8/04/2012

[macsupport] Digest Number 9044

14 New Messages

Digest #9044
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Re: App Store notification by "HAL9000" jrswebhome
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Re: App Store notification by "paul smith" waldonny
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Re: Help I need to upgrade! by "Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
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cds, dvs printer by "Gary" outback029
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Scanner by "Gary" outback029
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Re: Scanner by "John Engberg" mrmacbyte
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Re: Calendar Synch by "Michael P. Stupinski" mstupinski

Messages

Fri Aug 3, 2012 7:52 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"HAL9000" jrswebhome

One suggestion: power off the iPhone. Hold top button down till you are asked if you want to power off, then slide yes. Wait a minute. Power up and see if anything changed.

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Barry Austern <barryaus@...> wrote:
>
> Several days ago I got a notification in the menu bar icon that one
> of my apps needed an update. It was WeatherMan Lite. I upgraded it.
> After several restarts it still has the "1" in the icon in red. If I
> go to the App Store it tells me that I do have one that needs
> upgrading. I click on that and I get WeatherMan Lite, grayed out
> because it says it is already updated. How do I get rid of this false
> notification?
> --
> Barry Austern
> barryaus@...
>

Fri Aug 3, 2012 10:57 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"paul smith" waldonny

Could be a glitch in your Dock's cache.
If you are okay with the Terminal, open a Terminal window and type "killall Dock" (without the quotes). The Dock will restart itself automatically.
You can achieve the same result by launching Activity Monitor, locating and selecting the Dock process, and clicking the Force Quit button.
--
PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.8 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.1.1

On Aug 3, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Barry Austern <barryaus@fuse.net> wrote:

> Several days ago I got a notification in the menu bar icon that one
> of my apps needed an update. It was WeatherMan Lite. I upgraded it.
> After several restarts it still has the "1" in the icon in red. If I
> go to the App Store it tells me that I do have one that needs
> upgrading. I click on that and I get WeatherMan Lite, grayed out
> because it says it is already updated. How do I get rid of this false
> notification?

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Fri Aug 3, 2012 9:32 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"neelie" neeliec2000



--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, "neelie" <neeliec2000@...> wrote:
>
> Earlier today I used Onyx to clear my browser and user caches.
>
> Ever since then I'm having a HUGE issue with SLOWNESS. Every window, every application, every EVERYTHING is taking ages and ages to open.
>
> Is this because the computer has to sort of "rebuild" the files each time I open something new?
>
> Plus I'm getting a lot of "script errors."
>
> I've never had this problem using Cache Out X
>
> Running 10.6.8 on a 24" iMac, circa 2007.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> neelie
>

Thank you to Harry, Jim H, Randy, Chris and Paul for comments and suggestions.

I did solve my "slowness" issue today. I restarted with the Install disk, verified the disk (OK), then verified and ran permissions repair. That did the trick. Everything seems to be working just fine.

It is possible that I deleted something I should not have while using Onyx. I thought I was extra careful, but it's entirely possible that I made an error.

I did try to repair permissions prior to booting with the Install disk, and that just seemed to create more problems. But the booting with the Install disk, then going to disk utility worked great.

I will wait to see if I still get script errors as time goes by. It still maybe coming up on time to do a clean install.

Thanks again everyone.

Sat Aug 4, 2012 2:48 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

Nanci,

It might be slow by the latest standards but it should still be usable.
Have you followed Randy's tune-up tips at
<http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html> ?

Otto

On 4 August 2012 00:08, Nanci Harvey <motherfive_2006@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Thanks so much for answering all my mac question. Yes my mac runs so slow
> you can't believe it. My kids laugh at me with their laptops that are so
> much faster. I think I will invest in a new mac since this one is so old
> and really not worth putting any money into it. It was a good computer for
> my first one but I'm ready to go bigger and newer. Thanks for all your
> advice! Nanci
>

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Sat Aug 4, 2012 2:56 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

Of course, this applies to any app that you want in the Dock and isn't
already there. Conversely, if the Dock is cluttered with apps you never
use, just drag them off and they disappear in a puff of smoke (this does
*not* delete the app itself, just its "alias" in the Dock). You can also
move Dock entries around by dragging them.

Otto

On 4 August 2012 02:08, Michael Moloney <moloney.icloud@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jim ... that worked. All good now.
>

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Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:02 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Jon Kreisler" jonkreisler

I myself have had bad luck with WD drives. Hitachi and Seagate have been
good for me.
150 GB will work for boot drives for OS X boot drives (up to and including
Mountain Lion) but I think you will find them small.
Could be good for emergency drives, though. If you obtain an external drive
dock , such as the NewerTech Voyager Q, you can attach the dock to a
FireWire or USB or ESATA cable and mount an internal SATA drive, either 2.5
inch or 3.5 inch. Works great on my Mac Pro FireWire 800. It's
hot-swappable, so you can eject hard drives like they were DVDs. Just one
at a time, though.
Jon

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Jurgen Richter <yahoo-1@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I have a chance of acquiring some 150 GB Western Digital Velociraptor
> drives with these specs:
> 150 GB - SATA 3 GB/sec interface -
> 10,000 RPM - 4.2 msec avg. seek time - 16 MB buffer
> $40 per piece....
>
> First - is this a good drive? I have good things about these
> [Velociraptor] particular drives, though generally not so good things
> about WD.
> Is this size big enough to install as a boot drive for any and any or
> all those OS X versions?
> Should I just keep the OS on that and leave the applications on another
> drive?
>
> I am currently on SnowLeopard and I am considering installing one or two
> of these as Lion or Mountain Lion boot drives as an alternate OS boot
> before committing to Lion or Mt-Lion. Could I partitiion it for both
> Lion versions, or should I not even bother with Lion, now that Mt-Lion
> is out? My production machine has to stay on SnowLeopard until my
> clients green-light the move to Lion or Mt-Lion to be compatible with
> their systems and print drivers (the digital press and inkjet drivers
> from Canon, Xerox and HP are not there yet, so we have to wait for
> that!, or not print....). But I do eventually want to get current with
> the OS once the bugs are worked out. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> These drives would be good scratch drives for Photoshop in any case, but
> I thought their speed might be good, but probably not as good as a SSD
> drive of same size? Certainly cheaper!
>
> Computer specs are: MacPro5,1 [October 2010, bought as refurb June 2011]
> Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
> Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
> Number Of Processors: 2
> Total Number Of Cores: 8
> L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
> L3 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
> Memory: 24 GB
>
>

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Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:13 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"LouisD" ldina

Glad the VoyagerQ dock has worked for you, Jon. I have had two in a row fail. OWC replaced the first under warranty, but they refused to warranty the 2nd. I suspect either a design or manufacturing defect, which is why I asked for a replacement. It was out of warranty, but two in a row suggests a problem with the equipment and I didn't feel I should bear the burden of their problems.

Regarding the original post, I have also had a few problems with WD drives, but no experience with Velociraptor drives. I've had the best results with Hitachi drives. What about an SSD drive for your OS and/or applications? They're really fast and the prices are dropping as they become mainstream. Still more expensive than a rotating drive, but worth considering if speed and reliability are important.

Lou

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Jon Kreisler <jonkreisler@...> wrote:
>
> I myself have had bad luck with WD drives. Hitachi and Seagate have been
> good for me.
> 150 GB will work for boot drives for OS X boot drives (up to and including
> Mountain Lion) but I think you will find them small.
> Could be good for emergency drives, though. If you obtain an external drive
> dock , such as the NewerTech Voyager Q, you can attach the dock to a
> FireWire or USB or ESATA cable and mount an internal SATA drive, either 2.5
> inch or 3.5 inch. Works great on my Mac Pro FireWire 800. It's
> hot-swappable, so you can eject hard drives like they were DVDs. Just one
> at a time, though.
> Jon

Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:10 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary" outback029

Thanks for all the help..my work is all cut out for me now!

Gary

Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:28 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary" outback029

One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
Thanks
Gary

Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:55 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"John Engberg" mrmacbyte


On Aug 4, 2012, at 8:28 AM, "Gary" <wx1u@maine.rr.com> wrote:

> One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> Thanks
> Gary
>

That's always a good option, and that will not be a problem, Gary.

John Engberg

Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:50 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"James Robertson" jamesrob328i

I've occasionally "shared my Internet Connection" with my wife's laptop using Ethernet cables between the two devices to avoid two charges for the WiFi access point in hotel rooms during domestic trips (in the US).

Next week we leave for Europe for 2 weeks. Each of the hotel rooms we'll be staying in ostensibly offers WiFi internet access. Is it the case that I should be able to use the Airport Express (N) router I have lying unused on my shelf to create a LAN in the hotel room? We've not needed to do this in the past because our phones could get their internet access using cellular data, and everything I read tells me I should turn cellular data "off" on our iPhones before the plane takes off in the US and not turn it back on again until we're back on ATT soil (weak attempt at a double entendre there).

The specific question, I guess is that the hotel's router will be doing dhcp, and I'll want my Airport Express to do dhcp for our little private LAN in the hotel room. Will that be possible? Is there any preliminary configuration I can do (creating the network SSID and password for example) using Airport Utility on one of my Macs here at home before we leave?

Thanks so much,

--
Jim Robertson

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Sat Aug 4, 2012 9:53 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

Are the hotels limiting you to only one computer on their Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi
routers generally allow multiple connections.

Otto

On 4 August 2012 13:50, James Robertson <jamesrob@sonic.net> wrote:

> I've occasionally "shared my Internet Connection" with my wife's laptop
> using Ethernet cables between the two devices to avoid two charges for the
> WiFi access point in hotel rooms during domestic trips (in the US).
>
> Next week we leave for Europe for 2 weeks. Each of the hotel rooms we'll
> be staying in ostensibly offers WiFi internet access. Is it the case that I
> should be able to use the Airport Express (N) router I have lying unused on
> my shelf to create a LAN in the hotel room? We've not needed to do this in
> the past because our phones could get their internet access using cellular
> data, and everything I read tells me I should turn cellular data "off" on
> our iPhones before the plane takes off in the US and not turn it back on
> again until we're back on ATT soil (weak attempt at a double entendre
> there).
>
> The specific question, I guess is that the hotel's router will be doing
> dhcp, and I'll want my Airport Express to do dhcp for our little private
> LAN in the hotel room. Will that be possible? Is there any preliminary
> configuration I can do (creating the network SSID and password for example)
> using Airport Utility on one of my Macs here at home before we leave?
>

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Sat Aug 4, 2012 7:11 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"James Robertson" jamesrob328i

I never knew this existed. It's way cool! (Steve Jobs plays FDR in an in-house broadcast production quality video meant to stimulate Apple's sales force at a 1984 Hawaiian sale meeting).

https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80448

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Sat Aug 4, 2012 8:53 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Michael P. Stupinski" mstupinski

Sorry about that! It was as simple as removing the local calendars from Calendar, which is where all the extraneous New Events were located. I also discovered that only the calendars listed under 'iCloud' were synched with iCloud.

............Mike (No longer a dinosaur!)

On Aug 3, 2012, at 8:34 PM, mpstupinski@snet.net wrote:

> OK, I gave up on getting Lion for my MBP, so I upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion. Now I'm still facing a problem with my calendar that I found when I migrated my stuff to the iMac. If I go to iCloud, my calendar there is just as it should be. When I looked at iCal while in Lion, however, it was filled with New Events and what did appear as old events were at the wrong dates.
>
> I thought that when I moved to Lion the new 'Calendar' that appears in place of iCal would synch with iCloud and things would be corrected. They weren't, and now I'm afraid the screwed up calendar will get sent to iCloud and I will have nothing but the screwed up calendar anywhere. I've shut down the iMac until I get my head around this (with the group's help, of course). Isn't the new Calendar supposed to use the calendar on iCloud? If so, how would I force it to be populated with the events currently in the iCloud calendar?
>
> Once I get this straightened out I'll start considering updating the MBP from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. (I just discovered that my Rosetta Stone language program won't work on ML and I wanted to use it on the MBP)
>
> Thanks,
> ................Mike
>

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