Now that ive downloaded lion from the cloud, and my original install disc is no longer valid, how do i go about repairing, fixing permissions, etc?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I just recently purchased a new macbook pro, see sig. At first it ran awesome. Now all of a sudden its very laggy while scrolling on web pages, even without heavy flash content. My magic mouse is also slightly unresponsive. It tracks very slowly, and is choppy while following my movements. I know it is not just the mouse because It worked fine on my other computer. At this point, I have tried restarts, battery pulls, etc. And nothing seems to be working. At this point I am considering a complete OS re install. It seems really bad when Its hooked up to my external monitor.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm in the process of researching my next notebook purchase. If people could attempt to maintain an unbiased viewpoint that would be very useful. I'm a qualified accountant currently offering personal tax and finance advice. The form factor I've decided on is 15". I've considered the 13" but I can't justify giving up the screen real-estate (and the fact I'd go for the hi-res screen) for the added mobility. My everyday tasks are split between work and home use. As a general oversight these include multimedia, photo editing and extensive MS Word/Excel. Assuming I go Mac OS I will also require decent Virtualization performance on the occasion I need to run Windows software I use for my work. The packages cannot be found in Mac OS form.
The following factors are also important:
-Build Quality
-Battery Life
-Value for Money Hardware & Specification
From the first two points you can see why I am considering the 15" mid-range i5 MBP. But I am struggling to overcome the third point. For example a similar specfied Vaio E Series is approx. $1000 ($700) a-drift and includes a BDVD player. But bad experiences with windows notebooks have taught me that they are generally built to last 18-24 months at the very best. If I could find a machine with the build quality and battery life of a MBP with a windows OS I'd be more than happy. Don't get me wrong, I love Mac OS, however the financial industry in the UK seems to be significantly dominated by Windows software and I refuse to run two machines.
My Macbook Air (OS X; version10.7.5) with 2 GB of memory is now getting the frequent appearance of the 'color wheel' preventing me from performing any functions. What does this mean and how do I correct the problem?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Does anyone have instructions for the new macbook Air 128Gb ssd, how to do a clean install, if you follow the procedures from the first model, you can omit the printer driver, other languages etc. but the applications are on a second DVD called Application DVD (unlike the 1st Macbook Air where it was Mac OS system disk 1 and 2) and its all or nothing, I didn't check the box and all the apps were installed, I don't need Garage Band, IMOVIE or IDVD etc, has anyone come across this and a solution for it, maybe not insert the applications DVD to save the additional disk space?
View 2 Replies View Relatedcan anyone tell me of any programs I can install for basic upkeep on my Macbook? I have Onyx thus far. But, is there anything else that would be for my Macbook? Free or not.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there any maintenance things I need to do to keep my Macbook running smoothly? Is there anywhere that files build up which i need to delete etc... like the temp internet file on a PC?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), OSX 10.7.4 macbook pro, 4GB RAM
I dont know mutch about computers so i need to know what should i clean in my macbook pro.
I have the softwares like Onyx, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius, Deeper and Maintenance but dont know really how to used them.
Whats important to cleaan and rebuild?
I was wondering if doing a full charge and then a discharge is a good thing when a new mac or new battery is bought? Also should it just be a simple charge and discharge or does it have to be a full calibration? Also what is the best method in maintaining a healthy battery? Should I cycle at least once a week and do a calibration every few months? Or should one cycle per month be fine? Also is it alright if the battery is fully charged and I have the plug-adaptor plugged in to my MacBook Pro while using it? Finally, is it true that over night the plug or when not in use and not charging the plug should be outside of the MacBook Pro?
View 6 Replies View RelatedDear members I'm having problems with safari being very slow and i'm trying to resolved this problem.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSince it is broadly acknowledged that there are no viruses for Mac (at this time) so what then is iAntivirus looking for when performing a scan?
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy Mac pro has been freezing recently which requires me to hard boot and I'm not quite sure whats going on. Let me go a bit more into detail. Now when I say freeze, I don't mean beach balling, I mean literally the entire screen is motionless and I must hard reboot. Its odd really, the computer only freezing when doing certain tasks, such as when I render 3D graphics with Cinema4D, or whenever I play certain games on steam.I have recently installed windows as a partition for bootcamp, but I don't believe that is the issue. I have experienced the freezes while running my machine in both Windows and Mac. Its important to note that when booting my Mac in SAFEMODE, the freezing does not occur while performing the same tasks. So this leads me to believe there is a process going on thats causing the computer to freeze up? What I think I have managed to rule out as problems:
- Not a Hard Drive failing issue, I booted from my backup hard drive and the freezing still occurs.
- Not a Heat issue, I've installed iStat and my top temperature barely raises to 60 degrees celsius when freezing occurs.
- Not an issue with the Windows partition, as I booted from my backup drive that is without the partition and the freezes still occur.
- Not a Ram issue, I took my ram cards out and swapped them around.
One other things... Not sure if this is relevant, but upon one of the freezes, I rebooted and got this on my startup screen, It was bizaar and it froze here as well. This only occured once but I snapped a photo of it.
After using Mackeeper clean up, duplicate search, maintenance my iPHOTO file on the dock now shows a "?" mark .....
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iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Recently, spotlight just stopped calculating math functions and I'm not sure why. When I enter an equation, it doesn't try to solve it, but it still finds files with the numbers included and other hits. It's mostly a minor nuisance, but I have no idea why it even stopped, since everything else seems to work fine.
View 17 Replies View RelatedSimple question:
Here is my setup:
Hard drive 1: Mac OS
Hard drive 2: Windows (installed via Bootcamp)
If I do an Erase and Install of Mac OS on drive 1, will my Windows drive still show up if I go to System Preferences > Startup Disk?
I experienced what I believe was a crash so after various attempts at doing a time machine restore, I performed an erase of the HDD and have been trying to install snow leopard from a disk I bought from the Apple store. I am not sure if the disk is the whole OS X or not as it was purchased to upgrade from the OS X that was on the machine. I am hoping to do a time machine backup to get my old programmes/software back afterwards but in the meantime just cannot seem to get snow leopard on my iMac.
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I have just upgraded my iMac from snow leopard to Lion and now it is running incredibly slowly to the point of almost unusable.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Can I store iMovie on the cloud? I'm on OS 10.9.4
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powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
we all know OSX keeps it self nice & neat, with automated maintenance tasks The question is: How can i tell when OSX has done its maintenance? I thought it would be in console but unsure of the task name. In Windows it would be in Event log.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWith a Mac Pro and Leopard, Does the maintenance run automatically at some times, even though the computer is shut down at night?
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow do find email headers of received emails on my imac. I've tried using "view," with no success, also used "shift cmmand H," still no results.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the new Mac OS X client for Amazon's Cloud Drive service. I double-clicked to launch it, then dragged the app icon over to the Applications folder in order to install it.
Now I see an Amazon Cloud Drive icon on my desktop, but clicking it doesn't take me to a signin screen for my Amazon account, as I would expect, but invites me to drag the app icon over to the Applications folder AGAIN. Starting from the Applications folder and trying to launch it from there gives me the same result.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am trying to go to the website, read.amazon.com, but the screen is blank and there is a small lock symbol on the top righthand corner of the window. What does that mean and how do I get the page to start up?
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MacBook
Pro
I keep getting a message telling me the my Cloud storage is full. Before I purchase more space I would like to see what is only cloud and possible delete some of it. Is this possible and if so how do I do it?
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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I have a 21.5 inch iMac and am running Snow Leopard. I am familiar with Safe Mode and I understand that it does a disk check and repair and also does some cache clearing during a startup process that allows the user to startup into a system where certain kernel extensions, etc, are disabled to allow for trouble shooting. Then the user can do a restart and end up back in normal mode.
My question is whether starting up into Safe Mode could prove beneficial as some sort of routine maintenance?
Does taking the front glass off of the imac display to clean behind it void the warranty? I am noticing some particles behind the glass and would just like to do it myself. I am still under warranty but i dont feel like bringing my imac to the store if i dont have to.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat would be an ideal diagnostics/ system check up to run? I have Tool Tech Deluxe, Drive Genius 2, and Onyx.
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