Moving data from one device to another
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How do I download folders through FTP in Terminal?
How do I download a whole folder through FTP in Terminal?
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2answers
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How do I pause a download in the Launchpad in OS X Lion?
I started downloading XCode on my 10 mbit/s but it is 4 GB and I want to pause it for a while.
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Recover iPhone backup manually from iCloud
I had the misfortune of a stolen iPhone 4 a few months ago. In the interim I've decided not to get a new iPhone.
I can view my iCloud storage page and see there is a 1GB file there. There are random ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to circumvent the 20MB file limit on iOS without jailbreaking?
I travel often enough that I decided to activate tethering through AT&T. I'm not on unlimited data, but I do have a fairly high limit now (tethering comes with more bandwidth) I am often ...
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2answers
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How to stop downloads from being organized by date?
Many moons ago I installed an application that moves downloads into a desktop folder with today's date as the title. I would like to stop this behavior.
However, I cannot remember what I did to cause ...
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1answer
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Why is AirDrop so slow?
I am trying different solutions to transfer some 1 GB size files between two Macs on my local wireless network (typically between me and a guest, both being physically in the living room). Here are ...
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How to make an iPad backup when buying a new device?
I'm going to resell my iPad 3 to buy a new one.
I need a simple way to backup everything from current iPad to be able to restore to the new one. This includes iBooks library with pdfs aded from ...
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What's the fastest way to get data off Time Capsule and onto an external drive?
I plugged an external drive into Time Capsule using the USB input on the back.
Then I used Finder to move data from the Time Capsule's drive to the USB drive.
Finder says it'll take over 24 hours to ...
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1answer
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xcode 4 download not completing properly
Yesterday I started downloading Xcode 4 to my iMac. It's a very large file, around 4 GB. The next day I found that only 2 GB of it is downloaded and the download had stopped. Before leaving my ...
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302 views
How do I automatically reconnect to wifi when the connection is lost?
I'm on OS X 10.6. When I'm downloading a torrent, the connection is sometimes lost.
And because of this, the download stops too, and the only solution I found to reconnect is to manually turn off the ...
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1answer
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Can't see my downloaded app on iPad
I bought the Spark Radio app through iTunes and apparently it was downloaded, but I don't see the app on the iPad. How can I get the app I purchased to appear on teh iPad?
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transfering iphone data to another computer
I have a laptop and want to give it to my sis after I bought a mac mini. Now how can I let my iphone sync with the mac mini for the following data: (I think this applies to any 2 computers)
music ...
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iTunes help switching songs from one user to another
I'm sharing a computer with my sister and she has her iTunes completely disorganized. I created my own user account on the computer, and am wondering how I can move the music from the iTunes to my ...
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What is the best way to copy 1000 pics from my PC to my ipad3?
I don't want to copy all of my pictures and i dont want to setup ongoing sync. I simply want to do a one time transfer of pictures in a certain folder from my windows PC to iPad
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OSX native equivalent to jdownload (app to download files from various sites, streaming, etc.)
I'm using jDownload which is great from a functionality standpoint, what it does, does it great, has plugins to download files from a lot of sites, like youtube, megaupload, and the like.
But it ...
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131 views
Date of Download
When I download an item, I would like the modified date to be the date the item was downloaded. Is this possible somehow?
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Best rsync options to transfer data between two Mac
I am about to move my data from my old iMac to a brand new MacBook Pro. I would like to start over with a fresh install on B and copy just a subset of my data, reinstalling applications from scratch, ...
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Transfering files to multiple iPads
I regularly get around 30 iPads that require 10 - 20GB of images putting into the PhotoData folder.
As you can imagine this takes quite a while to do, I'm trying to investigate ways of speeding up ...
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Will Lion X be downloadable for everyone? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do new Macs get free upgrades to 10.7?
I'm new to the Apple world. I was wondering if the update to Lion X will be free for users that has recently bought a new MacBook ...
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How do I send files from one Mac to another via Terminal?
Is there a way to send a file in Terminal from one Mac to another? If I have a file on Mac A and I want to send it to Mac B via Terminal on Mac A, how do I do this?
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Transfer OSX Dashboard Widgets Between Computers
Can anyone tell me an easy way to transfer my dashboard widgets from one osx computer to another? If there was a way to keep their positioning/settings too that would be great.
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Transferring data from old macbook to new macbook
Is there an easy way to transfer my applications and data from my old macbook pro to my new macbook pro? I vaguely recall a service or utility that transferred "everything" from an old macbook to a ...
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1answer
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iPhone sending a lot of packets addressed to weird destinations, draining battery quickly
I have a jailbroken iPhone. Recently, I have realized that its battery usage is abysmal. Suspecting that it has something to do with the radio, I downloaded Data Counter from Cydia to check real-time ...
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What is the easiest (fastest) way to get direct link to MP4 video on YouTube?
My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5.
However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what ...
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Why have 3 songs from a recent download from iTunes got a ''! next to them and won't sync to playlist?
We paid for and downloaded an album from iTunes store and 3 of the tracks have an exclamation mark next to them and we cannot move them to the playlist to sync with the ipod. Does anyone know what we ...
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307 views
Can I view my Xbox 360 Screen on my Mac by using an HDMI to minidisplay port adapter?
Or can I not have input into the Macbook?
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How to download all my Flickr content?
Are there any free apps to download my entire photostream from Flickr?
Or at least as much content as possible? I want to quit my Flickr account.
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1answer
495 views
iTunes Match restarts on step 3 when trying to upload files
When I add new songs to iTunes and Match needs to upload them (on step 3), it restarts back to step 1. So it gets stuck in an infinite loop by reaching step 3, trying to upload but failing, then ...
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387 views
How can I throttle bandwidth for iTunes ony?
I saw a few questions asked and suggest Waterproof and a few other apps, but it seems to throttle everything outgoing on my Mac. I want to only throttle the download speed on iTunes. I normally use ...
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718 views
How to transfer apps from iPad to MacBook Pro
I got a new MacBook Pro recently and I want to transfer my old apps into my new Mac, how can I do this?
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Tell Safari to Download Certain File Types?
There are certain file types that Safari automatically opens natively. Various kinds of video files, for example. Is there a way to configure Safari to not open these files and instead default to ...
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Is there any way to transfer data from old phone's sim card to iPhone 4?
I recently got the new iPhone 4 but it doesn't have my contacts and old text messages etc. I previously had the iPhone 3gs. When I upgraded my iphone 3gs to iphone 4 they gave me a new sim card but it ...
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Can I extract application data from an iOS device?
I have a third party application on my iPad (Stanza FWIW) which has some data that I'm interested in doing some analysis of (on my Mac). Is there any way to get the data that the application has ...
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1answer
477 views
How can I automatically download trailers in iTunes?
Apple gets the latest trailers. Is there any way I can automate iTunes to download the newest trailers? Similar to how it automatically downloads the latest podcasts?
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Transfer video from camcorder to MacBook Pro [closed]
I have a Sharp VL-E49 video camera. How do I transfer the video from my camera to my MacBook Pro?
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Missing File in Download stack
I have a file that shows up in my 'Downloads' stack with the filename nMEMp5Qv.exe.part.
However, when I open Finder, the file is not in the Downloads folder.
Also, I can't delete the file from the ...
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614 views
How can I transfer messages from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5?
How can I transfer my messages from an iPhone 4 to the new iPhone 5 that has a different sim card?
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Can I use setup assistant to move files to a Mac with a newer OS?
I would like to migrate all my accounts, settings and applications from a OSX 10.7 Lion Mac Pro to a brand new OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion iMac.
Would Setup Assistant be able to move my files to a newer ...
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How can I transfer pictures from a Macbook Pro to an iPad I don't own?
My parents would like to have a copy of most of the photos that are stored within iPhoto.
I can't find the files on the hard drive, and don't know the best way to transfer them to an iPad that isn't ...
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My download button has moved too far to the right for me to download podcasts directly to my phone
I used to download new podcast episodes by going to the podcast on my phone and pushing the "get more episodes" button. I have done this for years now and had no problems.
Suddenly on June 14th the ...
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Reinstalling Everything after HD Replacement
I'm about to replace my iMac's HD (250GB to 1TB). I'm planning to create an image of my disk right in m Time Capsule, and after the transition I need to clone the HD back.
Unfortunately Lion has no ...
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Download large file to selected location
I was given the http://some_url/file.rar address of a very large file (8 GB). I want to download it directly to my external HDD. I haven't found any way to do this other than opening a terminal and ...
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Issues with iPhone 4 with music, apps, photos, etc.
My iPhone 4 has never been synced to a computer but has music and stuff on it. I'm scared that if I sync it to my new computer I'll lose my contacts, music, etc. Does anyone know what happens when ...
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Migrate Data To New SSD Drive Without USB to SATA Cable
I just bought a SSD For my MacBook Pro. It is running Lion. I have a time capsule with a full backup, as well as an image of the entire drive I created stored on a network drive. How do I copy ...
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Automater/Applescript page viewer/downloader loop
I have some 9500 individual audio files I am trying to download which:
a) require a login to a website
b) are located at subdirectories which ?redirects? to a download link
(eg. ...
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Slow iOS app and firmware update downloads in iTunes
All my iOS related downloads (firmware updates and app downloads) are incredibly slow in iTunes. Right now, a single 70 MB app is an estimated 3 hours download making the transfer rate lousy 52 Kbit/s ...
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How to download the .mov for later viewing?
I would like to download the keynote speech on
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1103pijanbdvaaj/event/index.html
so that when Apple remove the video later, I can still watch it later...
but ...
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How to sync or backup iPhone contents to new Mac [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
transfering iphone data to another computer
How to synchronize iPhone with new Mac without losing data?
I have brought a new mac and would like to sync my iPhone ...
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iTunes downloads through manager
When I download iTunes apps, music, etc.. content, the download speed fluctuates a lot and usually falls to around 64kbps. This is very impractical and time-consuming.
Whereas, if I download other ...
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How to fix app store Mountain Lion download that stops at 45%?
I have tried to download Mountain Lion from the app store only to have it show up in my dock and begin "downloading". Except it never completes the download. Each time I begin the download again, it ...
