Re: Safari can't connect!
Hi Rick, Is it all webpages that won't load, or is it only some webpages or secure webpages - https:? What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.8.5? Have you tried empty caches? If it is version 6.1 Empty Caches Safari Preference Advanced Checkmark the box for Show Develop menu in menu bar. Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar. Click Develop and select Empty Caches from the dropdown. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Safari can't connect!
I turned all off for half and hour and all seem good now, I had reset Safari before to no luck, some websites opened up and some did saying Safrai wasn't connected to the internet. Safari 6.1.1. it's annoying when you need to do something urgent at the time. Thanks. On 04/02/2014, at 4:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rick, Is it all webpages that won't load, or is it only some webpages or secure webpages - https:? What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.8.5? Have you tried empty caches? If it is version 6.1 Empty Caches Safari Preference Advanced Checkmark the box for Show Develop menu in menu bar. Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar. Click Develop and select Empty Caches from the dropdown. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Safari can't connect!
Thanks Ronni, I have done this as per your instructions without question, so hopefully it won't do that again. Rick. On 04/02/2014, at 4:42 PM, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: I turned all off for half and hour and all seem good now, I had reset Safari before to no luck, some websites opened up and some did saying Safrai wasn't connected to the internet. Safari 6.1.1. it's annoying when you need to do something urgent at the time. Thanks. On 04/02/2014, at 4:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rick, Is it all webpages that won't load, or is it only some webpages or secure webpages - https:? What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.8.5? Have you tried empty caches? If it is version 6.1 Empty Caches Safari Preference Advanced Checkmark the box for Show Develop menu in menu bar. Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar. Click Develop and select Empty Caches from the dropdown. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Safari can't connect!
Hi Rick, I had same problem today, googled it and came up with this: Open System Preferences Network Advanced DNS Click + and type: 208.67.222.222 Click + again and do the same. 208.67.220.220 Click OK. Quit and relaunch Safari. I did that and it appears to have solved the problem. Cheers, Graham On 4 Feb 2014, at 4:52 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Ronni, I have done this as per your instructions without question, so hopefully it won't do that again. Rick. On 04/02/2014, at 4:42 PM, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: I turned all off for half and hour and all seem good now, I had reset Safari before to no luck, some websites opened up and some did saying Safrai wasn't connected to the internet. Safari 6.1.1. it's annoying when you need to do something urgent at the time. Thanks. On 04/02/2014, at 4:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rick, Is it all webpages that won't load, or is it only some webpages or secure webpages - https:? What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.8.5? Have you tried empty caches? If it is version 6.1 Empty Caches Safari Preference Advanced Checkmark the box for Show Develop menu in menu bar. Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar. Click Develop and select Empty Caches from the dropdown. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Safari can't connect!
Thanks Graham, Rick. On 04/02/2014, at 6:02 PM, Graham Rabe gra...@rabe.com.au wrote: Hi Rick, I had same problem today, googled it and came up with this: Open System Preferences Network Advanced DNS Click + and type: 208.67.222.222 Click + again and do the same. 208.67.220.220 Click OK. Quit and relaunch Safari. I did that and it appears to have solved the problem. Cheers, Graham On 4 Feb 2014, at 4:52 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Ronni, I have done this as per your instructions without question, so hopefully it won't do that again. Rick. On 04/02/2014, at 4:42 PM, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: I turned all off for half and hour and all seem good now, I had reset Safari before to no luck, some websites opened up and some did saying Safrai wasn't connected to the internet. Safari 6.1.1. it's annoying when you need to do something urgent at the time. Thanks. On 04/02/2014, at 4:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rick, Is it all webpages that won't load, or is it only some webpages or secure webpages - https:? What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.8.5? Have you tried empty caches? If it is version 6.1 Empty Caches Safari Preference Advanced Checkmark the box for Show Develop menu in menu bar. Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar. Click Develop and select Empty Caches from the dropdown. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Safari can't connect!
Hi Graham, Not too shabby at all Graham, for a fellow who once worshipped Windows but has become besotted with Apple. Michael. On 04/02/2014, at 6:02 PM, Graham Rabe wrote: Hi Rick, I had same problem today, googled it and came up with this: Open System Preferences Network Advanced DNS Click + and type: 208.67.222.222 Click + again and do the same. 208.67.220.220 Click OK. Quit and relaunch Safari. I did that and it appears to have solved the problem. Cheers, Graham On 4 Feb 2014, at 4:52 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Ronni, I have done this as per your instructions without question, so hopefully it won't do that again. Rick. On 04/02/2014, at 4:42 PM, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: I turned all off for half and hour and all seem good now, I had reset Safari before to no luck, some websites opened up and some did saying Safrai wasn't connected to the internet. Safari 6.1.1. it's annoying when you need to do something urgent at the time. Thanks. On 04/02/2014, at 4:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rick, Is it all webpages that won't load, or is it only some webpages or secure webpages - https:? What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.8.5? Have you tried empty caches? If it is version 6.1 Empty Caches Safari Preference Advanced Checkmark the box for Show Develop menu in menu bar. Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar. Click Develop and select Empty Caches from the dropdown. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 4 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Safari can't connect!
I've also found iinet to be a little slow today as well (and some web pages not loading). For part of the day I added and removed iinet's DNS (203.0.178.191) and also used Googles DNS (8.8.8.8). Just one thing to note if you do change the DNS as mentioned above (or previously posted as well), is that you are routing some of the web traffic differently to iinet. This can affect how your traffic counts from Freezone, so anything that would otherwise not be counted (i.e. free), will now be counted. (generally not a huge issue, as sometimes the iinet limits are large), but if you're counting your usage, then this can affect it. Just thought I'd add that. But yes, I have a feeling it may have partly been something at iinet today,….. Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 04/02/2014, at 8:40 PM, wyv...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hey Rick I was having the same problem earlier today too. I went to toolbox and found an outage warning for Maylands so decided to call iinet to see if that was the cause but before getting through they had a message about some technical problems they were working on. So it was for me either iinet or Maylands exchange or a combination of both...it was at the same time as you were having the problems Yvonne On 04/02/2014, at 3:04 PM, Rick Armstrong wrote: 10.8.5 Sometimes Safari can't connect to the internet on iMac 10.8.5 but OK on another iMac 10.8.4 so network is OK, email is also OK. Why is that? Have done permissions, reset modem, restart, all that stuff. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Time Capsule
Hi, some may recall I’ve been running out of Time Capsule memory with 5 Macbooks now all pointing to the 1TB TC I have. Is there any reason why I can’t use an externally attached USB hard drive (say 1TB or 2TB) on the TC as a Backup target to effectively increase capacity? Is it necessary to keep the USB attached disc dedicated to being a Backup target disc? TIA Pete. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mavericks
Hi Ronni Just to thank you again and let you know I finished the Mavericks install as per your instructions this morning without any trouble. Little bit surprised to have a menubar on each of my screens, new useful feature. Also Mail is working fine, no problems. Regards, Paul -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Time Capsule
Hi Ronni, thanks for that, it was just a thought that came to me about using an external for say 2 of the 5 mbp's to an a drive attached to the TC USB and the other 3 (smaller) backups directed to the TC. I'm clear on not spanning one backup over two drives, obviously with a single sparsebundle file, it has to be in one place not two. So just considering my options currently and this seems a good alternative and easy to implement. If I use an external drive, does it need formatting in a particular fashion and dedicated to backup duties? Regards Pete On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:00 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 5 Feb 2014, at 8:43 am, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi, some may recall I’ve been running out of Time Capsule memory with 5 Macbooks now all pointing to the 1TB TC I have. Is there any reason why I can’t use an externally attached USB hard drive (say 1TB or 2TB) on the TC as a Backup target to effectively increase capacity? Is it necessary to keep the USB attached disc dedicated to being a Backup target disc? Hi Peter, Your previous response Re: Time Capsule capacity and OS X limits - on 13 December 2013 was: Thanks Ronni, I'm going shopping for a 3TB TC Obviously you have changed your mind ;-) You can attach a USB drive to your Time Capsule. Then you can back up to the USB drive instead of the Time Capsule's internal HD (see question #Q2 - How do I set up Time Machine to back up to an Air Disk on my Time Capsule). http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ2.html If you have multiple Macs, you can back some up to the Time Capsule's internal drive, and others to the USB drive. If you need even more space, you can connect multiple USB drives via a powered hub, and back up different Macs to each. What you cannot do, however, is have one Mac's backups continue from the Time Capsule's internal HD to a USB drive connected to it, or have the backups for any one Mac span two drives! Time Machine should back up to most Hardware RAID sets (multiple drives in an enclosure with a single connection to your Time Capsule). But Time Machine will not back up to a Software RAID set (where you combine separate drives into a single volume via Disk Utility). Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Time Capsule
Hi Peter, Make sure it is a large external drive, you need at least double the size of the MBPs you will be backing up to this external drive. As I have mentioned to you before I backup ONE MacBook Pro using Time Machine to my 3TB Time Capsule! 'How to Format Partition your Drive to work with Time Machine': 1. Make sure to copy any files on your hard disk to another location because reformatting will erase them. 2. Click on your computer Hard Drive’s icon. Select Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility. 3. In the left hand column, click on the drive icon for the name of your external drive. Make sure you click on the First icon, not the Second Level ‘Volume’ icon. 4. Select the Partition Tab. 5. Select the Format Type from the Format drop-down menu. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (recommended). 6. Click on the Options button. 7. Select the type of partition you want to use: GUID Partition Table - for bootability on Intel-based Macs Apple Partition Map - for bootability on PowerPC-based Macs 8. Click OK. 9. Click the Apply button. Then turn ON Time Machine from the panel in System Preferences on each computer Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 5 Feb 2014, at 1:31 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, thanks for that, it was just a thought that came to me about using an external for say 2 of the 5 mbp's to an a drive attached to the TC USB and the other 3 (smaller) backups directed to the TC. I'm clear on not spanning one backup over two drives, obviously with a single sparsebundle file, it has to be in one place not two. So just considering my options currently and this seems a good alternative and easy to implement. If I use an external drive, does it need formatting in a particular fashion and dedicated to backup duties? Regards Pete On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:00 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 5 Feb 2014, at 8:43 am, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi, some may recall I’ve been running out of Time Capsule memory with 5 Macbooks now all pointing to the 1TB TC I have. Is there any reason why I can’t use an externally attached USB hard drive (say 1TB or 2TB) on the TC as a Backup target to effectively increase capacity? Is it necessary to keep the USB attached disc dedicated to being a Backup target disc? Hi Peter, Your previous response Re: Time Capsule capacity and OS X limits - on 13 December 2013 was: Thanks Ronni, I'm going shopping for a 3TB TC Obviously you have changed your mind ;-) You can attach a USB drive to your Time Capsule. Then you can back up to the USB drive instead of the Time Capsule's internal HD (see question #Q2 - How do I set up Time Machine to back up to an Air Disk on my Time Capsule). http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ2.html If you have multiple Macs, you can back some up to the Time Capsule's internal drive, and others to the USB drive. If you need even more space, you can connect multiple USB drives via a powered hub, and back up different Macs to each. What you cannot do, however, is have one Mac's backups continue from the Time Capsule's internal HD to a USB drive connected to it, or have the backups for any one Mac span two drives! Time Machine should back up to most Hardware RAID sets (multiple drives in an enclosure with a single connection to your Time Capsule). But Time Machine will not back up to a Software RAID set (where you combine separate drives into a single volume via Disk Utility). Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mavericks
Hi Paul, I'm pleased to hear everything went well. When you do the preparation work and correctly install and then do the 'Post Installation steps' you normally won't experience any problems. Regards, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:23 pm, Paul Willemse pjwille...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ronni Just to thank you again and let you know I finished the Mavericks install as per your instructions this morning without any trouble. Little bit surprised to have a menubar on each of my screens, new useful feature. Also Mail is working fine, no problems. Regards, Paul -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Time Capsule
Ok, all noted thanks Ronnie. Off to see The Boss shortly so unfortunately I can't get to this tonight. As usual your message is very clear. My 1TB TC currently has 34GB free, with just 4 mbp's backing up!!! Regards Pete On 5 Feb 2014, at 2:53 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Make sure it is a large external drive, you need at least double the size of the MBPs you will be backing up to this external drive. As I have mentioned to you before I backup ONE MacBook Pro using Time Machine to my 3TB Time Capsule! 'How to Format Partition your Drive to work with Time Machine': 1. Make sure to copy any files on your hard disk to another location because reformatting will erase them. 2. Click on your computer Hard Drive’s icon. Select Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility. 3. In the left hand column, click on the drive icon for the name of your external drive. Make sure you click on the First icon, not the Second Level ‘Volume’ icon. 4. Select the Partition Tab. 5. Select the Format Type from the Format drop-down menu. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (recommended). 6. Click on the Options button. 7. Select the type of partition you want to use: GUID Partition Table - for bootability on Intel-based Macs Apple Partition Map - for bootability on PowerPC-based Macs 8. Click OK. 9. Click the Apply button. Then turn ON Time Machine from the panel in System Preferences on each computer Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 5 Feb 2014, at 1:31 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, thanks for that, it was just a thought that came to me about using an external for say 2 of the 5 mbp's to an a drive attached to the TC USB and the other 3 (smaller) backups directed to the TC. I'm clear on not spanning one backup over two drives, obviously with a single sparsebundle file, it has to be in one place not two. So just considering my options currently and this seems a good alternative and easy to implement. If I use an external drive, does it need formatting in a particular fashion and dedicated to backup duties? Regards Pete On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:00 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 5 Feb 2014, at 8:43 am, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi, some may recall I’ve been running out of Time Capsule memory with 5 Macbooks now all pointing to the 1TB TC I have. Is there any reason why I can’t use an externally attached USB hard drive (say 1TB or 2TB) on the TC as a Backup target to effectively increase capacity? Is it necessary to keep the USB attached disc dedicated to being a Backup target disc? Hi Peter, Your previous response Re: Time Capsule capacity and OS X limits - on 13 December 2013 was: Thanks Ronni, I'm going shopping for a 3TB TC Obviously you have changed your mind ;-) You can attach a USB drive to your Time Capsule. Then you can back up to the USB drive instead of the Time Capsule's internal HD (see question #Q2 - How do I set up Time Machine to back up to an Air Disk on my Time Capsule). http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ2.html If you have multiple Macs, you can back some up to the Time Capsule's internal drive, and others to the USB drive. If you need even more space, you can connect multiple USB drives via a powered hub, and back up different Macs to each. What you cannot do, however, is have one Mac's backups continue from the Time Capsule's internal HD to a USB drive connected to it, or have the backups for any one Mac span two drives! Time Machine should back up to most Hardware RAID sets (multiple drives in an enclosure with a single connection to your Time Capsule). But Time Machine will not back up to a Software RAID set (where you combine separate drives into a single volume via Disk Utility). Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
