Messages In This Digest (22 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: OT: ereader selfpublishing From: Oneal Neumann
- 2a.
- Re: Join me on Facebook From: hester
- 3a.
- Managing photos From: Tauqir R
- 3b.
- Re: Managing photos From: Harry Flaxman
- 3c.
- Re: Managing photos From: Greg Roberts
- 3d.
- Re: Managing photos From: Harry Flaxman
- 3e.
- Re: Managing photos From: Greg Roberts
- 3f.
- Re: Managing photos From: Jim Saklad
- 4a.
- Mac Mail autocomplete From: jgarv2002
- 4b.
- Re: Mac Mail autocomplete From: Otto Nikolaus
- 5a.
- Message Board From: mary pecci
- 5b.
- Re: Message Board From: N.A. Nada
- 6a.
- Re: Handycam choices From: Arjun Singhal
- 6b.
- Re: Handycam choices From: Otto Nikolaus
- 7a.
- Re: Rotating Ext. HDD From: Arjun Singhal
- 8a.
- OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart From: Arjun Singhal
- 8b.
- Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart From: N.A. Nada
- 8c.
- Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart From: Arjun Singhal
- 8d.
- Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart From: J Masters
- 8e.
- Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart From: Arjun Singhal
- 9.
- Almost 90 Gigabytes Missing From: Arjun Singhal
- 10a.
- Re: Where did my files go? From: Otto Nikolaus
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Re: OT: ereader selfpublishing
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sun Jan 1, 2012 4:25 pm (PST)
On 2011 November 10 (at 17:02) Guy Kudlemyer wrote:
> I am in the same boat, having just recently been published in book form.
> When I inquired to my circle of author friends, I was informed that
> amazon.com has a tutorial located *somewhere* on their website for this
> purpose. I've not yet been able to locate it (but then again, I haven't had
> time to look deeply for it, either...)
>
> If you are successful in locating the information that you desire, I, for
> one, would be eternally grateful if you would post it here for the benefit
> of the rest of us!
>
> Best of luck to you on this endeavor! Guy
Further to an earlier thread.
The link is a December 29th NYT piece.
Oneal
<http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes. >com/2011/ 12/29/qa- publishing- your-own- e-book/?nl= technology& emc=ctb2
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Re: Join me on Facebook
Posted by: "hester" dhreik@gmail.com drhester_06107
Sun Jan 1, 2012 5:45 pm (PST)
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Jim Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:com
>
> > Wouldn't it be great if we could all link up together on Facebook and discuss the same issues and news about our Apple products?
>
> No.
> Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@...
Ha ha. you beat me to it. perfect response.
:)
cheers
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Managing photos
Posted by: "Tauqir R" ranatqr@yahoo.com ranatqr
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:05 pm (PST)
Dear all,
I am a teaching radiologist and have my teaching radiographs digitally organized as folders of disease that these show. Can somebody recommend an soft ware to organize, edit and display them.i have found iPhoto pretty basic for my purpose.
Thanks
Tauqir Rana
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Re: Managing photos
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:12 pm (PST)
On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Tauqir R wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am a teaching radiologist and have my teaching radiographs digitally organized as folders of disease that these show. Can somebody recommend an soft ware to organize, edit and display them.i have found iPhoto pretty basic for my purpose.
Don't know if it suits your particular application, however, I find Aperture suited well for this task, being an amateur photographer.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Managing photos
Posted by: "Greg Roberts" gregrobertsphoto@yahoo.com gregrobertsphoto
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:26 pm (PST)
I would suggest looking at Lightroom. I'm using it to organize several sets of archives, my own and a volunteer group I work on. With it I can make collections for different photos and can add meta data to searching for them later, either within LR or others.
Greg
On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:05 PM, "Tauqir R" <ranatqr@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am a teaching radiologist and have my teaching radiographs digitally organized as folders of disease that these show. Can somebody recommend an soft ware to organize, edit and display them.i have found iPhoto pretty basic for my purpose.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tauqir Rana
>
>
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Re: Managing photos
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:30 pm (PST)
On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Greg Roberts wrote:
> I would suggest looking at Lightroom. I'm using it to organize several sets of archives, my own and a volunteer group I work on. With it I can make collections for different photos and can add meta data to searching for them later, either within LR or others.
>
> Greg
Yeah, Lightroom is a great app, but way overpriced when compared to Aperture.
I didn't see anything that would add to fulfilling my needs when I evaluated it, so I went with Aperture 3.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Managing photos
Posted by: "Greg Roberts" gregrobertsphoto@yahoo.com gregrobertsphoto
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:55 pm (PST)
Harry, I too looked at both. Actually used both on the thirty day trial. I chose LR for the browser and collections. The date structure for folders work for me, it might not work for her work. Here is a good review I found:
http://rickellis.com/journal/ aperture- vs-lightroom. html
Here is an excerpt from the website.
"In neither case does Aperture give you what can be considered a real file browser. Both in Managed and Referenced mode you use a virtual browser that internally links to your images without giving you direct access to those images the way Lightroom does. Aperture even allows your Projects to be called something entirely different than the folders that physically contains the images, which can potentially be the source of confusion if you run a Referenced Library. Virtual Projects do have one major advantage: They can be organized in any order you choose. In Lightroom, folders appear in the file browser sorted by name. In Aperture you sort your Projects however you want, and you can nest them into folders and sub-folders without ever altering where the images are physically located on your hard-drive. Aperture also has its version of a Lightroom Collection, called an Album, as well as scriptable Smart Albums and virtual folders that these can be organized into."
On the price, I picked up LR at an academic price of 99.00 and aperture was near 200. Both can do the job, but I'd still suggest trying out both. I also saw that adobe marked it down a month ago for the same price to everyone, but think it is now back to 200 now. Tauqir, look to see if you can purchase in the academic community for a reduced price.
Good luck on your search,
Greg
On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Harry Flaxman <harry.flaxman@comcast.net > wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Greg Roberts wrote:
>
> > I would suggest looking at Lightroom. I'm using it to organize several sets of archives, my own and a volunteer group I work on. With it I can make collections for different photos and can add meta data to searching for them later, either within LR or others.
> >
> > Greg
>
> Yeah, Lightroom is a great app, but way overpriced when compared to Aperture.
>
> I didn't see anything that would add to fulfilling my needs when I evaluated it, so I went with Aperture 3.
>
> Harry
>
> Harry Flaxman
> harry.flaxman@comcast.net
>
>
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Re: Managing photos
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:56 pm (PST)
> I am a teaching radiologist and have my teaching radiographs digitally organized as folders of disease that these show. Can somebody recommend an soft ware to organize, edit and display them.i have found iPhoto pretty basic for my purpose.
> Tauqir Rana
This is not quite the answer to the question you are asking, but I urge you to look into Osirix (<http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ >) or MIM (<http://www.mimsoftware.com/ >).
The top-end versions of these programs are full-fledged FDA-approved diagnostic quality PACS software.
They also have less-expensive (or free) versions that can still display and manipulate these images.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~
Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@me.com
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Mac Mail autocomplete
Posted by: "jgarv2002" jim@mcgarvie.us jgarv2002
Sun Jan 1, 2012 7:15 pm (PST)
This question is somewhat related to my previous one regarding specifying individual recipients from a family.
Because I haven't found a solution to that problem, in a few cases I have created separate Address Book entries for the husband and the wife, thinking I could send an e-mail to one and not the other. In other words, I should be able to send a message to John Smith and not have the recipient shown as John and Mary Smith.
But even having done that, when I start typing John Smith into the "To" field it autocompletes to John and Mary Smith. And this is after clearing the "recent recipient" list and restarting the Mac.
So why doesn't autocomplete find my "John Smith" entry and not only my "John and Mary Smith" entry?
Thanks for your help.
Best,
Jim
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Re: Mac Mail autocomplete
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Mon Jan 2, 2012 3:22 am (PST)
Does it not update the autocomplete if you carry on typing, as in
John S
?
Otto
On 2 January 2012 03:15, jgarv2002 <jim@mcgarvie.us > wrote:
> This question is somewhat related to my previous one regarding specifying
> individual recipients from a family.
>
> Because I haven't found a solution to that problem, in a few cases I have
> created separate Address Book entries for the husband and the wife,
> thinking I could send an e-mail to one and not the other. In other words, I
> should be able to send a message to John Smith and not have the recipient
> shown as John and Mary Smith.
>
> But even having done that, when I start typing John Smith into the "To"
> field it autocompletes to John and Mary Smith. And this is after clearing
> the "recent recipient" list and restarting the Mac.
>
> So why doesn't autocomplete find my "John Smith" entry and not only my
> "John and Mary Smith" entry?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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Message Board
Posted by: "mary pecci" mpecci@sbcglobal.net mpecci@sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 1, 2012 9:05 pm (PST)
Hi,
I registered on Macsupport but don't remember my password. What do I do now?
What I need to know is: How to get a Message Board that requires registering -
one that can't be spammed with porn and drug ads. My last two Message Boards had
to be deleted because of spamming with those companies. The last one was
supposed to be registered but somehow they got in. Since it's a "Teachers"
message board, I lost customers, many were outraged by the sleazy ads and I had
to delete it - after all the cost of paying for the software and the fee for a
techie to download it for me. Suggestions totally appreciated.
Mary
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Re: Message Board
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Mon Jan 2, 2012 12:05 am (PST)
On Jan 1, 2012, at 9:05 PM, mary pecci wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I registered on Macsupport but don't remember my password. What do I do now?
>
> What I need to know is: How to get a Message Board that requires registering -
> one that can't be spammed with porn and drug ads. My last two Message Boards had
> to be deleted because of spamming with those companies. The last one was
> supposed to be registered but somehow they got in. Since it's a "Teachers"
> message board, I lost customers, many were outraged by the sleazy ads and I had
> to delete it - after all the cost of paying for the software and the fee for a
> techie to download it for me. Suggestions totally appreciated.
I can't answer your question about the message board. I have no idea.
I've never seen you post here before, when did you register?
When I joined the list, there were no passwords required.
Brent
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Re: Handycam choices
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Sun Jan 1, 2012 9:14 pm (PST)
Thanks Jurgen and Otto
My cousin just lent me her Canon Legria to try out. I am thinking of using it for one or two events in the coming weeks. It's a very basic camera that records over 8 Gigs of internal memory or an SD HC card.
I got a 4 GB Verbatim Class 6 memory card free when I purchased my DSLR. The Verbatim site mentions that their Class 6 memory card is 10 MB per second capable. They don't manufacture anything beyond Class 6. I have another Verbatim 16 GB Class 6 and a Transcend 16 GB Class 10 for the DSLR that I use for stills.
I am still contemplating if at all an entry level handycam will be good or is it better to save a little and get a more capable one.
Regards,
Arjun
On 01-Jan-2012, at 10:39 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> Just to add to the confusion, try this.
> <
> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/ features/ how_buy_sd_ card_your_ digital_camera
> >
>
> Otto
>
> On 30 December 2011 18:22, Jurgen Richter <yahoo-1@sympatico.ca > wrote:
>
> > My question to the group is, does anyone have experience with using
> > memory cards for taking full HD 1080 videos? And what length of video
> > can be recorded on a 16GB High Speed Memory card?
> >
> > A quick answer is 160 minutes. Based on HD video being 1920x1080 with
> > MP4 HD codec. See:
> >
> > http://duracellflash.com/capacitych art.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is a good link to give you more information on Secure Digital Cards
> > for your handycam.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Secure_Digital# UHS_Speed_ Class
> >
> > Another one I found as I got a deal on these at my local store ($5 for a
> > 4 GB card):
> > As it turns out, it is an "ok" card as it's not the fastest, but will be
> > fine for my scanner and digital photobook, not so great for the digital
> > camera as it is slower than other cards. The one I got was a Class 4
> > card, and for shooting the biggest and/or RAW files I need something
> > faster. My other cards are class 6 and faster. In a nutshell, the class
> > category is the data write rate per second in MB, so a Class 10 card is
> > rated at 10 MB per second or faster in transfering the data from camera
> > to card.
> >
> > http://duracellflash.com/securedigi tal.htm
> >
> >
> > Here you can click on other links for additional information for your
> > purposes.
> >
>
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>
>
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Re: Handycam choices
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Mon Jan 2, 2012 3:31 am (PST)
I would decide on a price limit then search for reviews. All the big makes
have many models so it shouldn't be too hard to find something that suits
your budget and needs. I know several excellent sites for still cameras but
not for camcorders.
As a general rule, though, I believe in spending a little more in case I
later need extra features/quality rather than saving a few $/£ and later
regretting it.
Otto
On 2 January 2012 05:14, Arjun Singhal <arjunsinghal@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Thanks Jurgen and Otto
>
> My cousin just lent me her Canon Legria to try out. I am thinking of using
> it for one or two events in the coming weeks. It's a very basic camera that
> records over 8 Gigs of internal memory or an SD HC card.
>
> I got a 4 GB Verbatim Class 6 memory card free when I purchased my DSLR.
> The Verbatim site mentions that their Class 6 memory card is 10 MB per
> second capable. They don't manufacture anything beyond Class 6. I have
> another Verbatim 16 GB Class 6 and a Transcend 16 GB Class 10 for the DSLR
> that I use for stills.
>
> I am still contemplating if at all an entry level handycam will be good or
> is it better to save a little and get a more capable one.
>
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Re: Rotating Ext. HDD
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Sun Jan 1, 2012 9:26 pm (PST)
I would beg to differ here. Time Machine intelligently tracks what files have changed since the last back up. So even if it reads the disk every hour, it only makes incremental changes to your back up. The more frequent it happens, it allows you to go back to a previous version of a file in history with ease. And that is the main USP of time machine. It doesn't back up your entire hard disk every hour. If it started to do that, the procedure would require many hours to complete each time it got initiated, that being most people have a few hundred gigs of data to store away.
I really think it is unnecessary to play around with Time Machine. What I have done is to set the "Back up on Battery Power" to off, which saves me the loss in battery power while the notebook is not plugged in.
On 01-Jan-2012, at 8:02 PM, Les Streater wrote:
> Hourly seemed excessive to me too, so I tried a programme called Time Machine Editor. Works alongside Time Machine but allows you to control what is backed up and when. I have mine set to twice a day.
>
> I also use a programme called Back Up Loupe to watch exactly what is being archived.
>
> Can recommend both, have used for about 12 months
>
> On 1 Jan 2012, at 14:18, Budd wrote:
>
> > Hourly backups are good for a production environment, but overkill for personal use. In retrospect though, that means little will have changed and the b/u will be short.
> > .
> >
> >
> >
>
> Les Streater
> www.lesstreater.com
>
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>
>
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OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Sun Jan 1, 2012 11:03 pm (PST)
Hi
I am facing this queer problem with the new OS X feature that is supposed to bring the Mac back to its original state after a restart (or shutdown), with regard to open windows and applications.
For those who're not used to the feature yet, there's an option that says "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS X Lion.
I use a few applications while I am working, including Apple Mail, Twitter, Whistle Phone, Skype, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, Pages, MAMP, Text Wrangler, Photoshop, iPhoto, Stickies, Address Book etc. Some of these applications don't run in the background if you press the "X" button on them, so they are anyway off after use - like Address Book for example.
Once in a few days, I like to restart my machine (an old habit I have from Windows which had to be restarted at least once a day, if not more). Sometimes I feel that even OS X is able to manage memory better after a restart and works more efficiently.
Anyway, my problem is that many times when I press restart, something or the other will prevent a simple shut down of the machine in the procedure. This happens on two levels - first if my iPad or iPhone is connected and syncing to iTunes, iTunes will prevent the shut down. At other times, there are these perfectly working applications like Apple Mail or Twitter which don't seem to be a bother at all while running in the background, but I get a message saying that the App is running and prevented the shut down, and obviously, I need to go and exit the App manually. Sometimes even need to use Force Quit - I do not know the reason why. And what happens in the process is that, the Mac has already shut down my Photoshop or Pages or Text Wrangler app windows, and when the computer restarts, these applications don't come back up as expected.
It becomes bugging, because the expected behavior of the operating system didn't perform well enough.
I am not sure if anyone else has also experienced this, but is there a better way to handle this expectation from the OS? If one tries to ignore it, the option of "reopen windows" is checked by default for Shutdown and Restart menus, and to have all the windows pop back up is bugging if by default you don't expect them to be there. I understand I am being very finicky when I express "expectation" and "desired result" but if you're like me, and work using more than a few applications all the time, it is a good thing to have your apps on again after that occasional restart...
Regards,
Arjun
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Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Mon Jan 2, 2012 12:43 am (PST)
On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am facing this queer problem with the new OS X feature that is supposed to bring the Mac back to its original state after a restart (or shutdown), with regard to open windows and applications.
>
> For those who're not used to the feature yet, there's an option that says "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS X Lion.
>
> I use a few applications while I am working, including Apple Mail, Twitter, Whistle Phone, Skype, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, Pages, MAMP, Text Wrangler, Photoshop, iPhoto, Stickies, Address Book etc. Some of these applications don't run in the background if you press the "X" button on them, so they are anyway off after use - like Address Book for example.
>
> Once in a few days, I like to restart my machine (an old habit I have from Windows which had to be restarted at least once a day, if not more). Sometimes I feel that even OS X is able to manage memory better after a restart and works more efficiently.
>
> Anyway, my problem is that many times when I press restart, something or the other will prevent a simple shut down of the machine in the procedure. This happens on two levels - first if my iPad or iPhone is connected and syncing to iTunes, iTunes will prevent the shut down. At other times, there are these perfectly working applications like Apple Mail or Twitter which don't seem to be a bother at all while running in the background, but I get a message saying that the App is running and prevented the shut down, and obviously, I need to go and exit the App manually. Sometimes even need to use Force Quit - I do not know the reason why. And what happens in the process is that, the Mac has already shut down my Photoshop or Pages or Text Wrangler app windows, and when the computer restarts, these applications don't come back up as expected.
>
> It becomes bugging, because the expected behavior of the operating system didn't perform well enough.
>
> I am not sure if anyone else has also experienced this, but is there a better way to handle this expectation from the OS? If one tries to ignore it, the option of "reopen windows" is checked by default for Shutdown and Restart menus, and to have all the windows pop back up is bugging if by default you don't expect them to be there. I understand I am being very finicky when I express "expectation" and "desired result" but if you're like me, and work using more than a few applications all the time, it is a good thing to have your apps on again after that occasional restart...
The new feature returns the Mac back, not to the original state, but to the state just prior to shut down.
If some of the apps have quit before the shut down was aborted, that is the state it will return it to on the next start up. Performing just as advertised, even though it is a new feature.
I just wish there was a Pref Panel for this new feature, and that the default was not to return to the previous state. I find it a PITA. I use Login Items to restart certain background applications, but I prefer to manually open the foreground apps and active windows. And I always have a half dozen apps running.
Shutting down your Mac while syncing an iDevice is not a good idea, and that is why that prevents the shut down. It is saving you from possibly bricking your iDevice.
If Mail is idle, it should not prevent a shut down. With the exception of iTunes, for good reason, I believe all of the Apple apps will play nice with a shut down.
I have seen certain versions of Firefox prevent a shut down, and I can imagine that MAMP and Photoshop might prevent a shut down.
Start up MAMP with Login Items in System Prefs, but why would you want to always want to automatically start up Photoshop and iPhoto? Address Book opens almost instantaneously. And why do you need two word processing apps running in background. Oh, well, those are your choices.
The new feature works as advertised. Figure out which specific app or apps are not allowing the shut down and the new feature will work as you want. It is not the Apple apps causing the problem but the third party apps.
Brent
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Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Mon Jan 2, 2012 1:37 am (PST)
It's the Apple apps mostly the prevent the shutdown - Mail is the biggest culprit. Twitter bombed out once or twice, but Mail is almost always preventing it.
Are you part of the Apple advertising team? Because the part is, that in the user experience, I did not shut down the apps. I wanted them back again after the restart. But because the shutdown operation was prevented by an app in the queue, the apps that the system has closed in the meantime do not open up when the restart is successful.
P.S.: Whenever I write to the group to ask people if they are facing similar problems, why do you always write back in a style that says, "Your fault! you saw the advertisement and bought an Apple! Is Apple such a big mistake?" Or is it against the theme of the group that members be allowed to share their experiences or ask for help?
On 02-Jan-2012, at 2:13 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am facing this queer problem with the new OS X feature that is supposed to bring the Mac back to its original state after a restart (or shutdown), with regard to open windows and applications.
> >
> > For those who're not used to the feature yet, there's an option that says "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS X Lion.
> >
> > I use a few applications while I am working, including Apple Mail, Twitter, Whistle Phone, Skype, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, Pages, MAMP, Text Wrangler, Photoshop, iPhoto, Stickies, Address Book etc. Some of these applications don't run in the background if you press the "X" button on them, so they are anyway off after use - like Address Book for example.
> >
> > Once in a few days, I like to restart my machine (an old habit I have from Windows which had to be restarted at least once a day, if not more). Sometimes I feel that even OS X is able to manage memory better after a restart and works more efficiently.
> >
> > Anyway, my problem is that many times when I press restart, something or the other will prevent a simple shut down of the machine in the procedure. This happens on two levels - first if my iPad or iPhone is connected and syncing to iTunes, iTunes will prevent the shut down. At other times, there are these perfectly working applications like Apple Mail or Twitter which don't seem to be a bother at all while running in the background, but I get a message saying that the App is running and prevented the shut down, and obviously, I need to go and exit the App manually. Sometimes even need to use Force Quit - I do not know the reason why. And what happens in the process is that, the Mac has already shut down my Photoshop or Pages or Text Wrangler app windows, and when the computer restarts, these applications don't come back up as expected.
> >
> > It becomes bugging, because the expected behavior of the operating system didn't perform well enough.
> >
> > I am not sure if anyone else has also experienced this, but is there a better way to handle this expectation from the OS? If one tries to ignore it, the option of "reopen windows" is checked by default for Shutdown and Restart menus, and to have all the windows pop back up is bugging if by default you don't expect them to be there. I understand I am being very finicky when I express "expectation" and "desired result" but if you're like me, and work using more than a few applications all the time, it is a good thing to have your apps on again after that occasional restart...
>
> The new feature returns the Mac back, not to the original state, but to the state just prior to shut down.
>
> If some of the apps have quit before the shut down was aborted, that is the state it will return it to on the next start up. Performing just as advertised, even though it is a new feature.
>
> I just wish there was a Pref Panel for this new feature, and that the default was not to return to the previous state. I find it a PITA. I use Login Items to restart certain background applications, but I prefer to manually open the foreground apps and active windows. And I always have a half dozen apps running.
>
> Shutting down your Mac while syncing an iDevice is not a good idea, and that is why that prevents the shut down. It is saving you from possibly bricking your iDevice.
>
> If Mail is idle, it should not prevent a shut down. With the exception of iTunes, for good reason, I believe all of the Apple apps will play nice with a shut down.
>
> I have seen certain versions of Firefox prevent a shut down, and I can imagine that MAMP and Photoshop might prevent a shut down.
>
> Start up MAMP with Login Items in System Prefs, but why would you want to always want to automatically start up Photoshop and iPhoto? Address Book opens almost instantaneously. And why do you need two word processing apps running in background. Oh, well, those are your choices.
>
> The new feature works as advertised. Figure out which specific app or apps are not allowing the shut down and the new feature will work as you want. It is not the Apple apps causing the problem but the third party apps.
>
> Brent
>
>
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- 8d.
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Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart
Posted by: "J Masters" johnmasters@me.com joemastersk
Mon Jan 2, 2012 1:40 am (PST)
On 2 Jan 2012, at 08:43, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am facing this queer problem with the new OS X feature that is supposed to bring the Mac back to its original state after a restart (or shutdown), with regard to open windows and applications.
> >
> > For those who're not used to the feature yet, there's an option that says "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS X Lion.
> >
> > I use a few applications while I am working, including Apple Mail, Twitter, Whistle Phone, Skype, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, Pages, MAMP, Text Wrangler, Photoshop, iPhoto, Stickies, Address Book etc. Some of these applications don't run in the background if you press the "X" button on them, so they are anyway off after use - like Address Book for example.
> >
> > Once in a few days, I like to restart my machine (an old habit I have from Windows which had to be restarted at least once a day, if not more). Sometimes I feel that even OS X is able to manage memory better after a restart and works more efficiently.
> >
> > Anyway, my problem is that many times when I press restart, something or the other will prevent a simple shut down of the machine in the procedure. This happens on two levels - first if my iPad or iPhone is connected and syncing to iTunes, iTunes will prevent the shut down. At other times, there are these perfectly working applications like Apple Mail or Twitter which don't seem to be a bother at all while running in the background, but I get a message saying that the App is running and prevented the shut down, and obviously, I need to go and exit the App manually. Sometimes even need to use Force Quit - I do not know the reason why. And what happens in the process is that, the Mac has already shut down my Photoshop or Pages or Text Wrangler app windows, and when the computer restarts, these applications don't come back up as expected.
> >
> > It becomes bugging, because the expected behavior of the operating system didn't perform well enough.
> >
> > I am not sure if anyone else has also experienced this, but is there a better way to handle this expectation from the OS? If one tries to ignore it, the option of "reopen windows" is checked by default for Shutdown and Restart menus, and to have all the windows pop back up is bugging if by default you don't expect them to be there. I understand I am being very finicky when I express "expectation" and "desired result" but if you're like me, and work using more than a few applications all the time, it is a good thing to have your apps on again after that occasional restart...
>
> The new feature returns the Mac back, not to the original state, but to the state just prior to shut down.
>
> If some of the apps have quit before the shut down was aborted, that is the state it will return it to on the next start up. Performing just as advertised, even though it is a new feature.
>
> I just wish there was a Pref Panel for this new feature, and that the default was not to return to the previous state. I find it a PITA. I use Login Items to restart certain background applications, but I prefer to manually open the foreground apps and active windows. And I always have a half dozen apps running.
>
> Shutting down your Mac while syncing an iDevice is not a good idea, and that is why that prevents the shut down. It is saving you from possibly bricking your iDevice.
>
> If Mail is idle, it should not prevent a shut down. With the exception of iTunes, for good reason, I believe all of the Apple apps will play nice with a shut down.
>
> I have seen certain versions of Firefox prevent a shut down, and I can imagine that MAMP and Photoshop might prevent a shut down.
>
When I ran MAMP on Snow Leopard I always had to shutdown Apache first then MAMP else I got the behaviour described above.
> Start up MAMP with Login Items in System Prefs, but why would you want to always want to automatically start up Photoshop and iPhoto? Address Book opens almost instantaneously. And why do you need two word processing apps running in background. Oh, well, those are your choices.
>
BTW TextWrangler is not a word processor it's a text editor. Different uses.
> The new feature works as advertised. Figure out which specific app or apps are not allowing the shut down and the new feature will work as you want. It is not the Apple apps causing the problem but the third party apps.
>
> Brent
>
>
- 8e.
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Re: OS X Lion - Reopen tabs at restart
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Mon Jan 2, 2012 1:58 am (PST)
Thanks John. Brent did have me confused on that point. It was only now that I understand that he was meaning Text Wrangler and Pages.
Otherwise also, I've seen people in office, moving their content between Pages and Word, especially when sending it out to clients. I just asked them, and it seems that neither of Pages or Microsoft Words prevent a shut down.
The bummer is that you're expecting the apps to go off, and the system to restart and the apps to come back. But the apps go off one by one, and the system doesn't shut down or restart, and you're left looking at a dock with less number of running apps, and you want them back.
I wouldn't like to set up Pages or MAMP as start up apps, because I do not "always" use these apps. At max, I like to keep the frequently accessed apps in the dock, so I don't have to open LaunchPad every time I want to work with it.
By the way, does anyone prefer the Applications Stack as opposed to Launch Pad? Although Launch Pad is cool if you want to show off an iPad like interface, but if you have a lot of Apps, the stack folder that gets organized by name is much easier when you're looking for an installed app of which you remember the name, but not its position in Launchpad. What say? (O'Brent, I apologize if you're thinking it's my fault I am using OS X Lion, but on my older Mac, I had the option to go back to Snow Leopard, but on the Late 2010 machines, I just don't. And if you do know of a forum where I can give feedback on the OS X Lion enhancements, I would love to join that and share my experiences).
On 02-Jan-2012, at 3:10 PM, J Masters wrote:
>
> On 2 Jan 2012, at 08:43, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am facing this queer problem with the new OS X feature that is supposed to bring the Mac back to its original state after a restart (or shutdown), with regard to open windows and applications.
>>>
>>> For those who're not used to the feature yet, there's an option that says "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS X Lion.
>>>
>>> I use a few applications while I am working, including Apple Mail, Twitter, Whistle Phone, Skype, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, Pages, MAMP, Text Wrangler, Photoshop, iPhoto, Stickies, Address Book etc. Some of these applications don't run in the background if you press the "X" button on them, so they are anyway off after use - like Address Book for example.
>>>
>>> Once in a few days, I like to restart my machine (an old habit I have from Windows which had to be restarted at least once a day, if not more). Sometimes I feel that even OS X is able to manage memory better after a restart and works more efficiently.
>>>
>>> Anyway, my problem is that many times when I press restart, something or the other will prevent a simple shut down of the machine in the procedure. This happens on two levels - first if my iPad or iPhone is connected and syncing to iTunes, iTunes will prevent the shut down. At other times, there are these perfectly working applications like Apple Mail or Twitter which don't seem to be a bother at all while running in the background, but I get a message saying that the App is running and prevented the shut down, and obviously, I need to go and exit the App manually. Sometimes even need to use Force Quit - I do not know the reason why. And what happens in the process is that, the Mac has already shut down my Photoshop or Pages or Text Wrangler app windows, and when the computer restarts, these applications don't come back up as expected.
>>>
>>> It becomes bugging, because the expected behavior of the operating system didn't perform well enough.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if anyone else has also experienced this, but is there a better way to handle this expectation from the OS? If one tries to ignore it, the option of "reopen windows" is checked by default for Shutdown and Restart menus, and to have all the windows pop back up is bugging if by default you don't expect them to be there. I understand I am being very finicky when I express "expectation" and "desired result" but if you're like me, and work using more than a few applications all the time, it is a good thing to have your apps on again after that occasional restart...
>>
>> The new feature returns the Mac back, not to the original state, but to the state just prior to shut down.
>>
>> If some of the apps have quit before the shut down was aborted, that is the state it will return it to on the next start up. Performing just as advertised, even though it is a new feature.
>>
>> I just wish there was a Pref Panel for this new feature, and that the default was not to return to the previous state. I find it a PITA. I use Login Items to restart certain background applications, but I prefer to manually open the foreground apps and active windows. And I always have a half dozen apps running.
>>
>> Shutting down your Mac while syncing an iDevice is not a good idea, and that is why that prevents the shut down. It is saving you from possibly bricking your iDevice.
>>
>> If Mail is idle, it should not prevent a shut down. With the exception of iTunes, for good reason, I believe all of the Apple apps will play nice with a shut down.
>>
>> I have seen certain versions of Firefox prevent a shut down, and I can imagine that MAMP and Photoshop might prevent a shut down.
>>
>
> When I ran MAMP on Snow Leopard I always had to shutdown Apache first then MAMP else I got the behaviour described above.
>
>> Start up MAMP with Login Items in System Prefs, but why would you want to always want to automatically start up Photoshop and iPhoto? Address Book opens almost instantaneously. And why do you need two word processing apps running in background. Oh, well, those are your choices.
>>
>
> BTW TextWrangler is not a word processor it's a text editor. Different uses.
>
>> The new feature works as advertised. Figure out which specific app or apps are not allowing the shut down and the new feature will work as you want. It is not the Apple apps causing the problem but the third party apps.
>>
>> Brent
>>
>>
>
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Almost 90 Gigabytes Missing
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Mon Jan 2, 2012 2:06 am (PST)
Hi
Sharing part of the screen shot of available disk space on my MacBook Pro's hard drive.
I know I shared a post about this earlier, and back then it was just 26 Gigs missing. I've been moving some data around from my external drives over the weekend, and now something's eaten up 90 Gigs that are not showing in the spotlight window. Or maybe the stats are incorrect. I am just not sure what to do right now.
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Arjun
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Re: Where did my files go?
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Mon Jan 2, 2012 3:17 am (PST)
2012/1/2 OBrien <bco@hiwaay.net>
>
> Unless you immediately "Undo" the "Undo"...this will bring them back.
> They're not actually +gone+...they're just not visible in the directory.
>
Just tried this again to be sure.
I copied a folder from an SD card to the Desktop, ejected the card, then
command-z. The folder disappears from the Desktop as expected. The Edit
menu offers Redo but if I attempt this I get
'The operation cannot be completed because one or more of the required
items cannot be found.
(Error code -35)'
So, as I said, Redo is possible *only if the source of the copy is still
available*. This would not be the case if, say, you had reformatted the
card after the copy. IMO Redo *should* simply "reinstate" the files but it
does not: the copy is actually repeated (if it can be).
(This is 10.5.8. Can someone check this in 10.4, 10.6, or 10.7?)
Otto
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