Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) was the seventh major release of the OS X series.
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How do I import only some of my data from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?
I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion on a new drive, and I would like to import some, but not all, of my files from my Snow Leopard system installed on another drive.
For example, all my ...
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Is there a free, actively developed IRC client for Snow Leopard?
So far I've been able to find only outdated clients, which are either abandoned years ago or they are currently developed but only for newer systems, or commercial.
Is there a free1 client actively ...
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How to open a file in the default application for it directly from QuickLook?
Is there a way to open a file straight from QuickLook?
I have a directory containing symlinks to the PDF files I usually refer to. I cannot copy the files locally and I must use symlinks. When I need ...
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OS X Keychain keeps prompting me for my SSH passphrase even though I save it (OS X 10.6.8)
Every time I log in to a remote server with SSH, OS X keychain prompts me to remember the SSH passphrase. I type in the passphrase and check the box to remember it. I then connect ok to the server but ...
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Can Mail warn when emailing certain addresses?
I have my own personal mail account (a gmail account) and my academic email account (a university account) as different profiles on my Mail application in OS X Snow Leopard. I sometimes forget to ...
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How to move Keychain from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?
I am trying to move keychain database from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
I can't find the place of keychain in Mountain Lion anymore.
Even if I will find that keychain file location:
Will it be ...
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Is it possible to store “on my mac” local folders on a network device?
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System info:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Memory: 16 GB
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Network: GB ...
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How to run the Apple Hardware Test in Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro?
I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.
I have an image of the Installation Disk in a USB Hard Drive (Snow Leopard Partition). Then to boot the system and start using the Hardware Test software I did ...
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Why does OSX hang when logging in to a Windows network?
For the last couple of years I've used a MacPro + SnowLeopard at work. We have a Windows network so I have to do a network login into our domain. I sometimes login with my local Mac machine account ...
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How to install Snow Leopard from USB where USB disk is prepared using Linux?
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard (a retail version) into my MacBook, but seems like that the MacBook can't find the boot disk over USB.
I guess this is related to the fact that I mounted the .iso ...
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AppleScript SL to ML Issue (compatibility error?)
I've written the following script in Applescript in Snow Leopard, and I tried to use it in Mountain Lion, but to no avail (doesn't work). The script watches a folder for added files, and if the ...
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App Store only sells latest OS X version? Can't get Lion 10.7 anymore?
I have a MacBook model A1181, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory. It's running Snow Leopard, and running fine including speed wise. I want to upgrade to make use of iOS simulator and XCode 4. Saw that ...
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How do I make full use of a generic 6-button mouse?
Somebody gave me a 6-mouse button. I want to make full use of the extra buttons as opposed to just using the basic 3 ones (left, on-scroller, and right buttons). First of all, I want to know where the ...
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Why are some apps greyed out when Command+Tab'ing through programs?
Sometimes when I switch through programs using the Command+Tab shortcut certain programs appear to be greyed out. I can switch to the program in question with no problems nor is there anything ...
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Finder.app previews of aliases and symbolic links
I have a folder with Finder aliases and symbolic links (i.e. created using ln -s original.pdf link.pdf).
How can I make sure Finder displays previews for these instead of the standard icon?
This ...
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How to disable any and all eye-candy features on Mac OS X 10.6.8?
I'm going to install Linux Mint virtual machine and work primarily through there.
I want to shut off any and all eye candy on Mac to squeeze out every last bit of performance I can. Akin to "Set for ...
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How can I log in again after downgrading a 1st-gen MacBook Air from Lion to Snow Leopard?
I have a 1st-gen MacBook Air. It came with, if I remember correctly, Leopard. I subsequently upgraded to Snow Leopard and then to Lion.
However, I have found it to be very sluggish after upgrading to ...
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Lion special characters input at Snow Leopard
Is there any 3rd party app to enable special character input on holding key for Snow Leopard same it is at Lion?
Thanks a lot.
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How to repair/recover Snow Leopard when the installation DVD has been lost?
So I seem to not have my Snow Leopard DVD available anywhere.
I can't use a newer version like Lion.
What can I do to repair/recover Snow Leopard now that the installation DVD is not available?
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Why are three newly-downloaded, up-to-date, unrelated applications not starting: “not supported on this type of Mac” *not a PowerPC problem*
Today, I downloaded the latest stable versions of three largely unrelated programs: Pixen, Tiled, and Gideros Studio (free Gideros pack).
All three of these programs have crossed out icons, and return ...
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How can I list all the installed printer drivers on Mac OS 10.6?
I am trying to troubleshoot printer issues and I figured it would be best to see all the printer drivers (and versions thereof) as a starting point, before I try reinstalling said drivers.
I would ...
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How to upgrade the ssh program on OS X 10.6.8?
I would prefer to do this through the command line rather than downloading Macports.
Any help appreciated.
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*AMP setup Impact on upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion
I have Snow Leopard. I want to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
I've setup PHP as mentioned here. Will upgrading to Lion affect my PHP setup or any other setup like MySQL for that matter ?
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How to connect to a NAS share using a different user name?
I have an iMac running OSX 10.6.8 that automounts a NAS share from a D-Link DNS-320 2-bay Network Attached Storage. On the NAS, both users "user1" and "user2" are members of group "group1".
My user ...
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Where can I buy iMovie that is compatible with SL?
I just upgraded my macbook to SL and wanted to upgrade iMovie too. But the system requirement for the version available on App Store is 10.7.4 or later. Where can I purchase one that would work on a ...
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How to fix Photoshop CS3 startup error “One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder” after upgrading to 10.6?
After upgrading to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Adobe Photoshop gives an error message on every start of the application:
"One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder, necessary
for running ...
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Unable to upgrade iMac to Snow Leopard
I am unable to upgrade my iMac to Snow Leopard even though it seems to meet all the requirements. The iMac has:
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
DVD drive
4GB RAM
185GB of storage available.
When I try ...
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How to install ImageMagick on 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using a precompiled binary (without a package manager)?
The wish is to manipulate images from the command line using the ImageMagick tools.
No package manager because:
The MacPorts port and Homebrew brew package managers have Xcode dependencies.
Xcode ...
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If I buy Montain Lion can I downgrade to Lion? Without purchasing it?
Gentlemans,
I don't have Lion license, I'm running over Mac OS x - 10.6.6 (SnowLeopard)
If I buy Montain Lion, I can downgrade do Lion?
Thanks in advance
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How do I install the GnuPG PHP extension?
I'm having trouble installing a PHP native extension: GnuPG. Here's what I've tried so far.
First:
sudo port install gpgme
sudo pecl install gnupg
Output from the second command ends like so:
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Macbook pro checkered display, safeboot works
My Mid-2010 Macbook gone wild since morning.
I was running snowleopard but has Lion (dual boot). The recent changes I've done today is, installed trial version of AirParrot app and tried to use ...
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How to know if Mac OS X machine is being remotely viewed?
Currently I have no way to know if my machine is being remotely viewed by our tech support, and would prefer to know, given the massive privacy breach that would entail should this be happening. I am ...
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Can a Mac OS X DVD that came with a computer be used to upgrade another computer?
I have two computers -- the newest, a MacBook Pro, came with OS X 10.6, and the oldest, an iMac, is running 10.5.8.
In order to upgrade from 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion, one has to first upgrade to 10.6, ...
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How to detect spy/keylogger software?
I have some serious suspition that my boss installed some kind of spy software. Maybe a keylogger, screen capture or something to know what I do when he's not at the office.
I have nothing to hide so ...
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How to disable the Macbook internal display and only use the external display on Snow Leopard?
Preferably without having to reboot etc, use magnets, or open/close the lid + waking it via USB peripherals I would like to have my MacBook display in "projector only" mode. Ideally, I'd like to be ...
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Set keyboard shortcut for nested menu selection
Say an application has a menu selection Export in the File menu. On mouse over, a sub-menu extends with the export options. Is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut for one of those nested ...
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Floppy disk became unreadable after initializing it in an old Mac
I'm trying to pass some files from a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard to an old LC 630 with an HD floppy drive and a CD optical reader. As Snow Leopard cannot burn a CD with the HFS (Mac OS Standard) ...
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Will NTFS-3G and FUSE work out of the box if I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?
On Snow Leopard I already have NTFS-3G (2010.10.2) and FUSE (MacFUSE Framework 2.2.1). I managed to install them and it works like a charm.
If I upgrade to Mountain Lion, does the operating system ...
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Microsoft Office 2004 reinstall?
I bought a used iMac with OS 10.4.11 installed. It also has Microsoft Office 2004 on it. I'd like to upgrade the OS to 10.6 but don't want to lose the Microsoft Office applications. I do not have the ...
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How to build kissmac from source?
When I'm trying to build KisMac from source, I see the next error message:
=== CLEAN NATIVE TARGET KisMac2 OF PROJECT KisMac2 WITH CONFIGURATION Development ===
Check dependencies
[BEROR]error: ...
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Does OSX suffer from bad performance over multiple OS upgrading processes?
I started with Leopard OSX, then upgraded to Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion.
Now Mountain Lion is unleashed. Is it recommended to make a fresh install or upgrading is just fine?
Does OSX ...
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Can I upgrade to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard?
I'm currently running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I never upgraded to Lion.
However, the features in Mountain Lion have me intrigued and I'd like to upgrade.
Am I allowed to upgrade straight to ...
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Where can I find PF for 10.6
I am running snow leopard because I have a requirement to develop there. I need to use pfctl, so i am wondering if there is a way to get PF on snow leopard? I know they put it in Lion, but I can't ...
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Under 10.8 which file stores the environment variables?
This has been this way since 10.6. There is no .bashrc file in the home dictionary but the environment variable PATH indeed exists as the result of this command shows:
$ echo $PATH
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Strange network Sent size
I don't understand why my network behave like this, Data sent is larger than Receive whenever I am sending email or upload files, this only happens when uploading something to the web, ftp, email ...
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osx update error
I just tried installing an update on my OSX(10.6) and I got the following error :-
Some of the selected updates couldn't be saved.
The file “SUBaseSystemCombo10.6.8.pkg” couldn’t be found on ...
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Finder list view, change column with to optimal with using AppleScript
I'm trying to create an AppleScript script that resizes the columns of Finder's list view (e.g. Name, Size …) to their optimal width (i.e. the minimum width where all text in the column is visible) on ...
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How to fix when connecting to any server results in “Connecting to '…'” window that will leave up all day?
Along with myself, a couple other people in my office are having the same issue as I. Below, I will go through all the steps I've taken thus far (it's been a long time) and the results if I have ...
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MCX setting for a specific local user
I am trying to manage a lab of machines using JAMF Software's Casper suite. They have MCX settings that can be deployed just like Workgroup Manager. The only problem I am having is trying to figure ...
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Which are the default settings of the key repeat rate?
I tried adjusting my repeat rate for the keyboard, on Snow Leopard, by using the following:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 7
I ...
