OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
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WiFi: No Hardware Installed and using wifi adapter
I am getting an error 'WiFi: No Hardware Installed' and am trying to use a micro usb wifi piece (http://www.amazon.com/computers-accessories/dp/B005CLMJLU). I know this hardware works fine as I've ...
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Need help downgrading from Mountain Lion to Snow Leopard!
I have a Macbook Pro mid-2010 which 1 year ago i upgraded from my default snow leopard to mountain lion. However, now i want to downgrade to snow leopard again. I made a usb thumb drive formatted in ...
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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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What is causing the high system CPU load under Mountain Lion?
I recently began to see some odd behavior on my MacBook Pro on Mountain Lion. I noticed the fans coming up and applications behaving sluggish. I checked the
ActivityMonitor (see below) and the ...
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6answers
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How to get the three finger 'scroll to top' back in mountain lion?
Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
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Suddenly mac mini failed to boot and fail to format partition
I have mac mini mid 2011, bought 14 months back. Yesterday I started my system normally but it was running slow the usual so I restarted it, after restarting system was taking too long to boot but ...
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Mountain Lion: how to change webcam resolution
I've just recently got my first Macbook Pro. I'd like to change the resolution of the inbuilt webcam, because my daily GoToMeeting chews through 1-2Gb of traffic and there's no flatrate available from ...
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Cant have access my network on my Iphone 4s [closed]
Hello please can you help me . i don't know but when i click on my Network it doesn't click . what could be the problem.
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Continue managing external drive backups on a different computer
I have an external drive with data on it that is shared on the local network. There's another external drive that's daisy chained where backups are stored.
The computer that was originally managing ...
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1answer
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Time Machine cannot write to network drive under Mountain Lion
I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and have only one problem. Time Machine, which worked under Lion on a WD Sharespace network drive, not gives a message that it cannot find the drive. Despite that, ...
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Enforcing firewall (native or 3rd-party)
We're currently doing PCI compliance, and one of the requirements is that mobile devices that have access to systems involved in processing card data have personal firewall software installed which ...
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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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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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3answers
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How do I disable hiding of the mouse pointer while typing text?
I think I'm finally annoyed enough with my mouse pointer disappearing as I start typing to want to do something about it.
I want to move the mouse. I want to click. I want to start typing, but I want ...
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Mac OS X 10.8 crashes after Thunderbolt display disconnect and sleep
At work I run my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (with Mac OS X 10.8.3 Snow Leopard) lid-closed with two Thunderbolt displays.
If I disconnect the power and displays, walk to a conference room, and re-open ...
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My MacBook Pro Restarts Itself
I've turned on my MBP this morning and twice it's just shut itself down and restarted. It's never done this before.
I have included the error log below but I have no idea what it means:
Anonymous ...
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2answers
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Samba share on Mountain Lion freezes
I'm using a Mac Mini (Mid 2010) with Mountain Lion on (OS X 10.8 12A269 – not OS X Server) as a file server at my home network. The Mac is equipped with an external 2TB USB disk (Western Digital).
...
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1answer
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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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How to fix Safari print preview crash after upgrade to Mountain Lion?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, opening the print dialog in Safari.
Printing was fine before the upgrade. Also printing still works in my VMs under Parallels.
How to fix Safari print preview crash ...
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6answers
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Changing desktop background in OS X 10.8 only changes it for the current desktop space
I'm experiencing a bug in Mountain Lion. I have 2 desktop spaces open. When I change the desktop background picture, it only changes for one of the spaces and not the other. Rebooting solved the ...
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1answer
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How to disable Apple Push Notification Service (apsd) on OS X 10.8?
I am using an iMac at work, and the IT security guys are raising issue with the Apple Push Notification Service (apsd) trying to bypass the proxy continually.
I would like to know how I can disable ...
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1answer
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Boot Camp Assistant crashes when partitioning drive (exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS)
I run Mountain Lion, a fresh install, brand new Macbook Pro. HD: Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB SSD.
When trying to go through Boot Camp Assistant / Setup it works fine until it wants to repartition my ...
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3answers
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How to find cause of repeated reboots?
I have been having issues with my mid-2009 Mac Pro ever since I installed Mountain Lion. First it was intermittent kernel panics; I did some research and found that this is an ML bug that's triggered ...
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Cannot Connect to Site with Wi-Fi But Can on 3G
At some point earlier today, I lost the ability to connect to a site via my wireless network, powered by an Airport Express.
When I try to load the page in Chrome 23 and Safari 6.0.2 on a MacBook Air ...
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Guest account on Lion vs Mountain Lion
When you enabled Find My Mac on Lion or ML, it creates a guest account for you.
In Lion clicking on the guest account would restart the computer into a Safari only mode.
In Mountain Lion the guest ...
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Is it normal Mountain Lion behaviour to save changes in Preview without asking?
I just opened an image in Preview, selected a rectangle, hit delete and then quit Preview. Now I have a grey rectangle missing from the middle of my image but at no point did I get a chance to say ...
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Installing & running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an external hard drive onto my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro?
I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my late 2010 Macbook Pro. I am perfectly fine with running Snow Leopard at present, but I feel I may be missing out on features or indeed updates ...
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MBP with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 loses connection to system SSD at random times and freezes
So, out of nowhere my 2009 MacBook (2,66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GByte aftermarket ram) started freezing after 200+ days of uptime (sleep time included of course). I had installed a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 ...
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How to prevent sending of hostname via DHCP?
I am trying to prevent OS X from sending its hostname to the DHCP server. For example, in OpenSuse systems there is DHCLIENT_HOSTNAME_OPTION="AUTO".
I cannot find a similar option in OS X for this, ...
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External microphone no longer works after installing soundflower
I have the 2012 MBP Retina 15". I am using my iPhone headphone with external mic. The mic still works with my phone without issue. The problem started after I installed Soundflower to another ...
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Difference between “Plain Text” and “Plain Text Document” in Mountain Lion?
I'm new to Apple and Mountain Lion so please bear with me if this is a obvious question.
I have to files with the txt extension which has been created by a small program I've written.
The method for ...
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How to check if my HD is case sensitive or not?
How can I get information if my HD format is case sensitive or case insensitive?
I want to make sure my Mac running Mountain Lion has a case sensitive file system.
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Kernel panic recurring
I keep getting the following kernel panic. Can anyone help me, please? As a test I have just change HDD to SSD and update memory from 2 GB to 8 GB. All said to be compatible with mac. Upgraded os x to ...
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Mac Pro can't safe boot
I've been trying to solve the issue seen here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~jcjb/docs/osx_error_fix/
The recommended solution is to do a safe boot which clears various caches etc, however I'm unable ...
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how to make an “archive” button for Mail.app in mac os x mountain lion to work with gmail accounts?
has anyone tried to build an "archive" button for apple mail to move mails from the Inbox to All Mail in Mail.app (Mountain lion)?
there is this page: http://stl.techinno.nl/archive/
but it wont ...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion cannot share internet connection because of 802.1X protection
My notebook is connected on Ethernet using 802.1X. When I try to share the internet via Wifi I get the error message Your Internet connection cannot be shared because its protected by 802.1X
I dont ...
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How do I improve my performance of my MBP (2009) after upgrading to 10.8.2
I'm relatively a novice when it comes to computers. I recently upgraded my MBP to the new OS X 10.8.2 and noticed that it's running much slower now. I purchased this laptop in the summer of 2009. ...
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How to automatically make Mac shutdown after Time Machine Backup
How can I make my Macbook automatically shutdown after a Time Machine backup?
I have a 40GB worth backup to do but I keep having to cancel it to go to bed. Would be great if I could leave it on to do ...
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How to Screen Sharing / VNC to an iMac without waking the display?
I have an iMac mid 2011 at home. When I was not home, I may need to access my mac with Screen Sharing. However the iMac display will turn itself on when I connect via Screen Sharing. The problem is I ...
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Time Machine stuck on “Preparing Backup”
I have a MacBook Pro from 2009. It came with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but I upgraded to 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
A few days ago, I tried to backup my files on an external hard drive, like I have ...
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How do I read this Activity Monitor report?
I was trying to figure out why my Mountain Lion server was running slow, and I when I opened Activity Monitor this is what I saw:
Question 1: how am I getting >400% of CPU on the summed CPU column, ...
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Finder folder icons look like document and image files
I've got an annoying issue for a couple of weeks now. My folder icons got corrupted from time to time:
Left side is the view I get when I'm switching between views, but when I open finder or ...
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using kinect to move cursor on macbook pro
I need help. I have a kinect, and I would like to hook it to my laptop so that my right hand controls the mouse cursor. It's actually for a science fair project, and I don't want functionality for ...
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Increase swap size limit past 59GB
I'm running some very memory intensive code on Mountain Lion (16GB Memory + 0.5TB of SSD). I've noticed that once the swap file reaches 59GB, it stops increasing, and my code is basically dead in the ...
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MacBook screen very dark after resuming on OS X 10.8
I have a MacBook late 2008 aluminum model (5,1). Occasionally, after reopening my MacBook's lid, the screen doesn't light up. With effort I can see that the password prompt is actually rendered very ...
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Mail freezes with initial migration after upgrading to Mountain Lion
I recently upgraded Mac os 10.5.6 to the new 10.8.1 (Mountain Lion). So far, everything seems to work fine except Mail.app. When I open the application for the first time, it begins migrating and ...
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Is it possible to backup my iCloud contents?
One of the major features in Mountain Lion is the ability for almost all programs (certainly all the pre-installed ones and any newer MAS based apps) to store the files that they create and/or edit in ...
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Dual Boot OSX on Retina MBP 15
I want to install a fresh copy of OSX onto my Retina MBP, next to the one that it came preinstalled with.
I have created a 2nd partition using Disk Utility ready for the install, but have now found ...
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AppleScript works fine in 10.8 but not in 10.7
I have a simple AppleScript that works perfectly on two ML machines (10.8.3), but when I try to run it on a 10.7.5 machine it doesn't work. To make matters more confusing, in 10.7.5 it runs in the ...
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Unable to enable PHP in OSX 10.8 mountain lion
I have enabled php according to PHP's instructions and uncommented,
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/httpd/libphp5.so
in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf. However the line,
#AddModule mod_php5.c
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