I bought a MacBook Pro this summer. It had a free Lion upgrade due to the timing. I just upgraded, and now I can't open iPhoto, iTunes, etc. This is NOT COOL... I would not have installed this Lion crap if I'd known it would mess with my programs! I don't want a link to pay MORE money to Apple, I want my freaking computer to work like I paid for.
Info:Mac OS X (10.7)
How can I save thousands of photos long term. I currently have them on cd's and need a safer alternative.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a slightly older MacBook.It was purchased when leopard was out, but has been upgraded to lion, with ram added.Had no problems with the OS until I installed the seagate diagnostics software about a week ago at their recommendation.During the install, the computer hung during the shutdown of the mandatory restart. It took me a pram reset to get the machine to start up again. Since then, the following has been a problem:
-Spotlight has no index and won't search.
-The computer will not shut down, have to pull the plug.
-Finale (which uses java runtime) doesn't work, and the auto install of java run time won't go in.
-Software update starts, but the percentage bar freezes after a moment.
I have run the system restore partition, which went in okay, but did not change anything.I have also followed the steps to uninstall the seagate diagnostic software. However the problem still persists.I'm guessing there is some sort of shut down script that is hanging the system, and preventing indexing from happening which prevents all of these other processes from happening.Does anyone have any ideas for what to do next?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I'm about to get a new Mac Pro (the most modest configuration) and I'll be using it primary for music production (i.e. Logic). I won't really be doing anything graphics intensive. At best, I'll watch the occasional movie on it and play a game or two.
The thing about the ACDs is that they're so expensive! So I'm wondering, is it really worth it for someone like me to fork over $899, or should I stick with a cheaper one in the $300-$400 range? I'm going to need to get two eventually...
Now that Snow Leopard is out and unavailable for older Macs without Intel processors, how much of an issue is this likely to become in the future? I have a Imac G5 1.8 and and just wondering if Mac is leaving us behind?
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All my personal files are in 'Knox' dmgs - i work out of the dmgs - works perfectly. But i dont know for sure where else other background/usage info is stored on the computer.
I remember i while back reading that without firmware password if someone got your mbp (physical possession) then they could reset the password and get into your user account (with mac osx cd) ... can someone confirm (im reasonably sure this is correct).
I had the password on my last mbp but havent got around to putting it on this new one. I was about to today but its been awhile and maybe there is new information or perspective for me to consider.
How many of you have a password installed?
What are the pro's & con's?
I have a question about using my new samsung tv as a monitor for my macbook. I have all the cables and such and my TV reads the computer. It actually shows the desktop background, mouse, and the toolbar on the tv...
BUT....when i try and open a program such as safari or itunes it does not display the program on the monitor but rather on my macbook screen. It shows the program open on the tv monitor but it shoots off the screen and then opens on the macbook screen.
Also the mouse disappears from the tv monitor screen on the left side only, and when it does it becomes visible back on the macbook screen! Any tips or suggestions on how to get the programs to show up on the monitor instead of the macbook screen?
I have the late 2008 MBP which has only 2gb of ram. I'm planning on upgrading the ram. With this, I'm just wondering if there is anything one has to know when doing this. Considering that I boot on both windows (bootcamp) and osx, would the ram be recognized immediately? Or do i have to install or do something first before it does. Is it more advisable to reformat the whole computer? Maybe because of some performance issues.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), programs will not work on 10.7.3
Pages just crashed on me and I lost 5 really important links which took hours to find. Why would they not put an auto save in? How hard can it be? Did they say something like our software doesn't crash so no auto save? I've found this thread
http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbth...08&Main=487629
But I really cant work out how to get this to work in automator, can someone help me at all, I put it in script editor and it does nothing for me when I run it.
how can i recover it? hwat program will find it in a good state?
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Tried to use Time Machine to open Safari from a week ago, received message: I did not have permission.
Using Macbook Pro, 2g memory, 80g hd, with 42g free.
Backed up on ext. HD,
One more, getting a lot of spinning wheels when using Safari that causes a lockup and hard re-start.
I have an expensive piece of software that uses adobe air and I create videos for my business and I'm not able to do so now. I just logged off of my admin account and logged on with a guest account. Video and flash seem to be working with the guess account. I didn't check adobe air or TM. How can I create a new account and move the important apps, files, docs, etc. that I need from the main account to the new one. Al of my business is setup on the mail account, emails, downloads etc.
I have update FCP to 10.1.2 yesterday and now i can't open one project that i have to re-edit now.
It's a 1.30 min editing project with a hundred of clips in that specific event, clips are still there and i can preview each one with no issues (same for others events and projects that i'm editing now) but when i'm trying to open this particular project (double click) FCP shows evey time a spinning wheel and freezes, its RAM's usage goes to the moon and i have to force quitting.
What i've tried:Â
1- pick up a backup file and use it deleting the corrupt one in my library (i've used 3 different files from 3 different days, no luck)Â
2 - deleting preferces (alt+command+click to launch)Â
3 - deleting generated event filesÂ
4 - deleting .flexolibrary fileÂ
5 - using Onyx to clean my Mac ProÂ
6 - shutting down and rebootingÂ
Dual 6 Core workstation, 48 GB of RAM and several internal HD /// OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks
Since I work with Lion , all programs start automatically. Takes to much time. How can I change this?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010)
Just upgraded to Lion and on startup several programs (FaceTime, Mail, Safari, Calander) all launch automatically. Can this be changed and how to do it?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I suddenly have a problem where I can't add or remove programs from the dock. When I try to drag a program icon to the dock it won't stick to it and shows a "+" next to it in green. When I try to drag an icon off the dock it shows a shadow of the icon that won't go away. I tried making a new user and the same behavior occurs in that user. I tried finding my com.apple.dock.plist but couldn't locate it. I was able to find com.apple.dockfixup.plist and tried deleting.
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MacBook Pro
Is there a way to add programs to the Open With Menu.For example, when you right click on a file you can choose to open it with the default application by selecting Open, or choose other programs to open it with by selecting Open With.Only a few of the programs that can open the files are listed.Is there a way to add programs that I use to list in that list.Right now, everytime I want to open something in a program that is not listed I have to go to Other... and find it in the Application folder. Which is not too convenient.Many programs that I use to open files are not listed for many types of file types, I open them frequently using the Open... window, and I was hoping that Mac would learn to add them, but it did not.
For example, I have VMWare with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 in it, my default application for WORD documents is Word for Mac 2011, but occasionally I need to open it in Word 2010 in Windows (Certain features that are missing in Mac Word), and I have to browse to fin the Word 2010 Application from the Application Folder.Another example is a program (from the App Store) called ResizeIt (which resizes photos), I have to browse for it everytime even though it is an application just for images.So, is there a way to edit the Open With Menu for specific file types to include these programs that I use, or do I have to keep browsing to the Application folder and finding it there?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.2 GHz i7 Quad Core, 8 GB of RAM
I just downloaded Lion, and it's not letting me use any of my Office products. There are big white circles with lines through them surrounding the icons for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. When I click ont he Word icon, I get the following message: "You can't open the application Microsoft Word because PowerPC applications are no longer supported."
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'd like to switch fron Snow Leopard to Lion, but it's such a pain to lose and reinstall programs like Kobo, super Duper,Log Me In etc. Is ther any way to transfer them into my new Lion OS?
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), WD 250 GB external HD
I dont know mutch about computers so i need to know what should i clean in my macbook pro.
I have the softwares like Onyx, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius, Deeper and Maintenance but dont know really how to used them.
Whats important to cleaan and rebuild?
I setup a Bootcamp Partition to run Windows. I set it to only 10gb to save all of my space on my Mac OS. I wanted to delete it completely because it was doing some funny things on the Windows side but I accidentally deleted the Mac OSX Partition!!!! Now when I start up my computer it only starts up on Windows with the 10gb partition. I want to restore my Mac OsX partition with all of my important importation on it!
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI just setup a Seagate external drive to become my offsite backup. I am a new iMac user. I dragged and dropped my most important folders (using Finder) onto the Seagate drive (to copy them over) but probably I did something incorrectly because the Document folder which has all my important files disappeared from under Favorites in Finder and did not show up on the Seagate. I can no longer access what I need as there is no easy way to locate my files which were grouped in a multi level, nicely organized file structure under Documents, to make it easy for me to locate my work. Â
Now, Finder shows under Favorites: All My Files, Airdrop, Applications, Desktop, Downloads, Logins. Previously it also had an entry for Documents, now missing. Using All My Files I can locate the files I worked on yesterday, so they are still on the hard drive.Â
I'm getting an error with regards to memory usage. My Mac HD Info is saying I have only 1 GB of free space, but when I run the utilities disc usage (MacKeeper) it saying I have over 100GB of free space. I've deleted every important file off of my HD, but keep getting "Disk Full" errors
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AppleTV 2, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've been having trouble downloading programs from safari. And all of this has happened after i installed lion.
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