I may be giving my macbook pro away as a present (so surprise will be involved). It's approx. 2 years old and there's only a few applications installed on it (I haven't used it much). After I remove the applications, what steps do I take to prepare for the ownership transfer? Do I have to call Apple support for this?
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macbookpro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
I am about to receive a new Mac, which means that I will be selling the old one. I would just include the installer disks for the OS as part of the sale, but the last upgrade was downloaded and the proof of purchase is in the Cloud on the Apps Store. How do I transfer ownership of the OS with the computer?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have taken over my daughter's MacBook. How do I change the settings to make it my own?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I cant stand with MBA heat problem. Everytime I broadcast my webcam on yahoo it gets realllly hot within 5 minutes and slow all things down. my mouse movement also stutter. Do you guys have the same problem when broadcast your webcam on yahoo?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI even sneak around about it, but still I'm a Mac Addict. The cravings are worse every time there's a new Keynote Address from Apple, new press releases or the WWDC and I feel it starting. So as I type this on my 1st Gen 13" Alum MacBook with my white 3G iPhone next to me I can't help but wonder... Is the 3G S that much faster or the screen on the new 13" MacBook Pro that much brighter? I just want to hold it... Focus, focus... try not get distracted.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI may need a Logic Board replacement and obviously Apple would do it, but what are the steps in replacing it on a Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook?
Also, are there any possible issues/after-effects from replacing the Logic Board?
My macbook is very slow. What should I do?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a 1tb, 5,400rpm harddrive on my old laptop (mid 2009) and wish to transfer it for the one in my new 15" Macbook Pro, 750gb 5,400.(Mid 2012)
What steps are needed to make this successful?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
This is driving me nuts. When I go into the info for any file the take ownership option is greyed out. As a new mac user I've no idea how to change this. On windows you just right clicked and 'run as administrator' which is all `i want to do, but after 2 hours searching I'm tearing my hair out.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy brother bought my Mac Pro with his edu discount a month back. I'm selling the Mac Pro, but neither I nor my brother voluntarily registered the machine. Will it have been registered to him by default, in the Apple store, as I need to transfer the warranty to my customer, to whom I am selling the MP secondhand?.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently bought a new external drive and am trying to put all my old time machine backups on it. I was on the phone with Apple support for a little bit and they said the best way to do this is to just drag and drop the whole backups folder. When I do that, a little window pops up saying that I do not have ownership of the drive, how do I change that?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a server with a community and are downloading / making backups to my local computer. But I have problems with the permissions on the new downloaded catalogs and files. I know my ownership on the server, but how do I find what ownership I have on my local computer so I can do a:
chown -R mylocal:mylocal downloaded stuff?
I just purchased a iMac G5 iSight (PPC). It had OS 10.5.8 Installed. I have to install some programs.How do I go about changing the new iMac's old owner's ID and password with out reinstalling the operating system?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 20", G5, PPC
I currently operate in the dark ages with OS X Tiger. I would like to upgrade to lion and need advice on the most economical way to accomplish this. Is there a "box set" that allows skipping steps?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Recently I have connected my phone to try and synchronise it because I had some new music that I would like to put on it. Unfortunately, when I connected and tried to sync I immediately found something odd because my sync did not do the full 4 steps but only 2, being : starting sync and looking for tracks to sync.
I later discovered that for some odd reason iTunes said there was not enough space on my iPhone to sync my music with, even though there is over 10GB left of space. I read a similar problem where the iTunes wanted to re-sync the full library with the iPhone if it sensed that it was not the usual iPhone it did an initial sync with. However, that's not true. I am using the iPhone I've always used and this Mac's one and only hardware it's ever synced with is my iPhone. So I don't understand why iTunes would want to re-sync my full library.
Furthermore, I only want to add around 20 soungs to my iPhone, which definitely does not take 10GB and the main issue is that without any recent updates or changes or anything, my sync only does two steps anymore and says there isn't enough capacity on my phone to sync it with. I unchecked "sync Music" to try and lower the space, pressed Apply but now it won't even sync my Music back anymore.
iPhone 4 iOS 7.0.2 version.
Not too long ago I went through a process of changing my user in OS X to another name. It seemed to go smoothly enough. However many of my old applications are owned by an "_unknown" now. This is fine and dandy, except that every time I go to rename or move something in these places, it either has to authenticate or just tells me I'm not allowed.
What would be a simple, effective way to change ownership on all files/folders tied to "_unknown" to my current user?
I bought a sapphire radeon HD 4870 that was flashed with mac firmware. I've never installed a video card before. Do I just turn the machine off, put in the card, and boot up? Or do I need to install drivers before I put in the card? Also, which card slot do I put it in?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently bought I new primary sata drive for a MacPro and loaded Leopard on it while keeping a 2ndary internal sata drive ... which included data ... intact.
Now under Leopard, under permissions for the 2ndary internal sata drive, it sees an "unknown" account (which is the previous Tiger owner) and it doesn't allow any writing/ deleting on the 2ndary drive.
I know how to change the permissions and ownership but don't know exactly what Leopard default ownership and permissions I should assign to the 2ndary drive.
The new Home acct name, System, Admin, Everyone etc.
Usually there is a cascading list of 2 or 3 but I can't remember what
they should be.
I have recently started having a problem in that I don't have administrative write ability on certain folder structures. This problem is predominately in folder structures which are associated with a Sync app that I use called Super Flexible File Synchroniser. I am not able to save new files or edited files into this folder structure from any applications on my Mac i.e. Mail, Parallels, Office, iWork. I have had to save it somewhere else on the hard drive, then drag it into the folder I want it in, then Finder asks me for my password to "Authenticate" this change.
Is there a way to give myself ownership of an entire folder structure?
Can someone explain to me why resetting PRAM on a machine has any effect whatsoever for networking issues? ie; self assigned ip etc. I have noticed this is a common troubleshooting step that a lot of people are recommending for issues related to networking.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat are the steps to up grade an old power mac G 4 from OS X 10.3.9 to Snow Leopard? Is it possible or recommended? With the current OS I can't download sfari upgrades or other programs.
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
To work with a software packet, I need to uprade Ruby to version 1.9.3. The current Ruby version is 1.8.7. What are the steps for upgrading Ruby to 1.9.3 If the upgrade runs into problems, how can I got back to "last known good state"?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Can I go direct or do I have to upgrade to snow leopard first? What and how do I purchase? All through the Apple online store?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have more than a dozen users and several groups configured on the Macs in our lab. I hooked up PEGASUS RAID to a different machine and all files' owner:group attributes were reset to 1000:20! Doesn't HFS+ filesystem store the ownership information?
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Bought a new MacBook for my daughter and we're giving an iBookG4 to my wife so she can start to experience Mac and get weaned away from the last PC in the house. I want to scrub the iBook and start from scratch. I have the install disc, and have backed up all the old data. Now what? How do I scrub this puppy and start over as if it were a brand new machine? Can't seem to find these instructions on MacRumors or Apple.com -
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View 8 Replies View RelatedOn all browsers and all websites that I go to I keep getting these annoying popup survey requests.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
My time machine backup failed last night. Tells me that disc cannot be repaired and to backup and reformat. But it wont let me copy anything off the disc it tells me that the operation cannot be completed due to the ownership of the volume not being set. I have tried changing the sharing and permissions but its permanently greyed out.
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Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I can't open Mail. When i try the whole "Welcome to Mail - you'll be guided through the necessary steps to set up your mail account" message comes up. It's been working perfectly fine, so I just don't get it.
I've used disk utilities to repair permissions etc and have re-booted...I've even closed it down and un-plugged it and then booted up again, but to no avail. I'm running OS 10.4.11.
The only thing I can think of that would cause something like this is that the computer wouldn't wake from it's sleep mode when I tried to turn it on earlier, so I pressed the off switch at the back to shut it down and to open it again.
