apple termites
howdy all thought this might be of interest we discovered termites under our suspended timber floor the other day on further inspection of where I store my apple boxes, it appears that termites prefer the apple boxes over other makers. Thus My G4 , collectable Bondi IMac and 20 inch screen boxes have all be eaten to various stages, including the foam packaging. What a bugga. I was advised by an entomologist to stick boxes outside in sun, open up as much as possible and let the predators go for it - ie ants, birds, spiders Was an amazing site how quickly these predators forraged for the juicey white termites. Of note , is that I inspected that area back in January 10, where there was no sign of them. chow gdorn gd...@mac.com -- 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
Cleaning Your Apple Products
Hi people, The Official Guide to Cleaning Your Apple Products: Apple has released a support article with instructions for cleaning all of your Apple products: iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, cases, displays, and even peripherals. Most of the advice is common sense, but it’s a good idea to check before you clean so you don’t accidentally damage your devices. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204172 Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- 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
Iphone 5c
Hello How long should my battery last at present mine lasts about 4 hrs. is this normal. Regards 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Time machine - backup failed - disk too small
Hi Gary, Something for you to check out. Do you have more than one user account on the machine? From memory, the get info only shows the size of the folders you can ³see² - so for other user folders (with the red no entry sign on the folder icon) it does not show you the size of their user folders (except for their generally accessible ³public² and ³sites² folders) so that the size it shows for ³users² can be much smaller than the true size if there are other large user folders in there. Whatsize seems to offer a way round this called 'Measure as Administrator' from their webpage http://whatsizemac.com/faq/ WhatSize does not have permission to measure files and folders owned by other users of the machine. You need to 'Measure as Administrator'. Contact Us if you want to replace the Mac App Store version. Since you are using SL, the last version of Whatsize that was SL compatable was 5.3.2 - out of interest I downloaded this and the 'Measure as Administrator' function IS in this version - but cannot be activated as a trial user - you need to have bought the license. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 9/4/15 10:01, garydorn at gd...@me.com wrote: Howdy WAMUG RE Time Machine Mac OS 10.6.8 we noticed that Time machine on a iMac has not backup up since about june 2014! to a WD Mybooklive 500 GB over ethernet. initially it says disk not available I ran disk utility which corrected a harddisk corruption I ran Time machine again - error- This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 747.42 GB but only 331.21 GB are available In Finder I checked out was was so large. Users 184GB Applications 13.16 GB System Info 5.11 GB Library 11.59 GB Developer 3.03 GB resources 0KB lost + found 17.8 MB users guide and information 181 MB total about say 217 GB If the backup says there is 747 GB and Finder say 217 GB - what this extra 531 GB? as an experiment I excluded all other these folders in Time Machine options and it left 397 GB to backup! WhatSize does not reveal where this all is. Please, Can anybody shed a light on this overly large backup? garydorn gd...@me.com north perth -- 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 machine - backup failed - disk too small
Howdy WAMUG RE Time Machine Mac OS 10.6.8 we noticed that Time machine on a iMac has not backup up since about june 2014! to a WD Mybooklive 500 GB over ethernet. initially it says disk not available I ran disk utility which corrected a harddisk corruption I ran Time machine again - error- This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 747.42 GB but only 331.21 GB are available In Finder I checked out was was so large. Users 184GB Applications 13.16 GB System Info 5.11 GB Library 11.59 GB Developer 3.03 GB resources 0KB lost + found 17.8 MB users guide and information 181 MB total about say 217 GB If the backup says there is 747 GB and Finder say 217 GB - what this extra 531 GB? as an experiment I excluded all other these folders in Time Machine options and it left 397 GB to backup! WhatSize does not reveal where this all is. Please, Can anybody shed a light on this overly large backup? garydorn gd...@me.com north perth -- 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
