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NeuralSpark posted:Find My iPhone from Apple's iCloud.com will activate something like a firmware password that requires a 4 digit PIN to get past but that requires the device to check in. It's not a firmware password, so it's easily bypassed. It boots to the recovery HD and prompts for the passcode. Internet Recovery bypasses it completely and allows the drive to be erased and the OS reinstalled, at which point it has no memory of your Apple ID or your desire for it to check in. It would be really nice if Find My Mac turned on a firmware password, but alas. gmq, it's quite likely that the person who obtained your laptop will not know how to do that. My fiancée's iMac was stolen and the person who had it thought that moving all of her files to the trash was sufficient to wipe the machine. She didn't have Find My Mac turned on, but luckily she had CrashPlan installed and it continued to back up. It also backed up the thief's student loan application, complete with his name/address/phone/SSN/references, and the police got the computer back the next day.
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Horace posted:Having an irritating problem with my Late 2013 Retina MBP. This is a bug in 10.9.2. I hit the same problem with my rMBP.  http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/2013-macbook-air-wifi-problems http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/23fn21/osx_1092_rmbp_late_2013_wifi_keeps_disconnecting/ http://howtoapple.com/mavericks-wifi-issues-fix/ https://www.google.com/search?q=mavericks+wifi+issue I've tried everything to fix the problem. Nothing recommended seems to fix it; it appears that the wifi driver goes into low power state prematurely and disconnects. I work around it by using NoSleep and Caffiene to keep the laptop awake as long as possible.
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jink posted:This is a bug in 10.9.2. I hit the same problem with my rMBP. I've had good luck with turning off Bluetooth most of the time, and re-enabling it when I use Bluetooth devices after Wifi is up and running. But yeah, annoying.
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Thanks for the responses. jink posted:This is a bug in 10.9.2. I hit the same problem with my rMBP. Kingnothing posted:Delete the networking plist and reboot? fordan posted:I've had good luck with turning off Bluetooth most of the time, and re-enabling it when I use Bluetooth devices after Wifi is up and running. But yeah, annoying.
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Whoever stole my mac hasn't connected it to the Internet so I'm starting to think about alternatives. I'm thinking about a 13" retina but I'm not sure about it. It would replace a mid 2012 Air. Any opinions?
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May 10, 2014 07:59
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gmq or something posted:Whoever stole my mac hasn't connected it to the Internet so I'm starting to think about alternatives. I'm thinking about a 13" retina but I'm not sure about it. It would replace a mid 2012 Air. Any opinions? Yes: The Mac software thread is THE best place to solicit opinions on hardware, particularly without any info about your needs. Also, 8 GB of memory may or may not be enough, depending on your needs. Mr. Smile Face Hat fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 10, 2014 |
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May 10, 2014 09:25
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I'm getting a Mini ready to sell and want to do a clean install of Mavericks. Snow Leopard was the original OS and it's a direct upgrade from there to Mavericks so I figure that's okay as far as money/licensing goes. (isn't it?) When I go to install Mavericks, it wants an Apple ID and password. Will that be saved or used for anything apart from the initial installation?
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Soup in a Bag posted:When I go to install Mavericks, it wants an Apple ID and password. Will that be saved or used for anything apart from the initial installation? The Apple ID in the installer is just for you to authenticate to Apple in order to download the install package. The first user will still be prompted for their own Apple ID. License-wise, it's sort of a grey area since your license to Mavericks only applies to Macs that you own and control. The Internet Police won't be bashing down your door over it though, so I wouldn't lose any sleep.
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I have a new rMBP running 10.9.2, and I've installed Parallels 9 to run Snow Leopard Server. Currently running 10.6.3. I'm having an issue trying to run an external USB 3.0 drive. When I plug it in, the popup asks which OS I'd like to mount it on, and I choose the VM. It then does not appear, but shows up in System Profiler as attached. It also mounts to Mavericks without any issues. It reads a thumb drive without issue (albeit formatted FAT32). Is there something I'm missing? The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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Rand McNally posted:I have a new rMBP running 10.9.2, and I've installed Parallels 9 to run Snow Leopard Server. Currently running 10.6.3. I'm having an issue trying to run an external USB 3.0 drive. When I plug it in, the popup asks which OS I'd like to mount it on, and I choose the VM. It then does not appear, but shows up in System Profiler as attached. It also mounts to Mavericks without any issues. It reads a thumb drive without issue (albeit formatted FAT32). You might have to install some variety of USB3 driver in Snow Leopard. It didn't ship with support for anything beyond 2.0, as far as I'm aware.
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Sonic Dude posted:You might have to install some variety of USB3 driver in Snow Leopard. It didn't ship with support for anything beyond 2.0, as far as I'm aware. The drive works on the partition of Snow Leopard on my iMac, but it's running 10.6.8. I'll try that. Thanks!
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I've encountered more irritating bugs in Mavericks than any other Mac OS I've used. Safari's just started doing that annoying thing where you swipe to go back and the page moves a few pixels and then the tab completely locks up. I've already had to stop my laptop sleeping because of this wifi loss bug, and before that had already stopped downloading large files in Firefox because the computer would put itself to sleep mid download. On top of that, a couple of times I've completely lost all sound after unplugging the headphones.
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What I've found triggers the wifi bug is having my wireless headphones paired. Having Bluetooth on to run the Magic Mouse doesn't affect the wifi when it comes back from sleep (although there is a customary second-long wait while it reauthenticates)
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I'm still having it with Bluetooth turned off. I can't reliably reproduce the bug. I thought I'd cured it by clearing out all the saved networks (there were dozens of them, I didn't realise it copied across every free wifi I've used on my iPhone!) but it came back after a couple of days.
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Soup in a Bag posted:I'm getting a Mini ready to sell and want to do a clean install of Mavericks. Snow Leopard was the original OS and it's a direct upgrade from there to Mavericks so I figure that's okay as far as money/licensing goes. (isn't it?) Officially? Maybe not, since (as was mentioned above) the license for OS X is genuine Apple hardware you own and control. Practically? Apple has shown, both in the lack of product keys and the fact that Mavericks is free, that they make far more off hardware sales, so generally consider the genuine Apple hardware requirement to be the only copy protection worth enforcing. In any case, there's nothing preventing you from selling the Mac with 10.9, and you'll always have a license to use Mavericks on a Mac... as long as you have a Mac to run Mavericks on.
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In Mavericks, whenever I initiate a restart and I have some application opens, I guess it tries to re-open this state once I boot up. Is there anyway to disable this? Every time it basically hangs and I have to hard reset.
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lol internet. posted:In Mavericks, whenever I initiate a restart and I have some application opens, I guess it tries to re-open this state once I boot up. Is there anyway to disable this? Every time it basically hangs and I have to hard reset. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/124367/stop-mavericks-from-relaunching-applications
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lol internet. posted:In Mavericks, whenever I initiate a restart and I have some application opens, I guess it tries to re-open this state once I boot up. Is there anyway to disable this? Every time it basically hangs and I have to hard reset. When the restart dialogue pops up, make sure reopen apps is unchecked. If it is, go to system preferences>users>login items. Unchecking just hides them, you need to select it and hit the minus button. If that doesn't work, you need to check the loginitems folder in both the system and user libraries.
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Is there any way for me to see how many files are in a folder (and its subfolders) without counting the folders themselves? For example: >Folder 1 >>file.doc >>Folder 2 >>>file2.doc >>>file3.doc >>>Folder 3 >>>>file4.doc If I open inspector while Folder 1 is selected, it says there are 6 items. I want it to tell me that there are 4.
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Pivo posted:
This...kinda seems like it's working. Could it be counting hidden files as well?
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angor posted:This...kinda seems like it's working. Could it be counting hidden files as well? Definitely. code:code:edit: kay remoted into a Mac, yeah BSD find will do the same thing, good to go. Pivo fucked around with this message at 18:06 on May 12, 2014 |
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Woah, ok I'm a little confused (and way out of my depth). I ran this: code:
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angor posted:Woah, ok I'm a little confused (and way out of my depth). You need the |wc -l on the end to return a count Edit: I didn't know about the -not operator in find, so thanks for that Pivo. I would've done it with regex "[^\.]*" instead but I think your way is cleaner. Lawen fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 12, 2014 |
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Legend! This is working perfectly. Thank you both!!!
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angor posted:
Hahah. I know you got your answer, but the reason you were seeing ./index.html is because I had that in my 'sandbox' folder. It was the output from the 'find' command that I ran. You see the 'find' command takes some arguments that configures what the hell you want it to find, and then its output is what it finds, one line per file. When you "pipe" (with the pipe character |) it into another program, 'wc' short for 'word count' - you can count the lines of output. Normally wc counts words, but by giving it -l you count lines. Therefore code:code:Stringing tiny little programs together like this is sort of the ethos of *nix, and since you're on OS X, you'd better get used to using it - cause Finder sucks!! If you Google any problem you're having but type "linux" instead of "os x", like "linux count files in a directory", 99% of what you see will be applicable. If you type 'man (command)' into the Terminal, you will get documentation for that command... like to learn about how find works, you'd type 'man find'... Man is for manual, if you're curious. Good luck and have fun.
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Does anyone know of good intermediate video-editing software? Something between iMovie and Final Cut in both cost and capabilities. Basically I'm looking for the Pixelmator of video editors.
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It's not really a Pixelmator esque product, but would Premiere Elements be something you're after?
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When you say pixelmator, I'm guessing you're looking for cheap. Davinci resolve, the newest version has editing tools I think. Also it's free for 1080p projects. It's a bit higher end in capabilities, just skip the colour grading stuff if it doesn't interest you. I've never edited in it so hopefully it's not a "I wish I'd bought premiere" moment.
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carry on then posted:It's not really a Pixelmator esque product, but would Premiere Elements be something you're after? the_lion posted:When you say pixelmator, I'm guessing you're looking for cheap. Davinci resolve, the newest version has editing tools I think. Also it's free for 1080p projects. Premiere Elements seems like it maybe has the same problems iMovie does in terms of overly holding your hand and being full of unnecessary "Hollywood" transitions and effects, but I see there's a free trial so it's probably worth checking out. Davinci Resolve looks a bit heavy and I don't think it will run on her mid-2012 MBA (whereas it does meet the system requirements for Final Cut Pro) but I'll give that a shot too.
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I suppose this is an OSX question, but could very well belong in the hardware thread as well: Basically, OSX keeps rudely ejecting then remounting an external USB drive I have. I made sure that 'Put hard disks to sleep when possible' is unchecked in the Energy Saver window. Apart from that, I'm lost. Never happened on my previous computer. Power Nap is enabled, perhaps it's the culprit? I see this virtually every morning and always when I get home from work.
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Are they plugged into a USB hub? Maybe it's just being flaky and it's dropping the connection. I used to have a crappy hub that would disconnect every time it took a static shock.
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I have an external enclosure that behaves like that unless it's directly connected to the computer. Doesn't help that it's a cheap, off brand one as well.
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IUG posted:Are they plugged into a USB hub? Maybe it's just being flaky and it's dropping the connection. I used to have a crappy hub that would disconnect every time it took a static shock. It's one physical drive partitioned into the different disks. And yeah, it's directly connected into the computer. I am going to disable Power Nap tonight and see if it happens in the morning/after work. Any advice is appreciated.
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Could be a dying controller in the enclosure, or a dying drive.
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FordPRefectLL posted:Is there a way I can make the play button on the keyboard open Spotify instead of iTunes? I just use it for the old numpad on keyboard trick so i don't know the full extent of what it can do.
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10.9.3 is out, combo update here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1746
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I hope they tweaked Migration Assistant so it recognizes startup disks hooked up via USB 3.0. Right now I have to use slower Firewire docks or a Thunderbolt adapter to do migrations.
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