OS X :: Restoring Local Preferences ?
Feb 23, 2009
When starting Safari it take 3-4 minutes to load Google - Then when I type in the search box, within the first letter or 2 it locks up again - sometimes says "Could not contact Spell Checker"
I updated from 10.3.9 to 10.4.11 3 months ago and all has been just fine but now I am getting these errors. Also when Safari is acting up, Mail won't operate properly.
If I set up a new user, everything works great. But I'd like to restore my Local Preferences if possible without losing anything.
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Apr 25, 2010
I am running version 10.6.3 and if anybody could send me the system preferences that would be great =]
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Jan 18, 2010
I just bought and installed snow leopard and when i did i restored to factory settings so i could start fresh. However i wanted to restore my itunes back to how it was, but i can seem to work it out. If someone could tell me an easy way to do
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Apr 21, 2012
I've a MBP running 10.6.8. When I open the Accounts preferences, System preferences quits unexpectedly.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 12, 2010
I'm not talking about the System Preferences app itself, I'm talking about the settings within the app. So for instance, the security settings, and the mouse settings, energy saver, etc.
Where can I find the settings files on my Mac so I can back them up?
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Apr 16, 2009
In windows I wrote http://servername/aliasname and the I connect to websites locally, But when i try to do this in Mac OS X, Safari told me "No file exists at the address" our web server is IIS, I've read all over the internet about this problem and found nothing helpful, If it is IIS problem how can i connect to IIS based website online with MAC?
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May 5, 2009
I've created a few PHP websites on my mac mini before uploading them. I placed the website files in the 'Sites' folder of my user account and turned on 'Personal Web Sharing' in the Sharing preferences and could access them fine. All of a sudden, I can no longer access the sites through my web browser - I'm given the message that my browser cannot connect to the server. Any ideas why this might have suddenly started happening? I installed MySQL last week - would that affect it in any way?!
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Apr 26, 2012
I would like to host, what should I add?Private files are hidden.whare is /private/etc/hosts ?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 14, 2009
I am running OS X 10.4.11 on a "pod" iMAC. When I open system preferences and click on network, I get a pop up window that states my network preferences have been changed by another application. When I click on the green "OK" box the pop up goes away and comes right back. This is driving me crazy because when it gets into this cycle it's almost impossible to get out of the preferences panel or even check the settings! It's like it gets into a closed loop and won't let you do anything.
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Apr 28, 2012
A few days ago my email was hacked into which sent a spam email to all my contacts. I changed my password to that account, warned everyone in my contacts, and haven't had a problem with email since. However, I tried to do the 'delete all cookies' again and when I go to safari/preferences/privacy...there is nothing on that screen under that tab. Not even a question mark. I changed my history items to be removed every day from every week but don't think that would be the issue.
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 10, 2009
I have a macbook a little over a year old. It's my first mac and I love it. Yesterday though it started acting really weird. I first noticed that it was really, really hot and the fan was running. I turned it off and back on and here's what I found out:
Applications are being deleted from macbook. ITunes, IPhoto, iChat have clear question marks over icon. There are 8-10 blank spaces in the Applications folder where applications have been deleted. However, data is still there (ex. pictures still there, but no iPhoto).
Internet= Says I have internet but wont connect.
Cannot open " System Preferences" or "Internet Preferences".
If connected to home computer will connect to internet and allowed to open internet preferences but still no system preferences.
If shut down....takes a while to come back on and starts up 2-3 times.
Also "Preview" is gone. Now " ColorSync Utility" opens.
Is this my hard drive dying? I'm tech challenged, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Nov 7, 2008
"This computer's local hostname, Mac Pro=4 local is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to Mac Pro-5". To change the local hostname, open System Preferences and click Sharing , then click edit and type the name in the local hostname field.
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Jun 17, 2009
Im trying to connect my macbook to a networking external harddrive.
But when i go to the network tab in finder, the list is blank, and theres not any single networks.
It used to work, but i dont know what happend
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Aug 11, 2010
I am also a newbie to the MAC world and I am loving it. But I do have a question. At my workplace I access the internet via AirPort. I need to access files on other PC's in the office and I cannot seen to find a way. I know on my HP Laptop I was able to access other computers by clicking on network icon. As a side note I never used ethernet port on HP either.
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Dec 5, 2009
I am using the ifconfig command to change my ip address as follows:ifconfig en0 down
ifconfig en0 169.254.x.x netmask 255.255.0.0ifconfig en0 -arp upThe commands claim to complete succesfully, but the ip stack does not seem to recognize its new ip address.For example: from a remote machine I issue the command ping 169.254.x.and receive no response. Using wire shark I can see the ping request are being received on machine 169.254.x.x, yet no response is sent.
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Feb 16, 2012
I am currently trying access profile manager on both my macbook air and iphone 4s on local wifi. However, it would just hang when i try to access it via "http://macmini.local/profilemanager". If i try go to go url...I can access url... fine and ping "macmini" fine.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jul 2, 2012
I've read Pondini's articles on this but I still can't work out why Time Machine isn't creating local snapshots of my machine. I have 72GB of 500GB free on my HDD which is definitely over the 10% threshold needed for local snapshots to work (I think) so I don't know why it isn't working.
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Jul 3, 2012
I'll be visting a friend in USA for sometime. I was thinking of buying a Macbook Pro 15' from my companies allowances for a workstation, from US. I wanted to know if it's possible that I can get the bill in my local currency also.( Problem is that my company only refunds for bills in Rs <Indian Currency>. And Macs in India are priced way more than in US.) I know it's a long shot.
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MacBook Pro
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Aug 24, 2014
I am using a MacBook Pro 13" os x 10.9.4, 8gb, 750gb, i7
I want to record streaming local tv with my macbook, how to do it?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
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Jul 14, 2008
A small one, but on my Macbook the local iDisk displaysa purple icon with a cloud, but on the iMac it's still the .Mac logo. I wonder why. I think, think, that the contents are the same - but it doesn't fill me with confidence that they're syncing together...
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Aug 1, 2007
OK, so I am completely new to mac. The last time I used a mac computer was when my family had one around 1994/1995. So, I don't know how to do completely basic things like this.
I got my macbook on Saturday, less than a week ago. Last night I bought the Sims 2 at the apple store and I asked the guy if it would run good on it. He went through all of the requirements and said that my computer surpassed all of them.
So I go to run it and it won't run and says I need to free up local disk space. Basically I'm wicked pissed right now and am worrying that something is wrong with my computer or he was lying and I can't return it. How do I free this up? Is it a big deal that I need to do this after having the computer for less than 5 days? This is the only big program I've installed so far. I've only installed basic stuff like office and my printer so I don't know how it could be out of space already.
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Nov 14, 2008
I'm using Viscosity to connect to our VPN at work. I'm able to establish a connection just fine, but I have a few issues. It appears to be assigning me a local IP address; however, I'm unable to ping the gateway. I'm also unable to ping the local Samba domain.
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Feb 13, 2009
I currently have a media center machine, and my laptop which i use to load my music with. So i am loading my albums onto my laptop and keeping them in the local Music folder, but i have the rest of my music collection stored on my media machine (also a mac). Im wondering if anyone has a solid free solution i can use where it can sync my music folder on my laptop to the music folder on the media machine. I have looked for some on google but they either cost something, or they dont seem reliable. If i could find one that runs on schedule to back up my music every night that would be prime.
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May 17, 2009
I have a CSS file that displays a repeated background. Only problem is, when I open the HTML file(linked with the CSS file to display the background) it doesn't show the background. This only happens when I'm opening the HTML file that is on my computer(local). I uploaded the exact same HTML/CSS files, and the needed images to my web server, then go to the link in my web browser and it displays 100% correct. So I know I haven't done anything wrong, coding wise. I have tried to open the local HTML/CSS files in multiple browsers(Opera, FireFox, Safari), and they all do the exact same thing. They display everything else correct, except there is never a background image. I am using a Mac Pro, with Leopard 10.5.7. Any ideas? Tell me if you need something more explained, or more details.
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Sep 29, 2009
I have a MBP that I take to work with me every day. I like listening to iTunes at work and at home. I have a pretty large library so I moved the library from my MBP to a nice 500gb external HDD. So while Im at work, I plug it in and poof, Im off and running with my tunes.
I keep a copy of that library on my home server also.
Now here is where I get lazy. At home, Im much more mobile with my MBP. I take it on the deck, I have it in the basement, I bring it to the kitchen, garage, ect... I dont like carrying the external HDD around all over the place.
So recently I opened iTunes using the Option-click command and selected my home server as the location for the library. The very same library I keep a copy of on the external. iTunes gave me an error about not having a library file in that location. So I copied the library file from my external to my server and tried it again. iTunes loaded up but...
1. Im missing 50% of my artwork, artwork I spent a while collecting.
2. When I switch back to my external drive, iTunes gives me the same error from above. So I have to copy the library file to my external drive from my server and then back again when I want to switch again. (Hope that makes sense.)
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Nov 16, 2009
I would like to ask about the macbook pro late 2008. I am willing to own a network local sharing server in my University so, students can upload their multimedia files and movies etc to my mac using the local network of the university connection. Student will use torrents apps to download files from the server so they log to the website which I will create and they download the tracking file then they open it and use it to download the file from the server via torrent apps. My Macbook pro is 2.4 with 4g ram and with 380G HDD I own a new macbook pro late 2009 so I will not use the old one and I will keep it online 24/7. But I don't know if I can use it or not for this purpose.
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Jul 21, 2010
Whenever I visit macrumors website, I see advertisements from local companies. Is there a way to remove the banners?
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Jan 16, 2009
I'm trying to install civilization IV on an Imac G5, power processor, 1.8 Ghz, 512 ram, 80 GB hd, on tiger. When I click on the disc it says I need more local drive memory. When I check the drive, it has 2GB of memory, which is the size of the disc. What do I do?
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Feb 4, 2009
I currently have XP on bootcamp. And I do not have an internet connection. What do I have to do to get the internet to work?
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Apr 26, 2009
I have Mac OS X Leopard, and I am working on making a web site. I am using Coda/Espresso for my main HTML editing and Photoshop for image editing. When I try to preview the HTML file in any browser (including Coda's and Espresso's), it displays the HTML and the CSS and Javascript and stuff fine, but the images are not shown, but when I view it from the server, they show up just fine.
I have the site folder located at /Users/myusername/Sites/, and all the links are in this format: /folder/file.png I would prefer not to change the links to the full link URL such as: /Users/myusername/Sites/folder/file.png because that would mess with the server links too.
What should I do about this and how can I fix it?
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