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1answer
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10.8 Notification Center occasionally freezes system
My Mac Pro 5,1 sometimes freezes when I open the Notification Center, and it usually recovers by itself about 10 minutes later. I'd like to know why and how to fix it.
When this happens, the ...
1
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0answers
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Printers compatible with case sensitive hardened Mountain Lion
For security improvment, I'm running all my MacOS X on case sensitive
and journaled file systems (then any ill written program which one day open a file named conf, and the day after try to open it ...
2
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3answers
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On Mountain Lion, Trash doesn't Empty
there is a file stuck in the trash
This is what it shows when i do 'Get Info'
When i 'Empty' the trash
The sound plays, the trash window disappears, but the Trash icon doesn't appear empty ...
0
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1answer
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Problems with apache after update of php and mysql using homebrew
I am hoping someone here can assist me.
I upgraded php and related files using brew upgrade on my mac which is running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Everything was working fine before and I just wanted to update.
...
0
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1answer
57 views
How can i reset my Terminal?
just some time ago i installed the OS X Server app on my mac and since this day it always appears server as the chosen directory in my terminal.
But because i dont really like the Server application ...
0
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1answer
16 views
Can I force finder to open without loading previous files?
Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and ...
-1
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1answer
24 views
Keeping a VMWare View session alive?
On OS X 10.8, I have the VMWare View client installed, and frequently use it to log into a remote Windows machine. Unfortunately, the way the infrastructure is set up, it frequently times out very ...
0
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0answers
21 views
Shortcut to create/remove desktop in Mac OSX 10.8
To switch desktops, one can use < CTRL >-i or < CTRL >-[< left >< right >]. Are there shortcuts to create and remove desktops? If not, how can I make them?
0
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0answers
15 views
Why would opening the DiagnosticReports folder be preferred to using Console.app?
I already searched Ask Different for "Console.app" and "crash logs".
I was recently searching for a way to access OS X crash logs because I couldn't remember the application that pulled them up. All ...
1
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0answers
26 views
Terminal configuration lost after booting up
On OS X 10.8.3, my Terminal.app is configured with my .bashrc file. In my .bash_profile I have:
source .bashrc
It works great, except when I let some Terminal windows opened and shut down the Mac. ...
0
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0answers
16 views
Is it possible to do the accessibility zoom (with a modifier key) in natural scrolling (ie reverse the zoom)?
Since I actually use my retina in native 2880x1800 resolution, I often use the accessibility zoom function to make everything bigger and show someone else parts of my screen.
I also have gotten used ...
0
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1answer
84 views
OS X suddenly becomes very slow
I am using a mid-2012 MBP 13in with no retina display, running OS X 10.8.3. Everything was fine until I was watching a video clip on Facebook. Everything just froze, except the mouse pointer can still ...
0
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0answers
9 views
Message.app not saving font settings
I'm having a bit of a problem here. I set the sender's font to Lucida Grande while testing things and now it won't let me change it back to Helvetica. Every time I restart my Mac relaunch Messages, it ...
0
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0answers
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How do I remove black rectangles on the desktop screen in os x 10.8?
Shown to the left of the screen, on the middle.
Moving a window over it does not remove it, however restarting does. But then they reappear after a while.
0
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0answers
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apple.local Dock[255]: ECFileOperationRevealURL failed with -43
Cmd+click on any file can reveal them in Finder but now takes no effect.
I reviewed the console log and found following error:
May 2 00:14:12 apple.local Dock[255]: ...
2
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1answer
34 views
Is there an app that will notify me (in notifications center) if a process is using up a high percentage of CPU for a specified amount of time?
The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop working, when I looked down to find that 25% of my battery was left.
I looked at my Activity Monitor and saw that the time machine process was going at ...
0
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0answers
25 views
Internal Mic stopped recording voice, but hears case/keyboard touching
Since this morning I am unable to record my voice on my Macbook Air 2012 internal microphone but the microphone can hear me touching the keyboard, the Macbook case…
I tried to tweak system ...
0
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0answers
19 views
Can this be a symptome of memory problems?
In the past days, my Mac started to apparently freeze without any reason. I normally use Google Chrome, and all in a sudden it gets unresponsive. When I restart the Mac, it takes longer before the ...
0
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0answers
48 views
Why does my Mac keep opening the application that were open when it shut down?
I have set my Mac to switch off on late evening, and switch on on early morning. I didn't use any third-party utilities to do this.
When it starts up, the Mac loads all the applications that were ...
7
votes
11answers
676 views
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.
...
0
votes
1answer
30 views
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 ...
0
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2answers
52 views
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 ...
1
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0answers
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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 ...
1
vote
3answers
82 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
63 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
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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
...
1
vote
0answers
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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 ...
0
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2answers
24 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
103 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
51 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
15 views
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 ...
2
votes
3answers
148 views
Missing Safari settings option “Safari opens with”
I am running OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and Safari 6.0.4
In Safari, the setting General -> "Safari opens with" is missing.
I remember using this setting to turn off session restore a few weeks back. ...
0
votes
1answer
63 views
Favorites in Finder Sidebar
Having installed Mountain Lion 10.8.3 I can not get the sidebar in Finder to display Favorites.
Finder > Preferences > Sidebar shows a number of boxes against Favorite folders, but these can not be ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
Date/time in terminal correct but one hour off in apps
I live in Chile and the government has decided to go to winter time later than usual a few months ago. Apple has not provided an update for OS X to reflect this change.
I now fixed the timezones ...
-1
votes
2answers
66 views
As a developer, do I need Mountain Lion? [closed]
I'm a college student and aspiring Apple developer. As such, I am trying to find an intel Mac Mini for as cheep as possible. I've noticed that there is quite a price gap between the models that can ...
-2
votes
1answer
99 views
Is it possible to install Mountain Lion on a Mac mini that is older than 2009?
Is it possible to install Mountain Lion on a Mac mini that is older than 2009, despite the system requirements?
0
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0answers
66 views
Final Cut Pro X: Custom Typewriter effect mimic Terminal
Is there a title, either downloadable or default, that can mimic typing in Terminal? I know of the typewriter effect, but there are two things wrong with that particular title:
It does not go slow ...
1
vote
1answer
218 views
Mac virtual memory: how to make OS X create swap (page) files as freely with a normal boot as it does with a safe boot (swapfile1 etc)
Background
When my MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory boots in safe mode I see that the operating system causes dynamic_pager(8) to create swap files in a way that's relatively unrestrained. In the file ...
0
votes
0answers
57 views
In Mountain Lion why do remote shells via ssh do NOT inherit the environment of the launchd parent process?
When logging in to my Mountain Lion Mac remotely via ssh I do not get the same PATH variable as when I open a shell locally: The local shell inherits its environment as expected from launchd and ...
2
votes
1answer
117 views
Is there a way to disable data detectors from Mail?
Is there a way to disable the data detector "feature" from Mail?
LE: OSX 10.8.3 / Mail 6.3 (1503)
0
votes
0answers
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iPhoto “A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported”
Every Time I launch iPhoto I get the following error message twice... 'A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported, would you like to import it now'
So i Click yes and then it ...
3
votes
1answer
181 views
Chrome can't load certain sites but Safari can - how can I diagnose the problem?
When accessing the internet from my home connection, Google Chrome has trouble accessing certain sites that use https. These include Google search, Facebook and discussions.apple.com, but for some ...
0
votes
1answer
42 views
Install Mountain Lion to another drive without rebooting
I'm wondering if its possible to install Mountain Lion to an external drive (connected via esata) without rebooting from the host system?
I came across this hint suggesting that it was possible to do ...
1
vote
1answer
368 views
“# is not registered with iMessage” error
Let me clearly establish that I am not trying to send a sms to a non-iPhone user. On my OS x Mountain Lion macbook pro I was sending iMessages from the Messages application just fine until all of a ...
0
votes
1answer
69 views
“A Bluetooth audio error occurred”
I'm getting this popping up on my Mac multiple times a day:
I have an Apple keyboard attached via Bluetooth, and nothing else. It doesn't say anything else is connected either, just this alert pops ...
1
vote
2answers
41 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
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NTFS-Bootcamp-partition thinks it is a FAT partition
I'm running 10.8.3 Snow Leopard and installed Windows 7 x64 using Bootcamp.
Both system are running fine.
I couldn't use the bootcamp-partition inside in Parallels and then I read about Tuxera NTFS ...
0
votes
0answers
66 views
Wake on demand: can't access through internet
I'm using Wake on Demand (not WOL) to access my mac remotely. I can wake it from the sleep state only if I am on the same network using SSH, SFTP or HTTP. I have managed to connect from internet using ...
2
votes
1answer
115 views
How can I gift an app in the app store? [duplicate]
I want to gift an OS X app, specifically OS X Mountain Lion to my mother in-law. How do I achieve this from the OS X App Store? I can't find any gifting option for both apps I own and apps I do not ...
9
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3answers
690 views
How safe is it for me to install Java on OS X 10.8
I know very little about how Java works and its interactions with OS X, so I'm partly looking for an expert and simple description on how Java works on the Mac, and why so much press includes "fear, ...
