Since most autoplaying stuff is still Flash based this might be a good
time to fiddle with getting something like ClickToFlash installed on
Safari. Pages load faster when Flash ads and videos aren't running and
if you do want one you just action the spot and that particular flash
widget is allowed to load. Details on this are in the email archives but
if you want to get that set up and get stuck just ask. I did mine years
ago so I'd have to dig up the URLs and such.
CB
On 6/6/14, 2:01 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Steve,
I’m not sure why or what started auto-playing for you. It’s never
happened to me on that page before. If it keeps doing that to you,
try a cmd-a to Select All on the page, go into TextEdit, up to its
Format menu and choose “Make Plain Text”, then paste in the stuff.
You can then read it without all the extraneous garbage.
Later…
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the
damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop
them? It’s still babbling away while I’m writing this mail. I can
close the window of Safari byt then I can’t read the article. I hate
auto play. I can’t find any controls to stop the playback. This just
sucks!
On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Alex,
Yes, I’m saying that you should totally wipe the HD. That is, after
starting up from the thumb drive, go to Disk Utility and
re-partition your drive to one partition named Macintosh HD. Any
subsequent partitions should be done later on the live drive. This
will ensure that the Recovery Partition is created properly. Not
sure where the other individual got there info but this is sound
practice. If you used DiskMaker X to create your bootable Mavericks
Installer, on the thumb drive or the built-in “Create Install Media”
utility of the Mavericks Installer, then a proper Recovery Partition
will be automatically created. If you used the Disk Utility method,
then the Recovery Partition must have already existed in order to
create a proper installation. The problem in your case is that you
need to do a total re-format, so, using the existing Recovery
Partition is not of any benefit. Refer to
http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html
for info on these limitations. In addition, if you didn’t perform a
complete wipe during your last clean install, these errors may have
carried over thus any disk structure issues would have persisted.
Hope this makes sense.
Later…
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to
my external hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung
for about thirty seconds, while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve
come to dread. Still, it’s working, thankfully; my main partition
won’t even boot.
As to wiping, I’m still not sure what to do. I mean, I know how to
format the drive from the OS X on my thumb drive and then install,
the question is, what do I do with my partitions? I have two, one
Macintosh HD and one OS X Beta Partition. When I did a clean
install back in March, I had only the Macintosh HD partition and so
didn’t need to worry. I reformatted that partition, but didn’t
actually erase it, as people I asked told me that completely
erasing the Macintosh HD partition could turn out badly. Are you
saying that I should format the entire drive, wiping out both
partitions? If I do that, won’t it affect the installation of the
OS, or will the installer partition as necessary?
On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
For expediency purposes, I wouldn’t worry about re-mapping
partitions etc., you’re just going to wipe the drive and
re-partition anyway. Regarding grabbing those files, if you
startup from your thumb drive, then go under it’s Apple menu to
Startup Disk, you should be able to select the 10.9.3 beta
partition as your startup disk. if things are OK in that area of
the HD. Once you’ve started with that version of the OS, you
could quickly get the files you want and place them onto whatever
media you want. You could then go ahead and do the total
wipe/re-partition and re-install from your 10.9.3 thumb drive.
It’s best to do it from there since it needs to be done from a
external source in order to completely reformat the drive.
If you’re unable to startup from your beta partition, then the
drive is in fairly rough shape and you’d either need to use
Terminal commands to grab those files or just give up on them.
HTH.
Later…
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks guys. I have a thumb drive with Mavericsk that I’ve used
before, and that I keep around now that we have a couple Macs in
the house. I’ll use that. Before I do though, is there any way to
copy off any other files I’d like to keep, ones I could recover
but that it’d be easier just to have if I can get them? I could
probably boot into that beta partition and copy, but I don’t know
if I’ll have the permissions to do that. I’ll also need a way to
erase the beta partition, if that is indeed the problem. I only
tested one OS, the 10.9.3 beta a month ago, but I suppose it
could have caused the problem. Anyway, can I erase that from Disk
Utility on the recovery HD, and if so, how would I do that and
merge its space back to Macintosh HD?
On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I agree with Chris that it could very likely be a software
thing. So, since you have a Time Machine backup that is fairly
up-to-date and you say that you have your important files backed
up, I’d go for the reformat and reinstall option. If you don’t
have an external HD or the cables that I mentioned earlier,
there is a neat little utility within the Mavericks Installer
that allows you to build a bootable Mavericks installer on a
flash drive that is at least 8 GB in size. If you wish to go
that way, I can share instructions with you.
Later…
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:00 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
You mentioned a 50GB partition for OSX betas. So were you
running beta OSes on this box? If so, it's at least plausible
that the beta OSX had some kind of bug which mangled data
structures on the drive and, since it had access to your
non-beta partition, it could have mangled your regular OSX boot
drive as well. In other words, this could still have been a
software issue.
CB
On 6/5/14, 9:17 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Hi all,
So, here's the status of my Mac Mini's hard drive.
* Two repairs from the Recovery HD resulted in an error
telling me to format ad re-install.
* I did just that at the end of March, and given that two
repairs couldn't fix whatever errors have accumulated after
three months, it seems like the drive itself is having problems.
* The SMART status of the drive is "verified", not "failing",
which seems odd given the previous points.
* The drive is partitioned into two: 450gb for OS X, and 50gb
for OS X betas. I don't yet know if the beta partition works,
but both share a drive so I'm not optimistic.
Any ideas? I looked at replacing the drive, but the iFixIt
instructions are scary and require special tools. The Mini is
not under Apple Care protection, and my nearest Genius bar is
almost three hours away. Am I just doomed, or is there a
check/repair/miracle program I could run? Any suggestions are
appreciated.
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