Re: TimeMachine
On 23/04/2010, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason my TimeMachine is giving a message saying This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup disk requires 657.35 GB but only 336.95 GB are available etc. it is a 1TB B/U disk. It has been backing up for a couple of years now but appears to have stopped deleting the oldest backup when its full. I cant find any preferences other than the Don't Backup option. Can anyone suggest a solution please? Hi Adrian, That's a large backup for an hourly backup? If you do a Get Info on your 1TB backup Drive what free space does it say it has left? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: TimeMachine
I checked that and found it to be the same. I just entered TimeMachne and found there that there was only 1 backup which was at 5 pm last evening??? I will reformat it and started T/M again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 23/04/2010, at 3:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 23/04/2010, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason my TimeMachine is giving a message saying This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup disk requires 657.35 GB but only 336.95 GB are available etc. it is a 1TB B/U disk. It has been backing up for a couple of years now but appears to have stopped deleting the oldest backup when its full. I cant find any preferences other than the Don't Backup option. Can anyone suggest a solution please? Hi Adrian, That's a large backup for an hourly backup? If you do a Get Info on your 1TB backup Drive what free space does it say it has left? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: TimeMachine
Hi Adrian, Are you in Snow Leopard? The backup disk is full (Snow Leopard). If you have the Notify after old backups are deleted box checked in TM Preferences Options, you'll see this message after Time Machine has deleted some old backups. The new backup completed normally, and you don't need to take any action -- this is just a notification. If you don't want to see this message again (just let Time Machine delete old backups when necessary), click the Do not show this warning again box in the message, or un-check the Notify . . . box in TM Preferences Options. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 23/04/2010, at 4:39 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: I checked that and found it to be the same. I just entered TimeMachne and found there that there was only 1 backup which was at 5 pm last evening??? I will reformat it and started T/M again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 23/04/2010, at 3:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 23/04/2010, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason my TimeMachine is giving a message saying This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup disk requires 657.35 GB but only 336.95 GB are available etc. it is a 1TB B/U disk. It has been backing up for a couple of years now but appears to have stopped deleting the oldest backup when its full. I cant find any preferences other than the Don't Backup option. Can anyone suggest a solution please? Hi Adrian, That's a large backup for an hourly backup? If you do a Get Info on your 1TB backup Drive what free space does it say it has left? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Buying iPad from US
Has anyone usedship2me to buy an ipad?Any pros/cons?taBlittoRod Blitvich-Amy Sam’s Dad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.auhttp://web.me.com/blittoBlack holes suck. --TheWAMacintoshUserGroupMailingList-- Archives-http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines-http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe-mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: TimeMachine
Thanks Ronni, yes I am on Snow Leopard but the message was re-occurring every few minutes and was not referring to deleting old backups just that there was not enough room for any more. I will wait and see what happens now that I have re-started TimeMachine. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 23/04/2010, at 4:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Are you in Snow Leopard? The backup disk is full (Snow Leopard). If you have the Notify after old backups are deleted box checked in TM Preferences Options, you'll see this message after Time Machine has deleted some old backups. The new backup completed normally, and you don't need to take any action -- this is just a notification. If you don't want to see this message again (just let Time Machine delete old backups when necessary), click the Do not show this warning again box in the message, or un-check the Notify . . . box in TM Preferences Options. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 23/04/2010, at 4:39 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: I checked that and found it to be the same. I just entered TimeMachne and found there that there was only 1 backup which was at 5 pm last evening??? I will reformat it and started T/M again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 23/04/2010, at 3:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 23/04/2010, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason my TimeMachine is giving a message saying This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup disk requires 657.35 GB but only 336.95 GB are available etc. it is a 1TB B/U disk. It has been backing up for a couple of years now but appears to have stopped deleting the oldest backup when its full. I cant find any preferences other than the Don't Backup option. Can anyone suggest a solution please? Hi Adrian, That's a large backup for an hourly backup? If you do a Get Info on your 1TB backup Drive what free space does it say it has left? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Buying iPad from US
On 23/04/2010 5:40 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Has anyone used ship2me http://www.ship2me.com/ to buy an ipad? Any pros/cons? ta Blitto I wouldn't buy a 3G model from the US as you'll probably find it locked to ATT or somesuch. Also beware that apparently Apple have been cancelling some redirection orders: http://macworld.com.au/ipad/view/4750/ Have fun, Shay -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iMovie difficulty
Thanks Amanda, I always thought VLC was just a media player but I'll give it a go! Kevin Kevin Warner www.kcwarner.com __ Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test. Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ? Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. Microsoft: You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips. The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX. I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'. Mac users swear by their Mac... PC users swear at their PC. On 22/04/2010, at 10:15 AM, Amanda Godecke wrote: Hey, Try VLC Media player from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Amanda Godecke Computer Support Officer Business School IT University of Western Australia Ph 08 6488 3879 -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Kevin Warner Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:45 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: iMovie difficulty Hi Everyone, I've got some video clips from work that are in a mixed variety of formats, some are avi's and some a windows movies. I want to put them together to make a whole movie sequence and the only movie editing software I've got is iMovie, but it won't let me import the clips. Is there a way I can import avi and wmv movie files into iMovie? if not, is there are free or cheap (up to around $100) movie editor I can use that you'd recommend? Thanks, Kevin Kevin Warner www.kcwarner.com __ Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test. Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ? Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. Microsoft: You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips. The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX. I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'. Mac users swear by their Mac... PC users swear at their PC. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Buying iPad from US
It might also work like the Kindle, you may need to have an iTunes account based in the US, linked to a US credit card. So you may get an iPad but won't be able to buy any apps. Kevin Kevin Warner www.kcwarner.com __ Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test. Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ? Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. Microsoft: You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips. The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX. I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'. Mac users swear by their Mac... PC users swear at their PC. On 23/04/2010, at 5:57 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: On 23/04/2010 5:40 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Has anyone used ship2me http://www.ship2me.com/ to buy an ipad? Any pros/cons? ta Blitto I wouldn't buy a 3G model from the US as you'll probably find it locked to ATT or somesuch. Also beware that apparently Apple have been cancelling some redirection orders: http://macworld.com.au/ipad/view/4750/ Have fun, Shay -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Some ipad apps are available in Australia and International Kindles work here too
Hi, I bought an ipad about 3 weeks ago through ebay, following a link on the Macworld site. It doesn't seem to have the links to sellers on it now. I bought it from a seller in the US using my verified PayPal account - the name of the seller sounded Asian. It shipped within a couple of days. Its a wireless 16gig version. I have a Telstra USB wireless card, which I use with a Cradlepoint router to access wireless when I don't have other wireless options. It arrived after about a week. There are quite a few 'universal' apps which act like ipad apps on the ipad and iphone apps on the iphone. I can't download them directly on the ipad as I can't use the special App Store, although I can access music through the iTunes store. They are separate on the ipad. So, in that sense, it is closed. But, I can access ipad Apps on my Mac and transfer them in iTunes. I can't access the iWork apps for the ipad yet, I expect they will become available here at the Australian launch. I use the Kindle app for the ipad to read books using the full sized screen, for example. It syncs with my Kindle app on my Mac to keep my place in the book so I can move from the iphone to the ipad or my Mac and continue reading where I left off. The actual Kindle machine has an international version which allows access to 3g for free in other countries such as Australia. So, you don't need a 3g account to download books over 3g - Amazon must charge a little extra for each book to cover the cost and they must have an arrangement with Telstra to allow the access. If you use an iphone or ipod touch, the experience of using and ipad is very similar - but with a much better sized screen for reading books or watching video. cheers, Susan. On 23/04/2010, at 6:09 PM, Kevin Warner wrote: It might also work like the Kindle, you may need to have an iTunes account based in the US, linked to a US credit card. So you may get an iPad but won't be able to buy any apps. Kevin Kevin Warner www.kcwarner.com __ Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test. Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ? Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. Microsoft: You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips. The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX. I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'. Mac users swear by their Mac... PC users swear at their PC. On 23/04/2010, at 5:57 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: On 23/04/2010 5:40 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Has anyone used ship2me http://www.ship2me.com/ to buy an ipad? Any pros/cons? ta Blitto I wouldn't buy a 3G model from the US as you'll probably find it locked to ATT or somesuch. Also beware that apparently Apple have been cancelling some redirection orders: http://macworld.com.au/ipad/view/4750/ Have fun, Shay -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Hitler's reaction to the iPhone leak
I just love these parodies - and this one is definitely on-topic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3al_4HSteyE Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Buying iPad from US
On 23/04/2010, at 7:57 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: I wouldn't buy a 3G model from the US as you'll probably find it locked to ATT or somesuch. Steve Jobs made it clear in his Keynote launching the iPad that it is NOT LOCKED to any carrier... ATT do have the bets data plan in the US and are apparently the only ones using MicroSIMs at this stage there. But more and more USB 3G wireless modems use the MicroSiMs and I believe all Australian carriers already have at least one, if not more, model of USB thumb drive sized modems that already use MicroSIMs here... so they should be able to supply you with the right sized SIM. -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@appleusers.org) Founder Publisher, AppleUsers.org http://www.appleusers.org/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
iPad transfer
Good morning Is it possible to transfer text files in rtf and pdf format files from a MacBook to the iPad. Is there a default text editor (not Notes) with the iPad like TextEdit on the Mac Thanks and best wishes, Edward -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPad transfer
Hi Edward, there are a few options for transferring documents to the iPad. An example is a little program that you have on the iphone or ipad, plus a utility on the Mac which adds a new printing option 'print to iphone' which will transfer it over your wireless network to your iphone or ipad. When we have the iWork programs available here there will be options in iTunes to transfer documents to the iPad and work on them there. But can only view the documents, there is no program like TextEdit available at this stage as far as I know. So, for writing documents, I only have Notes as an option. I've tethered it to a wireless keyboard for writing notes - it feels odd to not have a mouse as well. cheers, Susan. On 24/04/2010, at 8:11 AM, Edward wrote: Good morning Is it possible to transfer text files in rtf and pdf format files from a MacBook to the iPad. Is there a default text editor (not Notes) with the iPad like TextEdit on the Mac Thanks and best wishes, Edward -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
speaking of time machine...
a million points to Ronni (as ever) for her comments on partitioning a drive for two computers on one TM disc - I did quite a bit of research on the backing up of two macs when they both hit leopard recently and nobody had thought of that. However I hit another snag that might make it all irrelevant - I read that you could plug a drive straight into the mac for the initial backup to save time and then update over a network, with the mac finding the drive for itself. It seems not. It either fails to find the drive at all or complains that it is not in hfs+ format (which it is). I then found a snippet about belkin wireless routers not supporting hfs +. I would have thought routers just transmitted stuff and didn't have to 'support' anything, but what do I know? What's odd is - I can happily copy files from the mac to the same drive (different partition) over the same network. Thoughts very welcome Kind regards alastair powermac G5 dual 2ghz 3.5g ram 10.5.8 (in this case iMac 1.8ghz pre-isight. 1,5ram 10.5.8) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
