Very similar. Just turned off click to flash to play with it. The "Stop
plug-ins to save power" checkbox in advanced by itself didn't seem to
stop youtube from autoplaying. What did work was going to Security and
then hitting the Manage Wesite Settings button next to the Allow Website
Plug-ins checkbox. In there I could pick the Adobe Flash Player plugin
and then set the "when visiting other websites" to Ask. That stopped
Flash but then I couldn't find the video on the page at all. I seemed to
skip right over it. ClickToFlash had each flash element show up as
"Flash Clickable" with voiceover so I could make the video play but skip
the ad. I also set the default media player in ClickToFlash to html5 and
turned off "Load Media player automatically" so Youtube just sits there
with an object called "HTML5 clickable". Somehow it gets some sites to
switch to using html5 video.
CB
On 6/6/14, 2:12 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Chris,
I could be off-base, but I believe that functionality may be built-in
to the newer Safari installations. In the Advance pane of Safari,
there is a section called “Internet Plugins” and directly after it,
there is a checkbox that reads something to the effect “Stop Plugins
from Playing Automatically”. I have it checked and, maybe that’s why
it didn’t start auto-playing for me. When this is set this way, a
little button appears in Safari saying something about “Safari Power
Saver, Click to Play”. I believe that it will then add that address
into the list of acceptable auto-play sites.
This may not be the same, but it sure sounds like it to me.
Later…
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:04 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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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