting that the Lion boot volume could not be unmounted.

Fortunately, I'd already created a Lion Install USB Flash Drive. Booting from IT allowed me to partition the internal hard drive without disturbing the existing Lion install. A good bit of the time to partition was taken up by relocating the (unlisted in the partition map) Recovery partition.

Now the remaining question is the proper technique to get SL onto the second partition.

Jim Robertson

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5a.

OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net   hflaxman001

Thu Nov 3, 2011 6:49 am (PDT)



A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older versions of OS X on new machines.

I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was shipped with to boot.

I'm pretty sure I proved that to myself the past couple of days. My iMac shipped with 10.6.4. I have both the 10.5 generic install disc and the 10.6 generic install.

I tried booting my Mac up with each of these, only to be disappointed when the machine wouldn't start. I inserted the disc that came with the machine, and voila! the machine booted.

I think I left the Mac alone with each of the older disks for a good 35-45 minutes. The discs were OK, not scratched. I didn't hear a lot of head thrashing that would happen with error retries.

I've got to confirm this one with someone at Apple, but it looks to be the case here anyway.

I was going to install 10.6, initial release. No go. When that failed to boot the machine is when I tried Leopard, 10.5. If I still had a Tiger disc, I would have tried that as well!

I'm pretty sure some people here have experienced the opposite.

Harry

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Re: OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Chris Randazzo" chris.randazzo@clippermagazine.com   cdazzo64

Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:16 am (PDT)



You can install an older version of the OS if you use a disc image and and external drive. I have a version of 10.6 that is installed on and external drive and then I have the disc images of several different OS's on a different partition of that drive. I simply boot from the boot partition on the external drive, open disk utility and install the OS image onto the mac from the second partition on the external drive. I've also used deploy studio to do this same thing from and external drive on a network. I've got 10.6 running on new Sandy Bridge iMacs that came with Lion. Pretty simple process.
And yes, trying to boot from the actual disc never worked for me either.

Hope this helps.

Chris

On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:

> A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older versions of OS X on new machines.
>
> I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was shipped with to boot.
>
> I'm pretty sure I proved that to myself the past couple of days. My iMac shipped with 10.6.4. I have both the 10.5 generic install disc and the 10.6 generic install.
>
> I tried booting my Mac up with each of these, only to be disappointed when the machine wouldn't start. I inserted the disc that came with the machine, and voila! the machine booted.
>
> I think I left the Mac alone with each of the older disks for a good 35-45 minutes. The discs were OK, not scratched. I didn't hear a lot of head thrashing that would happen with error retries.
>
> I've got to confirm this one with someone at Apple, but it looks to be the case here anyway.
>
> I was going to install 10.6, initial release. No go. When that failed to boot the machine is when I tried Leopard, 10.5. If I still had a Tiger disc, I would have tried that as well!
>
> I'm pretty sure some people here have experienced the opposite.
>
> Harry
>
>
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> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net   hflaxman001

Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:22 am (PDT)



I do have an external DVD drive. I have installed the operating system on various partitions on my external hard drives. Never been a problem. I tried to bring the machine up using both drives. The only one that would come up, even on the external was the disc that shipped with my iMac.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Harry

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On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Chris Randazzo wrote:

> You can install an older version of the OS if you use a disc image and and external drive. I have a version of 10.6 that is installed on and external drive and then I have the disc images of several different OS's on a different partition of that drive. I simply boot from the boot partition on the external drive, open disk utility and install the OS image onto the mac from the second partition on the external drive. I've also used deploy studio to do this same thing from and external drive on a network. I've got 10.6 running on new Sandy Bridge iMacs that came with Lion. Pretty simple process.
> And yes, trying to boot from the actual disc never worked for me either.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
>
>> A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older versions of OS X on new machines.
>>
>> I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was shipped with to boot.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I proved that to myself the past couple of days. My iMac shipped with 10.6.4. I have both the 10.5 generic install disc and the 10.6 generic install.
>>
>> I tried booting my Mac up with each of these, only to be disappointed when the machine wouldn't start. I inserted the disc that came with the machine, and voila! the machine booted.
>>
>> I think I left the Mac alone with each of the older disks for a good 35-45 minutes. The discs were OK, not scratched. I didn't hear a lot of head thrashing that would happen with error retries.
>>
>> I've got to confirm this one with someone at Apple, but it looks to be the case here anyway.
>>
>> I was going to install 10.6, initial release. No go. When that failed to boot the machine is when I tried Leopard, 10.5. If I still had a Tiger disc, I would have tried that as well!
>>
>> I'm pretty sure some people here have experienced the opposite.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
>> ______________________
>> Harry Flaxman
>> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Chris Randazzo" chris.randazzo@clippermagazine.com   cdazzo64

Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:34 am (PDT)



Harry,

The external DVD drive isn't going to help you but the external Hard Drive will. Create a disc image using disk utility of the OS that you want to use and then put that on one of the partitions on the external HD. Then boot your Mac from the external drive holding down the option key at start up, you should get some options to boot from, pick the external drive and let it boot. Then launch disk utility and install the disk image to the iMac using disk utility. Select the disc image that is on the external hard drive and let it install on the Mac.

Chris

On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Chris Randazzo wrote:

> You can install an older version of the OS if you use a disc image and and external drive. I have a version of 10.6 that is installed on and external drive and then I have the disc images of several different OS's on a different partition of that drive. I simply boot from the boot partition on the external drive, open disk utility and install the OS image onto the mac from the second partition on the external drive. I've also used deploy studio to do this same thing from and external drive on a network. I've got 10.6 running on new Sandy Bridge iMacs that came with Lion. Pretty simple process.
> And yes, trying to boot from the actual disc never worked for me either.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
>
>> A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older versions of OS X on new machines.
>>
>> I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was shipped with to boot.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I proved that to myself the past couple of days. My iMac shipped with 10.6.4. I have both the 10.5 generic install disc and the 10.6 generic install.
>>
>> I tried booting my Mac up with each of these, only to be disappointed when the machine wouldn't start. I inserted the disc that came with the machine, and voila! the machine booted.
>>
>> I think I left the Mac alone with each of the older disks for a good 35-45 minutes. The discs were OK, not scratched. I didn't hear a lot of head thrashing that would happen with error retries.
>>
>> I've got to confirm this one with someone at Apple, but it looks to be the case here anyway.
>>
>> I was going to install 10.6, initial release. No go. When that failed to boot the machine is when I tried Leopard, 10.5. If I still had a Tiger disc, I would have tried that as well!
>>
>> I'm pretty sure some people here have experienced the opposite.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
>> ______________________
>> Harry Flaxman
>> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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>>
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Re: OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net   hflaxman001

Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:37 am (PDT)



Wow, first I've heard that the machine will recognize a disc image file on one of the externals! I know that the system will recognize a bootable partition. Is there a method for doing this, meaning, does the image file have to be by itself on a partition? I'm itching to try this one out.

Harry

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On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Chris Randazzo wrote:

> Harry,
>
> The external DVD drive isn't going to help you but the external Hard Drive will. Create a disc image using disk utility of the OS that you want to use and then put that on one of the partitions on the external HD. Then boot your Mac from the external drive holding down the option key at start up, you should get some options to boot from, pick the external drive and let it boot. Then launch disk utility and install the disk image to the iMac using disk utility. Select the disc image that is on the external hard drive and let it install on the Mac.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Chris Randazzo wrote:
>
>> You can install an older version of the OS if you use a disc image and and external drive. I have a version of 10.6 that is installed on and external drive and then I have the disc images of several different OS's on a different partition of that drive. I simply boot from the boot partition on the external drive, open disk utility and install the OS image onto the mac from the second partition on the external drive. I've also used deploy studio to do this same thing from and external drive on a network. I've got 10.6 running on new Sandy Bridge iMacs that came with Lion. Pretty simple process.
>> And yes, trying to boot from the actual disc never worked for me either.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
>>
>>> A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older versions of OS X on new machines.
>>>
>>> I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was shipped with to boot.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure I proved that to myself the past couple of days. My iMac shipped with 10.6.4. I have both the 10.5 generic install disc and the 10.6 generic install.
>>>
>>> I tried booting my Mac up with each of these, only to be disappointed when the machine wouldn't start. I inserted the disc that came with the machine, and voila! the machine booted.
>>>
>>> I think I left the Mac alone with each of the older disks for a good 35-45 minutes. The discs were OK, not scratched. I didn't hear a lot of head thrashing that would happen with error retries.
>>>
>>> I've got to confirm this one with someone at Apple, but it looks to be the case here anyway.
>>>
>>> I was going to install 10.6, initial release. No go. When that failed to boot the machine is when I tried Leopard, 10.5. If I still had a Tiger disc, I would have tried that as well!
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure some people here have experienced the opposite.
>>>
>>> Harry
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________
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>>> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Chris Randazzo" chris.randazzo@clippermagazine.com   cdazzo64

Thu Nov 3, 2011 8:00 am (PDT)



yup. the image needs to reside on the other partition of the external. you just need to tell disk utility where the image needs to be extracted to� (i.e.: your iMac)
Just make sure you boot from the bootable partition on the external hard drive.

On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Chris Randazzo wrote:

> Harry,
>
> The external DVD drive isn't going to help you but the external Hard Drive will. Create a disc image using disk utility of the OS that you want to use and then put that on one of the partitions on the external HD. Then boot your Mac from the external drive holding down the option key at start up, you should get some options to boot from, pick the external drive and let it boot. Then launch disk utility and install the disk image to the iMac using disk utility. Select the disc image that is on the external hard drive and let it install on the Mac.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Chris Randazzo wrote:
>
>> You can install an older version of the OS if you use a disc image and and external drive. I have a version of 10.6 that is installed on and external drive and then I have the disc images of several different OS's on a different partition of that drive. I simply boot from the boot partition on the external drive, open disk utility and install the OS image onto the mac from the second partition on the external drive. I've also used deploy studio to do this same thing from and external drive on a network. I've got 10.6 running on new Sandy Bridge iMacs that came with Lion. Pretty simple process.
>> And yes, trying to boot from the actual disc never worked for me either.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
>>
>>> A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older versions of OS X on new machines.
>>>
>>> I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was shipped with to boot.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure I proved that to myself the past couple of days. My iMac shipped with 10.6.4. I have both the 10.5 generic install disc and the 10.6 generic install.
>>>
>>> I tried booting my Mac up with each of these, only to be disappointed when the machine wouldn't start. I inserted the disc that came with the machine, and voila! the machine booted.
>>>
>>> I think I left the Mac alone with each of the older disks for a good 35-45 minutes. The discs were OK, not scratched. I didn't hear a lot of head thrashing that would happen with error retries.
>>>
>>> I've got to confirm this one with someone at Apple, but it looks to be the case here anyway.
>>>
>>> I was going to install 10.6, initial release. No go. When that failed to boot the machine is when I tried Leopard, 10.5. If I still had a Tiger disc, I would have tried that as well!
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure some people here have experienced the opposite.
>>>
>>> Harry
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________
>>> Harry Flaxman
>>> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: OS Versions Bringing Up My iMac

Posted by: "Barry Austern" barryaus@fuse.net   barryaus

Thu Nov 3, 2011 11:54 am (PDT)



At 9:49 AM -0400 11/3/11, Harry Flaxman wrote:

>
>
>A short while ago, there was a discussion here on installing older
>versions of OS X on new machines.
>
>I was under the impression that a Mac MUST use the OS version it was
>shipped with to boot.

Not totally true. When a new OS is released Apple will install it on
unsold machines, and it is not until they come out with new machines
will it require the new OS. Many years ago, for example, I bought a
new iBook that had Jaguar installed but included a Panther disc in
the box. I suspect that a few weeks later the next shipment would
have Panther installed on the hard drive but, since it was the same
machine, obviously you could wipe the disk and reinstall the older OS.

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lion

Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com   chloe898

Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:59 am (PDT)



Good morning. Yesterday, during the snow, i got to lots of things on my to
do list , including finally installing Lion, which has been sitting on my
computer since the very first day.

I can not get over how much it is like the ipad and itouch. I haven't had
much time to play with it, but my photoshop CS5, and lightroom 3 work fine.
The one thing I did notice is that they have taken the size sliders out of
my folders that used to be on the bottom. Mt thumbnails were beyond tiny.
I was able to get them larger by going into view, but is there anyway to
get those sliders back?

The only program that doesn't work is the software for my Spyder 2 pro
cailbration tool. I should have calibrated the night before..sigh.

Question..I have 2 mac LED monitors. Hubie says they don't need to be
calibrated, and when I called Apple to ask, they wouldn't say one way or
the other. Any idesa...or on what new calibration tool to buy. I don't want
to spend the bucks for Color Munki, but there are some more reasonable ones
out there.

Jeannie

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magic mouse

Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com   chloe898

Thu Nov 3, 2011 8:09 am (PDT)



I also forgot to say that I switched to the magic mouse the night before I
upgraded to lion. I had been talking with a friend in Oregon, who told me
that she loved hers. I told Hubie, and he grabbed it out of a box of stuff.
What a delight to use! I may also borrow Hubie's track pad to try. If I
like it , I'll order one, but I will always have to have a mouse because of
working in lightroom and Photoshop, as well as my wacom intuos. It sure is
a good thing that I can have all these things. Have i said lately how much
I love my mac, and how glad I ma to have made the switch from Windows?

Jeannie

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Tip: How to sync files across Macs via iCloud

Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com   boulware0224

Thu Nov 3, 2011 8:24 am (PDT)



http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/LGpRaucySsM/

Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: Tip: How to sync files
across Macs via iCloud via 9to5Mac by Christian Zibreg on 11/3/11



Everyone and their brother is working on toppling Dropbox these days,
including Google which is said to be close to unveiling a solution
named Google Drive, basically a Google Docs storage system lending
itself to their other web properties. While Apple is yet to introduce
something akin to Dropbox, turns out users can now sync files between
Macs – with a bit of trickery.

MacWorld discovered that any file put inside the ~/Library/Mobile
Documents/ folder gets synced between Macs via iCloud. This is
interesting because this folder was meant only to sync documents in
apps that support the Documents & Data feature. MacWorld explains:

This doesn't really matter. What is of use is that any files put into
the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will automatically upload to
iCloud and push to any other Mac you have that is signed in to the same
iCloud account and has the 'Document & Data' iCloud preference checked.
Lion even notifies you of version conflicts and allows you to resolve
them when you open the document.

Of course, the finding isn't terribly surprising. The trick simply uses
the iCloud documents storage but it's noteworthy because it indicates
Apple has the backend file syncing infrastructure in place.

With iCloud, Apple retired some of the less popular MobileMe services,
including iDisk which enabled Mac and Windows machines to mount their
MobileMe cloud storage as a local drive. Per conventional wisdom, it
would be prudent if Apple introduced a file syncing solution for Macs
(possibly including iOS devices) down the road. It wouldn't be hard to
make this trick standard across all home folders, making a true Dropbox
replacement - perhaps even allowing for the home folder roaming via the
iCloud.



When Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi turned down an
$800 million Apple acquisition offer, Steve Jobs reportedly fixed his
gaze on the young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, telling them with a
mischievous smile that Apple was going after their market, dismissing
their offering as "a feature". Fancy that.





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Routine Mantenance

Posted by: "dk54321" dk54321@gmail.com   dk54321

Thu Nov 3, 2011 10:15 am (PDT)



I have a 700 MHz eMac running 10.4.11 and a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook running 10.6.8. I have a 750 GB Firewire external HD connected to the MacBook. (That's where I keep my Time Machine backups and my iTunes library.)

I've been following Randy Singer's recommendations (http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html) for routine maintenance since switching to the Mac. I run all these maintenance applications from the Administrator account. I have a separate user account on each computer for each family member. Which, if any, of these applications need to be run from each user's account? What maintenance, if any, should I be doing on my external HD?

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S  L  O  W  MacBook Pro

Posted by: "neelie" neeliec2000@yahoo.com   neeliec2000

Thu Nov 3, 2011 10:28 am (PDT)



My husband uses our MacBook Pro (2010 vintage), running OS X 10.6.8.  We use this laptop when we travel, and hubby just does email and some web browsing.

There is lots of memory (4GB) and lots of hard drive space available (500GB, using approximately 33GB).  There are only a few pictures in iPhoto and a handful of tunes in iTunes...no real heavy duty files to speak of.

I don't work on it on a daily basis, so am not exactly sure when the "bad behavior" began, but hubby mentioned to me mid morning today that it was slow to respond to commands or do things while he worked. 

The MacBook has clearly become excruciatingly slow with opening any application or program or with any type of use. Trying to browse from page to page or move from one email to the next makes the beach ball spin and spin and spin.

I've cleaned the cache, verified and repaired permissions, scanned for viruses (none), restarted, updated software, etc.  Nothing seems to be working.

I've gotten a couple "unresponsive script" messages since I've been working it this evening (one when I started Firefox) as I've tried to troubleshoot the problem.  I just clicked "stop script," but wonder if this might be part of the problem. 

Where would I find these "unresponsive" scripts?  Do they get stored and save or do they lurk somewhere on the hard drive?  Is there any way to isolate them to delete them?  I'm not well versed in some of these finer points on the Macs, but am now stuck as to how to make the MacBook function like it was yesterday?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  I guess as a last resort I can call Apple as the laptop is still under Apple Care....but I think I have to wait til Monday for that.

neelie

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Re: S  L  O  W  MacBook Pro

Posted by: "Collin" Collinwhuber@aol.com   collinwhuber

Thu Nov 3, 2011 10:34 am (PDT)



Have you thought about doing a clean install of Snow Leopard? That may help. Make sure that you back up all of your data first though. I've had various problems that have been remedied by a clean install of my OS.

Hope this helps!
- Collin

On Oct 22, 2011, at 12:43 AM, neelie wrote:

> My husband uses our MacBook Pro (2010 vintage), running OS X 10.6.8. We use this laptop when we travel, and hubby just does email and some web browsing.
>
> There is lots of memory (4GB) and lots of hard drive space available (500GB, using approximately 33GB). There are only a few pictures in iPhoto and a handful of tunes in iTunes...no real heavy duty files to speak of.
>
> I don't work on it on a daily basis, so am not exactly sure when the "bad behavior" began, but hubby mentioned to me mid morning today that it was slow to respond to commands or do things while he worked.
>
> The MacBook has clearly become excruciatingly slow with opening any application or program or with any type of use. Trying to browse from page to page or move from one email to the next makes the beach ball spin and spin and spin.
>
> I've cleaned the cache, verified and repaired permissions, scanned for viruses (none), restarted, updated software, etc. Nothing seems to be working.
>
> I've gotten a couple "unresponsive script" messages since I've been working it this evening (one when I started Firefox) as I've tried to troubleshoot the problem. I just clicked "stop script," but wonder if this might be part of the problem.
>
> Where would I find these "unresponsive" scripts? Do they get stored and save or do they lurk somewhere on the hard drive? Is there any way to isolate them to delete them? I'm not well versed in some of these finer points on the Macs, but am now stuck as to how to make the MacBook function like it was yesterday?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. I guess as a last resort I can call Apple as the laptop is still under Apple Care....but I think I have to wait til Monday for that.
>
> neelie
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

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When connecting iPhone, do NOT open iTunes?

Posted by: "DaveC" davec2468@yahoo.com   davec2468

Thu Nov 3, 2011 11:05 am (PDT)



I could swear (and did!) that there is an option to keep iTunes from
opening automatically when I plug in my iPhone 3GS for charging.

Yes? Where?

Thanks,
Dave
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2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 / 4 GB / 750 GB
OS X 10.7.2
iTunes 10.5
iPhone 3GS / iOS 5.0

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Re: When connecting iPhone, do NOT open iTunes?

Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com   boulware0224

Thu Nov 3, 2011 11:22 am (PDT)



Click on the name of the iPhone under Devices and uncheck "Open iTunes when
this iPhone (or iPad, or iPod) is connected".

You can alternatively or also turn off Automatic Syncing in Preferences >
Devices > prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 14:05, DaveC <davec2468@yahoo.com> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I could swear (and did!) that there is an option to keep iTunes from
> opening automatically when I plug in my iPhone 3GS for charging.
>
> Yes? Where?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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> 2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 / 4 GB / 750 GB
> OS X 10.7.2
> iTunes 10.5
> iPhone 3GS / iOS 5.0
>
>

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access problem

Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com   chloe898

Thu Nov 3, 2011 11:35 am (PDT)



I emailed data color about the software not working in Lion. They sent me a
link to download that is supposed to install a work around for me. I
wdownloaded it, and when I went to install it, I get the message : access
denied error 1008.9-5000. When I click ok, I then get the message :You do
not have enough access privileges for this installation. What do I do now?

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Scrolling zoom?

Posted by: "DaveC" davec2468@yahoo.com   davec2468

Thu Nov 3, 2011 12:18 pm (PDT)



In Snow Leopard and earlier, I remember being able to zoom the screen
by holding down the Control(?) key and scrolling the mouse wheel.

In Lion I only see being able to zoom in discrete steps using
Cmd-Option-- (dash) or Cmd-Option-=.

Is scroll zoom gone in Lion? Or just re-configured (maybe a different hot key)?

Thanks,
Dave
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2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 / 4 GB / 750 GB
OS X 10.7.2

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