Intel Mac :: Put A Disk Cleaner Into Desktop?
Jun 7, 2012
For a while my disk drive was very noisy when inserting a disk into the disk feeder. Over time, it quite reading dvd's and cd's. As much time passed, my daughter put in a dvd and now it seems to be working. possible the laser heads need to be cleaned? Can i put a "OptDisc" ( a disk used with little brushed on the back to clean the laser heads) in the feeder? I thought the Apple store had encouraged me to do this, but when I bought one, they said these disk cleaners shoudn't be used in feeders or vehicles -- they're only recommended to be used in "drop in" players where a tray opens up.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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May 3, 2012
i have a imac desktop. have never used the dvd player except for today i placed in a new printer intaller disk. it made a lot of noise and then a screen popped up telling me that the software was not compatible. so i clicked "ok" and then nothing. the disk is still inside my desktop and for the life of me i can't find a remote control or anything else to eject the disk.
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iPad 2
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Mar 21, 2008
As a windows user, I love ccleaner. It cleans out all the privacy data from firefox, windows, ie, and more.
Is there a ccleaner for windows?
Meaning is there an app that I can run to securely delete all my history, cookies, temp files in safari, firefox, empties trash, and cleans up any mac temp directories.
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Mar 25, 2012
my mac pro is law performance i tried to download a cleaner software
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Mac Pro
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Oct 19, 2010
Me being the usual paranoid person I am, I'm worried that I might be doing damage to my 27" iMac that I've had for a few months after reading a thread over in the iPhone forum. In the thread for the iPhone someone was using windex to clean his iPhone and he was being warned about rubbing off some kind of coating. I use the little bottle of eyeglass cleaner that came with my eyeglasses and a microfiber clothing thinking that if it's not supposed to scratch my glasses it won't scratch the screen either. I'm gonna switch over to warm water from here on out, but did I do any damage thus far? I don't believe the iMac glass has any kind of coating but I may be mistaken.
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Feb 13, 2009
I love my MacBook but it's white and looks dirty, anyone have suggestions on what to use? What not to use? Will anything over the counter mess my plastics up? where to find it
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Aug 14, 2010
what is the best cleaner for the imac screen and aluminium parts?
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Nov 10, 2010
Can someone recommend a screen cleaner that I can buy? The one I am currently using leaves marks from the microfiber/lint free towel I use once the solution dries.
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Jun 24, 2012
The download desktop icon went up in smoke and I can't get it back...before when I downloaded a file from email I could go on my tool bar and access the downloads...now I can only get them in finder. How can I get the download file icon back?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 12, 2012
So with the whole Flashback/Flashfake thing I paniced (stupid on my part) ran a virus program called VirusBarrier Express and ran CCleaner (again, stupid me). Hoping I would clear off unused or harmful files I apparently in the process messed up my context menu. Items that were previously in the context menu are now gone. I did as much reading about possible fixes as I could and this is where everything stands.
Not every item in the image below was at the botton of the context menu, but iPack certainly was as well as various other menu items that have since dissapeared.
While searching the internet I came across a suggestion leading me to "library/Contextual Menu Items" and when I followed that directory for both my user and system I couldn't find a Contextual Menu Items folder. There wasn't any. I've had this "missing file/folder" problem before with preference files; just a side note.
I created the folder manually and restarted with no change at all.
Obviously I accidentally deleted something that shouldn't have been deleted. Is there any way to get back those missing items?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 11, 2012
I have read most things to do with the grey screen and the screen with the question mark, and it's obvious I have to put some sort of disks in, but there is already a disk stuck in the drive?
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iMac
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Jul 1, 2014
Every time I try to restart my computer on my Hard Drive I get this message "Startup disk could not gather enough information on the selected disk". As of right now I am running my whole computer off of a 16GB flash drive that is quickly running out of memory. How do I fix my Hard Drive without losing all 150GB worth of data. I am running off of OS X 10.6.8 and have another iMac that is working fine.
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Jan 10, 2011
We've got roaming accounts for our macs, but we get issues sometimes when students log in that the icon for the hard disk doesnt appeard on the desktop or in the finder. Weirdly related to this is when this happens neither firefox or safari can load any webpages. However, if students log out and log back in again the internet works fine. Im assuming when the hard disk isnt available, then firefox and safari cant access its preferences and necessary files properly, but what would be causing the hard drives not to mount/be visibile?
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Apr 19, 2010
I just purchased my 13inch MBP base model
I turned it on and I don't see any Disk image on my desktop...
I relaunched the Finder, but still the desktop is empty.
Is there something wrong with my MBP?
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Jun 18, 2012
Installing Imac back to factory settings, erase disk shows could't unmount disk how to solve
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), I bought a usb stick with the OS Xa
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Jun 16, 2005
I downloaded Firefox but now it has the Firefox drive on my desktop. How do I get rid of it?
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Jan 18, 2009
Can I remove it? or erase it? I want my desktop without icons
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May 5, 2009
I am using a 2x2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon MAC running Leopard OS (10.5.6). We are 3 designers using 1 network drive (Lacie Ethernet 1TB) to store our projects. I used to be able to backup this network drive using duplicate option of Retrospect Express to another Lacie that was attached to the USB port on my MAC. Since we upgraded to Leopard I have not been able to do this. I think this is because the network drive no longer mounts on my desktop. I think it used to think the network drive was on my computer because it was on my desktop, but it no longer does. Anyway, I need to back this drive up on a regular basis. (I am currently drag/copying it, did I say 1TB) Is there any way that I can get this drive to mount so that it is on my desktop? Does anyone know of any programs that might duplicate this NAS for me over the network to the one on my MAC or I could add another Lacie to the network. All of the software I have found is just to backup a MAC computer not a drive. If I can drag and drop it, it seems like this should be easy, but when I tried a command line copy it didn't work (I think because we named it "mac lacie disk" with spaces between the words and it stops at "mac" and can't find the rest.
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Aug 25, 2009
I'm trying to clean up my desktop and am getting annoyed by the disk icon. It's the CD icon for The Sims 3. If I try to move it, it creates a copy, and if I try to trash it, it ejects the disk, and I play the game enough that I don't want to have to be getting it out and in and out and in all the time, especially where I currently have my computer set up.
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May 1, 2010
somehow the HD icon on the desktop got removed by a prev owner. When you go to Preferences > General > Show HD icon - that does not restore the icon. OS X 10.4.11 Any ideas how we can get this icon back to the desktop?
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Jun 25, 2012
I have a disk stuck in my desktop mac. Tried all the ejects, restart eject, restart hold mouse. Any way to manually get this out??
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Aug 23, 2014
Is there a setting that allow me to view the boot disk icon on the desktop like the older system software used to do?
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Oct 11, 2009
I have two USB cardreaders. One is (I think) a USB 1, unbranded. The other is a USB 2 branded Seitec). Our cameras both use Sony Memory Stick Pro Duos). They both of worked with both my wife and my iMacs under 10.5.11. Both machines (hers from 2006, mine an Intel Core 2 Duo from 2007) have been happily upgraded to SL 10.6.1... but now the cardreaders work with her machine, but not with mine. They don't mount on the desktop. I have tried various combinations ... attaching them through keyboard /back of iMac, powered USB hub. Sometimes they are recognised by System Profiler, sometimes not! Disk Utility seems unable to see them at all, so I can't get it to mount them.
However, when I leave the card in my camera and connect it direct to the keyboard (or whatever socket I choose!) the computer recognises the camera immediately I switch it on, and downloads quite happily
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Mar 14, 2009
In trying to do my first backup with my new time capsule but keep getting this? The time capsule disk image is showing up in the desktop. How I can get this working?
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Aug 28, 2009
I feel stupid for asking this but why do some applications leave a disk image on the desktop after it is installed? you can eject it and it goes away but then reappears every time you launch the program again. I noticed this happens mainly with applications you get off the web such as Google Earth. It is very annoying because I like to keep my desktop clean. So my question is how do you avoid having this disk image appear every time Google Earth launches for example. Is it normal for some programs? or did I install it wrong?
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Aug 27, 2014
How to hide / remove the Startup Disk icon from the OS X Desktop (upper right corner)?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
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Apr 1, 2012
I'm experiencing some problems with my iMac right now, and I'm not sure how they started or what to do to correct them.
1) Computer seems to hang up from time to time while starting applications, or in the middle of some tasks. There's no rhyme or reason or any patterns.
Question: Is there anything I should try to clean up the computer?
2) About a week ago I started using Time Machine to do scheduled backups rather than me manually starting my own backups. Now whenever time machine does a back up, it seems to stop working somewhere in the "Preparing to Backup" stage, and I end up needing to restart the computer manually because the whole system becomes useless. It will no longer complete any backups, even when I start manually.
Question: Why would time machine now all of the sudden start freezing in the middle of the prep to backup stage?
3) I just tried to use my disk utility to check and see if I need to repair the disk and here is what reported back:
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20" iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Jan 24, 2009
ok so my new 2.4 aluminum macbook which i have had for a while and its been amazing is having tons of isues.
kernal panic the screen goes gray with a box in the middle with a power button behind it saying it need to hold the restart button and then presss it again.
i called applecare and the lady had me delete the plist files and for some reason a couple kept coming back and would not delet virus maybe. but i did that then restarted my computer and my doc was full blown huge loast alot of data and all that. plus my computer started to play the video when installing leopard really odd. my email information is gone to...and now my aluminum macbook says in a pop up install box remote install mac osx helps you install mac os x on your macbook air what the ****.
also my hard drive icon on my desk top was renames to ]..
i am scared as to whats going on. i can usually fix most things this is messed up i think its a virus
all my applications have been un installed and stuff. this is so odd. the mac os x intro video huge dock and my computer telling me its a macbook air
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Feb 28, 2008
I get the message "Please insert "Null" disk to continue InstallationI am trying to install Microsoft Word 08, and the host computer is a PC with its firewall off
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May 5, 2012
This should be easy but I can't seem to get it!
My 3 year old keeps ejecting my drives because they exist as icons on the desktop.
I'd like to remove those drive icons from my desktop but still show them as mounted in my finder sidebar.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 16G of RAM, Pegasus R4
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