OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
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Why can't I install Xcode 4.4 on Mountain Lion?
When I try to download the Xcode 4.4 update I'm presented with this error:
Xcode can’t be installed on “Mac HD” because the version of OS X is too new.
But the change log says that the update is ...
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How do I know which process is causing my computer to hang?
My computer is a 15" Macbook Pro with Retina display, and I'm on OS X version 10.8.2. I have had this my computer for several months.
In the past few days, the computer has been completely ...
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What is gs-loc.apple.com?
I have little snitch installed and every time I resume my macbook pro gs-loc.apple.com on port 443 wants to connect. I'm thinking it's to find your location so that iCloud can display it. the exec is ...
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Why do I have repeated “Are you sure you want to open it?” messages when launching applications?
My Security settings are set to "Mac App Store and identified developers". I'm still getting this problem though I've allowed the app to run more than once as an Administrator. Specific apps that are ...
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How do you get system diagnostic files from OS X?
I am trying to debug a crashed (or hanging) app. How do I get the diagnostic files from the crash?
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Alter inertia scrolling behaviour in Mountain Lion
I like how with inertia scrolling you can swipe harder to scroll further down the page, but what I don't like is how the scrolling speeds up quite a bit as you scroll. This was not the behavior in ...
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Will installing Mountain Lion require a complete refresh of my Time Machine backup?
I currently have my Time Machine backup on my network and access it wirelessly. This means a complete backup of half a terabyte of data can take a significant amount of time. So, I'm concerned that ...
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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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How to reinstall Java 6, for development for Android, on Mountain Lion?
Requirement
Java 6 for Android development on Mountain Lion.
Question
Is it possible? What can I do?
I've looked everywhere for a way to do this and am unable to find any solution.
Background
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Can Mountain Lion take a sleeping Mac and write the RAM to disk after a timeout?
Is it possible to configure OSX Mountain Lion to go from suspand-toRAM to suspend-to-disk after certain amount of minutes?
The default sleep mode seems to be suspend-to-RAM until the battery is ...
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How do I access the files in a deleted user account?
/Users/Abby is the home folder of a user account that has been deleted. Check out the screenshot:
While logged in as work (which is no longer an account I use for work, but I can't be bothered to ...
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What is the recommended way to flag a contact as being deceased in the Contacts app on Lion or Mountain Lion?
Death is a sad fact of life and over the years some of my old contacts have died. I still wish to keep a record of their details, birthday, day they died, notes, spouse, kids etc in my Contacts and ...
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How to switch language of OS X dictionary?
In Mountain Lion the OS X internal dictionary that you can fire up by right clicking a word, or by using the dashboard widget, seems to have gained at least one new language: German. Since German is ...
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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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Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?
Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?
The text is too small, I would like to see big characters when I create a new note instead.
UPDATE:
<dict>
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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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Mac AppStore badge does not reset after installing update
I am experiencing a strange problem: after I installed a bunch of updates, the Mac AppStore badge was not reset. When I go to "Updates", I get the message "no updates available".
I tried to
delete ...
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Hide a running app from Dock?
Is there a way I can hide a running app's dock icon on OSX Mountain Lion ?
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Need help with MacBook Pro rebooting after upgrade to Mountain Lion
My mid-2010 MacBook Pro keeps rebooting after upgrade to Mountain Lion.
The crashes are happening in different applications but seems to happen most often when scrolling inside of an email or Safari, ...
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Where are notes stored in Mountain Lion
I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get ...
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Where is “jvisualvm” in Mountain Lion
Just upgraded to Mountain Lion (of course). I use Java on a daily basis so I asked Mac OS X to install it right away. It installed "Java 6". I am more than OK with it.
The only thing I don't have is ...
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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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OpenGL versions on Lion, Mountain Lion
It looks like Lion supported OpenGL 3.2 (see https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/GLInfo_1070_Core.html)
Does anyone know what version of OpenGL Mountain Lion will support?
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Can I update to OS X 10.8 from OS X 10.7 without doing all softwares updates?
Do I have to perform all system updates to Lion before I update to Mountain Lion?
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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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Link Contacts between Facebook and iCloud
I have iOS6 and OSX 10.8. Both bring Facebook integration. It was smart enough for some of my contacts to merge (or "link") them. However for some on my iPhone I manually edited the contact card and ...
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How do you switch dictionaries used for the “Tap with three fingers” lookup?
Using Mountain Lion, I want to add or change the dictionary used when I tap with three fingers to define a word. The goal is to use a spanish-english dictionary in place of the english dictionary.
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Is there a way to enable Java only for specific applications?
I know that it is possible to completely disable Java in OS X, and to disable its use from within a given browser. I use just one or two applications that require Java, and would like to enable it for ...
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How to hide or clear unread badges on Gmail folders in Mail.app?
This isn't a new problem with OS X Mail, it persists into Mountain Lion.
The badges are quite obnoxious; I can go into that [Gmail] folder and right-click and Mark As Read. But they start piling ...
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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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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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Other than enabling Trim, is there anything else I should do with an SSD? [closed]
I've installed a Samsung 830 series 256gb SSD into my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro, and running 10.8 DP4, and 10.7.4 via a firewire 800 drive.
I've used Trim enabler on both installs as it doesn't ...
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Notification when iSight turns on
Is it possible to get a desktop notification when my iSight turns on? It would be optimal if this could go through Growl, but I've tried HardwareGrowler and it doesn't give me a notification.
I know ...
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Change Mac OS X Finder sidebar icons
I have seen a lot of related questions/answers but it seems that there still isn't a working solution for it. So I have sum up all related info that I found and maybe we can find a solution to it.
So ...
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Why does Java SE 6 Web Start (javaws) not find the JRE with Apple's Java for OS X 2012-006 on Mountain Lion?
In brief
The JRE is installed but javaws can not find the JRE.
What can I do on the command line to re-enable the web plugin for Apple's Java 6 in Chrome or Safari?
I want to avoid Java 7. (We're ...
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Java 7 JRE Not Detected on Clean Install of Mountain Lion
I know there similar questions on how to enable the Java 7 JRE on Mountain Lion when Apple's Java 6 JRE is installed as well.
But I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion, installed Java 7 JRE - ...
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Wifi doesn't stay connected with 2010 MacBook Pro after upgrade to Mountain Lion
After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion the Wi-Fi on my 2010 MBP basically stopped working. It would stay connected for a few minutes at a time and then drop the connection, connect, drop, ...
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How to reinstall Mac OS X built in Perl on Mountain Lion?
I updated to Mountain Lion 4 days ago and then realised that my perl scripts did not work any longer. So I installed ActivePerl 5.14 (newest version) because I thought that perl has been deleted. ...
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Does Mountain Lion remove headers in /usr/include?
Is it just me or common to everybody that all the header files that was in the /usr/include is no longer there?
Which is causing boost bootstrap to fail with this error:
### Using 'darwin' toolset.
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Upgrade to mountain lion from dual-boot ubuntu configuration
I have a Lion installation dual-booted with Ubuntu using refit. Upon trying to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I reboot into the mountain lion installer, and get a message about OS X not being able to be ...
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Install Older Versions of Java on OSX 10.8.1
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, running 10.8.1 and Java 1.6.0_35
I need to install some older versions of Java in order to track some bugs that my customers are seeing on older versions of Java.
I ...
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Adding SMB share to sidebar in OSX Mountain Lion
Is there a way to add an SMB share to the sidebar in Finder, such that when I click on the alias, it mounts the share and opens it up like a regular folder? You can do this in Linux and Windows, and ...
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Why does OS X now think I have two partitions on my external USB drive (plus random connection issue)?
I have an external USB drive that I have plugged into a USB hub, which gets unplugged from my computer about once a day. Most of the time I remember to unmount the drive before disconnecting so that ...
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Can you disable a code signature check?
I wrote a patch/utility that disables OS X's default functionality of starting iTunes when the play button is pressed. This utility basically modifies the Remote Control Daemon (rcd) and comments out ...
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How to change Security Policy for a non-app program (ssh)?
GateKeeper seems to have started blocking aspects of ssh... Can I edit the System Policy database (/var/db/SystemPolicy) to allow ssh to run properly?
This started happening (a few days) after I ...
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How to prevent calendar alerts from becoming Drafts (???) in Mail.app?
I don't know the rhyme or reason to it yet, but random calendar event notifications in Lion turn into drafts in my Mail.app drafts folder. I usually find these when I wake the machine up after it's ...
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Open as text option for every file, regardless of what OS X thinks of it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to permanently put TextEdit in the Open with… menu list?
Being a programmer, I often work with text files. As you probably know, file extensions are more or ...
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How to set default homepage in safari 6?
Since downloading mountain lion and safari 6 I have lost the ability to set my home page. in safari preferences there is the ability to tell it what you want for a home page but it does not take. ...
