The OSX/Apple support thread
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sagarich said:
qube_TA said:
10.8 looks a little prettier than 10.6, there are a few extra features ported from iOS, personally I found that they got in the way and switched them off.
There is software that won't run on 10.6 now so it probably makes sense to upgrade, not given me any issues.
The only thing you should check though is that if you're still on 10.6 you may have some PPC apps that need Rosetta which was dropped in 10.7, if you need those programs then they won't run after the upgrade
Great, thanks. And do you think that my current spec macbook will handle the update? I won't need to upgrade ram or anything like that?There is software that won't run on 10.6 now so it probably makes sense to upgrade, not given me any issues.
The only thing you should check though is that if you're still on 10.6 you may have some PPC apps that need Rosetta which was dropped in 10.7, if you need those programs then they won't run after the upgrade
CommanderJameson said:
Drive's knackered. Off to the Apple shop with you.
It wouldn't surprise me, the HD corrupted a few weeks ago. I read online about it, others had my fault.. Blew some compressed air through it and it worked.
I don't have a can of air, but gave it a real good blow out and it burnt a disc this morning..
Trying to manage storage on iphone 5
I have 2 folders - camera roll which I can edit and delete the crap - 2.5gb
Photo library which is 4gb and I can only move them.
I've switched off photostream as that was filling up with old/rubbish too.
What's the best way to switch off the photo library and only keep those shots on the home machines?
I have 2 folders - camera roll which I can edit and delete the crap - 2.5gb
Photo library which is 4gb and I can only move them.
I've switched off photostream as that was filling up with old/rubbish too.
What's the best way to switch off the photo library and only keep those shots on the home machines?
PJ S said:
Looks like a speech bubble - anything to do with iMessage or Adium, as I'm fairly sure it's not iChat
I do use Messages but the dialog never changes, whether I have unread messages or not.TheHeretic said:
Click the cog, and see what it says.
None of the buttons do anything when you click them.Try an app like little snitch to see if it's connecting to the net, could be a virus.
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.ht...
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.ht...
I'm disadvantaged as I'm still on Snow Leopard, so from that, it looks like you're on ML and that's Notifications, which you should be able to set from the Sys Prefs panel.
If you simply want it gone, then the normal method is click and drag off the menu bar whilst holding down the Command key.
If it's just appeared for no reason, then something his triggered it or possible a temporary glitch.
A quick run through of Repair Permissions in Disk Utility might resolve that, assuming it wasn't simply a key combo you inadvertently pressed which launched it.
If you simply want it gone, then the normal method is click and drag off the menu bar whilst holding down the Command key.
If it's just appeared for no reason, then something his triggered it or possible a temporary glitch.
A quick run through of Repair Permissions in Disk Utility might resolve that, assuming it wasn't simply a key combo you inadvertently pressed which launched it.
Jakg said:
This icon just appeared on my Mac's status bar.
No idea how to find out what it is, and Google gives no answers.
Ideas?
Looks like it might be a Chromium bug .No idea how to find out what it is, and Google gives no answers.
Ideas?
LordGrover said:
I suspect it's not a mac vs wintel thing; winmail.dat attachments are a curse on any system from time to time. We go through spates of it and I rarely find the cause - it just goes away which is a tad frustrating. Irrespective of provider, client, os, sender, recipient - it just breaks every now and again. 
Agreed, very frustrating when a PC cant email a MAC.I renamed winmail.dat file (A PDF created on the PC) to filename.pdf
The Mac could open the PDF file just fine.
So I emailed the file from the MAC, to a PC user.
PC user says: "Cant open pdf file, apparently it was not decoded correctly"
So, although the winmail.dat file contains the PDF information, and renaming it on the mac allows it to be viewed, something in the process is preventing PC's down the line from opening the file.
Really drawing a blank at this on. Its worked before, just not when you want it to. I dont suppose you have any tips?
Im going to try generating the PDF, saving it to the windows desktop, then attaching it, rather than letting the PDF generator attach the email - I doubt it will make any difference. Do not know!
Mobsta said:
LordGrover said:
I suspect it's not a mac vs wintel thing; winmail.dat attachments are a curse on any system from time to time. We go through spates of it and I rarely find the cause - it just goes away which is a tad frustrating. Irrespective of provider, client, os, sender, recipient - it just breaks every now and again.
Agreed, very frustrating when a PC cant email a MAC.I renamed winmail.dat file (A PDF created on the PC) to filename.pdf
The Mac could open the PDF file just fine.
So I emailed the file from the MAC, to a PC user.
PC user says: "Cant open pdf file, apparently it was not decoded correctly"
So, although the winmail.dat file contains the PDF information, and renaming it on the mac allows it to be viewed, something in the process is preventing PC's down the line from opening the file.
Really drawing a blank at this on. Its worked before, just not when you want it to. I dont suppose you have any tips?
Im going to try generating the PDF, saving it to the windows desktop, then attaching it, rather than letting the PDF generator attach the email - I doubt it will make any difference. Do not know!
Or it seems to have done, at least.
I'm running an old polycarbonate MacBook in lion.
Recently Dropbox has darted acting up. It usually happens when I open the lid of the MacBook and wake it from sleep. I never shut it down.
The fans will start spinning at full speed and the system activity will show Dropbox using all spare CPU cycles.
When I moved the cursor oer the Dropbox icon in the status bar it turns into the spinning beach ball of doom, but returns to normal when I move it away from the Dropbox icon.
The only solution is to kill the Dropbox process and restart it after which it's ok.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Recently Dropbox has darted acting up. It usually happens when I open the lid of the MacBook and wake it from sleep. I never shut it down.
The fans will start spinning at full speed and the system activity will show Dropbox using all spare CPU cycles.
When I moved the cursor oer the Dropbox icon in the status bar it turns into the spinning beach ball of doom, but returns to normal when I move it away from the Dropbox icon.
The only solution is to kill the Dropbox process and restart it after which it's ok.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Got an interesting one.
Chrome stopped responding so I hit Force Quit and in the list of apps, TextEdit was there but it wasn't running. Any reason why that might've occurred?
Also keep having to reset my iTunes password because someone in China changed the password and downloaded an app from the store a few weeks back. Reckon someones monitoring me from some far off place on this Mac?
Any decent software to sweep for Spyware/Adware on OSX? Didn't think it would really need to, haven't opened/downloaded anything I shouldn't have.
Just noticed this too. On shared, two devices. I have no idea what they are or who has them turned on?
Chrome stopped responding so I hit Force Quit and in the list of apps, TextEdit was there but it wasn't running. Any reason why that might've occurred?
Also keep having to reset my iTunes password because someone in China changed the password and downloaded an app from the store a few weeks back. Reckon someones monitoring me from some far off place on this Mac?
Any decent software to sweep for Spyware/Adware on OSX? Didn't think it would really need to, haven't opened/downloaded anything I shouldn't have.
Just noticed this too. On shared, two devices. I have no idea what they are or who has them turned on?
Edited by F1GTRUeno on Tuesday 16th July 04:21
Here's an odd one I've just spent an afternoon trying to get to the bottom of.
Old Zyxel Prestige 600 router fails, so replaced with a new Zyxel SBG3300 full of complicated goodness (overkill, but what our company is currently deploying).
Connected to an approx 2008 iMac (forgot to check serial number, but aluminium core duo) that is running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 as the most up to date version of OSX it can take. Within a few minutes of connection to router regardless of dsl line being connected, the iMac freezes completely requiring hard reboot.
Console shows successful IP assignment via DHCP, router is happy and has no problem with more up to date clients. Console shows no error messages to help troubleshoot the problem.
Tested with two brand new identical Zyxel routers, exactly the same result. Now replaced with a modern Draytek, and no such problems, iMac chugging away happily....
Stumped!
Old Zyxel Prestige 600 router fails, so replaced with a new Zyxel SBG3300 full of complicated goodness (overkill, but what our company is currently deploying).
Connected to an approx 2008 iMac (forgot to check serial number, but aluminium core duo) that is running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 as the most up to date version of OSX it can take. Within a few minutes of connection to router regardless of dsl line being connected, the iMac freezes completely requiring hard reboot.
Console shows successful IP assignment via DHCP, router is happy and has no problem with more up to date clients. Console shows no error messages to help troubleshoot the problem.
Tested with two brand new identical Zyxel routers, exactly the same result. Now replaced with a modern Draytek, and no such problems, iMac chugging away happily....
Stumped!
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