I'm selling one of my MacBooks on craigslist. What's the best way way to wipe the computer, making it almost new? My snow leopard disk belonged to a friend so I no longer can do that. Is there a best way to manually delete all my files, pics, etc
View 4 RepliesCan you manually scroll through pictures when your screensaver is running (Leopard)? I used to be able to do this on my PC by pressing the left/right arrow. Trying this on my mac interrupts the screensaver and returns me to the desktop.
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Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I was on twitter and it sounds repeatdly an ad, and appears ads banners so constantly. I had run an antivirus and it detected an ad malware. i tried to uninstall or erase manually all files, but there are two that i cant erase.
Bit defender, my antivirus, cant uninstall, erase or quarantine this ads-by-online-browser virus. I looked for web for info and all that i found was windows solutions.
if i were to reset my macbook pro to factory settings would it delete all of my pictures and music?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
This may sound like a silly question, but I would like to know how I can arrange files manually in Mac? For example, if I have a folder of 100 photos in running order and I want to move London3.jpg between London 1.jpg and London 2.jpg, how do I do that? I've tried all the different sorting/viewing options. This is a very basic feature in Windows but I can't seem to do it in Mac. I am using Snow Leopard v 10.6.3. am getting very frustrated trying the various options to no avail.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI purchased songs from iTunes Store. Files are on my computer, but did not automatically go to my Library. So tried to manually drag and drop files to my Library and they still won't go there. The songs will only play in my Purchase List and Recently Added. I turned off iTunes Match and Genius and still no luck.
Info:iTunes, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm trying to rearrange files within a folder. Like move episodes to have them in order. But I can't figure it out. First time i've ever tried to.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen you download a file (a song for example) from the internet and it downloads into your "Downloads" folder in finder, than you drag it to your "music" folder, its permanent home...does this mean you now have 2 copies of this file, one in the downloads folder and one in the music folder?
Is there any way to manage this without manually deleting things every time you download anything? Perhaps I'm missing something
I manually manage my videos and music. I don't want to sync. However, when I try to add books to my iPhone using iTunes 12, the only option I have is to sync and then an iTunes window opens up and says that I will lose all of my music and videos on my iPhone if I sync. I don't mind syncing my iBooks, but I don't want to be forced to sync my music and videos as well.Â
There is no book tab in iTunes 12.Â
Any other way to add iBooks to an iPhone and iPad manually. Â
There is no option in the iBooks application to add books to an iPhone or iPad that I can find.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I have a folder with many pictures in it. Right now, they are in a list sorted by name:
Pic A
Pic B
Pic C
Pic DÂ
I would like to manually re-arrange a few so that it looks like this:
Pic A
Pic B
Pic D
Pic CÂ
However, Finder won't let me take them out of their arrangement. When i try to drag a file down, it just snaps back to its original position.
I've set it as Arrange by-none and sort by-name, so shouldn't this let me move them?Â
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13' 2010 MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
My desktop system (an i3 running Mavericks) will not boot from its internal disk (it simply sits "spinning" its little progress bar at the Apple icon). It also fails to recognize an attached disk that has the Time Machine backups in Recovery mode.Â
Migration Assistant is worthless. I get part way through (specifying a different user as a destination with the i3 disk mounted in Target disk mode) , it exits, and nothing has changed.Â
Yet I can mount the iMac desktop and its disks on a laptop (also running Mavericks) in Target disk move, and see all the files on both disks. I have copied some, and they seem to be intact. Â
So, while I ponder this confusion, I would like to get the most critical info off and onto the laptop. One of those pieces of info is the email contents.Â
Now Mail files "were" in the users Library as I recall, but I believe things were moved in Mavericks (or maybe even a version earlier).Â
Does any one have ( and I remember seeing this posted somewhere online, but just can not find it) the steps to manually move the mail folders over to a new machine so that nothing is lost with the most recent Mail file locations?
when I start to import my photos in to iPhoto it says there isn't enough space for it. I know that every picture I import in to iPhoto makes a copy for iPhoto, so...is there an easy way to delete photos I don't need anymore from iPhoto and from my hard drive in order to clear up space? I can't even find the folder where the iPhoto photos are.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running into "chmodperation not permitted" when I try to change the permissions on my time machine backup manually.
Here is the complete info. I brought a new MacMini server and was trying to copy my music folder from time machine backup(of my MBP) into the Server. From the Server I logged in as root and tried to change the file permissions of the music folder with this command
sh-3.2# chmod -R o+rw Music
It throws the above error.
I don't have my MBP with me to do anykind of stuff. I don't want to install SL on my macmini and restore from time machine bckup. Is there any other way.
I'm planning to reinstall Snow Leopard. I'm using Time Machine. I want to avoid automatic solutions like "Restore from Time Machine backup" and the Migration Assistant because I want to make sure my system stays clean.
This is how I imagine it:I boot my freshly installed system, plug in my Time Machine external drive, open it with Finder and start dragging back all the stuff I need (Photos, Music and Documents) just as if it were a regular external hard drive with files on it. Then I will reinstall all applications manually.
Will this work? Please tell me if you have ever tried this and whether it worked. Will this not cause problems with permissions or anything like that?
When you are visualizing some pictures in the Preview, and you want to delete some as you see them, when you press command+delete, they are deleted from the list on the right of the preview (slides), but not deleted from thew hard disk....!
Anyone knows if there is a way to delete pictures while you see them in the Preview other than doing it with "right button+move to trash"?
This is so annoying, it should be a short cut to be able to delete pictures right away as you see them, and you know that you don't like them...
lost all my music on laptop after trying to manually delete music from ipod. where did it go and how can i restore it?
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How do I delete multiple images at the same time under All Images?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010)
I recently discovered, after running Disk Inventory X, some really fat files in my Library. I haven't touched them, as I read on another forum that it could be dangerous but is there anything I can do to get rid of them? I thought maybe they were left there after a recent Time Machine backup because I read that happening to someone else in another forum...
I've attached screenshots (I think) of the two biggest files.
Basically my question is exactly that. I am a new to mac user, and have got a new mac air. Whilst in the store setting up our new mac the people in the shop told us that we could only have 1 icloud account per user, and therefore my wife and i should set up separte user accounts. Great. However, we both want to be able to access all of our photos and our music library. I have been into the sharing folders, but i must be doing somthing wrong, because as my wife turns on iphoto in her user account, she cannot access any of our photos.Â
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Imac wont delete picture using Image capture
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Downloaded the new Aperture that allows you to delete pictures from Photo Stream. I deleted photos but those photos remain on my iphone. What did I do wrong?
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Aperture, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
How can can i start my MBP without losing files (pictures etc)
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MacBook Pro
I am completely lost on what has happened to my computer. I have 900,007 photos in iphoto trash I am unable to delete. Each time I try I get a notice from apple. They are not my photos they are stuff from the internet I do not want and I do not know how they got there.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), had the computer since september.
Is there a way to get pictures that are part of the library on my iphone on to my macbook. I find it completely unbelievable that Apple has purposely made it impossible to be able to get 4 YEARS OF PICTURES off my Iphone and back onto my computer.Â
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MacBook (13-inch Early 2008)
I can't delete files from my MacBook. When i move the files to trash, they disapaer. But they do NOT end up in the trash can and they still take up space on the hard drive. What to do?
Info:MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I played sims 3 and took loads and loads of screenshots (over 800!) and now I want to delete the files all at once. I know how to delete the files individually (dunno if thats how you spell it) but I'm wondering if it's possible to delete them all at once.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have tried moving them to the trash, as well as using the move to trash button. They seam to go to the trash can but when I delete the trash they are still in the file. I am trying to clear out some old files so that I can have room on my start up disk. My Disk is full and it is making it hard for me to open more then one file. I am getting an external hard drive soon but don't want these files on it.
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iMac
I'm new to Macbooks and was wondering what I am allowed to delete while using Onyx.
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