Info for CAD users,..AutoCAD now available for Mac
For those people interested. Autodesk now have AutoCAD available for the Mac. Not cheap, but you can download a 30 day demo to see what you think of it :o) More info can be found here;- http://www.macrumors.com/2010/10/15/autocad-for-mac-now-available/ And trail download and info,.. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=15421056siteID=123112 Enjoy! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
Hello Steven, I'm having an enforced Medical Break from WAMUG, but have given you a suggestion below. On 13/10/2010, at 8:44 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks for your help on this Ronni. I followed your suggestions through, and after a few attempts the back up seemed to get through things and all was good. Throwing things back to the group once again, I have a new TC related problem. Following relocation, I'm now on an Optus cable connection. I have an Optus-supplied NETGEAR CVG824G wireless cable modem to connect to the internet. All Macs talk wirelessly to the CVG824G just fine. I've connected the TC to the CVG824G via ethernet cable and the WAN port on the TC. As far as I know, the Macs should be able to back up to it that way. I can see the TC via Airport Utility, a delightful green dot appears next to the TC image. I had an orange dot initially, however I changed 'Connection Sharing' to 'Share a public IP address' from 'Distribute a range of IP addresses' (an overhang from trying to get round a single computer connection in a hotel), and now all seems fine. But … In Airport Utility under 'Internet' - Internet Connection - Connect Using: Ethernet Connection Sharing: OFF (Bridge Mode). Cheers, Ronni When I 'Back Up Now' the message my Mac throws up after a couple of minutes is ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk is not available. Time Machine Buddy says ... --- Starting standard backup Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://myfirstname%mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data NetAuthConnectToServerSync failed with error: 64 for url: afp://myfirstname%20mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data Backup failed with error: 19 --- Any clues? Many thanks, Steven On 30/09/2010, at 2:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for getting back with more information. From what I can gather from the widget error messages, they indicate that what's on your internal HD may not match the hidden File System Event Database that OSX keeps on each disk, and TM normally uses to see what's been changed since the last backup and needs to be copied. Since it is untrustable, TM must examine every directory (folder) on your system, and compare it to your backups, instead. This is, of course, a lengthy procedure. This is usually caused by an improper shutdown, but can be the result of other things, too. And once it occurs, the whole process must be repeated for each unsuccessful backup attempt until one completes normally. If you have had a force power-off, you'll get the UUID problem and TM will do a deep traversal. There's no way around that: it's the only way TM can be sure that all the changes made since your last backup will be saved this time. So, if at all possible, let it run. But Firstly: 1. Exclude the Time Machine Partition from spotlight, via System Preferences Spotlight Privacy. 2. In System Preferences Energy Saver make sure you don't have selected Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible. Probably best to also put Computer Sleep to Never as well. Then try a Time Machine Backup and if possible try not to use the computer too much while this backup is occurring. Don't interrupt the backup, it will take quite a long time to finish. If that doesn't help, note the time one of these backups starts, then use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to see if there are other messages indicating a conflict with your backups. When it starts, click Show Log List in the toolbar, then navigate in the sidebar that opens up to your system.log and select it. Navigate to the Starting standard backup message, then see what follows that might indicate some sort of error, failure, termination, exit, etc. Cheers, Ronni On 30/09/2010, at 10:19 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro (running 10.6.4) have begun failing part way through the back up process. I have a little Time Capsule backup widget which I have on Dashboard (can't recall name of the widget, but it gives a little extra narrative on what's happening during the back up process). A few days ago, when I noticed the back up process not completing, the widget gave the error as something to do with Spotlight. I no longer have the exact error message, but looking the error message up on the web led me to this page ... http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... which seemed to be about the problem I was having. The back up error message seemed to tie in with the fact that not long before that there was a Spotlight indexing process underway at a time I had to shutdown my machine, so interrupting the indexing process may not have been helpful. The suggestion of deleting the spotlight
Re: Finder issues - works in Safe Boot, not in normal
All, Several weeks ago you joined me in a search for the solution to problems my 9 month old Mac Mini was having. Last posting: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 The problem is now resolved thanks to MacWorx and Applecare warranty - and a new logic board for the Mac Mini. The symptoms were: Long time to boot up - several minutes A mouse pointer 'artefact' left in the corner of the screen on start up. Mouse and keyboard would only respond if started in safe boot mode. Despite all the rebuilding, rebooting, reinstalling I did, nothing would work, so off to hospital it went. Out of sympathy, my wife went to hospital in Joondalup too for her own memory reinstalled, boot blocks restored and disinfected. I was a little confused at the time about who was where! I think in the end my wife was treated under applecare, and the Mini under Medicare ... u, no. wrong way around again.. dang. Both wife and mini are back at home, happily rebuilt to their former selves. I thought this feedback to the list might be useful for future solution finding, and a lesson in the benefits of Medicare, ummm Applecare. Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Oz dollar ripoff?
I see that the Australian dollar is equal to a US dollar today, but a basic iPad from Apple in Australia still costs A$629 versus US$499 in America. :( -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Info for CAD users,..AutoCAD now available for Mac
Hi Daniel, This brings back a few memories! A few years ago, when designing Subsea robotic tooling, I got fed up with designing at the drawing board, taking it upstairs to the draftsmen (working with either AutoCad or Microstation) - waiting to get a drawing back - by which time the design had evolved and so the drawing needed to be modified... etc etc. I decided it had to be easier to actually design on the computer, unfortunately: 1. I had no CAD experience and the project deadlines gave me no time to fit in any courses. 2. The underwater operations department was the sole Mac hangout in the whole PC-based company. 3. Whereas the drafties had nice dedicated drawing workstations with two huge screens and wacom tablets with CAD templates etc set-up I had a IIci with one of the nice Radius swivel screens. After some quick research, I narrowed down a few Mac CAD contenders and, on a recommendation, got a copy of Ashlar Vellum on a 3 week trial. It was real Mac software intuitive and easy to use straight out the box at the end of the three week trial, I was designing on the computer, had several drawings done and couldn¹t face handing it back! I persuaded the dealer to lease the software to the company, scrounged an old 20² BW monitor video card from the drafties discarded pile, clipped the lid off of the IIci and stuck the card in and revelled in my two screen CAD station!! What I really liked was how easy Vellum was after watching the drafties driving AutoCad or Microstation they seemed to really work at producing the drawings, while I just got on with designing and saved a huge amount of time getting drawings done revised by the drawing office I later went on to by my own copy of Ashlar Vellum. Ashlar now has a range of CAD/3D design software but, being retired, I can¹t justify the significant cost just to draw up my latest woodwork project! Even their basic Graphite (probably the nearest equivalent to what I used) is around US $1400. Anyway, enough reminiscing! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/10/10 3:30 AM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: For those people interested. Autodesk now have AutoCAD available for the Mac. Not cheap, but you can download a 30 day demo to see what you think of it :o) More info can be found here;- http://www.macrumors.com/2010/10/15/autocad-for-mac-now-available/ And trail download and info,.. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=15421056siteID=123112 Enjoy! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
Thanks Ronni. Ahead of your email I ended up connecting my MBP directly to the TC (via ethernet) and continued to get partial backups followed by varying error messages. I connected an iMac directly to the TC as well, same problem. Even took the TC to a service shop, because a search of the internet indicated the problem could be the software not communicating with the hard disk, but the service shop couldn't see a problem. The TC was reset, tried backing up, more error messages. My latest move has been to erase the TC hard disk completely, and as I type it's 50% through a full back up, which is the most it's got to. A shame because I've lost all historical backups, but I was out of options. The web is full of reports about unresolved TC problems, TCs working fine then suddenly not, seemingly since the introduction of 10.5. Cheers, Steven On 16/10/2010, at 10:57 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Steven, I'm having an enforced Medical Break from WAMUG, but have given you a suggestion below. On 13/10/2010, at 8:44 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks for your help on this Ronni. I followed your suggestions through, and after a few attempts the back up seemed to get through things and all was good. Throwing things back to the group once again, I have a new TC related problem. Following relocation, I'm now on an Optus cable connection. I have an Optus-supplied NETGEAR CVG824G wireless cable modem to connect to the internet. All Macs talk wirelessly to the CVG824G just fine. I've connected the TC to the CVG824G via ethernet cable and the WAN port on the TC. As far as I know, the Macs should be able to back up to it that way. I can see the TC via Airport Utility, a delightful green dot appears next to the TC image. I had an orange dot initially, however I changed 'Connection Sharing' to 'Share a public IP address' from 'Distribute a range of IP addresses' (an overhang from trying to get round a single computer connection in a hotel), and now all seems fine. But … In Airport Utility under 'Internet' - Internet Connection - Connect Using: Ethernet Connection Sharing: OFF (Bridge Mode). Cheers, Ronni When I 'Back Up Now' the message my Mac throws up after a couple of minutes is ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk is not available. Time Machine Buddy says ... --- Starting standard backup Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://myfirstname%mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data NetAuthConnectToServerSync failed with error: 64 for url: afp://myfirstname%20mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data Backup failed with error: 19 --- Any clues? Many thanks, Steven On 30/09/2010, at 2:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for getting back with more information. From what I can gather from the widget error messages, they indicate that what's on your internal HD may not match the hidden File System Event Database that OSX keeps on each disk, and TM normally uses to see what's been changed since the last backup and needs to be copied. Since it is untrustable, TM must examine every directory (folder) on your system, and compare it to your backups, instead. This is, of course, a lengthy procedure. This is usually caused by an improper shutdown, but can be the result of other things, too. And once it occurs, the whole process must be repeated for each unsuccessful backup attempt until one completes normally. If you have had a force power-off, you'll get the UUID problem and TM will do a deep traversal. There's no way around that: it's the only way TM can be sure that all the changes made since your last backup will be saved this time. So, if at all possible, let it run. But Firstly: 1. Exclude the Time Machine Partition from spotlight, via System Preferences Spotlight Privacy. 2. In System Preferences Energy Saver make sure you don't have selected Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible. Probably best to also put Computer Sleep to Never as well. Then try a Time Machine Backup and if possible try not to use the computer too much while this backup is occurring. Don't interrupt the backup, it will take quite a long time to finish. If that doesn't help, note the time one of these backups starts, then use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to see if there are other messages indicating a conflict with your backups. When it starts, click Show Log List in the toolbar, then navigate in the sidebar that opens up to your system.log and select it. Navigate to the Starting standard backup message, then see what follows that might indicate some sort of error, failure, termination, exit, etc. Cheers, Ronni On 30/09/2010, at 10:19 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro
Re: Oz dollar ripoff?
Yes and how much for an Apple TV? Brian Sent from my iPhone On 16/10/2010, at 10:44, Paul Weaver pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see that the Australian dollar is equal to a US dollar today, but a basic iPad from Apple in Australia still costs A$629 versus US$499 in America. :( -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Oz dollar ripoff?
you have to remember Apple set their prices in advance based upon many things, so if the AUD goes down our price does not go up but of course if the AUD goes up well the price wont go down until the next review. Just my thoughts Roger On 16/10/2010, at 12:00 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Yes and how much for an Apple TV? Brian Sent from my iPhone On 16/10/2010, at 10:44, Paul Weaver pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see that the Australian dollar is equal to a US dollar today, but a basic iPad from Apple in Australia still costs A$629 versus US$499 in America. :( -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Info !!
I seem to have mysteriously got a copy of 'Opera' on my Laptop, to the best of my knowledge I did not download it and I CERTAINLY DID NOT MAKE IT MY DEFAULT BROWSER how the hell did that happen ? :-) Mac -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
27 inch Cinema LED Display compatability
Hello,does connect the new 27 inch Cinema Display to a 2005 Apple G5? Cheers, Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Time Machine
I may have missed this but My Time machine seems not to see the backupdrive on my desk top. I can open preferences and manually select the drive and I get a backup there and then. I have also noticed that the drive drops off the desk top and then re-appears. Slightly annoying but what do I do about it. Every thing is current to 10.6.4 iMac 24. tom samson -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Oz dollar ripoff?
We obviously just need one worldwide currency unit - maybe a GGE - gold gram equivalent ;o) Cross-border buying is now pretty easy - and can be very confusing re currency equivalents - for example: I just bought Toast 10: On the Oz website it was $179 AUD for the full version or $149AUD for an upgrade - but I just had an email from Roxio offering the full version (not upgrade) for half price ie $89 AUD. Out of interest I compared the (half) price in the Roxio different country stores and translated using the (at the time) $1AUD sells conversion rate from http://markets.smh.com.au/apps/mkt/forex.ac: US$69.99 converted @ .9904 to $70.67AUD €49.99 euro converted @ .7061 to $$70.80AUD GBP £34.99 converted @ .6190 to $56.52AUD So I decided that, for once, the pommies were offering exceptional value! I decided to see if they would let me buy from the UK store - half expecting that when I put in my Australian address it would take me back to the OZ store - but, no, the UK store happily let me put in my Australian address and buy toast for GBP £34.99 - and I was happy with my bargain! Obviously the exchange rate ( hence the extent of my bargain) changes by the minute - but we are not talking about marginal differences here! Anyway Toast 10 now installed registered I'm happy :o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/10/10 12:06 PM, Roger Kortas at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: you have to remember Apple set their prices in advance based upon many things, so if the AUD goes down our price does not go up but of course if the AUD goes up well the price wont go down until the next review. Just my thoughts Roger On 16/10/2010, at 12:00 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Yes and how much for an Apple TV? Brian Sent from my iPhone On 16/10/2010, at 10:44, Paul Weaver pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see that the Australian dollar is equal to a US dollar today, but a basic iPad from Apple in Australia still costs A$629 versus US$499 in America. :( -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Info !!
Have you downloaded or opened disk from MacUpdate or Western Digital recently. I did both on the same day and Opera appeared in my Applications. I don't know from which it came - unless there is a sneaky third source somewhere!! Merv On 16/10/10 12:45 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: I seem to have mysteriously got a copy of 'Opera' on my Laptop, to the best of my knowledge I did not download it and I CERTAINLY DID NOT MAKE IT MY DEFAULT BROWSER how the hell did that happen ? :-) Mac -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe -mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Education without values and knowledge without ethics is a false education. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Info !!
Hi Mac, Not sure how you made it your default browser - but if you installed some Adobe software then that could be where Opera came from! I was surprised recently to double-click some document (don't remember what it was) and find that Opera launched and opened it - I went looking for Opera and tracked it down to part of my Photoshop Elements install. In my case the path is: /Applications/Adobe\ Bridge\ CS4/Adobe\ Bridge\ CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera.app Which means it sits INSIDE the Adobe Bridge CS4 application package. If you want to see it select the Adobe Bridge CS4 application (the actual application, not the folder Adobe puts it in) and right-click to select show package contents then you will find it in the MacOS folder inside the Contents folder. Comes as a surprise, doesn't it! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/10/10 12:45 PM, McCallum Malcolm at doc...@westnet.com.au wrote: I seem to have mysteriously got a copy of 'Opera' on my Laptop, to the best of my knowledge I did not download it and I CERTAINLY DID NOT MAKE IT MY DEFAULT BROWSER how the hell did that happen ? :-) Mac -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
