Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) was the seventh major release of the OS X series.
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Is there a way for Snow Leopard to remember previously unidentified USB keyboards?
I have an arbitrary Dell USB keyboard that I use with my MBP running Snow Leopard. Everytime I plug the keyboard in, or reboot my computer, Keyboard Setup Assistant pops up saying the keyboard needs ...
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iChat 7.0, how can I see previous conversation
In iChat version on Snow leopard I could view all the previous chat messages of a user. But since the current version (iChat 7.0.1 Mountain Lion) I cannot see that chat History. All my previous ...
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I just upgraded to Mountain Lion. Now I can't share files with the Snow Leopard on my network
Before the upgrade, I could pull files from the other laptop on to mine with apple file sharing. Now I can't see any machines in the network view. How can I pull files from the Snow Leopard laptop ...
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typing a backtick on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I have had a hunt around the net for this, but cannot find an answer - how do I type a backtick on Mac OSX Snow Leopard? I have a Macbook from late-2010.
The backtick character is one I use on a ...
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iMac OS X 10.6.8, didn't come with any disks…how do I create an install disk [closed]
I want to do a dual boot with Windows 7 (the eventual goal being Windows 8 but to upgrade I think I need to have a version of Windows on my Mac already). I meet all of the system requirements and I ...
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Is it easy to boot a from external drive with Snow Leopard on it?
I have a macbook pro and planning to (finally) upgrade to Lion and currently have snow leopard. I am also planning to swap the hdd to something bigger. I wish to still be have the option of booting it ...
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Troubleshooting Slugglish Post-desktop Startup
I have a mid-2010 MBP, with 8gb RAM and an aftermarket 7200RPM hard drive, running Snow Leopard 10.6. I have been using this SL install for about 10 months, and the desktop is barely usable for 3-5 ...
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MacBook Pro Mid 2009 has a recovery partition?
Does my computer (Snow Leopard, MacBook Pro mid 2009), have a recovery hidden partition? How can I access that?
I have the DVDs that came with my laptop, but when I start my laptop, and press and ...
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How do I find the IP addresses assigned to devices connected via Internet Sharing on Snow Leopard? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Show Active Connections to “Internet Sharing”
Using the following scenario as an example:
I have a Macbook Pro connected to my LAN via its Airport.
I enabled Internet ...
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MacBook Pro hard disk failure. How to recover and clean install?
I have a MacBook pro, 2009, 13 inch, Original Snow leopard OS.
Recently, I was experiencing that my MacBook some times froze or restarted automatically! I didn't care, and one day it did not start!
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Upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion in non personal & large scaled development environment
My company is still running Snow Leopard and we're thinking of upgrading to Mountain Lion soon. We are developing iOs and MacOsX applications and have a small break between the old projects and the ...
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Found bizarre signed exceptions under com.apple.alf.plist
In the never-ending quest to track down odd errors on my late 2008 MBP, running 10.6.8, I have recently noticed that I have several .plist files are created anew several times a day. The list varies, ...
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Mac Mail downloads my entire gmail account can i just get the last 30 days?
Mac Mail every few days i find that it's downloading my entire account all over again. That's like 8 years work of email - which is really beginning to annoy me.
Can I configure mail to only get ...
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Can I “restrain” safari from using large % of CPU?
Some websites make safari go crazy, and use 70% CPU! This causes everything else on this desktop to grind to a halt.
Is there a way to restrict safari to never go beyond a certain amount of CPU?
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Xserve save not syncronized
OK here is the setup 5 mac,router, network, xserver, all 10.6.8
If i open a PSD document, the background is red.... I change it to green, then i save... when i reopen this psd doc, the background is ...
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Install 2 different OS X versions on the same machine/hdd
OK, here's my situation :
I am a developer needing to debug under different OS X versions
I currently own 2 macs : a MacBook Pro and an iMac
the iMac has Snow Leopard (10.6) on it - it came ...
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Seemingly Irreversible Custom Keyboard Shortcut
I have a late 2010 Apple MacBook (If that matters) and when I had OS X Snow Leopard installed, I created a keyboard shortcut that I seemingly can no longer reverse. After upgrading to OS X Lion and ...
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What steps can troubleshoot OS X when some sites do not resolve on Snow Leopard?
I cannot access www.lubuntu.net from my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.6.8. I have an idea as to what the problem is (see my opinion), but I did all the usual things anyway (see basic troubleshooting), ...
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Install Snow Lepard from USB
I have a clean and formatted SSD where I want to install Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive containing a OS X image from a (not the one it came with) original install-DVD. But for some reason it wont ...
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Add Windows Printer to Mac OS X 10.6.8
I have a Windows 7 computer that I am trying to print to from a Mac. I have added my printer using a smb:// protocol and it works and says Idle, however when I try to print I get the following:
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Prevent dock from auto-showing on mouse over
I currently have dock to auto-hide and would like it to stay hidden until I explicitly show it using a keyboard shortcut such as the "Move focus to dock" or "Turn Dock Hiding On/Off". I basically ...
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Can't see keychain passwords on another mac
I am syncing one of my keychains over Google Drive. Unfortunately things which I add on Snow Leopard I am unable to see on Mountain Lion.
Is it some common issue, which could be easily fixed?
Or can ...
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icon for iTunes 10.7/music missing from System Preferences in Snow Leopard
My music/iTunes icon:
is present in the Dock
has gone from some panes of System Preferences.
This first screenshot is from the Spotlight pane, the icon is expected to the left of Music:
The ...
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How To Upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion (not Mountain Lion)
I couldn't find Mac OS X Lion in the App Store. Can I go from Snow Leopard to Lion without migrating to Mountain Lion?
Many programs are now dropping support for Snow Leopard (newer XCode, newer ...
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Sold my MacBook Pro Lion, how to reset OS installation?
I just sold my MacBook Pro. It originally came with OS X 10.6.6 (snow leopard). I since upgraded it, through the App Store, to OS X 10.7.5 (lion).
I want to wipe everything clean on the hard drive so ...
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Get OpenCL on SnowLeopard - NVIDIA GeForce 320M
I'd like to do some GPGPU programming using OpenCL on my Mac.
I've got a Mac OS X (version 10.6.8) - Snow Leopard. My graphic card is an NVIDIA geForce 320M. Looking on the web I found out that this ...
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Can I get Time Machine to resume making backups to an external drive?
I have an external drive that I use to backup my iMac and Macbook to. There is a single folder on that drive called backups.backupdb. Inside that folder is a folder for my iMac and a folder for my ...
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Is it possible to dual boot Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Fedora 17?
Has anyone attempted this before? Are there any installation guides to follow?
I attempted to install before but I wasn't able to boot into the fedora partition when i was done.
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OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7, Search, Spotlight
I'm handling a migration from an on old Mac server to a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running a 12 TB (10 usable) RAID 5 server. It's using an SMB share and now the OS X 10.5/10.6 users can search - ...
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No entry sign on MacBook pro when installing snow leopard from 'new' disc onto new HD
My HD died on my MacBook pro so I decided to change the HD myself. I didn't have the original snow leopard disc so got a copy from a friend. When I try to boot from disc (holding c) is runs the DVD ...
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What are the interface differences between Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7) that can be unintuitive and frustrating to the user? [closed]
As a start, I am already aware of two:
no option to stay awake with lid closed (without external monitor)
hidden files not shown in file browser, with no obvious way to toggle the behavior
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Why does a Time Machine backup not complete when destination is a Shared Volume?
I have six Macs in my house, all running the latest, greatest version of Snow Leopard. I also have an eMac (PPC) running Leopard 10.5.8. I use the eMac as a file and print server. The eMac has two ...
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Recover in-memory Pages data from failed hibernation wakeup
My girlfriend's Macbook crashed while attempting to restore from a hibernated file. The progress bar stopped at ~10%, after which we restarted the computer for a normal startup.
This hibernated ...
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Shortcut to open the Goto window in file open/save dialogues WITH the equivalent to path added
When you have a file open/save prompt box open, you can hit the / key to open a GoTo dialouge to navigate via the file path.
Is there a shortcut that does this action but automatically adds the ./
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Mail app is not working anymore after security update in Snow Leopard [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I can't use my version of Mail with my version of Mac OS X
Mail.app stopped working on my Snow Leopard Mac after installing Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard)
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Macbook Pro intermittently unresponsive/dark screen after waking from sleep
I'm having an intermittent problem in which my Macbook Pro has been working fine for several days and many sleep/wake cycles but then it has a problem waking up from sleep. The disk spins up and the ...
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Error stating that I'm running an older version of Mail with a newer version of Mac OS X
Mail.app stopped working on my Snow Leopard Mac after installing Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard) (Post Date: September 19, 2012). Long ago, I moved Mail.app to a directory different from ...
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What version of GDB version is included in your Xcode?
Not sure if this is suitable for Stack Overflow or here.
I'm having some problems with GDB in Xcode and I wonder if it isn't a problem with what version I'm on. I have Snow Leopard and Xcode 3.2.6. ...
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Install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Mac w/o MacPorts?
For some reason I can't use MacPorts. So the question is if it's possible to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Snow Leopard w/o using MacPorts?
Please don't offer MAMP or other bundles.
Thanks in ...
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What is the /data/db folder in OS X?
I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and cleaning up my almost full hard-drive using the free tool Disk Inventory X. I stumbled upon the /data/db folder which weighs more than 600Mb. Before deleting some of its ...
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What does setting LSUIPresentationMode to 1 or 2 do?
While reading "Is it possible to hide the dock on a per-application basis?", I noted that according to the documentationLSUIPresentationMode, setting LSUIPresentationMode to value 1 or 2 (in an ...
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FTP Client with Email notifications?
I'm looking for a FTP client that supports sending notification when transfers have completed. Does anyone know of one?
I'd like to trigger an email when files have finished uploading to a server.
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Snow Leopard Airport Join preferred device-based network
Is it possible to auto-join device-based networks on Snow Leopard (i.e. preferred)?
For example, by device-based network, I mean either a printer or an ad-hoc network.
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Internet sharing without DHCP
I'm trying to setup my iMac running 10.6 to be a wireless bridge. I have it working, but I need to disable DHCP and let my network's DHCP server provide an IP for the connected device(s). I can't seem ...
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Sharing users between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard — will this break user preferences?
I have ML and SL installed as dual boot OSes and want to share a user's home directory (on an external drive). I wonder, however, if I rather should use different users for each OS as ML might write ...
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Spotlight no longer able to index or search Mail.app
For a while now Spotlight has been unable to index Mail.app messages on my 10.6 system. In system.log I always see sections like:
Jun 30 13:34:43 macbook mdworker[8819]: Error loading ...
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check mail for certain word before sending
I have mail templates with placeholders for names (ex. Dear XXXXXX).
Is it possible to make apple mail check the content of my mail when sending and to stop an email from getting send out when it ...
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Upgrading a Mac from Leopard to Lion
I've two Macs: one MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo with 10.5.8 (Leopard) and the other MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo with 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).
How can I upgrade the Leopard Mac to Mountain Lion while leaving the ...
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Are there steps for troubleshooting Time Machine on Snow Leopard that I have missed?
I have had ongoing problems with TM since installing a new HDD in late May. The problems have been varied, and for a while all backups were taking about 2 hours. Now things have "stabilized" and ...
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My Mac does not recognize my Galaxy S2 trough USB
Snow Leopard: My Mac doesn't recognize my Samsung Galaxy S2 over USB, and it's starting to drive me nuts.
I've tried the following:
Connect Storage to PC
Settings > Wireless and Networks > ...
