Re: Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless Printer

[Barry Sexstone]

David

I have scanned literally hundreds of old photos and slides using a HP  
Scanjet 3010.  Not the fastest but I have been very pleased with the  
results.  Where necessary I adjust using Adobe Elements 6 and print on  
an Epson R290.


Barry

On 25/10/2008, at 1:18 PM, David Wood wrote:


Hi Ronni,

Just enquiring as to the scanning quality with this new Epson.  I,  
like I guess many others, in the aging bracket, have 100's if not  
1,000's of photos in old albums that I would like to bring back to  
life and digitally enhance.  The problem is finding someone who has  
had good experience with scanning photos and good results.  Would be  
very interested in your thoughts on this new machine as wireless for  
me would be the way to go.


Also to any other Wamuggers who have good scanning experiences and  
can make a recommendation.


Thanks,
David


On 25/10/2008, at 12:00 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hello People,

For people interested in being able to wirelessly Print / Scan /  
Copy (no cables attached to computer), I recommend purchasing the  
above printer from Daniel Kerr (MacWizardry).


After a disastrous few days without a Multi Function Printer after  
my Epson RX700 died last Saturday (why does equipment decide to die  
on week-ends?).
Daniel (of MacWizardry) pulled out all stops and went beyond the  
call of duty, allowing me to use his MF Printer so I could print my  
designed labels onto some DVD's to complete a job I had to deliver  
on Monday.


Daniel contracted the wholesaler (when they opened) on Monday and  
rushed up to pickup the NEW Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless  
Printer (that has just arrived in WA).
Which I then picked up from Daniel's and after a few hours of  
unpacking, installing the TX700W Software & Drivers, I was back in  
business.


Setting it up to Connect to my Airport Wireless Network took a  
little longer (the instructions were a little confusing), but  
perseverance paid off and eventually I had TX700W connecting to my  
Airport Network (using  Ethernet Cable connected to my Remote  
Airport Base Station) and I was Printing / Scanning / copying /  
print to Disc /  Wirelessly ... no cables connected to my  
MacBook Pro!


I loved my Epson RX700, but, he only lasted 3 years and cost $699AU



The NEW Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless Printer only costs  
$299AU ...


If you look at the flash movie it says "'Carefree wireless  
connection' A wireless LAN module enables printer sharing among  
multiple users at home or in the office. An array of functions,  
including scanning, copying & printing can be used on a wireless  
network "


To be able to wirelessly Print / Scan / Copy on a wireless network.
Now that is TERRIFIC!

Cheers,
Ronni
















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Re: Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless Printer

[David Wood]

Hi Ronni,

Just enquiring as to the scanning quality with this new Epson.  I,  
like I guess many others, in the aging bracket, have 100's if not  
1,000's of photos in old albums that I would like to bring back to  
life and digitally enhance.  The problem is finding someone who has  
had good experience with scanning photos and good results.  Would be  
very interested in your thoughts on this new machine as wireless for  
me would be the way to go.


Also to any other Wamuggers who have good scanning experiences and can  
make a recommendation.


Thanks,
David


On 25/10/2008, at 12:00 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

Hello People,

For people interested in being able to wirelessly Print / Scan / Copy  
(no cables attached to computer), I recommend purchasing the above  
printer from Daniel Kerr (MacWizardry).


After a disastrous few days without a Multi Function Printer after my  
Epson RX700 died last Saturday (why does equipment decide to die on  
week-ends?).
Daniel (of MacWizardry) pulled out all stops and went beyond the call  
of duty, allowing me to use his MF Printer so I could print my  
designed labels onto some DVD's to complete a job I had to deliver on  
Monday.


Daniel contracted the wholesaler (when they opened) on Monday and  
rushed up to pickup the NEW Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless  
Printer (that has just arrived in WA).
Which I then picked up from Daniel's and after a few hours of  
unpacking, installing the TX700W Software & Drivers, I was back in  
business.


Setting it up to Connect to my Airport Wireless Network took a little  
longer (the instructions were a little confusing), but perseverance  
paid off and eventually I had TX700W connecting to my Airport Network  
(using  Ethernet Cable connected to my Remote Airport Base Station)  
and I was Printing / Scanning / copying / print to Disc /   
Wirelessly ... no cables connected to my MacBook Pro!


I loved my Epson RX700, but, he only lasted 3 years and cost $699AU


The NEW Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless Printer only costs  
$299AU ...


If you look at the flash movie it says "'Carefree wireless connection'  
A wireless LAN module enables printer sharing among multiple users at  
home or in the office. An array of functions, including scanning,  
copying & printing can be used on a wireless network "


To be able to wirelessly Print / Scan / Copy on a wireless network.
Now that is TERRIFIC!

Cheers,
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Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless Printer

[Ronda Brown]

Hello People,

For people interested in being able to wirelessly Print / Scan / Copy  
(no cables attached to computer), I recommend purchasing the above  
printer from Daniel Kerr (MacWizardry).


After a disastrous few days without a Multi Function Printer after my  
Epson RX700 died last Saturday (why does equipment decide to die on  
week-ends?).
Daniel (of MacWizardry) pulled out all stops and went beyond the call  
of duty, allowing me to use his MF Printer so I could print my  
designed labels onto some DVD's to complete a job I had to deliver on  
Monday.


Daniel contracted the wholesaler (when they opened) on Monday and  
rushed up to pickup the NEW Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless  
Printer (that has just arrived in WA).
Which I then picked up from Daniel's and after a few hours of  
unpacking, installing the TX700W Software & Drivers, I was back in  
business.


Setting it up to Connect to my Airport Wireless Network took a little  
longer (the instructions were a little confusing), but perseverance  
paid off and eventually I had TX700W connecting to my Airport Network  
(using  Ethernet Cable connected to my Remote Airport Base Station)  
and I was Printing / Scanning / copying / print to Disc /   
Wirelessly ... no cables connected to my MacBook Pro!


I loved my Epson RX700, but, he only lasted 3 years and cost $699AU


The NEW Epson Stylus Photo TX700W MFP Wireless Printer only costs  
$299AU ...


If you look at the flash movie it says "'Carefree wireless connection'  
A wireless LAN module enables printer sharing among multiple users at  
home or in the office. An array of functions, including scanning,  
copying & printing can be used on a wireless network "


To be able to wirelessly Print / Scan / Copy on a wireless network.
Now that is TERRIFIC!

Cheers,
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Re: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Next WAMUG Meeting (for those who came in late)

[John Weekes]

Hi Peter

Thank you for the invitation.   May I accept for three, please.

Myself, my other-half, Joan and Neville who has recently acquired a 20" IMac.

Kind regards
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The next General Meeting of WAMUG will be held on Tuesday, 4th 
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Access is easiest from Queenslea Drive, Claremont. For more details 
visit 
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The meeting will commence at 7:30pm, and following our customary 
Welcome to New Visitors and Q&A Session, Geoff Alagoda, the head of 
IT at Christ Church, will talk to us about FutureSphere and its role 
in IT education at the school.


Following Geoff's talk, well-known WAMUG list contributor Gary Dorn 
will show us what Google's popular 3D architectural drawing program 
SketchUp can do in the hands of a professional. He will also talk 
about CAD software on the Mac in general.


Thirdly, we will have a new MacBook to show and demonstrate, and 
which will be available for examination by attendees.


The meeting will finish with wine and cheese (and soft drinks, of 
course, for those who prefer them).


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Re: Iweb IE compatible?

[Ronda Brown]

On 25/10/2008, at 7:17 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 25/10/2008, at 5:57 AM, Lodge family wrote:


Hi all

Used iweb template to make up web pages to display photographs.
Tested fine in firefox and safari.
When tried on IE on XP machine the links to the pages do not display.

I found iweb easy to use and very intuitive but does this all mean  
that it is impossible to display iweb sites on 95% of computers who  
run XP and IE ?


Any solutions  would be appreciated.
Rob


Hi Rob,

The default nav-bar in iWeb is created with javascript. Have you got  
javascript turned off in IE?

Check in Internet Explorer Properties.

Cheers,
Ronni



Hi Rob,

If it's primarily the navbar that's the biggest issue you can create  
your own text based navbar 

that would work in all browsers.
Be sure to use a web safe font for the navbar. 


The navbar that is generated by iWeb is all javascript based and the  
IE browsers are not that java savvy. Hence the text based navbar.


Cheers,
Ronni

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Iweb08 and IE 7

[Lodge family]

Thanks all for the quick responses.
Have javascript enabled.

Glenn thanks for that site. Testing the site using browsershots.org  
clearly shows that it will not work.


On searching the web for problems it seems that iweb 08 will not work  
with IE 7 on XP.


Solution seem to be to use iweb 06 which will work.
Or as customers to download  Firefox.

Thanks again.
Rob




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Re: Iweb IE compatible?

[Ronda Brown]

On 25/10/2008, at 5:57 AM, Lodge family wrote:


Hi all

Used iweb template to make up web pages to display photographs.
Tested fine in firefox and safari.
When tried on IE on XP machine the links to the pages do not display.

I found iweb easy to use and very intuitive but does this all mean  
that it is impossible to display iweb sites on 95% of computers who  
run XP and IE ?


Any solutions  would be appreciated.
Rob


Hi Rob,

The default nav-bar in iWeb is created with javascript. Have you got  
javascript turned off in IE?

Check in Internet Explorer Properties.

Cheers,
Ronni



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Re: Iweb IE compatible?

[Rod Blitvich]

I can't recall problems with my iWeb sites on Windows machines.
Maybe the odd person can't play my podcasts because they don't have
quicktime, otherwise all else is fine.
I 'll post a photo page from a school activity eg school Ball
http://web.me.com/blitto/Blittos_Stuff/ball08.html
And within a day or three it's had several hundred hits mostly from windows
machines.
I am posting to dotmac/ MobileMe
Rod Blitvich


on 25/10/08 5:57 AM, Lodge family at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Used iweb template to make up web pages to display photographs.
> Tested fine in firefox and safari.
> When tried on IE on XP machine the links to the pages do not display.
> 
> I found iweb easy to use and very intuitive but does this all mean
> that it is impossible to display iweb sites on 95% of computers who
> run XP and IE ?
> 
> Any solutions  would be appreciated.
> Rob
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Re: Iweb IE compatible?

[Glenn Nicholas]

Rob, to see how it looks on different versions of IE, use browsershots.org

Use Safari, View, View Source to find the actual link that won't
display on IE and check how the link is constructed. Post it here if
you are not sure how links work.

Glenn.

2008/10/25 Lodge family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all
>
> Used iweb template to make up web pages to display photographs.
> Tested fine in firefox and safari.
> When tried on IE on XP machine the links to the pages do not display.
>
> I found iweb easy to use and very intuitive but does this all mean that it
> is impossible to display iweb sites on 95% of computers who run XP and IE ?
>
> Any solutions  would be appreciated.
> Rob
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[Lodge family]

Hi all

Used iweb template to make up web pages to display photographs.
Tested fine in firefox and safari.
When tried on IE on XP machine the links to the pages do not display.

I found iweb easy to use and very intuitive but does this all mean  
that it is impossible to display iweb sites on 95% of computers who  
run XP and IE ?


Any solutions  would be appreciated.
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Re: iCal Alarmist

[Ronda Brown]

Are you using Leopard OSX10.5 or later?

Turn off the Birthday option then try Dates to iCal 2 from 
Setup it's Preferences: Dates to iCal has several options you can set  
for what is transferred from Address Book to iCal.
These options are broken into three sections, General, Titles and  
Alarms. You can access these by clicking the icons on Dates to iCal's  
title bar.


I was happy to pay the $6AU for it for all the extra information it  
added to my iCal from my address book.


Before finding "Dates to iCal 2" I was doing the same as Barry Sexstone.
But, as Barry has said

has no links to addresses
This "Dates to iCal 2" does so much more and uses information you have  
inserted into Address Book.


Cheers,
Ronni



On 24/10/2008, at 8:12 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:


I tried "Dates to iCal 2" but had an annoying problem with it.
It kept throwing up a window midscreen that gave some message about  
not being able to edit Birthdays.

Problem was the message window could not be closed.
Each time it appeared all I could do was re-start my Mac to get rid  
of it.

It even stayed there after closing "Dates to iCal 2".
I tried downloading and installing a second time  same problem.
Finally got so fed up with it that I deleted the application.

On 24/10/2008, at 6:44 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hi Stephen,

I use 'Dates to iCal 2' and have alarms set to remind me days  
before a Birthday & send an email to remind me the day before.




"Dates to iCal is a replacement for Apple's birthday calendar for  
iCal in Leopard. It has a range of features to allow the user to  
choose what, and what not, to sync to iCal from Address Book.


As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book,  
Dates to iCal 2 can sync anniversaries and custom dates. It  
provides the option of filtering to a group set up in Address Book,  
the user could use an already existing Address Book group, or could  
add one specifically for the purpose.


Dates to iCal 2 enables up to five alarms for each synced date in  
iCal. There is the option of message, sound, email and 'open file'  
alarms with the possibility of setting different alarms for  
birthdays and anniversaries."


Cheers,
Ronni

On 23/10/2008, at 8:37 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:


Hi folks,
Has anyone tried using iCal Alarmist to put alarms into the  
Birthday Calendar ?
When I open it (and even after clicking refresh) it does not list  
the BIRTHDAYS Calendar.

It lists all the others including HOME, WORK, etc.
Consequently there is no way of selecting BIRTHDAYS for alarms.
Surely that is the whole point of Alarmist, because iCal will not  
set alarms for BIRTHDAYS.


I notice that in iCal Birthdays are listed under SUBSCRIPTIONS and  
not CALENDARS.

Is that why this does not work ... if so then it pointless ???

Regards,
Stephen Chape


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Re: iCal Alarmist

[Stephen Chape]

That sounds good to me Barry.
I will give that a shot !!

On 24/10/2008, at 6:44 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:


Stephen

I have my birthday reminders etc. set up in ical as follows.
Create a new calendar and call it Birthdays (use the + at the bottom  
left)

Create a new event in this calendar giving it the person's name.
Make it an all day event
Click on the repeat button and scroll to every year
add alarms as required.
This satisfies my needs but has no links to addresses.

Barry


On 23/10/2008, at 9:31 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:


Hi Stuart,
Can they be set to repeat if a regular calendar is set up for  
birthdays in iCal ?

I could not see how to do this.
That is why I created a birthday calendar from iCal (because that  
will auto repeat).

However no reminders is a pain in the [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On 23/10/2008, at 9:10 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:

But you can't set reminders when you link the birthdays in Address  
Book with iCal.


Stuart Breden
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Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599
Mbl: 0417 053 266


On 23/10/2008, at 8:58 PM, Roger Kortas wrote:


Hi Stephen

Am I missing something? because in iCal itself you can repeat an  
event every year and get it to remind you by an alarm or sending  
an email when ever you like!



regards

roger

On 23/10/2008, at 8:37 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:


Hi folks,
Has anyone tried using iCal Alarmist to put alarms into the  
Birthday Calendar ?
When I open it (and even after clicking refresh) it does not  
list the BIRTHDAYS Calendar.

It lists all the others including HOME, WORK, etc.
Consequently there is no way of selecting BIRTHDAYS for alarms.
Surely that is the whole point of Alarmist, because iCal will  
not set alarms for BIRTHDAYS.


I notice that in iCal Birthdays are listed under SUBSCRIPTIONS  
and not CALENDARS.

Is that why this does not work ... if so then it pointless ???

Regards,
Stephen Chape


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Re: iCal Alarmist

[Stephen Chape]

I tried "Dates to iCal 2" but had an annoying problem with it.
It kept throwing up a window midscreen that gave some message about  
not being able to edit Birthdays.

Problem was the message window could not be closed.
Each time it appeared all I could do was re-start my Mac to get rid of  
it.

It even stayed there after closing "Dates to iCal 2".
I tried downloading and installing a second time  same problem.
Finally got so fed up with it that I deleted the application.

On 24/10/2008, at 6:44 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hi Stephen,

I use 'Dates to iCal 2' and have alarms set to remind me days before  
a Birthday & send an email to remind me the day before.




"Dates to iCal is a replacement for Apple's birthday calendar for  
iCal in Leopard. It has a range of features to allow the user to  
choose what, and what not, to sync to iCal from Address Book.


As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book,  
Dates to iCal 2 can sync anniversaries and custom dates. It provides  
the option of filtering to a group set up in Address Book, the user  
could use an already existing Address Book group, or could add one  
specifically for the purpose.


Dates to iCal 2 enables up to five alarms for each synced date in  
iCal. There is the option of message, sound, email and 'open file'  
alarms with the possibility of setting different alarms for  
birthdays and anniversaries."


Cheers,
Ronni

On 23/10/2008, at 8:37 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:


Hi folks,
Has anyone tried using iCal Alarmist to put alarms into the  
Birthday Calendar ?
When I open it (and even after clicking refresh) it does not list  
the BIRTHDAYS Calendar.

It lists all the others including HOME, WORK, etc.
Consequently there is no way of selecting BIRTHDAYS for alarms.
Surely that is the whole point of Alarmist, because iCal will not  
set alarms for BIRTHDAYS.


I notice that in iCal Birthdays are listed under SUBSCRIPTIONS and  
not CALENDARS.

Is that why this does not work ... if so then it pointless ???

Regards,
Stephen Chape


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Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?

[Steven Knowles]

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. For anyone remotely interested,  
after taking all the comments on board, I ended up getting it done  
with Migration Assistant. With limited disk space on my MBP, I deleted  
my own user account (being the old one), which freed up just enough to  
get everything across except some movie files, so I left those out,  
and then transferred those across afterwards after cleaning things up.


Cheers, Steven


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Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?

[David Peake]

Just to add - there will be no problem with cloning the drive between  
two intel machines... I've done it literally 100's of times between  
iMac's MacBooks, intel Mini's and MacBook Pro's...


Clone away!!!



On 24/10/2008, at 5:15 PM, Kyle Kreusch wrote:


Hi Neil and Steven

Neil makes some valid points

Kyle's suggestion of cloning the drive over would be my preferred  
option if the two machines were identical - I have never tried it  
between two different models.


It should be perfectly ok As they are both laptop's

It would not be an option if say one was intel and the other was a  
G5. Assuming the are both intel machines


That is correct
They would both need to be the same architecture. Which they both are
As Apple never made a PowerPC-based MacBook or MacBook Pro

I would try and confirm with someone that they had done this before  
on two comparable machines - if so -go for it.


This is the main reason I think it should work As I have started a
iMac's Hard drive With a MacBook Pro Before and never had any problems

If you were able to clone the new system to an external firewire  
drive, just try and boot from it - if it boots up and all works OK  
you should be able to just clone it to the Macbook Pro.


Recommend you do this if you possibly can


You have a number of options to get your repaired Macbook Pro up to  
speed.


My preferred option would be a clean install on the repaired  
Macbook pro and

then migrate everything over from the current Macbook.


That would be my preferred option to



You say you don't want to do this because you don't have the original
install discs - have you tried using the install discs that came  
with the
new Macbook - typically they only work with the same model but I'm  
not sure
how Apple differentiates this - for example the install discs from  
an iMac
won't work with a Macbook but I don't know if the Macbook/Macbook  
Pro are
different - you could try it in my experience it will either work  
or say

something like "this software cannot be installed on this computer".


Unfortunately They are two separate sets of disks

Kyle

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Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?

[Kyle Kreusch]

Hi Neil and Steven

Neil makes some valid points

> Kyle's suggestion of cloning the drive over would be my preferred option if 
> the two machines were identical - I have never tried it between two different 
> models.

It should be perfectly ok As they are both laptop's

> It would not be an option if say one was intel and the other was a G5. 
> Assuming the are both intel machines

That is correct
They would both need to be the same architecture. Which they both are
As Apple never made a PowerPC-based MacBook or MacBook Pro

> I would try and confirm with someone that they had done this before on two 
> comparable machines - if so -go for it.

This is the main reason I think it should work As I have started a
iMac's Hard drive With a MacBook Pro Before and never had any problems

> If you were able to clone the new system to an external firewire drive, just 
> try and boot from it - if it boots up and all works OK you should be able to 
> just clone it to the Macbook Pro.

Recommend you do this if you possibly can


> You have a number of options to get your repaired Macbook Pro up to speed.
>
> My preferred option would be a clean install on the repaired Macbook pro and
> then migrate everything over from the current Macbook.

That would be my preferred option to


> You say you don't want to do this because you don't have the original
> install discs - have you tried using the install discs that came with the
> new Macbook - typically they only work with the same model but I'm not sure
> how Apple differentiates this - for example the install discs from an iMac
> won't work with a Macbook but I don't know if the Macbook/Macbook Pro are
> different - you could try it in my experience it will either work or say
> something like "this software cannot be installed on this computer".

Unfortunately They are two separate sets of disks

Kyle

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[Ronda Brown]

Sorry Steven,

I'm sending a retraction to the list.
I just read Steven's email through again thoroughly and noticed he  
only has 10GB free space.
Migration Assistant will not work, as it will create a new account  
with all the data,..and it won't transfer as there won't be enough room.


Also I didn't think about the user 'shortname' could be the same   
if the user "shortname" is the same, it won't let him either.
I seem to remember having trouble on someone's computer that I was  
transferring everything across that had the same "shortname".


Cheers,
Ronni

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From: Ronda Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 October 2008 3:44:39 PM
To: "WAMUG Mailing List" 
Subject: Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?
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On 24/10/2008, at 2:29 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:

I usually use a MacBook Pro (MBP). However a month or so ago, my  
logic board blew up, so it had to go in for repair.


Not being able to access the content on my MBP would have been a  
disaster. Fortunately I use Time Capsule / Time Machine, and so I  
had to go and buy a new MacBook (MB) and restore my system from  
Time Capsule.


Now I have my MBP back. The data is as it was at the point the  
logic board blew up, ie. outdated. What I want to do is put my  
system as it is now on my MB (current) on to the MBP.


What I don't want to do though is have to reinstall the entire  
system (MacOSX) on my MBP because I don't have the original install  
disks for another week, and ideally I need to do this today.


What's the safest, cleanest, quickest and best way to do this? I  
have a firewire cable handy so that I can connect the MB & MBP if I  
need to. The disk on each is about 160Gb but with only 10Gb room  
left.


I thought that should be a way of syncing the MBP with the TIme  
Capsule (which is currently back up by with MB data), but I'm  
afraid that what would happen is that the Time Capsule data would  
be overwritten by the month old MBP data.


Grateful for any tips.

Cheers, Steven


Hi Steven,

Why not use Migration Assistant (Applications > Utilities) &  
Firewire Target Disk Mode.


1. Shutdown the MB,  Connect a Firewire Cable to MB
2. Startup MB & immediately press & hold the T key until the  
Firewire Icon appears.
3. Connect the firewire cable from MB to MBP (MacBook Pro can be  
running)

4. Run Migration Assistant
5. Transfer Users Accounts, Applications (but if the Apps are the  
same don't select this), Network & Computer settings, Files, Volumes.
6. When you are finished transferring, drag the MB computer's hard  
disk icon to the Trash or Eject from the File menu.

7. Press the MB power button to turn it off.
8. Unplug the FireWire cable.

Cheers,
Ronni




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Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Steven & Ronni,

Ronni, if you go this route what happens when you try and migrate "user 1'
from the current system to the old system that already has a "user 1"
account.


Does it just overwrite the old account files or does it put them in an "old
user 1" folder and install the new user account. If the former - no problem,
but I sort of expect the latter (I don't know!) - in which case Steven may
have a problem with his disc already being full.

Cheers


Neil
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Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


on 24/10/08 3:44 PM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> On 24/10/2008, at 2:29 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:
> 
>> I usually use a MacBook Pro (MBP). However a month or so ago, my
>> logic board blew up, so it had to go in for repair.
>> 
>> Not being able to access the content on my MBP would have been a
>> disaster. Fortunately I use Time Capsule / Time Machine, and so I
>> had to go and buy a new MacBook (MB) and restore my system from Time
>> Capsule.
>> 
>> Now I have my MBP back. The data is as it was at the point the logic
>> board blew up, ie. outdated. What I want to do is put my system as
>> it is now on my MB (current) on to the MBP.
>> 
>> What I don't want to do though is have to reinstall the entire
>> system (MacOSX) on my MBP because I don't have the original install
>> disks for another week, and ideally I need to do this today.
>> 
>> What's the safest, cleanest, quickest and best way to do this? I
>> have a firewire cable handy so that I can connect the MB & MBP if I
>> need to. The disk on each is about 160Gb but with only 10Gb room left.
>> 
>> I thought that should be a way of syncing the MBP with the TIme
>> Capsule (which is currently back up by with MB data), but I'm afraid
>> that what would happen is that the Time Capsule data would be
>> overwritten by the month old MBP data.
>> 
>> Grateful for any tips.
>> 
>> Cheers, Steven
> 
> Hi Steven,
> 
> Why not use Migration Assistant (Applications > Utilities) & Firewire
> Target Disk Mode.
> 
> 1. Shutdown the MB,  Connect a Firewire Cable to MB
> 2. Startup MB & immediately press & hold the T key until the Firewire
> Icon appears.
> 3. Connect the firewire cable from MB to MBP (MacBook Pro can be
> running)
> 4. Run Migration Assistant
> 5. Transfer Users Accounts, Applications (but if the Apps are the same
> don't select this), Network & Computer settings, Files, Volumes.
> 6. When you are finished transferring, drag the MB computer's hard
> disk icon to the Trash or Eject from the File menu.
> 7. Press the MB power button to turn it off.
> 8. Unplug the FireWire cable.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 
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Re: Domain Name problem

[Skehan Adrian]

Its got me beat at this stage, I will have to wait until I get back to  
Perth some time next month to follow it up with the domain namr people  
and others.  In the meantime thanks to all for the input.



Regards,

Adrian

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On 24/10/2008, at 12:57 PM, James Devenish wrote:


Hi Neil,

Old and new DNS information -- yes, this is due to the
behind-the-scenes mechanics. When you type in a name, it is translated
by the database of *your* DNS server, which got the data from *its*
DNS server, which got the data from *its* DNS server, and this chain
continues all the way back to the "authoritative" server. You do not
directly query the authoritative server, because then the whole world
of computers would be hitting large servers (like ".com") a squillion
times per second (which would be slow, costly, and less reliable for
your ISP). Instead, you query your own DNS server, which gives you the
latest copy of the info it has. But this isn't always the absolute
latest information. Occasionally this is bad (because you're out of
date compared to the authoritative servers) and occasionally it's good
(because corrupt records in the authoritative servers get corrected
before they reach you).

James.

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Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Steven,

Two things:

First - back-ups:

You already have a time machine backup of your old Mac book Pro.

You don't say if you also have a back-up of the current Macbook set-up. If
not - do that first! That way you have a back-up of everything (old machine
& new machine) if anything goes wrong!

If your Time capsule has enough space on it, you can use it as a Time
machine back-up and back-up your new Macbook - it won't overwrite the Time
machine back-up for the Macbook Pro it will just create a separate folder
for the new computer and back-it up.

The other thing you could do is use superduper to clone the current Macbook
set-up - ideally to a spare firewire drive, if you have one lying around :)
if not you should be able to clone it to disk image on the Time capsule -
again this is subject to available space, but since your Time capsule is at
least 500GB and your laptops only have 160GB drives, I'm guessing you have a
bit of free space. 



Next:

You have a number of options to get your repaired Macbook Pro up to speed.

My preferred option would be a clean install on the repaired Macbook pro and
then migrate everything over from the current Macbook.

You say you don't want to do this because you don't have the original
install discs - have you tried using the install discs that came with the
new Macbook - typically they only work with the same model but I'm not sure
how Apple differentiates this - for example the install discs from an iMac
won't work with a Macbook but I don't know if the Macbook/Macbook Pro are
different - you could try it in my experience it will either work or say
something like "this software cannot be installed on this computer".

Kyles suggestion of cloning the drive over would be my preferred option if
the two machines were identical - I have never tried it between two
different models. It would not be an option if say one was intel and the
other was a G5. Assuming the are both intel machines, I would try and
confirm with someone that they had done this before on two comparable
machines - if so -go for it. If you were able to clone the new system to an
external firewire drive, just try and boot from it - if it boots up and all
works OK you should be able to just clone it to the Macbook Pro.

You don't say in what state the old Macbook pro is in - was it returned with
the disc as per your original set-up or is it wiped clean.. The above
approaches will work anyway. Bob's suggestion assumes that your disc is as
the original set-up. I would also repeat his caution about trying it with
your discs being so full - I have found in this case you have problems with
superduper not having enough space to shuffle things around as it updates.

Also how many user accounts do you have. The first thing I do is set up my
initial account as Admin and get the computer up to speed (updates etc) then
setup my user account. With this setup I would login to the old machine as
admin and delete the user account, then migrate the user account over from
the new machine. However, you can't do this if you only have one account or
need to migrate them all.

Also a word of caution with multiple users and migrating - this should not
be a problem if you do it when setting up a machine. However if you migrate
users over later you can end up with accounts with the same names and
different ID numbers and permissions nightmares (a bad thing!).

Hope that helps.


Cheers


Neil
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Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


on 24/10/08 2:29 PM, Steven Knowles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I usually use a MacBook Pro (MBP). However a month or so ago, my logic
> board blew up, so it had to go in for repair.
> 
> Not being able to access the content on my MBP would have been a
> disaster. Fortunately I use Time Capsule / Time Machine, and so I had
> to go and buy a new MacBook (MB) and restore my system from Time
> Capsule.
> 
> Now I have my MBP back. The data is as it was at the point the logic
> board blew up, ie. outdated. What I want to do is put my system as it
> is now on my MB (current) on to the MBP.
> 
> What I don't want to do though is have to reinstall the entire system
> (MacOSX) on my MBP because I don't have the original install disks for
> another week, and ideally I need to do this today.
> 
> What's the safest, cleanest, quickest and best way to do this? I have
> a firewire cable handy so that I can connect the MB & MBP if I need
> to. The disk on each is about 160Gb but with only 10Gb room left.
> 
> I thought that should be a way of syncing the MBP with the TIme
> Capsule (which is currently back up by with MB data), but I'm afraid
> that what would happen is that the Time Capsule data would be
> overwritten by the month old MBP data.
> 
> Grateful for any tips.
> 
> Cheers, Steven
> 



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On 24/10/2008, at 2:29 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:

I usually use a MacBook Pro (MBP). However a month or so ago, my  
logic board blew up, so it had to go in for repair.


Not being able to access the content on my MBP would have been a  
disaster. Fortunately I use Time Capsule / Time Machine, and so I  
had to go and buy a new MacBook (MB) and restore my system from Time  
Capsule.


Now I have my MBP back. The data is as it was at the point the logic  
board blew up, ie. outdated. What I want to do is put my system as  
it is now on my MB (current) on to the MBP.


What I don't want to do though is have to reinstall the entire  
system (MacOSX) on my MBP because I don't have the original install  
disks for another week, and ideally I need to do this today.


What's the safest, cleanest, quickest and best way to do this? I  
have a firewire cable handy so that I can connect the MB & MBP if I  
need to. The disk on each is about 160Gb but with only 10Gb room left.


I thought that should be a way of syncing the MBP with the TIme  
Capsule (which is currently back up by with MB data), but I'm afraid  
that what would happen is that the Time Capsule data would be  
overwritten by the month old MBP data.


Grateful for any tips.

Cheers, Steven


Hi Steven,

Why not use Migration Assistant (Applications > Utilities) & Firewire  
Target Disk Mode.


1. Shutdown the MB,  Connect a Firewire Cable to MB
2. Startup MB & immediately press & hold the T key until the Firewire  
Icon appears.
3. Connect the firewire cable from MB to MBP (MacBook Pro can be  
running)

4. Run Migration Assistant
5. Transfer Users Accounts, Applications (but if the Apps are the same  
don't select this), Network & Computer settings, Files, Volumes.
6. When you are finished transferring, drag the MB computer's hard  
disk icon to the Trash or Eject from the File menu.

7. Press the MB power button to turn it off.
8. Unplug the FireWire cable.

Cheers,
Ronni


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Re: How to transfer MacBook user content to MacBook Pro ?

[Robert Howells]

On 24/10/2008, at 2:52 PM, Kyle Kreusch wrote:


Hi Steven

if everything that is on the MacBook Pro is on The MacBook I would use
SuperDuper

To copy the hard drive from the MacBook To the MacBook Pro

You will need to start the MacBook Pro up in target disk mode And
connected to the MacBook

Then use SuperDuper To copy the MacBook's hard drive to the MacBook
Pro. Let me know if you need more detailed instructions on how to use
SuperDuper


Kyle




Yes , but that will take an age !

Using Superduper you could just update the USERS files
and that would  be much faster ..
assuming of course that you have not changed your software in any way .

Your SMALL spare disk space may cause you some grief , and is probably  
causing

your Mac to run slower than it possible could run .

Having something like 20% spare space is a much better option . Try  
and plan to

offload something


Bob









On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Steven Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:
I usually use a MacBook Pro (MBP). However a month or so ago, my  
logic board

blew up, so it had to go in for repair.

Not being able to access the content on my MBP would have been a  
disaster.
Fortunately I use Time Capsule / Time Machine, and so I had to go  
and buy a

new MacBook (MB) and restore my system from Time Capsule.

Now I have my MBP back. The data is as it was at the point the  
logic board
blew up, ie. outdated. What I want to do is put my system as it is  
now on my

MB (current) on to the MBP.

What I don't want to do though is have to reinstall the entire system
(MacOSX) on my MBP because I don't have the original install disks  
for

another week, and ideally I need to do this today.

What's the safest, cleanest, quickest and best way to do this? I  
have a
firewire cable handy so that I can connect the MB & MBP if I need  
to. The

disk on each is about 160Gb but with only 10Gb room left.

I thought that should be a way of syncing the MBP with the TIme  
Capsule
(which is currently back up by with MB data), but I'm afraid that  
what would
happen is that the Time Capsule data would be overwritten by the  
month old

MBP data.

Grateful for any tips.

Cheers, Steven







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