I went into the store the other day and one of the genesis helped to restore my computer to factory settings.I am now setting it up, gotten has far as "Select Destination" the box is empty. Nothing shows up to pick a destination to continue. What do I do? I'm not able ago go back to the store.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I lost my photo, all of them. It is definitely my fault. Here's what happened. I did a clean install of SL and transferred all my stuff over from an external drive(TC). I then dropped all my photos into iPhoto. They were all there. I then deleted my originals from the desktop. I assumed that a new folder was created with the photos in it in my pictures folder.
I also erased my TC to make room so I could start doing backups again. Well, just now I realized that iPhoto is empty because I accidentally deleted the photos. I've lost years of pictures. Can I pull off the photos from my iPod or iPhone? There is a problem, neither of those devices have been connected to the computer since the SL install. How I can get those pictures back to my computer.
How do I change trash from secure empty to just empty?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy father try to install the OS onto a newly installed internal drive on his Mac Pro. He's trying to install Mountain Lion, which is the same OS X generation as his usual boot drive (which is remaining in the system—the new drive is getting an OS as a backup boot drive).
The problem is that the Mountain Lion installer, downloaded from the App Store, refuses to install on the new drive. The drive, which is formatted but otherwise empty, does not appear as an available drive to install on.
My father believes that this is related to the note in the System Requirements saying that the Mac being installed on must already have Snow Leopard or Lion installed on it. I'm not so sure, but it's a valid question: can Mountain Lion be installed only as an upgrade, requiring an existing OS install on the actual drive being installed to?
My interpretation of the listed requirement is that you have to boot from Snow Leopard or later to do the install, because the installer has to contact the App Store, but the requirement is worded ambiguously enough that it could mean that the drive itself must have Snow Leopard or later on it. It doesn't make sense to me, though, for this installer to be useable only as an upgrade; there are numerous situations under which a person might need to install an OS on an empty drive.
I didn't expect to have compatibility issues with this combination, but I am stuck. I was experiencing some small problems with Safari after upgrading: downloads would launch a new empty tab rather than an actual download, and I would get graphical glitches loading pages from top tabs - so I uninstalled Safari and downloaded a new copy. However, on re-installing, I get a message informing me that I need at least MacOS 10.5.8 installed...
Has anyone else found this? I did an upgrade install of Snow Leopard, and other than a few 3rd party apps being caught out, all is well, and I am enjoying an otherwise noticeably nippier system. As Safari was working previously (unsurprisingly), perhaps this problem stems from an OS compatibility flag within the Safari installer itself, similar to that found in 1Password recently, that could be altered within the installer package to allow installation - But I am guessing, and I don't see why I am having this issue in the first place given the amount of testing of Safari leading up to Snow Leopard.
I just upgraded my hdd a couple of mins ago from the 120 gig to a seagate 500gig , but before doing that i used "carbon copy cloner" to clone my old drive, as well as the 8gig partition i had there where i used to keep my copy of snow leopard (easier that carrying the disk around).CCC cloned both partitions perfectly.I named them Mac and Mac-backupthen I created another partition using disk utility and named it Win - this is where i want to install win7 via bootcamp. The "Win" partition is totally empty.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI really have no idea what so ever. i just know that secure empty trash takes longer
View 5 Replies View RelatedA few months ago I purchased a MacBook Air and I have 2 problems:
1. I cant empty or secure empty my trash. The stuff just stays there.
2. When downloading Mac OS X update I keep getting this message - The update �Mac OS X Update cant be saved
- Connection reset by peer. I made sure that my internet connection is working and that the power adapter was on.
I can't empty my trash ! i dont know why?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I use iCloud for syning Mail & Notes. Contacts, Calendars and Documents & Data. I am 100% sure that in the past in iTunes/Info tab "Sync contacts" and "Sync Mail Accounts" showed all my different Address Book groups and different email account to be synced. Since recently they seem disappeared and I only see my different Calendars to be synced. Why are both Sync contacts empty and Sync Mail Accounts both emtpy/dimmed. BTW if I check Sync contacts I get a message that they are synced through iCloud etc. etc. Now if I enable on my Mac another email account in Apple Mail it is not added to my iPhone/iPad anymore. How can I change that ?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 2 X 3.2 HGz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
I moved a bunch of files to the trash can after installing Snow Leopard, mainly backup files from OmniFocus.
I clicked Secure Empty Trash and over 500,000 items began deleting. These 500,000+ items deleted at the rate of 2-3 items a second. This would total 138 hours equaling over 5 days to Secure Empty the trash.
This is just ridiculous in my option so I just did the "Empty Trash" feature, showing me only 350 items, which deleted quickly in under 5 minutes...
So far I know with Secure Empty Trash that the trash is securely layered with 0's & 1's....but wonder what happens with just "Empty Trash?"
How easily accessible is it for someone to retrieve something that i've deleted?
I've noticed that when I "Secure Empty Trash" though it takes longer, I usually regain a lot of gigabytes back. Currently, as of this post i'm "secure emptying trash" and i've regained about 25GB's which sounds about right considering there was about that much worth of video recordings from my video camera I no longer needed.
In the past when I've just "deleted trash" i've seen different results. If I have say 10GB's in the trash and I just "empty trash" then i'll maybe gain back like a GB or 2. ...if anything.
So, my concern is...say currently with the 25GB amount of trash I have, If I decided to just "empty trash", I obviously would not have gained back all the 25GB's..., perhaps just a few, guessing something like 5GB.
Well, does that mean that those GB's that are emptied in the trash (not securely) are just lost forever?
..Or will I regain those GB's the next time around (say weeks later) I securely empty the trash with whatever happens to be in there (all new stuff in the trash)?
Am I making sense?
Kinda confusing to me cause I don't understand it. But I feel it's vital for me to get this and have the most amount of gigs available on my Mac now that i'm using about 30GB's per week filming stuff and editing it on iMovie.
I am using Mac 10.7.3 and I configured my mail box successfully. One day suddenly the inbox is got emptied in the mailbox (but the mails are available in server). I can see the mails in the sent, trash, draft folders. I tried many times to reconfigure, but resulted in the same.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
When I empty my trash using the icon my computer has a major crash and the screen goes grey and I have to reboot from the power button. If I secure empty trash using alt/opt, cmd clicking the trash icon I get the following message:- The operation can’t be completed because the item “.DS_Store” is in use. I've tried SUDO RM -RF ~/.TRASH/* and enetering my password but it doesn't fix it I've tried chflags -R nouchg then dragging items into terminal and that doesn't fix it
I've tried :- Open Terminal and enter this command:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/
Then right click the Finder icon in the dock while holding down the opt/alt key, select Relaunch. Relaunching Finder will recreate ~/.Trash but this doesn't work either
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
I got an overload of messages in my mail box. I had to delete them one by one. Now I have a whole bunch of emails in my trash and in my sent box. How do I delete those? I do not want to do the sent box one by one. There is no "Empty trash" in any menu. This new operartion system is truly rotten. Nearly everything seems to be more difficult.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Operating system 10.9.3
Basically, I am 'securely emptying my trash' as we speak. With that said, why exactly does it say that it currently has to empty around 400 something files? Does that include every single file I've deleted in the past, not using the 'secure empty trash'?
Also, once if I deleted my download history, not using 'secure empty trash', is there a way to retrieve it and use 'secure empty trash' to empty it once again?
I'm just a little confused about the 400 something files being deleted using 'secure empty trash'.
i am unable to empty my Iphoto trash for some reason
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MacBook
It takes my macbook about two hours (no exaggeration) to empty the trash.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I keep getting a message when trying to update my computer saying my start up disk is full. I have deleted my trash can, a lot of photos and videos I had, and I don't have many files or apps. When I look at the startup disk it says that the memory is being used by "other" How do I find the "other" files?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I'm trying to empty my trash and it keeps saying that one document is use. Nothing is open, how can I delete this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got a latest-gen MacBook Pro running on a fully-updated OSX Lion (last update check April 25, 2012).
For some time now, the Trash hasn't seemed to respond: when I click the Trash icon in the Dock, nothing happens (no window opens). When I right-click on it it shows me the normal menu, but when I click "Open", nothing happens; when I click "Empty Trash" nothing happens either (no progress bar even though the Trash must be rather full by now, no sound, the icon remains "full").
Besides, when I close my MacBook Pro with iTunes running (even though no song is playing), when I open the Mac, it sometimes happens that the Finder stops responding. It usually goes back to normal if I quit iTunes.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Trash, Finder
I'm trying to empty my trash can. However, an app that I didn't allow to install completely (Spotify), is preventing the trash can from being emptied. It's not a big deal, but it drives me crazy.
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I can't empty my trash securely - it just grinds to a halt
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Tries to empty trash of my MacBook Air, but it cannot stop. It may possibly too many files to empty.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had a .iso file that has got files in it. When I dismount it I see all the files being copied to a folder but when it finishes all there is, is an empty folder. Then i click on properties and it say that the folder has 7GB but there are no files in it. Are the files hidden or what can I do to see them?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Safari
I have a MacBook Pro and I cannot empty my Trash? I have tried to resolve it by going into Disc Utility and doing the First Aid and repairing disc.
I am at a loss as to what to do.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 4
I'ves been trying to do some research on the "secure empty trash can" option and i can't find anything useful.
I've been having this problem where i can't simply "empty trash" and have to click on "secure empty trash" as it the only thing that appears !
To empty a trash can, it deletes 1 item per second and it's getting very tiring and long. Before, i didn't have the "secure empty trash" and wish to get the normal "empty trash"
when i need to empty trash it dosen't work i don't know
View 11 Replies View RelatedI went to empty trash (secure empty trash more specifically) and a few minutes into the process, the hard drive revved WAY WAY up and is whining horribly. Time for a new hard drive or is there anything I can do? Also getting the beach ball with almost everything I do now.
View 15 Replies View RelatedThis may sound dumb, but my laptop is no longer making the noises when I drag items into the trash, empty the trash, etc. I can hear my iTunes and videos. I'm not sure what's going on? All the options are checked in "Sounds," so I'm pretty sure that's not it. Anyone know how to get the sounds back? Or why they stopped in the first place?
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