Re: Push from iCloud (photos)
Hi all, Just a follow up as promised. Everything is working as it should. PhoneView did a superb job of retrieving all my photos from various devices when iPhoto wouldn't recognise them. The only downside is that the album structure hasn't been retained and there are a number of duplicates due to the same image being stored at different resolutions on different devices. PhoneView itself allowed me to not import any images of identical size and nomenclature, etc. Unfortunately I still don't know the actual cause of iPhoto's inability to access the images, so I can't offer up any specific advice to anyone suffering similar problems. Cheers! Callum On 03/06/2012, at 10:49 PM, Callum Prior wrote: I haven't yet tried the iPhone, iPhoto on the iMac is in the process of uploading to 2,000 odd photos it's pulled from the iPad into the Photo Stream. I'm going to let that finish, do the same for the iPhone then report back. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 10:28 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Victory! ImageCapture only recognised the same images as iPhoto, but Phoneview seems to have imported all of the photos off the iPad with just one click, though I've got a bit of work ahead of me establishing the albums and removing the duplicates. Many thanks for the recommendation, and thanks again to yourself, Ronni and Carlo. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum Other options to try. ImageCapture (in Applications folder). Open up, and when plugged in, it hopefully may show all the photos not the device. Then give you options to select all and import into Picture folder. (or someone else). Then import into iPhoto. PhoneView. (Good for other things too) - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ Not free though. Gives you access to the device, and photos are listed. So may be able to import from there as well. Just a couple of things I thought of as well…. (Sorry might be missing some of your info, as sidetracked on another issue plus two other jobs at the same time,…lol). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 9:45 PM, Callum Prior wrote: I have tried that, sadly in the iPad's case it's saying that it's only already imported 60 photos. As I say it doesn't seem to be recognising photos on the device at all, for the most part. It's certainly not importing any albums, the only thing that works is reserving the photos back into the camera roll which seems to be forcing the iMac to recognise them again. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:26 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum If you plug in the iDevices and open iPhoto, then under Devices once you click on your iPhone (or iPad), does it show the Window Already Imported. perhaps it thinks it's already imported them on a previous occasion. If it does, you can then click on the right hand side and choose Show all x photos. If it does, you can then Command-A (to select all), then choose Import Selected. It should then go through and bring in any and all photos. (And it will ask about Duplicates as well). That way you may be able to bring back ones it thinks it's already got. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 8:46 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Thanks Carlo, I like and understand the explanation, sadly it doesn't appear to fit my situation at least for the most part. :P Some of the photos appearing in the iMac photo stream are from 2009. There are only about a dozen photos from within the last 30 days, and it's not recognising all the photos my other devices have taken in the last thirty days. It's sill unclear why the iMac isn't recognising and syncing the albums on both the iOS devices when connected via cable. In the case of the iPad it only recognises 214 photos in total out of the many hundreds that exist on the device irrespective of the cloud. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 7:43 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, I think I may be able to explain what is happening here but it is only my best guess. My understanding is that photos in Photo Stream will remain on the iCloud server for 30 days to give all your devices a chance to sync. Each individual portable device will retain the 1000 most recent photos regardless of their age, and on your Mac you can configure iPhoto to retain Photo Stream photos indefinitely. A quick aside, I have iPhoto set to retain my Photo Stream and I strongly recommend that everyone do the same. This can be configured in iPhoto Preferences Photo Stream. So you lost your main Mac, iPhoto repository and thus lost
Re: Push from iCloud (photos)
Hi Ronni, Prior to my data loss on my iMac and iMac backup last month both my iPad and iPhone were set to iCloud backup, and remain so, and everything functioned as you, Carlo and Daniel describe below. My issues at the moment: Given the data loss I've experienced on my iMac, I'm very keen to repopulate it with the photos from both my iPhone and iPad. I tend not to delete photos on either device unless I'm short of space, so I've a fairly decent backup between the both of them. iPhoto on the iMac is currently recognising a limited number of photos in the photo stream as compared to both my iOS devices. As my understanding was that the photo stream was a shared resource I'm unclear as to why each device is showing a different number of photos available. It also hasn't recognised any of the albums set up on both iOS devices. The photo stream on all devices are also showing photos far older than 30 days Duplicate photos have appeared, sometimes three or four copies of each once I had tried the initial re-sync when my hard drive was replaced. iMac photostream = 294 photos iPhone photostream = 844 photos iPhoto on the iPad photo stream = 482 photos iPad photo stream = 482 photos I have only one iTunes account. Cheers! On 02/06/2012, at 10:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Callum, Carlo, I'm sure you meant to type 1,000 photos not 100 :) Just to add a bit to Carlo's reply. Apple assumes most people will manage their photos on a Mac or PC, and as long as your computer is set up to use Photo Stream, it preserves all your downloaded photos indefinitely—no 30-day limit. You can then sync any photos you want to carry around to your iOS device. For example, you can create an album in iPhoto, and then, in iTunes, make sure your iOS device is configured to sync that album. However, if you don’t regularly use a Mac or PC that’s set up for iCloud, you should take the precaution of reviewing your Photo Stream photos every week or two and saving those that you want to keep in your Camera Roll (if they’re not already there) or another album. Callum, are you using 'iCloud Backup' on your iPhone, or are you backing up your iPhone using iTunes? Cheers, Ronni On 01/06/2012, at 9:38 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, Glad to hear you have your photos synced with iPhoto. Once you get the pics in iPhoto they are saved on your computer (as you probably know) so you don't really need to proceed with saving the photos on all your portable devices as well. If you do also want to save Photo Stream photos to the camera roll on an iPhone or an iPad there is a bit of clicking involved but with the correct sequence you can reduce the click count to around one click per photo, and seeing there is a maximum of 100 photos in Photo Stream that is not too onerous. For an iPad, for instance, you can proceed as follows 1. Open up the Photos app and select the Photo Stream tab at the top of the page. 2. Click the share button. Its icon is a square with a curved arrow exiting up and to the right. 3. Click each photo of interest, or in your case all the photos. As you touch each a check mark will appear on it. 4. Click the Save button to save the selected photos to Camera Roll. I'll post some thoughts later on your Photo Stream mismatch. I have seen something similar but not as extreme as in your case. Do you have more than one Apple ID? Regards, Carlo On 01/06/2012, at 19:00 , Callum Prior wrote: I've run a test with that method and it's worked a treat. On my iPhone I resaved a couple of photos from Photostream to the camera roll. For some reason I thought you couldn't attach an iOS device to the iMac while they were set to sync to the Cloud, and I'm still confused as to why each device appears to be seeing a different stream. My next question is if there's a way to mass select and save photos in Photostream on my iPad/iPhone to the camera roll, or do I have a lot of tapping ahead of me? Thanks again! Callum On 01/06/2012, at 6:47 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, One way is to connect your iPhone to a Mac with a docking cable and then open iPhoto. You will be prompted to save the photos as an event within iPhoto. Alternatively if you do not own iPhoto you can use Image Capture which comes with the operating system. C Sent from my iPad On 01/06/2012, at 18:37, Callum Prior cal...@firstagainstthewall.net wrote: Thanks Carlo, That bit I get, but I don't understand why each device is showing a different number of photos available from the cloud, or where the duplicates came from. Nor how to dump the photos from each device back into the iMac. Cheers! On 01/06/2012, at 6:29 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, This could turn into a long thread but I will start the ball rolling by saying that iCloud Photo Stream stores at most 1000 photos and only stores your new photos for 30 days. So you might
Re: Push from iCloud (photos)
Thanks Carlo, I like and understand the explanation, sadly it doesn't appear to fit my situation at least for the most part. :P Some of the photos appearing in the iMac photo stream are from 2009. There are only about a dozen photos from within the last 30 days, and it's not recognising all the photos my other devices have taken in the last thirty days. It's sill unclear why the iMac isn't recognising and syncing the albums on both the iOS devices when connected via cable. In the case of the iPad it only recognises 214 photos in total out of the many hundreds that exist on the device irrespective of the cloud. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 7:43 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, I think I may be able to explain what is happening here but it is only my best guess. My understanding is that photos in Photo Stream will remain on the iCloud server for 30 days to give all your devices a chance to sync. Each individual portable device will retain the 1000 most recent photos regardless of their age, and on your Mac you can configure iPhoto to retain Photo Stream photos indefinitely. A quick aside, I have iPhoto set to retain my Photo Stream and I strongly recommend that everyone do the same. This can be configured in iPhoto Preferences Photo Stream. So you lost your main Mac, iPhoto repository and thus lost your continuous store of all Photo Stream photos. I could be wrong here but perhaps an iDevice Photo Stream contains the last 30 days photos in plus any any photos that were taken on that particular device whether they be older than 30 days or not. So at a guess, 294 of your photos where taken within the last 30 days and they are currently stored in iCloud and thus were restored to your Mac when you reactivated iCloud on your new install. Your iPhone has these 294 photos taken in the last 30 days plus all the other photos taken on your iPhone. This number would normally be trimmed to 1000, but since you have 844 photos in your iPhone Photo Stream, you have not yet hit that limit. So in principle your iPhone has all the photos ever taken on it (plus those taken on any device in the last 30 days). Lastly the iPad shares these 294 photos plus 188 other photos that were taken on the iPad itself. Again this number is less than 1000 so not photos have been lost. Let me know if these tallies with reality. :-) Regards, Carlo On 03/06/2012, at 17:52 , Callum Prior wrote: Hi Ronni, Prior to my data loss on my iMac and iMac backup last month both my iPad and iPhone were set to iCloud backup, and remain so, and everything functioned as you, Carlo and Daniel describe below. My issues at the moment: Given the data loss I've experienced on my iMac, I'm very keen to repopulate it with the photos from both my iPhone and iPad. I tend not to delete photos on either device unless I'm short of space, so I've a fairly decent backup between the both of them. iPhoto on the iMac is currently recognising a limited number of photos in the photo stream as compared to both my iOS devices. As my understanding was that the photo stream was a shared resource I'm unclear as to why each device is showing a different number of photos available. It also hasn't recognised any of the albums set up on both iOS devices. The photo stream on all devices are also showing photos far older than 30 days Duplicate photos have appeared, sometimes three or four copies of each once I had tried the initial re-sync when my hard drive was replaced. iMac photostream = 294 photos iPhone photostream = 844 photos iPhoto on the iPad photo stream = 482 photos iPad photo stream = 482 photos I have only one iTunes account. Cheers! On 02/06/2012, at 10:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Callum, Carlo, I'm sure you meant to type 1,000 photos not 100 :) Just to add a bit to Carlo's reply. Apple assumes most people will manage their photos on a Mac or PC, and as long as your computer is set up to use Photo Stream, it preserves all your downloaded photos indefinitely—no 30-day limit. You can then sync any photos you want to carry around to your iOS device. For example, you can create an album in iPhoto, and then, in iTunes, make sure your iOS device is configured to sync that album. However, if you don’t regularly use a Mac or PC that’s set up for iCloud, you should take the precaution of reviewing your Photo Stream photos every week or two and saving those that you want to keep in your Camera Roll (if they’re not already there) or another album. Callum, are you using 'iCloud Backup' on your iPhone, or are you backing up your iPhone using iTunes? Cheers, Ronni On 01/06/2012, at 9:38 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, Glad to hear you have your photos synced with iPhoto. Once you get the pics in iPhoto they are saved on your computer (as you probably know) so you don't really need to proceed with saving the photos on all your
Re: Push from iCloud (photos)
I have tried that, sadly in the iPad's case it's saying that it's only already imported 60 photos. As I say it doesn't seem to be recognising photos on the device at all, for the most part. It's certainly not importing any albums, the only thing that works is reserving the photos back into the camera roll which seems to be forcing the iMac to recognise them again. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:26 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum If you plug in the iDevices and open iPhoto, then under Devices once you click on your iPhone (or iPad), does it show the Window Already Imported. perhaps it thinks it's already imported them on a previous occasion. If it does, you can then click on the right hand side and choose Show all x photos. If it does, you can then Command-A (to select all), then choose Import Selected. It should then go through and bring in any and all photos. (And it will ask about Duplicates as well). That way you may be able to bring back ones it thinks it's already got. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 8:46 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Thanks Carlo, I like and understand the explanation, sadly it doesn't appear to fit my situation at least for the most part. :P Some of the photos appearing in the iMac photo stream are from 2009. There are only about a dozen photos from within the last 30 days, and it's not recognising all the photos my other devices have taken in the last thirty days. It's sill unclear why the iMac isn't recognising and syncing the albums on both the iOS devices when connected via cable. In the case of the iPad it only recognises 214 photos in total out of the many hundreds that exist on the device irrespective of the cloud. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 7:43 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, I think I may be able to explain what is happening here but it is only my best guess. My understanding is that photos in Photo Stream will remain on the iCloud server for 30 days to give all your devices a chance to sync. Each individual portable device will retain the 1000 most recent photos regardless of their age, and on your Mac you can configure iPhoto to retain Photo Stream photos indefinitely. A quick aside, I have iPhoto set to retain my Photo Stream and I strongly recommend that everyone do the same. This can be configured in iPhoto Preferences Photo Stream. So you lost your main Mac, iPhoto repository and thus lost your continuous store of all Photo Stream photos. I could be wrong here but perhaps an iDevice Photo Stream contains the last 30 days photos in plus any any photos that were taken on that particular device whether they be older than 30 days or not. So at a guess, 294 of your photos where taken within the last 30 days and they are currently stored in iCloud and thus were restored to your Mac when you reactivated iCloud on your new install. Your iPhone has these 294 photos taken in the last 30 days plus all the other photos taken on your iPhone. This number would normally be trimmed to 1000, but since you have 844 photos in your iPhone Photo Stream, you have not yet hit that limit. So in principle your iPhone has all the photos ever taken on it (plus those taken on any device in the last 30 days). Lastly the iPad shares these 294 photos plus 188 other photos that were taken on the iPad itself. Again this number is less than 1000 so not photos have been lost. Let me know if these tallies with reality. :-) Regards, Carlo On 03/06/2012, at 17:52 , Callum Prior wrote: Hi Ronni, Prior to my data loss on my iMac and iMac backup last month both my iPad and iPhone were set to iCloud backup, and remain so, and everything functioned as you, Carlo and Daniel describe below. My issues at the moment: Given the data loss I've experienced on my iMac, I'm very keen to repopulate it with the photos from both my iPhone and iPad. I tend not to delete photos on either device unless I'm short of space, so I've a fairly decent backup between the both of them. iPhoto on the iMac is currently recognising a limited number of photos in the photo stream as compared to both my iOS devices. As my understanding was that the photo stream was a shared resource I'm unclear as to why each device is showing a different number of photos available. It also hasn't recognised any of the albums set up on both iOS devices. The photo stream on all devices are also showing photos far older than 30 days Duplicate photos have appeared, sometimes three or four copies of each once I had tried the initial re-sync when my hard drive was replaced. iMac photostream = 294 photos iPhone photostream = 844 photos iPhoto on the iPad photo stream = 482 photos iPad photo stream = 482 photos I
Re: Push from iCloud (photos)
Victory! ImageCapture only recognised the same images as iPhoto, but Phoneview seems to have imported all of the photos off the iPad with just one click, though I've got a bit of work ahead of me establishing the albums and removing the duplicates. Many thanks for the recommendation, and thanks again to yourself, Ronni and Carlo. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum Other options to try. ImageCapture (in Applications folder). Open up, and when plugged in, it hopefully may show all the photos not the device. Then give you options to select all and import into Picture folder. (or someone else). Then import into iPhoto. PhoneView. (Good for other things too) - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ Not free though. Gives you access to the device, and photos are listed. So may be able to import from there as well. Just a couple of things I thought of as well…. (Sorry might be missing some of your info, as sidetracked on another issue plus two other jobs at the same time,…lol). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 9:45 PM, Callum Prior wrote: I have tried that, sadly in the iPad's case it's saying that it's only already imported 60 photos. As I say it doesn't seem to be recognising photos on the device at all, for the most part. It's certainly not importing any albums, the only thing that works is reserving the photos back into the camera roll which seems to be forcing the iMac to recognise them again. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:26 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum If you plug in the iDevices and open iPhoto, then under Devices once you click on your iPhone (or iPad), does it show the Window Already Imported. perhaps it thinks it's already imported them on a previous occasion. If it does, you can then click on the right hand side and choose Show all x photos. If it does, you can then Command-A (to select all), then choose Import Selected. It should then go through and bring in any and all photos. (And it will ask about Duplicates as well). That way you may be able to bring back ones it thinks it's already got. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 8:46 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Thanks Carlo, I like and understand the explanation, sadly it doesn't appear to fit my situation at least for the most part. :P Some of the photos appearing in the iMac photo stream are from 2009. There are only about a dozen photos from within the last 30 days, and it's not recognising all the photos my other devices have taken in the last thirty days. It's sill unclear why the iMac isn't recognising and syncing the albums on both the iOS devices when connected via cable. In the case of the iPad it only recognises 214 photos in total out of the many hundreds that exist on the device irrespective of the cloud. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 7:43 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, I think I may be able to explain what is happening here but it is only my best guess. My understanding is that photos in Photo Stream will remain on the iCloud server for 30 days to give all your devices a chance to sync. Each individual portable device will retain the 1000 most recent photos regardless of their age, and on your Mac you can configure iPhoto to retain Photo Stream photos indefinitely. A quick aside, I have iPhoto set to retain my Photo Stream and I strongly recommend that everyone do the same. This can be configured in iPhoto Preferences Photo Stream. So you lost your main Mac, iPhoto repository and thus lost your continuous store of all Photo Stream photos. I could be wrong here but perhaps an iDevice Photo Stream contains the last 30 days photos in plus any any photos that were taken on that particular device whether they be older than 30 days or not. So at a guess, 294 of your photos where taken within the last 30 days and they are currently stored in iCloud and thus were restored to your Mac when you reactivated iCloud on your new install. Your iPhone has these 294 photos taken in the last 30 days plus all the other photos taken on your iPhone. This number would normally be trimmed to 1000, but since you have 844 photos in your iPhone Photo Stream, you have not yet hit that limit. So in principle your iPhone has all the photos ever taken on it (plus those taken on any device in the last 30 days). Lastly the iPad shares these 294 photos plus 188 other photos that were taken on the iPad itself. Again this number is less than 1000 so not photos have been lost. Let me know if these tallies
Re: Push from iCloud (photos)
I haven't yet tried the iPhone, iPhoto on the iMac is in the process of uploading to 2,000 odd photos it's pulled from the iPad into the Photo Stream. I'm going to let that finish, do the same for the iPhone then report back. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 10:28 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Victory! ImageCapture only recognised the same images as iPhoto, but Phoneview seems to have imported all of the photos off the iPad with just one click, though I've got a bit of work ahead of me establishing the albums and removing the duplicates. Many thanks for the recommendation, and thanks again to yourself, Ronni and Carlo. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum Other options to try. ImageCapture (in Applications folder). Open up, and when plugged in, it hopefully may show all the photos not the device. Then give you options to select all and import into Picture folder. (or someone else). Then import into iPhoto. PhoneView. (Good for other things too) - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ Not free though. Gives you access to the device, and photos are listed. So may be able to import from there as well. Just a couple of things I thought of as well…. (Sorry might be missing some of your info, as sidetracked on another issue plus two other jobs at the same time,…lol). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 9:45 PM, Callum Prior wrote: I have tried that, sadly in the iPad's case it's saying that it's only already imported 60 photos. As I say it doesn't seem to be recognising photos on the device at all, for the most part. It's certainly not importing any albums, the only thing that works is reserving the photos back into the camera roll which seems to be forcing the iMac to recognise them again. Callum On 03/06/2012, at 9:26 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Callum If you plug in the iDevices and open iPhoto, then under Devices once you click on your iPhone (or iPad), does it show the Window Already Imported. perhaps it thinks it's already imported them on a previous occasion. If it does, you can then click on the right hand side and choose Show all x photos. If it does, you can then Command-A (to select all), then choose Import Selected. It should then go through and bring in any and all photos. (And it will ask about Duplicates as well). That way you may be able to bring back ones it thinks it's already got. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 03/06/2012, at 8:46 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Thanks Carlo, I like and understand the explanation, sadly it doesn't appear to fit my situation at least for the most part. :P Some of the photos appearing in the iMac photo stream are from 2009. There are only about a dozen photos from within the last 30 days, and it's not recognising all the photos my other devices have taken in the last thirty days. It's sill unclear why the iMac isn't recognising and syncing the albums on both the iOS devices when connected via cable. In the case of the iPad it only recognises 214 photos in total out of the many hundreds that exist on the device irrespective of the cloud. Cheers! On 03/06/2012, at 7:43 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, I think I may be able to explain what is happening here but it is only my best guess. My understanding is that photos in Photo Stream will remain on the iCloud server for 30 days to give all your devices a chance to sync. Each individual portable device will retain the 1000 most recent photos regardless of their age, and on your Mac you can configure iPhoto to retain Photo Stream photos indefinitely. A quick aside, I have iPhoto set to retain my Photo Stream and I strongly recommend that everyone do the same. This can be configured in iPhoto Preferences Photo Stream. So you lost your main Mac, iPhoto repository and thus lost your continuous store of all Photo Stream photos. I could be wrong here but perhaps an iDevice Photo Stream contains the last 30 days photos in plus any any photos that were taken on that particular device whether they be older than 30 days or not. So at a guess, 294 of your photos where taken within the last 30 days and they are currently stored in iCloud and thus were restored to your Mac when you reactivated iCloud on your new install. Your iPhone has these 294 photos taken in the last 30 days plus all the other photos taken on your iPhone. This number would normally be trimmed to 1000, but since you have 844 photos in your iPhone Photo Stream, you have not yet hit that limit. So in principle your
Push from iCloud (photos)
Hi everyone, Last month I had a massive technological failure resulting in the loss of my main drive and backups. Data recovery hasn't gone that well so I'm in the process of rebuilding everything I need. At the moment the only record of my photos exists in iCloud and in the camera rolls and folders of my iPhone and iMac. What's confusing me is that they all show different numbers of photos when they should be synced. A fair number of duplicates have also appeared. Is there a way to resync all my devices or push the photos to the iMac without losing anything? Cheers! Callum -- 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: Push from iCloud (photos)
Thanks Carlo, That bit I get, but I don't understand why each device is showing a different number of photos available from the cloud, or where the duplicates came from. Nor how to dump the photos from each device back into the iMac. Cheers! On 01/06/2012, at 6:29 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, This could turn into a long thread but I will start the ball rolling by saying that iCloud Photo Stream stores at most 1000 photos and only stores your new photos for 30 days. So you might find iCloud has significantly fewer photos than the devices it is used to sync. To preserve a photo from Photo Stream you need to download it to a local device, be it a Mac, iPhone or iPad. Regards, Carlo On 01/06/2012, at 18:19 , Callum Prior wrote: Hi everyone, Last month I had a massive technological failure resulting in the loss of my main drive and backups. Data recovery hasn't gone that well so I'm in the process of rebuilding everything I need. At the moment the only record of my photos exists in iCloud and in the camera rolls and folders of my iPhone and iMac. What's confusing me is that they all show different numbers of photos when they should be synced. A fair number of duplicates have also appeared. Is there a way to resync all my devices or push the photos to the iMac without losing anything? Cheers! Callum -- 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: Push from iCloud (photos)
I should correct myself a little. Where I've said iCloud I mean Photostream. Cheers! On 01/06/2012, at 6:37 PM, Callum Prior wrote: Thanks Carlo, That bit I get, but I don't understand why each device is showing a different number of photos available from the cloud, or where the duplicates came from. Nor how to dump the photos from each device back into the iMac. Cheers! On 01/06/2012, at 6:29 PM, cm wrote: Hi Callum, This could turn into a long thread but I will start the ball rolling by saying that iCloud Photo Stream stores at most 1000 photos and only stores your new photos for 30 days. So you might find iCloud has significantly fewer photos than the devices it is used to sync. To preserve a photo from Photo Stream you need to download it to a local device, be it a Mac, iPhone or iPad. Regards, Carlo On 01/06/2012, at 18:19 , Callum Prior wrote: Hi everyone, Last month I had a massive technological failure resulting in the loss of my main drive and backups. Data recovery hasn't gone that well so I'm in the process of rebuilding everything I need. At the moment the only record of my photos exists in iCloud and in the camera rolls and folders of my iPhone and iMac. What's confusing me is that they all show different numbers of photos when they should be synced. A fair number of duplicates have also appeared. Is there a way to resync all my devices or push the photos to the iMac without losing anything? Cheers! Callum -- 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: Ominous iMac Ticking.
Just wanted to post something of a resolution in case anyone else has similar problems. Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to eject the drive properly. The sequence of events: 1. iMac hard drive makes ticking noise, machine becomes unresponsive. 2. Boot into safe mode, run disk utility, identify and repair errors on iMac HD. 3. Immediately back up system via Time Machine to external WD MyBook for Mac. 4. Following day iMac is again unresponsive, no ticking just the grey apple logo screen. 5. Call AppleCare, try to run through diagnostics but can never move past logo screen. 6. Apple organise for the drive to be replaced on site. 7. On attempting a Time Machine restore, back up drive fails to mount. The drive has been with Dr Kerr this last week but sadly recovery hasn't been possible. It looks like that perhaps a surge made it past the Belkin surge protector taking out both drives and as of yesterday, my modem. Or it's just an unfortunate coincidence. Apple have been kind enough to replace items that weren't in the cloud (mostly movies) and my iPad has all my photos, though I can't seem to push them back into the photo stream and access them on the iMac. I do have to say that for the parts of the cloud that worked, they worked seamlessly. All up it's heading towards $3,000 to replace everything, with no guarantee of recovering everything/anything. Once everything is up and running again I'll be adding Crashplan to my backup strategy. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 13/04/2012, at 7:45 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Did you correctly eject the TM Firewire backup drive after the TM completed the backup and then test that the drive mounted and check that TM had done a complete backup? What operating system are you running? What format did you partition the FW Drive in GUID or? To transfer information from a Time Machine backup or other disk: • Open Migration Assistant (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder), and then follow the onscreen instructions. • When you’re asked how you want to transfer your information, select the “From a Time Machine backup or other disk” button. • When you’re asked to select a disk, select the disk from which you want to transfer information. I can’t help much more tonight Callum, I have a client I must finish work for. I’ll will help when I’m able to. Cheers, Ronni On 13/04/2012, at 7:36 PM, Callum Prior wrote: I used the drive not two days ago to successfully run a Time Machine backup. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 13/04/2012, at 7:29 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: You want the drive to mount, not the SmartWare CD so you can use Migration Assistant. You have been able to backup to this drive before with TM? Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/04/2012, at 7:19 PM, Callum Prior cal...@firstagainstthewall.net wrote: Thanks Ronni, You really need a Paypal donation button. The Smartware CD unmounts from the desktop as expected, but when trying to unmount the drive from Disk Utility I get the message: 'Eject Failed. The disk WD My Book could not be unmounted. Make sure that all applications and files are closed on this disk.' The My Book volume is also greyed out. I haven't used this drive since I ran the backup two days ago. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 13/04/2012, at 7:11 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Is this the first time you have backed up to this WD Drive? It hasn't been password protected has it? Try to Unmount the SmartWare CD. Open Disk Utility Select the SmartWare CD and Unmount it I'm offline tonight, someone else might help otherwise I'll be back possibly tomorrow sometime. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/04/2012, at 5:40 PM, Callum Prior cal...@firstagainstthewall.net wrote: Update on my situation. I was able to get in and run a Time Machine backup to an external Western Digital MyBook for Mac. A day later (yesterday) my iMac failed completely. Turns out she's still covered by AppleCare, so one fairly in depth call to Apple later they've organised for a technician to come out and replace the iMac's drive. However, I'm having problems trying to restore from my backup. The MyBook isn't mounting, though their 'smart ware' is. I've been unable to run a restore either via setup assistant or migration assistant. Any ideas? Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 10/04/2012, at 10:06 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Does not sound good, normally hearing a clicking sound in the Hard Drive indicates the Hard Drive is failing. I hope you have current backups before this happened as the Drive could completely die very quickly. Then it is extremely hard sometimes impossible to recover your Data. One thing you could try is see if it will Safe Boot: Hold the Shift key down at startup. Give it lots of time; it's
Re: Ominous iMac Ticking.
Update on my situation. I was able to get in and run a Time Machine backup to an external Western Digital MyBook for Mac. A day later (yesterday) my iMac failed completely. Turns out she's still covered by AppleCare, so one fairly in depth call to Apple later they've organised for a technician to come out and replace the iMac's drive. However, I'm having problems trying to restore from my backup. The MyBook isn't mounting, though their 'smart ware' is. I've been unable to run a restore either via setup assistant or migration assistant. Any ideas? Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 10/04/2012, at 10:06 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Does not sound good, normally hearing a clicking sound in the Hard Drive indicates the Hard Drive is failing. I hope you have current backups before this happened as the Drive could completely die very quickly. Then it is extremely hard sometimes impossible to recover your Data. One thing you could try is see if it will Safe Boot: Hold the Shift key down at startup. Give it lots of time; it's checking and repairing the drive, if possible. If that won't work, try booting from the Install DVD holding down the C key, open Disk Utility and Repair the drive. Failing that you need to backup quickly… if you can; or haven’t a current backup; and get someone like Daniel Kerr to have a look at it and if it is a failing / dead Hard Drive he could purchase and install a new hard drive for you. Shut Down the iMac and don’t use it until the problem is correctly. The more you use it the more chance you have of loosing your Data. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 10/04/2012, at 9:17 AM, Callum Prior wrote: Hi all, My iMac has just started making a light ticking/clicking noise and on restart won't progress past the Apple logo screen. A review of Google Indicates this may not be a great thing. Hoping someone can recommend a solution or a service centre to have it checked out? Cheers! -- Callum Prior -- 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: Ominous iMac Ticking.
Thanks Ronni, You really need a Paypal donation button. The Smartware CD unmounts from the desktop as expected, but when trying to unmount the drive from Disk Utility I get the message: 'Eject Failed. The disk WD My Book could not be unmounted. Make sure that all applications and files are closed on this disk.' The My Book volume is also greyed out. I haven't used this drive since I ran the backup two days ago. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 13/04/2012, at 7:11 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Is this the first time you have backed up to this WD Drive? It hasn't been password protected has it? Try to Unmount the SmartWare CD. Open Disk Utility Select the SmartWare CD and Unmount it I'm offline tonight, someone else might help otherwise I'll be back possibly tomorrow sometime. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/04/2012, at 5:40 PM, Callum Prior cal...@firstagainstthewall.net wrote: Update on my situation. I was able to get in and run a Time Machine backup to an external Western Digital MyBook for Mac. A day later (yesterday) my iMac failed completely. Turns out she's still covered by AppleCare, so one fairly in depth call to Apple later they've organised for a technician to come out and replace the iMac's drive. However, I'm having problems trying to restore from my backup. The MyBook isn't mounting, though their 'smart ware' is. I've been unable to run a restore either via setup assistant or migration assistant. Any ideas? Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 10/04/2012, at 10:06 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Does not sound good, normally hearing a clicking sound in the Hard Drive indicates the Hard Drive is failing. I hope you have current backups before this happened as the Drive could completely die very quickly. Then it is extremely hard sometimes impossible to recover your Data. One thing you could try is see if it will Safe Boot: Hold the Shift key down at startup. Give it lots of time; it's checking and repairing the drive, if possible. If that won't work, try booting from the Install DVD holding down the C key, open Disk Utility and Repair the drive. Failing that you need to backup quickly… if you can; or haven’t a current backup; and get someone like Daniel Kerr to have a look at it and if it is a failing / dead Hard Drive he could purchase and install a new hard drive for you. Shut Down the iMac and don’t use it until the problem is correctly. The more you use it the more chance you have of loosing your Data. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 10/04/2012, at 9:17 AM, Callum Prior wrote: Hi all, My iMac has just started making a light ticking/clicking noise and on restart won't progress past the Apple logo screen. A review of Google Indicates this may not be a great thing. Hoping someone can recommend a solution or a service centre to have it checked out? Cheers! -- Callum Prior -- 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: Ominous iMac Ticking.
I used the drive not two days ago to successfully run a Time Machine backup. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 13/04/2012, at 7:29 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: You want the drive to mount, not the SmartWare CD so you can use Migration Assistant. You have been able to backup to this drive before with TM? Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/04/2012, at 7:19 PM, Callum Prior cal...@firstagainstthewall.net wrote: Thanks Ronni, You really need a Paypal donation button. The Smartware CD unmounts from the desktop as expected, but when trying to unmount the drive from Disk Utility I get the message: 'Eject Failed. The disk WD My Book could not be unmounted. Make sure that all applications and files are closed on this disk.' The My Book volume is also greyed out. I haven't used this drive since I ran the backup two days ago. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 13/04/2012, at 7:11 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Is this the first time you have backed up to this WD Drive? It hasn't been password protected has it? Try to Unmount the SmartWare CD. Open Disk Utility Select the SmartWare CD and Unmount it I'm offline tonight, someone else might help otherwise I'll be back possibly tomorrow sometime. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/04/2012, at 5:40 PM, Callum Prior cal...@firstagainstthewall.net wrote: Update on my situation. I was able to get in and run a Time Machine backup to an external Western Digital MyBook for Mac. A day later (yesterday) my iMac failed completely. Turns out she's still covered by AppleCare, so one fairly in depth call to Apple later they've organised for a technician to come out and replace the iMac's drive. However, I'm having problems trying to restore from my backup. The MyBook isn't mounting, though their 'smart ware' is. I've been unable to run a restore either via setup assistant or migration assistant. Any ideas? Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 10/04/2012, at 10:06 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Callum, Does not sound good, normally hearing a clicking sound in the Hard Drive indicates the Hard Drive is failing. I hope you have current backups before this happened as the Drive could completely die very quickly. Then it is extremely hard sometimes impossible to recover your Data. One thing you could try is see if it will Safe Boot: Hold the Shift key down at startup. Give it lots of time; it's checking and repairing the drive, if possible. If that won't work, try booting from the Install DVD holding down the C key, open Disk Utility and Repair the drive. Failing that you need to backup quickly… if you can; or haven’t a current backup; and get someone like Daniel Kerr to have a look at it and if it is a failing / dead Hard Drive he could purchase and install a new hard drive for you. Shut Down the iMac and don’t use it until the problem is correctly. The more you use it the more chance you have of loosing your Data. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 10/04/2012, at 9:17 AM, Callum Prior wrote: Hi all, My iMac has just started making a light ticking/clicking noise and on restart won't progress past the Apple logo screen. A review of Google Indicates this may not be a great thing. Hoping someone can recommend a solution or a service centre to have it checked out? Cheers! -- Callum Prior -- 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 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines
Ominous iMac Ticking.
Hi all, My iMac has just started making a light ticking/clicking noise and on restart won't progress past the Apple logo screen. A review of Google Indicates this may not be a great thing. Hoping someone can recommend a solution or a service centre to have it checked out? Cheers! -- Callum Prior -- 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
IPods in Nursing Homes
While I've been waiting for my almost definitely volatile hard drive to back up (thanks Ronni!) I came across this clip that I thought might be of interest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQfeature=youtube_gdata_player Cheers! -- Callum Prior -- 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: iPad 2 3G
It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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 -- 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
Belkin AV360
Hi all, I've been trying to find a local supplier for a Belkin AV360 Mini Displayport Converter with no luck. Hoping someone out there might have some ideas. I can get in online, but I was really hoping to use it to get in some quality Skyrim time this weekend. Cheers! Callum -- 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
iPad Font Display
Hi all, I have a Pages document I've been working on on my Mac which uses some custom fonts. I was hoping to be able to work on it on my iPad via the cloud but Pages on the iPad won't recognize the fonts. However, if I email the document to my self and open it with mail on the iPad the fonts display fine. Is there a way to work with custom fonts with Pages on an iPad? Why can Mail render them properly but not Pages? Cheers! Callum -- 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: iPad Font Display
Hi Ronni, The font I'm using is called JSL Ancient. The limited range of fonts on the device I understand, I don't understand why it renders correctly in iPad Mail but not iPad Pages. I guess it falls under 'custom fonts are defined by the app', I just would have expected apps made by the same company to treat fonts the same way. Cheers! Callum On 23/10/2011, at 10:40 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 23/10/2011, at 10:20 AM, Callum Prior wrote: Hi all, I have a Pages document I've been working on on my Mac which uses some custom fonts. I was hoping to be able to work on it on my iPad via the cloud but Pages on the iPad won't recognize the fonts. However, if I email the document to my self and open it with mail on the iPad the fonts display fine. Is there a way to work with custom fonts with Pages on an iPad? Why can Mail render them properly but not Pages? Hi Callum, What Font are you using? Fonts on iOS are predefined. Custom fonts are defined by the app and are application specific. Compatible iWork for iOS devices support over 40 fonts and font families. When importing a document that uses a font not available on a compatible iOS device, iWork for iOS attempts to replace an unsupported font with one that is a close match. If a close match is not found, the Helvetica font will be used instead. After the import process, fonts that were replaced are listed for you to review.” Fonts available on compatible iOS devices include: • Academy Engraved LET • American Typewriter • Apple Color Emoji • AppleGothic • Arial • Arial Hebrew • Arial Rounded MT Bold • Bangla Sangam MN • Baskerville • Bodoni 72 • Bodoni 72 Oldstyle • Bodoni 72 Smallcaps • Bodoni 72 Ornaments • Bradley Hand • Chalkboard SE • Chalkduster • Cochin • Copperplate • Courier • Courier New • Devangari Sangam MN • Didot • Euphemia UCAS • Futura • Geeza Pro • Georgia • Gill Sans • Gujarati Sangam MN • Heiti J • Heiti SC • Heiti TC • Helvetica • Helvetica Neue • Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN • Hiragino Mincho ProN • Hoefler Text • Kailasa • Kannada Sangam MN • Malayalam Sangam MN • Marion • Marker Felt • Noteworthy • Optima • Oriya Sangam MN • Palatino • Papyrus • Party LET • Sinhala Sangam MN • Snell Roundhand • Tamil Sangmam MN • Telugu Sangam MN • Thonburi • Times New Roman • Trebuchet MS • Verdana • Zapf Dingbats • Zapfino Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion 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
That Syncing Feeling - iCloud Mail
Hi all, My Google-fu seems to be weak this morning. I have my own domain and attendant email addresses. Is there a way to to sync these into the cloud? The only information I've been able to find relates to me.com addresses. Alternatively, what's the best way to sync my mail across devices so mail on my iPad/iPhone/Mac are all in the same state and I'm not downloading mail separately on each device? I should also mention I have multiple email accounts set up through the domain (a...@domain.com, b...@domain.com, etc.) Cheers! Callum Prior -- 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 4 External Microphone and Tripod Mount
Hi all, I'm running a project with my YAC creating video projects entirely using iPhones. Hoping someone can recommend tripod mounts and external microphones for the iPhone. Preferably someone local (we're on a short timeframe). Callum Prior -- 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: New iPad
Big W have the 16GB WiFi version for $398 at the moment. http://www.bigw.com.au/offer/ipad Callum Prior On 05/03/2011, at 8:48 AM, Stuart Evans wrote: In the meantime The iPad v1 pricing is very attractive. Even though the new version is coming out, consider an 16GB iPad at $449 could be great Birthday present! For anyone who bought one in the past 14 days (or knows someone who did) see the following regarding refunds... http://www.news.com.au/technology/tablets/unlucky-ipad-1-buyers-entitled-to- refund-up-to-180/story-fn6vigfp-1226015969281 Cheers, Stuart On 4/03/11 10:17 PM, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Laura Sorry for delayed reply, but yes, as others have said, it's all handled through iTunes. Back up current model and then sync with new model and restore from the backup. Works well. And erasing previous model is fairly easy also. Got a few of the new ones sourced on backorder for clients already. Quite a good few changes in these ones. Thinking I'd like a new one too,.might try sell the old one first. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 3/3/11 4:47 PM, Laura Webb el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Daniel Posting this to the list in case it may be of general interest. I've been told that it is a simple process to transfer everything from current model iPad to new model. Is this correct? Always assuming one might be in the market for the new version!! Like Peta, it's a want rather than a need! Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad -- 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 -- 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
Stolen iPhone Advice
Hi all, Sadly my partner has had her iPhone stolen in transit to the US. She was in Auckland for a couple of hours and had her phone and wallet stolen, and the airline lost her baggage(!). As she was also travelling with a toddler who had just done a Perth - Auckland flight and some security guards who didn't seem interested in helping her out, she wasn't able to report it to the police while she was still in Auckland. The phone's passcode protection was active at the time and we've already blocked the telephone account and removed my credit card data from iTunes. Is there anything else I should be doing? It's not likely we'll see the phone again, but should we be concerned about the data on the phone? How hard is it to break through the passcode protection? Cheers! Callum Prior -- 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
iTunes store across different zones.
Hi all, I've slowly been converting my family over to Apple, and it seems I've had some luck with my partner's family as well. Her dad has just bought a new Mac and he's been asking my advice about accessing the iTunes store in different countries as he splits his time between Indonesia and Australia and would like the ability to purchase from the store in both countries. My understanding is that he'll need two separate iTunes Store accounts, one for each country. Is it the case that your ability to purchase from a particular store depends on you having a valid billing address for that country, and that you can switch accounts within iTunes? Or will he be able to access the Australian store from Indonesia providing he has a valid Australian account? Does anyone have any experience or advice around this? Cheers! Callum -- 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
Upgrading Macbook RAM
Hi all, I'm looking at upgrading my partner's Macbook RAM but am unsure what I need to be getting. Is there a site that shows the maximum capacity for RAM ? What information do I need to be considering? The Macbook's specs: Macbook 3,1 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 x 512Mb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Cheers! Callum Prior -- 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
iTunes Store Cards
Hi all, Thought you might be interested that JB Hifi have a special on at the moment - 2 x $30 cards for $40. Offer ends tomorrow. Cheers! Callum Prior -- 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: DVD region
In addition, DVD players currently sold in Australia (and for the past 18-24 months or so) must be multiregional. I'm not aware of being able to detect region coding by looking at the disc itself, but if it's a legitimate (store bought movie / tv series / music etc.) DVD on the back cover of the case down the bottom along with the copyright information, running time and such, there's a tiny icon of a globe with a number in it which indicates which region it's from. As Jude says, the actual video format will be more of a hassle than the region coding these days. Again, most modern DVD players account automatically for PAL and NTSC without the user being aware of the difference, but some older televisions won't display them properly. Cheers! Callum The region code won't be inserted unless you do it on purpose. It's really a form of copyright protection that is used to control when and where things are released. You may need to think about PAL vs NTSC though, unless he is going to play the DVD on his computer. cheers Jude Is a DVD that I burn from my DVD recorder a Region 4? Likewise, what region comes out of iDVD or Toast 8 and my G5? Is there a way to look into a disk and find the region? The only way I can think of is by forcing a region change in my computer and see what reads, but no way for that? Arises from request to send an off- air recording made here(region 4 probably) to a friend in Canada (region 1). Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor distress
The darkness is growing rapidly. I think I should probably turn the monitor off and disconnect it. But then, How will I start up the computer next time, because the start button is on the monitor? I do have 2 monitors. The second one is one from the PC world. Will the start button on that take over the job of starting the computer if the first one is removed? When I got the blinking monitor lights it turned out that the backlight for the bottom half of the screen had blown / gone / ceased to function. It's noticeably darker than the top half. I've been living with it for about 6 months now (out of warranty, and no spare cash) and nothing too severe seems to have happened apart from the irritating blinking light and maybe a little eyestrain from the incongruously lit screen. Using G4 tower dual 1 GHz, OSX 10.4.6 Cheers, Callum
Mail not showing mail.
Howdy all, Mail has spontaneously stopped displaying messages in my Inbox, all other folders seem to be unaffected. Currently Mail is telling me I have 0 messages in my inbox, 58 unread. As of about 1/2 an hour ago I had around about 200 (read) emails in my Inbox, which should still be there. It happened while in normal use, while I was using Mail. I'm running: Mail 2.0 OSX 10.4.5 On a dual 1GHz G4 Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Cheers! Callum Prior First Against the Wall - Mob: 0412 332 665 Web: http://www.firstagainstthewall.net - Music Managers Forum - WA Committee -
ADSL Modems
Howdy, I'm looking at upgrading my D-Link DSL 300 Modem and was hoping for some advice. What I need to do: *Network to / share the ADSL from my Mac with my housemate's Windows PC *Be able to network our Xboxes for our HALO nights (at least four ethernet ports) *Have wireless capacity for guests, or that MacBook Pro I have my eyes on. *Be ADSL 2 2+ compatible The wireless is optional, but would be really cool. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers! Callum
Fire.
Is anyone else having trouble with Fire at the moment? After connecting (through my Messenger account) it only stays online for a second or two before switching offline again. Cheers! Callum
iTMS. Again.
Hola! For those interested in the Australian iTunes Music Store, the band I manage is currently being asked to submit material to the store. I don't have any information on when at the moment, but if we hear anything I'll be sure to let the list know. can't be too far off now though. Cheers! Callum Prior First Against the Wall - Mob: 0412 332 665 Web: http://www.firstagainstthewall.net Web: http://www.thesnowmanempire.com - Management for Snowman Music Managers Forum - WA Committee -
iTunes Australia
Howdy, Thought this might be of interest to some, from http:// www.themusic.com.au TUNING OUT? The launch of iTunes Australia is rumoured to be about five weeks away. But will consumers be able to buy tracks from Delta Goodrem, Offspring, Kelly Clarkson and other Sony BMG artists? Perhaps not, if the Japanese experience is any guide. iTunes Japan launched last Thursday with about a million tracks available - but none from Sony. In Japan, Sony runs its own online service, Mora, which has about 150,000 tracks available in a proprietary Sony- only format. What will happen here? I can't comment, says Bony Australia's Emmanuel Candi. Sony's decision could see it frozen out of the automotive audio market: in a separate announcement, Apple says Nissan, Mazda and Daihatsu have agreed to build iPod compatible stereos into their 2006 Japanese cars. Meanwhile, a new study by Sydney academic Alex Malik finds chart hits are hard to legitimately obtain online. Many songs including three in the national top 10, and this week's top two songs) were actually unavailable as paid downloads from the two largest suppliers of digital downloads, Malik says. ABC: FREE MP3 ABC radio's posh network, Radio National, is giving away free downloads. The MP3s are of live performances by acts including Ben Lee, Laura Veirs and Gelbison, recorded for the network's daily arts and music show The Deep End (weekdays, 2.20pm). RN's Nick Bron says the downloads are plain-vanilla, non-DRM encumbered MP3s. No strings attached, he says. Some of the artists/rights holders have restricted the amount of time for our usage of the material, but as we have a policy of only having six sessions up as MP3s at any one time, this won't be a problem. As new material is made available, older sessions will be removed from the website. All of this will be well within the rights period granted. Most artists will be available for download for about six weeks after the on-air broadcast. We are trying to keep some popular ones up for longer, Ben Lee for instance. Each show includes an interview as well as a live performance. Coming up: Marcus Teague (ex-Deloris) and Micah P Hinson. The free music downloads are part of RN's podcast program; visit abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend for more information. Cheers! Callum
Buying a Powerbook
Howdy, I'm pretty keen to pick up a Powerbook in the next month or so, just wondering if there's any revisions of the current models expected soon? Is there a regular revision cycle? Cheers! Callum Prior
Monitor Quirkiness
Howdy, I've just developed a problem with my 17 LCD Apple monitor. The lower half of the screen suddenly got dimmer, and the power button is flashing intermittently (three flashes, pause, threes flashes, etc.). I've not seen or heard about this before, and a quick google hasn't shed any light on it. So to speak. Any ideas? Cheers! Callum
iPhoto not recognising iTunes library.
Howdy all, I'm having trouble getting iPhoto to recognise my iTunes library to access music for slideshows. When you go to select the music 'Sample Music' is available, but 'no iTunes Music Library' is greyed out. Running: iTunes 4.8 iPhoto 4.0.3 OSX 10.3.9 I've run through the suggestion in iPhoto help thus: Recreate your iTunes Music Library.xml file. Quit iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and iTunes. Click the Finder icon in the Dock, and choose Go Go to Folder. Type ~/Music/iTunes or ~/Documents/iTunes and click Go. Drag the iTunes Music Library.xml file to your desktop. Open iTunes and create a new playlist by choosing File New Playlist. Quit iTunes and open iPhoto to make sure you can see your iTunes library when creating a slideshow. But to no avail. Any ideas? Cheers! Callum
Clicking Drive of Doom
I have a 120Gb Htiachi Deskstar hard drive (my main drive) that started making a terrible clicking sound then a clunk last night. I immediately shut down, thinking it might have been the heat and tried starting up later with no luck, just the clicking noise and failure to recognise the drive. The machine just wouldn't start. Now, I do have backups, but I'd really like to get hold of the stuff I was working on at the time this happened (I'm four weeks away from a national tour with the band and thus feverishly working away). Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing? Is it worth taking the drive into my local Apple Store / Apple repairer, or will I need to go to a data recovery company? Any help or advice you can offer would me very much appreciated. Cheers! Callum Prior
WAMI Awards 2005
Hola WAM! Just a couple of questions about the award night, thus: Do nominees have passes for the night, or do we need to book them? And if Snowman are eligible for passes, do I count as one of them? Is the seating going to be assigned? We'll hopefully have a little bit of a crowd coming down as well and we'd all like to sit together if at all possible. if it is assigned seating can they request to be seated near us? At any rate we'll catch you all next Tuesday. Cheers! Callum Prior First Against the Wall - Mob: 0412 332 665 Web: http://www.firstagainstthewall.net Web: http://www.thesnowmanempire.com - Management for Snowman Music Managers Forum - WA Committee -
Re: WAMI Awards 2005
Ahhh... My sincere apologies. The perils of having a WAM, a WAMUG and a WA MMF in my address book. Cheers! Callum Prior First Against the Wall - Mob: 0412 332 665 Web: http://www.firstagainstthewall.net Web: http://www.thesnowmanempire.com - Management for Snowman Music Managers Forum - WA Committee -
Application ???
Howdy, Just received a popup notifying me that Application ??? has unexpectedly quit. The system and other applications have not been affected etc. What the heck is ??? (?) Cheers! Callum
Odd iTunes Messages
Howdy, I sometimes get the following message pop up while iTunes is operating, just hoping someone could enlighten me as to what it could mean? 'There is not enough room on Matthew to copy all of the requested files. iTunes will copy as many files as possible.' Matthew being the name of the drive. Cheers! Callum
PDAs
Hey all, I'm in the market for a PDA and was hoping for some advice on what to get. I'd need it to be able to iSync up with Mail, iCal, Address book if possible store a number of Word documents, jpegs and pdfs. Also like it to be able to communicate with windows machines. I understand that some of the newer PDAs aren't syncing properly via iSync? I need something for touring, but can't yet afford a laptop proper. I'm running 10.3.5 on a dual 1Ghz G4. Cheers! Callum
Dell buys dead iPods
Thought this might be of interest to some... http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040701S0001 Cheers! Callum
Deja Vu / Toast 6 Titanium
Hey all, I've been trying to use Deja Vu (included with Toast 6 Titanium) to backup my internal hard drive to an external hard drive. I check 'Perform manual backups' from the options, select my user folder to back up, select the external drive to backup to, hit backup then Toast spends 20 seconds or so thinking, then tells me the backup is complete. When I explore the external drive the only thing on there is an empty user folder, no other items or sub folders. Running 10.3.2 on a Dual 1Ghz G4 768Mb DDR SDRAM. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers! Callum
Canon i865 CD-R Printing
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this printer, I picked one up yesterday but am yet to get the direct printing to cd feature working using the CD Label Print application that came with the printer. Here's what I have: Dual 1Ghz G4, 768Mb DDR SDRAM running 10.3.3 Here's the situation: It won't print using the cd tray. But it prints fine regular A4 pages. When you turn the power off on the printer, the tray ejects, so I'm assuming that mechanism is ok. I've installed the i865 v2.32 driver from the canon site. Select Paper is set to CD Label Print Standard CD (12cm) Paper Size CD-R tray. When you hit Print the following happens: Print label sheet window opens. Printable Label 'all' selected. Hit print in this window. An alert appears Select [Quality Media] from the pop-up menu of Print dialog box and then selct printable disc (recommended) or printable disc (other) in [Media Type] that matches your selection which I do. Then I select print from this window. Another dialog box appears Printing to a printable disc will begin. Set the CD-R tray guide on the printer and insert a CD-R tray with a printable disc into the CD-R Tray Guide. Press the RESUME button on the printer before clicking ok to start printing, which I do. Yet another dialog box appears, similar to the last one (this time from the print utility itself), I select stop job from that window, select the job, and click resume. It then attempts to open the printer connection, this continues for a couple of minutes until i get a job stopped message, with no sign of life from the printer. I've checked and rechecked the tray itself, and as far as I can work out, I've done everything as per the manual. Also contacted Canon support who were (sadly) completely useless, and as yet haven't returned my calls. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers! Callum
Re: Personal Web Sharing - Solved
Many thanks to David Watkins who found a solution to the problem I was having re-activating personal web sharing (see below). The problem was occurring to to an erroneous ? Making it's way into the httpd.conf file while I was editing it. As suggested by David, to check the configuration enter httpd -t in terminal, which gave me a line number on which the error could be found. Cheers! Callum Hi all, I'm having trouble reactivating Web Sharing. While trying to fix my constant (and sadly, still current) unexpected quitting problem we reinstalled Panther and ran through the updates again. I've been going through getting my system back the way I like it, but seem unable to turn on Personal Web Sharing again (System Preferences Sharing Services - Personal Web Sharing). After selecting it and clicking start a Web Sharing starting up message appears, Personal Web Sharing greys out, and nothing happens. Anyone have any ideas? 10.3.3 Dual 1Ghz G4, 768 Mb DDR SDRAM, 40Gb free space.
Personal Web Sharing
Hi all, I'm having trouble reactivating Web Sharing. While trying to fix my constant (and sadly, still current) unexpected quitting problem we reinstalled Panther and ran through the updates again. I've been going through getting my system back the way I like it, but seem unable to turn on Personal Web Sharing again (System Preferences Sharing Services - Personal Web Sharing). After selecting it and clicking start a Web Sharing starting up message appears, Personal Web Sharing greys out, and nothing happens. Anyone have any ideas? 10.3.3 Dual 1Ghz G4, 768 Mb DDR SDRAM, 40Gb free space. Cheers! Callum
Unexpected Quitting / Memtest.
Hey All, Still plagued by unexpected quitting and spontaneous logging out on my machine. Dual 1GHz G4 OS 10.3.3 768Mb DDR SDRAM 40GB free on an 80GB Hard Drive So far I've done the following: Run Disk Utility Run Diskwarrior Run Yasu Run Memtest 2.95 I ran three passes on Memtest and came up with the following results http://www.firstagainstthewall.net/memtest.html First pass was fine, second and third passes came up with 7 errors in total. Unfortunately I don't know what the errors mean. If anyone's able to check the link, and decipher it for me I'd very much appreciate it. Cheers! Callum
Unexpected Quitting.
Hi All, I'm still having trouble with my applications unexpectedly quitting on a fairly regular basis, making any kind of work extremely difficult if not impossible. I'm running 10.3.2 on a Dual 1Ghz G4, 768 Mb DDR SDRAM, I've got a little over 40Gb free space on a 80Gb hard drive. I've run Diskwarrior, YASU and the Disk Utility with no luck. I've made a copy of the System and Console Logs from the last quit, though I'm not able to decipher it :) If anyone's able to lend a hand contact me off list and I can send the logs through. Otherwise it's off to the service centre with me. Cheers! Callum
Unexpected Quits
Are becoming far from unexpected. I seem to be getting an inordinate number of unexpected quits on my machine, at it's peak every couple of minutes. It doesn't seem to be restricted to any particular applications, I've had it happen to mail, quicktime, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, MSN, etc). I've trashed the preferences of the offending applications as it's happened, used the disk utility and DiskWarrior but the problem still persists. It's really making working quite difficult. Just hoping someone can point me towards anything else I might be able to do before lugging it off to an Applecentre? I'm running 10.3.2 on a Dual 1Ghz G4 with 768Mb DDR SDRAM. Cheers! Callum Prior
Mini disc to CD in OSX
Hey all, I have a friend wanting to transfer some minidisc recordings onto CD. What's the best way to accomplish this in OS X? He has a 15 TiBook, but has access to other Macs if necessary. Cheers! Callum Prior
iTunes/Quicktime RealPlayer
Hey All, Just trying to work out if I'm able to stream RealPlayer .ram files through iTunes or Quicktime. Been trying to listen to some archived shows on the JJJ site, but haven't had any luck as yet. I could of course download the latest version of RealPlayer, but as far as I can tell there's not one built for OSX, and I'm reluctant to sully my X-only desktop... :) Cheers! Callum Prior
Address Book Sub Groups
Howdy all, Just wondering if there's a way to create sub-groups in Address Book (3.0.3 v225). At the moment I have it set up like this Bands Family Friends Music What I'd like to have is something along the lines of... Family Friends Music -Bands -Print Media -Radio -and so forth I can create new groups and drag them into other groups, but it ends up a little like so... Family Friends Music -Bands -Print Media -Radio -And so forth Bands Print Media Radio And so forth Which is ok, but not really what I'm after. Anyone know if it's possible to do what I want? Cheers! Callum Prior
Fwd: MAC stuff - the dark side is calling to me
Howdy, I have a friend who's looking into a laptop for university / project / honours work, however, he's not sure whether to go for a Mac or Windows machine. Obviously I''d like to see him go Mac so I was hoping someone might be able to suggest a setup based on his requirements, included below. Cheers! Callum Date: Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:25:03 PM Australia/Perth To: Callum Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MAC stuff - the dark side is calling to me Dude, Well here's what I want/need. Firstly, software won't be a problem because I can get it all through uni except OS9, which I need to run the Molecular Biology programs. Needs to be portable (i.e. a laptop) CD burner DVD burner NOT necessary but a DVD reader would be nice. A network card so I can plug straight into the uni and hospital networks but wireless network is not needed. Lots of RAM because I'll be having a number of programs running at the same time when using the Mol Biol applications (like more than 4 or 5 programs running simultaneously). If I was buying a PC I'd specify 512MB of RAM, so whatever would be a MAC equivalent if that is at all possible!? Don't need a huge hard drive or a huge display (currently working on a PC with a 20GB hard drive of which I've managed to use 3.5GB; and has a 14 monitor). Is that enough info for you tiger? Warren Raye PhD Student (Virology) Division of Health Sciences School of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences Murdoch University Western Australia Phone: +61 8 9360 7426 Fax: +61 8 9310 4144 Mobile: +61 410 606 739
Scanners, Cameras, Hard Drives oh my!
Hi all, Thinking about adding to my technology shortly and I'm after advice in the following: *Additional hard drives for my dual 1Ghz G4, with an eye to using it for digital video projects. *A scanner for the same, mainly for scanning in objects for print / art projects *Digital Camera. I've had my eye on the Nikon CoolPix 5700, but I'm after other possible buys or experience folks might have had. I'm basically just after any pointers, what to look for (or look out for), and any recommendations on people to deal with. Cheers! Callum
iCal
Howdy, I'm just wondering whether there's a way to get iCal to recognise events that cross over days. For instance and event that runs from 9pm-6am. At the moment I'm having to split it up to 9pm-12am and 12am-6am. Cheers, Callum
Sony Ericsson T68i
Hey all, Just wondering if anyone's had any experience with the T68i? I'm looking at upgrading my phone, my present one's currently being held together with rubber bands. I remember seeing a demo of the bluetooth technology, with information being sent between an iPod, Powerbook and the phone itself. Just hoping someone has some practical experience/advice on the setup. Cheers, Callum
MySQL Databases Dreamweaver
Ok, Seems Onno pointed me in the right direction earlier :) I now have my first MySql database setup with one table (CD Library), two fields (cdartist_ID and cdtitle_ID) and three records (Alex Lloyd, Augie March, Amos - Tori). Given that this is my first time with PHP/Apache/MySql, I'm attempting what I hope's the relatively simple task of a catalogue of my CDs which I can put up on my site. However. The database seems to be working swimmingly, there's just the three records at the moment, and I'm presently trying to get Dreamweaver to connect to the database. On filling out all the details in Dreamweaver I've been getting the message There is no testing server running on the server machine. There's currently no password set for the root user, although I've managed to set up a separate secure user with privileges limited to Select, Update, Insert and Delete. Just hoping someone can point me in the direction of where I should be looking for problems? Cheers, Callum (For reference, I'm now working through the second half of the Macworld tutorial which can be found in the December 2002 issue pg 66-68. Part one, which covers the setup of Apache, MySql and PHP is in the November 2002 issue pg 60-65)
Re: MySQL Databases
Within the phpMyAdmin directory is a file called config.inc.php. within it lay the default username and password pairs. Also you may wish to actually run the command line MySQL utilities first to ascertain if your installation was successful. Cheers for that Onno, Unfortunately as far as I can tell I've done both. What I've done (and I never thought I'd say this): From the terminal window ./bin/mysql -u root -p And at the mysql prompt show databases Wherein I get two listings mysql and test, which as far as I can tell from the article means all's well and good. In regards to the config.in.php file I've done the following: Changed $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = '' To $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://localhost/~myusername/phpmyadmin/'; Where ~myusername is my username. Changed $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; To $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http'; The user string is set to 'root' and I've entered my password on the password string. But when I go to http://localhost/~myusername/phpmyadmin/index.php (again, where myusername is my user name) it won't accept my chosen password/username combination. Of course. I don't understand anything I've just said. :) Just though it might be a lark to learn something new/extend my ability with Dreamweaver. It's my first time using the terminal/php/mysql. As at the time of writing this I haven't been able to access http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql to check the documentation to see if I could work it out for myself. Cheers! Callum
MySQL Databases
Howdy, I've been trying to follow the tutorial in Australian Macworld (November 2002) in setting up Apache / MySQL / PHP. I'm up to the stage (page 63) where you begin building a new MySQL database but I can't seem to get it to recognise my password/username combination when trying to access http://localhost/~username/phpmyadmin/index.php (and yes I've replace ~username with my username :) ) I get a Wrong username/password. Access denied message. Given this is my first attempt using these, I'm not too sure where to look for the problem, or what information I should be providing for someone to help me. Cheers, Callum
Filemaker / Dreamweaver
Howdy, I¹m interested in running myself through some tutorials on using databases in websites. I¹m hoping to use FileMaker 5.5 and Dreamweaver 4 (soon to be MX). I can find plenty of resources on using DreamWeaver with Access, but having trouble locating those that use FileMaker. Basically what I¹m interested in finding out is: *How to set up a database with the specific intention of using it for a website. *How to use that with DreamWeaver What I want to use it for is archiving on the website a catalogue of articles, reviews, discography etc for the band. If anyone can point me to any resources that might be useful, or might be available to run me through the process, I¹d much appreciate it. Cheers! Callum [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Outlook to Entourage
Howdy, I've been trying to import some messages from my old Outlook 5.02 account into my new Entourage account (which I've been using for the last 6 months or so). I've had a look through the archives to no avail, same with the Entourage online help. I understand it's possible to do when starting up entourage for the first time / when you initially make the move, but what I'm after is the ability to import these old Outlook messages into a pre-existing Entourage account (with 1-2,000 messages stored away). My concern is that if I try to Import into Entourage at this stage, the current messages will be replaced. Just hoping someone might be able to offer some advice. Cheers! Callum
Re: Desperately Seeking Software
I have to agree here, We've used Raygun with Cool Edit Pro in the past and it seems to work an absolute treat from what I've seen, and we make music for what will hopefully soon be a living... :) Cheers, Callum Prior Fourth Floor Collapse Hi Karen, I use the Raygun plug-in. You can use it from within any VST compatible software. Erik
Merging Filemaker Entourage
Howdy, I've been trying to work out how to merge some Filemaker 5 data (email addresses) to Entourage so I can automate the mailing list I run for the band a bit more. But I'll be buggered if I've been able to work it out yet... Just hoping someone's had some experience in this. Cheers Callum Prior Fourth Floor Collapse http://www.fourthfloorcollapse.com
External CD RW
Just hoping for hearsay, opinion, and rumour on the iOMEGA Zip CD 650 (External USB), as I've got the opportunity to pick one up fairly cheaply. Running OS X / 9 on a G4 400 (PCI). Cheers, Callum
TechTool Pro
Howdy all, Just acquired a copy of TechTool Pro (3.0.5) as I haven't previously had any kind of maintenance / preventative software and I've been experiencing problems that Disk First Aid hasn't been able to deal with. It's fixed up a whole bunch of minor problems, but there's three that have left me not knowing how to proceed. First, when running a check on System Files, the following error is reported: Mac OS ROM : Failed With the suggestion I should replace it, but I'm not too sure how. And secondly, when running a check on Volume Structure: Extents File : Failed Invalid Leaf Node (2,4344) Allocation file : Failed Bitmap mismatch (22,3136) Neither of which I've been able to find more information on, with TechTool suggesting I recover the files and reinitialize the drive, but again, I'm not to clear on how to do so, or what the consequences of that might be. I'm running OS 8.6 on a G4 400, 384 MB Ram. Cheers, Callum Prior
Umax Astra 2000U Scanner
Howdy, My scanner's gone a bit funny in that all it's started doing is scanning bands of colour like so: http://www.fourthfloorcollapse.com/scanner.gif (a segment of what it's scanning). When I preview the image / photo to be scanned all I'm getting is those bands of colour. Any ideas? I've had no luck searching the archives / UMAX Site. Cheers, Callum
