OS X 10.7, Lion (Mac is dropped from the marketing name)
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Bootloader freezes on login screen when booting into Lion from Boot Camp
Every time I reboot from Boot Camp into OS X, the bootloader gets to the login screen, and then after I've entered my username and password, the screen will just go grey. I have to force a restart ...
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Access Lion SMB shares from Linux
I have this fantastic new Lion server that I've gotten all setup with my user accounts, files, etc. File sharing is up and running, everything. Except for one problem: the users running Linux (we use ...
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Why is Tor-Vidalia failing to access folders on OSX to create a hidden service?
I'm running OSX 10.7 and following the instructions linked below am failing to start hidden services.
I keep getting this error: "Error creating directory ...". It's either No such file or ...
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Problems installing Lion onto a USB drive
I'm having problems installing Lion onto a USB drive.
On a Lion MacBook Pro I saved the 'Install Mac OS X Lion.app' application, ran it and selected the USB drive as the destination of the install.
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More notification center keyboard shortcuts
I know there is a system wide keyboard shortcut to open the notification center and once opened you can navigate your notifications with the up/down buttons on your keyboard.
But is there also a way ...
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Configure ipfw to filter by ip range
I am a Linux user and very new to OSX. I have an OSX 10.7.5 "Lion" server that I am configuring as a webserver. I only have shell access.
I am tryin to configure the firewall, but ipfw is quite ...
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iMac sleeping even when set to never sleep
Running 10.7.5, I've got a fairly new iMac (6 months old) 27", set to never sleep, yet when I got in to work this morning it was asleep. How to fix this?
Output from pmset -g in Terminal:
Active ...
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My Mac show a login screen on a spinning cube which keeps on spinning
My 2009 iMac with Lion keeps on getting stuck everytime my son's limited time ends and the computer subsequently wakes up from sleep.
How to reproduce
In other words, my son has a limited usage ...
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How to use fn-key (function keys) with an external keyboard that has no fn-key?
I am using Lion on a late 2009 13 inch MacBook, with external monitor and an external Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad - German (MB110D/B) while keeping the MacBook lid closed.
Some of the ...
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How to access user installed menubar icons with the keyboard?
I understand that Ctrl + F8 can be used to access the built-in Apple menu and Ctrl + F2 can be used to access program menus (e.g. this existing answer).
However, I have a bunch of user-installed ...
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Time Machine/Time Capsule: What is the difference between “Waiting for index to be ready (100)” and “Waiting for index to be ready (101)”?
What's the difference between these (100) and (101) indexing processes?
Having finally created a successful backup to Time Capsule using Time Machine under Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63), I'm still ...
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Howto resize copied HFS+ partition above original size (320GB)?
I am running OS X Lion and my laptop has a 320GB drive. I bought a larger drive (750GB) and cloned the entire device from the old drive to the new using GNU ddrescue. After cloning everything looks ...
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mdfind query on kMDItemFSTypeCode can't find some type codes
I just upgraded to a new MacBook with Lion, and having discovered that some of my old apps can't come with, I'm scouring my files for certain types that will need to be converted to future-proof ...
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Stopping ACL inheritance from the command line in OS X Lion?
With the following folder structure on a file share:
- Department (directory)
+ User1 (directory)
+ User2 (directory)
+ User3 (directory)
Whenever I add an ACE to the Department directory, ...
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Re-position windows when going from two screens to one
So long story short, at work I use my MacBook Pro and I connect it to another, bigger monitor. I use a shared screen setup so I can drag windows back and forth between the two monitors, but when I get ...
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Mountain Lion, System Preferences and App Store crash, Clean Install doesn't help
Background - Mid-2010 MBP 13", upgraded to 8 GB memory. Came with Snow Leopard, Upgraded to Lion without clean install. Worked perfectly. Have CleanMyMac installed on it.
Problem - After upgrade to ...
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Width of the column view separation line in Finder
I'm using Mac OS X lion. In Finder, I use the column view. I know how to set up the width, but the thin line you use to drag the columns has suddenly become thicker and very visible.
I know this ...
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Screen brightness decreases when I middle-click
I have a logitech wireless mouse hooked up to a macbook pro running 10.7. Whenever I middle-click the mouse button, the laptop's display brightness decreases. It behaves just as if I had pressed the ...
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Apple Wifi Dropping at Random Times
I'm sure that my wifi router is fine because my macbook is the only one with this issue. I see this happen especially when i use Skype, Face Time etc. This has been going on for a month and can't ...
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SSH, passphrases, keychains, Could not open a connection to your authentication agent
I will be very surprised if anyone has the answer to this. I have googled for a long time but no luck.
As an iOS developer who will shortly be welcoming a new team member I want to set up a ...
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How do I find hidden UIScrollView settings in Safari and Lion?
The question (and answer) Can you disable rubber-band scrolling in OS X Lion? is very useful, so I would like to learn how to find these settings.
How can I find out what these variables are so I can ...
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AddressBookManager using 100% CPU
My macbook pro running OSX 10.7.3 will fire up the heavy fans even if left idle with all major apps closed. In Activity Monitor, AddressBookManager is shown as taking 110% CPU, even though I have only ...
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Share spotlight comments?
I have a afp share on my office network, is it possible if I were to add a spotlight comments field, have it show up on another machine which also has the volume mounted? The color shows up but ...
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Word 2011 for Mac: keyboard shortcut for turning balloons on/off in review mode
Does anybody know if I can create a keyboard shortcut to toggle "Use balloons to display changes"?
Also, is there a webpage where one can vote for features for the next Word release? I want to have ...
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What is causing my ~/Library folder to be come visible again?
At some point after Lion system updates, my ~/Library folder becomes visible again, in seemingly spontaneous fashion. If I make it invisible, it will become visible yet again. What could be causing ...
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“Error: Specified stack size exceeds hard limit” occurs during install
I've been trying to install a program for electron microscopy reconstruction on OS X 10.7 and when I execute it on tcsh I got the following message:
Error: specified stack size exceeds hard limit
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Spontaneous right click without touching mouse
I sign in to my iMac running OS X Lion. Since this morning I am continuously seeing popups as if I right-clicked my mouse.
I changed my keyboard and mouse from wireless to wired, but the problem ...
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How do I configure a VPN in Lion?
I've tried to configure VPN in Lion (both L2TP and PPTP), but it never connected successfully.
The same VPN works fine in Windows 7 and the iPad and other mobile devices, so I think it could be a ...
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Unable to add Exchange 2010 account to Outlook 2011
I have a user who is trying to setup Outlook 2011 with his Exchange 2010 mailbox/account. When entering the details for the account Outlook 'freezes'.
This is the window it freezes at.
I have tried ...
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migrating Ubuntu DHCPD to OS X Server
My LAN includes an Ubuntu 9.04 server which runs an ISC DHCP v3 daemon. I'd like to migrate the data from that daemon to a Lion OS X Server. Is there an easy way to do this (by copying the Ubuntu ...
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With Lion, Problems Accessing Shared NTFS Folders with SMB://
We are testing a local login script that we created for our Macintosh users on Lion. It has worked fine on all OS X versions prior to 10.7. Listed below is the script that we are using. When we run ...
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QuickTime 10.1 stops responding
Quicktime (10.1) keeps quitting when I try to launch an .avi file on OS X Lion. I have removed the codecs I had installed (I used cleanmymac to completely remove leftovers) I also deleted Quicktime ...
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Keyboard Shortcut for moving left/right a space doesn't work
After going to:
Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control
I am able to assign a keyboard shortcut to move left/right a space. However pressing shortcut I assigned does not ...
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How to choose Bluetooth controller in OS X Lion?
My Mac Pro's internal bluetooth is broken. For the past 2 years, I've been getting by just fine with a USB Bluetooth adapter. I had to temporarily remove that adapter recently, and after putting it ...
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Why is the HFS Plus attributes file unusually small, for only a while, after using Time Machine to restore a Lion system?
Once after using Time Machine in Lion Recovery OS to restore a system, I noticed that the attributes B-tree was unusually small.
Initially I was worried (had Time Machine failed to backup some ...
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Web Inspector in Safari 5.1 (Lion) not logging request when not open
Is there any way to revert Web Inspector in Safari 5.1 to the old behaviour that if I have developer tools enabled, all Ajax/XHR, image, css etc requests are logged and when I open Web Inspector, they ...
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Is there a way to improve the quality of the cached images Safari uses for forward/back swiping?
I know I'm crazy, but it's bugging me.
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Can't delete iCloud account from Mail, Contacts, Calendars
When trying to log into iCloud from System Preferences, I'm told
[appleid] is already signed in to iCloud
To use this as your primary iCloud account, delete it from Mail, Contacts,
and ...
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How to have sshd re-read its config file (without killing ssh connections)?
How can I get the ssh server to re-read its configuration file (/etc/sshd_config), without killing existing ssh connections?
EDIT: If I run kill -HUP <SSHD_PID> I kill the connection.
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Need JDK6, but JDK7 won't go away!
I'm running Lion (10.7), and need to use JDK 6 for development, but previously I had installed JDK 7 and I can't seem to get it uninstalled.
I ran the JDK 6 installer and seems to be installed in ...
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Unable to login after accidentally powering down laptop as FileVault decryption of HDD was running
I had turned off FileVault on my FileVault-encrypted HDD. While the HDD was decrypted, I accidentally powered down my laptop interrupting that decryption process. When I subsequently rebooted, I am ...
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Is there a console interface for the Client Monitor on OSX?
I'm writing a bash-script at work for controlling our Mac-computers (OS X Mountain Lion) remotely. Since we use FileWave in our Company we just have to remove an Application and restart the computer. ...
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Lion crashes on first reboot attempt, is fine on second reboot
I'm having a weird issue with Lion on 2 different machines (2008 Mac Pro, 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro). The first machine was upgraded through several OS versions to Lion, the second came with Lion ...
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Timemachine encryption restore/backup?
I'm trying to automate the creation of an encrypted sparsebundle and configure backup for a 10.7 machine using a TimeCapsule. I've created the script below
http://pastebin.com/D2nQk1j1
#!/bin/bash
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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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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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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 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 ...
