Maverick

2013-12-10 Thread F.W. Hänel
Hello all, Have just upgraded to Maverick. Can I use the same bootable HD (ML) to do the occasional SuperDuper backup ? Is there an official Maverick user manual ? Cheers, Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml

Re: Maverick

2013-12-10 Thread Ronni Brown
On 10 Dec 2013, at 5:53 pm, F.W. Hänel whae...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hello all, Hello Walter, Have just upgraded to Maverick. It is OS X Mavericks 10.9 (has an 's') Can I use the same bootable HD (ML) to do the occasional SuperDuper backup ? Yes, SuperDuper does a bootable 'Clone' of

Re: Maverick

2013-12-10 Thread Ronda Brown
Forgot to mention that you need to Pre-Order the book. OS X Mavericks: The missing Manual by Author David Pogue is not released until 31st December. I Pre-Ordered my copy quite some time ago. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10 Dec 2013, at 7:00 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 10 Dec

Re: Maverick

2013-12-10 Thread F.W. Hänel
Hi Ronni, I have one D. Pogue missing manual for Leopard already and found it very good. Its much more than just a user manual. Have to arrange for father christmas at Amazon to deliver the Mavericks version early next year. Also tried unsuccessfully to install the same Activity Monitor dock

Re: Mac Mini losing network connection

2013-12-10 Thread Tim Law
All, Following up from this problem. After several weeks of this issue slowing getting worse, I seem to have resolved the problem by using Disk Warrior to build a new disk directory. I was able to start up the Mac Mini using the back up disk that Super Duper clones to each night, then run

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2013-12-10 Thread Daniel Kerr
For those interested, have a look at the 12 Days of Gifts from Apple. Basically, as the description says,… /quote From 26 December – 6 January, you can download a gift each day—songs, apps, books, films and more—with the 12 Days of Gifts app. Each day’s gift will only be available for 24 hours,

Re: Maverick

2013-12-10 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Walter, Also tried unsuccessfully to install the same Activity Monitor dock icon (was a pie chart in ML) but it’s not available in Mavericks ? The CPU activity graph on the desktop looks different too. View network activity in the Activity Monitor Dock Choose View Dock Icon Show

Re: Mac Mini losing network connection

2013-12-10 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Tim Glad it's working a bit better. Sorry, had meant to get back to you to try a few things as well as something like that, so good you found it. Crazy crazy week since then,…. Glad all working ;) Hopefully it will keep that way. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414

Re: Mavericks

2013-12-10 Thread F.W. Hänel
Hi Ronni, Thanks for your comments. Have tried what you suggested. I can live with the CPU graph on the desktop, but what used to be the system memory icon in the dock (a pie chart that went mostly blue when recording long movies in EyeTV) is now a narrow line. I can’t see the option “Show

Re: Mavericks

2013-12-10 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Walter, The 'Pie Chart' is no longer an option, especially since Mavericks has new memory management routines (ie, memory compression) that make the charting of memory usage less straightforward. Apple has switched to a new Memory Pressure approach to viewing memory usage, which is

Re: Mavericks

2013-12-10 Thread F.W. Hänel
Thanks Ronni, Now I understand, I’ll open the memory section to look at my situation. Thank you, Cheers, Walter On 11 Dec 2013, at 05:21 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Walter, The 'Pie Chart' is no longer an option, especially since Mavericks has new memory management routines

Re: Mavericks

2013-12-10 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Walter, A Document I would recommend you download and read is the October 2013 - OS X Mavericks Core Technologies Overview PDF Go to this Link http://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Overview.pdf On Page 7: - especially read the sections explaining: