Re: New Mac OS

2013-06-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Pat, OS X Mavericks (10.9) http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/ === Configuring OS X Lion / Mountain Lion Scroll Bars You don't have to live with Lion / Mountain Lion's scroll bar defaults; you can change them to meet your needs or preferences. Launch System Preferences.

Sims 3 not launching

2013-06-11 Thread Nathalie S. Collins
Anyone else having trouble with the Sims 3 launching? I had no issues, but then downloaded the most recent update, and since Sims 3 will not launch. I am running 10.8.4 on a Macbook Pro. I have installed and reinstalled the program and still no luck. Help? Regards, Nathalie - - - - - - - -

Re: Sims 3 not launching

2013-06-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Nat, I have never played Sims or have it installed. Seems there area issues with Sims 3 in OS X 10.8.4 https://discussions.apple.com/message/22209553#22209553 Google search for Sims 3 not working in OS X 10.8.4 TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/mwxhbyd Also when you mention your have installed

Opinions about the DAS Keyboard for Mac ?

2013-06-11 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, Has anyone any experience with the above please. It sounds like a good quality old style keyboard. The only complaint seems to be noise, but how noisy are they ? I have never really liked the flat rubber keyed Apple keyboards. Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group

Re: New Mac OS

2013-06-11 Thread Pat
Hi, Ronni, Thanks for the reply. My System Preference is set for 'always' for the scrolll bars. It is not the scroll bar that is absent, but the pair of little pointer icons, 1 up and 1 down that we used to have, either both on one end of the scroll bar track or one at the top and one at the

Re: New Mac OS

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Kerr
Also have a play with - System Preferences - Accessibility. Click onto Mouse Trackpad. Click on Trackpad Options…. You'll see a setting there Scrolling with inertia. Untick that and try it as well. If it's not ticked, it won't scroll as fast. - which is a bit of the older way. Some people

Re: New Mac OS

2013-06-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Pat, I do understand your frustration; unfortunately I can't see Apple bringing the Scroll Arrows back in OS. The next OS Mavericks 10.9 will be more iOS than Mountain Lion. There is also this I found at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141058?start=15tstart=0 Scroll to Lukas

Backup problems

2013-06-11 Thread Barry Sexstone
Ronni You may be interested to learn that with a new external disk all my backup strategies and those I have been trying to try to find the cause of my previous problem are working without a hitch. This probably confirms the problem was the disk I was interested in your comments about

determining age of mac

2013-06-11 Thread rblit
Hi Folksin 10.6 System Profiler doesnt tell you the age of the mac ie the year purchased does it?taBlitto -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings

Re: determining age of mac

2013-06-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Blitto, If you don't have the MacTracker App. You can find out exactly when your computer was made by inserting the SN here: http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html Cheers Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 12/06/2013, at 10:48 AM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Folks in