OS X 10.7, Lion (Mac is dropped from the marketing name)
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One of three monitors does not start after upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion
I've just updated to OS X 10.8.2 (earlier 10.7.5) on my Mac Pro. And I have 3 monitors - DVI, DisplayPort (primary), DVI; attached to 6850. Everything works fine, but every time I start the computer, ...
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Applescript to automate drop-down selection in Mozilla Firefox
I'm trying to automate the selection of a value from a drop-down box in Mozilla using an applescript. What I want it to do is to tab to the drop-down box and enter down twice to select the third item ...
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Lion 10.7.5 Server Profile Manager Groups Problem
On our Lion 10.7.5 Server we use Profile Manager to manage our iPads on campus. I'm trying to clean up and make this server easier to manage. The part I am unable to figure out is that in Profile ...
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Can McAfee run on non-admin users without prompting for admin access?
i am facing a issue in one of my macbookPro which is integrated into a windows environment. i have McAfee installed its asking for administrator credential every time another user login in(who does ...
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OSX 10.7 - Does not remember 'Open With' preferences on restart
I have a Macbook running Lion, and when I try to set the default PDF viewer as 'Adobe Reader' - it works until the next time the computer is taken outside of its current network. The default for PDFs ...
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MacBook Air: What taking up all my hard drive space [duplicate]
I have a 128gb MacBook Air running Lion. I am constantly having issues with disc space, but have no idea what is consuming it all. When I look at the disc utility break down, it says about 80% of the ...
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Video controls in Chrome shake when I'm watching YouTube videos in Flash
So when I'm watching embedded videos from YouTube on websites in Mac OSX Lion in Google Chrome browser, the video controller bar shakes and looks weird if I mouse off the video to make the controls ...
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Is a 10.8 Time Machine backup restorable under 10.7
I want to revert my system from 10.8 Mountain Lion to 10.7 Lion. Will Time Machine (or Migration assistant) gracefully restore my users and files created under 10.8?
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Remove recovery feature from recovery disk
I mistakenly made a recovery disk from my USB external Hard drive. By making recovery dosk I can no longer use its entire 500 GB space. Now I want to restore this disk to original state so that I ...
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How can I get the PostScript name of a TTF font installed in OS X?
I have a TTF font installed on my Mac that I have added to an X-Code development project. For the life of me, I can not get it to work with my application but I think it's because I'm using the wrong ...
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Stop Office for Mac from loading with earlier documents on top of the one I opened?
Here's an irritation that annoys me almost every working day:
I need to work from a Word or Excel (for Mac, Office 2011) document.
So, I find the document on the shared server, and open it.
The ...
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How to restore a missing Recovery HD partition
I bought a second hand Macbook Pro which came with OSX Lion installed, when I wanted to clean it I found out that it had no Recovery HD partition. I confirmed this through the Disk Utility (enabled ...
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how can I turn off speech in the parental controls lockout dialog?
Every night before 1am, when my daughter has gone to bed but stayed logged in to our iMac (Lion 10.7.5), the parental controls dialog pops up. Unfortunately it ALSO announces itself via ...
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Mac Mini 2011: Blurry font at native resolution on Mountain Lion
I have a Mac Mini 2011 with the Radeon 6630m connected to a Samsung 226BW through HDMI to DVI and I'm dual-booting Mountain Lion and Windows 7.
My problem is on OSX, the font seems a bit off and I ...
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Restoring Win7 image to new bigger partition in Mac OS Mountain Lion
I had 80% of my HDD for Mac and 20% for win7... I needed more space on Win7 so I did the following:
Created disk image of Windows partition, using Mac's Disk Utility
Used Boot Camp Assistant to ...
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Network Link Conditioner not working
I am a web developer and I recently found out about Network Link Conditioner, but I can't get it to work.
It appears to be working, but when I load anything in a browser, the speed is not changed, ...
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OS X Lion Recovery hangs on “Downloading additional components”
Booted into the recovery partition and attempted to reinstall. First pass, nothing happened. Second pass, same. Backed up and erased the install partition, tried a third time. Seemed to be fine until ...
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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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Problem with Subnet Mask when using DHCP with manual address on 10.7.5
Okay so this one's a doozy. I'm pretty sure it's an OS X issue rather than a network system issue.
We have 2 offices, on two different IP ranges eg. 10.1.1.X and 10.1.2.X
We recently had a slew of ...
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Hide windows in current desktop (Lion)
I'd like to make a keyboard shortcut that hides all windows on the current desktop, while ignoring windows on other desktops. Is this possible using Applescript?
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Why can't I move a window below the dock?
I'm trying to move a window so that I can see part of the title at the top of the dock, basically the text in between where the individual icons on the dock stick up. I am fine with this as basically ...
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Applescript Click “Go” and “Open” - dialog inside application
In PCSX, (ps1 emulator), I'm trying to automate the steps to play an ISO. So, I'm doing this:
set thepath to path to me
set thesecondpath to POSIX path of thepath
set thethirdpath to ...
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How to create a custom Desktop Background slideshow?
I would like to have certain pictures as a slideshow on my Desktop background.
Currently, to do this, I am moving default pictures to a backup folder and putting my images there.
Isn't there an easy ...
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Gibberish volume in finder which is inaccessible and un-deletable
I'm not sure when it got there, but there is what looks like the icon for a time machine volume in my favorites sidebar for finder, but its name is gibberish : "_fTz328nSUG4ZgV4k5KaRm." If I click on ...
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How to change the Admin password from blank on OS X Lion?
I bought this Mac several months ago, and when it first installed by the people in the Apple store, they set the password to blank.
At first it was ok, but now I can't install any programs because ...
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How can I downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to revert to Lion from Mountain Lion?
How can I downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion ? I need to download Lion again... thanks
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“Group windows by application” in Lion (10.7)
In the pre-Lion Expose, the windows weren't grouped by application like they were in Lion's updated Expose, Mission Control (which angered some). In Mountain Lion (10.8), Apple added a "Group windows ...
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Can't I resize my existing partition?
I tried installing Win 7 into my Mac so I can dual boot and use Win 7 but then again changed my mind about it but i have already partitioned a separate drive for windows. I deleted it and tried ...
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Error while installing Homebrew on Lion
I started installing Homebrew on my Mac Lion v10.7.4 but got the following error.
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
Failed during: Error: /usr/bin/xcode-select returned unexpected error. ...
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Google Chrome not responding on Lion
I have this irritating issue with the latest version of Chrome on my Air running Lion.
At least once a day it ceases to work. It doesnt freeze or crash, it just will not search or go to any sites. If ...
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Headphone jack broke and got stuck in headphone socket MacBook Pro
The tip of the headphone jack got stuck in the headphone socket of my MacBook Pro and I have the following question:
The "Sound" option in the System Preferences displays sound output through the ...
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How to serve the personal website from different folder?
So far, I read on MacRumors of:
System-wide site
Files at /Library/WebServer/Documents will, by default, be shared as the root Web site when Web sharing is turned on. These files can be ...
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Prevent application from displaying badge icon in Dock
Any Spotify desktop user has likely noticed their pervasive notifications: whenever "one of our friends" joins Spotify, there's both an in-app notification as well as a red badge that appears on ...
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Is it possible to reinstall Mountain Lion using Lion Time Machine backup?
I have an old MacBook which cannot run anything newer than 10.7.5 Lion. I do regular Time Machine backups to an external drive. I plan to buy a new MacBook Air, but I want to make the migration as ...
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MacBook Pro keeps freezing, could Google Update be the cause?
Last Dec (2012) my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) started freezing, say 3 or 4 times a session. I ran both the Apple hardware diagnostic DVD (ran for hours, no problems),
and I ran a disk scan, no problems ...
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Lion Boot from a Flash Drive Mac
So I'm trying to load a Lion DMG onto a 16GB flash drive according to this tutorial, but I only get as far as step 9. The data starts to restore to the flash drive, but right as it gets to the end, ...
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Does OSX save geolocation data related to my preferred wifi networks?
Does OS X save geographic location data for my preferred WiFi networks, and if so where can I find this information?
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Within Terminal, `date` command outputs a curious prefix where it should'n
I am using a Mac Mini running Lion (10.7.5) and zsh 4.3.12 (i386-apple-darwin11.0.1) with oh-my-zsh installed. In the Terminal.app I retrieve the UNIX timestamp using the following command
date +%s
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Error “/dev/disk04 could not be mounted” when using NTFS-3G
I use NTFS-3G in order to let myself read and write to my external hard drive in the correct format. My Mac is also bootcamped with Windows 7 on the other side.
Every time I startup my Mac I get an ...
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Is there a way to make Finder always expand to “Show All” by default in “Icon View”?
Is there a way to make Finder always expand to "Show All" by default in "Icon View"?
I am referring to this situation where the "Show All" is collapsed by default:
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Install AppleTV OS X from a PPC to USB stick
I have a first generation Apple TV, a 10.7 Intel installer DMG file and a PPC PowerBook.
I'd like to install 10.7 onto the stick and change the Mach & boot.efi files as detailed on many sites to ...
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Macbook pro low temperature tolerance
Can I bring my Macbook Pro car camping in temperatures that may reach -5 degrees F? I have found a lot of information on high temperature tolerances but not on the low tolerances.
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Installing old version of preview
I recently upgraded to Mac OSX Mountain Lion and everything is running great. However, I liked the outlay of notes in PDF much better in the old Preview (Preview 5.0.3). I was wondering if there was ...
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How to set Video Background in iMovie
How can I set a video background in iMovie? I have a video and the background is black. How can i change it to white in iMovie?
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Alt-tab temporarily being disabled when switching songs in Itunes
Ever since the new iTunes update(11 I think), I have been experiencing a lag/temporary disability of alt-tab.
To reproduce, I basically just need to:
Launch iTunes
Play a song
Wait for iTunes to ...
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why does OSX add extra '._<filename>' when I tar a directory?
I'd just like to know why if I "tar -czf" a file/directory, osx adds a: ._ for each file? I see these when I untar in linux. Or when I work with the uncompressed project in eclipse as it doesn't ...
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Make middle-click on app icon in dock show app window exposé once more
In earlier versions of OS X (Snow Leopard, maybe?), middle-click on an open application's icon in the Dock would have the same effect as right-click -> show all windows.
In (Mountain) Lion, this is ...
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(Thunderbolt/DisplayLink) “Display Audio” with headphones attached
I have a Cinema Display attached to my MacBook Pro via DisplayLink/Thunderbolt. If I also have a headphone cable plugged into my MacBook Pro, all audio output gets routed to the headphones. If I try ...
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Customizing new-window placement
Is there any way for a user to customize how OSX chooses where to place new windows? It would be great if I could create rules for how that's done, especially if I could do it per-application.
To be ...
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To repair permissions for Lion, is it safe to use Disk Utility in Recovery OS for Mountain Lion?
Background and question
I read of someone using a Mountain Lion Recovery System to attempt repair permissions of an installation of Lion.
I understand that for repair of permissions of Lion, it may ...
