OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
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How to make Mail.app to delete Gmail messages to trash when pressing the keyboard delete button?
When I accidentally pressed delete on mail in Mail it removed the incoming mail permanently!
How can I change this behaviour so that when I press delete on the keyboard, it will remove it from the ...
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Why do I get a '“Calendar Cache” couldn't be moved' error when launching Calendar?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I get the following error message when I launch Calendar.app:
"Calendar Cache couldn't be moved because you don't have permission to access "Calendars".
When I ...
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1answer
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Why does my Mac have laggy/choppy Dock magnification effect?
I have a retina MacBook Pro and I noticed a laggy/choppy magnification effect when hovering the mouse over the dock. I thought Mountain Lion would fix that, but apparently its a bit more laggy now as ...
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4answers
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Error downloading Mountain Lion from AppStore
I had an error while downloading OS X Mountain lion from the App Store.
It tells me this message "An error has occurred" and nerver wants to start downloading again.
What should I do now!!!
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1answer
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Add Home Folder Hard Drive to Favorites and Desktop
I just reinstalled my Mac, thinking I'd give OS X Mountain Lion a try.
In my system, I have both a regular HDD with a partition Storage and a SSD. On the SSD, I've installed OS X, and now transfered ...
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1answer
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Open Safari With Numerous Tabs Open?
When I use Chrome I like the feature that enables me to open Chrome with a list of websites I always want to open up once I use it.
Is this feature available in Safari?
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1answer
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How can I disable the tweet sound when using Click to Tweet in Notification Center?
I really like being able to send tweets on Twitter from Notification Center, but I can live without the sound that plays when you click Send. Is there a way to disable or customize the tweet sound?
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How can I make Spotlight index source code in Mountain Lion?
Under Lion I had Spotlight set up to index .as (ActionScript) files using the general instructions here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2005052015041510
but installing Mountain Lion seems ...
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Why is my Mountain Lion download freezing at 53.25 MB?
I have been trying for about a day now, and no matter how many times I pause/resume or cancel and retry, my download of Mountain Lion is freezing at 53.25MB.
Why is it freezing and how can I resolve ...
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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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Is there a way to hide the unread count badge in Mountain Lion's Mail.app?
Mail.app used to have the ability to hide the unread count badge, as shown on this 37signals blog post:
It seems that Apple has removed this in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there any way to restore ...
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Why does Safari 6 scroll to the bottom of the page when viewing Google search results?
When I use the pagination at the bottom of Google search results pages to browse through the results, Safari 6 on OS X Mountain Lion automatically scrolls to the bottom of the page. Doesn't happen ...
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Git clone error after OS X Mountain Lion update
I just updated my MBP to OSX 10.8 and am trying to start a new project with brunch.io which by default uses coffeescript and I prefer javascript so I need to clone the simple js skeleton. So something ...
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1answer
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Can I upgrade to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard?
I'm currently running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I never upgraded to Lion.
However, the features in Mountain Lion have me intrigued and I'd like to upgrade.
Am I allowed to upgrade straight to ...
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4answers
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Multiple Java versions support on OS X and JAVA_HOME location
I know is possible to have multiple versions of Java on OS X but i find it difficult to understand how it works.
I upgraded to Mountain Lion and now echo $JAVA_HOME is empty.
However in ...
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2answers
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What has changed in Terminal.app in OS X 10.8?
Just upgraded OS X to Mountain Lion and noticed that Terminal.app version has changed from 2.2.3 to 2.3. Unfortunately, can`t find any information about what has changed. Do you know if there is any ...
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Can't install Xcode Command Line Tools on Mountain Lion
I try to install the most recent (july 25) version of Command Line Tools (xcode44cltools_10_76938107a.dm), downloaded from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/, but are stopped with the error ...
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Shortcut Keys for Moving Desktops in Mission Control in Mountain Lion 10.8.x?
Are there shortcut keys for moving a Desktop in the array of Desktops in Mission Control?
I can now do this manually using the mouse by dragging and dropping, but I would like to do this with ...
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4answers
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No email notifications when Mail.app isn't running?
On Mountain Lion, I don't get email notifications in Notification Center when Mail.app isn't running.
This is not the expected behaviour (it is inconsistent with the Mail.app behaviour on iOS) and ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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Mountain Lion sleeps too aggressively
For me, Mountain Lion always seems to sleep whenever there is no user action, even when the computer is still doing something. In my case it always sleeps in the middle of running a batch operation in ...
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1answer
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Moving notes to iCloud
I just upgraded to mountain lion and noticed that I can only see notes in iCloud in the "Notes" application.
I have several notes related to a mail account that I would like to see on the Mac or move ...
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1answer
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How can I clear the JavaScript console in the Safari 6 developer tools?
In previous versions of Safari the JavaScript console in the Developer Tools (aka Web Inspector) had a little 'clear' button at the bottom that emptied out console items, which was useful for getting ...
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Can I use Dictation in OS X Mountain Lion offline?
There is a new feature in Mountain Lion, Dictation.
When I try to enable it in the System Preferences, I get the following dialog:
In other words, what Dictation does is just record your voice and ...
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Change in behavior of finder window: Snow Leopard vs. Mountain Lion [closed]
Just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and noticed that the "searching" or "busy" wheel (the one with radial bars, not the spinning color "pizza wheel") is no longer present in finder ...
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How to determine when a Mac is in Power Nap state?
I've got a mid-2011 Macbook Air running Mountain Lion. Power Nap is enabled. My Time Machine back up goes to a USB external hard drive. My current workflow is to sleep my computer when not in use, ...
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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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2answers
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Is there a way to determine what application wants Java installed?
After upgrading to Mountian Lion on both my MacBook Air and my wife's MacBook Pro, I recieved a prompt asking to install Java (I did not get this on my iMac).
I was wondering what triggered this ...
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1answer
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Can imagent in OS X Mountain Lion be made to consume fewer resources?
imagent is constantly consuming CPU cycles and a couple of GBs of "real memory" on my wife's MacBook Air since upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion. I believe this is part of the Messages app.
Is there ...
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1answer
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Is iCloud email address different from me.com address?
I have a me.com address that works on my iPad and on my Mac.
However, I am trying to set up iCloud to sync all of my devices on my Mac using the instructions found here, ...
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2answers
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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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Under 10.8 which file stores the environment variables?
This has been this way since 10.6. There is no .bashrc file in the home dictionary but the environment variable PATH indeed exists as the result of this command shows:
$ echo $PATH
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How can one debug imagent issues?
I have just upgraded to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and am attempting to use Facetime and iMessage. Upon entering my Apple ID into the respective applications and attempting to sign in, I receive the ...
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How can I add missing avatar/profile pictures in Messages?
In the new Messages application introduced with Mountain Lion, I cannot see my own avatar.
This is happening even though my Messages.app email is linked with my contact in Contacts.app.
No Avatar ...
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1answer
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Cannot move window
I install a linux (Fedora) distribution through VMWare (4.0) on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The the virtual machine open up at the top of the window and hide its taskbar underneath the apple task bar ...
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Unable to deselect items in migration-assistant
I had created a test user upon installing Mountain Lion, now I want to import my regular user from backup, but only that particular user and no other users nor applications. However in the ...
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How To Enable Hidden iTunes Notifications On Mountain Lion? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
iTunes track notifications for Mountain Lion
This command
defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE; killall Dock
enabled iTunes Notifications in ...
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How can I send a tweet without taking my hands off the keyboard?
If I'm typing a tweet in Mountain Lion's new Notification Center panel, is there a way to send the tweet without moving my hands to the trackpad to click the "send" button? I've tried return, enter, ...
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Routing all traffic except a few IP-ranges though default gateway in Mountain Lion
I am using VPN (Cisco IPSec) through the default Mountain Lion network preferences. In Lion (and also in Snow Leopard), I did the following to change the routing back to using my default gateway for ...
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rMBP Doesn't Wake Up From Sleep After Upgrading to ML
It is the second time that my rMBP doesn't wake up from sleep. The only application that I've recently installed are Alferd and BetterTouchTool - Could it have something to do with that?
In addition ...
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My Launchpad organization was reset with Mountain Lion. How can I recover it?
I had neatly sorted the applications in Launchpad when I was running Lion. But after upgrading to Mountain Lion, none of my custom folders are there any more, and it seems Launchpad is back to the ...
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if iPhoto came with my Mac, can I still get free updates after Mountain Lion?
Since:
I got iPhoto included with my MacBook Pro, not from the Mac App Store
Mountain Lion is replacing Software Update with the Mac App Store
Will I still be able to get free iPhoto updates with ...
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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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Cannot use or update WMware Fusion in Mountain Lion
I was using VMWare Fusion 3.0 in Snow Leopard before upgrading to Mountain Lion. Now I cannot open or upgrade VMWare Fusion, the icon is blocked, and if clicked, a pop up comes out and if click help, ...
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Mountain Lion installer doesnt start after reboot
I am currently trying to install Mountain Lion and everything was going fine until it was time to reboot.
First I tried rebooting then it said i needed to close applications so I clicked the button ...
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Delay in keyboard responsiveness after wake with Mountain Lion?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, now when I open the lid to my 2010 13" MacBook Air, there is a 3-5 second delay between when the screen powers on and when the keyboard will respond to key presses in ...
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Caps Lock key mapped to a second Control key, reset after wake in Mountain Lion
I'm running a clean install of Mountain Lion. I have my Caps Lock key mapped to a second Control key.
Whenever I wake my computer back from sleep, it re-sets itself to the Caps Lock key. This did ...
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After Upgrade to Mountain Lion I get blurry fonts
Since the upgrade to Mountain Lion, I get blurry fonts system-wide. It doesn't matter where it is: I've seen them on the log-in screen, Safari, Mail, Xcode, and Skype. Every font is very blurry.
It ...
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Cannot “Enter Time Machine” from Mountain Lion
Upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday. Time Machine backups continue to run without any reported errors. (Backups are to a HD shared by a Lion Server on the network).
Problem is When I choose Enter ...
