When I opened a file from a school presentation I went to download it off my Mac. The task bar on the Preview screen says locked and I can't do anything with preview or close it. How do I unlock Preview!
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Mac Pro
I have several files in both Pages and Numbers which I cannot open - when opened they are blank. The instruction to unlock does not work because the 'unlock' option in the 'Arrange' drop down menu is greyed out.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Ever since installing Lion, my MBP has been very slow and I cannot make any admin changes. In any event where admin privileges are needed, I hit the padlock on the bottom left of the window. It asks for my password. I enter it and it accepts, but the padlock is still locked. . . My username is listed as "Admin" in the users list. I can't add another user because I cant unlock that privilege. I've verified and repaired disk permissions and verified disk with no errors. The installation of Lion was on a clean Hard drive, not an upgrade. Considering going back to SL at this point.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just downloaded and set up screen vault and it looked straight forward so I checked the box for start up but every time input my password according to the tutorial it doesn't work ?
Info:MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Im trying to modify the PlatformSupport.plist in the lion DMG so I can install it on my Core Duo iMac
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), its a white iMac
Does anyone know how to unlock an user account in Lion X?
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Inserting the correct password, I cannot unlock the chain to install programs or modify system preference panel stuff. I tried repairing permission, and repairing keychain, and repairing disk, but I insert the password and the lock doesn't unlock.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I didn't feel like typing this situation out, so I choreographed an interperative dance for you all. Then decided a video might be a bit more clear:[url]
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
So I accidentally saved the wrong files to my start up disc. It appears that mac is seeking direction and isn't getting it. All I get is the white screen with the spinning ball. Things I've tried already, 1. (Shift Key) Booting in Safe-Mode. result is: Mac starts to enter safe mode, the little power meter starts to build on the screen, after about 20 seconds the meter stops and the fan speed increases until it gets pretty loud. Eventually the fan speed mellows out, but it never actually boots up. 2. (Option key) This gives me a choice of two drives to choose from, MAC HD & Mac Recovery. I've tried clicking on both drives multiple times by themselves with no luck. I've tried clicking on them seperately and then went right into safe mode with no luck. 3. I've even tried downloading a recovery file from apple and put it on a disc. result: It reads the disc and the goes back to that wonderful white screen and spinning ball.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I lock the network preferences panel in the System Preferences, and the 10.7.4 Lion OS unlocks them when the computer restarts or when it is shut down and turned back on. I want to keep them locked. Is there a way to stop Lion from changing your preferences without asking?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I seem to have a jpeg file which is locked and I cannot unlock it. I went to Get Info and I cannot uncheck the Locked box.Under Sharing and Permission it says "Fetching"Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook pro disc is locked, how can it be unlocked
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MacBook Pro, Other OS, operating system os x lion
I just got a new macbook pro, and when I popped my old secondary hard drive in, I notice that half of my mp3 files are now shown with a little lock next to them. I can manually un lock them one at a time, but I'm a professional DJ, and I have thousands of files. how to unlock an entire directory in one fell swoop? I didn't lock them to begin with, so this is aggravating.Â
I cannot save bpm or cue points to files while they're locked. My serato scratch live software will also not save overviews while they're locked.Â
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
After upgrading to an SSD, i was having problems with restoring files from Timemachine. i fiexed that by naming my ssd drive the same as the drive that was backedup using time machine. now, i can't seem to edite any of the files restored in Documents from the backup. not can i edit or add content inside the folders withing documents. i dont know whats going on. they appear lock and there is no way to unlock them. it says i will need to duplicate the items!Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Awhile back I installed a wonderfully speedy SSD in my mid-2009 MBP. I used Time Machine to "restore" my stuff. I thought it odd that after that, song files would come up as "locked"...after awhile I realized that EVERY song file in the iTunes Library was now "locked". The FOLDERS are NOT locked, but all the mp3 files within each folder ARE locked.Â
I know, of course, that "command-i" and uncheck the locked box works on each individual file, but how do I do this on the entire library? Is that even possible? The tedium of opening every single folder and unlocking every file individually would be insane. Is there any way to select the iTunes Music folder and have all the files in all subfolders "unlocked" at once?
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MacBook Pro
How do I erase mountain lion developer preview and go back to Lion 10.7? I do not have lion or data backed up on my AirÂ
I need a step by step instructions since I have never done this before, willing to set up partition if needed.
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MacBook Air, Mountain Lion
I use an external hard drive for Time Machine backups and to store some larger video files in a folder called Videos. The Videos folder on the external drive is now locked and I can't unlock it. I go to Get Info, hit the lock icon and enter my password, but the "Locked" checkbox is greyed out in the General section. In the Sharing and Permissions section, instead of displaying my name, it says "Fetching . . ." and I can't change the Privilege from "Write Only".Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
In Windows XP/Vista, if you are navigating in a folder containing pictures, and you click any picture, it opens up Windows built in preview program. Much like OSX. However, in Windows, you can click "Next/Previous" within that program to quickly flip through those photos. Why do the up & down arrows in OSX not work? I still prefer my iMac to any PC I have owned, but this one little thing bugs me to no end. Is there a setting I can change somewhere to make that work like in Windows?
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Lion Preview always crashes when read PDF in full screen mode (preview app full screen mode is mandatory to crash) then right click on any word in PDF and in context menu select "Look up in dictionary", then click on word Dictionary or Thesaurus to open Dictionary in it's own app's window. Preview crashes in 100 % cases. OS Lion 10.7.3
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
All of a sudden, I can't open/use the Preview app. I was going to pull the plist but I can't find any. In the process, I don't see a Library for the individual users.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I searched for one hour on google, but couldn't find the answer nowhere: how can I enlarge the preview in Spotlight?You see, I'm on a cinema display. The preview of a doc Spotlight gives me is only about 5% of my screen surface, which is way too small to be readable. I would be extremely thankful to the person giving the right answer on how to make the preview in spotlight bigger.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 750 Gb, 8 Gb ram
There are several discussions about how to stop Preview crashing in Lion but none work for me. However, if I create a new user, Preview is back to normal. There is also information from Apple on creating a root user, which some people have suggested as a solution but the steps shown for Lion are not replicated on my computer.Â
So- has anyone an idea why Preview works with one user and not another? how to create a root user? Â
How do you change the default viewing of a PDF to Preview instead of Safari?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I want to compress a PDF I have created. I've been told that in Preview, in the Print dialog box, in the PDF menu there is an option "Compress PDF." That option doesn't appear in my dropdown menu. It doesn't appear in that menu regardless of what program I'm selecting Print from. I have a new MacBook Pro I bought last August with the latest version of Lion. How do I get that compression feature to work on my system?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Why Preview cannot search phrases in PDF? i.e, I want to search the phrase "Apple Macbook Air", but Preview show the result for "Apple" & "Macbook" & "Air". It's not accurate at all!
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
preview has stopped responding, menu items will open with right clicking, cannot access preferences, cannot find plist preferences file to delete it, have done repair disk permissions, now at a loss.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm using a 2011 Macbook Air running Lion 10.7.2.I open a group of photos using Preview. I right click one and select "open in new window". It opens. I decide to close said window by clicking the red X button. Nothing happens. I click the red X button of the main preview window with the pane of thumbnails on the side. It closes immediately. I click on the red X of the other window again. Still nothing. I go to Preview>Quit Preview. I get 10-20 seconds of pinwheel spinning. Finally, it closes.I've also noticed Lion hanging sometimes, especially when booting up.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
