http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64293 <pre>I sent my iMac to Apple for repairs and in the meanwhile used a "spare" MBP that I loaded with the Time Machine backup of the iMac. Now, I'd like to update the contents of the iMac without having to reimport the whole account and the GBs of data it has. Is there a relatively simple way to do that ? Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en &gt; fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune </pre> Jean-Christophe Helary 2012-05-18T08:40:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64277 <pre>Hi, My Mac Pro has a pair of quad-core CPUs, but both iStat Menus and MenuMeters show a bar chart with 16 bars rather than the expected 8 bars. Is this a Lion thing? There were only 8 bars under Snow Leopard. Why does Lion seem to think I have 16 cores? Even Activity Monitor seems confused. It only shows 1 (cumulative) bar in the icon, of course, but yesterday when I was doing something intensive, the activity panel showed a percentage over 1000%, so it also appears to be acting as if I have 16 cores (or else the percentage would never exceed 800%). I doubt that any of this is important, but I am curious. Any thoughts? Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-05-09T14:20:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64276 <pre>I have quite a few problems connecting wirelessly with my laptop, lots of minor weirdness. But the most persistent one, easy to workaround but annoying is this— quite often, I connect to a new wireless network, the normal wireless network login dialogue box appears, I fill it in and hit connect, it spins it wheels for a few seconds (and wireless signal indicator does the 'up and down' thing), and then says 'Connection failed', then a few second later the connection appears to be working fine (wireless signal strength indicator stabilises, network prefs pane shows it has acquired a dhcp IP), but the dialogue box is still saying failure to connect. I then hit cancel and it goes away. But sometimes it repeatedly fails, and I have to keep trying it eventually it works. Anyone know what this might be? Nothing particularly useful in the console logs. Cheers David</pre> David Cake 2012-05-09T13:14:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64268 <pre> So, I have a Mac Pro (early 2008) with an Nvidia Quadro 5600 video card. While it has reasonable airflow, the Mac Pro itself is heavy, and it was behind a monitor on a table that was hard to easily get at it. So I did not blow out the dust often and never really in the video cards (also has an ATI 2600 card). Lately I have been having occasional glitches when the card gets pushed hard, and more likely when the room is warm than cold. I've been thinking that I should take the computer, blow all the dust out, as well as off (out of) the video card. But I've been busy -- real busy -- the last week or two and did not get to it, even when I thought I should make time. Well, yesterday I was down in my basement working on some stuff (moving tables from an office to the man-cave :-) ). I came back up and the Mac Pro was off. I did not remember putting it to sleep and it is not set to go to sleep automatically. (Though I do put it to sleep manually, the last few months, when I am away for a longer period). The light [power led] was on like it was sleeping, but not pulsing. The monitors (Apple monitors) were sleeping. I tried to wake it up. No go. Finally I got all the cables disconnected and took it in to the kitchen, and opened the side. A thin layer of dust but not as bad as I have seen some computers. I took it out back on the porch and my cans of compressed air as well, and gave it 10 mins of blowing in every conceivable nook and cranny to get all the dust out. Still no go when trying to boot. You could hear some sort of relay or something go when you plugged it in, and see the fan on the Nvidia card try to move, but it would not start. I took the card out and blue out more dust from it. Then I saw the internal ducts in front of the heat sink were basically totally clogged. I got it all blown out. The ATI card as well. Put it all back together. Nothing. Replaced the MB battery (CR2032). No go. Finally I removed ALL PCI-E cards and trued, and it would start up. (No video obviously so I quit the startup after showing it would start). So I tried each card one at a time. The ATI worked. The Nvidia not. :-( It was the main driver of my 30" screens. I've ordered an ATI 5770 Radeon overnight delivery to replace the Nvidia, but the cost could have been avoided if I had just dusted it out and cleaned out the video card once in a while. The Nvidia 5770 should be a lot faster and get around an OpenGL Nvdidia bug that makes 1/2 the websites out there crash the WebProcess stuff in Safari, but with overnight delivery and one third party display-port-DVI adapter, it was almost $290 -- money I did not need to spend if I had done a better job keeping it clean. Chad </pre> objectwerks inc 2012-05-08T23:20:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64247 <pre> Hi All, I am planning to move our family from MobileMe to iCloud and would like any advice or suggestions you may have on how to make it painless, so I won't end up saying - oops I should have done X, Y, or Z.Currently, this is primarily for my wife and I but we have two boys moving into their teens so I need to keep that in mind. My wife and I share one MobileMe account so we can share Calendars and Contacts on all Macs and iOS devices etc. We currently have the Family MobileMe deal with each of us having a &lt; at &gt;mac.com / &lt; at &gt;me.com account, but we don't really use Apple's email service - we have our own email server (see server details below). My plan is to setup one iCloud account for each person in the family BUT to only use my iCloud account on all our devices at present. The boys don't have iOS devices yet or use Calendar or Contacts yet so we can all share these. We have purchased media and apps from the iTunes Store using each of our MobileMe accounts (and the few international accounts I have) BUT the vast majority of stuff has been purchased using my account and we only do that now. My plan is to continue to use just one (my) iTunes Store account for purchasing media and apps from the iTunes Store going forward - it seems silly to pay for something more than once ;-) Does that sound reasonable? Two possible hitches and questions that I can see: 1. Our SOHO server is currently running Snow Leopard Server and I don't wish to "downgrade" to Lion Server. We currently store our family iPhoto and iTunes libraries on the server but usually access from client machines. My question is: What problems will this cause (if any) on the SL Server? We don't generally use the server directly but, as I mentioned, it does hold our iPhone and iTunes libraries. 2. My wife (bless her ;-) is still using her original iPhone 3G (at a glacial pace). We plan to get her a new iPhone but we would like to wait for a larger screen - hopefully the iPhone 5. My question is: What problems will this cause for her? Is there any way she can still get calendar (including reminders) and contacts on her phone? The lack of PhotoStream is not a problem. Sorry for the long post but any comments and advice or suggestion are most appreciated, as always. Cheers, Ashley. PS I know that Gallery and iDisk and other services will no longer function and I'm moving them elsewhere so that shouldn't be a problem ... -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken </pre> Ashley Aitken 2012-05-01T04:45:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64242 <pre>Hi, Last week I moved from a Snow Leopard machine to a Lion machine. I thought I checked out my primary software before finalizing the move, but apparently I did not check carefully enough. I run SAS (statistical analysis software) remotely on a linux box. Someone wrote a script for me that basically allows me to submit my SAS code (and my data) to the linux box and then sends the output back to me. I know this is clunky, but it has been working fine for many years, under Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, and so on. When I first moved to Lion, I tried running a SAS program and it seemed to work. It turns out that if I do not edit the SAS script, it will run, but as soon as I make a change and save the file, it will not run. I get the following error message: -bash: ./nlin.csh: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted I submit the job by typing "./nlin.csh" in a terminal window, where nlin.csh is the name of the script that runs my SAS code. I can edit the file with the SAS code and everything still works, but if I edit the script file (even just typing a character and then deleting that character), I get the above error. If anyone can help me with this, I sure would appreciate it. If you need more information, please let me know. As you can tell, I don't know much about UNIX and scripts. One last thing, which may not be relevant at all, but I did notice that the owner seemed to be fine on my user files, but the group was not. On my old machine the group was "staff", but on the Lion machine the group was "admin". I used chown to change the group from "admin" to "staff" but it did not solve the problem. I used the following command: chown -R :staff dinse where dinse is the name of my home directory. I hope I did not make things worse. Nothing exploded, but the script still does not run. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-30T22:51:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64233 <pre>Hi, In my ongoing quest to monitor how long my Time Machine backups are taking, I had been able (under Snow Leopard) to use the Console app to search for any logs that mentioned "backupd". This allowed me to see when the backups started and ended. When I search for "backupd" under Lion, I find no matches. What does Time Machine use to do its backups in Lion? In other words, what should I search for in Console app to monitor Time Machine backups in Lion? Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-30T15:01:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64210 <pre>Hi, I seem to be full of questions lately... I thought I had always heard good things about Little Snitch, whose purpose I believe is to monitor all incoming and outgoing network connections. It was on sale last week, so I bought a license. Today I uninstalled it because it was driving me crazy. Anytime I tried to do anything, I would get a panel popping up that asked whether I wanted to deny or allow a connection, either now or always. Often I would get 10-20 panels in sequence. It was difficult to get anything done. In fact, it seemed to virtually prevent me from using Screen Sharing because the popups never stopped and I could never connect to the other machine. I thought that after I said "always allow" to enough popups that their frequency would decrease after a few days, but it did not seem to work that way. Was I doing something wrong or did I need to change certain settings? Do other Little Snitch users spend all their time dismissing popups or does this eventually calm down over time? Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-28T19:07:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64190 <pre>I see this printed to my console a lot. And usually when it's printing to the console, I hear a lot of hard drive activity (unfortunately, my iMac doesn't have an SSD). 4/27/12 4:54:21.179 PM imagent: [Warning] Received memory warning, dispatching to listeners I was thinking it might be the Messages beta app or SKYPE, but even after quitting these apps, I'm still seeing messages to the console. Anyone know which app is causing this warning? K </pre> Kevin Callahan 2012-04-27T23:58:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64189 <pre>Hi, I have an Apple USB modem, which was attached to my Snow Leopard Mac Pro. When I switched to a new Mac Pro running Lion, I connected the modem, but I got an error message when logging in (or booting?) that said it was not supported under Lion. I can't remember if the message suggested that no usb modems were supported or just this specific model. In the system profiler, I see the following message when I click on Modems (under the Network menu): "No Apple modem found. If the Modem is external, make sure it’s connected via USB." This message suggests that an Apple USB modem should work. Does anyone know which is true? Should an Apple USB modem work on a new Mac Pro running Lion (10.7.3) or not? Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-27T20:58:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64188 <pre>Someone I know keeps getting FaceTime requests from someone she doesn't know, and wants to block them. Is there any way to do that? --Andy </pre> Andy Lee 2012-04-27T20:47:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64187 <pre>Hi, Can someone please tell me what the following messages mean? They keep repeating every 10 seconds in the Console. I see that a few are related to McAfee. Are they all related to the same McAfee problem? What is "centrify"? I just switched from a Snow Leopard machine to a Lion machine, and I used Migration Assistant to transfer files. Is it likely that our McAfee virus protection software, which was installed under Snow Leopard, is having problems under Lion? Perhaps I just need an updated (Lion) version installed. Thanks, Gregg 04/27/2012 4:20:38.054 PM com.mcafee.reporter: objc[31142]: Object 0x52fa90 of class __NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug 04/27/2012 4:20:38.056 PM Menulet: Menulet : Caught an Exception while Registering with FMP 04/27/2012 4:20:38.056 PM McAfee Reporter: Reporter : FMP exception in ReporterRegisterWithFMP: msg :: connect call failed 04/27/2012 4:20:38.056 PM Menulet: Failed to register with FMP 04/27/2012 4:20:38.056 PM McAfee Reporter: Failed to register with FMP 04/27/2012 4:20:38.057 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505: (com.mcafee.menulet) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 04/27/2012 4:20:38.057 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505: (com.mcafee.reporter) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.centrify.adprintd: No such file or directory at /usr/share/centrifydc/perl/CentrifyDC/Config.pm line 28. 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.centrify.adprintd: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/centrifydc/perl/CentrifyDC/Config.pm line 60. 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.centrify.adprintd: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/centrifydc/perl/CentrifyDC/Logger.pm line 28. 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.centrify.adprintd: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/centrifydc/perl/CentrifyDC/Logger.pm line 28. 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.centrify.adprintd: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/centrifydc/sbin/adprintd line 13. 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.centrify.adprintd: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/centrifydc/sbin/adprintd line 13. 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505: (com.centrify.adprintd[31144]) Exited with code: 2 04/27/2012 4:20:39.122 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505: (com.centrify.adprintd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-27T20:29:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64184 <pre>I'm noticing PhotoStream not updating reliably of late. I don't want to reset and lose all my photos. Are others noticing reliability issues this week? K </pre> Kevin Callahan 2012-04-27T18:11:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64182 <pre>Is it possible to set Google Chrome to run in fullscreen mode by default? (Snow Leopard) Currently, as I understand it, you have to switch into fullscreen mode after it comes up each time. We have a kiosk system that we'd like to run Chrome fullscreen 24/7, but we don't see that's it's possible with Chrome v18... </pre> Nathan Sims 2012-04-26T22:51:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64178 <pre>Hi, This is an odd question, but has anyone else noticed this? Starting today (or yesterday), the colors of iCal events and the text that I enter for each event are much fainter. It's probably just that I was used to the brighter colors and darker text, but I don't like the new look as much (and the text is harder for me to read). I don't think I did any system updates yesterday. One thing I did yesterday, however, was to set up a new Lion machine and sync its iCal with my MobileMe account. Now the colors and text are fainter on both macs (the Lion machine and the Snow Leopard machine). Did Lion do something to change some setting? Is there a way to change it back or to make the text (and colors) darker? I already did not like the "new" iCal in Lion as much as the "old" iCal, so this is just one more aggravation. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a "fix"? Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-26T16:02:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64177 <pre>Hi on my Mini running 10.6.8, the Flask Plug-In-Version 11.2.202.233 is installed. With it came a preference panel, allowing to enable/disable various settings like remotely activating camera/mic, storing of infos by websites asf. I had disabled all this things. Nevertheless, after a while (not necessarily after rebooting), all settings were reverted again to enabling. What's this plugin (resp. its pref pane) really doing? Is there a possibility to use Flash without that pref pane, or does the unwanted behaviour exist even without it? Rudolf</pre> Rudolf O. Durrer 2012-04-26T13:00:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64174 <pre>My default Finder window has 203 items, ordered by label. When I display it in icon view, Activity viewer says that Finder uses 100% of the CPU (on a 2 cores CPU). When I shift to list view, Finder reverts to normal CPU usage like 0.1%. I've tested that with other windows that have a lot of items and I confirmed that behavior. Could anybody on the list check if that is seen also in other settings ? I use a 2 years old 27" iMacs with 10.7.3 installed. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en &gt; fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune </pre> Jean-Christophe Helary 2012-04-24T09:10:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64171 <pre>Hi, A month or two ago, I wrote to ask about TimeMachine because the hourly backups were taking about 45 minutes, so TM seemed like it was almost always running. I ended up swapping out the internal hard drive that I was using for TM backups and that seemed to fix the problem. Well, at least the backups did not take nearly so long. After the drive swap, the backups were taking about 12 minutes, though I think that number crept up a bit over the last month or two. Since 12 minutes seemed much better than 45 minutes, I assumed that all was working correctly. For the past few days, I have been watching the console messages (for "backupd") and it appears that the backups are now taking less than a minute! I know it must seem like I'm never happy, but now I'm worrying that my files are not being properly backed up. As a test, however, I retrieved a file that I know I changed yesterday -- I restored a version a few hours before I changed it and another version a few hours after I changed it, and all seemed OK (the former did not have the change and the latter did). I purposely do not backup many of my directories, so very little changes from day to day, and maybe this short backup time is to be expected. That would be great. Here is my question. If hardly any user files change since the last backup, and if all but about 50-gb of my system drive is excluded, how long should the entire "backup" process take? If no user files changed, or very few, then the backup of my data should not take long, but I'm sure some system files are always changing, and I have no idea how long the search for changed files might take. Which seems more reasonable -- 1 minute or 12 minutes? Even if the 1 minute time period is correct, I have no idea why (or when) the backups went from taking 12 minutes to only taking 1 minute. Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-22T15:45:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64152 <pre>Hi, For the last few weeks, the monitor (30" Apple) connected to my Mac Pro keeps waking up on its own. This happens multiple times per day, but it does not seem to be on a regular schedule (i.e., not every hour). I do not know what made it start doing this and I do not know how to stop it. I don't remember making any changes that would be obvious (to me) culprits. I think I might have checked the box in Energy Saving preferences to "wake on network activity" so I unchecked that box and rebooted, but this did not solve the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks, Gregg </pre> Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] 2012-04-20T12:51:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64151 <pre>I installed the Safari Extension: "Do Not Track Plus" to block social networking and advertising from tracking. While testing various sties, I decided to go to Apple.com and found "Do Not Track Plus" blocks an ad network: "Dedicated Networks" and under companies tracking: "Double Click" which is owned by Google. And if you go to http://www.apple.com/startpage/ "Do Not Track Plus" blocks "Facebook connect". Anybody know how accurate the "Do Not Track Plus" extension is? K </pre> Kevin Callahan 2012-04-19T22:18:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/64142 <pre>Without warning, my 10.6.8 iMac now refuses to allow me to spotlight search email (within Mail.app) by "Entire Message" -- it's dimmed out. I can only choose "From", "To", or "Subject". What needs to be reset to get this capability back? </pre> Nathan Sims 2012-04-17T16:25:28 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.macosx.general