Using snow leopard 10.6.8, I have the same password for my user id and my keychain login. Why do I still have to give my user password every time I turn on the computer? This is about my eighth mac and I have never had to do this before.
View 3 RepliesI was software updating my brothers computer and I shut it down because he was going to bed and I turned it back on. It asked me to restart the computer and I did and a black shade saying to restart it came up again... What should I do? I have shut it off and on a zillion times and still the black shade with weird text in the background is still happening.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can't get my computer to turn on. i had it in sleep mode and forgot and pushed the off button to turn it back on and now it doesn't respond.
Info:
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
How do stop the applications from popping up on my screen every time I turn on my Mac? It's been happening ever since a upgraded from Leopard to Lion. Or it has to do with Evernote.
Info:
Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Most of the time when I turn on the Mac I get the white screen and question mark appear. Sometimes it will turn on and work. But often the coloured spinning wheel starts up especially after trying to use iphoto it freezes and a couple of times the screen has then gone black. The computer seemed pretty warm yesterday when this happened.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Do not turn off the MacBook Pro
Info:
MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
This is the most random problem I had with my Mac. I usually keep it on sleep, and last night at 1:30Am it wakes up. The drive spins, but the screen is black. The sleep indicator light turns off, then the computer puts itself back to sleep. It also happened twice this morning. What's going on here?
View 7 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have a problem with thier displaying turning off while inuse?
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I got a Macbook with OS X. I was too impatient to get the administrator name and password from the previous owner (BIG MISTAKE).I thought I'd follow the instructions from "How To Create A New Administrator Account" (url..) as they seemed easy and straight forward.
I followed the first step of the process and got into single-user mode (black screen white text).I saw that black screen with white text and thought, "Woah man, I'm out my my depth. My brother typed 'help' in order to find out how to exit single-user mode, he said that's how it's done on windows? (I also have limited knowledge about Windows). I typed in various things such as 'reboot' in an attempt to exit. Eventually the battery died. I turned the Macbook back on and the grey screen with the apple logo with the spinning wheel appeared. The spinning wheel span and span but the computer will not start up.
Info:MacBook
iMac with 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, plenty of space available and currently operating 10.5.8. Now I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard and since my Mac Mini came with it, I attempted to use the OSX install disc from the Mini in the iMac. I don't see a reason why this shouldn't work. There's no DRM or anything as far as I know. I'm just trying to bridge the gap so I can download Lion. I've looked into some of the advice others have given on this subject but my computer doesn't have those issues. I've tried booting from disc but I get the same message.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iPhone 4
Is it possible to turn off the feature whereby OSX presents me with a play button in the middle of a sound file? Everytime I want to select a sound file to move or delete it, I move the mouse over the file, click, and the silly thing starts to play. Okay, I know I can click outside the play button, but it is an extra bother to have to precisely position my mouse to avoid playing the file, a bother I can do without.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI updated with snow leopard my old computer and now i want to use it on another computer instead. how do i deactivate it from an old computer to use it with another one? since you cant use it on multiple computers i need to get this done.
Info:
mac os x snow leopard
i want to turn off disable my internal hard drive.
1.) macbook pro 1.83ghz
2.) OSX 10.6
i know how to remove the drive physically, that is not my question. the drive makes too much noise while i am recording in imovie. i am sure there must be a simple command line in the terminal
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
I plan to 'clean up' my Time Machine/Time capsule completely, whereby I want to make it impossible for third parties to recover all or part of these old backups.After I have accompished this I want to start from scratch backing up my Mac.
Info:
iMac 27" i7, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
I cannot seem to set up Time Machine using Time Capsule on my MacBook Pro. Evidently when I initially set up AirPort Extreme, I failed to select it as the backup disc.
Info:AirPort Extreme 802.11n (4th Gen), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I recently bought the Mac Box Set for Snow Leopard and I was wondering if I should back up my computer first or if it's safe enough to just go ahead and upgrade? Would everything disappear, like iTunes, iPhoto, etc?
View 19 Replies View RelatediMac will not reboot after reinstalling Snow Leopard. White screen and a folder icon with a "?" in the middle.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My computer cannot see my scanner.I am using a UMAX 1220U flatbed scanner.It's connected by a USB cable.It has worked in the past with both Graphic Converter and Image Capture Version 6.0.1 (428).It has never worked with VueScan.Now, today, it won't work at all.Image Capture reports that no camera or scanner is connected.For drivers I use the SANE backends and frontends that I got from sane-project.org/intro.html. When Image Capture works, I see the SANE icon up in the "Devices" section of the column on the left.When Image Capture does not work, I do not see the SANE caption there.I have experimented with the USB cable, unplugging it and replugging it at both the computer and the scanner. I have moved the cable to different ports on the computer without success.
I have tried unplugging the power cord to the scanner for a while and then replugging the power cable.That has worked in the past, but not in the last two days.Today I redownloaded and reinstalled the SANE software again.It did not work.System Profiler does not list the scanner in the USB Device Tree.
Info:
Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I don't know if I need to upgrade or what I already have.Where do I look?
Info:
iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Tried to restart didn't work. Light is on, but nothing makes noise or anyhting. Been charging it for hours so it has power. Tested the chord on my ther computer and it worked
Info:
MacBook
I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard and iLife '09, but if I do that, will everything on my computer be deleted or everything that is compatible with snow leopard still work and not be deleted after upgrading? Some details about what happens when you upgrade.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I 'upload' (is that the word? (paste onto my computer) a wallpaper I've down loaded.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Is it possible to access the Internet using another computer connected to it.Reason be that we sometimes have only access to a UMTS network, and since we only have one stick it would be nice if the other computer in the network could surf over the one connected to the UMTS network.
Info:
MBP, MM, MBP - 10.6 + Windows XP on a hard partition
My iMac has slowed down signficantly recently and sometimes hangs at log-in or very occasionally at other times. The screen grab of the activity monitor shows the amount of memory 'used' at log-in with no software open - is it normal for half the memory to be 'used' already?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI want to record some audio from the web, namely some things from the Google Translate audio. When you click on the megaphone symbol, a voice will read the translation. I want to record this translation using just the computer. Is that possible?
Info:
MBA v 3.2, 256GB SSD, 2.13GHz, 4GB, Other OS, 10.6.8
What can I do to get my computer to recognize my new printer, HP office-jet 7500A?
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Again--my iMac desktop computer (10.8.6) is refusing to go to sleep, as it usually does automatically if left alone for a short time. Even when put to sleep manually, it pops on again by itself. Wasting a lot of electricity!
Info:
iMac 20", Mac OS X (10.5.6)
How do I get the backup arrow on my computer???
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I need to see log in attempts on my iMac. Is there a way to find out when, and which user logs in and for how long. I know I can buy software. But is there an application in the system that can do this?
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
I have some MacPro in Windows Server 2008 Domain. They are joined to 10.6.8 Server (account user server) with homedirs Now i have a problem to add each macpro to opendirectory. I want to manage they from OD.How connect MacPro to OD?In Directory manager i'll made each macpro account with UUID, Mac adrees and IP But it doesn't work!
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
