[WAMUG} mac pro 5,1 single or dual - which is faster

[gary dorn]

Hi Wamug

I purchased  non-working mid 2010  macpro 5,1  via facebook marketplace for its 
GPU.  Turns out this thing had  single 3.46 GHz 6 core CPU, 3 x 16G = 48 GB  
1333 MHz RAM, Radeon 5770 1GB GPU, 1TB  WD black HDD, an Apple Raid card and a 
working power supply but a corroded chip on the backboard, probably causing the 
shutdown failure after 30 secs.

I then purchased a working  late 2012 macpro 5,1 server with a dual 2.4 GHZ 6 
core CPU,  8 x 2GB RAM.  I understand that this dual CPU can be upgrade to 2 x 
3.46Ghz 6 core CPU (Xeon 5690 chips) or similar -  but im not ready to do that 
yet.

So I coupled these together - so that the late 2012 server  how has  48 GB RAM, 
 SSD with High Sierra Radeon,  5770 1 GB GPU.

According to architosh most 3D Design  and drawing software is single core. 

https://architosh.com/2021/04/apples-new-m1-imacs-are-they-fast-for-cad-3d-users/



my questions is , Am I better of using the   single  3.46 Ghz CPU tray (W3690?) 
 , or  the  2 x 2.4 Ghz  ( E5645?). CPU tray


any advice appreciated.


Further to that any one recommend where to get Intel 3.46 Ghz Chips  (Xeon 
X5690) or 3.33Ghz chips  (Xeon X5680) 
 

thanks
Gary
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[WAMUG} macpro 3,1 El capitan - now glitchy

[gary dorn]

hello WAMUG

MacPro 3,1
El Capitan 10.11.6
32 GB ram
ATI Radeon 5770
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT
2 x 23" apple Displays
1x SDD 1TB WD blue Elcapitan, 
1 SDD 256MB WD green Elcapitan  (Western Digital)
1x HDD 1 TB WD Elcapitan , 
1x HDD 320MB (seagage) mavericks



This setup has been very stable now for the past 3 years. I usually leave the 
thing on over night - after I put it to sleep

Problem

The other day when I woke it up, it  immediately shutdown  and went into 
restart, which got as far as the about halfway , paused (30-60 sec)  then 
restarted - such that it started cycling a restart without ever completing the 
start up process.

I tried  resetting PRAM , option start , shift start, etc even safe start  - 
none made any perceptible difference

pulled the whole thing apart, and gave it all a good clean/vaccuum - lots of 
dust on fans, , RAM boards, GPU’s

put all back in  and restarted  - noticed on this restart there was a funny 
noise from graphic card area - only got half way in boot process.

so I turned off , removed Nvidia graphic card and started in safe mode ( with 
only ATi connected)  - alas booted fully up

did some tests in  “TEST” account - seems okay restarted  in normal mode - all 
seems okay again.

turned off, reinstalled Nvidia Graphics card - - went back in cycling reboot
turned off,  disconnected ATI card , left Nvidia car connected - went back to 
recycling reboot.

Hmm Nvidia Graphics  card might be failing.

so disconnected  and removed the nvidia and have been using the one ATI radeon 
graphics card  only which is now powering the 1screen via   Dvi  - it seems 
stable

I tried running both screens - ,  1 x display port with Dvi adaptor and one via 
direct Dvi connection, 
but- the mouse (wireless mighty mouse) and wired mouse  behaved very eratically 
and slow.   wheel scrolling is haphazard if I try anything fast - If I move 
slowly response is immediated - if I move fast - responce is laggy.  I’m 
wondering if the ATI card cant actually run 2 screens


Questions

1. is there anyway of testing if a graphics card is failing  ?

2. is the slow mouse response due to graphics card running 2 screens

3. where can I get a second graphics card for MacPro 3,1 El Capitan .

4. As my screens are Dvi  am I better connecting by DVi or via display port  
with display port adaptor 


Any advice much appreciated

chow
Gary Dorn
North Perth



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Re: backup iPhone 7

[gary dorn]

good idea - problem we have is that the macbook currently runs off an external 
SSD drive , connected by one the 2 USB ports.  I ned to get my 4 USB Port thing 
connected tot the macbook to connect all these things together - didn’t have 
time yesterday. 

I remembered that I had some iPhone software called imazing https://imazing.com
so  connected both  external backup drive  and iPhone 7 to the macpro USB 
ports, then used iAmazing 2  ( which we have a license for)   to backup  iphone 
to the external hard drive.

will do for now.

thanks  for the suggestion about moving the photos database to a different 
drive - I recently did this on my macpro when I upgraded to El Capitan - i.e. 
el capitan on SSD boot drive, data on a separate hardisk.

chow
Gary

 On 14 Jul 2018, at 12:02 PM, Peter  wrote:
> 
> Yes, I was thinking a similar solution to Susan’s suggestion. Given the 
> limited space on the Macbook, why not get yourself a sizeable external drive 
> (1TB minimum) and migrate your existing iTunes Library to the external and 
> then you’ll have heaps of space. Also review your Macbook to determine what 
> other things you can offload to an external drive (Photos and other folders 
> perhaps). This will also help with the Macbook operation as Ronni has always 
> said to try to maximise your space available and having <10% of the SSD 
> capacity available is getting pretty light on. I have a 250GB SSD MBP Retina 
> and both my iTunes and Photos app Libraries are on the external (but also 
> included in the Time Machine Backup) so if you’re ok with holding those items 
> externally, then this could be a solution for you.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete.
> 
>> On 14 Jul 2018, at 11:29 am, Susan Hastings  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gary, why not use her laptop to back up the iPhone directly to an 
>> external HD. You would probably need to have an iTunes library on the 
>> external drive, easy enough to create. Cheers, Susan
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On 14 Jul 2018, at 10:50 am, gary dorn  wrote:
>>> 
>>> howdy
>>> 
>>> my wife iPhone has issues with it, therefore before taking too the apple 
>>> shop for a looksee , we intend to do a backup.
>>> she currently has it backup to iCloud, however we would also like to get 
>>> our own backup onto a backup disk.
>>> 
>>> the back up is approx 40 gb
>>> 
>>> the macbook she uses has only 22 gb free ( 250 gb SSD)
>>> 
>>> can I backup  on different computer ( macpro with 250 GB SSD - 170 GB free) 
>>>  and transfer that to the backup disk for safe keeping.?
>>> 
>>> can iTunes backups be assigned directly to a backup disk?
>>> 
>>> any thought welcomed.
>>> 
>>> ps can iCloud backup be completely assured of its security/reliability ?
>>> 
>>> chow
>>> Gary Dorn
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backup iPhone 7

[gary dorn]

howdy

my wife iPhone has issues with it, therefore before taking too the apple shop 
for a looksee , we intend to do a backup.
she currently has it backup to iCloud, however we would also like to get our 
own backup onto a backup disk.

the back up is approx 40 gb

the macbook she uses has only 22 gb free ( 250 gb SSD)

can I backup  on different computer ( macpro with 250 GB SSD - 170 GB free)  
and transfer that to the backup disk for safe keeping.?

can iTunes backups be assigned directly to a backup disk?

any thought welcomed.

ps can iCloud backup be completely assured of its security/reliability ?

chow
Gary Dorn
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backup iPhone 7

[gary dorn]

howdy

my wife iPhone has issues with it, therefore before taking too the apple shop 
for a looksee , we intend to do a backup.
she currently has it backup to iCloud, however we would also like to get our 
own backup onto a backup disk.

the back up is approx 40 gb

the macbook she uses has only 22 gb free ( 250 gb SSD)

can I backup  on different computer ( macpro with 250 GB SSD - 170 GB free)  
and transfer that to the backup disk for safe keeping.?

can iTunes backups be assigned directly to a backup disk?

any thought welcomed.

ps can iCloud backup be completely assured of its security/reliability ?

chow
Gary Dorn
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Re: opening appleworks docs

[gary dorn]

Thanks for the Tip Neil
I think I might try booting into 10.5.7 first

chow
Gary
> On 25 May 2018, at 4:10 PM, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote:
> 
> This article:
> <http://macintoshhowto.com/software/open-old-clarisworks-appleworks-documents.html>
> Suggests that LibreOffice may be worth trying - seem to suggest mixed success 
> depending on what type of appleworks documents they were.
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Neil
> -- 
> Neil R. Houghton
> Albany, Western Australia
> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
> Email: n...@possumology.com
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-----
> From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of gary dorn 
> <gd...@me.com>
> Reply-To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au>
> Date: Friday, 25 May 2018 at 15:16
> To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au>
> Subject: opening appleworks docs
> 
>howdy
> 
>I have some legacy appleworks docs ( from 1998)  which I would like to open
>is there any way of opening or viewing them 
> 
>Mac Os 10.11.6
> 
>I can also boot into 10.5.7 and 10.7.5
> 
>chow
>Gary 
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Re: opening appleworks docs

[gary dorn]

Thanks for the tip David,
I tried opening in Pages, but these early docs were not in the Appleworks 6 
format which Pages need.

> On 25 May 2018, at 3:51 PM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gary, you may be able to open Appleworks text and spreadsheet files with 
> Pages and Numbers, respectively. Appleworks database files are more 
> difficult. Let me know if you need to open database files, but probably you 
> have text files.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> David Noel
> 
> 
> 
> On 25 May 2018 at 15:16, gary dorn <gd...@me.com <mailto:gd...@me.com>> wrote:
> howdy
> 
> I have some legacy appleworks docs ( from 1998)  which I would like to open
> is there any way of opening or viewing them 
> 
> Mac Os 10.11.6
> 
> I can also boot into 10.5.7 and 10.7.5
> 
> chow
> Gary 
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Re: opening appleworks docs

[gary dorn]

I’ll give that a try - thanks for the the tip.


chow
Gary
> On 25 May 2018, at 4:54 PM, Kaye and Geoff <k...@kgweb.org.au> wrote:
> 
> Hello Garry
> 
> On 25/05/2018, at 3:16 PM, gary dorn wrote:
> 
>> I have some legacy appleworks docs ( from 1998)  which I would like to open
>> is there any way of opening or viewing them 
>> 
>> Mac Os 10.11.6
>> 
>> I can also boot into 10.5.7 and 10.7.5
> 
> 
> I am running 10.6.8 (yes, as my regular system) and I have Appleworks 6 which 
> runs and opens .CWK files. So I guess it will run on 10.5.7.
> 
> I have not looked but we might have an original CD, alternatively just 
> copying the executable on to your machine might work - things were simpler in 
> the "old" days.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Geoff
> ---
> Kaye and Geoff
> k...@kgweb.org.au
> 
> 
> 
> 
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opening appleworks docs

[gary dorn]

howdy

I have some legacy appleworks docs ( from 1998)  which I would like to open
is there any way of opening or viewing them 

Mac Os 10.11.6

I can also boot into 10.5.7 and 10.7.5

chow
Gary 
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Re: Parental control app for iOS

[gary dorn]

Hi Peter
A tough one these days

We use 
"regardless", 
"nevertheless" 
and 
"you've already said that"

As our default app.

Probably not very helpful to what your asking - but very effective non the less 
when used often and consistently as a response to children's arguing or oral 
provocations.

See pg 63 "parent in control" by g Bodenhamer

Chow
Gary dorn

Sent from my iPhone

> On 3 Apr 2018, at 6:25 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Good morning, I have the kids with varying to nil degree of compliance with 
> verbal requests to limit screen use and also what type of communications are 
> appropriate. I'm after an app that allows scheduling of total screen time, 
> ability to limit specific app access time, bed time limits etc. I've got the 
> Ourpact app installed and it allows remote and immediate manual freezing of 
> iOS devices (good for instant response at times of belligerence) but as I'm 
> using the free version, the more sophisticated features are pay extras.
> 
> A colleague suggested Family Zone but this provides a replacement modem to 
> regulate traffic within the house but with a Time Capsule for backups that 
> won't work for me.
> 
> It would be good too to have some control over MBP activity but not critical.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions of an app that does this with easy user inputs?  
> I could go for the Ourpact Premium at $10/month but it's not got MBP coverage.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete
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Re: Macpro lion freeze - no restart

[gary dorn]

Further to my update
1 .  a ram Board or chips are causing white blinking light on startup - how do 
I get them tested?
Currently have only one ram board installed with 2x 512mb, 2 x 2gb chips 
installed.

2. I've reinstalled lion to 10.7.5
Now Safari on my main user account won't open. 

3. When screen saver is activated - the system states to  restart 

4 . One of my iCloud email accounts gd...@me.com won't connect.

Are these issues solvable?

Chow
Gary dorn 

Sent from my iPhone

> On 21 Mar 2018, at 9:54 pm, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:
> 
> An update
> 
> I read something about dust affecting electronics  particularly ram chips, so 
> I pulled the graphics cards and ram cards and gave all a good vacuum and wipe
> 
> I also read that there are 2 buttons on a logic board - a reset and a 
> diagnosis button
> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/buttons-on-mac-pros-logic-board.924495/
> 
> https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/363232/Mac+Pro+not+powering+on
> Pressed reset button and then put graphic cards and 1 ram riser card back 
> plus put hd 's in different trays.
> 
> Rebooted into Mac OS 10.5 on hd2.
> Plugged in my lion installer USB stick and started process of reinstalling on 
> hd 1
> 
> Took like 90 mins and it rebooted into lion on hd1 - yippee
> 
> Now I'm downloaded 10.7.5 combo client update( 1.9 GB)
> 
> Hopefully all will be okay !
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 21 Mar 2018, at 9:49 am, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Howdy
>> Yesterday my macpro 1,1 os 10.7 had a freeze - the 2nd screen got thin red 
>> lines running across it in both directions - diagonally I think
>> Upon force restart I got blinking white start button- hmm I understand 
>> that's a ram error
>> 
>> Sorted out blinking white light by removing ram chips and then progressively 
>> reinstalling in pairs - 
>> 
>> Upon restart boots to grey screen
>> 
>> Can reboot into 500 GB 2 nd hardisk ( os 10.5.8)
>> 
>> Other combinations- 
>> Safe mode- shift key ( gets to about 25% left overnight
>> Recovery - r key 
>> D key
>> Option shift P R keys
>> 
>> All Get grey screen freeze
>> 
>> Can boot into system select - option key
>> Shows hd 1 - 1 tb OS 10.7
>> Hd2 - 230gb is 10.5.8
>> HD recovery
>> Backup efi ( time machine disk ?)
>> Lion efi ( when USB Instsller stick plugged in)
>> 
>> Except for hd2 all seem to get stuck in a loop of grey screen
>> 
>> I removed hd1 and plugged it into MacBook and did hardisk check via disk 
>> utility - says all is okay (65 GB free)
>> 
>> Does this likely mean the OS lion is corrupted and needs reinstalling
>> Can I reinstall lion via the MacBook ( I have new tech USB drive adaptor  
>> set).?
>> 
>> Also I gather I need another hardisk - can I use a  WD drive from an 
>> external hardisk, or do I need to buy an internal sata drive? Or an ssd!
>> 
>> Appreciate any advice.
>> 
>> Specs are
>> 2006 macpro 1,1
>> Hd1 935 gb Mac is lion 65gb free
>> Hd2 Mac OS leopard 232 gb 18gb free
>> Ram - 2x 512, 2x 2, 2x 4=13 gb
>> ATI Radeon hd5770 slot 1
>> Nvidia gforce 7300gt slot 4
>> 2x 23" Apple cinema displays
>> 
>> Chow 
>> gary dorn
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Macpro lion freeze - no restart

[gary dorn]

An update

I read something about dust affecting electronics  particularly ram chips, so I 
pulled the graphics cards and ram cards and gave all a good vacuum and wipe

I also read that there are 2 buttons on a logic board - a reset and a diagnosis 
button
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/buttons-on-mac-pros-logic-board.924495/

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/363232/Mac+Pro+not+powering+on
Pressed reset button and then put graphic cards and 1 ram riser card back plus 
put hd 's in different trays.

Rebooted into Mac OS 10.5 on hd2.
Plugged in my lion installer USB stick and started process of reinstalling on 
hd 1

Took like 90 mins and it rebooted into lion on hd1 - yippee

Now I'm downloaded 10.7.5 combo client update( 1.9 GB)

Hopefully all will be okay !

Sent from my iPhone

> On 21 Mar 2018, at 9:49 am, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> Yesterday my macpro 1,1 os 10.7 had a freeze - the 2nd screen got thin red 
> lines running across it in both directions - diagonally I think
> Upon force restart I got blinking white start button- hmm I understand that's 
> a ram error
> 
> Sorted out blinking white light by removing ram chips and then progressively 
> reinstalling in pairs - 
> 
> Upon restart boots to grey screen
> 
> Can reboot into 500 GB 2 nd hardisk ( os 10.5.8)
> 
> Other combinations- 
> Safe mode- shift key ( gets to about 25% left overnight
> Recovery - r key 
> D key
> Option shift P R keys
> 
> All Get grey screen freeze
> 
> Can boot into system select - option key
> Shows hd 1 - 1 tb OS 10.7
> Hd2 - 230gb is 10.5.8
> HD recovery
> Backup efi ( time machine disk ?)
> Lion efi ( when USB Instsller stick plugged in)
> 
> Except for hd2 all seem to get stuck in a loop of grey screen
> 
> I removed hd1 and plugged it into MacBook and did hardisk check via disk 
> utility - says all is okay (65 GB free)
> 
> Does this likely mean the OS lion is corrupted and needs reinstalling
> Can I reinstall lion via the MacBook ( I have new tech USB drive adaptor  
> set).?
> 
> Also I gather I need another hardisk - can I use a  WD drive from an external 
> hardisk, or do I need to buy an internal sata drive? Or an ssd!
> 
> Appreciate any advice.
> 
> Specs are
> 2006 macpro 1,1
> Hd1 935 gb Mac is lion 65gb free
> Hd2 Mac OS leopard 232 gb 18gb free
> Ram - 2x 512, 2x 2, 2x 4=13 gb
> ATI Radeon hd5770 slot 1
> Nvidia gforce 7300gt slot 4
> 2x 23" Apple cinema displays
> 
> Chow 
> gary dorn
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Macpro lion freeze - no restart

[gary dorn]

Howdy
Yesterday my macpro 1,1 os 10.7 had a freeze - the 2nd screen got thin red 
lines running across it in both directions - diagonally I think
Upon force restart I got blinking white start button- hmm I understand that's a 
ram error

Sorted out blinking white light by removing ram chips and then progressively 
reinstalling in pairs - 

Upon restart boots to grey screen

Can reboot into 500 GB 2 nd hardisk ( os 10.5.8)

Other combinations- 
Safe mode- shift key ( gets to about 25% left overnight
Recovery - r key 
D key
Option shift P R keys

All Get grey screen freeze

Can boot into system select - option key
Shows hd 1 - 1 tb OS 10.7
Hd2 - 230gb is 10.5.8
HD recovery
Backup efi ( time machine disk ?)
Lion efi ( when USB Instsller stick plugged in)

Except for hd2 all seem to get stuck in a loop of grey screen

I removed hd1 and plugged it into MacBook and did hardisk check via disk 
utility - says all is okay (65 GB free)

Does this likely mean the OS lion is corrupted and needs reinstalling
Can I reinstall lion via the MacBook ( I have new tech USB drive adaptor  set).?

Also I gather I need another hardisk - can I use a  WD drive from an external 
hardisk, or do I need to buy an internal sata drive? Or an ssd!

Appreciate any advice.

Specs are
2006 macpro 1,1
Hd1 935 gb Mac is lion 65gb free
Hd2 Mac OS leopard 232 gb 18gb free
Ram - 2x 512, 2x 2, 2x 4=13 gb
ATI Radeon hd5770 slot 1
Nvidia gforce 7300gt slot 4
2x 23" Apple cinema displays

Chow 
gary dorn

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Re: web browser keep saying can't connect

[gary dorn]

Hello Ronni
thank you for your advice.

I turned off the iMac and restarted to safe mode.
we browsing in wives account seems to be okay!

left it open for  day  and have just restated back into normal mode.

seems to be working okay.

If this has resolved the issue,  - what was the underlying issue?


thats again for you help, much appreciated.

chow

Gary Dorn

> On 24 Mar 2017, at 1:11 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob and Gary,
> 
> Hi Rob, I'm under the impression that this is ONLY happening in one User 
> Account on Gary's Home iMac, not in any other User Accounts on the iMac.
> 
> If this is the case Gary:
> 1. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test. 
> 2. Boot in safe mode <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201262> and log in to 
> the account with the problem. 
> NB: Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal. 
> The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
> 
> The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. 
> You must know your login password in order to log in.
> 
> Test while in Safe Mode. 
> 
> After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you 
> still have the problem. 
> Post the results of the test please.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> 
> macOS Sierra 10.12.3
> 
> 
>> On 23 Mar 2017, at 11:32 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au 
>> <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gary
>> 
>> Suggestions:
>> quit and relaunch Safari
>> restart the Mac
>> if this doesn't work, check if it is only one (or some) websites which cause 
>> the problem. It could be that the Mac/ OS/ Safari version is too old to run 
>> new websites. If so,
>> Try a different browser
>> Of course the delete cache option might also work. If you can't remember how 
>> to do this, google it - on a different machine
>> 
>> Hope this helps
>> 
>> Rob
>> On 23/3/17 7:47 pm, gary dorn wrote:
>>> hello wamug
>>> 
>>> my wifes account on our home iMac keeps saying since yesterday that 
>>> " connection to server was reset."  or "connection to www… was interrupted 
>>> while the page was loading  “  whenever a web page via Safari or Firefox is 
>>> attempted to open.
>>> email seems to be okay
>>> 
>>> the other accounts function okay.
>>> 
>>> iMac late 2009
>>> mac os 10.11.6
>>> connected to apple airport basestation by ethernet
>>> iMac wifi is off
>>> 
>>> any idea on what we need to do.
>>> 
>>> If has happened before a few months ago - I think we deleted the cache and 
>>> worked okay afterward.
>>> 
>>> thanks for any advice
>>> 
>>> chow
>>> Gary Dorn
>>> 
> 
> 
> 
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web browser keep saying can't connect

[gary dorn]

hello wamug

my wifes account on our home iMac keeps saying since yesterday that 
" connection to server was reset."  or "connection to www… was interrupted 
while the page was loading  “  whenever a web page via Safari or Firefox is 
attempted to open.
email seems to be okay

the other accounts function okay.

iMac late 2009
mac os 10.11.6
connected to apple airport basestation by ethernet
iMac wifi is off

any idea on what we need to do.

If has happened before a few months ago - I think we deleted the cache and 
worked okay afterward.

thanks for any advice

chow
Gary Dorn
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Fwd: Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan

[gary dorn]

I've just noted there is a log file - which says "

2016-04-04 preparing merger with 508 users, 48 groups
Download from https://(name)@p46-contacts.icloud.com/(a long 
number)/carddavehome/card/
Summary ( says local people 508 , local group 48 etc..,
UPLOAD to
https://(name)@p46-contacts.icloud.com/(a long number)/carddavehome/card/
MIGRATION COMPLETED"

So I opened up iCloud via browser and their in contacts is 1018 contacts 
consisting of 8 copies of each contact!

Hmm

So I went contacts>accounts>which opened up iCloud settings , ticked contacts- 
synced to contacts app.

Oh well - problem resolved!

Chow

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

> From: gary dorn <gd...@me.com>
> Date: 14 June 2016 at 12:12:40 PM AWST
> To: Wamug <wamug@wamug.org.au>
> Subject: Fwd: Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan
> Reply-To: wamug@wamug.org.au
> 
> I've found a folder 
> Librar>application support>addressBook>Sources>DFDAD945-,>Metadata
> Which contains say 100 files called /ABPerson.avcdp
> 
> Quick view indicates a addressBook file ( there is an option showing - add to 
> contacts- )
> 
> Ought I do that , or is there a better way
> Chow
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: gary dorn <gd...@me.com>
>> Date: 14 June 2016 at 12:00:01 PM AWST
>> To: wamug@wamug.org.au
>> Subject: Re: Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan
>> Reply-To: wamug@wamug.org.au
>> 
>> Sorry I ought to have said they went from 10.5 to 10.6 then to 10.11. - all 
>> with no backup - crazy
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:53 AM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Gary,
>>> 
>>> You can't upgrade from Leopard 10.5.7 to El Capitan 10.11.5!
>>> 
>>> You need to be running at least OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, as you will need 
>>> access to the Mac App Store in order to download the update before 
>>> installing (if you are running a version of OS X that predates Snow Leopard 
>>> find out here:
>>> 
>>> Upgrading from OS X Leopard
>>> If you’re running Leopard and would like to upgrade to OS X El Capitan, 
>>> first you’ll need to upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard. You can purchase OS X 
>>> Snow Leopard here.
>>> 
>>> <http://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard>
>>> $30.99
>>> <http://www.apple.com/au/osx/how-to-upgrade/>
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> 
>>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
>>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>>> 
>>> El Capitan OS X 10.11.5
>>> 
>>>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:04 AM, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Howdy
>>>> My folks have upgrade an iMac from 10.5.7 to elcapitan
>>>> 
>>>> There was no backup nor syncing to iCloud before hand.
>>>> 
>>>> How do we restore contacts / address book data.
>>>> 
>>>> I've found 
>>>> Users>library>application support> address book
>>>> 
>>>> But don't know how to get elcapitan contacts to read the old data
>>>> 
>>>> Can anyone please recommend a procedure
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Gary dorn
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> 
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Fwd: Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan

[gary dorn]

I've found a folder 
Librar>application support>addressBook>Sources>DFDAD945-,>Metadata
Which contains say 100 files called /ABPerson.avcdp

Quick view indicates a addressBook file ( there is an option showing - add to 
contacts- )

Ought I do that , or is there a better way
Chow

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

> From: gary dorn <gd...@me.com>
> Date: 14 June 2016 at 12:00:01 PM AWST
> To: wamug@wamug.org.au
> Subject: Re: Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan
> Reply-To: wamug@wamug.org.au
> 
> Sorry I ought to have said they went from 10.5 to 10.6 then to 10.11. - all 
> with no backup - crazy
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:53 AM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gary,
>> 
>> You can't upgrade from Leopard 10.5.7 to El Capitan 10.11.5!
>> 
>> You need to be running at least OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, as you will need 
>> access to the Mac App Store in order to download the update before 
>> installing (if you are running a version of OS X that predates Snow Leopard 
>> find out here:
>> 
>> Upgrading from OS X Leopard
>> If you’re running Leopard and would like to upgrade to OS X El Capitan, 
>> first you’ll need to upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard. You can purchase OS X 
>> Snow Leopard here.
>> 
>> <http://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard>
>> $30.99
>> <http://www.apple.com/au/osx/how-to-upgrade/>
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> 
>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>> 
>> El Capitan OS X 10.11.5
>> 
>>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:04 AM, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Howdy
>>> My folks have upgrade an iMac from 10.5.7 to elcapitan
>>> 
>>> There was no backup nor syncing to iCloud before hand.
>>> 
>>> How do we restore contacts / address book data.
>>> 
>>> I've found 
>>> Users>library>application support> address book
>>> 
>>> But don't know how to get elcapitan contacts to read the old data
>>> 
>>> Can anyone please recommend a procedure
>>> Thanks
>>> Gary dorn
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
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Re: Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan

[gary dorn]

Sorry I ought to have said they went from 10.5 to 10.6 then to 10.11. - all 
with no backup - crazy

Sent from my iPhone

> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:53 AM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gary,
> 
> You can't upgrade from Leopard 10.5.7 to El Capitan 10.11.5!
> 
> You need to be running at least OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, as you will need 
> access to the Mac App Store in order to download the update before installing 
> (if you are running a version of OS X that predates Snow Leopard find out 
> here:
> 
> Upgrading from OS X Leopard
> If you’re running Leopard and would like to upgrade to OS X El Capitan, first 
> you’ll need to upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard. You can purchase OS X Snow 
> Leopard here.
> 
> <http://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard>
> $30.99
> <http://www.apple.com/au/osx/how-to-upgrade/>
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> 
> El Capitan OS X 10.11.5
> 
>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:04 AM, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Howdy
>> My folks have upgrade an iMac from 10.5.7 to elcapitan
>> 
>> There was no backup nor syncing to iCloud before hand.
>> 
>> How do we restore contacts / address book data.
>> 
>> I've found 
>> Users>library>application support> address book
>> 
>> But don't know how to get elcapitan contacts to read the old data
>> 
>> Can anyone please recommend a procedure
>> Thanks
>> Gary dorn
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
> 
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Contacts after upgrade to elcapitan

[gary dorn]

Howdy
My folks have upgrade an iMac from 10.5.7 to elcapitan

There was no backup nor syncing to iCloud before hand.

How do we restore contacts / address book data.

I've found 
Users>library>application support> address book

But don't know how to get elcapitan contacts to read the old data

Can anyone please recommend a procedure
Thanks
Gary dorn

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Re: Apple T V.

[gary dorn]

Hi tony
Agreed Netflix has mostly no new movies - latest release dates maybe 2014.

Regardless to that I recommend watching the "IP Man " trilogy

The Shaolin movies can be pretty funny!


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> On 29 Apr 2016, at 7:08 PM, Anthony (Tony) Francis  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Guy’s
> 
> Just a question as to who uses Apple T V to watch Movies or T V shows? I am 
> trialling NETFLIX and SAM, but am a little disappointed to find that the 
> Movies are quite old. I can watch the latest Movies through iTunes at a cost 
> of $6.95 per Movie, is this the norm’ or are there companies where an annual 
> fee is paid and the Movies or TV shows are free?? I’ve tried looking and have 
> been advised that for the cost of an "Entertainment Box”, $130.00 I can 
> Streem the latest movies, if I went this road it would make my Apple TV 
> obsolete.
> 
> Any advice please Guy’s???
> 
> Thank you, have a good weekend
> 
> Tony
> 
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Re: Apple ID

[gary dorn]

Maybe that's a 'hidden technique' that Apple won't tell the FBI.

Sent from my iPhone

> On 11 Mar 2016, at 8:25 AM, Peter Curtis  wrote:
> 
> Thanks Alex
> As it turns out, we tried and tried and eventually it accepted the 
> information without the additional email addresses.
> So all is good.
> Kind regards
> Peter
>> On 11 Mar 2016, at 12:45 AM, Alex  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Peter
>> 
>> I had all sorts of Apple ID issues recently including a mis-typed email 
>> address that I didn’t even notice when I did it but they were fixed by 
>> calling Apple Support.  They were very friendly & helpful & knowledgable to 
>> boot.
>> 
>> Cheers,  Alex
>> 
>>> On 10 Mar 2016, at 6:59 pm, Peter Curtis  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> My brother has just got a new iPhone.
>>> He’s forgotten his apple ID and when he goes to the “forgot apple ID” 
>>> section he has to put his name and email address in, which he does. He is 
>>> then told that’s not enough information and requests earlier emails. He 
>>> swears he has never had another email so cannot proceed past this point.
>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Kind regards
>>> Peter
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iMac & mavericks: start up disk problems

[gary dorn]

Howdy , 
iMac 10,2 late 2009
2 TB (600 mb free)
8mb ram
Mac OS  mavericks since September ( updated from snow leopard , which ran 
really well for 3 years)

since Yesterday morning we've had startup problems
At first startup , was able to login, but then spiral of death wouldn't,t 
cease, so forced shutdown ( was in a rush)
Upon restart starts into HD recovery only 

I've tried different start up options, i.e. Single user, Pram, select start up 
disk, to no obvious effect
I'm currently in HD recovery, disk utility 
In Disk utility says , verifying "disk0s2" says disk needs repair

After some 60 mins disk utility says as a dialogue box.
"Stopped repairing disk0s2  - can't repair disk - backup, reformat disk and 
restore your backed up files."
Behind that  shows details of disk repair
Repairing file system
Invalid content in journal
Checking journal HFS Plus volume
Catalog file entry not found for extent
The volume could not be verified completely
Invalid content in journal
File system check exit code is 8.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: disk utility can't repair this disk e disk, restore your backed 
up files.

Ahhh
We have a time machine backup 
We don't have a Mavericks usb installer ( was installed via a Mavericks 
installer copy put on hardisk)
I have a lion usb installer

Gary Dorn
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iMac & mavericks: start up disk problems

[gary dorn]

Howdy , 
iMac 10,2 late 2009
2 TB (600 mb free)
8mb ram
Mac OS  mavericks since September ( updated from snow leopard , which ran 
really well for 3 years)

since Yesterday morning we've had startup problems
At first startup , was able to login, but then spiral of death wouldn't,t 
cease, so forced shutdown ( was in a rush)
Upon restart starts into HD recovery only 

I've tried different start up options, i.e. Single user, Pram, select start up 
disk, to no obvious effect
I'm currently in HD recovery, disk utility 
In Disk utility says , verifying "disk0s2" says disk needs repair

After some 60 mins disk utility says as a dialogue box.
"Stopped repairing disk0s2  - can't repair disk - backup, reformat disk and 
restore your backed up files."
Behind that  shows details of disk repair
Repairing file system
Invalid content in journal
Checking journal HFS Plus volume
Catalog file entry not found for extent
The volume could not be verified completely
Invalid content in journal
File system check exit code is 8.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: disk utility can't repair this disk e disk, restore your backed 
up files.

Ahhh
We have a time machine backup 
We don't have a Mavericks usb installer ( was installed via a Mavericks 
installer copy put on hardisk)
I have a lion usb installer and original imac installer DVD (10.6.2)

ought I follow the above advise - ie reinstall mac os

or is there something else I ought to do/try first

advice appreciated

Gary Dorn
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Re: iPhone charging

[gary dorn]

The app battery doctor may help in the charging patterns

Sent from my iPhone

> On 23 Nov 2015, at 9:56 AM, petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
> 
>  Hi, thanks for that Ronni. Yes I figured that it operated somewhat like 
> that. I will get it calibrated as well to ensure the battery condition is 
> consistent with indicated percentage
> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
>  
> 
> Pete.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Re: iPhone charging
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> You could try calibrating the battery, but what I think is happening.
> 
> The battery display icon shows a "bolt" when charging and changes to a "plug" 
> when connected to power but not charging.
> 
> When the iPhone is first plugged into power the icon will show the 'bolt' 
> meaning the iPhone is charging.
> The active charge cycle stops once the battery has reached full charge.  
> The phone recognises that is it still plugged in, and you would notice the 
> "plug" icon in the battery (no 'bolt')... indicating the phone is no longer 
> charging.  
> 
> Because it is no longer actively charging, or drawing any power from the 
> charger at all, the phone's operations begin to wear down the battery again.  
> The difference between waking up to a battery that is 100% charged (if 
> charging overnight) and waking up to a battery with only a 95% charge, is 
> based on when the battery reached full charge (perhaps several hours before 
> checking it for the first time) and how much juice the phone needed to 
> continue operation.  
> If the phone is set to check email, has location based services running, 
> sending usage data to Apple, etc., the battery will run down some extent, 
> just like it was *not* plugged in.
> 
> If you remove the cable from the phone, and plug it back in it will charge to 
> 100% again in a short time.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> On 23 Nov 2015, at 7:56 AM, petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
> 
> My son's iPhone 4S which was a hand-me-down of unknown vintage though 
> obviously many years old was having very short battery life notwithstanding 
> his usage pattern. I arranged and fitted a replacement battery and the 
> replacement battery has a longer life and probably adequate but has a 
> particular behaviour. It can be placed on charge and the battery level 
> indicator will go green with icon reflecting on charge, but overnight, the 
> charge level will actually go down.
> 
>  
> 
> Is this something others have experienced?
> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
>  
> 
> Pete.
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Re: iPad AppStore disappeared

[gary dorn]

Thanks for the advice,
Come to think of It, I went to 'kids and Internet lecture' at mount lawley 
senior high school a couple of weeks ago, whereby it was recommended to 
activate restrictions and turn off download apps- which I think I did.
 My big mistake is that I don't Remember the ( restrictions) passcode!



Gary Dorn
On iPad 2

On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:

> Check your Restrictions and make sure Installing apps isn't disabled.
> Go to Settings > General > Restrictions 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 6 Plus
> 
> 
>> On 5 Nov 2015, at 11:14 AM, petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
>> 
>> That's an odd one Gary. You've done a shutdown and restart presumably.  Do 
>> you have a recent back up - perhaps Restore from Backup will put it back in 
>> place. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Pete.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> - Original Message -
>> From:
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>> To:
>> "Wamug" <wamug@wamug.org.au>
>> Cc:
>> 
>> Sent:
>> Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:08:08 +0800
>> Subject:
>> iPad AppStore disappeared
>> 
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> Somehow the App Store app on our iPad 2 has disappeared.
>> Search only comes up with Wikipedia description.
>> 
>> Any ideas where it has gone, and how to get it back
>> 
>> iOS 9.0
>> 
>> Chow
>> 
>> Gary Dorn
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iPad AppStore disappeared

[gary dorn]

Howdy,
Somehow the App Store app on our iPad 2 has disappeared.
Search only comes up with Wikipedia description.

Any ideas where it has gone, and how to get it back

iOS 9.0

Chow

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Re: iPad AppStore disappeared

[gary dorn]

Further to my comment below, after 5 attempts I got my restrictions password 
correct, turned back on download and delete apps.

App Store is now showing - problem solved.

Thanks very much for inside into how this all works

Chow


Gary Dorn
On iPad 2

On Nov 5, 2015, at 1:16 PM, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice,
> Come to think of It, I went to 'kids and Internet lecture' at mount lawley 
> senior high school a couple of weeks ago, whereby it was recommended to 
> activate restrictions and turn off download apps- which I think I did.
>  My big mistake is that I don't Remember the ( restrictions) passcode!
> 
> 
> 
> Gary Dorn
> On iPad 2
> 
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Check your Restrictions and make sure Installing apps isn't disabled.
>> Go to Settings > General > Restrictions 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone 6 Plus
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5 Nov 2015, at 11:14 AM, petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's an odd one Gary. You've done a shutdown and restart presumably.  Do 
>>> you have a recent back up - perhaps Restore from Backup will put it back in 
>>> place. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pete.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Original Message -
>>> From:
>>> wamug@wamug.org.au
>>> 
>>> To:
>>> "Wamug" <wamug@wamug.org.au>
>>> Cc:
>>> 
>>> Sent:
>>> Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:08:08 +0800
>>> Subject:
>>> iPad AppStore disappeared
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> Somehow the App Store app on our iPad 2 has disappeared.
>>> Search only comes up with Wikipedia description.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas where it has gone, and how to get it back
>>> 
>>> iOS 9.0
>>> 
>>> Chow
>>> 
>>> Gary Dorn
>>> On iPad 2
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yosemite - HD full

[gary dorn]

macbook 2009 with 320 GB HD
mac OS 10.10.1
5 users

320 GB hardisk message coming up saying HD is full

Finder says
Users 157 GB
Library  22.21 GB
Applications  24.56 GB
System  6.5 GB

that totals 210 GB

where has the remainder 100 GB gone?

note - we don’t have photoshop


any advice appreciated

gary dorn
gd...@mac.com



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Re: Colour Laser Printer

[gary dorn]

Peter
You could try Alan Furman @ copy professionals in west perth
93242446

Sent from my iPhone

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 I have been getting quotes to print a soccer coaching manual that I have 
 written, and I realy only want to print one or two copies,  but feel I might 
 be better to purchase a good colour laser printer and print the book myself.  
 It is about 300 pages with colour graphics and will print A4 backed.
 
 Can anyone suggest a reliable quality colour laser printer? Price somewhere 
 about $2,000.00
 
 
 Many thanks
 
 
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Re: Upgrade to lion - mail spinning wheel

[gary dorn]

Gary Dorn
Permaculture architect
On iPad 2

On Nov 29, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hi Gary,
 
 I'm assuming you preformed all the checking Apps were compatible with Lion 
 and did the Before Installing Lion Preparation.
 I feel you might not have followed the after installation procedures... or 
 haven't given enough time for databases to finish upgrading? 
 

I did a verification of Disk and permissions

Software was pretty much up to date
I installed off a purchased USB 10.7

During that install , screen went grey for ages on restart, - sounded like it 
was searching for cd/DVD 
Did restart - started okay 
Did software update  - included 10.7.5 update, a security update, iTunes and 
smothering else - totally 5 GB!

Once restarted after update
iCloud login came up - entered info-  said  not available at this time try 
later 
Oh well

Went to mail - via dock!
Mail slow to open or do anything

Hence my original email

Subsequently ran disk permission x1

I thin spot light has finished its thing

Now  open mail via application menu

MailWindowactivity
Indicates 8 rows ( 2 per account)
Ie fetching new mail. - connecting to server (null). - no progress
Synchronizing with server - traversing mailbox hierarchy  - no progress

Connection doctors says

Trying to connect to SMTP account failed. Verify use some and password r 
correct ( x 4 accounts)

Mail preferences opens but seems to not respond.


 After Lion has completed installing and reboots:
 
 Immediately after installing Lion (and rebooting), your system is likely to 
 run slowly as the mds and mdworker processes thrash around getting themselves 
 reorganised.
 Both of these processes are related to Spotlight. 
 
 Lion makes a good number of changes to the way the Spotlight search works. 
 These changes require a reindexing of your hard drive’s contents . 
 
 1. Spotlight starts this reindexing immediately after Lion boots up for the 
 first time, and it causes systems (even relatively new ones) to run slow 
 until it’s done. 
 Give Spotlight a few hours after install is complete to work everything out, 
 and you’ll have a much better first impression.
 
 2. Run Software update and download  install all updates before you open any 
 applications
 
 3. Repair Permissions using Disk Utility
 
 4. Open Mail Application (from Applications, not the Dock):
 Note: that if you upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard, or if you have got a 
 fresh installation of Lion and you import data from an older version of Mail, 
 the first time you launch the new version, you will be prompted to update 
 your existing email data. 
 
 This is because Lion’s version of Mail uses a different format for its 
 message database than older versions—you’ll have to allow the upgrade to 
 occur before you can use Mail. 
 
 5. Open iPhoto (from Applications, not the Dock) and let it upgrade your 
 iPhoto Library
 
 6. Open iTunes (from Applications, not the Dock) and let it upgrade your 
 iTunes Library
 
 7. Repair Permissions
 
 8. Restart your Mac 
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
 
 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
 
 OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
 
 On 28 Nov 2014, at 2:25 pm, gary dorn gd...@me.com wrote:
 
 Further to below,
 When right clicking on dock, says ( mail) application not responding ie, 
 won't even open!
 
 Gary Dorn
 Permaculture architect
 On iPad 2
 
 On Nov 28, 2014, at 2:23 PM, gary dorn gd...@me.com wrote:
 
 Hi
 Yesterday 
 on my mac pro 1.1
 I relented and upgraded from SL 6.8 to lion 7.5
 Mail always has a spinning wheel
 Including inbox accounts
 ( all .mac/ .me)
 
 Also 
 System preferences takes an eternity to open
 In particular iCloud says it's not available ! Try again later.
 
 Any suggestions on how to make this better?
 
 Thanks
 Gary dorn
 
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Upgrade to lion - mail spinning wheel

[gary dorn]

Hi
Yesterday 
on my mac pro 1.1
I relented and upgraded from SL 6.8 to lion 7.5
Mail always has a spinning wheel
Including inbox accounts
( all .mac/ .me)

Also 
System preferences takes an eternity to open
In particular iCloud says it's not available ! Try again later.

Any suggestions on how to make this better?

Thanks
Gary dorn

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Re: Upgrade to lion - mail spinning wheel

[gary dorn]

Further to below,
When right clicking on dock, says ( mail) application not responding ie, won't 
even open!

Gary Dorn
Permaculture architect
On iPad 2

On Nov 28, 2014, at 2:23 PM, gary dorn gd...@me.com wrote:

 Hi
 Yesterday 
 on my mac pro 1.1
 I relented and upgraded from SL 6.8 to lion 7.5
 Mail always has a spinning wheel
 Including inbox accounts
 ( all .mac/ .me)
 
 Also 
 System preferences takes an eternity to open
 In particular iCloud says it's not available ! Try again later.
 
 Any suggestions on how to make this better?
 
 Thanks
 Gary dorn
 
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Fwd: macbook late 2009 hd external reader

[gary dorn]

 
 hi
 my daughter school mac book charging port has died , so now the battery is 
 flat, it won't start
 
 I'm figuering to get the work off it by  removing hardisk and stick that in 
 some usb/fw case
  
 according to mac fix it , 
 http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Replacing+MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1342+Battery/1667/1
 
 i need a universal drive adapter kit
 
 http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/Universal-Drive-Adapter/IF107-108
 
 is there anywhere I can get one of these in Perth
 
 Im presuming it can't be put into a macpro drive sled
 
 we have a bunch of WD studio external harddisks if we can use these instead.
 
 thanks
 
 gdorn
 gd...@me.com
 
 
 
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screen stand

[gary dorn]

howdy
I wonder if any can suggest where we can go to have a look at screen 
stands for 21 iMac

I saw on youtube the Monitor in Motion which is sort of what we are after.

http://www.monitorsinmotion.com/products

ta




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Re: time machine -disk repair failed

[gary dorn]

Hi
repairing disk keeps coming up with
Error: Could not unmount disk

I did a web search about this error message,  and it was suggested 
that I eject the disk from Finder

http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-91030.html

which I did then
started repair

got this message
Verify and Repair volume disk1s3
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your 
files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up 
files.

got same message 4 x times
Hard disk name has change to disk1s3 ( I had named it TM 465)

given that this disk has only been used for Time Machine - what could 
be causing a corruption?

Have I stuffed it up?

thanks

Hi Gary,

If you get the following error message: ERROR: Could not unmount disk.
Close all applications except Disk Utility, switch Time Machine off, 
and try again.

Don't click Verify, just run Repair and hope Dick Utility can repair 
the Time Machine partition.
Run DU Reapair until you don't receive any errors, it might have to 
run it a few times.

Cheers,
Ronni
On 15/02/2012, at 12:19 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  If the drives not showing in Finder, I'd try shutting the computer
  down and checking the drives connections. Could have a bit of dust
  between connectors and making it show/not show.

  Pull it out, check and reseat it. Then power up again and see how it goes.


  Hi
  as Suggested by Daniel
  I removed drive, then reset it.

  eventually showed up in Finder,
  List of folders and files showed dated from  March 2012 to Feb 2nd 2012

  As suggested by Rhonda
  I turned Time Machine off
  then ran  Disk utility,
  Verifying volume tm 465
  Performing live verification.
  Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
  Checking extents overflow file.
  Checking catalog file.
  Invalid node structure
  The volume tm 465 was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
  Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

  so I ran  repair - comes up with
  Verify and Repair volume tm 465
  Error: Could not unmount disk

  what does that mean?

  Kind regards
  Daniel

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  On 13/02/2012, at 5:50 PM, gary dorn garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote:

  Hi Gary,

  In System Preferences  Time Machine - is Name:   Select Disk: correct?
  If you have put the drive in another position
  you might need to 'Select Disk' again for ? to
  know where it is located.
  Is the Partition mounting and showing in Disk Utility?



  nope not showing
  nor  in Finder - was earlier today before I
  updated to OS 10.6.8 a little while ago! from
  10.6.6

  If I now go Enter Time Machine  it comes up with
   your time machine backup disk cant be found
 cancelset up time machine

  oh bugger.


  Try to Repair the Time Machine Disk:
  1. Turn OFF Time Machine
  2. Open Disk Utility
  3. Select the Time Machine Partition (indented
  in left side panel) it will be named something
  similar to 'Time Machine Backups'
  4. Make sure 'First Aid' button is selected.
  5. Click 'Repair Disk'

  It DU does repair anything, run Disk Repair again until no errors appear.
  Post back what errors you receive and if Dick Utility can 
repair the ? disk

  Cheers,
  Ronni

  On 13/02/2012, at 4:26 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  Hi Gary,

  More information would help give correct instructions.
  Are you receiving an error message when Time Machine tries to backup?
  Or is it staying in Preparing for backup for a very long time?
  Is ? finding the backup partition?

  Hi Ronni
  is says bugger all
  
  Unable to complete backup. An error occurred
  while creating the backup folder.

  Latest successful backup: 2/02/12 at 9:01 AM

  available 22.56 GB of 499.97 GB
  oldest backup: --
  latest backup: Failed i

  macpro 1,1 2 x 2.66GHz
  OS 10.6.8


  thanks


  Hi Ronni,
  Post back with more information and I'll give
  you suggestions what can be done.

  Cheers,
  Ronni

  On 13/02/2012, at 2:33 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  howdy

  Last week  or the week before, during the hot days, my macPros' fans
  started up  and I was getting some flaky performance.

  So I shut it down.  pulled it apart, removed ram boards,  and 3 x  HD
  trays and vacuumed all the dust out from the inside , internal fans
  etc and put it back together, trays in reinstalled in number order.
  http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf


  Now Time machine ( one of  internal HD)  fails at doing its
  backup thing.

  Would  putting the Time Machine HD back in a different tray position
  affect this? maybe I'v put it back in the wrong position.

  Is there a certain order the HD trays ought to be installed. The User
  guides doesn't say anything about a preferred order

  thanks for any advice.

-- The WA Macintosh User

Re: time machine - failed

[gary dorn]

If the drives not showing in Finder, I'd try shutting the computer 
down and checking the drives connections. Could have a bit of dust 
between connectors and making it show/not show.

Pull it out, check and reseat it. Then power up again and see how it goes.


Hi
as Suggested by Daniel
I removed drive, then reset it.

eventually showed up in Finder,
List of folders and files showed dated from  March 2012 to Feb 2nd 2012

As suggested by Rhonda
I turned Time Machine off
then ran  Disk utility,
Verifying volume tm 465
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid node structure
The volume tm 465 was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

so I ran  repair - comes up with
Verify and Repair volume tm 465
Error: Could not unmount disk

what does that mean?

Kind regards
Daniel

Sent from my iPhone 4s

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On 13/02/2012, at 5:50 PM, gary dorn garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote:

  Hi Gary,

  In System Preferences  Time Machine - is Name:   Select Disk: correct?
  If you have put the drive in another position
  you might need to 'Select Disk' again for ? to
  know where it is located.
  Is the Partition mounting and showing in Disk Utility?



  nope not showing
  nor  in Finder - was earlier today before I
  updated to OS 10.6.8 a little while ago! from
  10.6.6

  If I now go Enter Time Machine  it comes up with
   your time machine backup disk cant be found
 cancelset up time machine

  oh bugger.


  Try to Repair the Time Machine Disk:
  1. Turn OFF Time Machine
  2. Open Disk Utility
  3. Select the Time Machine Partition (indented
  in left side panel) it will be named something
  similar to 'Time Machine Backups'
  4. Make sure 'First Aid' button is selected.
  5. Click 'Repair Disk'

  It DU does repair anything, run Disk Repair again until no errors appear.
  Post back what errors you receive and if Dick Utility can repair the ? disk

  Cheers,
  Ronni

  On 13/02/2012, at 4:26 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  Hi Gary,

  More information would help give correct instructions.
  Are you receiving an error message when Time Machine tries to backup?
  Or is it staying in Preparing for backup for a very long time?
  Is ? finding the backup partition?

  Hi Ronni
  is says bugger all

  Unable to complete backup. An error occurred
  while creating the backup folder.

  Latest successful backup: 2/02/12 at 9:01 AM

  available 22.56 GB of 499.97 GB
  oldest backup: --
  latest backup: Failed i

  macpro 1,1 2 x 2.66GHz
  OS 10.6.8


  thanks


  Hi Ronni,
  Post back with more information and I'll give
  you suggestions what can be done.

  Cheers,
  Ronni

  On 13/02/2012, at 2:33 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  howdy

  Last week  or the week before, during the hot days, my macPros' fans
  started up  and I was getting some flaky performance.

  So I shut it down.  pulled it apart, removed ram boards,  and 3 x  HD
  trays and vacuumed all the dust out from the inside , internal fans
  etc and put it back together, trays in reinstalled in number order.
  http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf


  Now Time machine ( one of  internal HD)  fails at doing its 
backup thing.

  Would  putting the Time Machine HD back in a different tray position
  affect this? maybe I'v put it back in the wrong position.

  Is there a certain order the HD trays ought to be installed. The User
  guides doesn't say anything about a preferred order

  thanks for any advice.

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Re: time machine - failed

[gary dorn]

Hi Gary,

More information would help give correct instructions.
Are you receiving an error message when Time Machine tries to backup?
Or is it staying in Preparing for backup for a very long time?
Is  finding the backup partition?

Hi Ronni
is says bugger all

Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.

Latest successful backup: 2/02/12 at 9:01 AM

available 22.56 GB of 499.97 GB
oldest backup: --
latest backup: Failed i

macpro 1,1 2 x 2.66GHz
OS 10.6.8


thanks


Hi Ronni,
Post back with more information and I'll give 
you suggestions what can be done.

Cheers,
Ronni

On 13/02/2012, at 2:33 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  howdy

  Last week  or the week before, during the hot days, my macPros' fans
  started up  and I was getting some flaky performance.

  So I shut it down.  pulled it apart, removed ram boards,  and 3 x  HD
  trays and vacuumed all the dust out from the inside , internal fans
  etc and put it back together, trays in reinstalled in number order.
  http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf


  Now Time machine ( one of  internal HD)  fails at doing its backup thing.

  Would  putting the Time Machine HD back in a different tray position
  affect this? maybe I'v put it back in the wrong position.

  Is there a certain order the HD trays ought to be installed. The User
  guides doesn't say anything about a preferred order

  thanks for any advice.
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Re: time machine - failed

[gary dorn]

Hi Gary,

In System Preferences  Time Machine - is Name:   Select Disk: correct?
If you have put the drive in another position 
you might need to 'Select Disk' again for  to 
know where it is located.
Is the Partition mounting and showing in Disk Utility?



nope not showing
nor  in Finder - was earlier today before I 
updated to OS 10.6.8 a little while ago! from 
10.6.6

If I now go Enter Time Machine  it comes up with 
 your time machine backup disk cant be found
cancel  set up time machine

oh bugger.


Try to Repair the Time Machine Disk:
1. Turn OFF Time Machine
2. Open Disk Utility
3. Select the Time Machine Partition (indented 
in left side panel) it will be named something 
similar to 'Time Machine Backups'
4. Make sure 'First Aid' button is selected.
5. Click 'Repair Disk'

It DU does repair anything, run Disk Repair again until no errors appear.
Post back what errors you receive and if Dick Utility can repair the  disk

Cheers,
Ronni

On 13/02/2012, at 4:26 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  Hi Gary,

  More information would help give correct instructions.
  Are you receiving an error message when Time Machine tries to backup?
  Or is it staying in Preparing for backup for a very long time?
  Is  finding the backup partition?

  Hi Ronni
  is says bugger all

  Unable to complete backup. An error occurred 
while creating the backup folder.

  Latest successful backup: 2/02/12 at 9:01 AM

  available 22.56 GB of 499.97 GB
  oldest backup: --
  latest backup: Failed i

  macpro 1,1 2 x 2.66GHz
  OS 10.6.8


  thanks


  Hi Ronni,
  Post back with more information and I'll give
  you suggestions what can be done.

  Cheers,
  Ronni

  On 13/02/2012, at 2:33 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  howdy

  Last week  or the week before, during the hot days, my macPros' fans
  started up  and I was getting some flaky performance.

  So I shut it down.  pulled it apart, removed ram boards,  and 3 x  HD
  trays and vacuumed all the dust out from the inside , internal fans
  etc and put it back together, trays in reinstalled in number order.
  http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf


  Now Time machine ( one of  internal HD)  fails at doing its backup thing.

  Would  putting the Time Machine HD back in a different tray position
  affect this? maybe I'v put it back in the wrong position.

  Is there a certain order the HD trays ought to be installed. The User
  guides doesn't say anything about a preferred order

  thanks for any advice.

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time machine - failed

[gary dorn]

howdy

Last week  or the week before, during the hot days, my macPros' fans 
started up  and I was getting some flaky performance.

So I shut it down.  pulled it apart, removed ram boards,  and 3 x  HD 
trays and vacuumed all the dust out from the inside , internal fans 
etc and put it back together, trays in reinstalled in number order.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf


Now Time machine ( one of  internal HD)  fails at doing its backup thing.

Would  putting the Time Machine HD back in a different tray position 
affect this? maybe I'v put it back in the wrong position.

Is there a certain order the HD trays ought to be installed. The User 
guides doesn't say anything about a preferred order

thanks for any advice.
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Re: mobile me - email on SN and Lion

[gary dorn]

On 08/02/2012, at 6:24 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  Howdy

  I've just upgraded a Macbook to Lion ( via USB stick) , principally
  so I could use iBooks Author ( requires 10.7.2) , and also to start
  the slow migration  of all our machine to Lion  before MobileMe
  finally dies..

  He have our email, contacts etc synced via MobileMe to iphones ,
  macPro, iMacs and iBook ( different accounts for different users

  If we open mail in Lion on the MacBook, will that affect opening/
  receiving/ sending email on the other machines - which all run with
  10.6.8

  appreciate any advice/experience



Nothing should change from the way it was working when the Macbook 
was running SL. The only thing that will change will be the way Mail 
looks and works on your Macbook, but that won't affect Mail on the 
other computers.

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services


great

so  does this mean, that if we decided to revert to SL on the 
macbook, because it syncs via mobile me, that email will all be okay 
- we just loose cant read Lion version of  mail file.

Not that we are likely to  downgrade ( my wife though dislkes Lions 
changes to Contacts, disappearing scroll bars, full screen) as we 
are going to have to move to iCloud anyway which I understand 
requires Lion and iOS5.

chow

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ibooks author on SL

[gary dorn]

Hi
I've just found a web site that shows  how to trick iBook Author to 
run on OS 10.6.8.

and it works!


http://www.digitaltweaker.com/mac/mac-tips/2012/01/how-to-install-ibooks-author-on-os-x-snow-leopard/

chow
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mobile me - email on SN and Lion

[gary dorn]

Howdy

I've just upgraded a Macbook to Lion ( via USB stick) , principally 
so I could use iBooks Author ( requires 10.7.2) , and also to start 
the slow migration  of all our machine to Lion  before MobileMe 
finally dies..

He have our email, contacts etc synced via MobileMe to iphones , 
macPro, iMacs and iBook ( different accounts for different users

If we open mail in Lion on the MacBook, will that affect opening/ 
receiving/ sending email on the other machines - which all run with 
10.6.8

appreciate any advice/experience



chow

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sketchup model via collada into preview

[gary dorn]

howdy folks

ibooks author supposedly imports the collada format 3D models for 
viewing in the final book

SketchUp PRO - a 3D modelling software, can export to the collada format .

(The free version can as well with a bit of manipulation of the file 
name - see http://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/SketchUp  )

Whilst playing around with exporting to Collada, I have discovered 
that Preview opens a dae file and allows manipulation of the eventual 
model.

A sort of preview of the 3D file - I'm not sure if Acrobat can do that!





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Re: web runs slowly

[gary dorn]

Rhonda and James
thanks for your suggestions,

its the iMac which has the slow web connection - only on her account

On other accounts on the iMac,( mine,  3x kids and test account, all 
run okay), its just the wifes which is really slow - usually safari 
and sometimes Firefox.

The macbook runs fine

Is it worthwhile deleting the Safari and Firefox cache first? and 
seeing if that makes a difference.

TA


Hi Gary,

You mention your wife is using the iMac constantly for her ENJO 
business, then you mention she is using your MacBook?
Which one is having the problem with Safari running slow?

AS James has suggested update to OS X 10.6.8, but download and 
install the Combo Update!
Download the OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo from here: 
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399

1. Repair Permissions first before installing the Combo
2. Install the Combo OS X 10.6.8
3. Repair Permissions again.
4. Restart your computer

Repairing permissions IS extremely important for Apple software 
updates, especially for OS X updates.
It is not important for third party software although, it does keep 
Finder in the loop of what is going on.

  I did  a permissions check and it came up with  errors in;
  Java/JavaVirtiualMachines


  which have remained errors despite a number of repairs

What exactly is the full error?

If its something like this:
System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/dt.jar, 
should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Note where it displays the privileges that the lead character is an l.
The leading l (ell) is not a permission anyway; it is the file 
type identifier that tells the OS the file is a symbolic link.

If this is the case, the answer to your query is:
Because there are no permissions errors. The message is information 
stating that the displayed item is not actually a file it is a link 
or alias to a file. The Java items turn out to be symlinks.

In the past, this sort of thing has happened with SUID and ACL.

As long as you receive 'Permissions repair complete' you are OK.

If Safari is still running slow after installing the Combo Update 
and Restarting  repairing permissions.
Delete Safari's Cache database file.
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.safari/.  Delete the Cache.db file.  (the 
~ tilde means your Home Library)

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)


On 29/11/2011, at 1:44 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:

  i would update to 10.6.8 first
  James

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  Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which 
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

  On 29/11/2011, at 1:37 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  howdy all

  my wife  uses the  iMac  constantly now for her ENJO business

  Previously ENJO supplied a PC app which we ran via parallels - which
  was sort of okay.

  Since July this year ENJO have moved over to an online ( therefore
  platform neutral) system, which seems to only run properly on Firefox
  ( but not on Safari)

  She still accesses the previous PC software to look at her 
customer database.

  Lately its web access has become really slow - but only on my wifes
  account, using other computers/ accounts seems to run fine. ( so shes
  been using my mac book)
  
  email works okay
  browser works sometimes
  Safari often says cannot find network.

  I did  a permissions check and it came up with  errors in;
  Java/JavaVirtiualMachines
  

  which have remained errors despite a number of repairs

  system specs

  Mac OS 10.6.6
  4GB memory
  Airport utility 5.5.3
  802.11n
  transmit rate 117


  I am hoping  any one may be able to advise what we can do about this
  slowness on her account.

  thanks in advance
  

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web runs slowly

[gary dorn]

howdy all

my wife  uses the  iMac  constantly now for her ENJO business

Previously ENJO supplied a PC app which we ran via parallels - which 
was sort of okay.

Since July this year ENJO have moved over to an online ( therefore 
platform neutral) system, which seems to only run properly on Firefox 
( but not on Safari)

She still accesses the previous PC software to look at her customer database.

Lately its web access has become really slow - but only on my wifes 
account, using other computers/ accounts seems to run fine. ( so shes 
been using my mac book)

email works okay
browser works sometimes
Safari often says cannot find network.

I did  a permissions check and it came up with  errors in;
  Java/JavaVirtiualMachines


which have remained errors despite a number of repairs

system specs

Mac OS 10.6.6
4GB memory
Airport utility 5.5.3
802.11n
transmit rate 117


I am hoping  any one may be able to advise what we can do about this 
slowness on her account.

thanks in advance


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Re: iCal entries keep disappearing

[gary dorn]

I'm about to ring iCal's neck.

I'm running iCal 5.0.1 on a MacBok Pro running 10.7.2, syncing via 
MobileMe with an iMac and iPhone. Entries entered in iCal, either on 
MacBook Pro or iMac, sometimes stay, sometimes disappear. Doesn't 
seem to be any pattern. Then sometimes they disappear then come back.

Should I be moving to iCloud? What are the cons? I haven't bothered 
because I have an iPhone 3G which apparently isn't iCloud 
compatible, so I don't want to move to iCloud only to find my iPhone 
no longer syncs with iCal.

Any tips to solve this painful missing iCal entry phenomenon?



Like you I had a 3 whole weeks disappear for some unknown reason.

Apple managed to recover the lost information and sent me my iCal 
file ,  recovered from their backup servers I guess.

as for my iphone 3G - yep crawls too-




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Re: Steve Jobs the authorized biography

[gary dorn]

I thought it only fitting that I pre-order the ebook Steve Jobs by 
Walter Isaacson through the iTunes bookstore from my iPad. The book 
is due to be released in 2 day's time on the 24th of October.

Cheers,
Carlo

If this is the book
http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Exclusive-Biography-ebook/dp/B005J3IEZQ/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8qid=1320027998sr=8-5tag=acleint-20

I noticed they had quite a few hardback copies at Boffins when we 
went there on Saturday
I read a little bit of it - the Toy Story story is quite interesting.



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Re: PDF printing problems with an HP Designjet 110 from a Mac

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Problem is from a mixed platform office.   PDF's printed to this 
printer from the PC print at the correct size and the colours are 
reasonably close to the PDF.  Same file printed from the Mac are 
always at 99% size and the colours always acquire a green tinge 
(result is the same from both Acrobat Reader and Preview).  OS is up 
to date.

Does anybody knows how to fix either of these problems?  Thanks in advance.


Hi ya Mike

I run a  HP Design Jet 750c via Leapard 10.6.6

I have the it connected  via a keyspan parallell to USB  cable

I use HP 750C driver, which I think I downloaded from HP?

printing size

yes seems to say 96 or what ever %

In the  print dialogue box, go to printer features
change shrink page to CROP ( preserves dimensions)


maybe play around with color model

when all okay ( if it is) save as a Preset

The other thing is to check the sheet size dimensions

hope this helps

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mail clipping email

[gary dorn]

howdy all

lately and ( possibly previously) if I attached a pdf to an email - 
which I do regularly either as signed document, interesting paper or 
a drawing, if the pdf is inserted in the heart of the email, the 
remaining text gets clipped when the recipient goes to view it.

If the pdf is attached at the end of the email, seems to be okay ( I think?)

Is this a feature, a setting or something else

For instance , I sent an email to shire of Bridgetown on Monday, with 
a letter and 5 reference documents ( 998k all up-  on straw bale 
building) all received okay

I sent out 5 emails today with 1 pdf (52k)  with a web link to a 
downloadable 11 MB drawing file, and only 4 lines were received.

weird.

any advice appreciated

chow
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Re: AutoCad for Mac

[gary dorn]

I have an upcoming project at home involving enclosing one side of 
our carport, and I would like to use software to produce working 
drawings  rather than pencil, ruler and paper.
Google's Sketch Up seems to be hard to use (or maybe it's me) and I 
would like to know what AutoCad-like software  is available. 
Shareware or free would be a bonus!
Regards,

Peter Bull
pb...@bbnet.com.au



Peter
If you want to get 2D drawings, then  I suppose a 2D app is what you are after
Dassault have produced a free 2d package called Draft sight

http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/



SketchUp has been mentioned , and it  is free, and like you, I still 
cant quite get me head around it, but unless you get Layout, you 
can't get any flat 2D drawings out of it

I found the 3D basecamp presentations really helpful to understand sketchup.


Domus.cad is a simple to used software, model in 3D and create 
drawings - its what I used first when I went 3D.
They offer a free limited time, fully functional
http://www.interstudio.net/DomusCadE.html


I now use BoA - a sophisticated 3D design and drawings software

There is also
MacDraft PE http://www.microspot.co.uk/products/macdraftpe/index.htm
Cadintosh  http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/170/key-features.html
Cademia http://www.cademia.org/frontend/index.php?page_id=10648


chow

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Re: mail clipping email

[gary dorn]

Hi Gary,

With attachments it is always best practice to:

1.Always include file extensions (.doc, .pdf etc)

2.Always use 'Windows-friendly' format (which omits resource forks, 
if they exist) usually makes them friendlier for Macs too.
To tell Mail to use Windows-friendly encoding for all new messages, 
choose Edit  Attachments  Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments 
(the default setting).

3. Always use the 'Attach' button and set Apple Mail to place 
attachments at the bottom of the message
  For all messages, with no message window open: Choose Edit  
Attachments  Always Insert Attachments at End of Message.

Use Rich Text for Graphics.



OkiDoki Master.

I understand.
thanks


Cheers,
Ronni

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2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

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On 13/10/2011, at 2:15 PM, gary dorn wrote:

  howdy all

  lately and ( possibly previously) if I attached a pdf to an email -
  which I do regularly either as signed document, interesting paper or
  a drawing, if the pdf is inserted in the heart of the email, the
  remaining text gets clipped when the recipient goes to view it.

  If the pdf is attached at the end of the email, seems to be okay ( I think?)

  Is this a feature, a setting or something else

  For instance , I sent an email to shire of Bridgetown on Monday, with
  a letter and 5 reference documents ( 998k all up-  on straw bale
  building) all received okay

  I sent out 5 emails today with 1 pdf (52k)  with a web link to a
  downloadable 11 MB drawing file, and only 4 lines were received.

  weird.

  any advice appreciated

  chow
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iCal mobile me

[gary dorn]

Howdy
as per Apple's insistence, I've upgraded my mobile Me iCal service 
the other day,   but now I have duplicates events on my iCal  - ie 2 
of everything as the are identical


under iClapreferencesaccounts, there is now two accounts   labelled 
.mac and  .me
I understand that Apple with mobile me has moved to me.com, but I 
still use my @mac.com for by business email address


which account I ought to delete so I have only one instance of any 
calender event


PS I archived my iCal before I upgraded the other day

thanks for any advise on this

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Re: iCal mobile me

[gary dorn]

Hi Gary,

Resolving Duplicate Calendars in iCal with the MobileMe Calendar

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3505http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3505


Interesting that they have recognised this feature.

thanks



Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad

On 24/05/2011, at 11:08 PM, gary dorn 
mailto:garyd...@ausconnect.netgaryd...@ausconnect.net wrote:




Howdy
as per Apple's insistence, I've upgraded my mobile Me iCal service 
the other day,   but now I have duplicates events on my iCal  - ie 
2 of everything as the are identical


under iClapreferencesaccounts, there is now two accounts 
 labelled .mac and  .me
I understand that Apple with mobile me has moved to 
http://me.comme.com, but I still use my @mac.com for by business 
email address


which account I ought to delete so I have only one instance of any 
calender event


PS I archived my iCal before I upgraded the other day

thanks for any advise on this

chow
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brother A3 printer/scanner

[gary dorn]

howdy all

I've been checking out the brother A3 printer/scanners. They come in 
couple of configurations.


A recent brochure from Harris Technology has the MFC 6490 A3 colour 
wireless MFP for $248.

A fairly good price.

I am particularly interested in  the A3 scanner part

We have a brother 130c, which is okay but often it doesn't  connect 
properly to either G4 ( 10.4.8), or iMac (10.6.6), it that even 
though the USB cable is plugged in all the time, its doesn't show up 
in either Image Capture or print dialogue boxes.


So my questions is

is the 6490 A3 mac drivers okay , and would they be better than the 130c

and does any one else have/use one- what do you think ?

thanks

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airport network

[gary dorn]

howdy

I am not sure if this was like this before I upgrade to SL  on the 
Mac Pro yesterday,

but

the  macBook  (SL) next to teh MacPro is not showing up in the MacPro 
(SL) Places sidebar, the iMac ( SL) upstairs is.


macPro  and iMac are showing up in the macbook side bar


please note MacPro connected to Airport extreme base station via 
ethernet, iMac  macBook connected via Airport.


Anybody got any suggestions please

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installed SL iphoto problem

[gary dorn]

Howdy
since I installed Snow Leopard yesterday on the new HD  Mac OS 10.6.6 
( from family box set, plus combo update)


iphoto 09  wont install onto the HD- gets an installer fault message

I copied iPhoto  8.1.2 from other HD  and get this message ( below)

Any suggestions please on what I ought to now do.

thanks

error  message

iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem
Check with the developer to make sure iPhoto works with this version 
of Mac OS X.  you may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to 
install any available updates for the application and Mac Os X


click send to apple etc




Process: iPhoto [1972]
Path:/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:  com.apple.iPhoto
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info:  iPhotoProject-424~8
Code Type:   X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [1090]

Date/Time:   2011-03-24 11:20:38.312 +0800
OS Version:  Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567)
Report Version:  6

Interval Since Last Report:  45306 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:   17
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   7
Anonymous UUID:  8D8FB6F6-9CEB-4568-86A9-7453F5CEB435

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0002, 0x
Crashed Thread:  0

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: 
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlideshow

  Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
0x8fe0 - 0x8fe4162b  dyld 132.1 (???) 
749D24EE-54BD-D74B-D305-C13F5E6C95D8 /usr/lib/dyld


Model: MacPro1,1, BootROM MP11.005C.B08, 4 processors, Dual-Core 
Intel Xeon, 2.66 GHz, 3 GB, SMC 1.7f10

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
Network Service: Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, Display, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: ST3250820AS P, 232.89 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST3500320NS, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD10EACS-00D6B0, 931.51 GB
Parallel ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A
USB Device: Hub, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x9131, 0xfd50
USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x1003, 0xfd53
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0xfd531000
USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x020b, 0xfd533000
USB Device: Apple Cinema HD Display, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x9223, 0xfd52
USB Device: Mass Storage, 0x058f  (Alcor Micro, Corp.), 0x6387, 0xfd10
USB Device: Hub, 0x0451  (Texas Instruments), 0x2046, 0x3d10
USB Device: Perfection610, 0x04b8  (Seiko Epson Corp.), 0x0103, 0x3d14
USB Device: Keyspan  UP-6C Printer Cable, 0x06cd, 0x0301, 0x1d20
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: iSight, Apple Computer, Inc., Up to 200 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: unknown_device, Unknown



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Re: hard disk full!

[gary dorn]

Yikes

signing off till a get a larger Hardrive.





Hi Gary,

Just adding to my first reply and Daniel's reply. From what you 
mentioned below, I would suggest it is important that you replace 
this hard drive for a much larger drive, ASAP.  You are already 
risking corruption of files.


In one of my posts to another WAMUG member some time ago that had a 
hard drive with not enough free space and was experiencing Finder 
Corruption because of this.


A hard drive that fills up and turns flaky is nearly impossible to 
get back to normal without Erasing reformatting.
If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all 
you were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum 
of 50 GB free unused space available, this allows the operating 
system vital unused space to write its swap files, virtual memory 
scratch disk.


The operating system also needs to use the hard drive for temporary 
storage as you work.
It creates what's known as virtual memory on your hard drive, 
accessing it constantly.


Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and 
greatly slow disk access down, too.


Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the 
entire install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the 
computer won't boot or run without constant crashing.


Cheers,
Ronni

On 22/03/2011, at 11:31 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:



 hi Gary

 As Ronni has pointed out, wouldn't hurt to get a larger drive.
 Drive pricing is pretty good at the moment for MacPro's and 
considering they can take 4 hard drives in total, well worth it!
 You can get some 1TB or 2TB drives for not a lot. They even have a 
3TB drive now, but it's still fairly pricing.

 It's just the cloning part that can be fun.

 Kind Regards
 Daniel

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 On 22/03/2011, at 10:20 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:




 On 22/03/2011, at 10:08 AM, gary dorn wrote:



 Howdy

 My MacPro 2.66, 3GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5.8 ,  a 500 GB harddisk , 
says it has only 17Gb left.


 In the past week, its been getting spinning ball of death, which 
meant I have had to force restart.
 Usually occurs when I have a number of Pages, Numbers and PDFs 
open and I go to open a 3D imaging software ( google earth, BoA 
etc)


 Is this a sign I need to get another Hard disk?


 Hi Gary,

 Yes, for sure. A hard Drive running with only 17GB Free space, is 
lucky to be running at all.


 If your drive is too full, performance is affected dramatically.
 You need to keep at least 15%-20% of your total hard drive space 
free for the operating system to use for optimal performance.


 Cheers,
 Ronni

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Re: hard disk full! - thanks Daniel

[gary dorn]

Further to my impending tragedy, now abated, Daniel Kerr, at rather a 
late hour,  installed a new 1TB hardisk for me.


I then installed Snow Leapard and using Migration Assistant,  moved 
over my user accounts and settings.


Back on board and ready to work

Thanks Daniel for your Timely assistance.
Thanks, Rhonda, Daniel and Ray for your sage advice, which has been 
well heeded.


Further to that Daniel has recommended a Graphic card update to a 1GB 
HD5770  to make my machine faster.


Looking forward to that!

chow



Yikes

signing off till a get a larger Hardrive.




Hi Gary,

Just adding to my first reply and Daniel's reply. From what you 
mentioned below, I would suggest it is important that you replace 
this hard drive for a much larger drive, ASAP.  You are already 
risking corruption of files.


In one of my posts to another WAMUG member some time ago that had a 
hard drive with not enough free space and was experiencing Finder 
Corruption because of this.


A hard drive that fills up and turns flaky is nearly impossible to 
get back to normal without Erasing reformatting.
If you run Photoshop it is best to have 100GB of free space. If all 
you were doing is Microsoft Word and email, I would keep a minimum 
of 50 GB free unused space available, this allows the operating 
system vital unused space to write its swap files, virtual memory 
scratch disk.


The operating system also needs to use the hard drive for 
temporary storage as you work.
It creates what's known as virtual memory on your hard drive, 
accessing it constantly.


Full hard drives also tend to fragment system and data files and 
greatly slow disk access down, too.


Left unchecked, the problem will likely spread and corrupt the 
entire install until the hard drive literally won't mount or the 
computer won't boot or run without constant crashing.


Cheers,
Ronni

On 22/03/2011, at 11:31 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:



 hi Gary

 As Ronni has pointed out, wouldn't hurt to get a larger drive.
 Drive pricing is pretty good at the moment for MacPro's and 
considering they can take 4 hard drives in total, well worth it!
 You can get some 1TB or 2TB drives for not a lot. They even have 
a 3TB drive now, but it's still fairly pricing.

 It's just the cloning part that can be fun.

 Kind Regards
 Daniel

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 On 22/03/2011, at 10:20 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:




 On 22/03/2011, at 10:08 AM, gary dorn wrote:



 Howdy

 My MacPro 2.66, 3GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5.8 ,  a 500 GB harddisk , 
says it has only 17Gb left.


 In the past week, its been getting spinning ball of death, 
which meant I have had to force restart.
 Usually occurs when I have a number of Pages, Numbers and PDFs 
open and I go to open a 3D imaging software ( google earth, BoA 
etc)


 Is this a sign I need to get another Hard disk?


 Hi Gary,

 Yes, for sure. A hard Drive running with only 17GB Free space, 
is lucky to be running at all.


 If your drive is too full, performance is affected dramatically.
 You need to keep at least 15%-20% of your total hard drive space 
free for the operating system to use for optimal performance.


 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

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hard disk full!

[gary dorn]

Howdy

My MacPro 2.66, 3GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5.8 ,  a 500 GB harddisk , says it 
has only 17Gb left.


In the past week, its been getting spinning ball of death, which 
meant I have had to force restart.
 Usually occurs when I have a number of Pages, Numbers and PDFs open 
and I go to open a 3D imaging software ( google earth, BoA etc)


Is this a sign I need to get another Hard disk?

thanks
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Re: a scanning issue

[gary dorn]

My current project is to convert a selection of photos taken on film 
back in 1989 and produce a DVD/slideshow of this holiday for viewing 
on a TV set


So far I have scanned the old photos in sets of 3 and have created 
41 sets of these shots as separate  jpg files


I have given each of the groups of 3 a name to identify the locality 
in which the photos were taken and dropped them all into I Photo


So far this has given me 41 slides to the slide show but I have lost 
the titles allocated to each group


Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve my objective?


sounds to me that may want to use the Events capability as a way of 
organising your selection


1. IMPORTING
When we import pictures into iPhoto off our camera, the thumbnail 
view of the photos on the SD card show up.
I select which photos I want to import and at the bottom of the 
window, in the event name, I type what ever I choose,

I also select - hide photo already imported

click import selected.

I then go the  event just imported
select the photos and then make a new library album, or add them to 
an existing album.


NOTE prior to creating a album, you can a Folder and a series of 
Albums in them. For instance we have a folder called HOLIDAYs in the 
side bar, and have a series of albums in them, such as Albany 2010, 
cervantees 2011, Boyagin rock 2009 , etc


another way if importing from a hard disk
iPhoto  fileimport select imagesimport
a new untitled event is created rename event

again select the photos in the event and create a new album.


2. IF ALREADY IMPORTED

if the photos are already imported, whcih seems to be what you saying.
select the photos, go EventsAdd flagged photos to new Eventrename event

or select photos fofileNew Album from selectionname album

as already mentioned you can create a folder say HOLIDAY 1989, then 
add separate albums ( 41 of them) to this folder - the number is no 
big deal , I have 61 Albums in my PROJECTS folder.


I use iphoto 09  version 8.1.2

I've looked at the videos on Iphoto 11, very impressive capabilities

Hope this helps




I also have a collection of old transparencies taken back in the 
1960/70s and am looking to achieve the same aim after I have scanned 
a selection of them. I have the scanner


I have I Photo 11 Version 9.1.1 and I Movie 11 Version 9.0.1 installed.


Graeme

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Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz
4GB 1067MHz RAM / 1TB
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PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

[gary dorn]

howdy
my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans).

we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do
(Mac OS 10.6.2)

BUT

if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a 
single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it.


We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference.

Are we doing something wrong?

we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file 
and then printing to PDF.


seems strange to me
thanks




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Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

[gary dorn]

Neil
good explanation
A.. is what we did,
I'll have a go at B..

thanks - very helpful



Hi Gary,

The thing about Preview in Snow Leopard is that it works a little
differently to previous versions.

The thing to remember is that you can now have several documents open in the
same window - you can see this when opening pdfs:

Double-click a number of pdfs individually and they will each open up in
their own window BUT select a number of pdfs and then go File/Open (or
command-O) and they will all open in one Window.

The title-bar of the window also reflect what's going on:

- A single pdf window will have something like:
blurb.pdf (page 2 of 5)

- A multiple pdf window will have something like:
blurb-pdf (page 2 of 5) (3 documents, 15 total pages)


With the new system (assuming you have the sidebar view set to Thumbnails)
each document appears separately in the sidebar and can individually be
expanded to show all the pages of the document as thumbnails or collapsed to
show just one thumbnail for that document.



With the new system dragging pages to the sidebar also works differently:

A.. If you just drag a page from the sidebar of one window to the sidebar of
another window, it will be added as a separate document - I suspect that
this is what you did - whilst you can move from page to page in the one
window, both documents remain separate and if you save you are just saving
whichever document is selected (not all the pages of both documents in the
sidebar).

B... If you actually want to add the page INTO another pdf you have 
to drag the

page ONTO the actual sidbar icon/thumbnail of the document you want to
insert into - you should then see (in the window title-bar) the page count
of the document increase  (rather than the document count) and if you now
save that document it will include the added page.



At first, it's quite confusing (and not particularly well documented) -
especially when you are used to the old way - until you realise what is
happening. However, once you get used to it, it works very well.


I hope my explanation makes sense - play with a few pdfs to see how it all
works.


Cheers


Neil
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on 4/8/10 5:16 PM, gary dorn at garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote:



 howdy
 my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans).

 we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do
 (Mac OS 10.6.2)

 BUT

 if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a
 single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it.

 We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference.

 Are we doing something wrong?

 we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file
 and then printing to PDF.

 seems strange to me
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Re: OT Going Solar Power. - longish reply

[gary dorn]

We are building new house and will hopefully be having Solar power 
and water. Any advice would be gratefully received,  OT of course :-)



Mac and WAMUG

If I may, I make a longish reply covering a number of aspects.

1. Power system
You are not saying whether you are Stand alone, Grid switched,  Grid 
connected or Hybrid. Each has its merits and advantages and costs.
You may want to look at unisuns web site for a description and also 
stand alone system costs.


http://www.unisun.com.au/

To keep the system to a reasonable size or have a reasonable payback 
period, its generally advisable to reduce energy consumption, 
particularly look at the items that require either high energy 
loading or are on constantly

such as:
 lighting - use low level general light and make up difference with 
task lighting - stay away from halogens and use PL tube compact 
fluros or now LEDs

heating - use the sun or wood, or  gas as much as possible ( see below)
cooling - use the breeze as much as possible, then electric pedestal fans
cooking -generally use gas , however it seems that most ovens are now 
going electric, induction are super fast although draw 36 amps I 
think?

washing -
pumping - see below in water section

2. House Design
In your house design generally you want to have good orientation so 
that you get the sun when you want and have shade when you don't.  I 
find long thin wings can achieve this the best.


Next is to fully insulate your building. The building code currently 
requires R1.5 for walls and R3.5 for roofs - I recommend that you try 
and achieve a higher rating than that, atleast R4.0 for roofs and R3 
for walls, the difference in cost is not that much for a superior 
envelope.

Then you ought to locate your thermal mass in the right place.

3. Heating
Radiant heat is the best and most comfortable sort of heat - the SUN 
provides massive amounts of it.- So use the SUN as much as possible 
to heat.

This can be done by:
 judicision use of glass and mass floor ( for heat absorption)
hydronic floor heating ( hot water tubes in floor)

If you can't do that then you have to move to burning carbon via;  a 
gas fired heat box, an electric reverse cycle aircon, a wood fired 
heat box, a gas fired heater, an electric panel (convection) heater 
or a Finnish mass stove


In my designs we do
Judicious use of glass
hydronic floor heating - see Enviroplumb 
http://www.enviroplumb.com.au/index.php

Finish mass stove or masonry oven
wood gas fired heat box, typically large enough for wet back and 
cooking ( ala Metters stove sort of thing)


Interestingly women generally require a higher ambient heating 
temperature than men -

probably because a  65 kg women makes 90watts, a 85 kg man 130 watts!

4 Hot water
Solar is the first preference, - the Apricus evacuated tube system 
seems to be the most effective.
Enviroplumb has tanks where by the heated water can be used for 
showers, kitchen etcs and also hydronic floor heating. On one of my 
projects the heat exchanger is 1000 ltrs
see rotex 
http://rotex-solar-hot-water-hydronic-heating.com.au/html/domestic/10/solar-hot-water-heating-hydronic-residential


if the Apricus system doesn't suit (cost more) then the Solar kleen 
system is the next choice

http://www.sola-kleen.com.au

5. Cooling
Most people are aware the natural ventilation, particularly along the 
coast is the most effective and cheapest way of cooling an interior, 
yet we seeing a rapid increase in the installation  of refrigerated 
air con systems. These operate a some 2400w , so they chew up the 
power consumption and virtually make a mockery of PV power system .
 A few years ago we looked in the viability of making an aircon 
system powered by a stand along PV system. The system looked like 
costing $30,000 !


At a recent sustainability forum for mechanical systems I went too, 
the presenter suggested that overhead  (high) windows is the 
preferred method of inducing cross ventilation in buildings without 
the blowing around papers effect.

I essentially call this clerestorey windows.

6.Drinking water
With the move to incorporating rainwater tanks, initially for gardens 
but eventually it might be needed for personal consumption, comes the 
need for greater filtering.

We prefer Reverse Osmosis (RO) our supplier does whole house filtering
see http://www.purewatersystems.com.au/
we go with Grundfos pumps, for their low energy consumption, and 
decent size reservoir, so that the pump is only on occasionally to 
refill the reservoir.

http://www.grundfos.com.au/

Hope this helps

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Permaculture architect
gary.d...@eepo.com.au
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
integrating Permaculture , Organic Solar architecture,
Straw bale construction  Solar and wind power systems
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Re: new iMac - printing times out and pauses

[gary dorn]

Hi Gary,

Try deleting the Printer from System Preferences  Print  Fax and 
then Add the Printer - 'Bonjour'


As suggested
we have now tried that a few times , but unfortunately it has made no 
difference.

Printer still creates a print que then times out to a pause?

what other things could we try.

thanks






Cheers,
Ronni

17 MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)




On 22/07/2010, at 2:51 PM, gary dorn wrote:



 Howdy
 we have a Laser printer connected via USB to an Airport extreme 
down in the lower ground floor.


 a power mac G4  (10.4.8) and Macbook (10.6.2) on the Upper floor , 
both with airport, print AOK


 right next to these two  is my wifes  new iMac (10.6.3),
 internet and email all work fine.
 file sharing is turned on
 screen sharing is turned on and works fine.
 we have setup the laser printer, however...

 .when we go to print from the iMac, it all goes through 
the dialogue boxes fine, but nothing happens at the printer. 
eventually after say 3 minutes the laser printer status changes to 
Pause, and it doesn't print anything.

 We have tried 2 of the accounts on this iMac and get the same thing

 the macbook ( positioned right next to it) prints the same 
document in 15 seconds.


 Because internet seem to work okay, I am suspecting that the 
system has some other setting or preference that needs adjusting,


 Any thoughts on where to start is appreciated.

 thanks in advance
 --
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new iMac - printing times out and pauses

[gary dorn]

Howdy
we have a Laser printer connected via USB to an Airport extreme down 
in the lower ground floor.


a power mac G4  (10.4.8) and Macbook (10.6.2) on the Upper floor , 
both with airport, print AOK


right next to these two  is my wifes  new iMac (10.6.3),
internet and email all work fine.
file sharing is turned on
screen sharing is turned on and works fine.
we have setup the laser printer, however...

.when we go to print from the iMac, it all goes through the 
dialogue boxes fine, but nothing happens at the printer. eventually 
after say 3 minutes the laser printer status changes to Pause, and it 
doesn't print anything.

We have tried 2 of the accounts on this iMac and get the same thing

the macbook ( positioned right next to it) prints the same document 
in 15 seconds.


Because internet seem to work okay, I am suspecting that the system 
has some other setting or preference that needs adjusting,


Any thoughts on where to start is appreciated.

thanks in advance
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north perth


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apple mail

[gary dorn]

howdy
Apple mail on my macpro has stopped receiving emails since 30/6 ie 
all day yesterday and today so far)

 email provided by Apples mobileme

macbook and iphone both get mail AOKAY

Further to that on quitting and restarting Mail this morning ( I 
thought the at might help)

the format of my inbox has changed

bugger me, whats going on!

any thoughts solutions appreciated
thanks


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Re: apple mail

[gary dorn]

Hmm, Mail seems to have corrected itself after a force quit.

I seem to be receiving todays email. hippee

although is say Mail is now receiving 1579 emails! - .



howdy
Apple mail on my macpro has stopped receiving emails since 30/6 ie 
all day yesterday and today so far)

 email provided by Apples mobileme

macbook and iphone both get mail AOKAY

Further to that on quitting and restarting Mail this morning ( I 
thought the at might help)

the format of my inbox has changed

bugger me, whats going on!

any thoughts solutions appreciated
thanks


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Re: Capturing YouTube etc videos

[gary dorn]

another way I believe is to use safari, which I have done a few 
times, when Tube TV doesn' tseem to want to work properly


see
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070420014456930

http://www.thewwwblog.com/download-youtube-videos-safari-browser-mac-os-x.html

hope these help



 

 On 01/07/2010, at 2:33 PM, David Noel wrote:



 Hi Everyone --

 -- What's the simplest way of capturing a YouTube etc video clip to
 your hard disc? I can't work out how to do it with the system apps, do
 you need to download an app? Sorry if it's perfectly obvious what to
 do, I've just missed it somehow.

 
 
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parallels - windows wanted

[gary dorn]

Howdy
unfortunately we are going to have to run some Window only applications;
creative memories memory manager
and Enjo companion

We have parallels already. V4

Does anyone have copy of windows lying about we can buy?

or are we better off buying a retail version from somewhere?
and which version?

chow
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Re: Apple to Open Retail Store in Perth on Saturday, 26 June

[gary dorn]

If you go to
http://www.nearmap.com/
and type in address - 790 hay st perth,  an aerial view of the area 
is shown, you can zoom in or change the view point

http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-31.952936,115.855623z=20t=hnmd=20100529
near the top is bar, which has dates - select a date and you get 
different views

it appears as though something new is being built at the rear.

anyway, nearmap, is great for looking at progress photos of building 
sites! and  is generally better resolution in our part of the world 
compared to Google Earth


chow

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re-subscribed with new address

[gary dorn]

howdy ,
As of May 26th, My ISP has stopped my old address 
garyd...@eepo.com.au, and re-issued me into their new superduper, 
spam filtering server.

Thus I've had to re-subscribe to WAMUG with a new email address
so the moderators my want to manually delete the old subscription, as 
I can no longer do it (I guess)


chow
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synergy web site safari

[gary dorn]

Howdy
in trying to send an email to Synergy today,

their contact page http://www.synergy.net.au/contact_us.xhtml

has a series of drop down lists, that don't seem to work in my 
version of Safari 4.0.4


they worked okay in  Firefox

any find a similar thing, or have I just got a Safari setting turned off.

chow
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mail activity screen shot

[gary dorn]

I now use Apple Mail for my work as it syncs with mobile me and my iPhone

sending some emails this morning  with some photo seems to have stalled it?

what does this screen shot of the activity window mean?
http://homepage.mac.com/dornworks/filechute/mail%20activity.png
if someone could explain this, that would be great.
chow


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Re: mail activity screen shot

[gary dorn]

On 10/03/2010, at 12:45 PM, gary dorn wrote:



 I now use Apple Mail for my work as it syncs with mobile me and my iPhone

 sending some emails this morning  with some photo seems to have stalled it?

 what does this screen shot of the activity window mean?
 http://homepage.mac.com/dornworks/filechute/mail%20activity.png
 if someone could explain this, that would be great.
 chow


Hi Gary,

Those symbols are Bangs.
snip

3. Verify your SSL setting: Another problem that can cause a bang is 
an incorrect SSL setting-some POP and IMAP servers

support SSL, some don't.

To check yours, go to Mail's Accounts preference pane, select your 
account, and click the Advanced button.
Toggle the state of the Use SSL checkbox, close the Preferences 
window (saving changes when prompted), and try to connect again.


I unticked the SSL, and it seemed to set a new number, anyway the 
bang symbols are gone. Is it better to have SSL ticked or unticked. 
This bangs has only happened in the last 2 days, and I have been 
using Mail for over a year now.


hmm I got a message from my ISP yesterday that the authentication 
server was overloaded after the dropout of a large number of 
connections and it took an hour or so for everyone to log back in

I think we piggy backed onto the Optus exchange in Mt Hawthorn.

could my problem be related?


chow


macpro 2.6
mac OS 10.5.8
5GB Ram




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Re: sync iphone - contacts

[gary dorn]

Howdy
its been some time since my query in November, but I was too busy to 
deal with any stuff ups, so I've waited til now

anyway
I've just done the  3 steps this morning, and now I have no contracts 
at all on my iPhone.
I've turned it off/on a couple of times , including changing the sync 
button to on /off but alas all to no avail.

I found this apple KB  http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1672

I can browse, email also updates - but have no contacts.



On 16/11/2009, at 10:38 PM, gary dorn wrote:



many names are duplicated, and the one I was looking for was 
updated , but the other duplicate name wasn't?


how come I have all these duplicates?



Hi Gary,

Looks like you have synced contacts from both your computer and 
MobileMe, causing the duplication.

Check if you have duplicate Calendars on your iPhone as well.
Also check there are no duplicates on your Mac or on MobileMe.

This occurs if you sync Contacts/Calendar with your Mac Address 
Book/ iCal AND MobileMe, with both having the same listings.
If you open Calendar and touch the left arrow to show Calendars 
you'll find 2 copies, merged in All?


If you are syncing contacts and calendar events over the air with 
your MobileMe account on your iPhone, and have also selected to sync 
contacts and calendar events direct with the Address Book and iCal 
on your Mac via the iTunes sync process, which is selected under the 
Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences?


If so, this will duplicate your contacts and calendar events and is 
not required when syncing contacts and calendar events over the air 
with your MobileMe account on your iPhone. 




To get rid of the duplicates on your iPhone:

1. On your iPhone - Settings  Mail, Contacts, Calendars  
Accounts  MobileMe  Contacts  Off 
You'll get a warning: There are existing Contacts synced with your 
Mac. Would you like to merge them with your MobileMe account?
Choose Do not Merge. You then are asked what to do with the 
existing contacts on your phone - select Delete.


did that



2. Connect your iPhone to iTunes and go to the info tab of your 
device page and disable sync contacts.

Then disconnect your iPhone.


hmm tab was not ticked ( I probably unticked it back in November)



3. On your iPhone - Settings  Mail, Contacts,Calendars   
Accounts  MobileMe  Contacts  ON.

It will take a few minutes to re-sync the contacts without duplicates.


nope, no contacts showing



If you also have duplicates in Calendar, go though the same process 
... (Calendar instead of Contacts )


You might find you need to restart your iPhone for everything to appear again.




also since doing this mobile me Syncing on my Mac pro wants to ; 
delete 636 calender events, modify 37 and add 28 - and keeps asking 
me every 5 mins to delete them! - no way Jack, I cancel each time


what could have I done wrong.


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Re: Qpix FS170 handheld scanners

[gary dorn]

Sorry Gary,

I now see the Film  Slide Scanner F100 doesn't give you any 
details as to what Brand it is.


not a great deal of info there, so who know if it is the same?

I saw HN have a kaiser bass one , as well like this 
http://www.citysoftware.com.au/Browse/eef3cbcdbaaa46c9a0e5b3426a6a7cd9001ItemDetail.aspx




Ronni
On 18/12/2009, at 1:31 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



 Hi Gary,

 The link you supplied before takes you to the Qpix FS170 Film 
Scanner which is the same Film Scanner as Paul's Subject.

 If Target have this Model at $79, it's a very good price.

 Cheers,
 Ronni
 On 18/12/2009, at 12:20 PM, gary dorn wrote:



 I see in the Target Catalogue they  are also  offering a slide 
film scanner too, for $79

 see

http://www.lasoo.com.au/offer/miscellaneous-photographic-accessories/film-and-slide-scanner-f100/4gul4q6ma.html

 Are they similar to the Qpix one?


 There are two resolutions available, 5M and 10M.

 - Original Message -
 From: Merv Bond m...@iinet.net.au
 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au
 Sent: Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 12:29:22 PM GMT +08:00 
Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi

 Subject: Re: Qpix FS170 handheld scanners


 Hi Paul
 Is the resolution for scanning fixed or can it be adjusted?  If the
 latter, what range is available?
 Merv

 Paul Weaver wrote:

 Hi Bill,

 It comes with a disk of software for direct connection to a 
Windoze machine, but this is of little relevance to me. The unit 
is stand-alone and creates .jpg images onto the HD card as if it 
was a camera, which I suppose it is really.  I prefer to use it 
not directly connected to the computer anyway.  I'll be putting 
a sample image on my blog later this morning, about 9am.  By the 
way, the slide and negative holders are the best and most robust 
that I've come across.


 Cheers, Paul.

 Dr Paul R. Weaver

 http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/calendar

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 Sent: Tuesday, 15 December, 2009 7:28:09 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing 
/ Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi

 Subject: Re: Qpix FS170 handheld scanners


 Hi Paul, the way I read the  Features  below, it appears only 
to support Windows 2000, XP, Vista 32/64 I hope I am wrong 
as a friend and I was discussing this very scanner this 
afternoon. ( we don't have Vista etc )



* 3600dpi Film Strip  Negative Scanner.
* 5 megapixel resolution for 35mm film strip.
	* Hi speed preview - 0.5 seconds (vs. conventional film 
scanner which takes 30 seconds).

* Stand alone operation.
* 2.4' TFT LCD panel for easy viewing of shots.
* SD card slot
* Supports direct printing.
* USB 1.1 interface.
* F no 2.0, 4 glass elements, half field angle = 15*.
* Fixed focus.
* Exposure control: auto/manual.
* Automatic colour balance.
* High resolution: 2592 x 1680.
* Data conversion: 10 bits per colour channel.
* Scan method: single pass.
* 3 white LED backlight.
* TVout NTSC/PAL.
* SD card slot..
* Power: DC 5V (adaptor included).
* USB mode: mass storage / direct print.
* Dimensions: 9.64 x 9.4 x 17cm.
* Includes Arcsoft Photo Impression 6 software.
* OS support: Windows 2000, XP, Vista 32/64.

 Bill



 On 15/12/2009, at 4:21 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:

 Seeing as no one else seems to know about these very compact 
Qpix FS-170 film and slide scanners I went back to OfficeWorks 
Freo this morning and discovered they gone on sale at $129.  I 
bought one and quickly have found it to be a terrific 35mm 
slide copier. Maybe less than half a second to scan a colour 
slide.
 There's a strong slide holder which comes with the scanner. It 
can be lined up easily on the colour preview screen.  There is 
also a holder for 35mm negatives.  The images are stored on a 
user-supplied SD card.  I simply borrowed a card from my 
camera. Later I uploaded the scanned images via the camera to 
iPhoto. The test images so far are excellent. The scanner can 
run on four user-supplied AAA batteries which they reckon 
provide about 90 minutes use.  Alternatively they supply a USB 
cable which can draw power from a computer or the AC power 
supply, which is also provided.  There is also a special 
brush/wiper for cleaning the optics inside the device.

 
 The scanner is one of the niftiest gadgets I've seen for a 
long time. A sophisticated, precision bit of stand-alone gear. 
I suggest if anyone has slides to copy then this is going to be 
the ant's pants.  At least I think so. At $129 I think they'll 
go out the door pretty quickly once the word gets around.  Be 
warned, the instruction book takes a little study to figure all 
the options out. I'm still working on it.


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Re: Re: 2nd 20 in LCD screen zapped?

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If the light is blinking in a short, short, long sequence the 
backlight is bad.


sounds about right
I've put in for a look at,  at Macwrox



Regards,

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On 27-Nov-2009, at 10:54 :52, gary dorn wrote:




 Evening (Argh! Morning)

 I was going to query whether it was a Benq!


 No its an Apple, that came with the Macpro

 I had a Benq experience the same issues as described by Gary and 
Ruben! It was my personal 17 circa 2004-5. It was under warranty 
and I took it to a service centre but typically it didn't fault 
while they had it. I ended up having it in storage due to moving 
and when I pulled it out it didn't work. By then it would have 
been out of warranty so I threw it especially with the prices of 
LCD's going down. Even today I still don't run with an LCD at home 
just using the laptop screen.


 Although I wasn't aware that it could be quite a common occurrence!

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Re: 2nd 20 in LCD screen zapped?

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Evening (Argh! Morning)

I was going to query whether it was a Benq!


No its an Apple, that came with the Macpro

I had a Benq experience the same issues as described by Gary and 
Ruben! It was my personal 17 circa 2004-5. It was under warranty 
and I took it to a service centre but typically it didn't fault 
while they had it. I ended up having it in storage due to moving and 
when I pulled it out it didn't work. By then it would have been out 
of warranty so I threw it especially with the prices of LCD's going 
down. Even today I still don't run with an LCD at home just using 
the laptop screen.


Although I wasn't aware that it could be quite a common occurrence!

Cheers,

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On 26/11/2009, at 7:19 PM, Dark1 wrote:

I have a similar problem with my 2nd monitor.  It's a 17 BenQ and 
it even comes on for a few seconds before the screen goes black.  I 
pulled it apart to see if I could notice any burnt out transistors 
but I couldn't.


I've decided not to bother trying to fix it since it's possible to 
buy a 20 BenQ brand new with a warranty for $150


Regards
Ruben


sounds like the power supply sees a short circuit thus it 
switches off  then retries it again
may be its a problem in the back lighting, are you sure its not 
just on standby because of a problem with dvi cable?

would have to be taken apart
James

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howdy
I have a 23in + 20 in screen attached my a mac pro.
Last night the RCD tripped.

now the 20 inc screen show just a black screen - the little light 
at bottom RH corner flickers on and off.


I've   restarted  with swapped DVI port with just the 20 inc 
attached - but still no screen - just black.


what have I done to my screen?

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2nd 20 in LCD screen zapped?

[gary dorn]

howdy
I have a 23in + 20 in screen attached my a mac pro.
Last night the RCD tripped.

now the 20 inc screen show just a black screen - the little light at 
bottom RH corner flickers on and off.


I've   restarted  with swapped DVI port with just the 20 inc attached 
- but still no screen - just black.


what have I done to my screen?

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Re: sync iphone - contacts

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On 13/11/2009, at 4:01 PM, gary dorn wrote:



 howdy
 I've just updated a contact on my macpro, synced with mobileme, 
put its not showing up on my iPhone.


 how do I force iPhone to sync with mobileme?


Hi Gary,

Give it time ;-)
What have you got set on your iphone?

Settings  Mail,Contacts, Calendars  Fetch new Data  Push select on or off.

Then select how often to check.

You can go to advanced and select by Contact/calendar or mail, 
whether you want push every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes or 
manual.


I have mine set to push on and  manual.

is ther a manuall button I can press to say Get Now Damnit

interstingly I rechecked my Contacts, this time , show All rather 
than just the Group.


many names are duplicated, and the one I was looking for was updated 
, but the other duplicate name wasn't?


how come I have all these duplicates?

In my main address book on my mac pro, there is only one. oh, hang on 
this also syncs with my macbook. hmmm can these three  all be synced 
into one set of contacts?


thanks



I have mine set to Manual so I don't get caught going over my Data 
Limit when travelling  away from a Wireless Network.


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Re: sync iphone - contacts

[gary dorn]

Ronni,
thanks for your detailed reply.

I think I have synced both ways ie with iPhone plugged into Macpro 
then synced via itunes,


and

synced via Mobileme.

as this seems to have caused duplicates, my preference is to sync via 
mobile me only.


In system preferences, I have mobileMe set to sync automatically 
(Calenders and Contacts).


as per you note below,  you note how  delete contact off my iPhone, I 
think I'll check that I have them on my Macpro first , then once 
assured I have them, I do as you suggest.


thanks



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On 13/11/2009, at 4:01 PM, gary dorn wrote:




howdy

I've just updated a contact on my macpro, synced with mobileme, 
put its not showing up on my iPhone.



how do I force iPhone to sync with mobileme?



Hi Gary,


Give it time ;-)

What have you got set on your iphone?


Settings  Mail,Contacts, Calendars  Fetch new Data  Push select 
on or off.



Then select how often to check.


You can go to advanced and select by Contact/calendar or mail, 
whether you want push every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes or 
manual.




I have mine set to push on and  manual.

is ther a manuall button I can press to say Get Now Damnit

interstingly I rechecked my Contacts, this time , show All rather 
than just the Group.


many names are duplicated, and the one I was looking for was 
updated , but the other duplicate name wasn't?


how come I have all these duplicates?



Hi Gary,

Looks like you have synced contacts from both your computer and 
MobileMe, causing the duplication.

Check if you have duplicate Calendars on your iPhone as well.
Also check there are no duplicates on your Mac or on MobileMe.

This occurs if you sync Contacts/Calendar with your Mac Address 
Book/ iCal AND MobileMe, with both having the same listings.
If you open Calendar and touch the left arrow to show Calendars 
you'll find 2 copies, merged in All?


If you are syncing contacts and calendar events over the air with 
your MobileMe account on your iPhone, and have also selected to sync 
contacts and calendar events direct with the Address Book and iCal 
on your Mac via the iTunes sync process, which is selected under the 
Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences?


If so, this will duplicate your contacts and calendar events and is 
not required when syncing contacts and calendar events over the air 
with your MobileMe account on your iPhone. 

In my main address book on my mac pro, there is only one. oh, hang 
on this also syncs with my macbook. hmmm can these three  all be 
synced into one set of contacts?




If there are NO duplicates on your Mac  MobileMe, and if I have 
understood that you are syncing contacts and calendar events over 
the air with your MobileMe account on your iPhone, and have also 
selected to sync contacts and calendar events direct with the 
Address Book and iCal on your Mac via the iTunes sync process.


To get rid of the duplicates on your iPhone:

1. On your iPhone - Settings  Mail, Contacts, Calendars  
Accounts  MobileMe  Contacts  Off 
You'll get a warning: There are existing Contacts synced with your 
Mac. Would you like to merge them with your MobileMe account?
Choose Do not Merge. You then are asked what to do with the 
existing contacts on your phone - select Delete.


2. Connect your iPhone to iTunes and go to the info tab of your 
device page and disable sync contacts.

Then disconnect your iPhone.

3. On your iPhone - Settings  Mail, Contacts,Calendars   
Accounts  MobileMe  Contacts  ON.

It will take a few minutes to re-sync the contacts without duplicates.

If you also have duplicates in Calendar, go though the same process 
... (Calendar instead of Contacts )


You might find you need to restart your iPhone for everything to appear again.

Gary, if I have misinterpreted your sync setup  you are NOT syncing 
contacts and calendar events over the air with your MobileMe account 
on your iPhone  also in iTunes sync, post back with more details.


Cheers,
Cheers,
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Re: Built in speaker not working

[gary dorn]

I think you should check the output socket. It sounds as though it 
is not properly resetting when you take the external line plug out. 
Hence isolating the internal speaker.
It is generally the spring contact not properly reseating, due 
either to mechanical failure aka breaking, or dirt on the contacts.


hope this helps

robin



or check system preferencessound sound out

we have the same issue  on our G4 MDD tower, when the kids plugi n 
ear phones to listen to music then later unplug them,  have to go to 
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 I am refurbishing a couple of G4 Towers and suddenly the built-in 
speaker is not producing any soundstartup chime or iTunes. The 
sound is fine when I attach external speakers.


 At this stage I am thinking it is a piece of software I have 
loaded on both machines?.


 I will check the software extras on both machines, but meanwhile, 
has anyone experienced similar before?


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sync iphone - contacts

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howdy
I've just updated a contact on my macpro, synced with mobileme, put 
its not showing up on my iPhone.


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prezi

[gary dorn]

my daughter cam home form school  and asked if she could use prezi, 
as recommended by one of her teachers

http://prezi.com/
Coolest online presentation tool I have ever seen
Techcrunch
Insanely great
Harvard Business
Pretty amazing
CNET
Love at first use
user praise


any one got any thoughts/experiences on this.
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mac equivalent to creative memories photo software

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Howdy
Creative memories- a scrapbooking  thing, have a 
PC only software called Memory Manager, which 
evidently  has some complex photo organising 
capabilities.


http://www.creativememories.com/MainMenu/Our-products-and-services/Digital-Scrapbooking/Memory-Manager

is there a mac equivalent

can iPhoto do the sort of thing this software can evidently do.

my wife wants to get this going on our G4 power 
mac,  with OS 10.4.7 and iPhoto 6


any advice or experience with this thing appreciated.

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Re: mac equivalent to creative memories photo software

[gary dorn]

Okay,
I was thinking of getting the Snow Leapard + 
iLife family pack, this adds more justification 
to the purchase.


thanks for the advice


On 15/10/2009, at 8:46 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:




On 14/10/2009, at 11:38 PM, gary dorn wrote:



Howdy
Creative memories- a scrapbooking  thing, have 
a PC only software called Memory Manager, 
which evidently  has some complex photo 
organising capabilities.


http://www.creativememories.com/MainMenu/Our-products-and-services/Digital-Scrapbooking/Memory-Manager

is there a mac equivalent

snip

First thing to do is upgrade to 10.4.11. This 
at least will allow you run iLife 09 which 
includes iPhoto 09. From the description of 
Memory Manager, I can't see what it's doing 
that iPhoto 09 is not. The latest iPhoto has 
some sophisticated features such as Face 
Recognition, Geotagging and excellent image 
retouching and enhancing tools. All versions of 
iPhoto (with the possible exception of the very 
earliest versions) will allow you to assemble 
your photos into presentation booklets.


I agree with Peter H. I had a quick look at 
Memory Manager and cannot see that it does 
anything that iPhoto doesn't do.

iPhoto '09 is much improved from iPhoto '06.
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Re: vhs to DVD converter

[gary dorn]

I think Ronni and Matt maybe onto something here.

We bought a canon MD 225 Digital video Camcorder for our Hands-on 
straw bale workshops last summer, so I think I'll have a look at its 
manual and give that a try.


Groovy

This group is so helpful . Ranks up there with http://www.firstfives.org



Hi Gary, Just a often overlooked cheaper option in analogue to 
digital conversion and then burning onto DVD. snip

Hope this helps
Matt





Well Gary, you can do it the long way like I did a few years ago.

Basically you need a camcorder (with DV IN/OUT) to record to from 
the VHS, then import the footage into iMovie, edit it and then 
import the edited movie into iDVD to make a DVD.snip

Cheers,
Ronni






howdy
I saw this advertised,
http://www.kaiserbaas.com/KBA03001_video_to_dvd_maker.html

but review for mac OS aren't promising.
Is there anything else out their?

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vhs to DVD converter

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howdy
I saw this advertised,
http://www.kaiserbaas.com/KBA03001_video_to_dvd_maker.html

but review for mac OS aren't promising.
Is there anything else out their?

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Re: vhs to DVD converter

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Sorry Gary,

Gave you the Windows version link before ;-) This is the Mac link:
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/easy-vhs-to-dvd/mac/overview.html

Cheers,
Ronni


thanks for that
reading the forums appears Roxio have had problems as well !



On 09/09/2009, at 7:53 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



howdy
I saw this advertised,
http://www.kaiserbaas.com/KBA03001_video_to_dvd_maker.html

but review for mac OS aren't promising.
Is there anything else out their?

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Re: vhs to DVD converter

[gary dorn]

Hi Gary

I think I remember this being discussed a few times in the past. 
Try searching the archive.



Yep there sure is, good reminder
thanks



Ruben


howdy
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http://www.kaiserbaas.com/KBA03001_video_to_dvd_maker.html

but review for mac OS aren't promising.
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Re: Original Apple Airport Card

[gary dorn]

I believe we still have some for sale. If you still want one, give 
me a call Tuesday. 9424 6469 at PLC [not MLC].



I was close, did I get the suburb right!



Cheers
Geoff



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Greetings! does anyone have an original Apple Airport Card for Sale.


you might want to try the annual sale at girls school MLC ( I think 
its that one )  in Pepermint Grove, or ring there IT department, I 
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Re: File not saving?

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On 09/08/2009, at 10:40 PM, gary dorn wrote:




On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote:



howdy
I have software which recently had an update v 4.1  universal - 
(previously ran under rosetta)

snip





thanks to everyone's responces to my dilemma,

a fellow Architect in Chicago suggested that the new  version V4.1 
(universal), write to  a different database setup to the older 
version 3 ( PPC),  so when I opened, reopened the file in the latest 
version , it wasn't able save to the old  database.
So its seems the leap from PPC to Universal has lead to some backward 
file incompatibility.


Oh well, I re-did 2 days of work  that I lost on the project-  just 
about all done now.


Time to move.

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Re: Original Apple Airport Card

[gary dorn]

Greetings! does anyone have an original Apple Airport Card for Sale.


you might want to try the annual sale at girls school MLC ( I think 
its that one )  in Pepermint Grove, or ring there IT department, I 
got mine from there!







Thanks, Joe


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Re: File not saving?

[gary dorn]

On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote:



howdy
I have software which recently had an update v 4.1  universal - 
(previously ran under rosetta)


On my MacPro 10.5.6
when ever I open a file and go to save it, the save is not kept.


Thanks to all that replied and made suggestions

Just now I thought what if I open the app in  my Test user account

activated via Fast User Switcher - got a Blue screen ,
Bugger
did a forced restart

then opened app saved a  file reopened file, made a change - CRASHED
Bugger

so I sent a report to Apple and the Software suppliers.

Guess I just have to wipe off 2 full days of work and go back to a 
properly working version.

Bugger.
looks like some lat night to catchup
Bugger

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Re: File not saving?

[gary dorn]

On 09/08/2009, at 10:40 PM, gary dorn wrote:




On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote:



howdy
I have software which recently had an update v 4.1  universal - 
(previously ran under rosetta)

snip





Hi Gary,

What Software Application did you update to v 4.1 Universal?


Its an architect orientated 3D Design software called BoA.

It started in 1996 as an offshoot of an app called Architrion - and 
is an advanced sophisticated 3D solids modeler app.  Version 2 was 
released in about 2001. I took it up in 2003 version 2.4.6 and used 
under OS 8.6/ 9.0 It required a Quickdraw 3D  extension and printed 
to postscript and written with MacApp.  Evidently they were 
developing some sophisticated 3D technology with Apple until Apple 
pulled the pin  and move onto OSX. This event seemed to slowed its 
development quite a bit.


In late 2005 they released version 3, which could run under OS X via 
Rosetta. all files were backwards compatible, in effect the software 
didn't change at all- it maintained its basic functionality.


Then  in late 2008 they issued a universal version to run natively 
under OSX and written with XCode, but has numerous bugs. I was hoping 
v 4.1 release would resolve some of the bugs but alas not fully yet.


This saving bug might just be my machine after all.

I ought to add that the developers are French, who seem to run a 
different line to the rest of us!


Architosh.com has a few articles on BoA
http://architosh.com/2009/03/mac-cad-boa-gets-minor-update-on-intel-version/

thanks
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Permaculture architect
gary.d...@eepo.com.au
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
integrating Permaculture , Organic Solar architecture,
Straw bale construction  Solar and wind power systems
http://www.dornworks.com


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File not saving?

[gary dorn]

howdy
I have software which recently had an update v 4.1  universal - 
(previously ran under rosetta)


On my MacPro 10.5.6
when ever I open a file and go to save it, the save is not kept.

I checked this on , my Macbook  10.5.6 using same version of software
 when I open a file ( existing or new) and go to save it, it is kept 
- ie works properly


any ideas whats going on?


I have a file which I worked a full day on, despite copy/paste to new 
files, doing save as backup copy, non of the file data  is kept?



I still have this file open and dare not close it case there is some 
work around I have missed so that my efforts are kept.


chow
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Architect
Perth,  Australia


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iPhone to mac app

[gary dorn]

howdy
does anyone know of a good iPhone app where it lets you control a mac 
elsewhere.


I've looked at FarFinder  I 'm not too sure about it!

http://flyingmac.com/farfinder/

any recommendations

chow




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OT Fwd: FW: Computer Genius

[gary dorn]

This is off topic but its some pretty amazing computer animation
which I thought you might find fascinating





Just click on the link below, click on play,
then leave the mouse alone,
do not touch your mouse until it says: The End.
Sit back and enjoy a piece of creative brilliance.
We wonder who had time to do this.

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swfhttp://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf



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