OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
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Installing a Lion Vm within Mountain Lion
I have a few issues with Mountain Lion that mean I need to have occasional access to a Lion installation. I have bootable clones of my old Lion install before I upgraded, but sometimes I only need to ...
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Is it possible to run Mountain Lion on older hardware by using a virtualization solution?
I'm wondering if anyone has gotten Mountain Lion to run on any hardware in virtualization (VMware Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox or other...). If so, it would be interesting to know how well (if at ...
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Is it possible to dual-boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?
I want to try out the new version of OS X (Mountain Lion), but since I'm so comfortable with my current installation of Lion, I do not want to do a normal upgrade and install/customize all my programs ...
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Why do I get serious execution lag on clicks, application switching and general usage
I have an MBP 8.1, early 2011, 13 inch, Mountain Lion. Whenever I leave it on for more than a couple hours, I get serious execution lag on every command. For example:
I click something (a link, ...
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How can I re-run the initial Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion?
As described in my write-up on custom keyboard layouts, in some situations it can be useful to re-run the Setup Assistant (the app that you get when you start a new Mac for the first time, or do a ...
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How can I disable shift + control + scroll zoom in chrome?
I use control + shift + tab to move between tabs in Chrome, but if I scroll with the touchpad it'll zoom the page. This happens quite a lot and it's frustrating. Is there some way I can disable the ...
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Can sudo's annoying message be removed from Mountain Lion 10.8.0?
After the upgrade to 10.8.0, whenever I do a sudo, I always get this message:
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
I have ...
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How to change the default Mail account in Mountain Lion?
I have 2 mail accounts configured. When composing a new message, it will default to the account for the currently selected mailbox, which is fine. However, when no particular mailbox is selected (when ...
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Safari 6: How to change default fonts?
This is probably a duplicate. I can't imagine I'm the first person to notice this.
It seems that Safari 6 has removed the appearance tab from the preferences, and with it, the ability to change the ...
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Does Notification Center have keyboard shortcuts?
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for controlling Notification Center on OS X Mountain Lion? Of particular interest is a shortcut equivalent of the Click to Tweet button that appears at the top of ...
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How do I enable Java Web Start for ASDM Launcher (Cisco ASA management) in Mountain Lion?
I've been trying to get my Cisco ASA management software working and on Snow Leopard, it ran fine. However, even after installing Java manually on Mountain Lion (on my new Macbook Pro), I continue to ...
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Remove application from App Store's Update section
I've got an application in my Updates list which I never installed. It doesn't appear under Purchases nor Hidden Purchases. I can't hide it by right-clicking on it. When I click "Update" it asks me ...
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Activating screen saver from AppleScript in Mountain Lion
I had a script that I used to use to activate my screen saver, and it no longer works in Mountain Lion.
It was a shell script that called an AppleScript script:
#!/bin/bash
osascript ...
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Safari doesn't remember tabs in Mountain Lion
In Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Safari preserved the state of my tabs when it closed. This functionality seems to have disappeared in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there a way to restore (no pun intended) this ...
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Downgrade to Lion from Mountain Lion OS [closed]
One of my friend bought his MacBook Pro with preinstalled Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2). Afterwards, he installed the Mountain Lion (10.8) developer preview in it.
He wants to downgrade the OS to Lion ...
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Roll back from OS X Mavericks ( or any newer OS) to Mountain Lion
I installed the developer preview of OS X Mavericks, & too many things broke. I can't stay on it & need to roll back to Mountain Lion. Any ways of doing that? Please help!
I originally ...
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“All My Files” option in Open/Save dialog get 100% CPU on Mountain Lion for a couple of minutes?
"All My Files" option in Open/Save dialog get 100% CPU on Mountain Lion for a couple of minutes?
How to solve this?
Mainly this happens twice: once before drawing anything on screen and once again ...
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Can OS X apps access my contacts even if I don't give them permission?
After I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I noticed that apps have started asking for permission to access my contacts. Very cool.
When Skype initially asked for permission to access my contacts, I decided ...
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How to I access documents saved in iCloud with Mountain Lion on my iOS device
I know that I can save a pages document in the cloud in Mountain Lion and then open it in Pages for iOS, but how do I access something saved in iCloud on TextEdit or Preview.
For instance, with ...
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How I can unminimize windows from an application using a key combination?
Coming from the Windows world, I was initially used to using Cmd-Tab to switch between open windows. On OS X this switches between applications, so I had to learn to use Ctrl-` to switch between ...
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Mail.app encounters recurring connection error (to Gmail IMAP server) after installing Mountain Lion
I have a Gmail IMAP account in Mail, which up until installing Mountain Lion has always worked smoothly.
Now after the upgrade, I find that if I have Mail open for a while in the background or I put ...
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How to install Mountain Lion on a disk that cannot be formatted in recovery mode?
I'm trying to do a clean install of Mountain Lion but I'm not being able to format my partition.
I previously had Lion, encrypted the disk, then upgraded to Mountain Lion, then booted into recovery ...
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Safari 6: Open and close tabs with middle click?
On Lion I installed an extension which game me the ability to use middle click to open and close tabs, and I used Better Touch Tool (BTT) to use a 3 finger tap to act as a middle click.
Since using ...
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How to install Windows 8 with BootCamp 5 Assistant via USB?
I was able to put Windows 8 setup files on my usb from the installer. Now I just upgraded my machine to Mountain Lion. I have gone through the BC Assistant and it only asks for my Windows CD to be put ...
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Which browsers with an integral Java runtime environment (JRE) can run that JRE on Mountain Lion?
I know that some old Netscape products included a Java runtime environment (JRE).
(I'm not sure where to download the most recent app with that integration, I'll continue to look. ...
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Automatically Save Attachments in Mail.app in 10.8 Mountain Lion
I am trying to automatically save all email sent to one address (let's call it test@example.com) to this folder /Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/ (where /Users/luomat = $HOME).
Here is the rule ...
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Can I dismiss a Notification Center Alert using the mouse?
Is it possible to dismiss a sticky "alert" (from Notification Center) from the upper-right corner of the screen by using the mouse?
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How to get iMessages in sync across an iOS 5 iPhone, iPad and Mountain Lion Mac?
One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the Messages app - and the "fact" that all your Messages threads are consistent across all your devices.
I would really like to have my the threads that I ...
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Spotlight in upper right screen corner in Mountain Lion
In the System Preferences panel for Spotlight in OS X 10.8, it claims "Spotlight is located at the top right corner of the screen". On my system, this no longer appears to be true; the Notification ...
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Can Mountain Lion be modified so that a double click will open “hidden” folders and files?
I've noticed something strange in Finder since upgrading to Mountain Lion; any hidden folder or files (that I've already run defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE for) can only be ...
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Keyboard Shortcut To Switch Between Opened Windows
How do I switch between open windows? Command + Tab switches between opened applications, but for example, when I open prefernces window of BetterTouchTool I don't get it shown via Command + Tab.
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Daemons or other processes responsible for dictation in 10.8?
Dictation in Mountain Lion is a nice little feature that works great for me. However I often need to switch between dictation languages, so going through the System Preferences is way too many clicks ...
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Disable saving to iCloud in Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion introduced a feature where you can save your documents to iCloud instead of local storage.
I don't ever see myself using it, is there a way to disable this (but I don't want to ...
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Mountain Lion: AirPlay doesn't show up (but it works in iTunes)
I have mountain lion and Apple TV. iTunes only displays the option for AirPlay. But it doesn't display on the OSX top bar.
I have a MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Can I resume an interrupted download of Mac OS X Mountain Lion?
I have a slow internet connection. I want to download Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) from the Mac App Store and resume the download if it gets interrupted because of my internet connection.
Does the ...
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Mountain Lion desktop order
On Mountain Lion, I have three desktops. What I find is that the sequential left to right order of these desktops keeps changing. Is it doing something based on usage ? and how can I disable this ?
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Dictation not working
I have enabled dictation in the preferences, but it fails to start.
When I tap fn fn, the Icon with three dots appears, and quickly disappears. I don't see a microphone.
My system is connected to ...
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Choosing between opening a file with primary or secondary program with a shortcut
I know how to change default program to certain type of files, but I've been running to situations where I could use 2 defaults.
Lets take .html files for example. I have assigned Chrome to open all ...
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What is trying to launch 'java' on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to determine what application wants Java installed?
I recently installed OSX Mountain Lion and as you know, the default install removes any java VM, ...
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How do I reassign the F3 key to another application?
I have a gesture for Exposé so I need another button (the F3) to do the same. I'd love to replace F3 to show/hide the MacBartender app.
Would it be possible to reassign this key for such a use? I ...
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How can I export text substitutions from Lion for import into Mountain Lion
I am trying to migrate to a brand new install of Mountain Lion. I am trying to migrate select data from my old Lion install. Does anybody know where the text replacement definitions in System ...
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How can I restart Finder when it keeps “stopping” an stopped copy process?
Every now and then, mostly with USB sticks, Finder decides to copy forever, either at the end of the copy process (i.e. the files are already copied), or at the very beginning.
Stopping the process ...
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How to change/customize mail signature in Mountain Lion?
To add an custom mail-signature in Lion you had to add an signature via preferences, and then replace the contents of the webarchive with your own.
In Mountain Lion, Apple replaced the webarchive ...
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Time Machine backup to Airport Extreme AirDisk
I thought it was NOT possible to use the USB hard disk attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a backup destination for Time Machine backups. This was mostly due to Google results as ...
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Mac Mini won't wake after sleep with Mountain Lion
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini with Mountain Lion installed. I have had the Mini for around 6 weeks and am using as a media server.
When the Mini goes to sleep (either automatically or by manually ...
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Any easy way to search for & replace characters in JPG file names in a folder?
Have a MacBook Pro 15 (Oct2009 vintage), and am running 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
Is there an easy way to search for and replace chars in JPG file names in a folder file list?
I'm working with over ...
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Mountain Lion US keyboard layout .. bug? British layout when selected US keyboard
When I change my input source to US Keyboard and I want to press this key: ` I get some British key.
My keyboard is this one:
And it behaves like this one:
I changed my keyboard layout like ...
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Time Machine drive encryption going for 22 hours. Is it stalled?
I set up Time Machine in Mountain Lion by plugging in a newly formatted 500GB USB drive, selecting that from the Time Machine dialog, and checking the box to encrypt my backups. A window appeared that ...
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Mountain Lion - Umlauts with english keyboard layout
i have small problems with my keyboard typing umlauts.
On Lion i could type umlauts with " followed by the vowel
This is no longer possible. The only possibility i noticed is to type
umlauts now by ...
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What happened to detect displays?
I'm running Mountain Lion with a retina MacBook Pro with three external monitors attached. Quite often, one or more of the monitors blacks out. Normally, I would choose "detect displays" in the ...
