Re: Getting Mountain Lion if your internet connection is too slow
I can't see why T4 could not have put the download onto a Thumb Drive that you supply Kaye. Once they have proof of purchase and your redeemed Code I fail to see why they would not. Anyway Severin has given you another option :-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/08/2012, at 1:42 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Kaye, I have a saved copy of the 4.7GB Mountain Lion installer which I will happily put on a thumb drive for you. I realise I may be committing a crime here but respect your bona fides as to your purchase. Drop in when convenient, but let me know in advance, we are not always at home. Enjoy today's rain Severin On 12/08/2012, at 12:32 PM, kaye and geoff k...@kgweb.org.au wrote: Hi, I've recently bought a new iMac loaded with Lion, and qualify for a free upgrade to Mountain Lion. I went through the dialogue to get my redeem code, but our internet connection is very poor out in the country, and the upgrade failed to download (timed out and told me my connection was too slow). No problem - I'd followed the thread open by Tim Law and figured I could get the local Apple reseller to download it and put it onto a thumb drive for me. While T4 is prepared to do this for me they tell me I have to bring my iMac in to the store - they can't just use my serial number and Apple Id to get the code. I'm not keen on lugging my machine into Albany unless I really have to. Has anyone made use of an Apple Store or reseller to get a copy of Mountain Lion? If so, were you able to get it on a thumb drive or did you need to cart the machine in? Cheers, K Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.au -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Well, how did you see that Droplets is 32-bit mode as you mentioned previously? Photoshop CS6 is only 64 bit application on Mac OS On Windows, it is a 32 and 64 bit application. Cheers, Ronni On 11/08/2012, at 3:01 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: There is no checkbox as in other applications. It just says Kind: Application (32 bit) Severin On 11/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If you Uncheck 32-bit it will run in 64-bit mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 12:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: The 64 bit option is not available in the Get Info window. Photoshop CS6 is right up to date according to Adobe Updater and of course I have tried recompiling the droplets. H!!! Enjoy the sunshine, a wonderful 22C here for lunch outside today Regards Severin On 11/08/2012, at 7:47 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Change it to run in 64bit Mode in the Get Info window. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 10:35 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Have just noticed that the Droplets are 32bit. Could that be the trouble? Severin On 10/08/2012, at 5:46 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Do they give an error message when tried to be used? It could be they're treated as little applications that don't pass Gatekeeper. You could try System Preferences -Security and allow all (applications) to see if it lets you use them then. (sorry not very clear instructions as not near computer at moment. Otherwise possibly another type of coding difference. Thats one quick thought worth a try. Will think more later when free if that doesn't help :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 10/08/2012, at 5:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I find that my Photoshop CS6 droplets do not work in Mountain Lion, were fine in Lion. I see this is a recognised problem with no very clear solution yet. I find that the same Actions on which I base my failing Droplets (File/Automate/Create Droplet…) in fact perform correctly under File/Automate/Batch… Strange, the action and dialogs seem vitally identical. Anyone a comment to offer? Severin Crisp -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Hi Ronni, there are two libraries, one of them is the recovered iPhoto Library Matt and the other is an iPhoto Library Mon. The Matt was the problematic library and the one that I found I had a virtual complete copy of in Aperture. I have had no problems with the Mon library (and I am not sure if it is/has been converted as my wife uses it and is never on the computer and I may have left it alone after the debacle with the Matt one. I will have to look at it one day and if this ML gets sorted I may try and see if it is on iPhoto or save looking to open it for a very very rainy day, oh God it's raining today!) The Grey Spinning Wheel was spinning until about 11pm last night, when I decided to go to bed and closed the system down. It had been running for over 13 hours and was just the same wheel as that that had been spinning in the back ground with the two messages, Before I pressed the Command and Option Keys, so I don't think, hope, it was signifying that any Repair was in process. Anyway I had no choice, my wife was on earlies and was sleeping in the spare room and didn't want the computer on all night, so I had no choice. Yes, iPhoto worked fine in SL, after you fixed it. The bulk of the photo's were missing but I had them covered I discovered later, T.G., in Aperture. That was the main reason for going to the next step to ML to be able to share the photo's between Aperture and iPhoto, which I couldn't do in SL. So basically I was trying to get my SL iPhoto library back by stealth. We have three other iMac's one is running: 10.6.8 and iPhoto 9.2.3, could it be used to confirm the backup Libraries on the SuperDuper backup? Matt On 12/08/2012, at 12:00 PM, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Hi Matt, Is this the same iPhoto Library that you had all the trouble with in Snow Leopard when it would not upgrade the Library? Did you eventually have it working without any problems in SL? Is the Grey Spinning Wheel still going since 10:20AM, or what happened? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 5:11 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have tried Repair Database and this time it didn't flick/bypass through to the two messages it presented me with the with the The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto, appeared. I thought you bewty and I clicked - Upgrade. Then the second message The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto appeared again, with the only option - Quit. Now as there is a grey spinning wheel showing under, the message and in light of what occurred on a previous occasion I am loath to closed down iPhoto in case it is actually Repairing the Database, so I have left it spinning away, lest I stuff it up. Oh how I loved my Canon T90 and my Kodak 100. Matt. (I think I may have posted this incorrectly as it came back as Today's Topics: 1. Re: wamug.org.au-wamug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 44 (Matt Falvey)) Message: 6 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:21:08 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: 9955054e-69a7-4e72-9236-2fa191c12...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, I'm away until later today. Choose 'Repair Database' If that doesn't fix your iPhoto Library Choose 'Rebuild Database' Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 7:10 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I followed your instruction's and the Window showed up instantly. In 2. you stated select the items, they could not be selected together, I could only select each one individually. It looked on you post like select all three, so I tried holding the Command key and selecting them, shift etc. but could not get the three selected together. Anyway I then decided that it must be in descending order and started with Repair Permission and a soon as I did that the two messages came back up again in the same sequence as before and gave me the only option to quit. Matt. Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:23:18 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: f2dab895-90d1-4bf2-8e29-cde1473d0...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, Sounds like your iPhoto Library Database is damaged. Try to Repair Database Rebuild Database. 1. Hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. It will take some time to show you a Window with 'Photo Library First Aid' 2. Select: Repair Permissions Repair Database Rebuild Database Let it complete the repairs. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Ronni, further information. The Droplets work when I boot in Safe mode. However Finder still asks for password when I put anything in the Trash. Not so from the alternative user account (when not in Safe mode). Severin On 12/08/2012, at 2:06 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Well, how did you see that Droplets is 32-bit mode as you mentioned previously? Photoshop CS6 is only 64 bit application on Mac OS On Windows, it is a 32 and 64 bit application. Cheers, Ronni On 11/08/2012, at 3:01 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: There is no checkbox as in other applications. It just says Kind: Application (32 bit) Severin On 11/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If you Uncheck 32-bit it will run in 64-bit mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 12:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: The 64 bit option is not available in the Get Info window. Photoshop CS6 is right up to date according to Adobe Updater and of course I have tried recompiling the droplets. H!!! Enjoy the sunshine, a wonderful 22C here for lunch outside today Regards Severin On 11/08/2012, at 7:47 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Change it to run in 64bit Mode in the Get Info window. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 10:35 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Have just noticed that the Droplets are 32bit. Could that be the trouble? Severin On 10/08/2012, at 5:46 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Do they give an error message when tried to be used? It could be they're treated as little applications that don't pass Gatekeeper. You could try System Preferences -Security and allow all (applications) to see if it lets you use them then. (sorry not very clear instructions as not near computer at moment. Otherwise possibly another type of coding difference. Thats one quick thought worth a try. Will think more later when free if that doesn't help :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 10/08/2012, at 5:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I find that my Photoshop CS6 droplets do not work in Mountain Lion, were fine in Lion. I see this is a recognised problem with no very clear solution yet. I find that the same Actions on which I base my failing Droplets (File/Automate/Create
Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Hi Matt, Have you tried the last option I gave you if the other options didn't fix your iPhoto Library? 1. Hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. It will show you a Window with 'Photo Library First Aid' 2. Choose 'Rebuild Database' See if that can complete and you can then Upgrade the iPhoto Library. Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:14 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, there are two libraries, one of them is the recovered iPhoto Library Matt and the other is an iPhoto Library Mon. The Matt was the problematic library and the one that I found I had a virtual complete copy of in Aperture. I have had no problems with the Mon library (and I am not sure if it is/has been converted as my wife uses it and is never on the computer and I may have left it alone after the debacle with the Matt one. I will have to look at it one day and if this ML gets sorted I may try and see if it is on iPhoto or save looking to open it for a very very rainy day, oh God it's raining today!) The Grey Spinning Wheel was spinning until about 11pm last night, when I decided to go to bed and closed the system down. It had been running for over 13 hours and was just the same wheel as that that had been spinning in the back ground with the two messages, Before I pressed the Command and Option Keys, so I don't think, hope, it was signifying that any Repair was in process. Anyway I had no choice, my wife was on earlies and was sleeping in the spare room and didn't want the computer on all night, so I had no choice. Yes, iPhoto worked fine in SL, after you fixed it. The bulk of the photo's were missing but I had them covered I discovered later, T.G., in Aperture. That was the main reason for going to the next step to ML to be able to share the photo's between Aperture and iPhoto, which I couldn't do in SL. So basically I was trying to get my SL iPhoto library back by stealth. We have three other iMac's one is running: 10.6.8 and iPhoto 9.2.3, could it be used to confirm the backup Libraries on the SuperDuper backup? Matt On 12/08/2012, at 12:00 PM, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Hi Matt, Is this the same iPhoto Library that you had all the trouble with in Snow Leopard when it would not upgrade the Library? Did you eventually have it working without any problems in SL? Is the Grey Spinning Wheel still going since 10:20AM, or what happened? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 5:11 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have tried Repair Database and this time it didn't flick/bypass through to the two messages it presented me with the with the The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto, appeared. I thought you bewty and I clicked - Upgrade. Then the second message The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto appeared again, with the only option - Quit. Now as there is a grey spinning wheel showing under, the message and in light of what occurred on a previous occasion I am loath to closed down iPhoto in case it is actually Repairing the Database, so I have left it spinning away, lest I stuff it up. Oh how I loved my Canon T90 and my Kodak 100. Matt. (I think I may have posted this incorrectly as it came back as Today's Topics: 1. Re: wamug.org.au-wamug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 44 (Matt Falvey)) Message: 6 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:21:08 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: 9955054e-69a7-4e72-9236-2fa191c12...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, I'm away until later today. Choose 'Repair Database' If that doesn't fix your iPhoto Library Choose 'Rebuild Database' Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 7:10 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I followed your instruction's and the Window showed up instantly. In 2. you stated select the items, they could not be selected together, I could only select each one individually. It looked on you post like select all three, so I tried holding the Command key and selecting them, shift etc. but could not get the three selected together. Anyway I then decided that it must be in descending order and started with Repair Permission and a soon as I did that the two messages came back up again in the same sequence as before and gave me the only option to quit. Matt. Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:23:18 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: f2dab895-90d1-4bf2-8e29-cde1473d0...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, Sounds like your iPhoto Library Database is
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Ronni, even further information! Since showing that everything worked with Droplets in Safe Mode or another user account, when I do a normal boot Photoshop will no longer open at all but crashes as it starts. Adobe feedback gives nothing. It is not damaged as it is still fine in Safe mode. I winder what has gone askew. Time to pack up and consider in the quiet! Severin On 12/08/2012, at 3:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, further information. The Droplets work when I boot in Safe mode. However Finder still asks for password when I put anything in the Trash. Not so from the alternative user account (when not in Safe mode). Severin On 12/08/2012, at 2:06 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Well, how did you see that Droplets is 32-bit mode as you mentioned previously? Photoshop CS6 is only 64 bit application on Mac OS On Windows, it is a 32 and 64 bit application. Cheers, Ronni On 11/08/2012, at 3:01 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: There is no checkbox as in other applications. It just says Kind: Application (32 bit) Severin On 11/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If you Uncheck 32-bit it will run in 64-bit mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 12:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: The 64 bit option is not available in the Get Info window. Photoshop CS6 is right up to date according to Adobe Updater and of course I have tried recompiling the droplets. H!!! Enjoy the sunshine, a wonderful 22C here for lunch outside today Regards Severin On 11/08/2012, at 7:47 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Change it to run in 64bit Mode in the Get Info window. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 10:35 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Have just noticed that the Droplets are 32bit. Could that be the trouble? Severin On 10/08/2012, at 5:46 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Do they give an error message when tried to be used? It could be they're treated as little applications that don't pass Gatekeeper. You could try System Preferences -Security and allow all (applications) to see if it lets you use them then. (sorry not very clear instructions as not near computer at moment. Otherwise possibly another type of coding difference. Thats one quick thought worth a try. Will think more later when free if that doesn't help :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Hi Severin, Just a quick reply as I need to do more clients work for tomorrow. Mountain Lion does ask for authorisation and for you to authenticate if you are moving or deleting any that is system related. I've noticed it does this more than in Lion. You might have some permissions problems, but first check what Permissions you have on your Hard Drive and your User Home Folder? HD - system Read Write wheel Read only everyone Read only User Home Folder - sev (me) Read Write staff Read only everyone read only Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:06 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Well, how did you see that Droplets is 32-bit mode as you mentioned previously? Photoshop CS6 is only 64 bit application on Mac OS On Windows, it is a 32 and 64 bit application. Cheers, Ronni On 11/08/2012, at 3:01 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: There is no checkbox as in other applications. It just says Kind: Application (32 bit) Severin On 11/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If you Uncheck 32-bit it will run in 64-bit mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 12:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: The 64 bit option is not available in the Get Info window. Photoshop CS6 is right up to date according to Adobe Updater and of course I have tried recompiling the droplets. H!!! Enjoy the sunshine, a wonderful 22C here for lunch outside today Regards Severin On 11/08/2012, at 7:47 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Change it to run in 64bit Mode in the Get Info window. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 10:35 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Have just noticed that the Droplets are 32bit. Could that be the trouble? Severin On 10/08/2012, at 5:46 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Do they give an error message when tried to be used? It could be they're treated as little applications that don't pass Gatekeeper. You could try System Preferences -Security and allow all (applications) to see if it lets you use them then. (sorry not very clear instructions as not near computer at moment. Otherwise possibly another type of coding difference. Thats one quick thought worth a try. Will think more later when free if that doesn't help :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au
Time machine fails
I upgraded to 10.7.4 a few weeks ago and now I find my Time Machine back up process does not work. Duly plugged in via USB cable. Disk not recognised and the prefs want me to use Airport to find a disk? (which I seems not to be able to do) Any help appreciated. Bill -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Hi Ronni, I have just tried that and basically had the same result as the same two attempts before. Once I press Rebuild, it flashed into the your library needs to be Upgraded, I pressed to accept that and I now I have the iPhoto is unable to open this library window with the Quit option and the Grey Spinning Wheel, which has started this time at 5.55pm. Matt. On 12/08/2012, at 5:36 PM, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:31:09 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: dc7a40d7-003f-48b2-ad9e-f50913452...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, Have you tried the last option I gave you if the other options didn't fix your iPhoto Library? 1. Hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. It will show you a Window with 'Photo Library First Aid' 2. Choose 'Rebuild Database' See if that can complete and you can then Upgrade the iPhoto Library. Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:14 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, there are two libraries, one of them is the recovered iPhoto Library Matt and the other is an iPhoto Library Mon. The Matt was the problematic library and the one that I found I had a virtual complete copy of in Aperture. I have had no problems with the Mon library (and I am not sure if it is/has been converted as my wife uses it and is never on the computer and I may have left it alone after the debacle with the Matt one. I will have to look at it one day and if this ML gets sorted I may try and see if it is on iPhoto or save looking to open it for a very very rainy day, oh God it's raining today!) The Grey Spinning Wheel was spinning until about 11pm last night, when I decided to go to bed and closed the system down. It had been running for over 13 hours and was just the same wheel as that that had been spinning in the back ground with the two messages, Before I pressed the Command and Option Keys, so I don't think, hope, it was signifying that any Repair was in process. Anyway I had no choice, my wife was on earlies and was sleeping in the spare room and didn't want the computer on all night, so I had no choice. Yes, iPhoto worked fine in SL, after you fixed it. The bulk of the photo's were missing but I had them covered I discovered later, T.G., in Aperture. That was the main reason for going to the next step to ML to be able to share the photo's between Aperture and iPhoto, which I couldn't do in SL. So basically I was trying to get my SL iPhoto library back by stealth. We have three other iMac's one is running: 10.6.8 and iPhoto 9.2.3, could it be used to confirm the backup Libraries on the SuperDuper backup? Matt On 12/08/2012, at 12:00 PM, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Hi Matt, Is this the same iPhoto Library that you had all the trouble with in Snow Leopard when it would not upgrade the Library? Did you eventually have it working without any problems in SL? Is the Grey Spinning Wheel still going since 10:20AM, or what happened? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 5:11 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have tried Repair Database and this time it didn't flick/bypass through to the two messages it presented me with the with the The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto, appeared. I thought you bewty and I clicked - Upgrade. Then the second message The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto appeared again, with the only option - Quit. Now as there is a grey spinning wheel showing under, the message and in light of what occurred on a previous occasion I am loath to closed down iPhoto in case it is actually Repairing the Database, so I have left it spinning away, lest I stuff it up. Oh how I loved my Canon T90 and my Kodak 100. Matt. (I think I may have posted this incorrectly as it came back as Today's Topics: 1. Re: wamug.org.au-wamug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 44 (Matt Falvey)) Message: 6 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:21:08 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: 9955054e-69a7-4e72-9236-2fa191c12...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, I'm away until later today. Choose 'Repair Database' If that doesn't fix your iPhoto Library Choose 'Rebuild Database' Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 7:10 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I followed your instruction's and the Window showed up instantly. In 2. you stated select the items, they could not be selected together, I could only select each
Re: Getting Mountain Lion if your internet connection is too slow
And to ease Severin and Kaye's moral compass, it would seem to me that as long as Kaye has paid for ML from the App Store, which she has, then how she actually gets it onto her hard drive is of little legal consequence. She has paid for it. She can legally and morally and technically use Severin's drive to get the software surely. It could be argued that Apple has failed to provide a product she has purchased.. Once over this hump, I hope you enjoy the new OS. :-) Tim On 12/08/2012, at 2:05 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: I can't see why T4 could not have put the download onto a Thumb Drive that you supply Kaye. Once they have proof of purchase and your redeemed Code I fail to see why they would not. Anyway Severin has given you another option :-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/08/2012, at 1:42 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Kaye, I have a saved copy of the 4.7GB Mountain Lion installer which I will happily put on a thumb drive for you. I realise I may be committing a crime here but respect your bona fides as to your purchase. Drop in when convenient, but let me know in advance, we are not always at home. Enjoy today's rain Severin On 12/08/2012, at 12:32 PM, kaye and geoff k...@kgweb.org.au wrote: Hi, I've recently bought a new iMac loaded with Lion, and qualify for a free upgrade to Mountain Lion. I went through the dialogue to get my redeem code, but our internet connection is very poor out in the country, and the upgrade failed to download (timed out and told me my connection was too slow). No problem - I'd followed the thread open by Tim Law and figured I could get the local Apple reseller to download it and put it onto a thumb drive for me. While T4 is prepared to do this for me they tell me I have to bring my iMac in to the store - they can't just use my serial number and Apple Id to get the code. I'm not keen on lugging my machine into Albany unless I really have to. Has anyone made use of an Apple Store or reseller to get a copy of Mountain Lion? If so, were you able to get it on a thumb drive or did you need to cart the machine in? Cheers, K Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.au -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Techstatic
Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Sent from my iPad -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Ok Matt, Something is seriously wrong with the Library then, it is possibly in the loop of upgrading like it did in Snow Leopard and I got you to delete files so the upgrade could complete. A last resort before deleting any files. Download iPhoto Library Manager http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back. Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. I have to sign off from WAMUG support as I must get my Clients work finished prepare for tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/08/2012, at 5:59 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have just tried that and basically had the same result as the same two attempts before. Once I press Rebuild, it flashed into the your library needs to be Upgraded, I pressed to accept that and I now I have the iPhoto is unable to open this library window with the Quit option and the Grey Spinning Wheel, which has started this time at 5.55pm. Matt. On 12/08/2012, at 5:36 PM, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:31:09 +0800 From: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com Subject: Re: iPhoto doesn't open after Upgrade to Mountain Lion To: wamug@wamug.org.au Message-ID: dc7a40d7-003f-48b2-ad9e-f50913452...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi Matt, Have you tried the last option I gave you if the other options didn't fix your iPhoto Library? 1. Hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. It will show you a Window with 'Photo Library First Aid' 2. Choose 'Rebuild Database' See if that can complete and you can then Upgrade the iPhoto Library. Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:14 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, there are two libraries, one of them is the recovered iPhoto Library Matt and the other is an iPhoto Library Mon. The Matt was the problematic library and the one that I found I had a virtual complete copy of in Aperture. I have had no problems with the Mon library (and I am not sure if it is/has been converted as my wife uses it and is never on the computer and I may have left it alone after the debacle with the Matt one. I will have to look at it one day and if this ML gets sorted I may try and see if it is on iPhoto or save looking to open it for a very very rainy day, oh God it's raining today!) The Grey Spinning Wheel was spinning until about 11pm last night, when I decided to go to bed and closed the system down. It had been running for over 13 hours and was just the same wheel as that that had been spinning in the back ground with the two messages, Before I pressed the Command and Option Keys, so I don't think, hope, it was signifying that any Repair was in process. Anyway I had no choice, my wife was on earlies and was sleeping in the spare room and didn't want the computer on all night, so I had no choice. Yes, iPhoto worked fine in SL, after you fixed it. The bulk of the photo's were missing but I had them covered I discovered later, T.G., in Aperture. That was the main reason for going to the next step to ML to be able to share the photo's between Aperture and iPhoto, which I couldn't do in SL. So basically I was trying to get my SL iPhoto library back by stealth. We have three other iMac's one is running: 10.6.8 and iPhoto 9.2.3, could it be used to confirm the backup Libraries on the SuperDuper backup? Matt On 12/08/2012, at 12:00 PM, wamug.org.au-wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Hi Matt, Is this the same iPhoto Library that you had all the trouble with in Snow Leopard when it would not upgrade the Library? Did you eventually have it working without any problems in SL? Is the Grey Spinning Wheel still going since 10:20AM, or what happened? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 5:11 PM, Matt Falvey mmfal...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have tried Repair Database and this time it didn't flick/bypass through to the two messages it presented me with the with the The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto, appeared. I thought you bewty and I clicked - Upgrade. Then the second message The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto appeared again, with the only option - Quit. Now as there is a grey spinning wheel showing under, the message and in light of what occurred on a previous occasion I am loath to closed down iPhoto in case it is actually Repairing the Database, so I have left it
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Yes, those are the current permissions Thanks Severin On 12/08/2012, at 5:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, Just a quick reply as I need to do more clients work for tomorrow. Mountain Lion does ask for authorisation and for you to authenticate if you are moving or deleting any that is system related. I've noticed it does this more than in Lion. You might have some permissions problems, but first check what Permissions you have on your Hard Drive and your User Home Folder? HD - system Read Write wheel Read only everyone Read only User Home Folder - sev (me) Read Write staff Read only everyone read only Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:06 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Well, how did you see that Droplets is 32-bit mode as you mentioned previously? Photoshop CS6 is only 64 bit application on Mac OS On Windows, it is a 32 and 64 bit application. Cheers, Ronni On 11/08/2012, at 3:01 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: There is no checkbox as in other applications. It just says Kind: Application (32 bit) Severin On 11/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If you Uncheck 32-bit it will run in 64-bit mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 12:40 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: The 64 bit option is not available in the Get Info window. Photoshop CS6 is right up to date according to Adobe Updater and of course I have tried recompiling the droplets. H!!! Enjoy the sunshine, a wonderful 22C here for lunch outside today Regards Severin On 11/08/2012, at 7:47 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Change it to run in 64bit Mode in the Get Info window. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/08/2012, at 10:35 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Have just noticed that the Droplets are 32bit. Could that be the trouble? Severin On 10/08/2012, at 5:46 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Do they give an error message when tried to be used? It could be they're treated as little applications that don't pass Gatekeeper. You could try System Preferences -Security and allow all (applications) to see if it lets you use them then. (sorry not very clear instructions as not near computer at moment. Otherwise possibly another type of coding difference. Thats one quick thought worth a try. Will think more later when free if that doesn't help :)
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Hi Severin, You mentioned: Ronni, further information. The Droplets work when I boot in Safe mode. However Finder still asks for password when I put anything in the Trash. Not so from the alternative user account (when not in Safe mode). Severin There are certain places where you must authenticate, but your Desktop isn't one of them (unless you are moving it from a folder that denies deleting things). I would suggest you reset the Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Resetting the home folder permissions with the Reset Password utility will reset both the owner and the permissions. 1. Restart your Mac holding ⌘+R to boot into Lion Recovery, which will bring you to the Repair Utilities screen. 2. Open Terminal from the Utilities menu. 3. In Terminal, enter resetpassword and hit return key to open the Reset Password utility. 4. Choose your hard drive icon at the top, then choose your user from the drop-down menu below. DO NOT RESET the password here. 5. At the bottom of the window, under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button. This may take awhile if you have a lot of files in your home folder. This should solve your permissions problems for most apps. However, it's possible you may have a few apps which had saved files with special permissions that are different from the user's default permissions (like preferences or application support files). For those apps, you may need to delete their preferences or reinstall the app. Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 11:05 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, those are the current permissions Thanks Severin On 12/08/2012, at 5:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, Just a quick reply as I need to do more clients work for tomorrow. Mountain Lion does ask for authorisation and for you to authenticate if you are moving or deleting any that is system related. I've noticed it does this more than in Lion. You might have some permissions problems, but first check what Permissions you have on your Hard Drive and your User Home Folder? HD - system Read Write wheel Read only everyone Read only User Home Folder - sev (me) Read Write staff Read only everyone read only Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:06 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Well, how did you see that Droplets is 32-bit mode as you mentioned previously? Photoshop CS6 is only 64 bit application on Mac OS On Windows, it is a 32
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Resolved. The Erase function in Disk Ute did the trick. Disk now recognised and busy doing what it should do. B On 12/08/2012, at 5:53 PM, Bill Parker wrote: I upgraded to 10.7.4 a few weeks ago and now I find my Time Machine back up process does not work. Duly plugged in via USB cable. Disk not recognised and the prefs want me to use Airport to find a disk? (which I seems not to be able to do) Any help appreciated. Bill -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Photoshop CS6 and Mountain Lion.
Thanks, Ronni. I have to go out for the morning, will try this afternoon. Severin On 13/08/2012, at 7:51 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, You mentioned: Ronni, further information. The Droplets work when I boot in Safe mode. However Finder still asks for password when I put anything in the Trash. Not so from the alternative user account (when not in Safe mode). Severin There are certain places where you must authenticate, but your Desktop isn't one of them (unless you are moving it from a folder that denies deleting things). I would suggest you reset the Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Resetting the home folder permissions with the Reset Password utility will reset both the owner and the permissions. 1. Restart your Mac holding ⌘+R to boot into Lion Recovery, which will bring you to the Repair Utilities screen. 2. Open Terminal from the Utilities menu. 3. In Terminal, enter resetpassword and hit return key to open the Reset Password utility. 4. Choose your hard drive icon at the top, then choose your user from the drop-down menu below. DO NOT RESET the password here. 5. At the bottom of the window, under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button. This may take awhile if you have a lot of files in your home folder. This should solve your permissions problems for most apps. However, it's possible you may have a few apps which had saved files with special permissions that are different from the user's default permissions (like preferences or application support files). For those apps, you may need to delete their preferences or reinstall the app. Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 11:05 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, those are the current permissions Thanks Severin On 12/08/2012, at 5:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, Just a quick reply as I need to do more clients work for tomorrow. Mountain Lion does ask for authorisation and for you to authenticate if you are moving or deleting any that is system related. I've noticed it does this more than in Lion. You might have some permissions problems, but first check what Permissions you have on your Hard Drive and your User Home Folder? HD - system Read Write wheel Read only everyone Read only User Home Folder - sev (me) Read Write staff Read only everyone read only Cheers, Ronni On 12/08/2012, at 2:06 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ronni, yes, Droplets work fine in a fresh account. Interestingly, I note that I am in general getting requests from Finder for authorisation when moving files or just trashing them. Seems to happen when nothing is locked and read and write is enabled for everything in sight. I suspect that this may be the trouble, the droplet writes to an existing folder, but where does it come from? I can find no setting that is relevant. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 5:03 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, I have still to try that Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, the first thing I did when trouble arose was to recreate them. They worked previously in Lion too. As I noted earlier, the Action (script) runs fine when you use it in the File/Automate/ Batch mode but fails when that script is made into a Droplet(Applet). On dragging and dropping a file to it in the dock it gives it gives one half hearted bounce then nothing. Normally it would open Photoshop and carry on. I am sure Adobe will come out with fix in due course, clearly there is something in Mountain Lion that jars with Create Droplet function, or rather running that droplet. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 4:39 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, So Droplets - File Get Info shows Kind: Application (32-bit) These droplets were not originally created in CS6, is that correct? You have tried in a new User Account (as Daniel suggested); do your existing droplets work fine in the new user account? You have now re-created them in CS6 but they are still indicating they have been created in 32-bit? Did you also try (as Daniel suggested) System Preferences Security Privacy - General and 'Allow applications downloaded from:' and changing it to 'Anywhere' to see if that makes a difference to the droplets? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/08/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: That is the first statement at the beginning of Get Info for the droplet. Droplets are drag and drop applications that you create within Photoshop from Actions, which are essentially scripts. The Droplet looks like an application in the Finder etc. Severin On 11/08/2012, at 3:08 PM, Ronda Brown
Re: Techstatic
From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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thats why i like to pay a bit more and have someone out who knows what they are doing. lynn - Original Message - From: Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au To: wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 13 August, 2012 9:37:13 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: Techstatic From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Techstatic
I never said anything about that them. I mentioned I got called out after them,.. I never said anything one way or the other, whether it was to fix something or do something they could (or couldn't do)…... Secondly when I was referring to ANOTHER place I never mentioned who it was. I left the name out of it….. The first post asked if anyone knew and I was just mentioning what I know. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?
When Mountain Lion wakes from sleep, Mail (v 6.0) usually shows a squiggle (the technical term Ronni?) next to the Inbox. Mail needs the get new message in all accounts icon clicked to trigger any action. All mail accounts (gmail and iiNet ) initially show the squiggle. Is there a setting to provide the automatic check for new mail on waking as was done in Snow Leopard? S.L. mail immediately showed the rotating gear wheel activity icon when system became active. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Techstatic
Hi Ronni, I have recommended you to my friend who lives in Subiaco, so we will see if she contacts you. I've said that as well as running your own consultancy you give people on the WAMUG list lots of help for free. So far, she has been reluctant to join WAMUG because of getting lots of emails, but I think it's a pity because I find I learn so much here. It may not be immediately useful, but I can go back and search the archives if I remember that a topic has been discussed. Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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: Techstatic
Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: Techstatic
And thanks to everyone who has given feedback on Techstatic. Sent from my iPad On 13/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi Ronni, I have recommended you to my friend who lives in Subiaco, so we will see if she contacts you. I've said that as well as running your own consultancy you give people on the WAMUG list lots of help for free. So far, she has been reluctant to join WAMUG because of getting lots of emails, but I think it's a pity because I find I learn so much here. It may not be immediately useful, but I can go back and search the archives if I remember that a topic has been discussed. Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User
Re: Techstatic
Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the footer, which has the tag line Perth · Subiaco · West Perth · Claremont · Nedlands · Dalkeith. Leads one to think there is one location somewhere in the general Subiaco-Claremont area. Never heard of them before... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List
Re: Techstatic
Hi Ronni, Daniel's post seems to imply that he has heard that Techstatic is incompetent. On the other hand the post also talks of some other unnamed consultant. Daniel could you post please and let the group know definitively if you have heard bad things about Techstatic. I should add that I am not familiar with Techstatic and, as far as I know, do not know any of the employees. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi, a friend has seen a website for this business, and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it. There is only a mobile number as contact, no street address. There is quite a good website. Regards, Susan Yes, very intriguing. It would be nice to have some idea of physical presence though. The only clues are in the
Re: Techstatic
OMG Carlo, Let it go, the query has been responded to. If you wish to read between the lines, why would people call out another consultant if they were happy with the first consultant? That's it, no more comments from me. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 11:13 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Daniel's post seems to imply that he has heard that Techstatic is incompetent. On the other hand the post also talks of some other unnamed consultant. Daniel could you post please and let the group know definitively if you have heard bad things about Techstatic. I should add that I am not familiar with Techstatic and, as far as I know, do not know any of the employees. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but some of these places are a worry. They say they can deliver all this Mac expertise then never deliver, charge the client then disappear and are hard to get hold of again. I'm not saying I know everything, but at least I'll say that up front and advise of other options. lol Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 12/08/2012, at 6:37 PM, Susan Hastings
Re: Techstatic
Again Ronni I can only refer you back to the original email. It has taken a clearly bad experience with an unnamed consultant and seems to suggest that Techstatic are the same. On the other hand it is not clear if Daniel has heard anything *at all* about Techstatic. In the interests of fairness I, for one, would like this clarified. I would add the Peter Hinchliffe had proposed asking Techstatic to give a presentation at future WAMUG meeting (again nothing to do with me). If they become active members of our community it is best that we get off on the right foot with them. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG Carlo, Let it go, the query has been responded to. If you wish to read between the lines, why would people call out another consultant if they were happy with the first consultant? That's it, no more comments from me. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 11:13 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Daniel's post seems to imply that he has heard that Techstatic is incompetent. On the other hand the post also talks of some other unnamed consultant. Daniel could you post please and let the group know definitively if you have heard bad things about Techstatic. I should add that I am not familiar with Techstatic and, as far as I know, do not know any of the employees. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. There's a lot more places popping up like them now. I had another client tell me about another Mac consultant (not these guys) that came out and had never heard of an Apple Time Capsule and spent the first 30mins of the appointment studying up on it then telling the client that a Canon printer couldn't be made wireless because of it. Needless to say the 2 hours they spent there weren't fairly productive. I fixed all her issues in 30mins and then had other things working as well. Oh, and the printer WAS a wireless printer itself. Set it to join the network and all her computers could print and have telling her about Printopia and she bought it then and there and I set it up, she could print from her iPad and iPhone. I don't like to sound
Re: Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?
Hi Alan, The 'squiggle' beside an account name means you are not connected to the mail server, you are offline at that moment. Perhaps you are not immediately connecting to the Network on wake from sleep. Mail automatically checks for Mail when you launch Mail.app and then in what time you have set in Mail Preferences. Mail Preferences - General - Check for new messages I have Every 5 minutes. In System Preferences Energy Saver do you have Wake for network access selected? Cheers, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:43 AM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: When Mountain Lion wakes from sleep, Mail (v 6.0) usually shows a squiggle (the technical term Ronni?) next to the Inbox. Mail needs the get new message in all accounts icon clicked to trigger any action. All mail accounts (gmail and iiNet ) initially show the squiggle. Is there a setting to provide the automatic check for new mail on waking as was done in Snow Leopard? S.L. mail immediately showed the rotating gear wheel activity icon when system became active. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Techstatic
Sheesh, I'm sorry I said anything. I will choose what I reply to carefully in the future. I don't feel I need to clarify anything,..however,.. I went to a client that had dealt with them previous and for what ever reason they then asked me to come out for work. Sure some of that was for an ongoing issue, plus some others. I am not the sort of person to bad mouth or disrespect anyone or any business. I was just simply advising that I had heard of them. What people choose to read into what I write is up to them…. I apologise for what ever is taken the wrong way. I will refrain from posting anymore on the subject. I'll get back to my normal scheduled day now,…... Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 11:29 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Again Ronni I can only refer you back to the original email. It has taken a clearly bad experience with an unnamed consultant and seems to suggest that Techstatic are the same. On the other hand it is not clear if Daniel has heard anything *at all* about Techstatic. In the interests of fairness I, for one, would like this clarified. I would add the Peter Hinchliffe had proposed asking Techstatic to give a presentation at future WAMUG meeting (again nothing to do with me). If they become active members of our community it is best that we get off on the right foot with them. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG Carlo, Let it go, the query has been responded to. If you wish to read between the lines, why would people call out another consultant if they were happy with the first consultant? That's it, no more comments from me. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 11:13 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Daniel's post seems to imply that he has heard that Techstatic is incompetent. On the other hand the post also talks of some other unnamed consultant. Daniel could you post please and let the group know definitively if you have heard bad things about Techstatic. I should add that I am not familiar with Techstatic and, as far as I know, do not know any of the employees. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment so in my opinion if they are trying to make an honest go of it they deserve a chance. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Kerr
Re: iMove - The Apple iCar
Serious? 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 13/08/2012, at 8:46 AM, iCloud wrote: This is a tad off the usual topic but what the heck. http://www.funzug.com/index.php/cars/imove-the-apple-icar.html Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Techstatic
Hi Daniel, I appreciate your input. cheers, Susan. On 13/08/2012, at 12:03 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Sheesh, I'm sorry I said anything. I will choose what I reply to carefully in the future. I don't feel I need to clarify anything,..however,.. I went to a client that had dealt with them previous and for what ever reason they then asked me to come out for work. Sure some of that was for an ongoing issue, plus some others. I am not the sort of person to bad mouth or disrespect anyone or any business. I was just simply advising that I had heard of them. What people choose to read into what I write is up to them…. I apologise for what ever is taken the wrong way. I will refrain from posting anymore on the subject. I'll get back to my normal scheduled day now,…... Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 11:29 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Again Ronni I can only refer you back to the original email. It has taken a clearly bad experience with an unnamed consultant and seems to suggest that Techstatic are the same. On the other hand it is not clear if Daniel has heard anything *at all* about Techstatic. In the interests of fairness I, for one, would like this clarified. I would add the Peter Hinchliffe had proposed asking Techstatic to give a presentation at future WAMUG meeting (again nothing to do with me). If they become active members of our community it is best that we get off on the right foot with them. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG Carlo, Let it go, the query has been responded to. If you wish to read between the lines, why would people call out another consultant if they were happy with the first consultant? That's it, no more comments from me. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 11:13 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Daniel's post seems to imply that he has heard that Techstatic is incompetent. On the other hand the post also talks of some other unnamed consultant. Daniel could you post please and let the group know definitively if you have heard bad things about Techstatic. I should add that I am not familiar with Techstatic and, as far as I know, do not know any of the employees. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company until we have had some actual experience of them. The business climate is fairly tight at the moment
Can I partition an Ext HD and Back up two diferrent OS X
Hi, I have just dug out an old G5 iMac that is running 10.5.8 and was wondering if I partitioned an external HD could I back it up to one partition and another small iMac that that my daughter has that is running 10.6.8 to the second partition? Even though one will be in Intel and the other G5? I would be using SuperDuper on the relevant iMac. Thanks. Matt. -- 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 Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Techstatic
It is getting dangerous to dip ones toes into the waters of Wamug, rather like going for off a swim off our coast. :-) Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au Skype docmactor On 13/08/2012, at 12:03 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Sheesh, I'm sorry I said anything. I will choose what I reply to carefully in the future. I don't feel I need to clarify anything,..however,.. I went to a client that had dealt with them previous and for what ever reason they then asked me to come out for work. Sure some of that was for an ongoing issue, plus some others. I am not the sort of person to bad mouth or disrespect anyone or any business. I was just simply advising that I had heard of them. What people choose to read into what I write is up to them…. I apologise for what ever is taken the wrong way. I will refrain from posting anymore on the subject. I'll get back to my normal scheduled day now,…... Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/08/2012, at 11:29 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Again Ronni I can only refer you back to the original email. It has taken a clearly bad experience with an unnamed consultant and seems to suggest that Techstatic are the same. On the other hand it is not clear if Daniel has heard anything *at all* about Techstatic. In the interests of fairness I, for one, would like this clarified. I would add the Peter Hinchliffe had proposed asking Techstatic to give a presentation at future WAMUG meeting (again nothing to do with me). If they become active members of our community it is best that we get off on the right foot with them. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG Carlo, Let it go, the query has been responded to. If you wish to read between the lines, why would people call out another consultant if they were happy with the first consultant? That's it, no more comments from me. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 11:13 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Daniel's post seems to imply that he has heard that Techstatic is incompetent. On the other hand the post also talks of some other unnamed consultant. Daniel could you post please and let the group know definitively if you have heard bad things about Techstatic. I should add that I am not familiar with Techstatic and, as far as I know, do not know any of the employees. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, A careful reading of Daniel's posts says I Quote: From what I know of them, they're a consulting firm. I bit like me. I only know of them from what clients have told me after I've been there after them. He has only mentioned that he knows what clients have told him after he was called out after them He also never named the other Mac Consultant that did not know what a Apple Time Capsule was. Look after your long standing WAMUG Corporate Member long time committee member. Daniel replied to the query, he does not need to justify his response... and neither do I. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, That's not quite the case. A careful reading of Daniel's post says he was called out after a *different* unnamed outfit. It's probably best that it be made clear that we do not have any experience with Techstatic. Daniel could clear this up please. Were you called out to clean up after Techstatic because they had failed to complete a task? Did they then charge the client for work that was not properly done? If so that is indeed worth posting and I would not have problem with that sort of feedback being posted. Regards, Carlo On 13/08/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Carlo, We don't forget this is a public forum. The original poster asked if anyone knew anything about them. Yes we do; and Daniel rightly posted his experience of being called out after these people. I'm all for loyalty, if I can not give support to someone who contacts me as they are out of my travel area, or expertise, I immediately have no hesitation in recommending they contact MacWizardry as I know that Daniel's standard of service is excellent and his knowledge of all things related to Apple Macs is above anyone else I know of ( I know a lot of Mac Consultants)! How about supporting our own Consultants that give so much of their time and knowledge to give support to WAMUG for free. Regards, Ronni On 13/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: It's probably best to remember that this is a public forum. We shouldn't pass judgement on a company
