Re: Keychain help please
Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's what I thought I had done but now I am locked out of Mail and am constantly asked for a password. The only password I know to use is my Login password which is not accepted. I've tried clicking on the closed padlock but that has no effect. I've followed the steps in Mail Help but still cannot get anywhere. Please can you tell me what I have done to cause this problem. The only way I can access Mail is to go through my ISP and webmail. Kind regards Laura MacBook 10.6.4 Hi Laura, Without knowing exactly what you did in your Login Keychain, it is very difficult to advise you.A couple of things to try: A)1. Open Keychain Access: 2. Click 'Login' (under Keychains in the left column) 3. Then in the right column, scroll down to you find an entry for your Mail account.It will be something like 'mail.iinet.com.au' 4. double click on the icon beside it 5. select 'show password' 6. Type in your admin passwordKeychain will then show you your Mail Account password. B). See if you can verify your Keychain. Open Keychain Access, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. 1.. Open Keychain Access 2.. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3. Enter your user name and password. 4. Select Verify and click Start. Any problems found will be displayed. If there are problems, select Repair, and then click Start. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i72.66GHz / 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: MacBook Pro Trackpad problem
Hi Rob Thanks for that. And yes called them at 9 to try that. Just waiting for a call back when they can they find their Cd's :) Then I can talk them through. Thanks again. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web:http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For Everything Macintosh** On 24/06/2010, at 10:35 AM, Rob Findlay r...@teamdigital.com.au wrote: Have you tried booting of the install CD, see if it works when not booted from the OS on the hard drive? If it works you could do an archive install. On 24/06/2010, at 2:26 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I have an interesting one here, so looking for some ideas ;) (Long day,...brain half asleep,..etc) Have a client with a MacBookPro (2GHz/2GB RAM/80GB HDD) running 10.4.11 all OS updates. As they've said They aren't sure what they've done but for some reason during a program crash or restart something has happened to their trackpad button. It won't accept clicks. You can move the arrow around the screen you just can't click on anything. At first I thought easy,..Universal Access or Trackpad setting. But nope. They have a Bluetooth Mouse, so plugged this to use it. And strangely enough. Same thing. The mouse will move around the cursor on screen. It will right click,...but no left (single) click. I've gone through with them over the phone in a lengthy call (as they live in Port Hedland) the following:- Removed com.apple.systemprefernces.plist com.apple.universalaccess.plist com.apple.finder.plist (I think there was a couple more,..but now can't remember,..lol). Restarted numerous times. PRAM Zap Tried to run Disk Utility and Repair Permissions, but we can't get as far as clicking the Repair Permission button. (we managed to get the application open and select the drive..just no keyboard command to tell it to start repair...lol. Have checked Trackpad in System Preferences and all the correct things are ticked. Checked Universal Access and made sure that Mouse Keys was off, which it was. Also checked Sticky Keys, which was also off. (And checked the other settings versus what I have, and all matched). Googled through a few articles changing what I was searching for a few times to try modify the results. Got a couple of similar articles, one saying to repair permissions and it would fix it. Problem is,..we can't. I've suggested tomorrow if she can to beg, borrow or steal a USB mouse (rather then a Bluetooth one) and see what results with that. But I'm not holding my breath. Oh, and also tried to start up in Safe Boot Mode (shift key held down). But that didn't help either. Same thing,..no mouse click. So. I'm at a bit of a loss. Hoping someone may have some other solutions or ideas to try. Or maybe I'm looking for something completely different and it's actually an easy fix! :o) (And it's actually very difficult to control a computer when you can't use a click. You certainly have to remember all the keyboard commands again to do things). Oh, and Fn-5 or Fn-F5 didn't work as a Mouse click either. I think that was everything I tried. Brain in late mode, so I'm sure I'll remember something else after I post this. ;) Sorry for the long email. Just wanted to show I'd covered a few things so as to not waste too much time. Look forward to any suggestions ;O) (Short of a fix, she's thinking of posting the laptop back to me to work on before she comes back to Perth for a short visit) Thanks!! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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: Keychain help please
Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) and a group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it? It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login) 1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's what I thought I had done but now I am locked out of Mail and am constantly asked for a password. The only password I know to use is my Login password which is not accepted. I've tried clicking on the closed padlock but that has no effect. I've followed the steps in Mail Help but still cannot get anywhere. Please can you tell me what I have done to cause this problem. The only way I can access Mail is to go through my ISP and webmail. Kind regards Laura MacBook 10.6.4 Hi Laura, Without knowing exactly what you did in your Login Keychain, it is very difficult to advise you.A couple of things to try: A)1. Open Keychain Access: 2. Click 'Login' (under Keychains in the left column) 3. Then in the right column, scroll down to you find an entry for your Mail account.It will be something like 'mail.iinet.com.au' 4. double click on the icon beside it 5. select 'show password' 6. Type in your admin passwordKeychain will then show you your Mail Account password. B). See if you can verify your Keychain. Open Keychain Access, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. 1.. Open Keychain Access 2.. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid.
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Laura You can also try some of the generic ones used for the admin password in Keychain. These are apple or password or (nothing. Just leave it blank and click ok). Try those and cross fingers :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web:http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For Everything Macintosh** On 24/06/2010, at 2:35 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) and a group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it? It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login) 1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's what I thought I had done but now I am locked out of Mail and am constantly asked for a password. The only password I know to use is my Login password which is not accepted. I've tried clicking on the closed padlock but that has no effect. I've followed the steps in Mail Help but still cannot get anywhere. Please can you tell me what I have done to cause this problem. The only way I can access Mail is to go through my ISP and webmail. Kind regards Laura MacBook 10.6.4 Hi Laura, Without knowing exactly what you did in your Login Keychain, it is very difficult to advise you.A couple of things to try: A)1. Open Keychain Access: 2. Click 'Login' (under Keychains in the left column)
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Ronni Sorry but I don't know the password for my mail account. It was set up four years ago. I could assume it's the same as my login password but no guarantee, so not sure if I should still go ahead with your latest suggestion. I feel rather stupid about all this given that I'm not conscious of what I did to cause the problem!! Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 14:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) anda group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it?It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login)1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers,Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's what I thought I had done but now I am locked out of Mail and am constantly asked for a password. The only password I know to use is my Login password which is not accepted. I've tried clicking on the closed padlock but that has no effect. I've followed the steps in Mail Help but still cannot get anywhere. Please can you tell me what I have done to cause this problem. The only way I can access Mail is to go through my ISP and webmail. Kind regards Laura MacBook 10.6.4 Hi Laura, Without knowing exactly what you did in your Login Keychain, it is very difficult to advise you.A couple of things to try: A)1. Open Keychain Access: 2. Click 'Login' (under Keychains in the left column) 3. Then in the right column, scroll down to you find an entry for your Mail account.It will be something like 'mail.iinet.com.au' 4. double click on the icon beside it 5. select 'show password' 6.
Re: Keychain help please
The only problem with this is it sounds like the keychain has been locked so it will ask for a password to store the password. Depending on how many other items are in the keychain I would probably just trash the keychain from ~/Library/Keychains then launch Safari and when it says there is no keychain environment choose reset, enter your login password and create a new blank keychain which will have the same password as the login password. Of course this gets more problematic if there are other items in the old keychain that you don't know the password for. On 24/06/2010, at 2:35 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) and a group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it? It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login) 1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's what I thought I had done but now I am locked out of Mail and am constantly asked for a password. The only password I know to use is my Login password which is not accepted. I've tried clicking on the closed padlock but that has no effect. I've followed the steps in Mail Help but still cannot get anywhere. Please can you tell me what I have done to cause this problem. The only way I can access Mail is to go through my ISP and webmail. Kind regards Laura MacBook 10.6.4 Hi Laura, Without knowing exactly what you did in your
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Laura, NO, the email account's password is NOT your Login (Administrator) Password. It is the password you would have given iiNet when you signed up setup your Account with them. What password are you using to access your iiNet webmail? Do you have a copy of your iiNet Account settings / contract? If not, you can retrieve your 'forgotten Password by going here: https://toolbox.iinet.net.au/cgi-bin/playpen/9pointidcheck.cgi?toolbox=1 You require your full email address that is used by the service that you have forgotten your password for, along with a secondary piece of information (a valid invoice number, or the credit card number you use to make payments for this service). Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:54 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sorry but I don't know the password for my mail account. It was set up four years ago. I could assume it's the same as my login password but no guarantee, so not sure if I should still go ahead with your latest suggestion. I feel rather stupid about all this given that I'm not conscious of what I did to cause the problem!! Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 14:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) anda group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it?It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login)1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers,Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Again Laura, I thought I better say Don't type your Password in your reply email, I only meant for you check what password you are using in iiNet Webmail, as it probably is the same as in your Mail Account in Apple Mail. Hi Laura, NO, the email account's password is NOT your Login (Administrator) Password. It is the password you would have given iiNet when you signed up setup your Account with them. What password are you using to access your iiNet webmail? Do you have a copy of your iiNet Account settings / contract? If not, you can retrieve your 'forgotten Password by going here: https://toolbox.iinet.net.au/cgi-bin/playpen/9pointidcheck.cgi?toolbox=1 You require your full email address that is used by the service that you have forgotten your password for, along with a secondary piece of information (a valid invoice number, or the credit card number you use to make payments for this service). Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:54 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sorry but I don't know the password for my mail account. It was set up four years ago. I could assume it's the same as my login password but no guarantee, so not sure if I should still go ahead with your latest suggestion. I feel rather stupid about all this given that I'm not conscious of what I did to cause the problem!! Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 14:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) anda group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it?It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login)1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers,Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Ronni I know the password I use when accessing webmail. I tried the on line contact with iinet but there is a problem somewhere there. I've phoned and am now waiting for a call back from them. Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 15:17 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, NO, the email account's password is NOT your Login (Administrator) Password. It is the password you would have given iiNet when you signed up setup your Account with them. What password are you using to access your iiNet webmail? Do you have a copy of your iiNet Account settings / contract? If not, you can retrieve your 'forgotten Password by going here: https://toolbox.iinet.net.au/cgi-bin/playpen/9pointidcheck.cgi\?toolbox=1 You require your full email address that is used by the service that you have forgotten your password for, along with a secondary piece of information (a valid invoice number, or the credit card number you use to make payments for this service). Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:54 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sorry but I don't know the password for my mail account. It was set up four years ago. I could assume it's the same as my login password but no guarantee, so not sure if I should still go ahead with your latest suggestion. I feel rather stupid about all this given that I'm not conscious of what I did to cause the problem!! Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 14:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) anda group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it?It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login)1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers,Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at
Re: Keychain help please
Try the password you use for Webmail when Mail asks for the password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 3:36 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I know the password I use when accessing webmail. I tried the on line contact with iinet but there is a problem somewhere there. I've phoned and am now waiting for a call back from them. Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 15:17 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, NO, the email account's password is NOT your Login (Administrator) Password. It is the password you would have given iiNet when you signed up setup your Account with them. What password are you using to access your iiNet webmail? Do you have a copy of your iiNet Account settings / contract? If not, you can retrieve your 'forgotten Password by going here: https://toolbox.iinet.net.au/cgi-bin/playpen/9pointidcheck.cgi\?toolbox=1 You require your full email address that is used by the service that you have forgotten your password for, along with a secondary piece of information (a valid invoice number, or the credit card number you use to make payments for this service). Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:54 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sorry but I don't know the password for my mail account. It was set up four years ago. I could assume it's the same as my login password but no guarantee, so not sure if I should still go ahead with your latest suggestion. I feel rather stupid about all this given that I'm not conscious of what I did to cause the problem!! Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 14:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) anda group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it?It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login)1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers,Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Ronni It seems Keychain had nothing to do with the problem!! . iinet have fixed whatever the problem was. All is now well and I can access Mail as always. Until I know how to use Keychain I shall keep well away from it. My thanks also to Daniel and Rob for their suggestions. My apologies for taking up your valuable time. Many thanks Kind regards Laura Once again, many thanks to you and sorry to have On 24/06/2010, at 3:42 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Try the password you use for Webmail when Mail asks for the password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 3:36 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I know the password I use when accessing webmail. I tried the on line contact with iinet but there is a problem somewhere there. I've phoned and am now waiting for a call back from them. Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 15:17 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, NO, the email account's password is NOT your Login (Administrator) Password. It is the password you would have given iiNet when you signed up setup your Account with them. What password are you using to access your iiNet webmail? Do you have a copy of your iiNet Account settings / contract? If not, you can retrieve your 'forgotten Password by going here: https://toolbox.iinet.net.au/cgi-bin/playpen/9pointidcheck.cgi\?toolbox=1 You require your full email address that is used by the service that you have forgotten your password for, along with a secondary piece of information (a valid invoice number, or the credit card number you use to make payments for this service). Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:54 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sorry but I don't know the password for my mail account. It was set up four years ago. I could assume it's the same as my login password but no guarantee, so not sure if I should still go ahead with your latest suggestion. I feel rather stupid about all this given that I'm not conscious of what I did to cause the problem!! Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 14:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) anda group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it?It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login)1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers,Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni
Re: Keychain help please
Hi Laura, I hope you now have your iiNet Account details and password for your Mail Account for the next time something like this happens. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 3:52 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni It seems Keychain had nothing to do with the problem!! . iinet have fixed whatever the problem was. All is now well and I can access Mail as always. Until I know how to use Keychain I shall keep well away from it. My thanks also to Daniel and Rob for their suggestions. My apologies for taking up your valuable time. Many thanks Kind regards Laura Once again, many thanks to you and sorry to have On 24/06/2010, at 3:42 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Try the password you use for Webmail when Mail asks for the password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 3:36 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I know the password I use when accessing webmail. I tried the on line contact with iinet but there is a problem somewhere there. I've phoned and am now waiting for a call back from them. Regards Laura -- 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: Time Capsule
Hi Jim I've been using a 500GB Time Capsule since it was first released in early 2008. It replaced my DLink router/modem and I use it to back up an iMac and a MacBook Pro. My criticism is that it is not a combined router and modem, so you have to have a stand-alone modem as well as the Time Capsule router and it also only has 3 ethernet ports. It has performed flawlessly and I've used it to recover a few lost documents. I also have a Canon printer/scanner connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule thereby making it available over the wireless network. All in all, i'm very happy with my Time Capsule. Cheers Jane On 24/06/2010, at 12:13 PM, Jim D wrote: Does anyone have have any experience or advice on the Timecapsule. http://www.apple.com/au/timecapsule/ It appears to be the cat's pyjamas, yet on browsing the reviews/comments (http://store.apple.com/au/reviews/MC343X/A?mco=MTcwNTU4MzQ) on the thing it would appear to have a very dodgy power supply that dies after 12 months! I was close to purchase, and then read, wow, is this product really Apple? Cheers, Jim -- Jim Duffield 0405583977 Skype: oldozsapper -- 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: Keychain help please
Hi Laura, I've only just caught up with this thread so, firstly, good to hear you now have mail working. Until I know how to use Keychain I shall keep well away from it. I agree that it is best not to start changing things in Keychain unless you know just what you are doing (and why). However, it sounds like you have passwords in Keychain that you have now forgotten (you are probably not the only one here). This may not be a problem as long as things keep working - but sometimes things change - for example sites re-organise and a log-in page may get a new URL and so Keychain doesn't recognise it as the one associated with the saved password - and so you need the password to log-in again. On several occasions I have gone back to sites/forums etc that I wished to access and realised I had forgotten the password. Generally this isn't a problem if I had the passwords in Keychain - on these occasions I could open Keychain and get it to show me the stored passwords - this is basically what Ronni was asking you to do to retrieve your password for the email server. Now, whilst, in this case, it turned out the original problem was not a keychain problem, you should still have been able to get Keychain to show you the password. If you are having problems with that, it may be best to try and work out what the problem is before it causes you real trouble. A simple test to try and see if it gives you the same password problem would be to create a Secure Note (This is a useful feature of keychain that lets you store any confidential info in a little note. The contents of the note is hidden until you enter the password): - Open Keychain Access - Under the File menu select New secure Note Item - In the window that opens enter a name (say, Test) in the Keychain Item Name: box and some text (say, Test note text) in the Note: box. - Click the add button, the window will close and you have created the secure note. Now in the Keychain Access window select login under Keychains and select Secure Notes under Category and you should see the note you have just created with: Name: Test Kind: secure note Keychain: login Select the item and click the i button in the bottom bar (or just Double-click the item) and the window for the note will open but the note box will be blank until you tick the show note box - at which point you will be asked to enter your login keychain password. Do so, and click the allow button and: - If all is OK the text of the note will be revealed. - If you get the same Sorry, you entered an invalid password message then we will need to look a little deeper to see just what the situation is. By default your login keychain is the default keychain and has the same password as your account log-in - although you can change passwords and/or default keychains, I wouldn't recommend this unless you know what you are doing and have a good reason - but it may be that this has been changed inadvertently (it seems that a Microsoft software update once changed my default keychain to Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates - which caused me some problems until I realised what had happened). Anyway, try creating a new secure note (as above), see what happens and report back. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 24/6/10 3:52 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni It seems Keychain had nothing to do with the problem!! . iinet have fixed whatever the problem was. All is now well and I can access Mail as always. Until I know how to use Keychain I shall keep well away from it. My thanks also to Daniel and Rob for their suggestions. My apologies for taking up your valuable time. Many thanks Kind regards Laura Once again, many thanks to you and sorry to have On 24/06/2010, at 3:42 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Try the password you use for Webmail when Mail asks for the password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 3:36 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I know the password I use when accessing webmail. I tried the on line contact with iinet but there is a problem somewhere there. I've phoned and am now waiting for a call back from them. Regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 15:17 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, NO, the email account's password is NOT your Login (Administrator) Password. It is the password you would have given iiNet when you signed up setup your Account with them. What password are you using to access your iiNet webmail? Do you have a copy of your iiNet Account settings / contract? If not, you can retrieve your 'forgotten Password by going here: https://toolbox.iinet.net.au/cgi-bin/playpen/9pointidcheck.cgi\?toolbox=1 You require your full email address that is used by the service that you have forgotten your password for, along with a secondary piece of information (a valid invoice number, or the credit card number you use to make
My iPhone, disappearing birthday problem
To answer my own question yesterday, about disappearing birthdays of my 80+ yo family members from my iPhone Calendar app. To quote responses I got from the MacInTouch list, and it is not limited to iOS4 but has been around for a while. cheers Robin --- B Carpenter Re: no birthdays for older people on iPhone calendar. This is a feature apparently. It seems that the iPhone calendar doesn't do repeated events when repeated more than 75 times, so anyone with birthdays over 75 years old just doesn't show up. John Davies To Robin Belford: The issue with birthdays (repeating events) for old people (events initiated many years ago) disappearing is not new and has nothing to do with iOS 4. I believe the issue is in iTunes and the sync routine. I have forgotten how many years of repeating events can sync before they get dropped, but know that my Mother's birthday doesn't make it over to my 3.1.3 iPhone and didn't in previous releases. The whole issue with birthday syncing on the iPhone is a mess as they are stored on the Mac in Address Book with a time zone so when you move around the world *some* of them move a day of. You may also notice on the iPhone that the same birthday *can* be on a different day depending on if you look at Calendar or Contacts e.g. my birthday in Calendar is correctly shown as May 24 but in Contacts shows as May 25. Such a buggy mess I no longer enable the Birthdays calendar in iCal and manage them manually. I have heard good things about Dates to iCal but don't know if this helps improve syncing to the iPhone. -- 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: My iPhone, disappearing birthday problem
I was informed today that if you sync birthdays with Google calendar it moves them forward a day. One day every time you sync :( Have fun, Shay On 24/06/2010 9:41 PM, Robin Belford wrote: To answer my own question yesterday, about disappearing birthdays of my 80+ yo family members from my iPhone Calendar app. To quote responses I got from the MacInTouch list, and it is not limited to iOS4 but has been around for a while. cheers Robin --- B Carpenter Re: no birthdays for older people on iPhone calendar. This is a feature apparently. It seems that the iPhone calendar doesn't do repeated events when repeated more than 75 times, so anyone with birthdays over 75 years old just doesn't show up. John Davies To Robin Belford: The issue with birthdays (repeating events) for old people (events initiated many years ago) disappearing is not new and has nothing to do with iOS 4. I believe the issue is in iTunes and the sync routine. I have forgotten how many years of repeating events can sync before they get dropped, but know that my Mother's birthday doesn't make it over to my 3.1.3 iPhone and didn't in previous releases. The whole issue with birthday syncing on the iPhone is a mess as they are stored on the Mac in Address Book with a time zone so when you move around the world *some* of them move a day of. You may also notice on the iPhone that the same birthday *can* be on a different day depending on if you look at Calendar or Contacts e.g. my birthday in Calendar is correctly shown as May 24 but in Contacts shows as May 25. Such a buggy mess I no longer enable the Birthdays calendar in iCal and manage them manually. I have heard good things about Dates to iCal but don't know if this helps improve syncing to the iPhone. -- 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
Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
Currently I have a Windows server and a small Apple network. At least the hard drive on the Windows server needs replacing. I'm looking at a Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server but can't understand why this Mac mini does not have a CD/DVD drive. Has the necessary install DVDs but no where to use them. Why does this Mac mini not have a CD/DVD drive? How can you upgrade the server software? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 http://www.apple.com/au/macmini/server/ -- 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: Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
Morning, Remote Install within Utilities, from another Apple machine. External USB DVD drive, Firewire drive. One sideline is Windows 7 has issues authorising/binding against SAMBA PDC. Cheers! `RobD... On 24Jun2010, at 9:00 pm, Stuart Breden wrote: Currently I have a Windows server and a small Apple network. At least the hard drive on the Windows server needs replacing. I'm looking at a Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server but can't understand why this Mac mini does not have a CD/DVD drive. Has the necessary install DVDs but no where to use them. Why does this Mac mini not have a CD/DVD drive? How can you upgrade the server software? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 http://www.apple.com/au/macmini/server/ -- 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: Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
The Mac mini server does not have an optical drive as the space that it would normally occupy now has a HDD. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone creation On 25/06/2010, at 8:05, Rob Davies rjda...@gmail.com wrote: Morning, Remote Install within Utilities, from another Apple machine. External USB DVD drive, Firewire drive. One sideline is Windows 7 has issues authorising/binding against SAMBA PDC. Cheers! `RobD... On 24Jun2010, at 9:00 pm, Stuart Breden wrote: Currently I have a Windows server and a small Apple network. At least the hard drive on the Windows server needs replacing. I'm looking at a Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server but can't understand why this Mac mini does not have a CD/DVD drive. Has the necessary install DVDs but no where to use them. Why does this Mac mini not have a CD/DVD drive? How can you upgrade the server software? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 http://www.apple.com/au/macmini/server/ -- 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: Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
As Daniel has said, yes the Optical Drive is no longer there as the space for it is used to house a second 500GB Drive. This gives the option to set it up as two 500GB (separate) drives, raided as one 1TB drive (2x500GB together) or raided in mirror mode as one single 500GB drive, but the data also written to the second 500GB drive as safe keeping. To reinstall the software, or install other software as Rob pointed out, it's done via Remote Disc. This means you put the disc into another computer on the same network, and under System Preferences - Sharing there is an option for DVD or Sharing. Once this is ticked, the Mac mini can use the disc from the other computer. It loads up exactly the same. Works quite well as I've used it setting up a Mac mini server for a client. Plus it's the same feature they've had for ages with the MacBook Air, as it also has no optical drive. Otherwise you can also buy a USB SuperDrive if you really don't want to use the Remote Disc feature. They're about $100-$150 off the top of my head. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 25/6/10 8:57 AM, Daniel Forsdyke daniel.forsd...@mac.com wrote: The Mac mini server does not have an optical drive as the space that it would normally occupy now has a HDD. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone creation On 25/06/2010, at 8:05, Rob Davies rjda...@gmail.com wrote: Morning, Remote Install within Utilities, from another Apple machine. External USB DVD drive, Firewire drive. One sideline is Windows 7 has issues authorising/binding against SAMBA PDC. Cheers! `RobD... On 24Jun2010, at 9:00 pm, Stuart Breden wrote: Currently I have a Windows server and a small Apple network. At least the hard drive on the Windows server needs replacing. I'm looking at a Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server but can't understand why this Mac mini does not have a CD/DVD drive. Has the necessary install DVDs but no where to use them. Why does this Mac mini not have a CD/DVD drive? How can you upgrade the server software? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 http://www.apple.com/au/macmini/server/ -- 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
