OS X :: What File System Works Both In Mac And Xp
Nov 9, 2008I have a external HDD and I want to share files between Mac and Xp these files are over 8 gbs each what file system can OSX write to and what can xp read from?
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OS X :: How Operating System Works?
Aug 24, 2009I have had my mac for sometime now and love it but was looking for more info on how the operating system works. For example I understand in my applications folder there is my programs but what is the library and the system library? How does it all work etc? Does anyone have any handy links I can use to learn more about the workings of OSX?
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Sep 19, 2009I'm new to Mac so please be gentle!
I've just added a couple of entries to my HOSTS file to test whether it works the same way in Mac OSX (SL) as it does in Windoze.
I've found it does... and it doesn't.
My 4 test entries are totally blocked if I use Safari, but they're NOT blocked in Firefox.
Could someone tell me in simple terms why this is so, and if there's something I can do to make Firefox obey the HOSTS redirects?
OS X :: Finding Windows Works File Recovery?
Jun 12, 2006While my eMac is in the shop (another long story I've told elsewhere here), I am using my work PC. I was working on a short story I had not yet saved in Microsoft Works Word Processor when it said it became unresponsive and had to close. I have been searching all over the computer for traces of this unsaved file.
Under C:/Windows/Prefetch there are files from around the time I lost the document and they are "PF" files. There is even one called WKSWP.EXE-25E36596 , which gives me hope it might be related to the file I was working on. When I open it in Notepad I get gobbly goop.
OS X :: Unable To Rip DVDs / System Freezes And Nothing Works
Jun 2, 2009I've had this white MacBook for less than 6 months and it has froze on me multiple times already. I took it to the Mac store and they said to put the OSX discs in to get the original files, cause they thought there might be a corrupted file. So I tried that and today it froze again.
I looked at the logs and the programs that make it freeze are Osex and Macthe Ripper. The whole computer freezes where the keyboard and mouse don't work. I can only shut down the computer with the power button. I'm trying to back up my discs so I can put away my originals. This is my first Mac and didn't think this would be happening. I tried fixing the permissions, restarting, and loading the original discs. I deleted Osex and this is my first freeze with MactheRipper. Software issue? Should I just use a paid program?
IMac PPC :: Downloading Vector-works File From Mail?
Jun 9, 2012I just recently switched to the cloud from mobile me and realized my imac didn't have Lion so I'm having to access email through internet rather than through MAIL. Before the switch, I could receive Vectorworks files via email and drag to my desktop and then open in that application. Now, the file comes in as a .vwx but I get the message "There is no application set to open the document" It then asks if I want to choose an application on my computer but it won't let me choose Vectorworks.
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PowerPC :: Translucent Menu Bar Works On PowerBook G4 But Not In My System?
Aug 21, 2009I'm trying to figure out why I can't get my menu bar to be translucent on my MacBook. It works just fine on the PowerBook G4. Look at these:PowerBook G4 set to translucent:MacBook set to translucent:MacBook not set to translucent
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Apr 17, 2012I have an old database file in Apple Works 6 and would like to have it in either an iWorks or File Maker Pro application or even in a Microsoft Office application.
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Hardware :: Small File Size Limit To The FAT32 File System?
Jan 19, 2009I was wondering if there is a small file size limit to the FAT32 file system. I recently picked up a 1TB WD external with Firewire (pre-formatted FAT32) and have been transferring movies and such fine, but I just tried transferring an HD movie (5GB) and some large .dmg's/.iso's and they all just fail with an error.
Is this a size limitation, and will i need to reformat the drive to fix it, or is there something else I'm missing?
MacBook Pro :: Usb Drive With Fat32 File System Not Preserving File Permissions
Mar 15, 2012When ever I copy some files or create a file in my external USB drive which is a FAT32 one. file permissions are not preserved. All files/folders has 777 are permission. Is this how it work in mac or am I missing something?
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PowerPC :: Unable To Start System After Update / File System Got Corrupted?
Jul 19, 2007I am a proud owner of a MAC powerbook G4 for just over 3 years now. It runs MAc OX 10.3. For the last two weeks i have been having issues. First it started to be very slow. Then it would not boot up and i got a blue screen. I ran the file system checks from the OS X and it complained about the volume being bad and said it could not be repaired. i decided to reinstall the whole thing and did a complete erase and install. IT booted up fine. The software updater asked permission to update which i agreed.
After the update was over, the software updater had more updates. I guessed that it was probably giving me updates in the chronological order. During a particular update, it gave the blue screen and "please restart" ... and when i rebooted it did not come up... just a blue screen... i verified the filesystem using the diagnostic tool and it again said it was corrupt .... I have done this twice now and i have a feeling it happened when i was updating the same batch of software updates.... sometimes my software updater would crash everytime i launch it.....
Mac Pro :: Bought A Flashed 4870 Off EBay ... Works But System Profiler Weird?
Jul 8, 2010see attachments.
Again: Everything works, I'm wondering if this is normal though.
OS X :: Can Transfer File From The System To Allow Them To Be Deleted Like A Normal File
Jul 20, 2009While copying files from my digital camera xD card onto my mini, the Card reader un-mounted itself and remounted its self several times, I have no idea why...Now I have a load of 0Kb files in the folder where I was copying to. I can delete these, but they come up with a "file in use" error message so I need to click for each file to be deleted... ~350 left I did try a restart thinking that may clear up any "pending" file transfers from the system to allow them to be deleted like a normal file
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Sep 5, 2014I cannot save any videos I create on Final Cut Pro because the "Share > default file" function no longer works. My Mac was fine until this new Maverick OS update, now I have a new issue every single week.
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MacBook Pro :: Seagate 500gb - 7200rpm Works With EFI Firmware Update 1.7 Works Well?
Jun 27, 2009I just installed a Seagate 500gb, 7200rpm hard drive in my 13" MBP that was updated to EFI Firmware Update 1.7. Clean install of OS X and iLife '09 & iWork '09 went fast. It's quite and fast compared to my old Samsung 500gb, 5400rpm hard drive. It was worth the $120 I spent on it!
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Apr 5, 2012Like two months ago, my MBP started to work really slow when not plugged to electricity, but as soon as I plug it in, my MBP works perfectly. I already sent it to apple for they to fix it, but they solved other issued except for that one. Please, any idea what could it be.
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OS X :: Way To Chang File Details In A System
Oct 28, 2010I wanted to know if there were any good software out there that would help me rename a music file and its details (album title, composer, comments). I don't just mean on iTunes but the file in general.
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Dec 7, 2008sent me a text document in binary format (the name of the document is "Viewdoc" -- no extension) which opens fine when I'm at work, on a Windows machine, but at home on my Mac it gets opened in Quicktime, but all it will show me is the very first page; I can't get it to scroll down past that. I tried opening it in Word but it just looks like gibberish.
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Jan 4, 2009I am running windows XP with a 160 GB hardrive. i have 90 GB free and i would like to partition some of that free space to an HFS+ format so that i can install Mac OSX. However i would like to keep all of the files and stuff i have on my windows XP. does anybody know what i can do to do this?
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Mar 25, 2009I'm trying to find the file for a sound effect in OS X. Under System Preferences, Date & Time, Announce the time, Customize Voice, there are voice samples.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Can Use Sudo Rm -rf On Read-only File System
Apr 24, 2010I am trying to delete some files with the command "sudo rm -rf". I get the return message "read-only file system." I am log in as adim and I don't have the option of changing it to a write file in the "get info" tab. How is it possible to delete these files?
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Apr 27, 2010I had a mirror drive G4 1.25g, 1.5 g ram since it was brand new and it had problems from the start that just got worse over time. I still need to use it semi-regularly and so I would like to know if anyone here might have a clue what's going on. Of the long list of problems, I'll describe the ones that are the most frustrating! oh and by the way, I zapped pram and I have reinstalled everything from the original discs which made no difference at all.
1. When booting into 9 or classic, just about every other time or so I'll get a system error and I need to hold the power button to turn it off. Then I need to boot into X and replace the system file in the classic system folder (I already have a copy just for this purpose on the desktop) and then it will boot ok on the next run.
2. If I boot (9 or X) and don't touch the mac at all, it will hang up after about 10-15 minutes. If I reset and boot a second time, it won't freeze. So my practice for years has been: boot up, wait for the desktop to appear and restart immediately.
3. Many (but not all) applications fail to launch with an error (quitting unexpectedly), i.e. don't run at all. Some launch ok when the application is launched but quit when they're launched via a double click onto a related document.
How does that sound? Is there any hope for this machine at all? I would be eternally grateful for any solid pointers just as I'll be forever mad that I did not return this machine while it was still under warranty!
OS X :: Damaged System Pref File
May 22, 2010i was attempting to change the icon of my system pref. the way I have in past OS. This was the first time I had attempted to do it in Snow Lep. Well my method is make a copy duplicate of the system pref application change the icon delete the original remove the word copy from the new one and viola it works perfect. However this time it did not work and now my system pref application will not open at all it says "it is damaged or incomplete"
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Nov 9, 2010My MacBook internal hard disk is currently partitioned into Snow Leopard (JHFS+), Storage (NTFS), and Windows 7 (NTFS). Whenever I try to mount my storage partition, it shows up as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" in Disk Utility, and refuses to mount. My Windows 7 partition, which is also NTFS, mounts automatically when I log in. Is there a way to perhaps force my storage partition to mount as an NTFS-formatted drive? This problem only exists when using OS X though, as it shows up fine on both Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7.
I also have an external hard drive which is partitioned (using MBR) as Storage (FAT32), Backup (NTFS) and Mac Storage (JHFS+). It all mounts properly, with the exception of Mac Storage, which shows up, curiously enough, as an NTFS drive in Disk Utility. Same question as above: Is there a way to force it to mount as a JHFS+ drive? (I'm using Tuxera NTFS 2010.10, if that makes any difference).
OS X :: Downloading Software - No Mountable File System
Mar 20, 2006I keep getting "no mountable file system" error when I try to download software. Does anyone know what it takes to make it work?
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Nov 2, 2003I'm a soon-to-be switcher (*knock on wood*) and trying to plan how I'm going to migrate a bunch of data from my old Linux box to a new PowerBook. I'm thinking of buying an external drive case for my IDE drive, slurping everything off of there, then reformatting it to use as a backup drive. Which brings up my question. I've searched and I can't for the life of my figure out whether or not OS X will mount an ext3 file system. I can't see why it wouldn't, given the FreeBSD core, but who knows.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMac Pro :: Additional HD - File System Formatting Failed
Feb 10, 2009I have a 640GB WD Black hard drive in my computer, and that I had accidentally formatted during my creation of a XP boot camp drive (I have another hard drive in the MacPro with this present). At the time I lost a majority of my media and had to rerip it all (learned my backup lesson there). So when it was reformatted it was changed from OSX extended journaled to MS-DOS Fat. I then used the drive to store the media on again as I reripped and pulled some from Time Machine. I kept running into problems where some files would not copy over.
So I reformatted a different drive and copied all the media to it, which fixes the other issues, and now I'm trying to reformat the MS-DOS 640 GB drive back to osx extended journaled. When I use disk utility I select the drive, and change the volume format from MS-DOS (FAT) to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click Erase and then it stops and says "Disk Erase failed. With the error: File system formatting failed"
OS X :: How To Open A Cryptload Container File On A System
May 1, 2009how to open a CCF (Cryptload container file) file on mac?
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May 31, 2009I accidentally deleted the "chirp" noise that goes every time you adjust the volume on the keyboard when I was messing with an iTunes plugin. Does anyone know the file name and where it goes?
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Jul 2, 2009Just a quick question regarding external hard drives.
Does it matter what file system the hard drive is set to for me to be able to transfer data between the uMBP and the hard drive?
Currently, my 1TB external hard drive is in NTFS, but i understand Mac use FAT32? (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
