Suddenly, Safari explodes with duplicate window and/or tabs for a single URL. If I click on a tab, I get the message that tabs must be closed to go to a new page. I approve this action, the windows disappear, only to have the next page appear with another pile of duplicates. Is this a virus?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Every time I go to click a link, or open a new Safari window, nothing seems to happen. No window, links don't seem to work, though they change color as if activated. Did some searching, found that the windows are opening just fine, but opening on a duplicate screen somewhere where I can't see them. Figured a simple restart would fix this, and it did--for about 3 windows. Now it's right back to the same thing. What's the fix? All software/updates are installed/current.
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Macintosh G5, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
I clicked on "open in dashboard" on a webpage; now every time I try to open my dashboard it re-directs to Safari and opens a new tab. I cannot stay on the dashboard long enough to delete whatever is causing the problem. Safari 5.1.3 OS X 10.7.3
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Safari keeps crashing and closing down after about 30 secs from launch. Has anyone else seen this and what are the best options.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
This problem involves my wife's Intel i7 iMac11,1 with a 27" screen. She started having problems with her email app (Entourage). I was unable to fix it. I finally recommended that we restore a previous incarnation of the MacOS 10.6.8 by restoring from Time Machine to the main hard drive. After Restore had finished, I tried to open several apps without success. I then used Disk Warrior 4.3 to update the iMac by booting the DVD on my Mac Pro and putting the iMac in Target Disk Mode since the iMac can't boot DW 4.3, but 4.3 can be used via Firewire to create a revised directory.
The non-Apple apps seemed to run fine after that, but I couldn't get some Apple apps to open. They would suddenly quit while they were in the process of opening. I then used the Apple Application Install DVD that came with the iMac to install the Apple Apps with the hope that the Apple Apps would open correctly and then I could update them from Apple Downloads or Software Update. When the install disk finished installing Apple Apps, I tried to open Safari to go the Apple Downloads, but Safari still quit suddenly during my attempt to open it. In desperation, I opened Firefox 6.0.1 and went to Apple Downloads.
There, I downloaded Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v 1.1 followed by a security update that ended with the number 1. After restart, I found that Font Book and DVD Player and iDVD and Garage Band and Quick Time Player 10.0 and iCal and Image Capture and iMovie and Calculator and Automator and Address Book and the Mail app and Preview and System Preferences and Text Edit and Grab app and Terminal opened without quitting, but Safari and Dictionary and iPhoto and Dashboard and App Store and iTunes still quit suddenly when I tried to open them. I didn't try the remaining Apple apps. Testing some non-Apple apps, VMware Fusion and Google Earth and MacScan all opened without quitting.
There are four events that may shed additional light. The backup power source went flaky a couple of days ago and it went on and off battery power rapidly until I unplugged it. Second, a power strip for my wife's iMac has since been plugged directly into the house current with no backup battery. Third, yesterday, the room became quite warm and the back side of the iMac became very warm or hot, but not bad enough to burn skin. Fourth, my wife insists on storing many of her files on the desktop. The desktop is virtually full of icons. I took a bunch of folders that she had on the desktop and put them in a folder in Documents, but there a quite a few folders still on the desktop and I estimate they will more than fill the screen if the files in them were all moved out of the folders and onto desktop.
It's handy and she can work faster than looking for them in Documents. Is it possible that power bumps from the house current or from the flaky backup battery could have damaged hardware or could such events damage software that is not replaced by the Restore from Time Machine? Could overheating damage hardware or software that is not replaced by Restore or the 10.6.8 Combo Update? Could too many files and folders cause the problems I'm having? She's operated this way for a year without problems, but I think the number of files had gradually increased during that time. I'm posting this message using Firefox 6.0.1.
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, iOS 5.1, Australian 4G new iPad no good
I have tried everything to get rid of dozens of duplicate Bookmarks Menu and Bookmark Bar folders in Safari's bookmarks. But despite everything as soon as they sync they all appear again. I am trying to syc two MacPros, MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad2. I phoned the helpline which worked at the time, by turning off synching, dumping all the User > Library > Safari folders then putting the same backup file from Time Machine onto all of them. Then turning on iCloud again. Until it all synched again causing the same problem. I have just tried all this again. I now have perhaps a hundred empty folders called Bookmarks Menu and Bookmark Bar. With .Mac and .Me this used to work perfectly. With iCloud it is a MESS.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MacPro / MacBookAir etc
I recently added a NAS with four main partitions (recognizes them as drives). Now, when ever I start up my mac, finder opens four panes, one for each drive. Is there any way I can prevent finder from automatically opening?
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Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When I open safari it opens multiple windows (260 to be exact) all of the same website and causing a temporary freeze of my computer. Then safari crashes and I have to force quit. Any suggestions? I have already unchecked restore windows in my system preferences.
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A few days ago, my wife told me that she was having some serious performance problems on her iMac, and showed me. While she was doing this, a window popped up announcing that there was a duplicate IP address for the 192.168.1.20 that we'd set her iMac to. I did a bit of digging, checking all our machines for that address, and trying to contact it to see if it would identify itself. Everything failed. None of our machines (that we know of) is using 192.168.1.20, and attempts to contact it via tools like ping, telnet, ssh, and various brousers all report "not responding".Â
I changed her address to 192.168.1.21, and the problem went away. But I'm still worried about the claim that 192.168.1.20 is in use. This seems to say that there's an unknown machines using it in our house. Â
So is there some way that her iMac or either of our Macbooks (or here iPad) can identify it, or at least contact it and give us some clues about what sort of beastie it might be?Â
We also have some linux systems, a Windows box, and a couple of smartphones with wifi, and tests from them have also failed, so I'll probably be asking on their lists, too.Â
My first suspect was the airport, but I verified that its DHCP server is giving out addresses in the .101 to .199 range that I set it to. Its config stuff doesn't show the .20 address anywhere that I can find.Â
(I did try setting one of the linux systems to use 192.168.1.20, and it didn't report any address conflicts. I don't know what this tells me. So I set it back to its original 192.168.1.42 address. ;-)
Any app that would find and get rid of duplicate photos!
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Info:MAC MAIL, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
Like many users, I have set up my only user account as Admin, which I share with my wife. I would now like to duplicate that user account (so as to keep all the settings, etc.) and convert the new account to Standard, and rename the Admin account to a new name.
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iMac 24" 2.8GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
I feel that I am running out of storage memery too soon. I have a feeling that while migrating all my pictures/videos from pc to mac I might have done something wrong an i have duplicate files. What will be the easiest way to check on this? I am not very familiar with the mac systems and I am scared to mess something up.
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iMac
Is there an easy way to delete duplicate entries in Address Book?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
somehow with the cloud change, and whatever else, I now have 400K duplicate contacts...
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iMac, iOS 5.0.1
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
So, I am using Safari Beta 4 however I don't think its the beta that is the problem.
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I have a MacBook and it works with OS X v.10.5.8.A week ago I noticed that my saved usernames on my Gmail accounts were no longer coming up (or auto filling)No pop-ups offering to save passwords to new sites.This afternoon Safari crashed and keeps crashing. I cannot send report to Apple. I've checked for software update from the drop down menu and it says that no updates are available.
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MAC Book, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
I am getting multiple (dozens and dozens) of screens when I try to open Safari -- to the point that it's unusable.
Info:Mac mini (Mid 2011)
