OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
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Intriguing connection issue on OS X
I've been recently having this issue with my internet connection on my MacBook Pro Early 2011 running OS X 10.8.3: from time to time the connection "freezes" for about 5 seconds and then comes back.
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outlook.com (Exchange ActiveSync) on OS X Mountain Lion
Outlook.com offers email/contacts/calendar similar to Google. With my iPhone and iPad (iOS 6.1.3) I can connect to outlook.com by setting up an Exchange account. It uses the Exchange ActiveSync ...
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Time machine backup only on home network
I've set up my Ubuntu server at home to act as a Time capsule using this guide:
http://alisnic.net/blog/use-a-ubuntu-as-a-timemachine-server/
It works very well, and I have two macbooks backing up ...
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0answers
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Controlling File Permissions on a Windows File Share
I'm using a Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.3) with file sharing enabled to Windows users.
Whenever a Windows user copies a file into the share on the Mac (Windows file sharing), the permissions of ...
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Encrypted/Journaled Seagate won't accept Password
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro Intel running Mountain Lion. I have a 2tb Seagate External Drive with 3 partitions: all three were set up the same way with different passwords as a person who used to live ...
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1answer
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removing results from Google searches on Safari
Is there any extension or whatever that I can use to remove the results I don't want form google for safari?
I would like to be able to ban certain domains from appearing in any results on my google ...
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Mac app pop up durring instlaation from app store?
I am running mountain lion on mid 2009 macbook pro. I used to see an animation of app popping out of apple mac store and coming to the dock, then they changed pop up destination to mission control. ...
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1answer
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Finder window, Save As prompt missing sidebar entries
Check out this screenshot:
Why is everything missing in the sidebar? Normally I would see Desktop, Downloads, a custom list of favorite folders, Applications, Library, etc. Suddenly this started ...
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1answer
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Use a bluetooth headset JUST as a microphone?
This is hopefully a pretty simple question. Is it possible to configure a bluetooth headset to act as only a microhphone? I am using OSX Mountain Lion. I would assume the process would be something ...
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1answer
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Have Mountain Lion Messages running but hidden from dock?
I use Mountain Lion (10.8.3) Messages exclusively to monitor text messages sent to my cell phone. When I first start my computer or login Messages is hidden (I don't want it in my dock) and if I ...
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scripting keychain - disk image - timecapsule
If I click though the gui configuration of time capsule in 10.8 and choose encrypt back ups, 3 things are installed in my keychain.
I have scripted the creation of these 3 keys but am having ...
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0answers
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Applications (Google Drive, Dropbox, Eclipse, etc) only start when I launch them from within their package
I am running Mountain Lion and I have an issue when trying to start certain applications: Dropbox, Google Drive and Eclipse.
If I click their icon inside the Applications Folder or I try to launch ...
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Keyboard shortcut within Mission Control
I use Mountain Lion and want to know keyboard shortcuts for moving around and choosing a particular application window WITHIN a given active desktop in Mission Control.
I chose an option to show all ...
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1answer
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Installed new SSD, but I have no Snow Leopard disk. Can I install Lion from Internet?
I've just installed a 128GB SSD onto my 2009 MacBook Pro. I've run into an issue.
I was under the impression you can install Lion over the Internet on a fresh install. I've done this before on a ...
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1answer
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Allow users to update certain applications
I am the admin for my company's Mac users. Apps that I initially installed, such as Adobe apps, MS Office, Firefox, etc., all require an admin password to install updates. In order to avoid the snide ...
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3answers
285 views
OSX won't automatically connect to WiFi
About a week ago, my OSX machine stopped connecting to any WiFi networks automatically. If I open the WiFi menu from the top bar and select the desired network, it connects OK. Also, if I enable "Ask ...
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1answer
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mount an unmountable drive
I have a MacBook Pro with a root mounting sector with problems. It becomes like this due to password changing in safe mode.
Now of course it doesn't turn up any more.
I tried repair with disk utility
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1answer
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How can I recover the key of an encrypted hard-drive?
I still have access to the disc, but I lost the piece of paper with the key. Can I somehow recover it? I already had a look into Keychain Access Utility, but I couldn’t find it.
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1answer
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Disable Screen sharing via the command line in mountain lion
I want to be able to enable and disable screen sharing from the command line rather than through System Preferences. This is on 10.8.3
To enable screen sharing, I find I only need to change a ...
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2answers
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How To Changing Printer Scaling on Mac OS X 10.8.2
I am currently having an annoying problem where anything I print in Mac OS X 10.8.2 is scaled to 3%, and I cannot seem to change this through the printing menu.
I've attached a picture of my printing ...
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Connect to VPN before login
Is there a way to connect to a VPN before/during the login window appears? I have bound my computer to an Active Directory server, but the AD server can only be found after the connection to the VPN ...
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Is there any way to speed up kdiff3 startup time?
I recently switched over to OS X from Kubuntu and am trying to get my favourite development tools working.
In Kubuntu I always used kdiff3 as my git difftool. I can get it to work on OS X, either by ...
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3answers
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Can't access internet
Suddenly, a couple of days ago, I have started to have major problems accessing internet through my home network, with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (non-retina) running Mountain Lion.
I connect to the ...
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0answers
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Why can't Java Applets work? [closed]
I would always access virtual Windows XP through java applets. I could not access it through safari but I can access it through Mozilla Firefox. My java is fully updated. I'm fond of using safari so I ...
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1answer
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Button “Use as Defaults” are missing in View Options panel (Mountain Lion)
I'm a very new user of Apple and Mac OS - coming straight from Windows so please bear with me if my question is a bit foolished.
I'm looking for a way to set my View Option as a default property ...
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1answer
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dual boot Mountain Lion/Mountain Lion
I got a Macbook Pro with OS 10.8 installed on, the usual recovery partition that is created by the OS installer, and a 35GB partition (currently NTFS, but I can reformat in HFS+ if needed).
My ...
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2answers
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Why do I get back more disk space when I restart my Macbook on Mountain Lion 10.8.3?
I frequently run low on disk space on my laptop. When I'm down to my last gig or so on my 256MB SSD (as reported by iStat Menu), I'll get various warnings from the OS and apps saying that I'm running ...
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1answer
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How do I restore a Deja Dup backup (done in Ubuntu) in Mountain Lion?
I have pretty much started from scratch on my new installation because I couldn't figure out how to restore the files I backed up on my Linux installation with Deja Dup. I have GPG Keychain access ...
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2answers
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Spotlight on mid-2012 MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion Constantly Re-Indexing
On my 4-month old mid-2012 MacBook Pro I observe that Spotlight seems to want to ALWAYS re-index. I frequently notice that the performance will get unbearably slow and I can hear the hard drive ...
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unmounted external disk still appears under “devices” in sidebar
I have an OWC Mercury 500 GB hard disk partitioned into 3 partitions. Sometimes, after using it and unmounting it, one or more partitions still appear in Finder window sidebars under "Devices."
Has ...
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Run Disk Utility on Snow Leopard with lost system disk
I have some errors on the hard drive of my mid-2006 iMac that is running OS X 10.6.8. I need to boot off the system disk to run Disk Utility. Unfortunately, after looking throughout my house, I could ...
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update to 10.8.3 from 10.7.5 broke many (all?) existing aliases
I depend a lot on aliases to files and folders. Just after upgrading, most of those I've checked, aliases that worked before the upgrade, fail now. I get the usual error message, "...the original ...
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Mountain Lion Mail using over 40GB of memory
Mail in Mountain Lion (10.8.3) seems to be having one heck of a memory leak.
As you can see, it's using over 44GB of memory and 200% CPU.
Machine specs:
Mac Pro
2 x 2.4 GHz 6-Core Xeon
64GB RAM
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Editing $PATH variable for apache on mountain lion
I've just installed ImageMagick using macports and am trying to use it from a php site running on Apache, but nothing I do works to add /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin to my path.
So far I've tried
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OSX changing backgrounds- iphoto folder doesn't update
I have the background image on my OSX desktop set to change every x minutes- it chooses a random image within a specific iPhoto album.
However, when I remove photos from that iPhoto album, the ...
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2answers
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Finder: keep sort-by per-directory
Some directories make sense to be sorted by date modified, while others make more sense to be kept sorted alphabetically.
How can I make it so that finder will apply a specified sort by selection on ...
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27" 2009 iMac screen occasionally freezes (mouse still moves) after upgrading RAM and SSD
I have a 2009 iMac that has been working fine (but slowly) until now. I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 GB Intel SSD (MZ-7TD500BW) and put in 16 GB of RAM (PNY Optima PC3-8500). I've ...
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Keeping the mac awake when running certain applications?
I need to keep my MacBook Air awake when running certain applications. But when I put the display to sleep, often the whole system suspends after a few minutes.
Specifically I run Air Video Server on ...
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1answer
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Is it safe to reformat drive during Recovery Mode install?
I've inherited an almost brand new 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I'd like wipe the hard drive clean and start with a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I've done this a million times before... but never while ...
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1answer
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Add to Existing Contact from Mail.app to Contacts.app
I am looking for an option to add the choice "Add to Existing Contact" from the Apple Mail.app From address field. As you all know, we have "Copy Address, Add to VIPs, New Email, Add to Contacts, and ...
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launchd crowds syslog with error-messages
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and have some problem with repeated error-messages crowding the
/var/log/system.log
file.
Apr 19 15:15:14 pc49 com.apple.launchd[1]: * process 1 exceeded ...
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2answers
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Make JSON files to have TextMate2 icon
I have all the JSON files on my system set to open with TextMate 2.
When I get Info on one of these .js files, I see the TextMate 2 icon on the corner. But, how do I make for the TextMate icon to ...
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1answer
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Removing a Gmail account on a computer I'm selling
How do I remove a Gmail account in Apple Mail on a computer I am giving away? I do use IMAP and want to make sure I don't lose any of my emails on my other computer and iPad.
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1answer
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Why does PF stop ipfw from forwarding in Mountain Lion?
Disclaimer: I know, ipfw is now deprecated. However, as I'm yet to find a functional way of forwarding packets using PF, I would like to keep using ipfw.
What I'm trying to do is forward all my ...
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How to download Mountain Lion installer after changing a store?
I'm going to upgrade my machine with ssd drive, so I want to make a clean install. I was told that I can redownload the installer via Mac App Store, but the problem is that I used the store of other ...
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restore Mac OS Mountain Lion to factory settings without discs or time machine backups
I installed XCode 3 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 and now I am getting the Apple BSODs.
Can I do a system restore without having the discs as I seem to have nothing to use, also I have no Time Machine ...
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how to open and modify eps with gimp
I use GIMP a lot for my work, especially for modifying figures in EPS format to put in my latex documents. However I don't know how to configure GIMP to open EPS files. In fact if I try to open an EPS ...
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What file permissions do I need to change after 10.8.3 restore?
My 08 mb, OSX Mt Lion, crashed so I bought new 2012 MBPr. Luckily, I backed everything up. Migrated everything from 08mb over to new MBPr. I noticed that when I deleted files, it skipped the trash ...
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Previous Owner's Apple ID Stills tied to App Store after Clean Install
I've purchased a 2009 iMac, bought Mountain Lion from the App Store and performed a Clean Install, but when I open up the App Store, I still see messages to update apps that the previous owner had ...
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Is there a way to omit certain directories from where Mac OSX finds applications for its Applescript dictionaries et al?
Mac OSX maintains a list of applications for Applescript dictionaries, for the open-with list in finder etc.
This list gets collected from local directories (e.g. /Applications) but it finds as well ...
