OS X V10.7 Lion :: After Changing Computer Name Having Duplicates Of Every File
May 4, 2012
Recently, I had decided to change my MacBook Pro name. After reading the warning, I understood that everything would turn into defualt settings and I would not loose any other information. However, in result, after completing a restart; my computer made duplicates of music and pictures. To add on to this, the name change deleted my playlist, which I have no problems with, and made about 3 duplicates of every song in my library which consisted of about 28 gigs of music. Btw...all of the files are there, it is just that there are tons of duplicate files which need to be deleted because of this computer name change.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 17, 2012
I have some scanned PDF's files with big size (10Mb - 15Mb). The original document doesn't exist. How can I change these existing PDF files to a smaller size?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 24, 2012
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I'm having to type in my password just to modify/change a file name or location. How do I get rid of this? I use Lion.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 24, 2009
My computer name always keep changing with a message like "computer name X already exist in your network and your computer name is now X(2)". I have to change the computer name back to X, or the computer will be rename to X(3), X(4) .... etc. I did not change anything in my network.Is there any way to stop this?
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May 24, 2012
I just installed Lion 10.7.4 named my computer "fx6800". Then I joined my Windows 2003 Server domain with no problems. After that I could not log on to domain with one of my windows 7 machines because it had the same computer ID. Ok no problem I re joined the domain and re binded with the Win 7 machine and then un binded my Mac Lion machine then re-binded with a different computer ID. No problem both machines can log on to AD with separate computer accounts. Then I notice when I opened terminal it was showing the old computer ID. No problem I fixed it With sudo scutil --set HostName "new host name". Â
Then when I go to select file sharing in the description to the right under File Sharing On: it shows the path to tha machine is fx6800.domainname.local which is the original computer ID. Also when I select remote login and I believe it shows username@fx6800.domainname.local. I have searched for 2 days and have not come up with anything. I am sure if I reinstall everything it should fix it but I would like to save the time.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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How to restore a file from the Time Share volume of one mac to a different mac.Â
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the macbook pro is in the shop for repair for a few days and I'd like to fetch some of it's files from its time machine backup onto the macair. I'm a little reluctant to simply fire up Time Machine on the mac air and respecify it's storage volume to be the macbook pro's volume. I'm concerned about internal configuration changes Time Machine might make to the mac air, including making changes that might cause it to have to do a full (not differential) back up when I reconfigure the mac air's Time Machine to use it's own backup volume after I'm done getting files from the macbook pro backup volume.Â
In addition to simply getting access to some of the files of the mac in the shop, I want to get the mac calendar from that machine and use it on the mac air. I understand that this may be somewhat trickier.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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Jun 9, 2012
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For example, if I send an email to "Dad", the contact later appears on all my synced devices as "Dad Dad".Â
This is only the case when I use Apple Mail on the desktop, not on iOS.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Apr 10, 2012
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 3, 2012
I've installed iCloud and now I have duplicates in my address book and iCal. What do I do about that? Am I to just delete all the duplicates?
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Address Book, iCal, iCloud, iOS 5.0.1
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Mar 25, 2012
For many of my contacts, when I do a search with Spotlight, Address Book reports there is a Duplicate.Â
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Mac OS X (10.7.2), MacBook Pro (mid 2009), iPhone 4
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Aug 22, 2009
For about a little over a year I have noticed something strange. When the computer turns on and the login screen appears the name of my computer "John's iMac G5" is under the big Mac OS X heading. Normal, but what isn't normal is that the computer adding numbers to the end of it's name so the appears like so "John's iMac G5 (2)" and currently that number is up to 5. So I assume it will change the name to have a 6 relatively soon. I was just wondering what is causing this? If I try to delete the numbers from the name, it just starts back up again within a few days. I am running Leopard version 10.5.8...this never happened when the computer had Tiger installed on it.
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Aug 13, 2010
Every so often I boot or reboot my computer and the "Computer Name" changes by adding a number 2 to the name, for example my computer at home is called "Dilbert" and when I boot I notice the has changed to "Dilbert (2). When I try to change it back I get a dialog box that tells me "The name of the computer "Dilbert" is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to "Dilbert (2)". To change the name of your computer, open the System Preferences and click Sharing, then type the name in the Computer Name field." BTW, this is the field I am in and attempting to change the name in.
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Jun 15, 2012
My computer name keeps changing. I thought it was my printer network that was causing it but now I see that the "new" name is ACTIVE in Network-->WINS of System Preferences. It shows the computer's WINS-->NetBIOS Name as Name-2. And it says it is active.Â
To turn it off so I can disable it? What it is and how can I keep it from changing again? Why this happens (see above).Â
I do have MS Office on the computer and I have locked down changes to my Printer Network, to NAME instead of NAME-2. (The printer is connected USB but has network capability.)Â
I only have my computer on the MAC Router, no other computers are networked to it. (I do have an iPad, iPod & iPhone.)Â
I keep putting the name back and it keeps changing itself back to NAME-2.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 24, 2012
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Mar 19, 2012
My computer's hard drive space keeps changing. For exaomple, there are 50 GB free space, and then a few hrs later I will check the info again and it will read 47 GB free, 45 GB free, etc. It keeps changing throughout the day. I have not downloaded anything, not added any files, just browsed the web. Why does it keep chaning like that? Usually when I restart the computer, it reads what it normally should, eg. 50 GB free.
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21.5" iMac 4GB memory 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Mar 4, 2009
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On the side I do photography, a lot of photography. I have been a OS X user now since May-ish, but I am still learning the system.
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Feb 24, 2012
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Apr 12, 2012
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), 6 GB RAM
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On Mavericks, Current itunes. My iTunes library files, the folder, iTunes Library.itl , iTunes Music Library.xml and so on, are stored in the Music folder of my system on the main hard drive.Â
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 8gb ram, 2.26 core 2 duo
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