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Wasn't alfred. Also, search with recursion would be real nice right about now.
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Find Any File sounds familiar: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/ Haven't used it myself yet but I think it's been mentioned a few times.
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Dick Trauma posted:If you use a BC partition for a VM does the VM run from the partition or is it a one time deal where it uses the partition to create a VM and then they become separate?
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Jan 25, 2013 11:15
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Wild EEPROM posted:Ok, so, back around page 40 of this thread, someone posted a ridiculously powerful search tool for OS X. I forgot the name of it, but I could really use something like that right now. Does it need a GUI? mdfind is built in to osx and uses the metadata to do near-instant searches on your disk and you can query names, filetypes, actual metadata, and so on. "man mdfind" in terminal and enjoy the power!
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Jan 25, 2013 15:33
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HorseDickSandwich posted:What's this about a homemade fusion drive? I'm running an SSD + HD in the optical bay on my MBP right now. http://blog.macsales.com/15617-creating-your-own-fusion-drive This article is a little incorrect though. It says only the 2012 macmini has the diskutility necessary to build one of these. That's wrong. 10.8.2 from the mac app store has the command line diskutil necessary to do this. Only the 2012 macmini and iMac have the graphical version of disk utility that knows how to do it.
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Jan 25, 2013 17:06
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Ha, has anyone done a homebrew upgrade lately? Silly use of Emoji. Holy crap, I just realized I can make an emoji prompt. 
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Jan 25, 2013 17:20
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fleshweasel posted:I'm going for a 240 GB SSD + 500 GB HDD combo with an optibay in my 2010 MacBook running 10.6.8. Is moving the home folder as detailed here the best solution for keeping applications and system files on the SSD and documents and media on the HDD? I just did the home folder relocation on my desktop tonight with a 128gb SSD. Time Machine so far is reporting the same backup size but i suspect i'd have to restore to a big HDD first and then split it up again. Speeds are great but i'm starting to think about all the files in ~/Library and wondering if I should symlink them back onto the SSD
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Jan 26, 2013 08:48
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8ender posted:I just did the home folder relocation on my desktop tonight with a 128gb SSD. Time Machine so far is reporting the same backup size but i suspect i'd have to restore to a big HDD first and then split it up again. And yeah things will be better if your Library is on the SSD, there's a bunch of caches and other small files that are accessed a lot in there. Eventually I just set the home folder back on the SSD and left the big media folders on the platter drive cause of that.
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Jan 26, 2013 09:03
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Would it make sense to put folders individually on the HDD then: Music, Movies, Pictures, Documents and stuff like that? Also, does anyone know if the apple store techs work on weekends? day 4 of my 3-5 day repair estimate today and I'm hoping to get my darn computer back.
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Jan 26, 2013 18:39
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Why is half my RAM gone when all I have open is iTerm?
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Jan 26, 2013 18:43
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EVGA Longoria posted:Problem I have is I can't really do the fullscreen since I'm connecting to multiple machines at the same time and multitasking between them, and that's kinda tedious. I picked up Jump Desktop and it's perfect. Thanks for this - Jump rocks. It just made this week so much better.
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Jan 26, 2013 19:14
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Bob Morales posted:Why is half my RAM gone when all I have open is iTerm? Change to "All Processes" and then sort the Real Mem column to see what's eating it up.
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Jan 26, 2013 19:36
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vikingstrike posted:Change to "All Processes" and then sort the Real Mem column to see what's eating it up. kernel_task takes 449 MB - wondering how much is gobbled up by the HD 4000 and scaling to 1440x900.
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Jan 26, 2013 19:52
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Bob Morales posted:Why is half my RAM gone when all I have open is iTerm? It's not gone. Free RAM is wasted RAM. Green means the RAM isn't being used for something hopefully useful like caching files off disk. Once you use your computer enough after booting up, it'll slowly cache everything you need until the free RAM gets used up, and it'll automatically choose the stuff you haven't used in a while and kick it out when it needs more memory for new stuff. The distinction between yellow and blue is not really that interesting. If you see the pie chart full of red, that's a different story. A more interesting number is the 'page outs/second' value. If that is nonzero your computer is running out of space in RAM, if it's big enough you're thrashing and need more RAM or need to close some programs. 'Virtual Mem' is basically useless, 'Real Mem' is more relevant. Bob Morales posted:kernel_task takes 449 MB - wondering how much is gobbled up by the HD 4000 and scaling to 1440x900. kernel_task taking up that much wired memory is expected, if you have integrated graphics then the huge chunk of RAM that's reserved to the graphics system is accounted to the kernel. Have you updated to 10.8.2? chimz fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Jan 26, 2013 20:31
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Is there anyway for me to set fn + power to put the rMBP to sleep? As of right now I have to hit fn + option + command + power and I run the risk of miss-hitting and turning the thing straight off with fn + control + option + command + power button I tried setting using automator but i have no idea what I'm doing 
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Jan 26, 2013 23:59
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Chuck Bartowski posted:Is there anyway for me to set fn + power to put the rMBP to sleep? As of right now I have to hit fn + option + command + power and I run the risk of miss-hitting and turning the thing straight off with fn + control + option + command + power button Why do complicated keystroke combinations when you can just hit the power button then the letter S?
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Jan 27, 2013 01:06
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chimz posted:kernel_task taking up that much wired memory is expected, if you have integrated graphics then the huge chunk of RAM that's reserved to the graphics system is accounted to the kernel. Yes, I'm on 10.8.2 I'm usually one to tell people not to sperg out about free RAM measurements, but it just doesn't make any sense that my Air boots up with '700MB used' but this one boots up with '2000MB used'. All that is running on either one is DropBox and MenuMeters.
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Jan 27, 2013 01:10
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smax posted:Why do complicated keystroke combinations when you can just hit the power button then the letter S? I wasn't aware that was an option. Thank you
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Jan 27, 2013 01:13
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Cmd+Option+Eject is good too.
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Jan 27, 2013 01:36
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carry on then posted:
Yep, that was my original problem. At least power + s is quick and simple
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carry on then posted:
Huh, I guess the sleep screen button combo addition in ML didn't make it to the sleep command. Ctrl Shift Power never worked in Lion but they fixed that for the rMBP in ML. edit: Just tested. Option Command Power sleeps the computer in ML on a rMBP. No fn needed.
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crazysim posted:edit: Just tested. Option Command Power sleeps the computer in ML on a rMBP. No fn needed. So it does, thanks. On an unrelated topic: Could anyone help me out on how to use this 4chan thread downloader? It comes as a .pro file. I tried following the instructions on the last comment but it's lost on me. It'd be greatly appreciated.
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Jan 27, 2013 02:03
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It's the QT equivalent of like a Makefile used to compile the app. You've downloaded the source code. Unfortunately, it does not look like they offer a precompiled native OS X version on SourceForge.
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Jan 27, 2013 12:03
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Chuck Bartowski posted:So it does, thanks. As stated above, it's a build file for Qt projects. Here, I compiled the latest version for you as a .app: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4b441xcarapptz/4chan.zip Experto Crede fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Jan 27, 2013 |
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Jan 27, 2013 13:23
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Experto Crede posted:As stated above, it's a build file for Qt projects. I appreciate it but when trying to launch it I get this error message  I'm on 10.8.2 Is this just a general thing with the app or the version you compiled it on? Edit: No idea why they made the app such  to use. Apparently everyone on 4chan knows how to compile
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Chuck Bartowski posted:I appreciate it but when trying to launch it I get this error message I forgot to include the qt libraries  Download the 4.8 (Version I used) library for OS X here As for it being a ballache, well, there's a premade windows build and they probably assume unix users can suss out getting QT up and running. Plus they don't like "macfags"
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Am I using iCloud scheduled reminders wrong? It seems like I come back to my desktop and see a bunch of notifications sitting there for things I already did and marked complete on my phone.
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Jan 27, 2013 15:31
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Experto Crede posted:I forgot to include the qt libraries Thanks a bunch 
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smackfu posted:Am I using iCloud scheduled reminders wrong? It seems like I come back to my desktop and see a bunch of notifications sitting there for things I already did and marked complete on my phone. I have had this problem, also have had reminder completion not sync between devices. Usually opening the app fixes this for me.
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8ender posted:I just did the home folder relocation on my desktop tonight with a 128gb SSD. Time Machine so far is reporting the same backup size but i suspect i'd have to restore to a big HDD first and then split it up again. This sounds like such a pain in the rear end compared to a fusion drive setup. What's keeping you on 10.6.8?
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Wild EEPROM posted:Ok, so, back around page 40 of this thread, someone posted a ridiculously powerful search tool for OS X. I forgot the name of it, but I could really use something like that right now. Could it be Hazel? http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php I've used it to clean up giant folders, and now it's constantly monitoring different folders to keep stuff organised.
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Could anyone recommend me a flashcards program? I need an OSX/ioS app with the following functionality: - Ability to create cards in OSX and test myself on the go on my ipad/iphone via an easy, automatic sync (no 'exporting as images') - Support for pictures - Ability to make subsets/labels Thanks!
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I have a new Mac with Mountain Lion preinstalled--can I download it from the App Store for free somehow so I can make a bootable USB drive in case I need to reinstall, or is there another way to do it?
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Jan 27, 2013 23:04
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If it's a brand new Mac, it will download OS X again for you if the drive is gone. Or you press CMD + R when booting to go to Recovery Mode.
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I just used Recovery Disk Assistant. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 This let me make a bootable recovery disk with a flash drive
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wolffenstein posted:If it's a brand new Mac, it will download OS X again for you if the drive is gone. Or you press CMD + R when booting to go to Recovery Mode. That's right.. don't you just put in a blank HDD, it will detect that there is no OS and re-download it for you when you boot?
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PRADA SLUT posted:That's right.. don't you just put in a blank HDD, it will detect that there is no OS and re-download it for you when you boot? That key command is also a good (albeit very slow) way to boot to a known-good "drive" and test things like the screen or keyboard, if you don't trust (or somehow lost) your Recovery partition.
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Is there any secret to getting Messages to respect Do Not Disturb in Mountain Lion? It's obviously using it for the notification pop ups, but it's still making sounds when I get a message. Kind of defeats the purpose of DND, doesn't it?
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echobucket posted:This sounds like such a pain in the rear end compared to a fusion drive setup. What's keeping you on 10.6.8? I'm on Mountain Lion but I'm sort of partial to this way for now because I get to choose what is getting full SSD speed and what isn't. I'm also sort of holding out on the Fusion drive idea for a while until its been around for a while. Also with Carbon Copy I was able to set this up in about 30 minutes. I left my home folder and OS on the SSD and symlinked back to the HDD for Downloads, Documents, Music and Pictures. Works great.
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