Can't make list mode stick
Since mid-September (roughly, but not exactly around the time I upgraded to
Yosemite), I have run into this Finder annoyance.
I have an encrypted sparseimage in which I keep information that needs to stay
secure. I open it daily, and close it when I'm done.
The top level of this volume has always been set to open up in list mode, like
pretty much every other folder on my Mac. But in mid-September, it started
opening up in icon mode.
I've made all the obvious attempts — set it to list mode and closed the window,
then re-opened it ("Welcome, Icons!"); used command-J to force it into list
mode (no change whatsoever), quit XtraFinder and did all of the above directly
in the Finder (same non-success). I even went into the terminal and deleted
the leftover Desktop* files and .DS_Store so it would be rebuilt from scratch.
It opens up in icon mode no matter what I do.
Is there something I haven't tried?
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Re: Can't make list mode stick
But at least twice now I've blown away the .DS_Store file at the top level of
the volume and let it be rebuilt, and that hasn't solved the problem.
> On Oct 26, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>
> wrote:
>
> FWIW, whenever Finder can't parse the .DS_Store file format, it defaults to
> opening in icon mode. I've seen this off and on, but especially with
> Yosemite. My guess is that the .DS_Store file format was never strictly
> defined (i.e., it's a hack), and it easily goes out-of-spec and can't be
> read, thus icon mode.
>
> https://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/
> <https://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/>
>
> -Carl
>
>
>> On Oct 26, 2015, at 12:17 AM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com
>> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Since mid-September (roughly, but not exactly around the time I upgraded to
>> Yosemite), I have run into this Finder annoyance.
>>
>> I have an encrypted sparseimage in which I keep information that needs to
>> stay secure. I open it daily, and close it when I'm done.
>>
>> The top level of this volume has always been set to open up in list mode,
>> like pretty much every other folder on my Mac. But in mid-September, it
>> started opening up in icon mode.
>>
>> I've made all the obvious attempts — set it to list mode and closed the
>> window, then re-opened it ("Welcome, Icons!"); used command-J to force it
>> into list mode (no change whatsoever), quit XtraFinder and did all of the
>> above directly in the Finder (same non-success). I even went into the
>> terminal and deleted the leftover Desktop* files and .DS_Store so it would
>> be rebuilt from scratch. It opens up in icon mode no matter what I do.
>>
>> Is there something I haven't tried?
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Re: Keeping network shares mounted
I sent a message off to Peter Sichel, since this sounds like something that one of his tools does, but have not gotten a response. > On Sep 27, 2015, at 8:41 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > No one? No ideas? > >> On Sep 25, 2015, at 6:04 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> >> Now that the list is back… >> >> I have three machines and a NAS that I need to keep network shares mounted >> on all three machines from he other two machines and the NAS, but this is >> turning out to be a huge problem, especially on the Mac mini running OS X >> Server 10.10.5. >> >> What I need is some utility that automatically checks when a network share >> is missing and then, maybe every 5 minutes, tries to remount it. I need to >> be able to run it on all my machines, and it needs to handle smb:// and it >> need to put the mounts into /Volumes/ and it needs to clean dead mount >> points so I don’t end up with DATA-1 and DOCS-3 mounts instead of DATA and >> DOCS. >> >> One problem is that sometimes I am able to mount shares using my Apple ID >> and sometimes I have to use my short user name, and the mounts look >> different: >> >> Machine 1: >> //shortu@Drobo5N._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TV 16Ti 9.3Ti 6.7Ti58% >> 2483609353 1805610780 58% /Volumes/TV >> //applid@thanatos._smb._tcp.local/Porphyrion 15Ti 5.6Ti 9.0Ti39% >> 373747288 602972067 38% /Volumes/Porphyrion >> >> Machine 2: >> //appleid@10.0.0.113/Porphyrion 15Ti 5.6Ti 9.0Ti39% 0 >> 184467440737095516150% /Volumes/Porphyrion >> //shortu@Drobo5N/TV16Ti 9.3Ti 6.7Ti58% 0 >> 184467440737095516150% /Volumes/TV-1 >> >> You can see that the Drobo mount appears entirely differently between >> machine 1 and 2 and 10.0.0.113 is Thanatos, but I cannot mount it by name on >> Machine 2. (and you can see that TV-1 problem in machine 2). >> >> It’s all very odd and very frustrating. >> >> Ideas? >> >> >> -- >> There's no such thing as too much chocolate. >> >> ___ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > -- > "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.." - > Oscar Wilde > > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Extremely slow airport extreme
The symptoms smell like more than one device having the same IP address; or the IP range of the LAN being set the same as the IP range of the WAN. One thing you could do is compare the speed shown by speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net/> with the speed shown by a tool such as iStat Menus (in real time, while the test is running). If iStat Menus shows big speed going out, but speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net/> shows small speed making it to the far end, then your Mac is sending out a bunch of traffic, the Airport is routing most of it to the wrong device because of the IP address issue, and those packets are getting thrown away by whatever machine they are erroneously being routed to. > On Jun 9, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com> wrote: > > I am having a problem with my Airport Extreme base station which serves as > the router for all the devices (wireline and wireless) in my home. > > I've run several speed tests (mostly using speedtest.net > <http://s.bl-1.com/h/oZ57mqh?url=http://speedtest.net/>, but also checking > one or two others to be sure), and when my main wireline-connected mac is > routed through the airport, I am getting download speeds of ~2Mbps and upload > of 400Kbps (yes, K!!). When I connect the same mac directly to my cable > modem, I get speeds (same test sites) of ~100Mbps download and 10Mbps upload, > which is approximately what my ISP promises. > > I've tried disconnecting all other wireline devices and shutting off the > radio on the airport to run the test and be sure there is nothing else using > massive amounts of network bandwidth, and I still get the same slow speeds > through the airport with only one mac connected. > > I've restarted the airport several times, both with airport utility from the > mac and also by unplugging it for 10-15 seconds. This did not help. > > A related symptom: When I try to open the settings for the airport in airport > utility, it takes a while (2-3 minutes) to "read the settings") > > Questions: > > 1) Has anyone seen this, and if so, know what to do about it? > > 2) is there any way to tell what traffic is going through the airport, to see > if there's anything odd happening? > > 3) is there anything else I should try? or consider? > > The product is an Airport Extreme 802.11AC updated with the latest firmware, > purchased in July of 2014. > > Any help or direction is much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > ___________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Power consumption question
It's somewhat surprising that you did all this sophisticated terminal-based research, but completely overlooked one of the most public meters! :-) In System Information, under Power, last few lines of Battery Information: Battery Installed:Yes Amperage (mA):0 Voltage (mV): 12515 Since watts = volts x amps, 600mA is about 7.5 watts. > On Jun 16, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So a quick question. How much power is 600 mA? (Macbook pro) > > I have determined, via "pmset -g rawlog", that when running on battery, the > difference between integrated video, and discrete video with an external > monitor attached, is about 600 mA. How would I use that to determine the > actual wattage/power usage of hooking up an external monitor? > > (What is the voltage of that battery that is providing the 600mA?) > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: ghost partition...
I have found that Drive Genius is quite clever about removing, resizing, and shifting partitions. It's not free, but it does stuff other tools won't do. > On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a ghost partition on disk. > > It dates from last year, with the release of the Yosemite Beta. I created a > 50gb partition on my MBP, I think I encrypted it just for the fun, I > installed the Yosemite Beta on it, played with it and then I don't remember. > > Now, what I have when I open Disk Utility is a grey space at the bottom of > the partition map. I can click on it, set a name and a format instead of the > current "Free Space", I can click "Apply" but nothing happens. Even after > pressing "Apply", if I try to go to First Aid, I get an "Unsaved changes" > message and that's it. > > There must be a way to reclaim that space... Any idea ? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Connection Reset
No, but the first diagnostic you should try is to create a new, virgin user ID on your Mac, log into it, and try FireFox from there. If it works, you'll know the problem is something you're running in your everyday ID. > On Sep 25, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Chris <ch...@mymac.org.uk> wrote: > > Almost every time I try to connect to a website using FireFox I get the > message, "The connection was reset while the page was loading" > > I've tried disabling Sophos AV On demand Scanning but this doesn't appear to > make a difference. I also tried reverting to an earlier version of FireFox, > but that has no effect. > > I've not touched any of the router ethernet connections. > > Anyone have any idea what's going on? > > Chris > > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: periodic internet speed test?
If I were going to do this, I’d plug a MikroTik router into my LAN and script it to do periodic bandwidth testing against another MikroTIk router somewhere off in the greater internet. But short of that, my only suggestion is that there is a non-Flash, non-Java speed tester at http://speedof.me that you may be able to script to do something if you are clever with such things. It also keeps a history of your test results, so as long as you can cause it to trigger at whatever period you choose, you can come back at any future time and see past results without having to save your own. On May 15, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: Hi: I know this isn't exactly a Mac question, but I'm hoping you'll forgive me and that someone will have some idea I think I am getting highly variable speed from my ISP and rarely getting the speed for which I pay. Using sites like speedtest.net generally show that I am getting good speed at close to spec (occasionally not), but I can only run that test manually when I remember. What I want is something like a shell or automator script that I can set up to run periodically (every 10 minutes, hour, one minutes, whatever) that will do something like speedtest.net and then leaves me with some output that I can log/keep to see if my speed issues are actually a connection issue or if there is something else (I know, lots of possibilities, but I've ruled most out). Does anyone know of anything that will do this? Or how to do this? I can do some shell scripting, I can handle automatic scheduling and I have a web hosting provider where I can place some server-side scripts (e.g. PHP. PERL, Python), but not flash (like Ookla/speedtest.net's installable), sadly. Other ways of doing this or determining speed over time would be helpful as well. Any suggestions and help are very much appreciated. Thanks, Jeff ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari can't verify the identity of the website
I guess I’m somewhat unconvinced, seeing that one other person plus myself saw precisely the same messages you were reporting. I wouldn’t think we all had identical corruption. On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:04 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: It turns out that there are numerous reasons this error can appear (firewall issues, expired/corrupted certs, incorrect system time, etc.). There’s a neat feature in the Keychain.app menu bar called “Keychain First Aid” that allows you to repair a corrupted keychain configuration. I ran that and it detected something that was corrupted and repaired it (sorry, I should have saved the output). Anyway now Safari seems to be silent. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the issue doesn’t come back! Thx, -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine
Well, I’ve learned never to make promises that Time Machine won’t faceplant when you try to do something it’s supposed to be able to do, but it’s supposed to work. On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Sent from my iPad Air On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Everybody's familiar with how to open up a finder window, go to Time Machine, and restore files into it. But there is a less-known mode of time machine which is more Baroque (but cool), in which you go into an actual application, like Mail or iPhoto, and ask it to restore its contents from a backup. If you don't mind restoring your mailboxes one by one, just open up mail, then enter Time Machine, then tell it to restore whatever you want from whatever date you want. Thanks. So restoring mailboxes and data from a backup of Mail on Lion will be restored properly to Mail running on Yosemite? K On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@icloud.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone 5S On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A friend has a MBPro with a 500 GB internal drive. He had about 16GB of free space and as the machine was not running well, he decided to move his Pictures and Movies folders to a 1T external drive freeing up 90 GB of space on his internal drive. He backed up his internal drive and the external drive to a 2T drive. His system was running Lion. Apple did a fresh install of Yosemite on his computer as his attempt to upgrade from Lion to Yosemite via the App Store didn’t go so well and sent him home with instructions on how to restore from his backup. Using Migration Assistant, he restored from Time Machine, but he didn’t have the option to exclude his Pictures and Movies folders that were backed up. The restore seems to work with the exception of Mail failing to import his messages with a message saying “An error occurred during the import. Make sure you have available space in your home folder and try again”. As everything is working fine with the exception of the failed import- his mail accounts are working (pulling mail down), he decided to delete his Pictures and Movies folders that were restored in order to free up space again. In doing so, he now has 91 GB free on his internal drive. Can he use Mail - File - Import Mailboxes to pull his Mail off Time Machine backup? to try to import all his mail? When I launch the Import Mailboxes… I just get a Finder open panel. Or, can he do this by entering Time Machine (the app) on his system and then restore from backup? If so, what does he need to select in Time Machine to go back in time to restore? Should he open ~/Library/Mail and restore from that Library folder? Thanks, Kevin After writing the above, I'm thinking that maybe pointing to the library mail folder and trying to restore won't work because his back up his mail was running on lion and he needs to import those so that Mail on Yosemite can do it's magic on the files. I would like to think he can simply open his ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder and then launch Time Machine to restore that folder, which includes his accounts, mailboxes and mail data. But in doing so, would Mail do the proper “import” given that his backup is Lion Mail and he would be restoring to Yosemite Mail? Is there any risk in doing this? Thanks, Kevin ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine
Everybody's familiar with how to open up a finder window, go to Time Machine, and restore files into it. But there is a less-known mode of time machine which is more Baroque (but cool), in which you go into an actual application, like Mail or iPhoto, and ask it to restore its contents from a backup. If you don't mind restoring your mailboxes one by one, just open up mail, then enter Time Machine, then tell it to restore whatever you want from whatever date you want. On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@icloud.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone 5S On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A friend has a MBPro with a 500 GB internal drive. He had about 16GB of free space and as the machine was not running well, he decided to move his Pictures and Movies folders to a 1T external drive freeing up 90 GB of space on his internal drive. He backed up his internal drive and the external drive to a 2T drive. His system was running Lion. Apple did a fresh install of Yosemite on his computer as his attempt to upgrade from Lion to Yosemite via the App Store didn’t go so well and sent him home with instructions on how to restore from his backup. Using Migration Assistant, he restored from Time Machine, but he didn’t have the option to exclude his Pictures and Movies folders that were backed up. The restore seems to work with the exception of Mail failing to import his messages with a message saying “An error occurred during the import. Make sure you have available space in your home folder and try again”. As everything is working fine with the exception of the failed import- his mail accounts are working (pulling mail down), he decided to delete his Pictures and Movies folders that were restored in order to free up space again. In doing so, he now has 91 GB free on his internal drive. Can he use Mail - File - Import Mailboxes to pull his Mail off Time Machine backup? to try to import all his mail? When I launch the Import Mailboxes… I just get a Finder open panel. Or, can he do this by entering Time Machine (the app) on his system and then restore from backup? If so, what does he need to select in Time Machine to go back in time to restore? Should he open ~/Library/Mail and restore from that Library folder? Thanks, Kevin After writing the above, I'm thinking that maybe pointing to the library mail folder and trying to restore won't work because his back up his mail was running on lion and he needs to import those so that Mail on Yosemite can do it's magic on the files. I would like to think he can simply open his ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder and then launch Time Machine to restore that folder, which includes his accounts, mailboxes and mail data. But in doing so, would Mail do the proper “import” given that his backup is Lion Mail and he would be restoring to Yosemite Mail? Is there any risk in doing this? Thanks, Kevin ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: error -8060?
It’s often more efficient to bull through Trash errors than try to analyze them. Have you tried going to the Trash folder in terminal and using rm? Even if it also fails, you may get a more recognizable error message. On Mar 30, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: Just in the past few days, I've started to get this error message when I try to empty the trash: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8060). And the trash fails to empty. It may have started when I installed security update 2015-003 or a few days after that, I don't recall the exact day it showed up. I looked up the error codes on Apple's site and -8060 is not listed, which also concerns me. Has anyone else seen this? Is it serious? is there a fix? Thank you! Jeff iMac, OS/X 10.10.2 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mounting a sparse bundle as read only?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the big picture here, but Time Machine allows you to specify files and volumes that are not to be backed up; and, although I’ve never tried it, I would try setting discretionary read-only permissions on the bundle and/or the interior volume to prevent any accidental modification of the contents. On Mar 29, 2015, at 6:57 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-03-28, at 12:36 AM, @lbutlr krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 21:33, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to mount a sparse bundle as read only? keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /dev/disk3s2 mount: /dev/disk3s2: unknown special file or file system. keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /Volumes/Isolated\ old\ stuff/ mount: /Volumes/Isolated old stuff/: unknown special file or file system. keybounceMBP:~ michael$ Unmount the image first, then hdiutil attach -readonly /path/to/image.dmg (I think that’s right, double check the man page, it’s been a while since I used hdiutil_ So what works is simply disk=0s5; diskutil umount disk$disk ; diskutil mount readOnly disk$disk Then, changing that first bit (with ^5^6, or ^0s5^2s2) lets you apply that read-only to any partition that you don't want updated. Good? No. Every read-only partition gets a deep scan on every backup. I even made sure it was read-write, backup could complete successfully, and then read-only. Still gets deep scans. The good news: Now I know how to force a deep scan. The bad news: I don't know how to have a read-only archive that does not need to be updated (I don't want it to be updated) and still just backup is a no-op because it is read-only and not changing. -- All I know is that using the strap makes me feel like a hot woman in sunglasses. :-) ~jeffcarlson ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Disk1s2: i/o error
Drive Genius has a “Scan” tool that destructively writes and reads every block on a drive, and will map all the bad blocks out (assuming any spares are still left). This may or may not solve your problem, depending on what your hardware problem actually is. The other bad news is that the last time I ran this over an external 500GB drive (FireWire 800), the estimated time to complete was 11 days. Of course, as Murphy would have it, the system got rebooted to install updates after five days, and all the time spent on the job was out the window. On Mar 28, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: So my external 500 GB drive is giving me I/O errors. I'd like some advice, other than throw it away. In the past, when I had drives directly attached inside the computer, I could do a low-level format, and generally had good luck letting that solve errors. This is a USB drive. I don't know how to do a low-level format. I don't know if a simple Flush and re-write will solve things. I know that hard drives have spare sectors for mapping bad sectors, so I'm assuming that this is a read error somewhere. But the only thing the kernel tells me is Mar 28 11:11:29 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error. Mar 28 11:12:02 --- last message repeated 1 time --- Mar 28 11:12:02 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error. Mar 28 11:12:35 --- last message repeated 1 time --- No indication of which block ID, what kind of device status flags, etc. I have never had a unix kernel report so little information. There is no /var/log/kernel.log (10.9.5), so there's no place to look for more details. My current best thinking is to force random writes to the whole disk (there's a diskutil command for that), and if that works without errors, and a read of the disk (cat /dev/rdisk1) works without errors, then whatever happened is probably transient enough to resume use of the drive. I do have a time machine backup, so excluding the concern of files suffering bitrot on the backup drive, I'm good -- nothing is lost. This drive is USB powered, so it's nice to have with a portable laptop. Advice? Anyone? (I have no idea how to read the smart status of the drive. I'm assuming it's actually maintained in the drive, but I don't know of a tool to report the smart status of a USB-connected drive) --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive
Does he have one of those external drives that is by default set up to encrypt everything? That could have bearing on it. On Feb 22, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Okay - this doesn’t appear to be an iTunes problem. He just tested running files off the external drive using VLC player and it too paused for 30 seconds. K On Feb 22, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: I’m hoping someone has some suggestions. A friend of mine, a professor at a major university, unfortunately is relegated to using a Dell laptop with 3 GB of RAM running Windows 7 Enterprise 2009 Service Pack 1. 32-bit. Due to storage constraints, he has been running his iTunes library off an external LaCie D2 Quadra V3C (1.16 TB free out of 1.8.1 TB). His control panel says there is 0% fragmentation. Most of the files he ripped from his CDs are in Apple Lossless format. Some of the videos in his library are from YouTube (H.264?). Playback of both music and video will often pause for 30 - 90 seconds, then resume from where it was paused. It can happen several times in one file. It is random, but happens enough that it’s impossible to listen to music or watch a video. He is running the latest version of iTunes (12.1) which he installed last Friday, but the problem existed prior to the update. He did some searching online and found posts from 2010-2013 talking bout this very playback issue happening on both Windows and Mac - and it seems related to running the library off an external drive. However, I haven’t been able to find any recents posts concerning this problem. I run my music and photo libraries on external drives on 3 machines and am not having this problem running Yosemite. I realize there could be many factors causing the pauses in his case. I asked him to try a different media player using content from the external drive. I know this is a talk list for Mac OS X! But I’m hoping there are some cross-platform experts here who may have run into this problem or have suggestions. Thanks, Kevin ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Moving a Home folder to another computer
If you want easy, just use Migration Assistant to copy over that one user. It knows all about doing the permissions correctly. Then define the user (if Migration Assistant hasn’t already) and you’ll get asked if you want to inherit the home folder that already exists with that name. On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: I have a home folder for a user that I’d like to move onto an iMac running Yosemite that currently does not host this user, but does host a few other users. What’s the best way to do this so that the copied home folder has all the correct permissions? Do I first create the user on Yosemite, then copy the home folder into the /Users folder, then open the System Prefs and change the location of the user’s home folder to the newly copied home folder? Or is there a simpler and better way? Thanks, Kevin ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences
On Jan 7, 2015, at 11:51 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Jan 6, 2015, at 11:29 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: The NTP exploit required the exploiter to be on the same local network as I am. That puts my actual risk in the vicinity of “ho hum. If you are on a cable connection there might be a few thousand people on your “local” network. I am my own internet provider. I am well firewalled and am quite aware of the security available on my network. I want to decide when new stuff hits the computer I own, thank you very much. If you leave a machine on the Internet that can be completely exploited then you are a danger to me. Oh, puh-leeze. If you really believe the collectivist nonsense that other people somehow owe you a duty to run their machines to your standards, then you’d better get your tinfoil hat on and climb down into your fallout shelter, because there are millions of them out there who aren't. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences
On Jan 6, 2015, at 3:18 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 03 Jan 2015, at 19:22 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I do remember all of my computers recently having a message panel pop up that said something about a security update. This was the first time that I recall thinking that the update had been performed without asking for my permission. Yup, everybody saw this, and indeed it was the first time. Not a good precedent. Why would you say that? Wait until the first time they blow the patch… and you’ll say that, too. Remember iOS 8.0.1? It was a remote code-execution with privilege elevation bug against a service that is running on the majority of OS X machines. It doe not get any more critical than that. Machines with an patched ntp were, quite literally, 100% exploitable. The NTP exploit required the exploiter to be on the same local network as I am. That puts my actual risk in the vicinity of “ho hum. I want to decide when new stuff hits the computer I own, thank you very much. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences
On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I do remember all of my computers recently having a message panel pop up that said something about a security update. This was the first time that I recall thinking that the update had been performed without asking for my permission. Yup, everybody saw this, and indeed it was the first time. Not a good precedent. Are you saying that perhaps the update produced this behavior? I suppose it's possible, though only one of my computers is having this problem. Could the bug be hardware-specific? I guess it’s a possibility that the update had something to do with the behavior, but my money is on some different cause. Unfortunately, I can’t say what that cause might me. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iTunes sharing
My first resort would be to log into the old computer as a server from the new computer, make an alias of the old computer's iTunes library, and then drag it to where your iTunes library would be on the new computer. This assumes you don't have an active iTunes library on the new computer to abandon. Then, whenever you activate iTunes, it would automatically mount the iTunes library on the old server as if it were your own library. Depending on how you have sharing set up, you may or may not have to login to the server every time you want to run iTunes, but you can control that. On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, I have a 2012 Mac Pro (tower style) and a 2013 Mac Pro (new cylinder design), where the latter is now my main computer. A few weeks ago, I asked how to allow the new Mac Pro to share the optical drive on the old Mac Pro to import music from CDs into iTunes. The eventual answer was that it's not possible, probably due to DRM issues. I can share the optical drive for data, but not music from commercial CDs (unless I reboot into Target Disk Mode each time I want to import a CD, which I would rather not do). I could also buy an external optical drive and attach it to the new Mac Pro, but I would rather use my current optical drive and avoid unnecessary clutter (and expense). So now my thinking is that perhaps I could use the old Mac Pro to hold my iTunes music and then share its iTunes library with the new Mac Pro. This seems to mostly work, but there is one glitch. I am running iTunes 12.0.1.26 and OSX 10.9.5 on both machines. With iTunes sharing turned on, I see a little house icon with a musical note symbol in the upper left corner of the iTunes window. When I click on it, I see 2 menu items. The first item is This Computer and the second points to the name of my iTunes library. When I choose the second item, it connects me to the iTunes library on the old Mac Pro (via my local network), which is what I want. I also have to click on Artists in the upper right corner, since I prefer this view and the default view seems to be Albums. The glitch is that every time I quit iTunes and restart it (on the new Mac Pro), I have to go through this 2-step selection again. Is there any way to make my preferences stick? I renamed my iTunes Media folder on the new Mac Pro, but that did not work. Each time I start iTunes, I have to switch from This Computer to the remote iTunes library and I have to switch from Albums to Artists. How can I get my choices to stick? I did not try deleting (rather than renaming) the iTunes Media folder on the new Mac Pro, since I like having backups of important material. I thought that moving or renaming the folder would be enough, but perhaps it's not. I guess I will try that next, unless someone has a simpler solution. Thanks, Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Trying to update Pages
You can try the following, which may or may not work. Open System Preferences / Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab. Drag the icon of your hard drive into the box. Confirm when it nags you about that. Leave it in there 30 seconds or so, then take it out. That will cause a complete Spotlight re-index of your drive, which is known to cure certain types of App Store colic. The reason it may not work is that the iWork suite seems to have a serial-number-ish validation protocol attached to it in addition to the usual App Store tracking, and this procedure may be insufficient to address that. On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: We have a new Mac mini and in the App Store it wants us to update Pages. So one of the students entered his Apple ID and it popped up a panel saying: * Update Unavailable with This Apple ID * This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled. But... there's no way provided to log into a different Apple ID! Pressing the Update button again just brings up the same idiot box skipping the login step. So I log the student out, log into my account, enter my Apple ID, and now a panel pops up and says: Unknown Error. with a button on the panel that says Sign In, so I click on it. Guess what? Another panel! * We could not complete your request. * There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (4) Am I the only one having this lovely user experience? -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Trying to update Pages
Then if it were me, I’d call Apple and read them the riot act. You shouldn’t be getting this kind of garbage on a NEW Mac Mini. You get 90 days free telephone support, they owe you. On Dec 23, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Thanks for the detailed suggestion. Did as you describe, even waited for mdworker to go quiescent, but still no joy. -Carl You can try the following, which may or may not work. Open System Preferences / Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab. Drag the icon of your hard drive into the box. Confirm when it nags you about that. Leave it in there 30 seconds or so, then take it out. That will cause a complete Spotlight re-index of your drive, which is known to cure certain types of App Store colic. The reason it may not work is that the iWork suite seems to have a serial-number-ish validation protocol attached to it in addition to the usual App Store tracking, and this procedure may be insufficient to address that. On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: We have a new Mac mini and in the App Store it wants us to update Pages. So one of the students entered his Apple ID and it popped up a panel saying: * Update Unavailable with This Apple ID * This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled. But... there's no way provided to log into a different Apple ID! Pressing the Update button again just brings up the same idiot box skipping the login step. So I log the student out, log into my account, enter my Apple ID, and now a panel pops up and says: Unknown Error. with a button on the panel that says Sign In, so I click on it. Guess what? Another panel! * We could not complete your request. * There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (4) Am I the only one having this lovely user experience? -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Merging mail accounts ?
Mail has an archival export function (Mailbox / Export Mailbox and File / Import Mailboxes). I’ve never used the former, but together they sound like the sort of thing that would do what you want. On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote: I've kept an old machine with my old mail running while using a new machine with the exact same pop mail accounts. Now, I'd like to merge the two sets... And it doesn't look like there is a trivial way to do this. Does any of you have any advice ? Jean-Christophe Helary ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: import to iTunes from remote CD?
On Dec 15, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Why does DRM allow me to import songs to a mac that has an optical drive built-in, but not to a mac that has been set up to share the other one's drive? Why do DRM laws allows you to rip an audio CD you own, but not a video DVD you own? The problem is when you expect laws to be logical and consistent, instead of arbitrary contracts for proxy initiation of government force architected by corporate lobbyists. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Numbers Drain Bamage
But there’s no editing bar, only a status bar at the bottom, which shows you the contents of the cell but is not editable. Somebody else gave me the answer: make the column wider so there is plenty of space after the link, click safely to the right of it, and you will eventually get the I-beam cursor. Now drag across the link, control-click, choose Edit Link, then Remove. But drag carefully, because if you don’t select EXACTLY the linked characters and no others, “Edit Link” will not appear. Sigh. On Dec 6, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: I hate this behavior. But I remember a while back I got around it this way: Select/highlight the cell next to the one you want. Use the arrow keys to move to the cell with the hyperlink, then use the editing bar to edit it - don't edit directly in the cell. This may bad been in an earlier version of numbers, but worth a try? Hope it helps. --- On Dec 6, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: In the government computer contracting game, there’s an old industry story about a military RFP issued for a creation of a new model computer according to the detailed specifications of the contracting customer (back in the days before standardized computing platforms emerged). One of the requirements was for each word to have a special bit called the “indirect bit,” which, when set, would cause any reference to that word to instead automatically indirect to the address contained in that word. It was apparently quite an effort to get the point across to the contracting officer that this was a mortal design flaw, since once that bit was set, it could never be unset. As humorous as this story is, I fear Apple may have stepped into exactly this pit. I’m editing a spreadsheet with the current Numbers (3.2.2). I began entering proposed domain names in various cells. When I leave each cell, Numbers detects that it looks like a domain name, and automatically makes a hyperlink out of it. (I didn’t ask it to, but whatever.) Now I need to revise several of these cells... and I can’t do it! Every time I click on the text, I get swept away to a nonexistent website. The hyperlinked text is the ONLY text in the cell, so I can’t click somewhere fore or aft of it and then arrow into it. I can’t click either end of it, because I either hit it and go on a trip, or I don’t get an I-beam cursor. None of the modifier keys do anything useful. The contents of the cell appear in a status line at the bottom of the window, but (unlike Excel) you can’t edit in that line. The help facility tells you only how to create a hyperlink (“set the indirect bit”)—not how to edit or clear one. A Google search comes up with an Apple document advising me to Deactivate hyperlinks so that they can be edited without activating the link… Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Hyperlink inspector button, select 'Make all hyperlinks inactive', edit the text, and then reactivate the link.” Unfortunately, that advice is for Numbers ’09—the current Numbers has no such control I can find, anywhere; not in the inspector, not in preferences, not in a contextual menu. (I’ve found and used this control in Pages, but it’s not in Numbers.) About the only thing I can do is control-click on the cell, choose “Cut,” and retype new contents. Not difficult, but an unpleasant surrender to vendor brain-damage. Does anybody know how one is supposed to achieve this? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Blank screen screen saver?
Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's black. On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:02 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get a blank screen as the screen saver in 10.9.5? I can get all sorts of pictures. I can get a message on a black screen with an apple logo Can I get just plain black? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Using TDM to install onto a bare internal boot drive
TDM isn’t a facility — it’s a just firmware hack that gives you interface access to the drive buses and emulates an external drive enclosure. No OS, no programming is running, except minor firmware such as you would find inside a typical drive enclosure. If you put a Mac into TDM, when you mount it on another machine, the disk drive(s) appear on the desktop (at least under the historic settings of desktop preferences), even including any opticals that may be inserted. Since TDM simply emulates a stupid enclosure, if the internal drive is unformatted, then it will mount as an unformatted drive, which you can format from the working one. Just treat the TDM Mac as a dumb enclosure, and do exactly what you would do if the new drive were in a dumb enclosure. On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: If the former, I would start the empty one in TDM, (ideally) boot the working one from a separate drive or DVD of any version of Mac OS if possible, then use Disk Utility to “restore” the working one’s drive onto the empty one. (It’s best not to be booted from the working drive at this point, because then the drive is being constantly changed. It will usually work, but it’s cleanest to avoid that.) Ah, so that’s the key: booting the good one from an install DVD. Thus TDM sees /all/ drives, mounted or not? Also, I assume that I will need to reformat the new drive (to Mac OS Extended, Journaled) before TDM will touch it. I guess this requires booting that one first from an install DVD to run Disk Utility, and then proceed with performing the TDM transfer? -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac CD slot access
Maybe. It depends how good your tech was at “Operation.” Seriously, I couldn’t answer this question unless the unit were in front of me in the shop. On Nov 4, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Without looking, a new student in our lab slid his SD memory card into the CD slot on his iMac by mistake. And it went all the way in. Kinda makes you wonder how many people have done that before, as they’re adjacent to each other. Anyway, is there any known way to go about extracting it without taking the entire iMac apart? -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac CD slot access
I don’t know what model iMac it is, but all the Macs I have dealt with have a long narrow short-bristled brush strip on each side of the slot (not rubber). So you can part it and look behind it if you’re delicate. On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:11 PM, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: There's a rubber berm at the front slot that's intended to block dust from coming into the unit. Doesn't look like there's any way yo insert anything into it. Certainly no way to 'get lucky' and grab it or have it 'fall out'. Argh. I knew this would happen one day. I’m guessing not…although if you can see it through the slot you might be able to slip a thin knife blade or something in and tease it out. You might need to turn/tilt it to get the card to slid up against the entry slot first. It’s gonna be one of those “ya gotta get lucky” things I think. On Nov 4, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Without looking, a new student in our lab slid his SD memory card into the CD slot on his iMac by mistake. And it went all the way in. Kinda makes you wonder how many people have done that before, as they’re adjacent to each other. Anyway, is there any known way to go about extracting it without taking the entire iMac apart? -Carl --- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: HELP -- I think I messed up 2 hard drives
From the symptoms, it sounds to me like you accidentally did something that started the RAID (or other logical volume) process on that device. Now it’s waiting to be combined with other devices to make up a logical volume. You may have to break out Terminal and dick with the “diskutil coreStorage” suite in order to tell the system you want to revert it to an independent volume. As long as you don’t accidentally target the wrong drive with any of the commands, it’s not dangerous. I had to do this myself to roll my own Fusion drive… and then unroll it again when the experiment failed miserably (Could not mount disk16 with name (null) after erase,” whatever the that means). This article may give you a basic power-user's understanding of how Logical Volume Groups are structured, at least enough for you to do the task ahead of you. On Nov 2, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, When I want to re-use a hard drive for a new purpose, I open Disk Utility and click the Partition tab. Then I choose how many partitions I want, their sizes, and their names. I don't know how I got into the habit of doing this next step, but next I click on the Erase tab and give the same disk name. Today I did this and had problems, even though it has always worked fine in the past. I am running 10.9.5 and the disks are inside a 2012 Mac Pro. Typically in Disk Utility, each disk has a primary entry on the left of the main window, which gives the total size of the disk, the brand, and the model, such as 3 TB Seagate ST33000651AS. And then each partition has its own line, which shows the name of the partition. And lots of useful information is given at the bottom of the window. Earlier today, I re-created a single partition on a 3-TB drive and gave it the name Disk_1. Then I erased the disk and gave it the same name (Disk_1). This is when the trouble started. At this point, both the main line and the indented line showed the same name (Disk_1), rather than the primary line showing something like 3 TB Seagate ST33000651AS. Also, when the primary line is selected, the bottom of the window shows 0 Bytes available and 3 TB used, even though that is not the case. If I click on the indented line, it says 2.99 TB available and 10 GB used, which sounds right. Also, when I click on the primary line, the Type is listed as Logical Volume Group rather than something like SATA Internal. I have tried to repair the disk, but this does not help. I don't see any errors, though the listing is longer than usual. When I select the primary line, I only get 2 tabs (First Aid and Partition) rather than the usual 5 tabs (First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore). And if I click on Partition, everything is greyed out -- I can't choose a new partition layout, or name, or size, nor can I click on the Options button or the Revert button. I do not think the disk itself is bad (or at least not before I started mucking with it), so I tried a second disk and had even worse results. I wondered if the name Disk_1 was a bad choice, since perhaps it is reserved for use by the system (though if so, I would hope the system would warn me not to use that name). So I called this one HD_2. This time, when things looked to be going bad in the same way, I clicked on a Cancel button, hoping to prevent the same problem. But this must have made a worse mess. Now I only have a main entry, and again it says HD_2 rather than something like 3 TB Seagate ST33000651AS. Also, it again says Logical Volume Group rather than SATA Internal. And there is no second, indented line! As before, there are only 2 tabs rather than 5. And if I click on the Partition tab, everything is greyed out, so I can't do anything. What have I done? Is there some way to fix my disks? I tried copying a large file to Disk_1 and it seemed to work. But something sure seems messed up. And I don't know how to rename or repartition these disks. I sure don't trust them in their current state. By the way, somewhere in this process I remember seeing a message about an encrypted disk, but I did not intentially do anything with encryption (now or ever). I don't know if that is related. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance, Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: TimeMachine backups to networked mac?
I did this for years by manually mounting the remote volume, running the initial backup, and then dismounting. Turn out that Time Machine is smart enough to mount the remote volume by itself after that. However, I ran into this pernicious bug where the machine hosting the drive would begin losing the count of network detachments from file sharing, while keeping scrupulous count of the network attachments. After a while, it would decide that more than 10 users were simultaneously filesharing from it, and refuse to allow any more. I would have to turn off File Sharing on that machine for 30 seconds to flush the counter, then turn it back on. It got to the point where I was doing this every day or two, and the bug survived several major OSes. So I took the plunge and ordered the Server version of the OS. (That was back in Snow Leopard — now the Server is more of an additional application package you install on the standard OS.) The bad news is that this reduced the problem, but didn’t eliminate it, at least in Snow Leopard. The better news is that since Mountain Lion or so, I haven’t seen that particular problem. Since then, I’ve found other value to running Server, including preserving the ability for my family to continue to use shared calendars (after Apple killed Sync Services in Lion) without being forced to blow all the details of our lives out to “the cloud,” and the ability to suck down system updates only once instead of once for every machine we own. So in my opinion, for the minor price of the package, if you’re going to run a machine as “a server,” run Server. On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, I have a new Mac Pro (cylinder style) and an old Mac Pro (tower style), both running the latest Mavericks. I would like to set up a disk on the old mac pro that can be used for TimeMachine backups of the new mac pro. How do I do this? Both macs are connected via gigabit ethernet to the same router. I can successfully do screen sharing and file sharing. I thought perhaps I just needed to share my TimeMachine disk on the old mac (via the File Sharing panel in System Preferences), but when I tried this, I could not see that disk when choosing a TimeMachine disk on the new mac. I could only see disks that are directly attached to the new mac. Is it possible to do TimeMachine backups of one mac to a disk on another mac via ethernet? If so, what do I need to do? Thanks, Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: TimeMachine backups to networked mac?
On Oct 30, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Andy Ringsmuth a...@andyring.com wrote: One other benefit to the OS X Server option is the very nice software update caching feature. Once you get OS X Server running, you can enable the caching server. It's awesome. ANY software update from Apple, be it system updates, application updates, iOS updates, iOS app updates, etc., will be cached. Not right away, but here's how it works. The first time any device on your network downloads something cacheable, it will then be cached. Any other devices that need the same update will automatically pull from the caching server. Are you sure? I think that’s true only of “managed clients,” which seem to require some extra software that looks complicated to set up One can achieve the same feature for “unmanaged clients,” but it’s not automatic — it requires a defaults write command on each device to change the target of software update lookups. Supposedly, this queers your machine for standard software update lookups if you try to run one from another location away from your home network (without issuing the inverse defaults write), but I haven’t tested that. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Restoring account from TM onto a different machine
I always make sure that’s the case, as it eliminates a whole passel of extra grief that TM can throw at you. As for the “many incrementals” issue, remember the magic of hard links. Yes, an old file is dumped only once, but every “incremental” made since has a hard link to the original backup image of that file in the proper position in that folder, so it’s true that if you drag a folder from the latest incremental, you will get ALL the files as of that time. On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Hmm. Perhaps such a method would work if the new user account on the new machine not only has the same username but the same user id number as the old, ex. 401. I didn’t check that; maybe that is what TM is keying off of in order to associate the current user with its backups? -Carl On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, I was suggested that method by Apple support a few days ago to restore my son’s machine state, but I’m still waiting for the machine to come back from Apple. Jean-Christophe Helary On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:22, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Actually I had tried to do that, but didn’t see how. The TM drive has many incrementals on it, so dragging my old user account folder from the TM drive to the new machine wouldn’t be valid, as there isn’t a comprehensive backup folder to drag. And entering into TM, it shows no backup history for my account. Did you mean by some other way? -Carl On Oct 15, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote: Or you can create a new account on the new machine with the same name as the old account and drop the stuff that you want in a way that is more selective than Migration assistant does. Jean-Christophe Helary On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:01, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Yeah, I think you're right. Didn't remember having to do that before, but I'll give it a go. Thx! -Carl I think migration assistant is the trick you're looking for. On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:20 PM, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: My iMac died, and I want to restore my user account onto a new machine from the Time Machine backup I have from the old machine. I don't see any way to do it. The new machine sees the TM drive, and will use it as a TM backup drive, but it doesn't present any way to restore from it. Even when entering Time Machine it shows nothing to restore although the drive is half full of TM backups. Is there a trick to doing this, or am I out of luck? -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Manually recreating a user folder
On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:02 AM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: (MBA MacBookAir5,1 i7 with 8 GB RAM, 250 GB drive) So I’ve had several mystery problems ever since upgrading to Mavericks early this year: So the question— is there a “recommended” way to go about this? Or do I just create the account, then start dragging and dropping? That’s the only way I’ve done it when I had to do it. I drag by thirds instead of halves, because it’s faster to go forward than to back stuff out (revirginize the account). ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mother, May I?
On Aug 24, 2014, at 6:50 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 22 Aug 2014, at 20:27 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: The full name of the compiled script is “SPAM Report.app”. It has a typical app bundle, so I’m pretty sure it’s a typical app. The dialog box keeps occurring almost every time I use it. Almost? Almost is very weird. Is there anything the script (like a property) that may cause the script to self-modify? No. If you list the contents of the app bundle, is the modification time of any file getting changed? No. the warning should only come up once for an app, but overtime the app changes, it’s a ‘new’ app. I think “almost” comes from using it more than once before the keychain automatically locks itself, or the like. I think the permission sticks around for some finite time. Or, I could just have remembered wrong — since I wrote that, I’ve been watching more carefully, and haven’t seen the script run even once without begging for permission. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mother, May I?
The full name of the compiled script is “SPAM Report.app”. It has a typical app bundle, so I’m pretty sure it’s a typical app. The dialog box keeps occurring almost every time I use it. On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:11 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 20 Aug 2014, at 17:25 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Aug 20, 2014, at 3:52 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: Is the AppleScript actually saved as a “Application”? There are several ways to save an Applescript to be executable. Try saving it as an Application and checking the “code sign” if you have a code-sign cert. PastedGraphic-4.tiff Script Editor used to save apps in various formats. Is this script older than 10.7? If so, try saving an entirely new version of it as Application It should end up being named scriptname.app instead of ... I think it was .scriptapp? -- And she was drifting through the backyard And she was taking off her dress And she was moving very slowly Rising up above the earth ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: please recommend a laser printer -- FOLLOWUP
On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: The Brother HL-2280DW has auto-duplex and allows both wired and wireless (and USB) connections -- I think the DW means duplex and wired (I don't know what HL means). HL stands for something laser. Their all-in-ones are MFCs (multi-function something — copier? color?). DW means duplex and wireless. N is wired network, T is extra trays. I’ve been buying Brothers exclusively for 20 years. I find that HPs are accompanied by too much Windows-style software bloat, and a Nazi-ish requirement that you do everything (from setup to photo processing) HP’s way instead of the way the Mac OS does it. Their physical printing technology is first-class, but their software architecture is abominable. Conversely, Brothers set up and run like Apple manufactured them. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Mother, May I?
I have an AppleScript I use to bundle up spam and send it to spam-handling services. It accesses my Contacts to get the actual addresses of where to send the various spam. Since I upgraded to Mavericks, nearly every time I use it I am being asked, “SPAM Report would like to access your Contacts. Allow?” It never did that before. Unfortunately, there’s no button for “Yes, dammit, PERMANENTLY,” which is what I want to do. In System Preferences / Security Privacy / Privacy / Contacts, it says “Allow the apps below to access your contacts”, and Spam Report is, in fact, listed there. So I as far as I can see, I shouldn’t be being asked over and over. It’s as if the setting isn’t really permanent, or as if the Mac OS forgets the identity of the SPAM Report script between activations. The AppleScript is compiled as an application, so I don’t know how much more application-like I can make it. Is there some other way to jigger this? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Displaying a Sleep button on screen saver logins
Hah! My first response was to answer, You could just use a feature of long standing: the “'hot corner’” — but when I researched it I realized it can only put your display to sleep, not the Mac. Instead, just use the Apple keyboard shortcut for sleep. There are two of them, depending on whether your Mac/keyboard has a “media eject button” or not: Command-Option-Media Eject keys if you do (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11242); Power button, if you don’t (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343) On Aug 17, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: In OSX 10.9.4 Sys Prefs, under the Users Groups — Login Options, there’s an option that allows you to “Show the Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down buttons” on the login window. Is there such a setting somewhere that allows the Sleep button to be displayed when a password-protected screen saver is running? Currently it only shows the Cancel and Switch User buttons. I would find it very useful to be able to put the machine to sleep without having to re-login to it. -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari and Google
As of Lion or so, Safari got rid of its separate URL and search fields, and combined them into one field, like Internet Explorer has had for years. I believe the algorithm is that if what you're typing clearly looks like a URL, it's tried directly first, otherwise it's sent to your search provider for a search. But there is a preference setting for whether you want whatever you are typing sent to Google for an adaptive search as you type it, and of course while you are in the middle of typing something that will turn out to be a recognizable URL, it's likely to be sent to Google ahead of time if you have that setting on. On Aug 16, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Chris ch...@mymac.org.uk wrote: Hi: Am I being naive or is everything I type in the address bar in Safari, translated via Google? Even if I know the address, the simple act of typing it in the address bar transmits it to Google. If I then use Snitch to block Google, I am unable to connect to the site. All this even without any need to involve Google - or for that matter Bing/Yahoo - since I know the address I want. I would have thought this a major invasion of privacy. AFAIK the only way round it is to type the address into something like DuckDuckGo or IxQuick. Chris ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari and Google
On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Chris ch...@mymac.org.uk wrote: I've been on Snow Leopard for a long time but TBH I must be getting pretty dumb not to realise what was going on with Mavericks. It seems amazing that we go to great lengths to maintain privacy via various cookie cleaners and so on, but right in full sight we are sending every single thing we do to Google's servers. Well, of course, the two classic countermeasures against surveillance are to avoid it and to overload it. If we can keep Google collecting every typo ever made by every illiterate yahoo in the world, then woo hoo. :-) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari and Google
In fact, using the default Safari preferences, even your examples WILL be sent to the search provider *as you are typing them in*, until they become distinguishable as actual URLs. That's the problem. On Aug 16, 2014, at 1:23 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 16 Aug 2014, at 12:16 , Chris ch...@mymac.org.uk wrote: I've been on Snow Leopard for a long time but TBH I must be getting pretty dumb not to realise what was going on with Mavericks. It seems amazing that we go to great lengths to maintain privacy via various cookie cleaners and so on, but right in full sight we are sending every single thing we do to Google's servers. That is not the case. If you type in anything like the following, it goes to your search engine (which does not have to be Google). yahoo largest city in Bolivia randomsite.com These will not be sent to your search provider: apopularsite.com siteyouvevisitedbefore.com randomsite.com/ -- Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: A 14 GB log file
Gmail and OS X Mail have never gotten along well together. Common situations arise where they interfere with each other to produce loops that eat CPU and multiply mail messages. Google os x gmail deleted mail reappears for one example: tons of content. Another is attempting to send an enclosure larger than someone in the mail chain will accept -- in some circumstances, this results in unending creation of new messages at both ends until the offending item is manually removed from the queue. Perhaps your log is documenting one of these awful loops. On Jul 17, 2014, at 7:28 AM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: Just found one, here: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail Filename is something along the lines of “blahblahblah-imap.gmail.com.txt” Any speculation on what-importance/why-a file-would-be-that-size? Yeesh ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Usability: 10.8 versus 10.75?
Confirmed! http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/20/apple-restores-usb-itunes-contacts-calendars-syncing-in-new-os-x-mavericks-1093-itunes-1116-betas Thank you for letting me know about this -- this news flew right by me. On Jun 15, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Derek Chesterfield d...@mac.com wrote: On 16 Jun 2014, at 03:26, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: I have refused to update to 10.9 because I lose the ability to sync my iDevices simply over a USB cable I believe that feature has been restored by the latest iTunes in 10.9 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: What is 'fusefs' and why is it crashing?
https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/76 On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: I'm not sure what this means. It repeats every 10 seconds in the console. OSX 10.8.5. Jun 20 12:42:48 com.apple.kextd[22]: Failed to load /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext - (libkern/kext) link error. Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: kxld[com.google.filesystems.fusefs]: The following symbols are unresolved for this kext: Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: kxld[com.google.filesystems.fusefs]: _OSRuntimeFinalizeCPP Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: kxld[com.google.filesystems.fusefs]: _OSRuntimeInitializeCPP Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: Can't load kext com.google.filesystems.fusefs - link failed. Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: Failed to load executable for kext com.google.filesystems.fusefs. Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: Kext com.google.filesystems.fusefs failed to load (0xdc008016). Jun 20 12:42:48 kernel[0]: Failed to load kext com.google.filesystems.fusefs (error 0xdc008016). Jun 20 12:42:48 mobile_fs_util[2425]: fuse_mount() failed Jun 20 12:42:48 mobile_fs_util[2425]: Failed to mount filesystem Jun 20 12:42:48 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[204] (org.thebends.iphonedisk.mobile_fs_util): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Any idea how to cure this? -Carl ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Usability: 10.8 versus 10.75?
I don't see any real significant differences between 10.7 and 10.8. Granted, I don't screw with cloud stuff, which may have changed a little or a lot. Indeed, I have refused to update to 10.9 because I lose the ability to sync my iDevices simply over a USB cable instead of being forced to push all my personal information out to the cloud just to make it cross the three feet to my own phone. The federal data vacuum sucks hard enough that I see no reason to make its job any easier. On Jun 15, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I have some questions on the usability of 10.8 versus 10.7.5. First: I have tried using 10.9 at an apple store. Between the finder's refusal to accept opening directories in new windows as a default behavior, and the new iMovie's dumbing down (no longer allows filtering by keywords in the event viewer, etc), 10.9 is just unusable for me. For 10.8, I had heard all sorts of This is iOS invading the desktop / the system has been dumbed down. I'm now at the point of seeing three different programs wanting 10.8 (two for the improved OpenGL; no clue what the third wants), and an upgrade being kinda important. So: What are the usability problems for 10.8 for a power user that regards the Gui system as a useful tool? Where are the iOS / iPad compatibility gets in your way points? --- This message was composed with the aid of a laptop cat, and no mouse ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: migration results in partial mailbox
In all fairness, I asked earlier whether the account was POP or IMAP, but you never answered the question. If you had, I would have suggested that earlier. On May 26, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Arden Currie ardcur...@gmail.com wrote: Rebuild of the mail box worked well the first time. After I opened Mail later there were fewer emails listed. Rebuild, even fewer. Restart and same happens. So I spent all day yesterday trying migration again from the source mac and it would hang, forever. Tried this a few times after again repairing permissions, deleting some stuff, etc. Same result. Used CarbonCopyCloner to copy my User folder over, which it did with little trouble except having to fix permissions. Mail however would crash on opening. Ended up deleting this gmail account from Mail and everything fine..I hope! Would have been nice had I found this earlier. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: migration results in partial mailbox
Apple Mail caches a sort of table of contents for all of your mail messages in a sidecar SQL database. It does store the actual text of your mail, one file per message, but the database is faster, so it usually just reports what it finds in the database. In some cases of migration, depending on the tool you used and how successful it was, the files get moved over but they're not merged into the database. The rebuild process basically rescans the original, raw text files and reassembles a table of contents of them into the database. On May 24, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Arden Currie ardcur...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks that seemed to work. I have never had to use Rebuild in 14 years of using Apple Mail. Always learning new stuff. I called Apple support and their answer was to wipe the drive and migrate once more. Thanks for responding. Arden On May 24, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: First try rebuilding the mailbox exhibiting the problem. Use Mailbox / Rebuild. You don't say whether you are using POP or IMAP access on that email account. I would guess POP, but the diagnosis is different for this symptom depending. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: migration results in partial mailbox
First try rebuilding the mailbox exhibiting the problem. Use Mailbox / Rebuild. You don't say whether you are using POP or IMAP access on that email account. I would guess POP, but the diagnosis is different for this symptom depending. On May 24, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Arden Currie ardcur...@gmail.com wrote: My old Snow Leopard MacBook display failed and this being the busiest part of business season I now have a new MacBook Pro. I migrated my User account from a Time Machine backup. I have six other mail accounts and all is well with them but the business email account will only list all older emails and show an empty message body. I found I can still access the old 10.6 MacBook using a different display. How should I go about getting all my email from this one account into the new Mac? Will this work? - Delete the new 10.9 mailbox - Export mailbox from 10.6 Mail -Import on 10.9? thanks Arden ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: hard drive killer?
Agreed. Power supply is a primary suspect; also bad heat sensor in the drive area, or the fan it controls. On May 14, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Gregg, I've experienced similar drive failures and the cause for me turned out to be a weak power supply. See if you can test the power supply under load; free-running measurements mean nothing. Or swap out the power supply with another unit. HTH, -Carl On May 14, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, Is there some component in a Mac Pro that could fail in a way that would kill hard drives? I have been running Mountain Lion (ML) on a 2012 Mac Pro for over a year. In recent months, it started doing some flaky things, so I decided to do a fresh install of ML on a different hard drive. Right after I decided to do this, the Mac Pro would not even boot from the original hard drive (which I will call Disk1). So, I rebuilt my system on Disk2. This appeared to work for a few days, but then things got flaky with it (though not exactly the same as with Disk1) and the Mac Pro also would not boot from Disk2. Yesterday I reinstalled on yet a third hard drive (Disk3). In less than a day, I can't boot from that drive either. I held down the option key and booted from the recovery partition. I ran Disk Utility, it had lots of red error messages, and it said to save what I could and erase the disk. I know that hard drives fail, but I find it really hard to believe that 3 of them would fail in less than a week. I am now trying a fourth drive, but I'm not optimistic! Is there some component in the Mac Pro that could go bad and then kill hard drives? Thanks in advance for any suggestions that you might be able to offer. Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: New Free Easy File System Encryption App
Ah, so it did. But the buzzword flew right over my head, and the pages I viewed on the website didn't touch on the topic. (I see the link on the About page now). I'm pretty confident I'm never going to review the code, and I think Heartbleed hammered the point home that availability for public review isn't at all the same thing as public review. Since I have no need for an multi-platform encrypted container, I think I'll stay with the OS X sparsebundle. On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:56, Rian Hunter r...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Personally I store all my tax, legal, and medical documents in Safe. That's just me, Safe is GPL and comes with no warranty :) On Apr 18, 2014, at 13:34, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: As a tool, it empowers more people to make their own cryptography decisions instead of having to rely on and trust proprietary solutions. So what makes your program non-proprietary? Are you publishing the source? If not, why would someone trust your package? The mail said Safe is GPL. The page has a link to github: https://github.com/safeapp/safe Jean-Christophe Helary ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: UPDATED - new BTMM issue : Back to my Mac DNS issue??
The only thing I can think of is that it sounds like Back to My Mac is asking the DNS to resolve the name of some Apple server, and your ISPs DNS either has no idea where it is or has it blocked. I would manually set my the DNS on my Mac to a public server, like 4.4.4.4 or open DNS, and see if Back to My Mac likes that better. My second attack would be to Google the syndrome, and my third would be to wireshark the connection, which is quite laborious. On Apr 3, 2014, at 4:35 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:05 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 02 Apr 2014, at 16:24 , Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: Back to my Mac isn't working properly because the DNS server is not responding and suggests I contact my internet service provider for a different DNS server address. What are your DNS servers set to? Does B2MM work despite the message? Sorry - missed this emailThey are the defaults for my ISP: 76.14.0.8/9 (all other services that use DNS - like web browsing - work just fine) and no BTMM does not work UPDATE : I asked my new ISP to reconnect my line to my old ISP (they can access the cable closets in my building). They did, and BTMM still did not work. It worked as recently as a week ago with my old ISP. I have to conclude that either Apple updated something behind the scenes that I don't know about or something in changing the network knocked this out of whack. I don't know where to start to look for a resolution...any suggestions are very much appreciated!! Jeff ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Repairing sparse disk images repairing time capsule disks
You can usually use Disk Utility to repair a writeable disk image, just as you would a physical disk. On Mar 25, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: Hi: My Time Machine backup started failing yesterday. After playing around with the sparse disk image file (OK, really just trying to move it to a different folder to try starting a new backup from scratch - the move failed), I suspect that there may be something wrong with the disk image. I also tried to mount the disk image directly, which partially failed. It never showed up in the finder, but when I tried to back up again, it told me the image was in use. I also could not delete the disk image (I left the deleting progress bar for about 14 hours...). Can anyone give me some advice about how to repair a corrupted disk image, if this is possible? Also, if the issue is the time capsule disk, can anyone give me any advice about checking/repairing a time capsule disk? Or, am I completely missing something? Thank you in advance for any help, suggestions or advice! Jeff ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: colored icons in Finder sidebar in Mavericks
Findey don't do that, more's the pity. On Feb 28, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: My friend wants to know how to add color or custom icons to folders and files he puts in the Finder sidebar. Is this possible in Mavericks? He (and others) want color in the Finder sidebar to help quickly recognize items via color coding. -K ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Time Machine backup woes
Usually, this message comes up when you are making the INITIAL backup from a particular machine, and there is not enough space on the drive to hold it. In this situation, obviously, Time Machine has nothing it can cull off the drive to make room. There are two causes for this. One is that the drive has been used to backup other machines, and Time Machine won't cull their backups to fit yours. The second is that TIme Machine is UNDER THE IMPRESSION that this is the first backup for your machine, even when it isn't, and that the files already on the drive belong to some other machine, as above. This can happen if you switch from direct-attached backup to network-based backup or vice-versa. It can also happen because Time Machine just flat gets confused. Given that Time Machine is complaining to you that it suddenly has to make a 300GB backup, I'm pretty confident it's under the impression that it is doing an initial backup. There's a guy named Pondini that has written a whole website full of tips about how to un-confuse Time Machine in these cases. A web search will bring it up. On Jan 18, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: I have a 2T drive that has been backing up my MPro flawlessly for a year or so. Now I'm getting this message: The backup disk needs 292.42 GB for the backup but only 154.24 GB are available. Select a larger backup disk or make the backup smaller by excluding files. Latest successful backup: January 7, 2014 But Time Machine is supposed to delete old files to make room for new. The Time Machine panel says: The oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full. Is this an issue with the size of the most recent backups? In any case, the point of Time Machine is to avoid manual management of backups. Thoughts on how to solve this? Thanks, Kevin ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Impending doom for another SSD
On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:36 PM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: Carl, Gregg, everybody Thanks for hearing me out. Other World just sent me a response on the TRIM subject: OWC does not recommend TRIM on the SSDs as the SandForce controllers have their own garbage collection. Not sure what he meant by that, but I'm not interested in waiting for another drive to completely bomb on me again. What he means is that you'd be running software that duplicates what the firmware is already supposedly doing for you. I don't know much about SSDs, but I do know that datamemorysystems.com markets their own brand. I have bought a lot of their memory products over the past 15 years, and they have always been top rate. They are all lifetime guaranteed, and replacement has always been no questions asked. They have even restocked perfectly good memories for me without a fee when I have either ordered the wrong model (my error) or had a client back out of the job after I had ordered their memory. I have always considered OWC a go-to place for high-quality products, but if they were failing for me like yours are, I would be willing to give Data Memory Systems a try. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: dual ethernet ports
On Jan 3, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, Can I use both ethernet ports on my Mac Pro to make local network backups faster, or at least to keep local network backups from slowing down internet use? Maybe the second, but the first is much more doubtful. Networking tends to use connection-based routing. You use the best way to get to a target address, not all possible ways. There are ways to bond two paths together that are available on higher-end routers, but the Mac won't do this by default and may not even have the geek-level commands to specify it at all. In fact, the Mac determines best way by port order in the Networks panel, not by speed -- if you have Airport higher than Ethernet, it will connect everything over Airport and leave ethernet totally idle. For example, turn on both your Airport and your ethernet port and stream music or a movie. Disconnect the preferred port (as per port order). Watch the stream abort, even though there is a perfectly good recovery path available. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?
I don't believe it is SUPPOSED to do that, but I have seen that behavior too. A few years ago, I had a client complain to me that certain pictures would be in her iPhoto library on some days, and other pictures would be in the iPhoto library on other days, but they never would all be there at the same time. She had established her iPhoto library on an external drive, and something she did or some way she disconnected the drive ended up with iPhoto establishing a new iPhoto library off /Volumes but resident on her root disk, that was only visible when her external drive was disconnected. This should never have happened, and I'm not even sure how the operating system allowed it. She certainly was nowhere near technical enough to have done this on purpose. When her drive was disconnected, iPhoto would find that Library and show her the pictures that were in that one, and when the drive was connected, it would mask the local copy of the library and show her the photos that were on the ex ternal drive. It was bizarre, I've never seen anything like it before, and I'm not sure I could duplicate it on demand. But if you could make that technique work on demand, it would be a nifty way to establish a hidden storage area on your local drive! On Dec 21, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: How do the proposed solutions compare when the other drive is unmounted? For example, suppose I owned only one computer, a laptop, and the external drive is only mounted when I'm home? What I would *want* is if I launch iTunes and the drive is not there, it gives me an error. If iTunes is already running and I unmount the drive, I want iTunes to see that as an error too. But I seem to recall cases where a bogus directory would be created like /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/my/path/to/iTunes/library. It was a long time ago, so maybe it wasn't iTunes specifically that had this problem, but I've been gun-shy ever since about offloading the directories used by iTunes, iPhoto, etc. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?
On Dec 19, 2013, at 11:02 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: What is the best way to keep much of ~/Movies on a different disk, but still have the content appear to be in ~/Movies? Should I use symbolic links for any subdirectories of ~/Movies that I want to keep on another disk? I suppose it depends on WHY you want the movies to appear to be in ~/Movies? Well, for one thing, the default Movies sidebar icon will continue to go to the right place. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: FTP Sync
A Google search for os x ftp sync generates many results, including Interarchy, which claims, Sync local folders with remote directories with a single click. On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Daniel Israel d...@ebji.org wrote: Hi Gang, Can anyone recommend an OSX App that will sync a local folder with a folder on an FTP site? I'm currently using DreamWeaver to develop websites and when I hit sync, it shows me what files it's looking to upload, what files to download, and what files it's not sure about (it lets me compare local/remote so I can make that decision), I can define what to include, what to ignore, etc then I hit the button and it syncs. The problem is that I am moving away from DreamWeaver (for several reasons, but this function, while useful, is very, very slow) and I need a new tool to do this (I don't need a complete replacement for DW, just a replacement for this functionality) Free is nice, but I don't mind paying for a premium tool (it's a business expense). Any help is appreciated. Thanks! -D. Israel d...@ebji.org http://www.customcodebydan.com AIM: JudoDanIzz ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: FTP Sync
Personally, I've never had a requirement for FTP sync, so I can't recommend any on that basis. However, many of them will have free trial periods and you can try them for yourself. On Oct 27, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Daniel Israel d...@ebji.org wrote: there are many out there. I was wondering what people have had good results with. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: 10.9: Where did Network Utility.app go?
On Oct 25, 2013, at 10:22 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 24 Oct 2013, at 13:05 , Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Sure is an odd place to hide it, no? Not so sure. It’s hardly ever used. Well, let’s change than, hardly anyone ever uses it. Some people probably use it a lot. It also hasn’t been rewritten to be a proper 10.8/9 app (no FSM for one). I never use it because everything it does simply makes more sense for me to do from the Terminal. It is, essentially, just a GUI look at the CLI commands anyway… But when you're on the phone to a client and need to find out why their internet don't work, you really don't want them in the Terminal. I can't imagine why one would need Full Screen Mode for Network Utility. What's next, FSM for System Preferences? :-) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Certificate Assistant and 4096-bit keys
Patienz! You are not allowed to outrun ze NSA! On Aug 28, 2013, at 10:16 AM, H J heywoodj...@yahoo.com wrote: On 10.6.8, using the Certificate Assistant from within Keychain Access, is it possible to create keys longer than 2048 bits? I'm seeing what looks like a hard-coded upper limit (whether I choose RSA or DSA), and I've seen some discussion on various security fora that 4096 seems to be current best practice. Thanks, -H ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mountain Lion Mail Delete Behavior (Can I get back to previous behavior?)
I don't believe it matters how you order your mailing list. It's just that the algorithm for selecting the next message to view has changed incompatibly. Now, when you delete a piece of mail, if the message on one side of it is read and the message on the other side of it is unread, no matter in what order, the next message to come up will be the one that was unread. It's not just incompatible with the earlier behavior, it's just plain inconsistent. It used to be that I could wander down the day's mail, and if I found a message I wanted to put off handling until later, I would just mark it unread and keep going. But now when I'm finished with the next message and I delete it, Mail keeps throwing me back to the earlier message because of course it's marked unread. And it will do that even if the next message is also marked unread. It now seems to have a preference for going backward whenever it can. It's just maddening, and I wish they would get rid of it. On Aug 8, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Andrew Darlow a...@andrewdarlow.com wrote: Hi folks: This is the place I turn to when my Mac is giving me a headache. For many years, I have been using Apple Mail, and until 10.6.8, when I would click on a single message in Classic View (List) with the newest mail at the bottom of the screen, the delete key would cause the message below the deleted message to then be highlighted. Now, unless the message above the unread message is read, the messages that's highlighted is above the message I just deleted. Is there any preference or other fix I can use to get back the old behavior? The workaround is to view messages with the newest ones at the top, but I prefer them at the bottom. Thanks for any insight on this. All the best, Andrew Andrew Darlow Editor, The Imaging Buffet http://www.imagingbuffet.com Author, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers - http://www.inkjettips.com and Pet Photography 101: Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or Cat - http://www.PhotoPetTips.com http://facebook.com/andrewdarlow ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Can partitions be moved; can several free gaps be combined?
On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: With Disk Utility in 10.7.5, it's pretty simple to shrink partitions. Can the result of several free gaps be combined; can those shrunk partitions be moved so that the free space is all in one place for allocating something else? Drive Genius is the only tool I know of that is willing to do this. It's possible you can do it with low-level terminal commands, but I've never screwed with that. (Note that the only way I know of to grow a partition is to extend its end farther; if I could join two partitions into one, I could just make a new one in front, join them, and then shrink the result. I don't know how to join two partitions. Are the partition tools/utilities really this limited, or am I ignorant of something?) (I know that there is a gpt terminal command, but it seems very restricted compared to linux's fdisk.) === I want to shrink the last partition on a drive; this partition holds some old, archival time machine backups (think of it as a last resort, emergency boot partition -- it dates to just after running migration assistant initially). However, Disk Utility won't shrink it. Is this because it has time machine data, or is there something else that causes this problem? When I've seen this problem, it usually means that the partition is not a standard Mac OS journalized partition. Usually, disk utility is very good about shrinking and growing standard partitions, but it absolutely refuses of the partition is some other type. It also may fail if the drive is formatted as Apple partition map or master boot record. Is there anything that can be done? I have enough space on an external USB drive to clone it; can it be cloned to a slightly smaller version of itself? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: help with simple UNIX command?
No, not at all. Guy here has blessed his flash drive with a permanent folder action that automatically destroys the resource forks as you add files to it: http://blog.kendell.org.uk/2010/09/07/banish-mac-os-x-resource-forks-from-fat32-volumes/ On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: On Jul 27, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Michael J Wise mjw...@kapu.net wrote: On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 27 Jul 2013, at 10:21 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I used the Terminal to delete a few of these hidden files, one at a time, and this seemed to work, but deleting all of these files one at a time throughout the entire flash drive would be very tedious and time consuming. cd /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE find . -name ._* -delete Thank you very much for the quick and helpful response! I really appreciate it. You realize that this is a side-effect of the file system you chose, yes? You are essentially removing the Resource Fork of the files as they have been converted to the FAT32 system. Well, I'm not an expert by any means, but I figured this was a side effect of using FAT32. It was not my first choice for the file system, but the native Mac OSX file system was not recognized by the car's audio system, so I had to fall back to FAT32 to get it to work. Is there any drawback to removing the Resource Fork for each file, if my goal is simply to play music in my car? Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Can a shell script easily find itself?
There wasn't last time I tried this about 20 years ago. :-( The reason is the architecture of the UNIX file system, where file contents actually reside in inodes, and directory entries are really only links to inodes. For example, you create a script. Now you put a hard link to that script from two other directories. Now you ask the script where it is. Which of the three locations do you want it to return? As far as the file system is concerned, none of them is any more authoritative than another. On Jul 21, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I feel silly for asking this. But I just realized I don't try this very often. Is there a way for a shell script to find itself? Or more precisely, the directory it is in? I am trying to run a program that wants an ini file specified on the command line; but it defaults to the assumption of having its config file in /etc unless you tell it where it is. And rather than a one-line script that hard codes a directory, I'd rather that it (the script) can tell where it is located, to use an ini file there. (Yea, a one-line script to just pass a config file argument to a program.) --- This message was composed with the aid of a laptop cat, and no mouse ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Deleting mail account but preserving contents
If it really is deleting from the server (I've NEVER seen an IMAP client that did that, but whatever), then your other devices won't be seeing the same mail as your Mac. If all your devices are seeing the same mail, nothing is getting deleted from anywhere. On Jul 14, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Aron S. Spencer a...@r8ix.com wrote: log into webmail access to the imap account first, and check the status of messages on the server. If it really is deleting from the server, then you'll lose them. If they're not on the server, you can (as mentioned above) copy them to On My Mac folders to preserve everything. On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Let me repeat: if your access mode is IMAP, Mail's threat to blow away messages and mailboxes is an empty threat Just Do It. On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Jul 14, 2013, at 4:59 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 12 Jul 2013, at 18:36 , Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:49 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: There really aren't that many settings for the account, why can't you just change them? Exactly! There isn't a setting that calls for immediate deletion from the server upon read of emails, so I can't simply uncheck it. Well, no, there isn't because that is not how IMAP works. Are you moving your messages to offline (That is to say, On My Mac) mailboxes, because that might do it. I have a half dozen IMAP accounts and have had for many years and I've never had any program delete messages off the server in the way you are describing. I think something else is going on here. Yes, I agree that something suspicious is going on, but I know not what. This is the only IMAP account that shows this behavior. I would have deleted and re-added the account if it weren't for Mail wanting to blow away all of the messages and the mailbox. But maybe I'll get fed up enough to just do it... ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Aron S. Spencer Mission Viejo, CA 92691 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Deleting mail account but preserving contents
If the account is IMAP, you don't have to worry. If the account is POP, then create new On My Mac mailboxes to hold the contents of the account's In and Sent mailboxes, plus Drafts if you use that feature. Manually move all the messages from the account boxes to the new boxes. Once the account boxes are empty, you can delete the account without worrying about losing messages. On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: One of my primary IMAP email accounts is really messed up, so I thought I would delete it from Mail.app and re-add it. However when I go to delete it, I get this ominous warning: The account’s setup information, mailboxes, and all messages will be deleted permanently from your computer.Cancel | Remove Why does it have to delete everything? Is there a way to preserve the years of emails I have? I just want to recreate the account and leave all the contents there. OSX allows you to do this when you delete a user account, so why not also when deleting an email account? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Replacing an HDD with an SDD on SL OSXS
Easier is just to hold the option key at the boot chime, then select your boot drive. On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Is there then a way to boot the Mac mini (Snow Leopard Server) from the external SSD drive (FW400)? That would at least keep things going in a pinch. To (maybe) answer my own question, it looks like it's possible to set the startup disk in Sys Prefs. Don't know until I create a bootable copy if an external FW400 drive would show up in the list or not, though. Not much help if the system crashes, but in that case maybe booting with the Option key pressed will show up an external bootable drive? Guess I'll have to create one to find out for sure. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Replacing an HDD with an SDD on SL OSXS
Yes, Disk Utility's Restore does a fine job of copying volumes. Copying from the booted drive is never guaranteed. It usually works, but not always. If you must do that, start in Safe Mode and login in Safe Mode to eliminate as much background activity as you can, and do nothing else on the machine while the drive is copying. Safer is to use transfer mode and a second external machine. On Jun 24, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Hmm. I mentioned CCC and SD to higher-ups and was told that Disk Utility's Restore function does the same thing. Under Disk Utility's Restore tab it says: To copy or restore a disk image to a disk, select the source disk or disk image, select the destination disk, and then click Restore. It looks like all you have to do is drag the Server HD icon from the left-hand column into the Source textfield, and drag the new SSD drive icon in to the Destination textfield and click Restore. Has anyone tried this? Does it work on an active system? Does it make a bootable copy? Will any of these 3 ways -- CCC, SD, DU -- work? Thx ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac power supply
Damn, my advice was backward. The BAD ones have the + on top. The GOOD ones have the K on top. On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:59 PM, H J heywoodj...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 6/2/13, Macs R We wrote: gt; Just because the capacitors on the logic board quot;look finequot; gt; doesn#39;t mean they are fine. Bulges prove they are bad, but gt; no bulges don#39;t prove anything. One thing that is known is gt; that if your capacitors have quot;+quot; shaped slots on top, they are gt; not the bad lot -- the bad lot all have quot;Kquot; shaped slots on gt; top. This can also be determined by the serial number gt; ranges for the bad iMacs, which Apple has published. Interesting! The caps on this particular board are plus-shaped, so by that logic they should not be an issue. On the other hand, according to http://jimwarholic.com/2008/07/how-to-repair-apple-imac-g5.php the serial number of the machine in question _does_ fall within the affected range. So I#39;m stumped. gt; On this model, if the machine boots as far as yours does, gt; I#39;d sooner suspect the logic board capacitors than the power gt; supply capacitors. In any event, the 12V lines are gt; mainly used for running mechanicals (hard drive, optical gt; drive) and not logic elements. --- On Sun, 6/2/13, LuKreme wrote: gt; I wouldn#39;t think that 0.2V out of 12V would be a problem at gt; all, especially since the 12V lines have nothing to do with gt; powering the motherboard (the motherboard and other circuit gt; boards get the 5V or 3.3V). I suspect it is not the PSU. That#39;s really useful information -- thank you both. I suppose I might have guessed that the electronics all run off the two lower voltages, but I was not sure. One other thing that was suggested to me is to re-apply the thermal paste between the CPU and the heat sink. I#39;m away from the affected machine for a long while now, but will look into that when I get back. Meantime, does anyone have a favorite temperature monitor utility that would run on such an old machine (PPC G5, 10.4)? I#39;m thinking that would be a useful thing to try before I pry off the heat sink. Thanks again, -HJ ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: not auto-joining known WiFi networks
Some nebulous wifi problems were fixed with the ML upgrade released just yesterday -- have you downloaded it yet? My problem was waiting for a minute or more for SSIDs to show up in the empty menu bar list, whereas if I went the route through Network Preferences / Join different network / Browse networks, they would show up immediately. The upgrade seems to have fixed that particular annoyance. On Jun 6, 2013, at 1:06 PM, i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: I don't seem to be joining my known wifi networks anymore. I don't have Ask to join new networks checked, but that shouldn't affect joining old networks, should it? moved my Air up to Mt Lion about a month ago, the issue might be related(?) List Boy MacBookAir4,2 13 w upgraded 240 GB drive (OWC) 4 GB RAM ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac power supply
Just because the capacitors on the logic board look fine doesn't mean they are fine. Bulges prove they are bad, but no bulges don't prove anything. One thing that is known is that if your capacitors have + shaped slots on top, they are not the bad lot -- the bad lot all have K shaped slots on top. This can also be determined by the serial number ranges for the bad iMacs, which Apple has published. On this model, if the machine boots as far as yours does, I'd sooner suspect the logic board capacitors than the power supply capacitors. In any event, the 12V lines are mainly used for running mechanicals (hard drive, optical drive) and not logic elements. The problem with buying replacements on eBay is that you never know whether you are buying a unit that is good, or just one that is not yet gone bad. There are places that perform whole capacitor transfusions for this model (e.g., http://www.maccetera.com/macstuff/imac_g5.html at $200; http://www.bentleypc.com/shop/imac_g5_bad_capacitors.php at call to quote, or http://doubleclickittofixit.com/listings/kurt-kaufhold-apple-imac-g5-17″-capacitor-replacement-service-on-w84508tuptlz-by-doubleclickittofxiit/ at $75). You can also buy kits online for $25. I tried doing this job myself, ONCE. I found the low-lead solder used by Apple impossible to rework with my traditional soldering equipment. I won't attempt this job again. On Jun 2, 2013, at 10:22 AM, H J heywoodj...@yahoo.com wrote: I have very old iMac G5 (2005, non-ALS) that recently died. Symptoms are either refusing to boot, or booting to desktop and then spontaneously locking up (non-responsive keyboard and mouse) for no apparent reason. According to these articles, jimwarholic.com/2008/11/apple-imac-g5-power-supply-issues-and.php jimwarholic.com/2008/07/how-to-repair-apple-imac-g5.php there were known issues with bad capacitors on the MoBo and PSU on this specific iMac model. I inspected the MoBo and all the capacitors look fine. That leaves the power supply. I can't see inside the cage of the supply without removing it (that requires a pin-head Phillips screwdriver I don't own), but I did manage to measure the unloaded voltages on the connector. The 3.3V and 5.0V lines appear fine (3.32V and 5.08V, respectively), but the 12.0V lines all read 11.8V. As far as I know this is not obviously a sign of a bad PSU, but neither does it seem normal -- and the lock-ups I'm seeing could very well be due to under-voltage on some circuitry. My question is, does anyone here have experience with older iMac hardware? And if so, do you know if the slight undervoltage on the 12V line indicates a bad supply? I can find replacements on eBay, but I don't want to spend money on that until I'm reasonably sure that the PSU is the actual problem. Thanks in advance, -HJ ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Screen Sharing weirdness
I used to use the remote management function a lot, but starting in Lion it got insupportable. Now it conflicts with screen sharing, and I found out that you might as well just turn off remote management and turn on screen sharing instead. It gives you all the same capabilities that remote management used to anyway, and the system treats it much more reliably. On May 17, 2013, at 1:25 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I have two machines, a 2012 mini and a 2012 iMac. The mini is Cerebus (10.0.0.13) and the iMac is Jaka (10.0.0.125) 1. They are on the same LAN and connected to the same switch on that LAN. I have my user account on both machines with my name and the short name and the UID (501) identical. In System Preferences=Sharing I have Remote Management enabled on both machines, and both are set to Allow access for [•] Only these users with my name showing in both panels. Under Options all checkboxes are ticked on both machines. From Jaka, I am able to click Cerebus in the Finder sidebar and then click Share Screen… in the Finder window. After a few (10-20) seconds, I get the window for Cerebus and I can operate in there as normal. From Cerebus, there is no Screen Sharing… button in the finder windows for Jaka. If I open Screen sharing on Cerebus and type in Jaka's local IP, I get Connection Failed and the same if I type in Jaka.local. I can type in either the IP of Cerebus.local on Jaka in the screen-sharing dialog and share Cerebus's screen. The only thing I get in the Console is 17-May-13 1:57:55.263 AM Screen Sharing[14473]: connect() failed. errno:61, fd:7, port:5900 17-May-13 1:57:55.279 AM Screen Sharing[14473]: Communications error but googling from Screen Sharing errno:61 hasn't been helpful. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4191376?start=30tstart=0 I can ssh to/from either Jaka or Cerebus with no issues. The behavior persists through restarts and through System 10.8.2 and 10.8.3 at least. 1 I've narrowed this down to two specific machines for simplicity in the email, there are more machines involved, but I am ignoring the other machines for this email. For example, both Jaka and Cerebus can see and share the screen for Thanatos (10.0.0.113). -- 'Never say die, master. That's our motto, eh?' I CAN'T SAY IT'S EVER REALLY BEEN MINE. --Hogfather ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Screen Sharing weirdness
The big thing Lion broke is that remote management no longer worked with VNC. Instead of just showing you the user's current screen, OS X would throw up a login window first, then the login manager would puke trying to read the password keystrokes over VNC. As a result, you could never get past the login screen. I now have to use VNC for my customers on Snow Leopard and below, and screen sharing for those on Lion and above. The only silver lining is that at least their router setup is the same for both approaches. On May 17, 2013, at 2:01 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 17 May 2013, at 02:36 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: I used to use the remote management function a lot, but starting in Lion it got insupportable. Now it conflicts with screen sharing, and I found out that you might as well just turn off remote management and turn on screen sharing instead. It gives you all the same capabilities that remote management used to anyway, and the system treats it much more reliably. I remember there was a reason I did not do this, way back when, but I now can't remember what it was. I suppose worse comes to worse I can enable the basic screen sharing and then see what breaks? (Yes, the 'basic' screen sharing works.) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Access, Schmaccess
For the first time today, I am seeing leonine behavior, even though I skipped from Snow Leopard directly to Mountain Lion. I launched TextEdit in order to create some brand new text. I saved the text to the Desktop, where it became an .rtf file. From that point on, every time I typed a single new character into the file, I immediately got: You don’t have permission to write to the folder that the file “radio blurb.rtf” is in. Your changes will not be saved until the problem is resolved. Yet, if I type command-S to save the file, everything saves easy-squeezy. Of course, next character I type triggers the message anew. Clearly, this is auto-save-ish behavior. But it puzzles the hell out of me. First of all. I'm saving to my own Desktop. Now, I have dealt with many customers who had migrated their files from older machines in a back-assward fashion, such that they had to keep authenticating to do things to their own Desktop. Trust me, I'm not one of 'em. I have RW by name to my Desktop, RW by name to the file, and I have always been 501. So the no permission claim is a total lie. Then I thought, maybe RTF is saved as a bundle, and there's something wrong with accesses inside the bundle. But no, that's RTFD -- RTF is just a plain old text file, like TXT, just with fancier contents. Finally, I checked the auto-save lore. Turns out I had Ask to keep changes when closing documents” unchecked (which means auto-save), so I unchecked it. It didn't make a bit of difference. (Maybe TextEdit only checks that value at launch time -- I didn't relaunch TextEdit.) Either way, it doesn't excuse the whole no permissions behavior. What bothers me is that this is not the first time since I installed ML that I sat down to create brand new text in TextEdit and saved it to my Desktop, but it's the first time I have ever had this happen. :-( The whole no permissions gig is getting tiring anyway. For years, I have had two text files, which reside permanently in my Dock, set to open up at login. Since I installed ML, I get two messages at login about You don't have permission to open these files. Which is again a lie, because when I click on them, they open right up. Is this stuff a known ML bug or something? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Zooming in Safari? Missing something obvious
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: I think it does have the hardware to do two-finger swiping. If you hold down Control and do a two-finger swipe it should magnify the current screen. But it seems to be a reach that you're doing that by accident. I tried holding control and doing a two-finger swipe, and all it did was switch spaces (as though I were not holding control). I tried the same with shift, option and command. Same result I should have specified vertical. The spaces change is a horizontal swipe. The zoom is sharp, it is as though it is redisplaying at a larger size. OK, then it isn't the swipe thing. Thank you for the suggestions, and the help! I appreciate it. There is a remote possibility that when it happens, I am leaning on a keyboard key, but I can't create a similar effect. I am almost certain that when it happens, I inadvertently am touching the mouse with more than one finger, but again I can't seem to create the effect intentionally. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Best RSS?
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I'm still feeling the effects of Apple having pulled the RSS mechanism out of Apple Mail. I'm missing out on a bunch of the material I used to subscribe to, because I no longer have the reminder notifications to go read it. I'd like to replace it with a third-party RSS reader that gives me as much set and forget behavior as possible, like Apple Mail used to. What are other people liking? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?
Worse comes to worse you can telephone an agent. I had a problem where I knew the answer to the questions, and the agent verified that I knew the answer to the questions, but the website wasn't taking them anyway. She managed to straighten out the entire account and we got it back, so my recommendation is, call her. On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A few of us have forgotten our security questions for our AppleID's. We are told you can simply change the security questions. However, the snag is that you need to have set up a rescue email address in order to do so. If you don't have a rescue email setup, it seems like you get into an endless loop when following this tech support page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312 How does one set up a rescue email address on an existing AppleID? And will this allow one to then change security questions? Tnx ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?
Unfortunately, she was a SECRET agent. :-P The real answer: schedule the call here -- https://expresslane.apple.com/ServiceOptionAction.action On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:37 PM, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Worse comes to worse you can telephone an agent. I had a problem where I knew the answer to the questions, and the agent verified that I knew the answer to the questions, but the website wasn't taking them anyway. She managed to straighten out the entire account and we got it back, so my recommendation is, call her. What was her name? And did you get her number? ;) On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A few of us have forgotten our security questions for our AppleID's. We are told you can simply change the security questions. However, the snag is that you need to have set up a rescue email address in order to do so. If you don't have a rescue email setup, it seems like you get into an endless loop when following this tech support page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312 How does one set up a rescue email address on an existing AppleID? And will this allow one to then change security questions? Tnx ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?
On Mar 22, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Andrew Brown li...@c18.net wrote: On 22 mars 2013, at 23:45, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A few of us have forgotten our security questions for our AppleID's. Others of us never even knew them... I had to give answers, never having seen the questions before. Indeed, you are not the only one with this experience. One wonders what answers are in storage for those questions, given that they were never supplied by the account owner. (The Machine sees everything, Mr. Reese.) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...
On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:31 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: TimeMachine uses Spotlight to flag directories that have had changes since the last backup. It then scans these folders to find the actual files that have changed. I had a problem a while back where backups were taking forever and I determined that the culprit was my offlineimap backup of my Gmail account. I'm only backing up the All Mail folder, but that results in a single folder containing 10s of thousands of files. Every hour a few more would be added and TM would have to scan every file. I started backing up this folder with rsync, excluded it from TimeMachine, and the lengthy delay went away. So, you can use 'tmutil compare' to determine what makes up the latest backup, but keep in mind that this isn't a complete picture of all the files that TimeMachine inspected when backing up. Ah, I didn't know about tmutil. Probably beats find. (Though neither the shell nor man can find it in 10.6...?) You could always grep for 'backupd' in /var/log/system.log and post a few complete backup cycles. This would point out if there's a specific stage that is taking a long time. Since his problem isn't the inspecting time, but the data size, maybe tmutil can give him what he needs to solve his problem. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...
On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:45 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: Kevin Callahan opined on Saturday 16-Feb-2013@23:05:10 My iMac takes about an hour to prepare, backup and cleanup. This happens every hour. Oh - add spotlight indexing to that. This is very odd. Backups should not take more than a few (3-4) minutes unless there is a massive amount of data changed. How much data is being backed up each time (Console will tell yu if you don’t happen to see it). Yeah, it baffles me how much I see being backed up during times when I've felt very little should have changed on my system. Just now, it backed up 22 MB pretty quickly, but the cleanup took a fairly long time. I don't know the internals of the OS X backup system, but I know the internals of a few others. From its performance on my own system, I presume it keeps a modest list of stuff that got changed between backups so that it doesn't have to scan the whole file system every hour. I would also presume that this would be tied in somehow with the Spotlight mechanism, as much the same mechanism is required for both jobs. The first thing I would do is clobber all my Spotlight indexes and get them rebuilt -- see if that suddenly gets things working faster AFTER the next scheduled backup. Also, I know that whenever I launch an app that uses an SQLite database (Sequel Pro, MailSteward, a couple others), the database file immediately gets marked as modified, even if all I wanted to do was fetch from it. If the database is huge (e.g., MailSteward), just looking up an old email will schedule the entire multi-gigabyte file for a backup. Does Xcode use SQL databases, or do you have some other app that does? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...
On Feb 17, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: In the last hour and a half (while working on a simple Xcode project). Note 3:04:49 and then 3:04:50. 96,932 files! But also note those larger chunks in the 800+ MB range at 1:37 and again at 2:42 2/17/13 1:37:35.868 PM com.apple.backupd[9927]: Found 104 files (817 MB) needing backup 2/17/13 1:38:19.500 PM com.apple.backupd[9927]: Copied 1674 files (4 MB) from volume iMac27. 2/17/13 1:38:19.551 PM com.apple.backupd[9927]: Found 54 files (39 KB) needing backup 2/17/13 1:38:54.808 PM com.apple.backupd[9927]: Copied 1406 files (1.5 MB) from volume iMac27. 2/17/13 2:42:06.441 PM com.apple.backupd[11093]: Found 1281 files (896.5 MB) needing backup 2/17/13 3:04:49.158 PM com.apple.backupd[11093]: Copied 96932 files (83.2 MB) from volume iMac27. 2/17/13 3:04:50.789 PM com.apple.backupd[11093]: Found 238 files (40.9 MB) needing backup 2/17/13 3:06:06.816 PM com.apple.backupd[11093]: Copied 2468 files (43.9 MB) from volume iMac27. A UNIX CLI padawan could probably put together a simple find command line (-links 1?) that would scan one branch of the backup tree on your backup drive and call out all the entries in it that have only one hard link. Those would be the ones that were backup up in the session corresponding to that branch. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: super-focused text editor
On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:29 AM, Andy Lee wrote: There are a number of text editors designed for focused, distraction-free writing. I seem to recall at least one that only allows forward progress. I forget the exact features, but they were along the lines of limited backspacing, no undo, maybe focusing on one line at a time. Anybody know the editor(s) I'm thinking of? Smith-Corona? :-) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Remote screen control for Air in restore mode
There's a micro-DVI connector -- just hook up an external monitor. On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: Hi: My wife's old Macbook Air's screen broke (actually the hinge, which has the connector, making the screen useless), so she finally got a new one. Now a friend of her's wants the old one (willing to pay to repair it rather than buy one new/refurbished). So, I want to erase all the data, etc. and restore the air to just the OS install. This is easy (start with cmd-R and reinstall) if I could see the screen, but I can't. So my question: Is there any way to use screen sharing (or the like) to see and control the Air while it is started in recovery mode? Or, alternatively, are there any other ways to erase the internal drive and reinstall the OS? Any help is much appreciated! Thanks, Jeff___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: dot files
http://lifehacker.com/377011/delete-mac-system-files-with-dotclean On Jan 1, 2013, at 4:42 PM, William Ehrich wrote: When I give a USB stick to friends they are confused by the 'invisible' dot files which are very visible on a DVD player or at Kinkos. Is there any way to get rid of them? Or a way to have OS X take the NTFS file system as a hint that they are not needed? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: howto watch 3D movies on Mac OS X?
Looks like you're on the wrong end of the incentive dynamic. They're not interested enough in your money, and we're not interested in your porn. On Dec 28, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Alex Kornilov wrote: Their FAQ did answer my question. Sorry. Offline viewing (download) 3D on OS X is not support. But the browser version works with 3D glasses. --- What's so special about 3D porn? Our movies are more realistic and you get the feeling you're really there. This is the new standard for watching porn. We'll deliver you the Ultimate 3D Porn Experience! When I click on a Video it won't start playing? In most of the cases you haven't got Flash Player installed on your computer. Click here to get it! It can also be that our server is overloaded. Just refreshing your browser will solve the problem. How can I watch the download videos? With a Stereoscopic Player you can watch our movies with all the related 3D hardware available. Such as your 3D Television or the Nvidia's 3D Vision kit. Click here to download a player. Mac is not supported yet. Do i need special equipment to watch 3D? The only thing you need is a pair of 3D glasses, the ones with the REDCYAN colors in it. With these glasses you can watch our Anaglyph movies on any random system you prefer. Other colored glasses are also supported in our online player. When you want the highest quality, you'll need to get yourself 3D hardware like a 3D Television with Shutter glasses. In the nearby future 3D Televisions will be available with no need of wearing special 3D glasses. Still Got Questions? If there are any other issues you want to ask us, you can contact us at supp...@3dsexplanet.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: howto watch 3D movies on Mac OS X?
On Dec 25, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Alex Kornilov wrote: Howto watch movies from http://www.3dsexplanet.com on Mac OS X (MacBook Air)? Please guide me. Bozhe moi! Click on the link that says, Need 3D glasses? Click here. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: length of battery charge for sleep/wake versus on/off
On Dec 24, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: On Dec 23, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Macs R We wrote: On Dec 22, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: I thought the number of power cycles was the most important factor in determining when a battery would need to be replaced. This is why I was asking about the length of time between charges. If I charge the iPad each night, but the battery would actually last for a week without recharging, won't the battery need replacing 7 times sooner? I'm guessing that it won't really be 7 times sooner, but you get my point. Or is that just a myth? I'm not positive about iPads, but on Macs, fractional recharges are accounted for as fractional recharges. That is, if you recharge a battery from 50%, it's counted as half a power cycle, not a full one. Official confirmation here: http://www.apple.com/batteries/ Note that this is not necessarily true of older technology batteries. That's interesting. If a fractional recharge counts as the same fraction of a power cycle, then it should not matter how frequently or infrequently the battery is charged, at least with respect to the impact of power cycling on overall battery longevity. Either that, or it further divorces the reported cycle count from the real-world longevity prediction. For example, we know that batteries with extremely low cycle count (because they are hooked up to AC all the time) actually tend to fail fastest. If that's true, and I'm certainly not saying it isn't, that seems like good news for those of us who have been trying to monitor battery status and wait until the battery is low. Thanks for the information. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: upgrading from 10.6 to 10.8
On Dec 24, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: Hi, My wife's iMac is still running Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and I have a Mac Pro and a Mac Mini that are both running Lion (10.7.5). Over the holidays, I plan to update all 3 macs to Mountain Lion. For my 2 macs, I will simply upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion. What about my wife's iMac? Is it better to go directly from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, skipping Lion (assuming this is possible)? Perfectly possible, as long as you start from the latest rev of Snow Leopard. Or should I do a 2-stage upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, and then from Lion to Mountain Lion? Doesn't seem to be any point to that. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: length of battery charge for sleep/wake versus on/off
On Dec 22, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: I thought the number of power cycles was the most important factor in determining when a battery would need to be replaced. This is why I was asking about the length of time between charges. If I charge the iPad each night, but the battery would actually last for a week without recharging, won't the battery need replacing 7 times sooner? I'm guessing that it won't really be 7 times sooner, but you get my point. Or is that just a myth? I'm not positive about iPads, but on Macs, fractional recharges are accounted for as fractional recharges. That is, if you recharge a battery from 50%, it's counted as half a power cycle, not a full one. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Hidden Partition Collisions
Lion and Mountain Lion both create hidden recovery partitions. If I keep an external drive with Lion in one partition and Mountain Lion in another, are their respective recovery partitions going to collide? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Hidden Partition Collisions
On Dec 16, 2012, at 7:58 PM, LuKreme wrote: Macs R We spake on Sunday 16-Dec-2012@17:41:53 Lion and Mountain Lion both create hidden recovery partitions. If I keep an external drive with Lion in one partition and Mountain Lion in another, are their respective recovery partitions going to collide? I'm not sure what you mean by 'collide' but the Recovery Partition will be 10.8. (As I understand it, 10.7 will not overwrite an existing recovery partition, and 10.8 will update a Recovery Partition to 10.8). As long as a 10.8 recovery partition will correctly service the 10.7 OS partition on the same drive, I suppose it wouldn't be a problem, but will it? Right of the top of my head, I suspect things like Repair Permissions would get wonky, probably some other things. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Uninstalling quicktime 7 on 10.6.8
On Dec 7, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: I'm having a little problem. I've got a 10.6.8 system. I want everything to open with QuickTime Player. Instead, stuff keeps getting reverted to QuickTime Player 7. How can I uninstall the older version, and force everything to the up to date version? If you don't ever want to use QTP7, just delete it. Or ZIP it and then delete it, if there's a chance you may want it in the future. If you had QT Pro, you may not want to delete QTP7 entirely, because the new QT doesn't have those features. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Uninstalling quicktime 7 on 10.6.8
On Dec 7, 2012, at 2:43 PM, William Ehrich wrote: I'm having a little problem. I've got a 10.6.8 system. I want everything to open with QuickTime Player. Instead, stuff keeps getting reverted to QuickTime Player 7. How can I uninstall the older version, and force everything to the up to date version? http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ and you won't have to uninstall anything. While this is true, in the case of QT, it requires you to specify over a dozen suffix tags (images, movies, sounds, midi, and so on) that route themselves to QTP. The default app approach works best with apps that own only one or two suffixes. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule
Time Capsule is one of the few places where Apple completely exercises the ownership mechanism, so unless you're logged in as root, Finder copy is going to be a big headache (even if you're the only user on the backup). My first approach would be to mount both drives explicitly and then use Disk Copy restore with erase target, which does block copies of drives. On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: Hi: My time capsule seems to be on its last legs, so I am buying a new one. I have two Macs backed up to the current time capsule (using time machine) and a bunch of other stuff stored there. I know I can use finder copy to move stuff over when both are connected, but I am concerned about maintaining backup integrity and history not to mention the very long time that will take, and making sure when it's all done, the new one looks pretty much like the old one. I recall a thread about this a while ago, but could not find anything beyond use finder copy, so I thought I'd ask again if there are any tools or methods that will do a direct copy preserving data stuctures and metadata. Any help is much appreciated!! Jeff ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule
On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: First, thank you! Two questions: First, I'm not sure what you mean by mounting both drives explicitly - can you mount a time capsule drive in a way other than connecting it to the network? Second, I think you might have assumed that I meant drives attached to a time capsule. I actually meant the time capsule drives (the internal one) themselves. Does this apply with those? Thanks for your help! Yeah, you're right. You can mount them over the network, but then Disk Utility often doesn't want to do a lot with them that it would otherwise be willing to do to a directly-attached drive. Surgery is one possibility -- extracting the drives and putting them in a drive toaster or USB lashup. (You never did say WHY your old Time Machine was failing.) Other than that, you are left with Finder Copy-level stuff, which I suspect will not give you the transparency you are seeking. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?
On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: I never did get a clear answer to one of my previous questions so thought I would distill just that one out and make sure I understand everything. With my current setup I have my WiFi Ranger router which only has 100Mb switch ports. Hooked up to this I have a 100Mb switch and hooked up to that I have the 100Mb Airport Extreme and a gigabit ethernet capable Mac Mini. For file transfers between the Mini and the Airport Extreme connected 802.11n clients; throughput is currently limited to about 10 MB/sec based on the ethernet side of the Airport and not the wireless side of the airport, max throughput for the wireless side is up in the 30MB/sec or so range. What I'm considering doing is leaving the 100Mb router in place with a 100Mb connection to a gigabit switch. On the downstream side of the gigabit switch I'll have the Mini connected at gigabit and a new gigabit capable Airport Extreme. Given my understanding of the networking issues involved; am I correct in assuming that internal LAN traffic (i.e., between the wireless clients and the gig wired Mini) will happen at a speed limited by either the 802.11n or the gigabit portion of the network and that only traffic destined for the router and hence the internet will be slowed down. I believe that the slower router and router/switch link are irrelevant to the gig traffic on the LAN side of the switch. Yes. Unless your switch is unusually brain-damaged. Alternatively; does the slower 100Mb router and router/switch connection artificially limit the throughput on the gigabit/802.11n LAN traffic? No. If it does limit things; am I correct in assuming that the only solution would be to double route and have the gigabit Airport Extreme be my LAN router with a different subnet from the WAN side of the Airport to the inside of the WiFiRanger 100Mb router? N/A. Thanks. --- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
