Re: Whew! So much help. Thank you
Snow Leopard requires a copy of Leopard first in order to upgrade to Snow Leopard and then on to Lion. I believe that all Intel machines will up grade to Lion. However, the next OS, Mountain Lion will not upgrade some of the earlier Intel Macs. Everything of course should be backed up before doing an upgrade, just in case. However SOME people are using the iPad without any computer. That would make it pretty difficult to get the music on to the iPad however. So if that is the goal, then an upgrade will be required. While iCloud does require Lion, I believe that iTunes and syncing to the iPad only requires Snow Leopard. Lynn Lynn Wegley See the InfoManager blog at http://www.ugnn.com/ On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Satterfield wrote: For backups a simple backup of your files will normally be good, and that is simple. The easiest way of doing that is to buy an external hard drive. If you have 2000 MP3 files a 500 GB drive will work, and they aren't that expensive, and the songs will only use around 1/50 of that, giving you room to backup any documents\pictures\etc you might have. Just drag the files from their location to the drive in Finder, it'll copy them for you. For security it's best to store a backup drive off site, as if there is a fire or earthquake (does anyone other than California have 'em often?), flood, etc, there is no way to retrieve anything. As for upgrading, it's pretty simple. to do so, if you're familiar with OS 10.4 then OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) won't be that much of a change. It's a pretty easy upgrade using the DVD, just insert the disk, it'll want to restart and then the install is very simple, just choose your language, hit next, read the license agreement and if you accept it hit accept, choose the hard drive as the install location and hit next, then hit install, when it's finished it'll reboot and be running Snow Leopard. As far as I know you can upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard, I don't have an Intel Mac, yet (getting a Black Macbook soon), so I can't test it. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: File Associations
You should be able to select one of the .spin files and do a Get Info. About 2/3 of the way down the Info window you should see Open with: There you should be able to select what application you want to have open the file. Below that drop down menu is a Change All… button. Click that and you should be able to return to your old habits. Lynn See the InfoManager blog at http://www.ugnn.com/ On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Amanda Ward wrote: I do a lot of microprocessor programming with a program called BST that saves files with the extension of .spin. When I upgraded to Lion, the OS decided that all my source files (600+) were Spin Reports and the new default program to open them is Console. This is a real pain since I normally open a project folder, double click on a file and BST opens it. Now Console opens several windows with tons of information I have no need for. I can go to each file, open Get Info and change the file association individually. No… Change All doesn't work and it even changes the file I just changed to open with BST back to opening with Console. I tried selecting multiple files and I either get a Get Info window for each file or a Multiple Item Info . The multiple windows will let me change the file associations individually, but with over 500 of them left it's a lot of work. The Multiple window is strange… I can select BST as the default program and click Change All and it works… for a second. The icons for the spin files change to BST and the Kind changes from Spin Report to Spin Document. Great! Except something in the bowels of the OS decides Wait! You can't do that! and changes everything back to Console again. Last neat thing before I beg for help… I can change the spin files to open with anything, anything at all… except BST. I changed them all to Word documents and then tried to change to BST. Nope! Back to Console files. Tried Textedit, Xcode, Photoshop… nada. Sorry this is long and complicated, but I'm hoping someone has a suggestion. I'm not looking forward to spending hours and hours dealing with this. :-| Thanks for any guidance! Amanda Ward -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: air print
I too prefer Printopia, although it is a $10 application. I print to a 5 year old Brother and a year old Epson Stylus. However I also admit that I don't print much from my iPhone. (Don't have an iPad.) It also prints to PDF and to Dropbox. Lynn See the InfoManager blog at http://www.ugnn.com/ On Dec 15, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Ben Kernan wrote: Any one out there had any experience with any of the printers Apple recommends on their website for using this tech??? I have looked at them, none is rated more than 3 out of 5 stars... reviews are full of people who have had these printers a few days who are happy, but as time goes on, the experience seems to sour. I have a Macbook Pro, an iPad, 2 iPhones the iMac I am writing on, all connected wirelessly via the Clear modem my isp sent me, would like to be able to print. Ben Kernan: 24I-Mac 4/2.8/700, graphite g-4 1gig/400/52, iPad 2/64/wifi, iPhone 3g - Dedicated Mac user since 1990 -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: iMac g3
Leopard will run on a G4 at 867 Mhz or higher. http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/ Lynn Wegley See the InfoManager blog at http:www.ugnn.com On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Kyle Parish wrote: I know that Leopard won't work on a Motorola processor. On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Fabian Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 31, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Kyle Parish wrote: I know any OSX 10.4.11, or older, will not work with an intel chip. It has to be Leopard. This is not true. Many Intel iMac models came pre-installed with various builds of Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger). For example, the iMac Core 2 Extreme 2.8 24-Inch (Aluminum), which was introduced in August 2007, and discontinued only a few months ago in April 2008, came with OS 10.4.10 (8R4031). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
