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Carthag posted:I'm on my parents' Snow Leopard 10.6.8 machine and am having a problem with the Java plugin. In case anyone had the same problem, their Safari was version 5.0.5. Software Update wasn't showing anything new, but I found a newer version on Apple's site and it works now. Bob Morales posted:Does Safari 6.0 (on ML and Lion) just randomly crash for everyone? Usually when I'm loading a new page. I've had that happen a handful of times, I think I was rightclicking a link and opening it in a new window every time. I don't think it's happened to me with opening in tabs. I'll try and see if it happens again and how/why. Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Sep 7, 2012 |
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Anyone have ideas on a good way to take notes with PDFs? I've been using Preview and the annotations feature, but it has some limitations -- namely that I cant draw 'freeform' when I need to. Otherwise it hasn't been bad. I'm trying to find something that will sync up nicely with a PDF Application on iPad, so I can sync the two via Dropbox. I might try Skim for OS X , but any other ideas/workflow suggestions?
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Sep 7, 2012 18:54
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Halloween Jack posted:Um, I downloaded and installed Lion and it automatically updated to Mountain Lion, which I can't use for work. Command+R doesn't work, so can anyone tell me how to reinstall it and keep it from automatically updating to the latest version? Apologies if this should've gone in HoTS, but it seemed too minor.
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Sep 7, 2012 18:56
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Kalix posted:Anyone have ideas on a good way to take notes with PDFs? PDF Pen is pretty great.
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Sep 7, 2012 18:56
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Suggestions on some cheap accounting software for Mac? I've got some affiliate sales online but it's very small, only a handful of checks a year. I'd just like to keep track of income and the small month expenditures so I can better prepare the taxes due and write-offs come April.
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Sep 7, 2012 18:56
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Yeah you can't buy Lion from the App Store anymore.
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Sep 7, 2012 18:57
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FCKGW posted:Suggestions on some cheap accounting software for Mac? I've got some affiliate sales online but it's very small, only a handful of checks a year. I'd just like to keep track of income and the small month expenditures so I can better prepare the taxes due and write-offs come April. If it's really such a trivial amount of transactions, why not just track them in Excel/Numbers? I use Quickbooks myself, which is totally overkill for something like this, but I think most accounting software requires decent accounting knowledge to automate everything, while Excel can be used just to track balances manually.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:00
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FCKGW posted:Suggestions on some cheap accounting software for Mac? I've got some affiliate sales online but it's very small, only a handful of checks a year. I'd just like to keep track of income and the small month expenditures so I can better prepare the taxes due and write-offs come April. The lowest version of Quicken for small business is like $89 and they might have an online version that's cheaper (but per-year). It's basically what all my friends use for snowplowing/lawn mowing etc
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Sep 7, 2012 19:03
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chupacabraTERROR posted:If it's really such a trivial amount of transactions, why not just track them in Excel/Numbers? I use Quickbooks myself, which is totally overkill for something like this, but I think most accounting software requires decent accounting knowledge to automate everything, while Excel can be used just to track balances manually. Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. I was just wondering if there was anything in the ~$20 range that would be more of a pleasure to use. I think I might still have some old caopies of iBank or whatever else was in the MacHeist bundles.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:03
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Yeah you can't buy Lion from the App Store anymore. Hmm. If I back up the installer, will that work as long as my machine is authenticated with the App Store? I'm of the mindset that I never actually delete things that Apple will remove anymore.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:10
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Martytoof posted:Hmm. If I back up the installer, will that work as long as my machine is authenticated with the App Store? You don't even really need it to be authenticated with the mac store, since there's no DRM or anything to stop you copying the installer around willy-nilly. EDIT: But yes is the answer.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:19
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Experto Crede posted:You don't even really need it to be authenticated with the mac store, since there's no DRM or anything to stop you copying the installer around willy-nilly. The installer inside the package, no. But IIRC the actual .app installer that you download from MAS is still tokenized do you'd need to be authenticated, same as any other MAS app. Or can I literally just take the "Install Mac OS X.app" from my /Applications and run it on another Mac? Sorry if this is really obvious, I just haven't had to do it in forever. By which I mean ever.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:21
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Martytoof posted:The installer inside the package, no. But IIRC the actual .app installer that you download from MAS is still tokenized do you'd need to be authenticated, same as any other MAS app. Thinking about it, I'm not actually sure  Since the first install I've kept a copy of the internal dmg transferred to a usb drive...
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Sep 7, 2012 19:26
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Sonic Dude posted:I'm confused. Lion and Mountain Lion are separate products, and you would have had to buy Mountain Lion before upgrading to it. Are you sure you didn't buy Mountain Lion by mistake?
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Sep 7, 2012 19:32
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Martytoof posted:The installer inside the package, no. But IIRC the actual .app installer that you download from MAS is still tokenized do you'd need to be authenticated, same as any other MAS app. I'm not sure if you can just move the app over, but you can make a bootable USB stick with the Install Mac OS X.app using the InstallESD.dmg file that's inside the app which can be used with any other Mac that can run Lion
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Sep 7, 2012 19:33
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Halloween Jack posted:Yeeaah. Welp, I'm hosed. You could always go to an Apple store, explain the situation, and ask for a copy of Lion.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:39
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cbirdsong posted:You could always go to an Apple store, explain the situation, and ask for a copy of Lion. This is how I got to Snow Leopard for my 2007 MBP. I never bothered to upgrade it, and then when I finally wanted to just before the Mountain Lion release, I couldn't. I made an appointment, dropped off my machine, and an hour later Snow Leopard was on there. Free of charge.
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Sep 7, 2012 19:42
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Martytoof posted:I'm of the mindset that I never actually delete things that Apple will remove anymore.
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Sep 7, 2012 21:14
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:You can still download Lion from your Purchases list. You just can't buy it anymore. Yeah, but after deleting some IPAs that Apple later removed from iTMS I decided to just play it safe with my purchases. Good to know though. And anyway, having it on a spare disk is faster than having to download it again. Especially since I'm bitcapped 
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Sep 7, 2012 21:18
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I just got my 13" MBA today and I love it. I have set everything up with my applications and settings like I had on my older MPB. Everything is hunky dory except the OS gives away some really weird noises sometimes. It sounds like a whipping sound and sometimes a blip. I have turned off everything in sound settings and in the apps (that I can find) but it still makes this weird noise. This is the first time I use Mountain Lion and I never heard this using Lion. Does anyone have any idea what it might be? I have installed Colloquy, Adium, Twitter and droplr but I don't remember them playing any whipping noises.
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Sep 7, 2012 21:55
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von Braun posted:whipping sound and sometimes a blip I'm thinking Adium default buddy noises or auditory hallucinations resulting from your New Smell joy. Probably that.
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Sep 7, 2012 22:13
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:You can still download Lion from your Purchases list. You just can't buy it anymore. You can still buy Snow Leopard or Lion by calling 1800MYAPPLE. Snow Leopard will be shipped to you, Lion has a redemption code through email.
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Sep 7, 2012 22:28
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von Braun posted:I just got my 13" MBA today and I love it. I have set everything up with my applications and settings like I had on my older MPB. Everything is hunky dory except the OS gives away some really weird noises sometimes. It sounds like a whipping sound and sometimes a blip. I have turned off everything in sound settings and in the apps (that I can find) but it still makes this weird noise. This is the first time I use Mountain Lion and I never heard this using Lion. Does anyone have any idea what it might be? I have installed Colloquy, Adium, Twitter and droplr but I don't remember them playing any whipping noises. Sounds like you're using the iChat sound set for Adium.
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Sep 7, 2012 22:56
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von Braun posted:I just got my 13" MBA today and I love it. I have set everything up with my applications and settings like I had on my older MPB. Everything is hunky dory except the OS gives away some really weird noises sometimes. It sounds like a whipping sound and sometimes a blip. I have turned off everything in sound settings and in the apps (that I can find) but it still makes this weird noise. This is the first time I use Mountain Lion and I never heard this using Lion. Does anyone have any idea what it might be? I have installed Colloquy, Adium, Twitter and droplr but I don't remember them playing any whipping noises. Do you have iMessage enabled?
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Sep 7, 2012 23:30
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skeetied posted:Do you have iMessage enabled? I have it installed but I don't use it. I tried to turn off all the sounds in it but nothing changed. I will try to make the account inactive.
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Sep 7, 2012 23:38
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The whip sound is Colloquy. I think it's when somebody either joins or leaves a room you're in. Edit: Depending on the bleep, that could be Colloquy too. It makes an alert noise when somebody mentions your name.
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I can't seem to get migration assistant to work. A friend of mine accidentally deleted the 'private' dir on her 2007 Macbook rendering it unbootable. I don't know what version of OS X she had previously. I tried upgrading to 10.7 via USB boot but it says the version installed doesn't support upgrading. So I put in a new hard drive and install 10.7 onto that. Works like a charm. Now I have her old hard drive hooked up via an external enclosure through FW400. When I run migration assistant it can't find the drive, just keeps searching forever. The drive mounts fine and I can see files on there. What else can I do? Manually copy the files I guess? I'm not sure where to look outside of the user dir but I don't want to miss anything.
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Mr. Onslaught posted:Is there any way to set this up so that both of these scenarios occur, possibly through Terminal? Did anyone ever respond to this? Enable Fast User Switching and you have the option "Login Window", which will effectively lock your PC. You can select this from the little User dude in your top right corner. You can use Better Touch Tool to create a shortcut for "Show Login Window." It's not quite a Hot Corner, but you can get a keyboard shortcut, mouse gesture or anything of the sort. Neither of these involve the timeout, so you can continue to have no password on timeout.
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Sep 8, 2012 05:00
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choobs posted:I have a mid-2010 Mac Mini, so I know in ML I can't do AirPlay mirroring, but can you send audio to a Apple TV outside of iTunes? I'd love to be able to stream Spotify or Pandora or whatnot to my stereo from my computer. AirFoil?
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Shaocaholica posted:I can't seem to get migration assistant to work. Basically whenever I set up a new Mac I copy my user's Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music, and Desktop contents, but I don't do Apps or anything. I suppose Migration assistant might copy over preference files for apps and things like that, but I like to set up computers from scratch so I do all my installs all over again. That and I keep most of my stuff on Dropbox. But honestly, all you should need is to copy those folders over and make sure the ownership is correct. Anything else she should be able to re-sync. Unless her mail is POP, in which case you'll want to certainly copy over the Mail files from your Library, but that's a little beyond what I've done recently so I can't suggest which files to work with here.
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Martytoof posted:Basically whenever I set up a new Mac I copy my user's Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music, and Desktop contents, but I don't do Apps or anything. I suppose Migration assistant might copy over preference files for apps and things like that, but I like to set up computers from scratch so I do all my installs all over again. Ok, I'll try that. Just figured migration assistant would also track down files stored outside of the user space. Also saves me from having to 'touch' her files, at least directly.
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Yeah, sorry I can't be any help as to *why* Migration Assistant won't work for you. Basically /private is super important to the UNIX underpinnings so I'm betting it probably relies on /etc/passwd or something which is now unavailable. I suppose since you're going to this trouble that there's no chance she has a Time Machine backup, right?
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Martytoof posted:Yeah, sorry I can't be any help as to *why* Migration Assistant won't work for you. Basically /private is super important to the UNIX underpinnings so I'm betting it probably relies on /etc/passwd or something which is now unavailable. Not sure how that works. She had 10.4 installed so I guess that didn't have time machine. Maybe 10.7 Migration doesn't work with 10.4 installs? I'm going to try to upgrade her old drive to 10.6 tomorrow to see what happens. Maybe it will let me migrate to a clean 10.7 after that.
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choobs posted:I have a mid-2010 Mac Mini, so I know in ML I can't do AirPlay mirroring, but can you send audio to a Apple TV outside of iTunes? I'd love to be able to stream Spotify or Pandora or whatnot to my stereo from my computer. Option-click the speaker icon in the menubar. The audio option for AppleTV should be in there.
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mediaphage posted:AirFoil? I don't have any need for airfoil anymore. I just choose my apple tv under system preferences - sound - output (mountain lion on mid 2010 imac).
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Ok, so 10.6 allows me to install over a broken 10.4 but I haven't done it yet. Does anyone know what will happen if I do so? Will the old user accounts be restored? If it can't restore the old user accounts, will they still be safe?
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Sep 8, 2012 17:11
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I believe it'll move everything currently on the drive into a folder at the root directory called "Previous System." You'll have to do the legwork of putting files where they belong.
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Sep 8, 2012 17:27
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It'll move /System to /Previous System, but it won't affect user accounts. Those should remain in /Users untouched.
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wolffenstein posted:It'll move /System to /Previous System, but it won't affect user accounts. Those should remain in /Users untouched. But will the old accounts still work? Will the show up in the new install as valid accounts I can log into?
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They should, but no guarantees. Use Disk Utility or SuperDuper to make a backup of the 10.4 install before using 10.6.
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