OS X Technologies :: Install 3 Times And Have Had 3 Failures?
Apr 13, 2012I have tried to install 3 times and have had 3 failures. Any solutions??? And yes, I repaired permissions.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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OS X :: Did I Install SL 2 Times
Sep 2, 2009Well i'm not going to bs anybody, i had the gm developers build, and today i bought the retail one. so i decided to install from dvd, but i never saw an option for "clean install" and now my next TM backup is tking 8gb, did i duplicate the folders or something similar? should i do clean install? and how?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X Technologies :: Install Linux Only Without It?
Apr 12, 2012the hard drive on my macbook pro has died and i am in a foreign country with my install discs for os x in the attic of my house which is rented out! ive borrowed a friends install discs for his macbook pro just to see if i can repair the disk but its either not working because of the incompatibility or the hdd is just broken. i'm not dead set on using os x so i wondered if i can get a new hard drive and just boot with a linux install. i would like to continue using the firewire port for an external soundcard but apart from that i only want it for surfing and doing some php/apache web development.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X Technologies :: Update Re-install An Automator?
Apr 11, 2012in the past I deleted Automator, can an update re-install an Automator?
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Apr 11, 2012I am new to mac. I download microsoft office and I would like to install it. I do not know how to do this. Do need the bootcamp thing?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Technologies :: Keep Getting An Error, And The Java Update Will Not Install
Apr 13, 2012I keep getting an error, and the Java Update will not install. What can I do?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Technologies :: Install A Base Java Before Running Update?
Apr 15, 2012Does one have to install a base Java before running this update, or is it a full installer?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Lee's computer
OS X Technologies :: Create An Apple-script To Install Printers - Can't Seem To Get It To Work
Mar 21, 2012I'm running 10.7and I'm trying to create an applescript to install printers. I'm able to run the first command without issues but the other two keeps giving me error messages in applescript. I assume its because the other two commands have spaces? These are the commands I run when in Terminal:Â
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p CX560 -E -v lpd://CX560/print -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/US-Letter/CX560_V1.PPD -D FireStationCX560Â
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This is the only command I can successfully run in AppleScipt:Â
do shell script "/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p CX560 -E -v lpd://CX560/print -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/US-Letter/CX560_V1.PPD -D FireStationCX560"Â Â
IMac PPC :: CD / DVD Eject Failures
May 3, 2012I cannot eject a CD from my iMac. It doesn't appear on my desktop or in the finder, but I can hear it spinning sometimes.I tried to eject it with the Disk Utility and it won't. Tried turning Mac on it's side, manual eject button on keyboard, also holding down the mouse while restarting.Even tried the two credit card trick.Can't get them out!
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iMac, iOS 5.1
OS X Technologies :: Install Mac OS X Lion / Received Message That HD Disk Is Not Formatted As Mac OS Extended
Mar 20, 2012I am trying to install Mac OS X Lion I just downloaded. At the step where it asks you to select a disk to install, I got this message:"This disk is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Use Disk Utility to enable journaling or reformat the disk."What does this mean? Please help me through the steps to complete my installation of this software.
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iMac, iOS 5.1
OS X :: Continuous System Crashes / Failures?
May 7, 2010I have just received my 3rd "You need to restart your computer" fatal message in 10 minutes, and I believe that it might have something to do with my external harddrive. I have attached the recent error log jut below:Quote:
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Jul 21, 200617 inch Imac
1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo Processor
6 seconds for shut down!
27 seconds for start up!
Is this normal? I had no applications running!
OS X :: 10.5.5 Woes. Network Account Login Failures?
Sep 24, 2008So i decided to update my machine to 10.5.5 before I pushed this out to everyone. The main problem i've seen so far is with a failed login using a mobile account that is bound to active directory.
My machine is currently bound to AD and i have a mobile account. When I start up the machine and attempt to login with my AD account, it fails. The only time the login works is when i unplug the machine from the network and log in. Everything in directory utility shows green light that i'm still bound to AD. At the login screen, I also have a green light saying network accounts are available as well. The only accounts that work are local accounts.
Anyone else experiencing this and what have you done to cure it?
Applications :: Handbrake Rip Failures - Video Quality
Jan 13, 2009i have a HUGE collection of DVDs and i bought a portable HDD to back them up onto. So i have like 13 done and when i went to try the 14th to make sure video quality was there, there was no video quality. There was no audio and the picture looked like an itunes visualizer. I was wondering if this was a handbreak issue or because it was a newer DVD with some sort of protection on it. It was I AM LEGEND and the other movies i ripped were like John Wayne classics and movies from the 90s.
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Jun 10, 2012My 2009 mac-mini started acting up about 2 months ago.The symptoms were:
-- slow response
-- freezing for no apparent reason the going again
-- failure to shutdown forcing use of the power button
-- long boot times
-- finder would freeze and could not be relaunched
-- iTunes would not quit
-- trying to view files on external drives may take an excessive time
I tried "everything" to try to resolve the problem.None of this worked:
-- zapped the parameter ram
-- cleared disk permissions
-- repaired disks
-- booted to safe mode
-- ran fsck
-- reinstalled Snow Leopard
There were several articles that discussed how to "reliably restart the finder". urls....Although none of the suggestions in the article or in the discussion provided any relief, I was finally convinced that I needed to disconnect all of my external drives and reboot.It appears that we have finally discovered the culprit.I have 4 external drives:
-Seagate GoFlex 3TB USB
-Seagate GoFlex 2TB USB
-Seagate 1.5TB Firewire
Toshiba 0.5TB USB (Used for Carbon Copy Clone of the internal drive)Booting from this drive did not change the problem.With all of them removed my computer worked just fine.Adding back the 3TB USB and the 1.5TB Firewire, I still have a working system.Since discovery of this error, I've found several articles complaining that this bug has been around long enough that it should have been fixed by now.Apparently Apple points fingers at the disk drive maker and the drive makers point back at Apple.Refering back to the article above, (the HTTP link), these same symptoms seem to appear because of some rogue applications.It -may- be that because I am using Crashplan 3.2.1 to backup this "broken" disk to another locally attached disk, that Crashplan is the "rogue" application.However, I've been using Crashplan for nearly 3 years and have found it to be a great app -- much more reliable than Time Machine (which proved to be nearly worthless when my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard died and was replaced with a MacBook Pro running Lion.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), core 2 Duo
MacBook Pro :: Repeated Thunderbolt Cable Failures
Jul 6, 2012I've just received my new MacBook Pro with Retina display last week and I'm very happy with it. But there's one issue... my Thunderbolt cables keep failing!Â
I bought a Seagate GoFlex for Mac drive with the GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter and an Apple Thunderbolt cable. The first cable failed after about an hour of operation (intensive copying of data onto the drive). I took everything to an Apple Store and they determined that the Thunderbolt cable was the culprit. They gave me a new one and I went home.Â
... just to have the same thing happen again the next day. This time the cable held up a little longer, maybe five hours until - again - the drive failed to be recognized and the new cable went bad as well!Â
I just came home from the store and this time, they swapped everything: drive, TB adapter and TB cable. I hope it won't happen again...
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MacBook Pro
Hardware :: Time Capsule Power Supply Failures
Nov 11, 2009there's a lot of talk online about the built in power supply in Time Capsules failing - mostly the reviews on [URL] - does anyone have experience or more information about this - have apple sorted this out with the latest revisions...?
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Mar 23, 2012Running a 10.6.8 OS on a 2.66 intel machine. I have been using a Western Digital 1TB basic desktop external drive as my Time Machine fpr the last year. It is USB2. I have found that every few months (sometimes 2) it would not back up nor could I go back in time, there are references to Node branch or tree failures, so I end up reformating using disc utility (mac OS extended Journaled Guid) and starting a new back up luckily this hasn't happened when I really needed lost files. Interestingly this happened again a couple of days ago. Over the last week I have been doing a lot of imaging files. When it started to do a backup it seemed to take a long time to do the preparing phase (cursor clicking on Time machine icon on top bar). After searching online about the length of time it should take I decided that perhaps it was my fault, that I hadn't allowed previous backups to complete properly and I had added a lot of new files. So wait I did, after 24 hours it was still saying preparing and the count was going up very slowly. I decided to give up and start from scratch again but this time no matter what I with Disk Utility I couldn't repair or reformat it stated things like Bad parent directory hierarchy. I now had a drive I couldn't do anything with. I went to the Western Digital website and downloaded their WD Quick Formatter for Mac. This dosn't give any formatting options and only formats to OS Extended Journaled Guid (lucky for me). It worked very quickly and I started a new backup. It only took a little over 2 hours for 160gb of data which is certainly the fastest it has ever done. So fingers crossed this time, maybe there is an issue with my Disk Utlity and WD drives.
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iMovie '08, Mac OS X (10.6)
MacBook Pro :: Multiple Drive Failures Using Seagate Momentus XT 750?
May 10, 2012I have a 2011 macbook pro (8,1) and in january 2012 I replaced the OEM drive with a momentus XT. I can report that the drive makes a BIG difference in performance. However, the drive failed with bad sectors within a week of installation. I got a warranty replacement, and that drive also failed within a couple weeks.
I got a second warranty replacement, and that drive failed after about a month.
I am currently awaiting my third warranty replacement drive!Â
All of the failures were the same mode - bad blocks after a fairly short period of use.
I used SMART Utility to detect the problem - typically the disk itself did not flag a SMART error (so does not show up in Disk Utility) but my utility detected the problem and the SMART self tests fail. In all cases these drives were eligible for replacement via SeaTools test. These drives also caused IO errors which showed up in the system log, and the evil pinwheel cursor of impending doom.Â
So my question to the community is: if anyone out there is using these drives, have you had these problems?
If you have one of these drives I recommend using SMART Utility or other SMART monitoring software to check your drive.Â
I know seagate is not known for reliability these days, but three drive failures in a row is a little ridiculous! ... so I'm concerned that there is some bad interaction with the mac. The only other thing I can think of is bad yields related to the thailand floods - all of these drives were dated around Oct 2011.Â
I've searched around a bit but I haven't seen anyone reporting problems.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Mavericks :: Time Machine Disk - Frequent Failures
Sep 3, 2014I DREAD having to restart my Mac. Because every time I get met by a Time Machine 'unable to write' fault. And you can't reformat the disc (can't unmount)Â with disc utility. (even unmounting with Terminal, and stopping indexing with Terminal, both of which fail)Â
The only way is to plug the Time Machine disc into a Windows PC and reformat with that.
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Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
MacBook Pro :: 15-inch Early 2008 Time Machine Failures?
May 22, 2012OSX Lion 10.7.4 Time Machine recently started randomly failing, so I swapped out the external hard drive and failures continue. I'm wondering if its software or maybe the USB ports failing at this point.Â
Logs look like below (when it works):Â
5/22/2012 2:57:54.360 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
5/22/2012 2:57:54.943 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/MBBackup/Backups.backupdb
5/22/2012 2:57:58.000 PM kernel: disk2s1: device is not ready.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Turns On But Just Beeps Three Times Stops Beeps More Times And Won't Start Up
Jun 16, 2012My iMac turns on but just beeps three times stops beeps more times and won't start up
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iMac
Mac Pro :: It Freezes Several Times A Day?
Jul 3, 2012My Mac pro is running slowly and get the pinwheel often. It also freezes at least once a day.
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Mac Pro, 2 hd one for mac one for windows
Mac Pro :: RAID5 / 6 Rebuilt Times?
Jan 2, 2011I recently bought the Areca 1880ix-16 card and the backplane cable to hook to the mac pro internal drives - hooked up 4 x seagate ST32000644NS 2TB enterprise drives for an internal RAID5 with 6TB of space. Used the DX4 from transinternational to hook up my 2 SSD drives. The initial raid build time was just about 2 days (!) for the raid 5. Shortly after that I left town for a few days and came back to an alarm in my computer - one of the disks had dropped out. The rebuild time was again close to 2 days!. At thipoint I realized that if I was sitting there with that much data at risk for a 2 day rebuild, it would be agonizing and so I needed to go raid6 (which had been my goal from the start, but only 4 internal disks is very limiting). So I gave up on managing my storage internally and bought an istorage pro it8SAS external box connected by miniSAS cable. The raid5 had to complete the rebuild before it would let me expand to raid6. I added another seagate ST32000644NS 2TB enterprise drive (interestingly the drive that was originally listed as failed has caused no further problems at all) and expanded the raid to RAID6 with the same capacity but one extra drive for parity. The rebuild now has been going on for almost 48 hours and it's at 53% I had NO idea the rebuild times would be this long. I do have 2.3TB of data on the array, so I'm not sure if that prolongs it vs. an empty array. But just for others info, take into consideration these times when deciding what your own needs are - I bought a high end (AFAIK) raid card, running in a high end computer (mac pro 3ghz octocore with 16GB RAM) and quality enterprise drives, and it's still maddeningly slow to rebuild. Hopefully once it's up and running, this will all be forgotten, and if I ever have a drive fail, I know I can still lose another one without any data loss. RAID6 seems the only way to go given these times for rebuild. FWIW, I also put in another 3 drives - old 500gb drives I had sitting around and built a secondary RAID5 array since I had the space, that completed in around 36 hours or so, and was done during the original raid5 rebuild.
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Mar 5, 2007I access my GMail account via POP with Apple's Mail client. The past couple of times I've tried to send an e-mail have resulted in an error message saying "The message could not be delivered and will remain in your Outbox until it can be delivered. The connection to the server [URL] on port 25 timed out." I know I have my account set up right, as I've been using it like this for years. I went into GMail in Safari and could send a message fine.
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Feb 11, 2009I've been using my mac religiously on a daily basis for almost a year now. I have noticed that progressively the boot time and shut down time is getting longer and longer. And I understand as I install programs and use the laptop more, it's going to get slower and slower but right now the boot time and shut down time is more than I would expect.
For boot up, the only applications that open on login is Mail and Quicksilver.
Is there anything I can do to reduce the boot and shut down times?
Mac Pro :: Chime 5 Times When Booting Up?
Feb 14, 2012For the last two days, my Mac Pro chimes 5 times when booting up. As far as I can tell, it's booting up fine and everything seems to be running OK.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
