The OSX/Apple support thread

[All that jazz]

Thanks, that CMD TAB will be useful. I've been using the 2 finger double tap to get between programs so far.

I've found that there's no need for full screen for most stuff and instead I have just stretched the windows to a size I'm comfy with which keeps the taskbar and the top menu bars in place. Bookmarking and stuff seems to be unintuitive in Safari so I've abandoned that for now and am using Chrome til I get everything set up. Not a fan of the keyboard either. Even though it's very slightly raised at the back it's still way too flat for my liking and there's no way of making it higher without propping stuff underneath it. Quickly getting used to the feel of it though and can type quite fast on it already. Mouse is still a bit love-hate at the moment - having backwards page scroll action seems retarded to me after coming from Windows.

I was pleasantly surprised how a java online radio streaming site I use instantly worked and started playing audio within 2 seconds of opening it. On Windows it's a right old fk about as inevitably Java will firstly be out of date and require updating (like it always does) and the online version never works so you have to download the offline one, but then you get conflicts with your existing java version so have to use the uninstaller to remove that... After that it still doesn't work and you have to go into control panel and Java to create a site exception for the URL etc etc etc. It does eventually work.. until Java needs updating again.. but it was really nice to see it just work straight off the bat in OSX. I like simple stuff like that .

[AstonZagato]

CMD~ switches between windows in an individual program (so, if you have, say, three emails open and one is hidden, CMD~ will cycle through them and bring the one you want to the top).

CMD.TAB only cycles the programs not the windows.

[Tonsko]

Java now has an update button. About 6 months ago (on ML anyway) there wasa right dick about, moving the old install, grabbing new binaries, setting up symlinks. Strewth.

[All that jazz]

Hmm seems there's no way to feed audio directly into a program on Macs, like Stereo Mix on Windows ?

Trying to get this Windows prog to work and it does using PlayonMac but the the mixer exe files aren't installing. The program is picking up audio from the speakers via the mic which is no good. It needs to be direct from source as well as coming out of speakers.

http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm

[jmorgan]

Not sure what you are trying to do but
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

??

[marshalla]

All that jazz said:

Hmm seems there's no way to feed audio directly into a program on Macs, like Stereo Mix on Windows ?

Trying to get this Windows prog to work and it does using PlayonMac but the the mixer exe files aren't installing. The program is picking up audio from the speakers via the mic which is no good. It needs to be direct from source as well as coming out of speakers.

http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm

Any native Mac alternatives here : http://www.machamradio.com/links/ ?

[Leithen]

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All that jazz said:

Hmm seems there's no way to feed audio directly into a program on Macs, like Stereo Mix on Windows ?

Trying to get this Windows prog to work and it does using PlayonMac but the the mixer exe files aren't installing. The program is picking up audio from the speakers via the mic which is no good. It needs to be direct from source as well as coming out of speakers.

http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm

Audio Hijack?

[All that jazz]

marshalla said:

All that jazz said:

Hmm seems there's no way to feed audio directly into a program on Macs, like Stereo Mix on Windows ?

Trying to get this Windows prog to work and it does using PlayonMac but the the mixer exe files aren't installing. The program is picking up audio from the speakers via the mic which is no good. It needs to be direct from source as well as coming out of speakers.

http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm

Any native Mac alternatives here : http://www.machamradio.com/links/ ?

Alas no. The program itself functions, ie. opens and you can control it, but it needs the audio going straight into it instead of being picked up by the mic from the speaker audio. I tried Soundflower which is supposed to work for such duties but still can't get any response from the audio spectrum within the program. When starting it in PlayOnMac it says that the sound mixer cannot be used because it cannot find SNDVOL32.exe and SNDVOL.exe, which appear to be normal Windows volume control system files. I don't think any of the work-around progs like Audacity etc will work until those exe files are working. I need this program to work in OSX otherwise I may as well put it back in the box and send it back. I don't want to go down the boot camp route.

[Leithen]

It's not entirely clear what you are trying to do here - can you tell us what the purpose is, and what the windows setup is/was? What programs are you using and what hardware are you involving?

[All that jazz]

Leithen said:

It's not entirely clear what you are trying to do here - can you tell us what the purpose is, and what the windows setup is/was? What programs are you using and what hardware are you involving?

It's an amateur radio digital decoder program. To put it very simply, you play an internet audio stream or even a local audio file for that matter, and the program receives the audio and decodes it, displaying the decoded info on the screen within the program. In order for it to function it needs to receive the audio directly (like a line in but without a physical cable), which can be done easily enough in Windows via the stereo mix function in the recorder. Mac doesn't have stereo mix and the only option is mic for recording. This is no good as the program is getting the audio second hand as it's playing out of the speakers and being picked up by the Mac's mic.

I've just discovered another problem too - Mac doesn't recognise .cod user key files. The program only works for 5 mins without it so looks like it's never gonna happen here and will have to use an emulator. I'll be installing Win 7 on boot camp anyway to play my games, but I want it running in OSX not Windows. I don't want 2 versions of Windows on it as that would be stupid and games will be too slow through an emulator. *sigh*

[Leithen]

So, if I have this correctly, you are trying to continue to use the Windows program that was doing the decoding? If so, it sounds like you need to investigate OSX alternatives - there seem to be a number of websites dedicated to Mac OSX amateur radio software / hardware.

If you really need to keep your windows setup, consider virtual machines running within OSX - Fusion or Parallels - not sure about gaming but for most other purposes, they are very polished now.

[Tonsko]

Snowtape 2? http://vemedio.com/products/snowtape

Edited by Tonsko on Tuesday 17th February 10:09

[jmorgan]

Tried the obvious internet searches? It might be an obscure use for many (??) people but is it such an issue to bin the mac?

[All that jazz]

More problems *sigh*.

Trying to install W7 on Boot Camp. I have W7 Ultimate 64-bit already activated on a DVD-R which works fine on my other PC. I have made an ISO of it and sent it to my USB stick. When using the Boot Camp installer and selecting the ISO on the stick it says "Your bootable USB drive could not be created. Boot Camp only supports 64-bit Windows installation on this platform. Please use a ISO file for 64-bit Windows installation".

It is 64-bit Windows so what's the problem?

[jmorgan]

Any use
http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201468

[Tonsko]

You can't simply copy the ISO onto the USB stick - you have to make the USB drive bootable as well.

[All that jazz]

jmorgan said:

Any use
http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201468

Already read that when I first read about Boot Camp. I don't have an optical drive on the Mac and won't be able to get one til the weekend. Online posts say Boot Camp installs from a flash drive which is what I'm trying to do.

[LordGrover]

I fyou have access to Windows, get a usb/dvd tool such as the ms offering here: click.

[All that jazz]

Tonsko said:

You can't simply copy the ISO onto the USB stick - you have to make the USB drive bootable as well.

I've edited the registry as per this thread http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=15618... and resigned the plist file in the terminal. Boot Camp now opens again and recognises my 64-bit iso, but it's showing the flash drive as the destination for the bootable drive ?? Am I doing this right? The iso is on the flash drive right now.

Edit: OK, I dragged the ISO to my desktop and formatted the USB stick on my Windows machine. It now seems to be working as it's writing the Windows files to the USB stick to make a bootable drive. *fingers crossed*

[All that jazz]

Typically it's all gone to rats!

Process thus far :

- Have in my possession an activated Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit disk which works fine on my other PC.

- Made an iso of the disk and put it on desktop on Mac.

- Formatted my USB stick.

- Went into BCA (Boot Camp Assistant), checked all 3 boxes (install Windows, get installation files, make bootable device etc) and selected my USB stick to make as the bootable drive. That didn't work as it said I needed a 64-bit version of Windows. So I went through all this http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=15618... and finally got it working.

- BCA then started running, copying the Windows files, then installing them etc and eventually got to the partitioning screen. I moved the slider to give 500 GB for Windows which left around the same for Mac. Set it going and after doing its stuff it rebooted the machine and I got a black screen for a short while until "no bootable device, press any key to continue". The bootable USB stick was still in at this point. Despite having a wired keyboard it wasn't responding and nor was the mouse (wireless).

- Hard reset the machine by holding power for 5 seconds and tried holding ALT instead. That brought me to a black screen too, but now "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". Not sure what I did but got to another screen with 2x pics of HDDs both called Macintosh HD and a drop down menu for wireless I think it was (could be wrong). I selected the right hand drive and it's booted back into Mac.

Not sure where I go from here. I tried running BCA again, but the bottom option now says "remove windows 7 or later version" and when clicked says "the windows partition and all of its contents will be lost" so it would appear I do have a Windows partition now.

In Disk Utility it shows :

Macintosh HD (621.33GB Core Storage Logical Volume Group)
- Macintosh HD (Start up disk: Macintosh HD)
- BOOTCAMP (Mounted partition: Boot Camp)
USB MEMORY BAR Media

In the partition tab of the top Macintosh HD one it says Partition Layout: Current and shows Macintosh HD Size 500.35 GB in Mac OS Extended format and underneath it shows BOOTCAMP Size 499 GB in MS-DOS (FAT) format.


Where has Windows gone and what do I do now? Seem to have come to a dead end here as I don't know what I've done wrong.