Maybe I am doing something wrong here, but each time I want to create a subfolder inside another folder the newly created folder is created at the root of the main banch and then I either to drag and drop it into place or copy and paste it in. Is there a way to create a folder exactly where I want it?
View 6 RepliesWhen I connect my MP3 player (not an iPod ) to the Mac and delete some files, Mac OS X creates a folder .Trashes in the volume root and just moves all the files I intended to delete there. The only reason to delete files is of course freeing some space... and to free it I have to empty the system trash (which is not good). Is there any way to tell Mac OS X that it should not create a .Trashes folder there and remove the files permanently or at least move them to the trash on the local disk?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm currently working on migrating some machines from Snow Leopard to Lion, and I have a bunch of postimaging scripts that are fired on first boot. The first script automatically mounts an SMB share to copy the rest of the postimaging scripts and run them. However it would seem that it is no longer possible to mount an SMB share as root (root as in running sudo -i as an admin account to get to a root shell, or running the command prefixed with sudo) as it fails with "mount_smbfs: server rejected the connection: Authentication error". As far as I can tell, the request is not actually making it to the SMB server, as there is no log entries indicating a failure for this particular user to logon.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How to enable the root userOS X LionFrom the Apple menu choose System Preferences....From the View menu choose Users & Groups.Click the lock and authenticate as an administrator account.Click Login Options....Click the "Edit..." or "Join..." button at the bottom right.Click the "Open Directory Utility..." button.Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.Enter the root password you wish to use in both the Password and Verify fields, then click OK.For some reason this does not even booting for instalation media it says that the disc can not be changed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use the Apple-approved method of changing a user account short name. This involves enabling the Root User, logging in as root, and then perform a few simple steps. I've done this many times before successfully on many different Macs. However on this particular MacBook Air, while I can enable root and enter the appropriate password via the "Other" choice at the 10.7 login screen, logging in as root fails. Here's what happens:
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I was having a lot of problems with my new (Christmas 11) MPB. It was very sluggish and occasionally would freeze. I took it to my Apple Store and the Genius said I was running all my apps in root and had too many files on the desktop.They should be under a user. Any files on the desktop are refreshed frequently, such as graphics (CAD, pictures, etc.) and that was what was killing performance. She then proceded to move my files/apps to my user profile.
Since I am the only user, I never paid any attention to where the files were.I would like to verify the information above and do the same process on two other computers, but I didn't catch enough of what she did to do it solo.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), I7, 8GB, 750GB, Lion
I recently upgraded to Lion and now I see some strange test.txt documents on the lowest level of my hard drive. They are filled with some xml and soap stuff. Last one is made nearly a year ago. What frightens me is that it contains passwords. The documents are found by spotlight so a password search on my mac will come up with those documents.Were are they coming from?Can I safely remove them? an example:
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Logged in as root, when I try to copy my TimeMachine backup to a new disk I get:
An error occurred. The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error -5000.)
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After enabling the root user and logging into that account I tried to log back into my regular user and found that everything was set back to default. No files, pictures, anything... Â
Going into the Users folder I can see my account and it has all of the files on the desktop and such.Â
How do I log back into my regular user account with all of my settings?Â
I am trying to enable the root user from the Directory Utility Edit Menu. It was greyed out. Why and how I can enable the root user?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I get my Calculator on the main screen so I don't have to keep switching to the widget screen? i.e. I want to have a browser open and have Calculator open next to it.Â
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MacBook Pro
I am working in Finder list view (Snow Leopard) and want to add subfolders to another subfolder in documents. When a execute a cmd+shift+N, the folder is added to my root directory in documents. I then have to go back, find it, and drag the folder into my subfolder. It is a real pain. Does anyone have a way to add a folder into a sub-folder without having to drag it from the root?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a number of email accounts. Including two name@mac.com accounts. My main @mac.com account has stopped working. i.e. it cannot retrive mail. The other @mac.com account is working just fine. The mail is there - if I look on the iCloud server page. But it will not download. I get the constant password incorrect message. Had this before (haven't we all) usually a quit and restart mail clears it. But this time no. This is also on two machines, my MacBook Pro and my iMac. Both running 10.7.3.I've deleted the password in accounts section - and re-entered it.
I've gone to iCloud and logged in with that password - so its correct.I've gone to Apple ID and confirmed that this is my password. So its correct.Now I'm stuck. It just refuses to download my mail for that account. All other accounts are downloading just fine.Any ideas of what I can do to try and clear this? Or what might be causing this. Started a couple of days ago.
I have 4000 contacts to import from Outlook into the address book on MAC... I was wondering if it was possible to create subfolders in Address Book in order to correctly organize all my contacts...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've run into a nasty problem in that my main user account is no longer visible at the login screen, only the guest user account. Basically there is no way I can figure out to get back into my Air other than the safe Safari guest account.Â
I'm in desperate need for a solution as I need to access files for a conference call in 3 hours.
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MacPro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Power Mac Dual 2GHz G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
I have been using main stage for years, no problems, update OSX 5/08/12 now it crashes every twenty min.
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mac book pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
I want to manually add color profiles for my camera in Adobe Lightroom. The path is /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Camera. Another folder for my DSLR needs to be created under Camera where the profile files will be placed.Â
If I go to the Library folder by selecting option and Go, the path ends at CameraProfiles and all I see is index.dat. If I double click the hard drive icon, I see the folder but cannot add anything.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Need to know how to delete subfolder in Apple Mail-Under one of my mailboxes On My Mac a subfolder with the same name as the mailbox appears and new mail to this mailbox goes to subfolder some of the time-just want to delete the sub folder.
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IMac
New folders do not open empty but have contents from a subfolder of finder. I also had an empty folder on desktop so I renamed it & opened it only to find the same content.Â
2012 Mac Mini with OS 10.9.4
I'm using iTunes 10.6 and Lion. i have a two problems. i recently moved my iTunes library to my portable hard drive. i have changed the new location under Preference/Advanced to "/portable drive/MUSIC". I have checked 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and unchecked 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library. 1) After moving my music and and consolidating, some of my music are in the right folder, which is in "/portable drive/MUSIC" folder, but a majority of the music are created into a NEW SUBFOLDER music folder. e.g.: /portable drive/MUSIC/music/ ?? Why is that happen and how can I move tell iTunes to just put it in the main and 1st MUSIC folder. Do you know why it creates a subfolder name music? 2) When importing new music, it doesn't automatically go into the designated folder but instead retains in the original folder that was imported from? e.g.: i import music from mac hard drive into iTunes and when I click on Get Info on the track, the location is still at /my mac hard drive/duran duran instead of /portable drive/MUSIC/.  How do I get it to organized the music into /portable drive/MUSIC/
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how do I make it so that if I download something from one site, it goes into a subfolder of downloads, but anything else I download would just go into the regular downloads folder?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have always run under admin, ever since jumping into Mac's. Want to know how I gain access to everything that I have ever used as admin on my new user name?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), MacBook Pro (2007) (2010)
Running Lion, how do you create new stationery templates for Mail? There are several articles in Google for Snow Leopard, et al, but nothing for Lion. everything regarding stationery seems to be 2-3 years old?Â
Also, where do the JPG's for the current stationery reside??Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), ... and Parallels 6 with XP
I can not find the enable root user in, I am using Lion
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
In step 9 of enabling root for Mac OS X Lion, the answer mentions the Edit menu. However, I can find no such thing. Where is it?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have an iMac running Lion hardwired to an internet connection and want to create a wifi network from this connection I have gone to 'create network' and set up - all seems fine. I have then tried to connect to this network with my iPhone. The phone recognises the network and it looks as though it has connected as it is ticked in the networks, but unfortunately it hasn't as my phone won't connect to the internet.Â
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis question concerns the new mid-2011 27" iMac I haven't used yet The internal HD's size is 1TB. Before I start using it, I'd like to:
1. resize the exiting partition (containing Mac OS X Lion) in order to make it smaller (about 100GB)
2. create a new partition in the remaining space. I would use as a data repository (like an external Thunderbolt hard disk).
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), mid-2011 27" iMac
I am setting up a default user profile to be used across many macbooks. I have found instructions on how to setup a default profile for 10.6 but are there any differences for 10.7. These machines will also be joined to Active Directory.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have a MBP (Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard) with 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB SDRAM. I am trying to to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion. I have attempted to create a USB installer with a Lexas 16 gb USB memory stick and I have gotten the following error towards the end of the restore:
"Restore Failure Could Not Restore- Cannot Allocate Memory".
What does this mean? Is there anything I can do other than attempt burning a disk (which I don't want to do cause of the lengthy process)? When I review the contents all the installer files are present. Upon rebooting, it appears the installer is working but I have not initiated installation out of fear that the installer is incomplete. Should I attempt installation?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My Open Directory users are subjected to several MCXRedirector rules that "deleteAndCreateSymlink" like follow for folders like Caches or the iPhone Simulator Application Support.The symlinks are effectively created, but the folders don't exist in the /tmp/ folder, thus making the users and myself very sad. Here the only strange things that I find in the console : [code]
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
