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Djimi posted:It's all proof that reading and replying in the forums is ultimately a waste time for everyone, I suppose. I think individual support questions should really go into the tech support forum, and it'd maybe also be time for a separate Mac buyer's guide thread that would help people figure out the eternal question of whether they'll need 4 or 8 gigs for "some web browsing and light photo and video editing", among other things. There are surely some support questions of general interest, but that guy's question wasn't one. At least with the more general questions, I can delude myself that if I reply and get some silly reaction from the person who asked, it may still be helpful for someone else.
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Seconding flatten as probably the best course of action. Breaking out debuggers is fine when it's your own code, but any knowledge gained would only result in a bug report that might result in a fix or it might not, meanwhile she still can't actually, you know, use the software. Sucks that it had to come to this, but if it's not a known issue and reinstalling iMovie had no effect it's kind of the next step. At least Time Machine is easy to use.
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Eight Is Legend posted:If you haven't gotten a password manager yet (and you really should), you can get six months free Dashlane Premium (and I can, too Thanks for this - I just got 6 months free premium. I hope you do too. 
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Pivo posted:She lives like, hours away. So we gotta do this remotely. carry on then posted:Breaking out debuggers is... I think that is very good use of time, even when somebody is being helped remotely. Sure it could waste another 15+ minutes doing that... but wouldn't it be wonderful if it 'fixed' the issue? I suppose I'm heavily biased because I engineer solutions and fix people's problems for a living. But yes — a reinstall can work wonders as well,  (when did that 'smiley' come along?)
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Jul 17, 2014 07:56
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Kidney Stone posted:You can make the Outlook Web Mail into an web-app using Fluid, http://fluidapp.com/ I really like this, but I have two websites I use that aren't safari friendly. Can you modify fluid to use a different browser, or is anyone aware of another similar app that does?
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Jul 17, 2014 13:49
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bimmian posted:I really like this, but I have two websites I use that aren't safari friendly. Can you modify fluid to use a different browser, or is anyone aware of another similar app that does? I'm pretty sure it was discontinued but maybe you could get Mozilla Prism to work.
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Pivo posted:So regarding iMovie/Final Cut not exporting, she tried with her sister's computer with the same files and everything worked fine. So she's gonna back up her important poo poo and just do a fresh install of the OS and that should hopefully help. She works across the street from an Apple Store so they can even do it for her and I don't have to go anywhere. Yay. Why would you jump to fresh os install before re-installing iMovie? And is this iMovie '13 that uses the iMovie library? because it could also be the library file.
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Jul 17, 2014 14:54
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Kingnothing posted:Why would you jump to fresh os install before re-installing iMovie? And is this iMovie '13 that uses the iMovie library? because it could also be the library file. It's the latest one from the App Store, this happened with a fresh install of iMovie. Why would it be the library? Why would that affect the encode? *shrug* Doesn't make sense to me, but no we haven't tried nuking the library.
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Jul 17, 2014 15:02
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Pivo posted:It's the latest one from the App Store, this happened with a fresh install of iMovie. Fresh install of iMovie doesn't mean it installed properly. Have you tried on a different user account? It could also be permissions/ACLs.
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bimmian posted:I really like this, but I have two websites I use that aren't safari friendly. Can you modify fluid to use a different browser, or is anyone aware of another similar app that does? You can change the Fluid app's user agent via the menu bar: App Name/User Agent. I made a Gmail app for my work mail that I set to Chrome and it works just fine.
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Jul 17, 2014 15:25
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binarysmurf posted:Thanks for this - I just got 6 months free premium. I hope you do too. I did, thanks
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pipes! posted:You can change the Fluid app's user agent via the menu bar: App Name/User Agent. I made a Gmail app for my work mail that I set to Chrome and it works just fine. Ah, great. Thanks
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User has Macbook. User sad. User want to make big folder of files. Make box around files and dump lots of files from lots of different small folders. Sometime same file in different small folders. Sometime same file already in big folder. When user copy some box of files and paste into big folder, Finder say: Replace/Stop/Keep Both. User not want to copy file from box to big folder. User want to keep only file already in big folder. Press: Stop. Not work. Press: Replace. Not work. Press: Keep Both. Not work. Help User. Can make Finder only paste new files? Edit: Just doing the same thing as described and suddenly a dialogue box pops up, only this time instead of 'Keep Both' it was 'Skip'. Cool. But the next time it was back to 'Keep Both'. Does it change depending on the files? Say, if they are exactly the same size it offers 'Skip' but if the sizes are different it's 'Keep Both'? SMERSH Mouth fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jul 17, 2014 |
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Jul 17, 2014 17:24
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SMERSH Mouth posted:User want to keep only file already in big folder ( code:
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Good to know that I can add that parameter to a command from the terminal, but I'm unfortunately dealing with (someone else's) big huge insane working directory, trying to get a bunch of image files organized so that InDesign doesn't poo poo itself with broken links every time I open it. I need a GUI. There are a lot of duplicate folders, folders with very minor content differences, and image files of the same photo saved at different sizes and quality levels with different file naming systems, and stuck in folders seemingly at random. I feel like I'm going insane. I guess it's probably prudent to just always 'Keep Both' when offered, and now I'm discovering that Finder seems to know if the files really are exactly the same and offer the 'Skip' option sometimes instead. I think.
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SMERSH Mouth posted:I need a GUI.
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there's also chronosync which may be more friendly to use.
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Very cool. Much appreciated.
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I have a refurb rMBP from early 2013 coming today. I think it's coming with Mountain Lion installed. Should I just upgrade to Mavericks right away?
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Jul 18, 2014 16:47
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iTerm2 just updated with some pretty swank poo poo: http://www.iterm2.com/downloads.html
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Guancho posted:I have a refurb rMBP from early 2013 coming today. I think it's coming with Mountain Lion installed. Should I just upgrade to Mavericks right away? I can't think of any reason as to why not.
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crazysim posted:I can't think of any reason as to why not. Cool thanks. This is my first Mac and I'm just not sure of anything right now
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Guancho posted:Cool thanks. This is my first Mac and I'm just not sure of anything right now Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. Except trying to adjust to the POS that is Finder if you're somebody reasonably experienced with using Windows Explorer.
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Pixelmator is on sale for $15.99.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. pretty sweet so far
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GokieKS posted:Except trying to adjust to the POS that is Finder if you're somebody reasonably experienced with using Windows Explorer. What exactly is supposed to be so awful about Finder? I've never understood it. I use Windows and OS X almost everyday, and I never find myself missing Explorer.
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Toe Rag posted:What exactly is supposed to be so awful about Finder? I've never understood it. I use Windows and OS X almost everyday, and I never find myself missing Explorer. I also hated the Finder when I switched from Windows to OSX. I spent a few years using PathFinder, then switched to TotalFinder for the past few years. I consider TotalFinder a must-have for the following features: • put folders at the top of the directory structure (Windows does this, Finder does not) • tabs and split panes (Explorer still doesn't do this AFAIK) • hot key to slide Finder in from the bottom/top of the screen visor-style, regardless of which Space you're on (another thing Explorer can't do AFAIK - do new Windows versions even have built-in virtual desktops yet?) • toggle to show hidden/system files (Windows does this with a check box toggle in its Options but TotalFinder lets you assign a keyboard shortcut to hide/show, which is nice) • automatically adjust column widths (Windows doesn't do this AFAIK) So yeah, most of the features I can't live without aren't features that are available in Explorer anyway. I also spend a lot of time on the command line and find it's often easier to use some regex-using series of piped commands to handle complex file manipulation than trying to do it in Finder. Having a real Unix shell (zsh in my case) is so much better than trying to get stuff done in Windows CLI with PowerShell or even CygWin. I guess my suggestion to people who can't stand Finder is to buy TotalFinder and/or buy some kind of Learning Linux/BASH book.
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Eight Is Legend posted:If you haven't gotten a password manager yet (and you really should), you can get six months free Dashlane Premium (and I can, too Used this as well. Did you get another 6 months of premium? Cheers for posting the link.
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Lawen posted:I also hated the Finder when I switched from Windows to OSX. I spent a few years using PathFinder, then switched to TotalFinder for the past few years. I consider TotalFinder a must-have for the following features: Almost all of those are strictly preference, with the exception of hidden files which should be rarely needed in OS X. Mavericks has added tabbed windows.
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Merging folders is a pain and cannot be accomplished through finder, you need to rely on ditto or rsync.
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Kingnothing posted:Almost all of those are strictly preference, with the exception of hidden files which should be rarely needed in OS X. Mavericks has added tabbed windows. Well yeah, I was talking about why I preferred TotalFinder. Which seemed germane to a discussion about why people prefer Explorer to Finder.  Also, probably the biggest pain point for moving from Explorer to Finder is that you can't expand the folder structure in-line in the sidebar of Finder like you can in Explorer. To copy a file to a subfolder that isn't in the sidebar you either have to fiddle with putting 2 Finder windows on screen so you can drag from one to the other or do an awkward drag and hover to navigate the file system (and lose your original place in the filesystem). TotalFinder's split pane view is much more tolerable.
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Kingnothing posted:Almost all of those are strictly preference, with the exception of hidden files which should be rarely needed in OS X. Mavericks has added tabbed windows. lol someone doesn't deal with dotfiles
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Finder has improved a bit with the introduction of tabs, but it's still aggravating as hell. Top on my list of annoyances is that it is basically impossible to have a "default view" (with proper column sizing) for all folders, ESPECIALLY if network folders are involved. .DS_Store's existence would be annoying even if it actually worked properly, but that it doesn't is just adding insult to injury. I would kill to have a "Apply view to all folders" function a la Windows Explorer in Finder. Anyway, I use PathFinder, which is decent enough. Not being able to use the same shortcuts for tab navigation as basically every other tabbed program in the world (ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab) is annoying though.
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Blinkz0rz posted:lol someone doesn't deal with dotfiles You try and use a GUI to deal with dotfiles?!?!
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Textual will be free on the Mac App Store on July 23rd. It's also when the beta begins for their next major release. It's my favorite IRC client for OS X and was the first thing I purchased when the MAS opened.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Textual will be free on the Mac App Store on July 23rd. It's also when the beta begins for their next major release. It's my favorite IRC client for OS X and was the first thing I purchased when the MAS opened.
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Mad Wack posted:Merging folders is a pain and cannot be accomplished through finder, you need to rely on ditto or rsync. It works better in Yosemite.
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Mercurius posted:I endorse this software and would purchase it at full price again because it's great. Textual owns. Got it based off a recommendation here, and it makes you an IRC wizard.
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I use a mix of irssi and Textual. irssi is really nice if you have the time to set it up just how you like it, but Textual is just click and go. It's unfortunately not as customizable as something like irssi is, but it can display images inline and stuff and the GUI is intuitive. It can be a bit slow at times though with a lot of windows open, which is strange.
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