I am having difficulties with my iMac and want to take it back to MFG Settings and "start over". Not sure how to do this. I don't believe I have a disc.Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I change my Energy Saver settings (Mavericks), but the changes do not remain. Once the display goes to sleep, the settings change back to other values (which aren't the same as the default settings). This happens even though I have the settings locked. Could some other utility be changing the settings? My Macbook Pro was imaged through my work - might they have set something up that can revert settings?Â
I've already tried trashing the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist file and restarting - that didn't solve the problem.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
my kids changed my iMac display settings and stretched it out. I can't get it back to the way it was.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I'm new to owning a macbook still don't know how everything works with it I just pretty much know the basics and what I need to know to get by, but I had downloaded some programs that I plain just want and would just like to wipe the computer out and start on a fresh new start. I bought this computer out of the apple store on my mall I have two CDs and am just really confused on how to put this laptop back to it's factory settings
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have recently purchased a refurbished macbook (2010). I don't have any software but I need to restore my macbook back to factory settings. I watched a couple videos on how to but there are steps they do that I can't . Like when you shut off your macbook and turn it back on holding the "options" button well I don't have that choice of "recovery hd" There is only 1 icon on my screen when pushing the options button and the only choice I have is the"macintosh hd".There aren't two choices like all the videos show ,the videos show "macintosh hd" and "recovery hd".
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
the best way to return my MacBook Pro back to it factory setting. in other words start all over.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), iOS 5.1
How could I delete all the files and go back to factory settings on my mac? I want all the files to be deleted. But when i hold on power and option buttons, on screen only appears 1 disk -MacintoshHD and says to choose a network... How can i reset my computer factory settings? Besides, when I did a cleanup I deleted, probably, some important files so I can't login into my computer..
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MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
Trying to resell my old MacBook (Feb 2008) and how to wipe and bring it back to factory settings? I currently have OS X 10.6.8 installed on it....
I tried to use the disk utility to erase the Macintosh HD but the buttons are dimmed...like as in unclickable. Â
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Ok, so, I got given an emac 2002 the other day, its been used at my local college for the last seven years and so it has all these student restrictions on it and so I want to hard restore to it's factory settings.
I have the osx discs and i've tried running them by holdig "C" on power up but it doesn't respond.
I just want it to go back to factory settings.
It would be awesome if you could keep the language basic because I'm not very good with computer talk!
I upgraded my Mac from Leopard to Snow and want to do a complete reinstall erasing all data on it and restoring it back to factory settings.
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Why: sometimes I need to use a US proxy setiings in brouser (to purchase @ US stores that block foreign IPs). On the other hand I have my main everyday Firefox set up for my everyday needs. Switching settings is quite annoying. I just had a separate copy of FF on my PC for use with US proxe settings before i moved to iMac.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
We have a domain that we use for email (let's call it example.com). The domain is managed through Go Daddy. I spoke with Go Daddy tech support about how to add a new Mac Calendar account that is tied to example.com, so that Calendar invites come from email@example.com. She pointed me to the DNS CNAME records, and said this is where I would add a CNAME record for the Calendar account, however she didn't know what the record should be or how to set it up (i.e., "but this is where you would add the info.") She indicated that I should just "Google it", which I did.
I specifically creating a new "CNAME (Alias)" DNS record. When I log into Go Daddy's "Domain Details" portal, and then select the "DNS Zone File" tab, I can see all of the Zone Files (i.e., A(Host), AAAA(iPV6 Host), CNAME(Alias), etc). Looking at the CNAME records, I can see that there are three CNAME records (reporting as Host, Points To and TTL).Â
1. email, email.secureserver.net, 1 hour
2. ftp, @, 1 hour
3. www, @, 1 hourÂ
The Go Daddy gal said that I needed to add a new CNAME record for calendar that points to the correct ____. When I add a new calendar DNS record, what should the "Host" and "Points To" fields be (TTL is just the time to live, so I'll just leave that as 1 hour)?Â
Also, when I then go into Mac's Calendar and add an account, will I just use my email@example.com and password to create the account, or is that another trick?Â
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.7 GHz, Intel i7
I have to work with two different Wi-Fi (at home and office) one of which uses DHCP and other requires me to manually enter IP address. Right now I have to keep on changing Wi-Fi settings (putting IP addresses when at office and setting to DHCP at home) whenever I go from home to office and then do the reverse when I go from office to home. Can I automate that so I don't have to repeatedly fiddle with settings?Â
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MacBookPro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I want to disable the syncing of settings for my mail accounts across devices. It is causing issues.Â
Right now when I set up or modify a mail account on my iMac it changes the settings on my Macbook. This isn't an iCloud account. They are my email accounts with 3rd part service providers.Â
1)Â How can I turn the sync function off?Â
2) The issue it cause is that incoming ports get changed on one of the machines without me changing anything. Then my emails stop coming in on one of the machines.
I used Migration Assistant but it didn't transfer all my flag taggings and smart mailboxes weren't transferred correctly.Â
Is there a waw I can just copy and move pertinent folders from the old mac to the new mac?
I am looking for all files necessary, i.e. plists Mail folder in Library, etc.
I would like to change the default text substitution settings for my annotations in Preview. Specifically, I want to disable smart quotation substitutions in my notes. I often copy-paste them into Word files, and I want them free of this reformatting. I know how to disable quotation mark substitution in a given pdf, but I would really like to disable this feature for all pdfs by default.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Early 2010, 13"
I keep reading that this is necessary in Mavericks Applemail, but is it? The All Mail folder in gmail has nearly 90K messages and takes an age to load, impeding the rapid update of the current inbox.Â
How things can function with the show "All Mail" in IMAP turned off from the gmail side? Running both in Maverick and Yosem B2 ....
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Second Mac on Yosemite B2
I'm running OS X Mavericks,
I can't find out where I change the applications I had set to start automatically when you reboot the computer.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Twitter and LinkedIn update fine, but Facebook just hangs when I click "Update Profile Photos..." from "Internet Accounts" in System Settings.Â
The only clue is this output from Console but I have no idea what it means. (This is just the first few lines, not the entire output.)Â
Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â FacebookContactUpdater [540]Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /System/Library/Frameworks/Social.framework/XPCServices/com.apple.facebook.xpc/ Contents/Resources/FacebookContactUpdaterIdentifier:Â Â Â Â Â FacebookContactUpdaterVersion:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 279.11Code Type:Â Â Â Â Â Â X86-64 (Native)Parent Process:Â com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice [513]Responsible:Â Â Â Â System Preferences [507]
[Code] .....
I frequently encounter this totally blocking problem when attempting to authorize changes to Certificate Trust Settings.
This occurs when A dialog is presented when app such as Mail encounters a certificate whose identity is unknown.You choose to show details and select the option to "Always trust (server) when connecting to…"Click ConnectA System authorization dialog appears and immediately hangsin Activity Monitor, "SecurityAgent" is shown as not responding.Â
At this point there is no legitimate way to shut down or restart the Mac other than forcing a power down, since (presumably) SecurityAgent is involved in the normal shutdown process.Â
After restarting, when the process happens again, I am able to successfully authorize the certificate. It only occurs if the computer has been up and running for a while (hours? days?)Â
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Mac OS X (10.6.7)
How can I change my settings so that when I click the "back" arrow, I return to the previous folder, rather than the desktop?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I really do not like the appearance of Yosemite and I'd like to change it back. I went to the app store and downloaded the installer for Mavericks but when I open it it says that the file's too old to work on Yosemite. How do I go back?
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MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I installed one of available themes from deviantart. It was looking good on screenshots. But when I installed that, It was messed up my Mavericks Theme.
I uninstalled that theme. No i'm not having my older theme or default theme for mavericks. How can i have that.Â
I read in the instructions in Theme the way to uninstall. There it was written to restore finder, preferencePans, Safari etc. But I didn't take any backup.Â
How do I get preferencePans and finder etc.. ?
Can I reinstall Mac OSx - Mavericks?. Is there any option to just instal or over write and still I could get all of my files save?
Or is there any way I can download only these files if available online?Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Core 2 Due, 4GB
