Re: Mavericks

Thanks Kevin, sounds good. I’ll drop you an email later to make a time. (most likely Saturday) as will be out working late tonight and tomorrow. Thanks. Talk soon. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 7 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Web:

Re: Mavericks

Hi Daniel & Kevin, That's sounds the quickest & best way to go Kevin. I've also got some 'stuff' for in a Box that might be useful for your charity projects. I'll bring the box up on my next trip to Nikki's place for you & you can then arrange pickup from her. I'll need to give you her new

Re: Mavericks

Daniel, sounds great! I will buy an 8GB thumb drive and drop by your place at a time suitable to you. Thanks, Kev > On 24 Nov. 2016, at 12:46 pm, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Hi Kevin > > If helps, I’ve also got a direct installer that takes you straight to 10.9.5 >

Re: Mavericks

Hi Kevin If helps, I’ve also got a direct installer that takes you straight to 10.9.5 in one install. So you don’t need the update. It runs off a bootable thumb drive. It will do the install in one go without then having to do the update, if that makes things easier. Can clone it to a thumb

Re: Mavericks

That would be most helpful Ronni. Can I mail you a flash drive? Regards, Kev > On 24 Nov. 2016, at 11:57 am, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > I have the "Install OS X Mavericks.app" version:1.3.33 - 5.31GB > And "OSXupdcombo 10.9.5" - 982.3MB, on my support drive >

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

Hi Ronni, Issue finally resolved.  New Hard drive! Bill - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.org.au To:WAMUG Cc: Sent:Mon, 19 May 2014 09:10:02 +0800 Subject:Re: Mavericks issues resolved. Hi Bill, On 18 May 2014, at 11:03 am, Bill Parker wrote: However, Mail is still playing

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

! Bill - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.orgau To: WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Cc: Sent: Mon, 19 May 2014 09:10:02 +0800 Subject: Re: Mavericks issues resolved. Hi Bill, On 18 May 2014, at 11:03 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: However, Mail is still

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

Ronni's iPad4 On 26 May 2014, at 5:46 pm, ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Issue finally resolved. New Hard drive! Bill - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.orgau To: WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Cc: Sent: Mon, 19 May 2014 09:10:02 +0800 Subject: Re

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

Hi Bill, I have to say that the flickering when scrolling does sound like a mouse issue, speaking from personal experience. Have you tried a different USB mouse? Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad On 19 May 2014, at 10:16 am, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Bill, Mavericks is up to

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

Hi Bill, On 18 May 2014, at 11:03 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: However, Mail is still playing up and flickers like mad when scrolling! Are you using a Apple Magic Mouse or a Trackpad? Does it only happen in Mail App? Do you have installed any third-party software that might

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

Ronni, A bit old fashioned here. I only use a hard wired USB connected mouse ( Logitech in fact). Tried the suggestions below with no change. Wondering if upgrade to 10.9.2 would help here? Bill On 19 May 2014, at 9:10, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Bill, On 18 May 2014, at

Re: Mavericks issues resolved.

Hi Bill, Mavericks is up to version 10.9.3 now. Have you checked that Logitech have updated drivers for Mavericks for your model mouse? Normally third-party software/add-ons etc need to be updated or they can cause issues. I would suggest you download install OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Update

Re: Mavericks is it worth upgrading?

On 11 Apr 2014, at 7:20 am, Peter Faulks peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see lots of questions about Mavericks, I now keep getting update requests to go to Mavericks. My wife and I are both retired and we each have an iMac 9 with 2.66GHZ Intel Core processors running Snow Leopard

Re: Mavericks is it worth upgrading?

Hi Peter, If your software won't run in Lion, the software won't run in Mavericks! Starting with Lion, Apple removed Rosetta, the software that enabled older, PowerPC applications to run on Intel-based Macs. As a result, upgrading to Mavericks entails living without software that requires

Re: Mavericks

Hi Ken, I can only speak personal - I have had no issues with Mavericks ! Some things are different but that’s normal with a new OS. On 19 Mar 2014, at 12:09 pm, Ken Jackson kenjackson7...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, is Mavericks safe to use now? Have resisted the upgrade because of all the

Re: Mavericks

No issues with Mavericks on any of my macs from oldest to youngest! Sent from my iPad On 19 Mar 2014, at 12:36 pm, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi Ken, I can only speak personal - I have had no issues with Mavericks ! Some things are different but that’s normal with a new OS.

Re: Mavericks

Yes I agree Stephen. I have 4 MacBooks in the house with Mavericks and we've had no issues. One thing I would suggest to Ken, do a google search for use of Mavericks with your brand and model of printer. See if there are people having issues with that model. My Epson no problem. You may have

Re: Mavericks

My experience likewise, not one glitch from Mavericks, which I installed about a week after first release. I note though that I am meticulous with housekeeping and I run Clean My Mac and Disk Warrior on a regular basis as well as promptly trashing unwanted files. And of course I did all of

Re: Mavericks 10.9.2 and Mail

Hi Ronni Thanks for response, and for improving my understanding of the black mysteries. It has nothing to do with iCloud as Apple's Mail servers do not use a TLS Certificate for authentication. Good to know that it is not associated with iCloud. I don’t understand iCloud and I am hoping

Re: Mavericks 10.9.2 and Mail

On 27 Feb 2014, at 4:14 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: A side comment: I can download all the POP mail to both iPad and iMac without mutual interference (or loss of messages), and also keep the last 25 mail messages on the iiNet website for convenient email reading when away

Re: Mavericks 10.9.2 and Mail

On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:48 am, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Since applying the OSX update, Mail preferences has changed from “SSL” checkbox option to “TLS Certificate = none”. My previous settings were gmail = SSL ticked and iiNet = not ticked. (These were default settings

Re: mavericks on unsupported mac pro

On 21/02/2014, at 3:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Gary, You Mac Pro was Introduced August 2006 - Discontinued Jan. 2008. The Maximum (supported) OS is Mac OS X 10.7.5 I personally would NOT recommend 'hacking' to install Mavericks on an unsupported machine, especially if it is your work

Re: mavericks on unsupported mac pro

Hi Gary Yes, sometimes pays to read the forums for those sort of things before doing it,..as that gives you an idea of the damages it can cause. That MacPro will take Lion (10.7.5) OK, which would then give you iCloud syncing and a few other features as well, so that can be an option.

Re: mavericks on unsupported mac pro

Hi Gary. I agree with what Daniel and Ronni have already said about being very cautious when it comes to these things but personally, if it were me, I’d be happy to try it out on the strict provisor that I had the time to commit to making it work and I would definitely do it on a completely

Re: mavericks on unsupported mac pro

Sorry I forgot to add one more thing that you might consider to be important. I’m not sure whether doing something like this would be against Apple’s EULA. I know that running a hackintosh certainly is against their EULA and that this specific hack has similarities to running a hackintosh so

Re: mavericks on unsupported mac pro

Hi Gary, You Mac Pro was Introduced August 2006 - Discontinued Jan. 2008. The Maximum (supported) OS is Mac OS X 10.7.5 I personally would NOT recommend 'hacking' to install Mavericks on an unsupported machine, especially if it is your work machine... Read all the comments on the forums from

Re: Mavericks

Hi Ronni Just to thank you again and let you know I finished the Mavericks install as per your instructions this morning without any trouble. Little bit surprised to have a menubar on each of my screens, new useful feature. Also Mail is working fine, no problems. Regards, Paul -- The WA

Re: Mavericks

Hi Paul, I'm pleased to hear everything went well. When you do the preparation work and correctly install and then do the 'Post Installation steps' you normally won't experience any problems. Regards, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 5 Feb 2014, at 12:23 pm, Paul Willemse

Re: Mavericks Update

Hi Ronni Thanks very much for your great summary of what to do for the update to Mavericks, as I too have been thinking about this for the last few weeks! However Im not sure I can as my MBPro is running 10.6.8 and I have another older machine which Cath uses, running even earlier OSX! Is

Re: Mavericks Update

Hi Chris, In the link I sent in my previous email: First thing to do is: Get your Mac ready for Mavericks OS X 10.9 Gives list of compatible models that can install Mavericks iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)

Re: Mavericks Update

Hi Ronni Just saw your reply, will do the upgrade this evening, assuming I get home from my meetings at a reasonable hour. Many thanks for your excellent response, Regards, Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml

Re: Mavericks Update

Hi Ronni I have not yet updated to Mavericks as before I left there were apparently still problems. I did a search on the mailing list but did not find anything that indicated a specific fix or update. So it looks like the only way will be to upgrade and see, I was not even aware that Mavericks

Re: Mavericks Update

On 2 Feb 2014, at 2:42 pm, Paul Willemse pjwille...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ronni I have not yet updated to Mavericks as before I left there were apparently still problems. I did a search on the mailing list but did not find anything that indicated a specific fix or update. So it looks

Re: Mavericks Update

Hi Paul, On 28 Jan 2014, at 4:54 pm, Paul Willemse pjwille...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been away for a few weeks, what is the latest regarding the Mavericks update and Mail? Have the issues been resolved? What issues are you referring to? Are you having issues with Exchange

Re: Mavericks

Hi Ronni, Thanks for your comments. Have tried what you suggested. I can live with the CPU graph on the desktop, but what used to be the system memory icon in the dock (a pie chart that went mostly blue when recording long movies in EyeTV) is now a narrow line. I can’t see the option “Show

Re: Mavericks

Hi Walter, The 'Pie Chart' is no longer an option, especially since Mavericks has new memory management routines (ie, memory compression) that make the charting of memory usage less straightforward. Apple has switched to a new Memory Pressure approach to viewing memory usage, which is

Re: Mavericks

Thanks Ronni, Now I understand, I’ll open the memory section to look at my situation. Thank you, Cheers, Walter On 11 Dec 2013, at 05:21 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Walter, The 'Pie Chart' is no longer an option, especially since Mavericks has new memory management routines

Re: Mavericks

Hi Walter, A Document I would recommend you download and read is the October 2013 - OS X Mavericks Core Technologies Overview PDF Go to this Link http://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Overview.pdf On Page 7: - especially read the sections explaining:

a little advice please re Mavericks

Hi Guys I have just updated my newish mini with Mavericks and started wondering about my MacBook Pro which is currently running 10.6.8. MacBook Pro 3,1 Processor 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Mavericks says MacBook Pro (mid-/late 2007 or newer) which the 3,1 is. Would

Re: a little advice please re Mavericks

On 5 Dec 2013, at 5:42 pm, wyv...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys I have just updated my newish mini with Mavericks and started wondering about my MacBook Pro which is currently running 10.6.8. MacBook Pro 3,1 Processor 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Mavericks

Re: Mavericks saving as image

Useful information. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 07/11/2013, at 8:09 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Alan If you've kept the Install Mavericks installer that got downloaded, then

Re: Mavericks saving as image

Hi Alan If you've kept the Install Mavericks installer that got downloaded, then yes you can save it to install on other computers. If it's already gone or been deleted, then unfortunately you need to download it again. There are a couple of steps to make a bootable install, as posted

Re: Mavericks - Sync contact, events

Thanks! That's reassuring! I'm currently on OS 10.7.5. Can I go directly to Mavericks or do I have to upgrade to Mountain Lion first? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 01/11/2013,

Re: Mavericks - Sync contact, events

Hi Stuart, Apple website says can you upgrade from 10.6.8, 10.7 and 10.8. So looks like you should be fine. On 5 Nov 2013, at 2:47 pm, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote: Thanks! That's reassuring! I'm currently on OS 10.7.5. Can I go directly to Mavericks or do I have to upgrade

Re: Mavericks - Sync contact, events

As long as you are not experiencing ANY problems/issues on your current setup. And don't just rush in without doing all the pre-updating of your current applications, check your non generic applications, add-ons/plugins and printer etc are going to be compatible work in Mavericks. Then do

Re: Mavericks - Sync contact, events

If you use OS X Mavericks v.10.9 or later, your contacts, calendars, and other info are updated on your computers and iOS devices via iCloud. For more information, see iCloud Help at icloud.com. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12117 Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 1 Nov 2013, at 11:21 am, Stuart

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

On 29 Oct 2013, at 1:37 pm, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: What has happened to the limit on mail retained in IOS7 Mail? Used to be 50 but I currently have 318 showing for two users and counting! Can not find where to change it. Hi Severin, Stop looking, you won't find

Re: Mavericks-Time Capsule TM drives don't appear on the desktop anymore when a backup is in progress

Hi All My MacBookPro couldn't find my time machine for 2 days, eventually after reading Apple Support found out that all my wireless stations should be restarted. Now working after backing up over 32GB. Brian Sent from my iPhone5 IOS 7.03 On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:13, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com

Re: Mavericks-Time Capsule TM drives don't appear on the desktop anymore when a backup is in progress

Hi Brian, My Time Machine backups have always been working perfectly in Mavericks, that has never been a problem. My post was about the Time Capsule / Time Machine backup not showing on the Desktop when Time Machine is backing up. Do you use Time Machine to backup to a Time Capsule Data

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

Thanks Ronni, have sent it! Severin On 29 Oct 2013, at 2:52 pm, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 1:37 pm, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: What has happened to the limit on mail retained in IOS7 Mail? Used to be 50 but I currently have 318 showing for

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

And I use the free/ shareware (remember that term!) app TinkerTool to set a bunch of settings like this. Not sure if it's available for Mavericks yet. Rob On 29/10/13 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Mavericks adoptees, Mavericks hides the user Library folder ( ~/Library) by default, just as

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

On 29 Oct 2013, at 8:09 pm, Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: And I use the free/ shareware (remember that term!) app TinkerTool to set a bunch of settings like this. Why use Third Party apps when they are not required. Not sure if it's available for Mavericks yet. TinkerTool

Re: Mavericks-Time Capsule TM drives backups - retitled for accuracy

Hi Ronni I back up to a 2TB Time Capsule in extension(?) mode, my household wireless network includes an Airport Express as the main access to the modem, Airport Extreme - in 'extension mode' - for other external HD storage - movies/tv, and MacMini for the TV. After updating to Mavericks

Re: Mavericks-Time Capsule TM drives backups - retitled for accuracy

In contrast, my 2TB Time Capsule which backs up both my iMac and my wives Macbook was perfectly happy with the changeover after the updated and just carried on seamlessly, when I turned TM back on and pointed it to the Time Capsule disk.I seem to be one of the lucky ones in this. Severin

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

Hi Ronni, It appears that after using Terminal to find ~/Library, it now stays permanently in the User, or Home, folder. Regards John On 29 Oct 2013, at 1:00 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Mavericks adoptees, Mavericks hides the user Library folder ( ~/Library) by default,

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

Hi John, Yes, the Terminal command will make the User Library permanently visible (until the next update 9.0.1 if Mavericks does the same as previous OS X). Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 30 Oct 2013, at 6:36 am, John Thompson jet...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, It

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

On 30/10/2013, at 7:14 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi John, Yes, the Terminal command will make the User Library permanently visible (until the next update 9.0.1 if Mavericks does the same as previous OS X). Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 30 Oct 2013, at 6:36 am,

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

That is a real help, Ronni. Terminal is interminable for non-regular Terminal users! But why hide the Library in the first place? No one in their right mind is going to seriously monkey with it and I am sure it will require at least an administrator password like the Applications folder

Re: Mavericks - Mail in Mavericks Changes the Gmail Equation

Hi Ronni, Do you now if these problems apply to Gmail POP accounts as well? I had some problems a long time ago with Gmail IMAP access and reverting to POP access cured it so I never bothered with IMAP again. BTW, I have not yet updated to Mavericks. Regards, Paul On 24 Oct, 2013, at

Re: Mavericks - Mail in Mavericks Changes the Gmail Equation

Hi Paul, First: If you have to rely on Gmail, my suggestion is don't upgrade to Mavericks just yet... wait until OS X 10.9.1 which should be available in the next few weeks... And hopefully Apple will fix these issues. I take it you have read the TidBITS article I linked to in my first email.