Re: Upgrading a backup disk to encrypted, and it died: help

2013-09-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So I'm asking again for some help here. As I said before: I attempted to encrypt a time machine partition. Things went bad. At this point, I'd be happy if I could figure out how to reformat the partition and start over. On a separate note, is there a way to do file vault encryption of a second

To search for a phrase in Preview

2013-09-18 Thread Carl Hoefs
How does one search for a phrase in ML Preview.app? If I type in disk devices without quotes, I get all matches for disk and devices, not necessarily adjacent. If I type the phrase with quotes, I get no matches. Surely there's a way to do this…! ___

Can partitions be moved; can several free gaps be combined?

2013-09-18 Thread Michael
With Disk Utility in 10.7.5, it's pretty simple to shrink partitions. Can the result of several free gaps be combined; can those shrunk partitions be moved so that the free space is all in one place for allocating something else? (Note that the only way I know of to grow a partition is to

Unable to burn a Lion install DVD -- what am I doing wrong?

2013-09-18 Thread Michael
I'd like help to burn a Lion install DVD. I have downloaded the lion installer from Apple. I have found the InstallESD.dmg file inside of it. File size is: 4,706,314,014 bytes (4.71 GB on disk) Attempting to burn it from the left hand list in Disk Utility, onto what I thought was a standard

Re: Upgrading a backup disk to encrypted, and it died: ** Potential solution for the next victum

2013-09-18 Thread Michael
On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: So I'm asking again for some help here. As I said before: I attempted to encrypt a time machine partition. Things went bad. At this point, I'd be happy if I could figure out how to reformat the partition and start over.

Mountain Lion Mail Delete Behavior (Can I get back to previous behavior?)

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew Darlow
Hi folks: This is the place I turn to when my Mac is giving me a headache. For many years, I have been using Apple Mail, and until 10.6.8, when I would click on a single message in Classic View (List) with the newest mail at the bottom of the screen, the delete key would cause the message

Java visual memory observations ...

2013-09-18 Thread Michael
So I'd like to know how to use the visual display of memory allocations in Java on Mac OS. I'm using Java 6. Apparently, and I'm not sure if I understand this correctly, there are three different tools for microsoft windows based systems: jconsole, visualvm, jvisualvm. Which are available for

Mountain Lion problems on a Mac Pro

2013-09-18 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]
Hi, I am having a lot of problems with Mountain Lion (ML) on my fairly old Mac Pro. I think my Mac Pro is the earliest version that is supported for ML. The original installation of ML ran fine (as far as I know) for about 6 or 7 months, but then some big problems arose. I reinstalled ML on

Hello/test?

2013-09-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I have not received any messages from Mac OS Talk in all of August, and out of curiosity checked mac os admin; nothing from it in several months. Are these mailing lists now dead? Or is something odd going on at my end? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist

Alternative to Dyn Standard DNS

2013-09-18 Thread Kevin Callahan
I have a Time Capsule and plan to update to Apple's new Airport Extreme very soon. Can anyone suggest an alternative to Dyn Standard DNS? http://dyn.com/support/airport-time-capsule-with-dynamic-dns/ Note: as of version 6.1 of the Airport Utility and 7.6.1 router firmware, the Apple Airport

Reading device ?

2013-09-18 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
I usually work from my iMac (sometimes from a MBP), so all the articles I want to read are stored on Safari there in multiple tabs, but that's not where I want to read them. I want to read them on a portable device that would automatically find what I have in Safari (I don't mind if it is

Taking a picture with the screen as Flash

2013-09-18 Thread LuKreme
My computers is setup to take a picture whenever someone logs in and save it using a little command-line utility called imagesnap that I call with a login hook. The trouble is, the point when it takes the picture is the point at which the screen is dark, right before the desktop appears, so

small dmg

2013-09-18 Thread William Ehrich
How can I make a small (40KB) dmg? Disk Utility seems to insist on at least 40MB. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Certificate Assistant and 4096-bit keys

2013-09-18 Thread H J
On 10.6.8, using the Certificate Assistant from within Keychain Access, is it possible to create keys longer than 2048 bits? I'm seeing what looks like a hard-coded upper limit (whether I choose RSA or DSA), and I've seen some discussion on various security fora that 4096 seems to be current

Disk Utility detected (and fixed?) a problem

2013-09-18 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]
Hi, I recently ran Disk Utility, clicked the Verify Disk button, and it found a problem with my boot drive. I then booted from the recovery partition, ran Disk Utility again, clicked the Repair Disk button, and it supposedly fixed the problem. The message from Disk Utility was: Incorrect

SSD drives should not be allowed to sleep…

2013-09-18 Thread list boy
…more than ~15 minutes, this according to my helpful tech support operator at OWC*, supplier of my second SSD drive to fail this year. Anyone heard that before? That was news to me. (*OWC sells SSD upgrades for MB Airs) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Back To My Mac connectivity problems

2013-09-18 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]
Hi, Is this list still active? I have not seen many posts for quite a while. I posted 2 questions over the past couple weeks and did not get a single reply to either, which is unusual. Oh well, let me try again with a third question. I use Back To My Mac (B2MM) to connect my Mac Pro at home

Test

2013-09-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
This is a test. I have not seen anything from this list in at least two weeks. I have checked the web archive -- http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-talk/ -- and it has nothing since july. If anyone sees this, please include me directly in a response (at least until Sep 17th :-). --

iTunes not accepting login credentials

2013-09-18 Thread Kevin Callahan
Hopefully it's due to servers being hammered, but iTunes won't let me sign into my account. Says not authorized to play radio content, but also says machine is already authorized when I select Authorize this computer. I keep getting a panel asking for signing in for automatic downloads. I

Re: Mountain Lion Mail Delete Behavior (Can I get back to previous behavior?)

2013-09-18 Thread Macs R We
I don't believe it matters how you order your mailing list. It's just that the algorithm for selecting the next message to view has changed incompatibly. Now, when you delete a piece of mail, if the message on one side of it is read and the message on the other side of it is unread, no matter

Re: Can partitions be moved; can several free gaps be combined?

2013-09-18 Thread Macs R We
On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: With Disk Utility in 10.7.5, it's pretty simple to shrink partitions. Can the result of several free gaps be combined; can those shrunk partitions be moved so that the free space is all in one place for allocating something

Re: Mountain Lion Mail Delete Behavior (Can I get back to previous behavior?)

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew Darlow
Thank you very much for your comments. I agree that it's maddening, but it clearly flip flops in its behavior, which is very odd for a computer. Currently it is behaving the way it used to. All the best, Andrew Andrew Darlow Editor, The Imaging Buffet http://www.imagingbuffet.com Author, 301