Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) was the seventh major release of the OS X series.
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How to prevent window resize when exiting Target Display Mode
Using a macbook pro, with a thunderbolt cable connecting to an iMac,
and using Target Display Mode [TDM] to mirror the display. I choose
the optimal resolution for the external display, which means ...
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How can I erase the data from my Macbook without losing my recent OS?
I'm going to sell my Macbook Pro and want to remove all of the data before doing so. I have the OS Lion installed but my machine came with Snow Leopard. How can I remove everything and restore it to ...
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Can't erase Time Machine partition
Error message "could not unmount disc"
Only tried Time Machine one day with new Snow Leopard install on MBP. Have been happy with CCC & want to use the space for a bootable CCC clone.
Time ...
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Print job from Macbook Pro prints repeatedly
We are trying to set up printing for a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion (10.8.2) using an HP Color Laser Jet 3550 as a network printer. It seems to find and recognize the printer just ...
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Fundamental difference between OS X 10.6 Install Disc that come with New MacBooks one that comes in Retail Box-Pack
What is fundamental difference between OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Install Disc that come with New MacBooks to one that comes in Retail Box-Pack (either Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard OS only, or Mac Box ...
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Good Newsgroup Client for OS X
I've just switched to OS X and am struggling to find a good, easy to use, and preferably free/cheap newsgroup reader. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
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Setting up a Gopher server on OS X (for real!)
I have been trying to host my own Gopher server under OS X (specifically, Snow Leopard), but am finding the process somewhat frustrating.
After trying (and failing) to install myriad supposedly ...
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iMovie won't save events to USB flash
My MacBook Pro hard disk has failed, and I'm trying to get some work done quickly before I get it serviced.
I've installed OSX Snow Leopard and iMovie onto a USB flash drive.
I can't import any ...
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Oops — deleted swap files (Mac OS, 10.6) — will they come back?
I'm worse than my grandmother when it comes to computers. So I got a Mac as my friends who know me and know a bit about PCs said I'd fair better with a Mac. They were right and I love my Mac Book ...
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How can I open a port (not application) in the OS X 10.6 firewall?
Let me preface this by saying:
I do not want to drop my firewall completely
Yes, I really do need particular ports rather than an application.
So I see that there is the option to allow particular ...
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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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Leopard Backup downgrades Snow Leopard installation upon recovery
I did a Time Machine backup on my Macbook running OS X 10.5.8. Then I installed Snow Leopard and tried to restore all apps, files etc. using Time Machine but it restored the system back to 10.5.8.
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Why does Terminal swallow Ctrl+up/down keystrokes?
In Terminal.app on Snow Leopard, the key combinations Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ don't get passed through correctly. Instead Terminal.app receives a single ↑ or ↓ key stroke.
I have verified this by running ...
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How to prevent searching in file with python from over-increasing OSX inactive memory? [closed]
I'm using mmap and re to search for words (1000+) in a file (9gig) without loading it into memory. I do this lots of times. In about 10 seconds I have 2.07 gigs of inactive memory (and 8.8mb free). ...
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How do I get Google Notifier (Mac) to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox?
I'm using Google Notifier for Mac 1.10.6.879 and I want it to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox. Previously, I had Notifier report the number of unread messages that had a certain ...
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Is it possible to run Snow Leopard on a LATE 2011 MacBook Pro?
I want to buy a new MacBook Pro, from Apple. However I want to run Snow Leopard instead of Lion.
I did some Google searches and found a few success stories of people who got SL to run on their ...
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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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How to move a window to another space without using the mouse?
I use spaces for having multiple desktops, but often need to move a program from one space to another.
I am aware of the various ways to do that with a mouse:
Click window drag to edge
F8 to show ...
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Something keeps waking up my Mac, how do I find out what it is?
I have a Mac Pro that draws about 250 watts (so I read somewhere) when it's running full-bore. It apparently draws less than 90 when it's sleeping. For whatever reasons I like to leave it on ...
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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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Time Machine Backups are incredibly slow, not doing what they should
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro that got a new HDD, top case, and RAM within the last week. The previous HDD failed and was replaced by Apple. Using Carbon Copy Cloner and restoring various directories ...
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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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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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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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*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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Running Leopard on a MacBook Pro that shipped with Snow Leopard
I have a MacBook Pro with 10.6 pre-installed. Is there a way to use this machine to test my software on 10.5?
Do I need 10.5, or is there is a mode within 10.6 with which I can run 10.5?
If I need ...
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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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bug: unable to turn on “Show date and time in menu bar”
All of a sudden, I had the date and time on the menu bar of my 10.6 machine vanish. I tried turning it on in the "Preferences >> Date and Time" section but I'm not able to.
Anyone got similar ...
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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 simply manually delete individual Time Machine backups from the Finder or command line?
I have moved from a Mac running Snow Leopard to a new Lion machine. Since there was a lot of cruft on the old machine, I set up the new one from scratch, only copying the data over I need. I still ...
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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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How much does Hardware Growler affect performance?
I'm interested in knowing how much Hardware Growler affects performance.
My MacBook's performance at some of point in time became terrible and I could not figure out the reason. The Beachball of ...
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No more Xcode 4 for Snow Leopard?
I'm trying to download Xcode 4.0 for my Mac and they want me to upgrade to Lion and download 4.1. Is there a way to download 4.0 without having to change my entire operating system?
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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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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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How can I perform an Apple Hardware Test without my original install media?
I have a 2007 MacBook that I'd like to perform an Apple Hardware Test on, but I don't have the original install media. I have a Snow Leopard install DVD, but rebooting and holding down D does not ...
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Internet page not loading, ping not working but host www.example.com return an IP
Sorry I'm being vague because I don't even know where the problem can be.
Yesterday I was using the internet just fine. Today on the same wifi router and on another 3G connection, I couldn't access ...
