Can't make list mode stick

2015-10-26 Thread Macs R We
what I do. Is there something I haven't tried? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigrou

Re: Can't make list mode stick

2015-10-26 Thread Macs R We
ad, thus icon mode. > > https://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/ > <https://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/> > > -Carl > > >> On Oct 26, 2015, at 12:17 AM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com >> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>

Re: Keeping network shares mounted

2015-09-27 Thread Macs R We
MacOSX-talk mailing list >> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > -- > "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.." - > Oscar Wilde > > ___ >

Re: Extremely slow airport extreme

2015-09-25 Thread Macs R We
I should try? or consider? > > The product is an Airport Extreme 802.11AC updated with the latest firmware, > purchased in July of 2014. > > Any help or direction is much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > ___________ > M

Re: Power consumption question

2015-09-25 Thread Macs R We
the 600mA?) > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Perso

Re: ghost partition...

2015-09-25 Thread Macs R We
get an "Unsaved changes" > message and that's it. > > There must be a way to reclaim that space... Any idea ? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _

Re: Connection Reset

2015-09-25 Thread Macs R We
-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-tal

Re: periodic internet speed test?

2015-05-15 Thread Macs R We
If I were going to do this, I’d plug a MikroTik router into my LAN and script it to do periodic bandwidth testing against another MikroTIk router somewhere off in the greater internet. But short of that, my only suggestion is that there is a non-Flash, non-Java speed tester at

Re: Safari can't verify the identity of the website

2015-04-24 Thread Macs R We
I guess I’m somewhat unconvinced, seeing that one other person plus myself saw precisely the same messages you were reporting. I wouldn’t think we all had identical corruption. On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:04 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: It turns out that there are numerous

Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Macs R We
Well, I’ve learned never to make promises that Time Machine won’t faceplant when you try to do something it’s supposed to be able to do, but it’s supposed to work. On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Sent from my iPad Air On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Macs R

Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Macs R We
Everybody's familiar with how to open up a finder window, go to Time Machine, and restore files into it. But there is a less-known mode of time machine which is more Baroque (but cool), in which you go into an actual application, like Mail or iPhoto, and ask it to restore its contents from a

Re: error -8060?

2015-03-30 Thread Macs R We
It’s often more efficient to bull through Trash errors than try to analyze them. Have you tried going to the Trash folder in terminal and using rm? Even if it also fails, you may get a more recognizable error message. On Mar 30, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote:

Re: Mounting a sparse bundle as read only?

2015-03-29 Thread Macs R We
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the big picture here, but Time Machine allows you to specify files and volumes that are not to be backed up; and, although I’ve never tried it, I would try setting discretionary read-only permissions on the bundle and/or the interior volume to prevent any accidental

Re: Disk1s2: i/o error

2015-03-28 Thread Macs R We
Drive Genius has a “Scan” tool that destructively writes and reads every block on a drive, and will map all the bad blocks out (assuming any spares are still left). This may or may not solve your problem, depending on what your hardware problem actually is. The other bad news is that the

Re: iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive

2015-02-22 Thread Macs R We
Does he have one of those external drives that is by default set up to encrypt everything? That could have bearing on it. On Feb 22, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Okay - this doesn’t appear to be an iTunes problem. He just tested running files off the external drive

Re: Moving a Home folder to another computer

2015-01-09 Thread Macs R We
If you want easy, just use Migration Assistant to copy over that one user. It knows all about doing the permissions correctly. Then define the user (if Migration Assistant hasn’t already) and you’ll get asked if you want to inherit the home folder that already exists with that name. On Jan

Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences

2015-01-07 Thread Macs R We
On Jan 7, 2015, at 11:51 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Jan 6, 2015, at 11:29 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: The NTP exploit required the exploiter to be on the same local network as I am. That puts my actual risk in the vicinity of “ho hum. If you are on a cable

Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences

2015-01-06 Thread Macs R We
On Jan 6, 2015, at 3:18 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 03 Jan 2015, at 19:22 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I do remember all of my computers recently having a message panel pop up

Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences

2015-01-03 Thread Macs R We
On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I do remember all of my computers recently having a message panel pop up that said something about a security update. This was the first time that I recall thinking that the update had been performed

Re: iTunes sharing

2014-12-29 Thread Macs R We
My first resort would be to log into the old computer as a server from the new computer, make an alias of the old computer's iTunes library, and then drag it to where your iTunes library would be on the new computer. This assumes you don't have an active iTunes library on the new computer to

Re: Trying to update Pages

2014-12-23 Thread Macs R We
You can try the following, which may or may not work. Open System Preferences / Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab. Drag the icon of your hard drive into the box. Confirm when it nags you about that. Leave it in there 30 seconds or so, then take it out. That will cause a complete Spotlight

Re: Trying to update Pages

2014-12-23 Thread Macs R We
Then if it were me, I’d call Apple and read them the riot act. You shouldn’t be getting this kind of garbage on a NEW Mac Mini. You get 90 days free telephone support, they owe you. On Dec 23, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Thanks for the detailed

Re: Merging mail accounts ?

2014-12-23 Thread Macs R We
Mail has an archival export function (Mailbox / Export Mailbox and File / Import Mailboxes). I’ve never used the former, but together they sound like the sort of thing that would do what you want. On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: import to iTunes from remote CD?

2014-12-15 Thread Macs R We
On Dec 15, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Why does DRM allow me to import songs to a mac that has an optical drive built-in, but not to a mac that has been set up to share the other one's drive? Why do DRM laws allows you to rip an audio CD you

Re: Numbers Drain Bamage

2014-12-06 Thread Macs R We
of numbers, but worth a try? Hope it helps. --- On Dec 6, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: In the government computer contracting game, there’s an old industry story about a military RFP issued for a creation of a new model

Re: Blank screen screen saver?

2014-11-23 Thread Macs R We
Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's black. On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:02 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get a blank screen as the screen saver in 10.9.5? I can get all sorts of pictures. I can get a message on a black screen with

Re: Using TDM to install onto a bare internal boot drive

2014-11-07 Thread Macs R We
as an unformatted drive, which you can format from the working one. Just treat the TDM Mac as a dumb enclosure, and do exactly what you would do if the new drive were in a dumb enclosure. On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Macs R We

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread Macs R We
Maybe. It depends how good your tech was at “Operation.” Seriously, I couldn’t answer this question unless the unit were in front of me in the shop. On Nov 4, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Without looking, a new student in our lab slid his SD memory card

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread Macs R We
I don’t know what model iMac it is, but all the Macs I have dealt with have a long narrow short-bristled brush strip on each side of the slot (not rubber). So you can part it and look behind it if you’re delicate. On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:11 PM, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: There's a

Re: HELP -- I think I messed up 2 hard drives

2014-11-02 Thread Macs R We
From the symptoms, it sounds to me like you accidentally did something that started the RAID (or other logical volume) process on that device. Now it’s waiting to be combined with other devices to make up a logical volume. You may have to break out Terminal and dick with the “diskutil

Re: TimeMachine backups to networked mac?

2014-10-30 Thread Macs R We
I did this for years by manually mounting the remote volume, running the initial backup, and then dismounting. Turn out that Time Machine is smart enough to mount the remote volume by itself after that. However, I ran into this pernicious bug where the machine hosting the drive would begin

Re: TimeMachine backups to networked mac?

2014-10-30 Thread Macs R We
On Oct 30, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Andy Ringsmuth a...@andyring.com wrote: One other benefit to the OS X Server option is the very nice software update caching feature. Once you get OS X Server running, you can enable the caching server. It's awesome. ANY software update from Apple, be it system

Re: Restoring account from TM onto a different machine

2014-10-15 Thread Macs R We
I always make sure that’s the case, as it eliminates a whole passel of extra grief that TM can throw at you. As for the “many incrementals” issue, remember the magic of hard links. Yes, an old file is dumped only once, but every “incremental” made since has a hard link to the original backup

Re: Manually recreating a user folder

2014-10-06 Thread Macs R We
On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:02 AM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: (MBA MacBookAir5,1 i7 with 8 GB RAM, 250 GB drive) So I’ve had several mystery problems ever since upgrading to Mavericks early this year: So the question— is there a “recommended” way to go about this? Or do I just

Re: Mother, May I?

2014-08-24 Thread Macs R We
On Aug 24, 2014, at 6:50 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 22 Aug 2014, at 20:27 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: The full name of the compiled script is “SPAM Report.app”. It has a typical app bundle, so I’m pretty sure it’s a typical app. The dialog box keeps occurring

Re: Mother, May I?

2014-08-22 Thread Macs R We
The full name of the compiled script is “SPAM Report.app”. It has a typical app bundle, so I’m pretty sure it’s a typical app. The dialog box keeps occurring almost every time I use it. On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:11 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 20 Aug 2014, at 17:25 , Macs R We macs

Re: please recommend a laser printer -- FOLLOWUP

2014-08-19 Thread Macs R We
On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: The Brother HL-2280DW has auto-duplex and allows both wired and wireless (and USB) connections -- I think the DW means duplex and wired (I don't know what HL means). HL stands for something laser.

Mother, May I?

2014-08-19 Thread Macs R We
application-like I can make it. Is there some other way to jigger this? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: Displaying a Sleep button on screen saver logins

2014-08-17 Thread Macs R We
Hah! My first response was to answer, You could just use a feature of long standing: the “'hot corner’” — but when I researched it I realized it can only put your display to sleep, not the Mac. Instead, just use the Apple keyboard shortcut for sleep. There are two of them, depending on

Re: Safari and Google

2014-08-16 Thread Macs R We
As of Lion or so, Safari got rid of its separate URL and search fields, and combined them into one field, like Internet Explorer has had for years. I believe the algorithm is that if what you're typing clearly looks like a URL, it's tried directly first, otherwise it's sent to your search

Re: Safari and Google

2014-08-16 Thread Macs R We
On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Chris ch...@mymac.org.uk wrote: I've been on Snow Leopard for a long time but TBH I must be getting pretty dumb not to realise what was going on with Mavericks. It seems amazing that we go to great lengths to maintain privacy via various cookie cleaners and so

Re: Safari and Google

2014-08-16 Thread Macs R We
In fact, using the default Safari preferences, even your examples WILL be sent to the search provider *as you are typing them in*, until they become distinguishable as actual URLs. That's the problem. On Aug 16, 2014, at 1:23 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 16 Aug 2014, at 12:16 ,

Re: A 14 GB log file

2014-07-17 Thread Macs R We
Gmail and OS X Mail have never gotten along well together. Common situations arise where they interfere with each other to produce loops that eat CPU and multiply mail messages. Google os x gmail deleted mail reappears for one example: tons of content. Another is attempting to send an

Re: Usability: 10.8 versus 10.75?

2014-06-23 Thread Macs R We
: On 16 Jun 2014, at 03:26, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: I have refused to update to 10.9 because I lose the ability to sync my iDevices simply over a USB cable I believe that feature has been restored by the latest iTunes in 10.9 ___ MacOSX

Re: What is 'fusefs' and why is it crashing?

2014-06-20 Thread Macs R We
https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/76 On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: I'm not sure what this means. It repeats every 10 seconds in the console. OSX 10.8.5. Jun 20 12:42:48 com.apple.kextd[22]: Failed to load

Re: Usability: 10.8 versus 10.75?

2014-06-15 Thread Macs R We
I don't see any real significant differences between 10.7 and 10.8. Granted, I don't screw with cloud stuff, which may have changed a little or a lot. Indeed, I have refused to update to 10.9 because I lose the ability to sync my iDevices simply over a USB cable instead of being forced to

Re: migration results in partial mailbox

2014-05-26 Thread Macs R We
In all fairness, I asked earlier whether the account was POP or IMAP, but you never answered the question. If you had, I would have suggested that earlier. On May 26, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Arden Currie ardcur...@gmail.com wrote: Rebuild of the mail box worked well the first time. After I opened

Re: migration results in partial mailbox

2014-05-25 Thread Macs R We
...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks that seemed to work. I have never had to use Rebuild in 14 years of using Apple Mail. Always learning new stuff. I called Apple support and their answer was to wipe the drive and migrate once more. Thanks for responding. Arden On May 24, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Macs R We

Re: migration results in partial mailbox

2014-05-24 Thread Macs R We
First try rebuilding the mailbox exhibiting the problem. Use Mailbox / Rebuild. You don't say whether you are using POP or IMAP access on that email account. I would guess POP, but the diagnosis is different for this symptom depending. On May 24, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Arden Currie

Re: hard drive killer?

2014-05-14 Thread Macs R We
Agreed. Power supply is a primary suspect; also bad heat sensor in the drive area, or the fan it controls. On May 14, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Gregg, I've experienced similar drive failures and the cause for me turned out to be a weak power

Re: New Free Easy File System Encryption App

2014-04-17 Thread Macs R We
Hunter r...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Personally I store all my tax, legal, and medical documents in Safe. That's just me, Safe is GPL and comes with no warranty :) On Apr 18, 2014, at 13:34, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: As a tool, it empowers more people to make their own cryptography

Re: UPDATED - new BTMM issue : Back to my Mac DNS issue??

2014-04-03 Thread Macs R We
The only thing I can think of is that it sounds like Back to My Mac is asking the DNS to resolve the name of some Apple server, and your ISPs DNS either has no idea where it is or has it blocked. I would manually set my the DNS on my Mac to a public server, like 4.4.4.4 or open DNS, and see if

Re: Repairing sparse disk images repairing time capsule disks

2014-03-25 Thread Macs R We
You can usually use Disk Utility to repair a writeable disk image, just as you would a physical disk. On Mar 25, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: Hi: My Time Machine backup started failing yesterday. After playing around with the sparse disk image file

Re: colored icons in Finder sidebar in Mavericks

2014-02-28 Thread Macs R We
Findey don't do that, more's the pity. On Feb 28, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: My friend wants to know how to add color or custom icons to folders and files he puts in the Finder sidebar. Is this possible in Mavericks? He (and others) want color in the Finder

Re: Time Machine backup woes

2014-01-18 Thread Macs R We
Usually, this message comes up when you are making the INITIAL backup from a particular machine, and there is not enough space on the drive to hold it. In this situation, obviously, Time Machine has nothing it can cull off the drive to make room. There are two causes for this. One is that

Re: Impending doom for another SSD

2014-01-15 Thread Macs R We
On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:36 PM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: Carl, Gregg, everybody Thanks for hearing me out. Other World just sent me a response on the TRIM subject: OWC does not recommend TRIM on the SSDs as the SandForce controllers have their own garbage collection.

Re: dual ethernet ports

2014-01-03 Thread Macs R We
port and stream music or a movie. Disconnect the preferred port (as per port order). Watch the stream abort, even though there is a perfectly good recovery path available. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

2013-12-21 Thread Macs R We
I don't believe it is SUPPOSED to do that, but I have seen that behavior too. A few years ago, I had a client complain to me that certain pictures would be in her iPhoto library on some days, and other pictures would be in the iPhoto library on other days, but they never would all be there at

Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

2013-12-20 Thread Macs R We
On Dec 19, 2013, at 11:02 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: What is the best way to keep much of ~/Movies on a different disk, but still have the content appear to be in ~/Movies? Should I use symbolic links for any subdirectories of ~/Movies that I want to keep on another disk? I

Re: FTP Sync

2013-10-27 Thread Macs R We
A Google search for os x ftp sync generates many results, including Interarchy, which claims, Sync local folders with remote directories with a single click. On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Daniel Israel d...@ebji.org wrote: Hi Gang, Can anyone recommend an OSX App that will sync a local

Re: FTP Sync

2013-10-27 Thread Macs R We
Personally, I've never had a requirement for FTP sync, so I can't recommend any on that basis. However, many of them will have free trial periods and you can try them for yourself. On Oct 27, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Daniel Israel d...@ebji.org wrote: there are many out there. I was wondering

Re: 10.9: Where did Network Utility.app go?

2013-10-25 Thread Macs R We
to a client and need to find out why their internet don't work, you really don't want them in the Terminal. I can't imagine why one would need Full Screen Mode for Network Utility. What's next, FSM for System Preferences? :-) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: Certificate Assistant and 4096-bit keys

2013-09-19 Thread Macs R We
Patienz! You are not allowed to outrun ze NSA! On Aug 28, 2013, at 10:16 AM, H J heywoodj...@yahoo.com wrote: 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

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: help with simple UNIX command?

2013-07-27 Thread Macs R We
No, not at all. Guy here has blessed his flash drive with a permanent folder action that automatically destroys the resource forks as you add files to it: http://blog.kendell.org.uk/2010/09/07/banish-mac-os-x-resource-forks-from-fat32-volumes/ On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Dinse, Gregg

Re: Can a shell script easily find itself?

2013-07-21 Thread Macs R We
There wasn't last time I tried this about 20 years ago. :-( The reason is the architecture of the UNIX file system, where file contents actually reside in inodes, and directory entries are really only links to inodes. For example, you create a script. Now you put a hard link to that script

Re: Deleting mail account but preserving contents

2013-07-14 Thread Macs R We
to preserve everything. On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Let me repeat: if your access mode is IMAP, Mail's threat to blow away messages and mailboxes is an empty threat Just Do It. On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu

Re: Deleting mail account but preserving contents

2013-07-12 Thread Macs R We
If the account is IMAP, you don't have to worry. If the account is POP, then create new On My Mac mailboxes to hold the contents of the account's In and Sent mailboxes, plus Drafts if you use that feature. Manually move all the messages from the account boxes to the new boxes. Once the

Re: Replacing an HDD with an SDD on SL OSXS

2013-06-25 Thread Macs R We
Easier is just to hold the option key at the boot chime, then select your boot drive. On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Is there then a way to boot the Mac mini (Snow

Re: Replacing an HDD with an SDD on SL OSXS

2013-06-24 Thread Macs R We
Yes, Disk Utility's Restore does a fine job of copying volumes. Copying from the booted drive is never guaranteed. It usually works, but not always. If you must do that, start in Safe Mode and login in Safe Mode to eliminate as much background activity as you can, and do nothing else on the

Re: iMac power supply

2013-06-13 Thread Macs R We
Damn, my advice was backward. The BAD ones have the + on top. The GOOD ones have the K on top. On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:59 PM, H J heywoodj...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 6/2/13, Macs R We wrote: gt; Just because the capacitors on the logic board quot;look finequot; gt; doesn#39;t mean

Re: not auto-joining known WiFi networks

2013-06-06 Thread Macs R We
Some nebulous wifi problems were fixed with the ML upgrade released just yesterday -- have you downloaded it yet? My problem was waiting for a minute or more for SSIDs to show up in the empty menu bar list, whereas if I went the route through Network Preferences / Join different network /

Re: iMac power supply

2013-06-02 Thread Macs R We
Just because the capacitors on the logic board look fine doesn't mean they are fine. Bulges prove they are bad, but no bulges don't prove anything. One thing that is known is that if your capacitors have + shaped slots on top, they are not the bad lot -- the bad lot all have K shaped slots on

Re: Screen Sharing weirdness

2013-05-17 Thread Macs R We
I used to use the remote management function a lot, but starting in Lion it got insupportable. Now it conflicts with screen sharing, and I found out that you might as well just turn off remote management and turn on screen sharing instead. It gives you all the same capabilities that remote

Re: Screen Sharing weirdness

2013-05-17 Thread Macs R We
: On 17 May 2013, at 02:36 , Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: I used to use the remote management function a lot, but starting in Lion it got insupportable. Now it conflicts with screen sharing, and I found out that you might as well just turn off remote management and turn on screen sharing

Access, Schmaccess

2013-05-05 Thread Macs R We
messages at login about You don't have permission to open these files. Which is again a lie, because when I click on them, they open right up. Is this stuff a known ML bug or something? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: Zooming in Safari? Missing something obvious

2013-04-03 Thread Macs R We
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: I think it does have the hardware to do two-finger swiping. If you hold down Control and do a two-finger swipe it should magnify the current screen. But it seems to be a reach that you're doing that by accident.

Best RSS?

2013-03-31 Thread Macs R We
-party RSS reader that gives me as much set and forget behavior as possible, like Apple Mail used to. What are other people liking? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?

2013-03-22 Thread Macs R We
Worse comes to worse you can telephone an agent. I had a problem where I knew the answer to the questions, and the agent verified that I knew the answer to the questions, but the website wasn't taking them anyway. She managed to straighten out the entire account and we got it back, so my

Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?

2013-03-22 Thread Macs R We
Unfortunately, she was a SECRET agent. :-P The real answer: schedule the call here -- https://expresslane.apple.com/ServiceOptionAction.action On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:37 PM, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote

Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?

2013-03-22 Thread Macs R We
before. Indeed, you are not the only one with this experience. One wonders what answers are in storage for those questions, given that they were never supplied by the account owner. (The Machine sees everything, Mr. Reese.) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-18 Thread Macs R We
the inspecting time, but the data size, maybe tmutil can give him what he needs to solve his problem. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Macs R We
marked as modified, even if all I wanted to do was fetch from it. If the database is huge (e.g., MailSteward), just looking up an old email will schedule the entire multi-gigabyte file for a backup. Does Xcode use SQL databases, or do you have some other app that does? -- Macs R We

Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

2013-02-17 Thread Macs R We
the entries in it that have only one hard link. Those would be the ones that were backup up in the session corresponding to that branch. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: super-focused text editor

2013-01-19 Thread Macs R We
, maybe focusing on one line at a time. Anybody know the editor(s) I'm thinking of? Smith-Corona? :-) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: Remote screen control for Air in restore mode

2013-01-10 Thread Macs R We
, Jeff___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: dot files

2013-01-01 Thread Macs R We
? Or a way to have OS X take the NTFS file system as a hint that they are not needed? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: howto watch 3D movies on Mac OS X?

2012-12-28 Thread Macs R We
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Re: howto watch 3D movies on Mac OS X?

2012-12-25 Thread Macs R We
On Dec 25, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Alex Kornilov wrote: Howto watch movies from http://www.3dsexplanet.com on Mac OS X (MacBook Air)? Please guide me. Bozhe moi! Click on the link that says, Need 3D glasses? Click here. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: length of battery charge for sleep/wake versus on/off

2012-12-24 Thread Macs R We
On Dec 24, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: On Dec 23, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Macs R We wrote: On Dec 22, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: I thought the number of power cycles was the most important factor in determining when a battery would need

Re: upgrading from 10.6 to 10.8

2012-12-24 Thread Macs R We
from Snow Leopard to Lion, and then from Lion to Mountain Lion? Doesn't seem to be any point to that. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: length of battery charge for sleep/wake versus on/off

2012-12-23 Thread Macs R We
are accounted for as fractional recharges. That is, if you recharge a battery from 50%, it's counted as half a power cycle, not a full one. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Hidden Partition Collisions

2012-12-16 Thread Macs R We
Lion and Mountain Lion both create hidden recovery partitions. If I keep an external drive with Lion in one partition and Mountain Lion in another, are their respective recovery partitions going to collide? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far

Re: Hidden Partition Collisions

2012-12-16 Thread Macs R We
On Dec 16, 2012, at 7:58 PM, LuKreme wrote: Macs R We spake on Sunday 16-Dec-2012@17:41:53 Lion and Mountain Lion both create hidden recovery partitions. If I keep an external drive with Lion in one partition and Mountain Lion in another, are their respective recovery partitions going

Re: Uninstalling quicktime 7 on 10.6.8

2012-12-07 Thread Macs R We
to the up to date version? If you don't ever want to use QTP7, just delete it. Or ZIP it and then delete it, if there's a chance you may want it in the future. If you had QT Pro, you may not want to delete QTP7 entirely, because the new QT doesn't have those features. -- Macs R We

Re: Uninstalling quicktime 7 on 10.6.8

2012-12-07 Thread Macs R We
works best with apps that own only one or two suffixes. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk

Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule

2012-11-30 Thread Macs R We
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Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule

2012-11-30 Thread Macs R We
suspect will not give you the transparency you are seeking. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

2012-11-29 Thread Macs R We
stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk

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