OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
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Mountain Lion unable to start forbidden sign Harddrive problem
so I have a MacBook Pro 17" with the newest Mountain Lion update and Bootcamp Windows 7. When I start the Mac, Mountain Lion shows me the forbidden sign, while still having this loading sign working ...
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Not seeing my HD in the disk utility
I tried to start up my computer and got a flashing file with a question mark. so I reset it and held down the alt / option key and brought it into internet recovery. After going through the different ...
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/usr/bin/nice and Handbrake
This is really two questions... If a process is run with nice (/usr/bin/nice in the default OS X Mountain Lion installation) will it run processes in equivalent time compared to that process being run ...
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Launchpad indexing tweaks
With Launchpad, does anyone know where the base files and preferences for Launchpad are located?
I was wondering, is it possible to index 2 separate applications folders and combine them into one on ...
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How can I disable automatic scanning for WiFi networks?
The objective is to strengthen the WiFi reception (at the moment without additional hardware).
I live in an area with a 100+ radio signals.
Majority is useless (to low signal) but still scanned and ...
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Change Preview's default “Move to…” directory
Is there a way to set the default Move to... directory in Preview?
When a file is opened in Preview and Move to... is selected, the default directory is the directory that the file currently resides ...
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Can I move System/User folders to separate disks?
Here's the deal: I have a Macbook Pro 6,2 – I think late 2010 model. I have two mismatched drives with the same speeds. A 750GB Momentus XT, that SSD HDD hybrid, and the Seagate Momentus 500GB. Both ...
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How to sync Yahoo Mail with OS X?
Ever since I moved to a MacBook Air from a PC about two weeks ago, I have had a problem in syncing my Yahoo Sent Mail on my MacBook Air with my iPad and iPHone. What gets synced is some old sent mail ...
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Terminal tab keyboard shortcut (cmd+[0-9])
Is it possible to have keyboard shortcuts to terminal tabs with numbers. I know its possible to cycle through tabs. I am looking for something like in iTerm (cmd + [0-9]) directly taking to that tab.
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Skype crash in Mac OS X 10.8.3
I am facing the problem on the login of skype, I've searched on the Skype site and found this link.
However, I'm not able to figure out what causes this issue.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.3
Here is ...
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Error with OS X Server web service, cannot access website!
Everything was running fine for months and now suddenly when I try to access my site I get this error:
"Index of /
Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8r ...
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Can Mountain Lion OS X run on HP G62 series using VMWare virtualization?
My laptop specifications are:
Intel Core i3 M350 2.27 GHZ
4G RAM DDR2
MS Windows 64 bit is installed
I am trying to install OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.
The setups are:
VMware Workstation 8 is ...
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Mail.app button to explicitly move to Junk without built-in filtering
I'd like to create a button in Mountain Lion's Mail.app to move mail to an IMAP folder called Junk, much like the Archive button moves mail to my IMAP Archive folder. (This folder is automatically ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Mountain Lion
I'm working on a MacBook late 2008 Unibody Aluminium with Mountain Lion on.
I'm trying to mount Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit on a USB stick in Mountain Lion but it seems impossible.
I've read all the ...
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Can I use Power Nap to run my own tasks/actions? [duplicate]
The new Power Nap feature of Mountain Lion seems pretty cool in principle. However, all the descriptions I've seen of it seem to focus on built-in or supplied OS X functionality. Is there any way I ...
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Why is it that I can no longer access some folders in my old time machine backups and how can I get access?
So I recently had IT reformat my Mac OS 10.6 laptop to put a 10.8 image on it. When I first got it back I could still access all folders in my old backups, including the Library folder under my old ...
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Disabling startup items that run on their own
I've found a couple apps that seem to be able to launch themselves on startup, despite that they don't appear in the usual places...
- Login Items (in the Users preference pane)
- ...
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OS X Mountain Lion does not updating
Now i am using OSX 10.8.2 version and in app store it shows an update for OSX from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3.. I tried to update OSX, but it showing an error like An error occurred while downloading the ...
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Have: Single partition firewire HD w/ 10.5.8 (my StartUp Disk), 2 bootable USB drives (1st= 10.6.7, 2nd= 10.8.2). Want: upgrade firewire HD to 10.8.2
Have:
a) single partition 2 TB external firewire HD w/ 10.5.8 (my current StartUp Disk)
b) single partition bootable USB drive with 10.6.7 (full version / not just an "upgrade" version)
c) single ...
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Mountain Lion: How do I see the description of a software update after I've installed it?
When OS updates are available in the app store, there is usually a short description near the update button. Is there a way to see this description after I've installed the update?
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iChat / Active Directory on Mountain Lion Server
We recently upgraded to Mountain Lion on our mac server (10.8.3) and now we seem to be having problems getting iChat to work with Active Directory. We want to have users authenticate to iChat using ...
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Parallels doesn't recognize Windows 8 Bootcamp
I just upgraded my OSX to 10.8.3 and installed Windows 8 via Bootcamp.
For some reasons Parallels (8.0.18354) doesn't recognize this Bootcamp partition. It doesn't show up in the Parallels Wizard used ...
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OSX Removing file under a “.vol”
I have a file I want to remove that's stored inside a ".vol"
501 9984 Corel Painter 1 16 /.vol/16777218/29979256/nTitles Product Licenses IV
I received this by running
sudo opensnoop -n Corel ...
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wifi.log disappeared?
I had some trouble with my wifi connection so I figured, I could switch on logging for airport via
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug ...
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open iTerm drop down console on different screen
I use iTerm since a few days, and when i press my hotkey, it'll drop down nicely, from top of the screen, but ... on the wrong one.
I have a macbook pro with mountain lion, and i connect it to a 24" ...
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Policy on users of Internet sharing on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I have an ADSL Modem directly connected to my Mac 10.8.2 in bridge mode, the PPPoE connection is initiated by Mac and internet is shared to user computers / mobiles using WiFi.
Question:
Can i limit ...
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How to avoid a forced shutdown or crash when the MagSafe is plugged in and got loose?
The new MagSafe for the current Macbook Air isn't very strong for its magnetic force, so it can become loose easily. Today I left the Macbook Air unplugged and it went into sleep, and after I plugged ...
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How to wipe huge .MobileBackups folder?
I found my .MobileBackups folder quite large, it weights 160 Gi. Shouldn't the .MobileBsckups folder be wiped after the TM 'backup session'?
Since I have backup done on my external drive how can I ...
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Time Capsule doesn't show all time machine backups
My Mountain Lion iMac was affected by the Seagate disk recall. I backed up to my trusty Time Capsule (as per norm) before the disk replacement, planning to restore from said Time Capsule. However, ...
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Remove applications from Software Update
I have two applications showing up in Software Update that I didn't install, don't exist anywhere on any volume attached to my computer (and never have), and I would like to remove them. When I click ...
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Smart Mailbox Folder not displaying mail
I've got two smart mailboxes named NEW eric@ and NEW ericgorr@ which contain only new message for corresponding email accounts. I have placed these two smart mailboxes into a smart mailbox folder ...
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Three-finger swipe between pages unresponsive
After upgrading to Mountain Lion I'm always having to two-finger scroll up or down at least once before I can three-finger swipe between pages. It's as if I have to "re-activate" the gesture every ...
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Mac Mini with mountain Lion sets brightness to max
My Mac mini is automatically putting my monitor brightness to 100%. Inside my display settings, there is no option to set brigthness to the monitor, and I set it directly on Monitor.
Any clue how to ...
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BootCamp 5 + Windows 8 troubles (unsupported hardware?)
I preordered Windows 8 a while back, and as soon as I got it I tinkered around with BootCamp 4 (which technically only supports Windows 7) to get it up and running, since the only computer I have is a ...
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Sleep mode problems with external Monitor
after the latest update (10.8.3) i encountered a problem. When my external acer monitor is connected (via hdmi) while trying to put my macbook pro into sleep mode everything works fine, but suddenly ...
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Do I need Hibernate option ON for my Retina Macbook Pro?
I have a Retina MBP and have the following settings using pmset -g
As you can see below, standby is 1 and hibernationmode is 3, meaning that I have DEEP SLEEP turned on, after 7200 seconds.
Do I ...
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What is the normal fan speed for the 15'' Retina Macbook Pro?
What is the typical fan speed for a 15'' Retina Macbook Pro ?
I would like to compare it with mine using istatpro
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Quickly mark all emails as read?
Is there a way to quickly mark all emails as read instead of going over each one of them manually ?
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Updating bootcamp without re-installing
Now that the 10.8.3 update is out for Mountain Lion with Windows 8 support, I would like to update my existing Windows 8 installation (upgrade from 7) to have the new drivers without re-installing ...
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Macbook Air login screen twice
I have a serious problem with my 2011 MacBook Air (current OS version (Mountain Lion))
Always on startup, I have to enter my password twice.
Right after entering it the first time, the screen is gray ...
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How Can I Speed Up The Sending Of Emails from my Mac Mini Server?
I am currently using a Mac Mini Server running OS X Server. The server hosts several Ruby on Rails applications using Phusion Passenger where two of them uses a PostgreSQL database. One of these ...
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AirPlay video from retina MacBook Pro to Apple TV often doesn't send audio
I use my retina MacBook Pro to stream some videos from the web and play them, via AirPlay, on my Apple TV 3. Every now and then, when I switch to AirPlay, the video goes to the Apple TV, but the sound ...
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Why rebooted Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion prevents adding or moving files at Desktop?
Whenever I reboot my Macbook Pro since installing OSX 10.8 the desktop is locked, prohibiting files from being dropped on or moved from the desktop. I can right-click, select “Get Info” and uncheck ...
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Finder always jumps to top of window in list view
When I expand or collapse directories in list view in a Finder window (every time i click on the expansion triangle), the window jumps to the top (with nothing selected).
I found this article: ...
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“Shared” section of the sidebar very long to appear in OS X 10.8.2
After being very satisfied with my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, I advised a non-technical-skilled relative to buy one, which she did. The MacBook Pro came with OS X 10.8.2 but there is a problem. ...
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How do I invert the scroll direction on my Magic Mouse? [duplicate]
I'm used to Windows so I'm not used to the natural scroll with the Apple bluetooth mouse. How do I change this to be the standard, scroll down goes down functionality?
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Disabling Command + Arrow scrolling
When I press Command ⌘+↑ or Command ⌘+↓ on OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion), it scrolls all the way to the top or the bottom of a window.
The problem is, in some programs, this ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu One - nowhere to drag to?
I am trying to install Ubuntu One on Mountain Lion. I follow the instructions here but when I open the DMG file, I can see nowhere obvious to drag it to as below:
I can run it fine by double ...
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How to 'startx' from Single User Mode?
I usually run dwm inside Xquartz on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. But is there a way to boot into Safe Mode (or a console), then startx or xinit, skipping Aqua? I'd like to boot directly into X11.
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Mac is not remembering specific network
I keep the option to auto-join preferred networks on wake.
However, after I reconfigured my router at home, my home network simply ignores that option.
I have already tried fixing HD permissions on ...
