Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 1a.
- Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Harry Flaxman
- 1b.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Tod Hopkins
- 1c.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Arjun Singhal
- 1d.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Harry Flaxman
- 1e.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Harry Flaxman
- 1f.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Harry Flaxman
- 1g.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Christopher Collins
- 1h.
- Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong! From: Randy B. Singer
- 2a.
- iTunes Changes From: The Wizard who eats Gizards
- 2b.
- Re: iTunes Changes From: Jim Saklad
- 3a.
- WinMob7 and a little irony From: Denver Dan
- 3b.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: Harry Flaxman
- 3c.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: Andrew Buc
- 3d.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: Denver Dan
- 3e.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: Randy B. Singer
- 3f.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: paul smith
- 3g.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: Jim Harry
- 3h.
- Re: WinMob7 and a little irony From: Denver Dan
- 4a.
- Downloads From: gloriajstitcher@sbcglobal.net
- 4b.
- Re: Downloads From: Jim Saklad
- 4c.
- Re: Downloads From: Otto Nikolaus
- 4d.
- Re: Downloads From: Jim Saklad
- 4e.
- Re: Downloads From: Denver Dan
- 5a.
- Re: MacBook Pro with 2880x1800 resolution? From: Christopher Collins
- 6.1.
- Re: camera-card file-retrieval app From: Andrew Buc
Messages
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Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:06 am (PST)
Here's my situation. Finder is reporting that I have 205gb available on a 330gb partition. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior are reporting 82gb free. I know that it's the lower figure and the two are drastically off, but I don't know what's causing this or how to rectify it, or even if something is terribly corrupt somewhere.
As I mentioned, I ran DiskWarrior, which found a few minor errors, but nothing drastically wrong.
Finder has been sort of behaving strangely, especially when emptying the Trash. When emptying Trash, the progress bar will halt partially through, stay that way for what seems like minutes, then continue until it's empty.
Anyone have any ideas here?
Help appreciated!
TIA
Harry
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:30 am (PST)
Hidden or system files? You may have some very large files that the OS considers temporary or cache and therefor does not count in the totals. Or it may have lost track. I would consider running a variety of clean ups and maint. I'm not a huge fan of DW unless you have a serious problem, but running many of the cleanups in Onyx or similar might help.
Tod
On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
> Here's my situation. Finder is reporting that I have 205gb available on a 330gb partition. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior are reporting 82gb free. I know that it's the lower figure and the two are drastically off, but I don't know what's causing this or how to rectify it, or even if something is terribly corrupt somewhere.
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> As I mentioned, I ran DiskWarrior, which found a few minor errors, but nothing drastically wrong.
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> Finder has been sort of behaving strangely, especially when emptying the Trash. When emptying Trash, the progress bar will halt partially through, stay that way for what seems like minutes, then continue until it's empty.
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> Anyone have any ideas here?
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> Help appreciated!
>
> TIA
>
> Harry
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> Harry Flaxman
> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:39 am (PST)
I am having a similar problem on my Macbook Pro. When I press 'spacebar' on the "Macintosh HD" icon on the main screen, the window that pops up shows 286GB free, of my 500 Gig hard drive. While if I right click and press 'Get Info', it says 316GB free. I am unsure which is the correct number.
I had the same problem with an external hard drive as well, which showed more than 800Gigs free, yet I was not able to copy a folder that was 796GB onto it completely. I needed to skip approximately 25Gigs in order to be able to fit stuff on that hard disk. I am still wondering if the folder size showed up wrongly as 796GB (and it was more than that) or the free space was lesser than 800.
Anyone have a clue on why this happens? I read somewhere that some space is taken up by system processes such as a defragmenter and spotlight functions which make content accessible to us. But that much space as 25 Gigs? I mean there was a time when my entire laptop was 20Gigs big and it was considered huge! And about 3 britannica encyclopedias fit on a 650 MB CD-ROM.
On 17-Dec-2011, at 12:00 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
> Hidden or system files? You may have some very large files that the OS considers temporary or cache and therefor does not count in the totals. Or it may have lost track. I would consider running a variety of clean ups and maint. I'm not a huge fan of DW unless you have a serious problem, but running many of the cleanups in Onyx or similar might help.
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> Tod
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> On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
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>> Here's my situation. Finder is reporting that I have 205gb available on a 330gb partition. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior are reporting 82gb free. I know that it's the lower figure and the two are drastically off, but I don't know what's causing this or how to rectify it, or even if something is terribly corrupt somewhere.
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>> As I mentioned, I ran DiskWarrior, which found a few minor errors, but nothing drastically wrong.
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>> Finder has been sort of behaving strangely, especially when emptying the Trash. When emptying Trash, the progress bar will halt partially through, stay that way for what seems like minutes, then continue until it's empty.
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>> Anyone have any ideas here?
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>> Help appreciated!
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>> TIA
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>> Harry
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:16 am (PST)
On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
> Hidden or system files? You may have some very large files that the OS considers temporary or cache and therefor does not count in the totals. Or it may have lost track. I would consider running a variety of clean ups and maint. I'm not a huge fan of DW unless you have a serious problem, but running many of the cleanups in Onyx or similar might help.
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> Tod
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> On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
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>> Here's my situation. Finder is reporting that I have 205gb available on a 330gb partition. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior are reporting 82gb free. I know that it's the lower figure and the two are drastically off, but I don't know what's causing this or how to rectify it, or even if something is terribly corrupt somewhere.
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>> As I mentioned, I ran DiskWarrior, which found a few minor errors, but nothing drastically wrong.
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>> Finder has been sort of behaving strangely, especially when emptying the Trash. When emptying Trash, the progress bar will halt partially through, stay that way for what seems like minutes, then continue until it's empty.
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>> Anyone have any ideas here?
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>> Help appreciated!
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>> TIA
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>> Harry
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>> Harry Flaxman
>> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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> Tod Hopkins
> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Hmm. It would be a thought anyway. Anyway, the culprit was data corruption probably at it's worst. I had installed 8gb of RAM about 3 days ago, bought from OWC. It was labelled 1333 and should have been, but we got an email today from OWC telling us that the RAM was mismarked and was actually 1066 mhz bus speed. I had 2 of these, plus 2 Samsung 1333's, and therein lies the problem. I had operated like this for about 2.5 days, and things were getting flaky, but not flaky enough for me to suspect anything.
Emptying trash would result in it's progress bar halting partially way through and not resuming for as much as a minute.
Anyway, I pulled the mismarked RAM, installed the old 2gb sticks, reinstalled the OS, and I'm back, for the moment anyway.
Hmm. I've worked on and in OS' since the mid-70's and I've never seen available disk space misrepresented for any reason.
Thanks.
Harry
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:20 am (PST)
On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> I am having a similar problem on my Macbook Pro. When I press 'spacebar' on the "Macintosh HD" icon on the main screen, the window that pops up shows 286GB free, of my 500 Gig hard drive. While if I right click and press 'Get Info', it says 316GB free. I am unsure which is the correct number.
>
> I had the same problem with an external hard drive as well, which showed more than 800Gigs free, yet I was not able to copy a folder that was 796GB onto it completely. I needed to skip approximately 25Gigs in order to be able to fit stuff on that hard disk. I am still wondering if the folder size showed up wrongly as 796GB (and it was more than that) or the free space was lesser than 800.
>
> Anyone have a clue on why this happens? I read somewhere that some space is taken up by system processes such as a defragmenter and spotlight functions which make content accessible to us. But that much space as 25 Gigs? I mean there was a time when my entire laptop was 20Gigs big and it was considered huge! And about 3 britannica encyclopedias fit on a 650 MB CD-ROM.
That's really strange to me. Unless something is new in 10.7, I don't believe it should be that way.
After my reinstall, everything seems 'kosher' once again. I am repairing permissions right now, and hopefully nothing will be awry.
I believe I've exterminated the bad data, having caught the problem in time.
I"d be interested to hear how you make out though, Arjun. I'll be keeping my eyes on that measurement from now on, not to mention checking System Profiler for RAM bus speed after adding new RAM.
Harry
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:22 am (PST)
On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> I am having a similar problem on my Macbook Pro. When I press 'spacebar' on the "Macintosh HD" icon on the main screen, the window that pops up shows 286GB free, of my 500 Gig hard drive. While if I right click and press 'Get Info', it says 316GB free. I am unsure which is the correct number.
>
> I had the same problem with an external hard drive as well, which showed more than 800Gigs free, yet I was not able to copy a folder that was 796GB onto it completely. I needed to skip approximately 25Gigs in order to be able to fit stuff on that hard disk. I am still wondering if the folder size showed up wrongly as 796GB (and it was more than that) or the free space was lesser than 800.
>
> Anyone have a clue on why this happens? I read somewhere that some space is taken up by system processes such as a defragmenter and spotlight functions which make content accessible to us. But that much space as 25 Gigs? I mean there was a time when my entire laptop was 20Gigs big and it was considered huge! And about 3 britannica encyclopedias fit on a 650 MB CD-ROM.
Oh yes, be aware that back when Snow Leopard was released, Apple went from base 2 to base 10 number systems when it came to hard drive space. There's a hack out there to change back to base 2, which I used to apply each time there was an update, but it got to be a hassle, so I said to heck with it!
Harry
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Christopher Collins" maclist@analogdigital.com.au cjc1959au
Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:11 pm (PST)
Harry,
I'd be suggesting that you backup your drive and do a clean install.
Memory/data corruption, like virus damage, can hide in the most mysterious of places.
Doing a nuke&pave now, could save you a heap of problems down the line.
And reinstall all your apps clean too!
cjc
On 17/12/2011, at 6:20 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> > I am having a similar problem on my Macbook Pro. When I press 'spacebar' on the "Macintosh HD" icon on the main screen, the window that pops up shows 286GB free, of my 500 Gig hard drive. While if I right click and press 'Get Info', it says 316GB free. I am unsure which is the correct number.
> >
> > I had the same problem with an external hard drive as well, which showed more than 800Gigs free, yet I was not able to copy a folder that was 796GB onto it completely. I needed to skip approximately 25Gigs in order to be able to fit stuff on that hard disk. I am still wondering if the folder size showed up wrongly as 796GB (and it was more than that) or the free space was lesser than 800.
> >
> > Anyone have a clue on why this happens? I read somewhere that some space is taken up by system processes such as a defragmenter and spotlight functions which make content accessible to us. But that much space as 25 Gigs? I mean there was a time when my entire laptop was 20Gigs big and it was considered huge! And about 3 britannica encyclopedias fit on a 650 MB CD-ROM.
>
> That's really strange to me. Unless something is new in 10.7, I don't believe it should be that way.
>
> After my reinstall, everything seems 'kosher' once again. I am repairing permissions right now, and hopefully nothing will be awry.
>
> I believe I've exterminated the bad data, having caught the problem in time.
>
> Harry
>
>
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Re: Space Available Drastically Wrong!
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:30 pm (PST)
On Dec 16, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Christopher Collins wrote:
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> I'd be suggesting that you backup your drive and do a clean install.
>
> Memory/data corruption, like virus damage, can hide in the most
> mysterious of places.
>
> Doing a nuke&pave now, could save you a heap of problems down the
> line.
>
> And reinstall all your apps clean too!
>
> cjc
You must be new to the Macintosh and used to the way things are done
in the Windows world, Christopher.
First, there is little to no "virus damage" that Mac users
encounter. While there are over a million viruses for Windows, there
are no actual viruses in the wild for the Mac, and extremely little
malware in general.
Second, reinstalling the OS and apps is a very last resort thing that
is rarely necessary with the Mac. Macs are much more reliable than
Windows boxes, and they tend to be easier to troubleshoot when they
do encounter problems.
These are two of the really big reasons people use/switch to the
Macintosh.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
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iTunes Changes
Posted by: "The Wizard who eats Gizards" THEWIZARDOFAZ@COX.NET wizardofaz2002
Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:13 am (PST)
The recent iTunes update for 10.5.2 on Lion 10.7.2 did something odd and very unwanted, at least on my iMac.
Previously, the space bar could be used to toggle the app on and off. That has been disabled in the most recent update. I liked that feature a lot. It's much easier than clicking the II icon at the top on the apple control icons.
Rick
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Re: iTunes Changes
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:02 am (PST)
> The recent iTunes update for 10.5.2 on Lion 10.7.2 did something odd and very unwanted, at least on my iMac.
>
> Previously, the space bar could be used to toggle the app on and off. That has been disabled in the most recent update. I liked that feature a lot. It's much easier than clicking the II icon at the top on the apple control icons.
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> Rick
Space bar works fine here under 10.5.2/Lion.
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WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:54 am (PST)
Howdy.
I hope others see the historical irony in this story from Forbes.
Microsoft, in a campaign via Twitter, is offering free Windows Mobile 7
cell phones to Android cell phone users who have suffered from malware
problems.
With WinMob7 out for a year and nobody buying it, Microsoft is
desperate that WinMob7 not turn into another Zune catastrophe. So now
they're giving it away to make a market.
What? No malware on WinMob7? Oh, that's right, there aren't enough
users to justify any criminal coder creating malware for WinMob7?
Sounds familiar, right.
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Forbes
Investing
12/16/2011 @ 1:50PM |2,050 views
Microsoft Dishes Out Free Windows Phones To Angry Android Users
Trefis Team, Contributor
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/ >greatspeculation s/2011/12/ 16/microsoft- dishes-out- free-windows- phones-to- angry-android- users/
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Denver Dan
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:05 pm (PST)
On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Denver Dan wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> I hope others see the historical irony in this story from Forbes.
>
> Microsoft, in a campaign via Twitter, is offering free Windows Mobile 7
> cell phones to Android cell phone users who have suffered from malware
> problems.
>
> With WinMob7 out for a year and nobody buying it, Microsoft is
> desperate that WinMob7 not turn into another Zune catastrophe. So now
> they're giving it away to make a market.
>
> What? No malware on WinMob7? Oh, that's right, there aren't enough
> users to justify any criminal coder creating malware for WinMob7?
> Sounds familiar, right.
Dan,
Hehe, funny! Seems to me, though, that some people do have a desire to see malware come to a virus-free platform, and are doing their darnedest to see that happen.
Has anyone heard of malware in iOS? I did see a national news report that an iPhone caught fire on a flight, but I wouldn't attribute that to malware.
Wouldn't THAT be something.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Andrew Buc" andrewbuc@staxman.net andrewbuc
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:06 pm (PST)
Of course, WinMob = Windows Mobile. For a second there I had
visions of a flashmob using Windows devices! :)
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:16 pm (PST)
Howdy.
Yes. Mob is Mobile.
There would have to be more than the one user for a flash mob to form
which would make this impossible for WinMob7 users.
BTW. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., there are now
7-Eleven robbery flash mobs going on. Happened several times now.
They do a sort of mobile phone flash mob and target a 7-Eleven store.
About 50 kids show up at the same time and walk out with all the sugar
and sweet goodies they can carry and not pay.
Apparently almost no one has been arrested even though many faces are
on security cam video.
Denver Dan
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:06:04 -0800, Andrew Buc wrote:
> Of course, WinMob = Windows Mobile. For a second there I had
> visions of a flashmob using Windows devices! :)
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:22 pm (PST)
On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
> Has anyone heard of malware in iOS?
Since Apple tests and has to approve all of the apps for iOS before
they are allowed into the Apple App Store, and since the Apple App
Store is the only place from which you can download apps for iOS
(unless you jail-break your iOS device), iOS devices are wonderfully
free from malware.
It is the exact opposite for Android devices:
Android Malware Explodes, iOS Remains Safe
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/ 2011/08/android- malware-explodes -ios-
remains-safe/
or
http://liten.be//Uv6Dm
For me, this is reason enough to avoid Android devices and go with
iOS devices instead.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "paul smith" kullervo@nycap.rr.com waldonny
Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:04 pm (PST)
Karma. Assuming of course that the Microsoft offer gets little to no response.
Which is what I fully expect.
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MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.7.2 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.0.1
On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Denver Dan wrote:
I hope others see the historical irony in this story from Forbes.
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Jim Harry" jim.harry@harryfamily.com jnharry
Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:22 pm (PST)
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Andrew Buc <andrewbuc@staxman.net > wrote:
> Of course, WinMob = Windows Mobile. For a second there I had
> visions of a flashmob using Windows devices! :)
BTW, Windows Mobile ended with 6.5. The new OS is called Windows
Phone 7 to make the break. They share commonality in the kernel, but
are very different otherwise.
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Re: WinMob7 and a little irony
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:54 pm (PST)
Howdy.
OOpps. MS has had so many names for it I can't keep up.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:21:54 -0500, Jim Harry wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Andrew Buc <andrewbuc@staxman.net > wrote:
>> Of course, WinMob = Windows Mobile. For a second there I had
>> visions of a flashmob using Windows devices! :)
>
> BTW, Windows Mobile ended with 6.5. The new OS is called Windows
> Phone 7 to make the break. They share commonality in the kernel, but
> are very different otherwise.
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Downloads
Posted by: "gloriajstitcher@sbcglobal.net" gloriamraz@zoominternet.net gloriajstitcher@sbcglobal.net
Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:53 pm (PST)
Is there anyway you can download a file to a specific folder instead of it going straight to downloads? And if I am unzipping, it goes straight to downloads.
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:05 pm (PST)
> Is there anyway you can download a file to a specific folder instead of it going straight to downloads? And if I am unzipping, it goes straight to downloads.
Usually if you right-click on the file to be downloaded in your browser, you will have a choice, such as "download as...".
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:25 pm (PST)
On 16 December 2011 23:05, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:
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> Usually if you right-click on the file to be downloaded in your browser,
> you will have a choice, such as "download as...".
>
And, of course, you can change the default in Safari > Preferences >
General (for other browsers it might be elsewhere).
AFAIK the default location for unzipping/expanding is the same folder as
the zip/dmg.
Otto
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:12 pm (PST)
>> Usually if you right-click on the file to be downloaded in your browser, you will have a choice, such as "download as...".
>
> And, of course, you can change the default in Safari > Preferences > General (for other browsers it might be elsewhere).
>
> AFAIK the default location for unzipping/expanding is the same folder as the zip/dmg.
I found a utility for Safari, under Snow Leopard, I think, that automatically created a download subfolder by date.
This resulted in the .zip file (for example) appearing in a subfolder at the top of the display (when sorted by date), and when double-clicked, the zip contents also appeared in that subfolder (instead of somewhere 'way down the list, because the contents had an earlier date).
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:33 pm (PST)
Howdy.
And you are using what web browser?
Or, do you mean to download or save an attached image in email?
I use the SeaMonkey web browser because it is easy to set it so you
have the choice for each item whether to view, save, or something else.
In Safari, you can right click (Control left click) a file or image or
something, and see a contextual menu that gives you choices of where to
direct the download.
Some of the choices on the contextual menu may change depending on what
kind of file you clicked on.
Denver Dan
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:53:15 +0000, gloriajstitcher@sbcglobal. wrote:net
> Is there anyway you can download a file to a specific folder instead
> of it going straight to downloads? And if I am unzipping, it goes
> straight to downloads.
>
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Re: MacBook Pro with 2880x1800 resolution?
Posted by: "Christopher Collins" maclist@analogdigital.com.au cjc1959au
Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:01 pm (PST)
It's very easy to read the 1920*1200 resolution of a 17" MBP.
I have downgraded to the 13" MBA at the moment, and I am desperate for more screen real estate. 1440*900 just isn't enough.
Waiting for the new 15" MBA and hoping it's going to have a 1920*1080 screen for me to use!
My 52 year old eyes cope admirably!
cjc
On 16/12/2011, at 5:04 PM, Nick Andriash wrote:
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> On 2011-12-15, at 7:10 AM, Bill B. wrote:
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> > I run my 17" MBP at 1980x1200 = 2,376,000 pixels
> > The new screen would be 2880x1800 = 5,184,000 pixels
> > Dividing gives 2.18 times, still impressive.
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> Bill, how are you able to run...and read it properly... at such a high resolution? My 2011 17"MBP has a maximum 1920 x 1200, which itself is too small for my tired eyes.
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> Nick Andriash
> andriash@telus.net
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Re: camera-card file-retrieval app
Posted by: "Andrew Buc" andrewbuc@staxman.net andrewbuc
Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:37 pm (PST)
On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
>> Now, how about these babies: { }?
>> Thanx. Oneal
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> Braces.
Or curly brackets or rococo brackets.
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