Re: Apps on the iPad.
Hi Roger, You are not the first person who uses a different iTunes ID to your MobileMe / iCloud ID to get caught by iTunes App Store. When you set up a New iPhone / iPad, it automatically signs you into the App Store with whatever ID you set the iPhone / iPad up with. So when you purchase Apps on the iPhone / iPad , they are on a different account than your computer and therefore you receive the not authorized error. This was why I asked you to Check that the Settings on your iPad App Store (Settings Store - Apple ID: x...@.xxx) in iTunes is identical. Changing your iPad settings to match your iTunes App Store Account ID would correct the problem. Good to hear it is sorted for you now. Cheers, Ronni On 24/11/2011, at 12:47 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Ronda Just had time to look at what had happen and it seems that whenI updated the iPad2 it linked into iCloud it used my me.com address! I don't remember putting that in their. So as usual you are right :) Many thanks for taking time to help everyone. Roger On 24/11/2011, at 10:33 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Ken, you’re welcome, Good to hear the problem is sorted. As to “Why it happened”? I’m not sure, but I suspect as I mentioned below in reply to Roger perhaps you disconnected the iPad before it had finished syncing and rebooting after installing iOS5 or updates since. Or it could have been a permission problem or ID. The /Users/Shared/SC Info” is related to iTunes as you are now aware of ;-). Specifically it contains an invisible file, SC Info.sidb, the iTunes database of decryption keys. If you open the Macintosh HD Users Shared folder in Finder, you won't see SC Info folder because the Invisible file system attribute for that folder has been enabled in order to hide it. If you like using Terminal try: ls -al /Users/Shared/SC\ Info/ Where you'll see the file. If I execute the same ls command this is what I see: ronni$ ls -al /Users/Shared/SC\ Info/ total 408 drwxrwxrwx@ 4 ronni wheel 136 11 May 2011 . drwxrwxrwt 19 root wheel 646 14 Oct 14:58 .. -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 ronni wheel4492 16 Nov 11:32 SC Info.sidb -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 ronni wheel 200356 9 May 2011 SC Info.sidd Now, I don’t profess to understand UNIX … and I only understand half of what I read ;-) The data from the ls command provides details about the ownership, permissions, size, etc of that folder (line ending in .), its enclosing folder (line ending in .. — the Shared folder), and the file(s) contained in the SC Info folder (line ending in SC Info.sidb” “SC Info.sidd). The two files SC Info.sidb” SC Info.sidd relate to iTunes purchases, and the computer/user's authorisation to play same. None of the Apple Developer documents address the specific purpose of the SC Info.sidb. In investigating this file, and comparing it with the same file on some other Macs, it was found that this file's size is non-zero if one has purchased content from iTMS and a little more digging led to the understanding that this contains descriptor keys, perhaps related to authorizing (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420) a Mac to play purchased music. The data in the first four columns is explained in Figure 2 of Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X”, (just in case link doesn’t work) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963?viewlocale=en_US though one also needs to read the earlier part of that document to understand what columns 1, 3, and 4 are about. The rest of the columns are explained in the section entitled The Long Format of man (UNIX manual) page for the ls (list directory contents) command. (Just in case the Link does not work) http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/ls.1.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 23/11/2011, at 8:48 PM, Ken Woods wrote: Agg, Thanks Ronnie, your solution as outlined below seems to fixed the issue. Well Done! As a matter of interest, any idea of the cause - just in case there is a learning curve here? Many thanks for your knowledge and expertise once again. Ken On 23/11/11 3:29 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Roger, I¹ve never experienced this problem and I purchase Apps on my iPad and also in iTunes. When I connect my iPad to my computer, iTunes Opens and backups iPad then syncs automatically I see message ³Transferring Purchases from Ronda Brown¹s iPad Š waiting for items to copy². When you did the update to iOS5 did you do a backup BEFORE installing the Update and after installation finished, wait until it does a Sync? You have to let it complete a sync after installing the iOS Update. You are definitely sure you have the same ID setup on your iPad and in iTunes to make purchasesŠ same
Fwd: Re: Printing from iPad 1
Hi Ronni and List Folk Ronni, to do a test run on my iPad 2 I visited the first site that you listed: How to Enable Airprint for Windows and Use any Printer and downloaded and installed an application called 'AirActivator' I printed a Pages document - fine. Inserted a photograph in the Pages document and printed - fine. Tried to print a photograph not in a document - timed out. I next visited the teckrepublic site mentioned below. Same experience except that with the photo I got an error message Document type not supported. It was a jpg and the downloaded application 'PrintCentralPro' listed jpgs as acceptable. Has anyone had experience with either of these applications, or an alternative, and successfully printed photos? Merv Original Message Subject: Re: Printing from iPad 1 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:40:53 +0800 From: Merv Bond m...@iinet.net.au Reply-To: m...@iinet.net.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Thanks Ronni I will check out both sites. As mentioned in my email I am yet to find out her operating system. Also found this site which holds some promise: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/mac/how-to-print-from-an-ipad-the-best-apps-for-business-users/841 All the best. Merv On Sun20Nov2011 Sun20Nov7:44 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/11/2011, at 7:07 AM, Merv Bond wrote: An elderly relative has an iPad 1 and wants to print directly from it to a printer. An added complication is that her laptop runs on Windows. I looked at Printopia 2 but it appears to be designed to work with Mac computers only. Is anyone aware of software, or a wirelss printer, that would allow her to print directly from her iPad? She could not tell me her operating system but I will find out at my next visit. Hi Merv, You don’t give us information on what iOS your relative has on the iPad (iOS4 or iOS5) and if using a HP Printer or what Printer. You could check these two links below: How to Enable Airprint for Windows and Use any Printer: http://ipadhelp.com/iPad-help/how-to-enable-AirPrint-for-windows-and-use-any-printer/ How to Enable AirPrint for Windows with HP wireless Printers: AirPrint Service on Windows 7/Vista/XP (32-bit/64-bit) http://jaxov.com/2010/11/how-to-enable-airprint-service-on-windows/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The whole psychology of modern disquiet is linked with the sudden confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of Man') -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Fascinating Lion resource
I have just come across (and purchased) a very interesting new book about Mac OS X 1.0.7 (Lion). It's called Mac Kung Fu, by Keir Thomas. When you buy the eBook version you also get the PDF thrown in. It's also available as a physical book. Mac Kung Fu contains over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for Lion, such as Protect USB Memory Sticks with a Password, Be a Mission Control Power User and Turn Launchpad into a Personalised App Launcher You can see more details at http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Fwd: Reverting to SL
Hello WAMUGers, I’ve forwarded email to the list as the gentleman is not a member of WAMUG. Mr Varley has asked me to post it for him. I take no responsibility if you try this and it doesn’t work for you, as I have not tested his procedure. I have had email contact with Mr Varley asking him if he has tested this and has he had any problems. —— /Extract from my email to Mr. Varley: I can ‘perhaps’ see how this ‘could' work, if you did a Erase and Clean Install of Lion … not transferring from your backup using Migration Assistant / Setup Assistant… but boy would all the fiddling around… be worth it ?? A lot of people like myself have numerous email Accounts and over 60-80 or more Mailboxes and Subfolders inside Mailboxes. How many do you have and did all messages placed back in Inbox, Drafts, Sent, and all the Mailboxes that are already in your Snow Leopard Mail accept the new messages from the “Imported Mailboxes”? Are you sure this importing of all the Mailboxes worked? You have not experienced any problems?” /End of Extract from my email to Mr Varley: —— Mr Varley responded with these comments: Hi Ronni, I have to admit that I hadn't been a heavy user of Apple Mail. I have only been a Mac user since 2009. I have a PC for work and all my work mail is on it. For personal mail, I use Gmail and Hotmail via the Web. However, I did have 3 old email accounts that I had imported into Apple Mail under Snow Leopard for historical archiving purposes. I don't really use Apple Mail on a day to day basis. I have a Macbook 13 (2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM) purchased in March 2009. I had been running Snow Leopard on it since the beginning until about 4 weeks ago, when I upgraded to Lion. I had all the problems that others have described with Lion, so I decided to downgrade. I had not created any time machine backups, etc. I copied all of my content/apps to an external drive (including bookmarks and the entire Library Mail folder structure. I then reformated my drive and reinstalled Snow Leopard from the original Snow Leopard installation DVD. I had to do a lot of system updates after that to catch up on 2+ years of updates. I copied my content back from the external drive onto the Macbook. I was able to get everything set up as it was before, but couldn't import the mail files. I stumbled across the procedure I described by trial and error, but as far as I can tell it worked. I only had 3 mailboxes with about 500 messages in each that I imported, but all the messages are there and they all open and display the content correctly. For the amount of mailboxes I had, it did not take very much time. For your situation, I can see that it would be very time consuming. As I said, I use Apple Mail mostly as an archive of dormant accounts, not day to day usage, but it appears that by following this procedure you can get your mail objects into Snow Leopard Mail and perform all actions from the Mail client. My suggestion would be to experiment with it on a couple of mailboxes and see if it works for you. Regards, Doug Varley. == Begin forwarded message: From: Douglas Varley dougvar...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Reverting to SL Date: 24 November 2011 10:35:07 AM AWST To: ro...@mac.com Hi Ronni, I found your posting on the Web about not being able to import Lion Mail into Snow Leopard Mail. Here is what I did: - In Mail, click Mailbox New Mailbox. - in the New Mailbox dialog box, select On My Mac as the location and give it any MailboxName you want. Click OK. - Now in Finder, open Library Mail Mailboxes MailboxName.mbox. In the MailboxName.mbox folder (where MailboxName is whatever name you gave the mailbox), all you'll see is an info.plist file. Add a folder called Messages. - Go to the location where you've backed up all of your email from Lion and drill down to the Messages folder where you have all your .emlx files. Copy all of these .emlx files and paste them into the new Messages folder you've created (i.e., at the Library Mail Mailboxes MailboxName.mbox Messages location). - Go back to Mail. If you open the new MailboxName folder under ON MY MAC, you'll see that it is still empty. Snow Leopard Mail can't read the .emlx files from Lion Mail. But we're not done yet. There are some more steps. - On the Mail File menu, click Import Mailboxes. - Select Apple Mail and click Continue. - Browse to Library Mail Mailboxes, select MailboxName.mbox, click Choose, and then click Done. - Snow Leopard Mail will now import Lion Mail. It creates an Import folder in Mail under ON MY MAC. Expand the Import folder and you'll see a a folder with the MailboxName you selected. When you open this you'll see all of your mail items that came from Lion Mail. - You can repeat the above for each mailbox you want to import. Best regards. = Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
Videobox and Lion
Hi List, Another one of my little gripes. I would like to say the problem lies in Lion but after some tests, decided maybe not. My problem. I follow two or three sites of a particular interest to me (nothing untoward) which have daily Flash or Utube video clips attached. For over a year now, I have been downloading and saving any clips of interest using Videobox quite successfully, apart from the occasional hiccup which is normal with my computing. For the last week or so however, the video capture on only one of the sites has failed to work with Lion on my Macintosh HD. I have Snow Leopard on one external drive and a clone of Lion on another. Videobox works fine when booting from either of these two external drives but not from the internal drive. I have gone through the usual permission repair, Safari and Videobox updates and anything else I could think of. There is obviously some small hidden file in my Macintosh HD that is blocking this particular site. Any ideas? John Thompson WAMUG #861 Mac Mini 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Mac OS X 10.7.2 jet...@iprimus.com.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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Videobox and Lion
Hi John, Do you have any plugins or extras installed on Internal Lion that aren’t installed on the external version of Lion? Do you have LittleSnitch installed on the Internal Lion? Videobox is working on the Internal Lion, other than for one website … what is different with this website? It’s not a Lion problem, if Videobox is working on the external Lion installation. Make sure you get the latest version - Videobox 3.7 http://www.tastyapps.com/?feature=videobox (or use the Check for updates... menu in the application's menu) and the new version will uninstall the old Safari plugin/haxie and offer to install the new Safari extension. The extension will only work with Safari. If you want to send the link to the video we can have a look and see if we can see a problem. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 25/11/2011, at 11:09 AM, John Thompson wrote: Hi List, Another one of my little gripes. I would like to say the problem lies in Lion but after some tests, decided maybe not. My problem. I follow two or three sites of a particular interest to me (nothing untoward) which have daily Flash or Utube video clips attached. For over a year now, I have been downloading and saving any clips of interest using Videobox quite successfully, apart from the occasional hiccup which is normal with my computing. For the last week or so however, the video capture on only one of the sites has failed to work with Lion on my Macintosh HD. I have Snow Leopard on one external drive and a clone of Lion on another. Videobox works fine when booting from either of these two external drives but not from the internal drive. I have gone through the usual permission repair, Safari and Videobox updates and anything else I could think of. There is obviously some small hidden file in my Macintosh HD that is blocking this particular site. Any ideas? John Thompson WAMUG #861 Mac Mini 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Mac OS X 10.7.2 jet...@iprimus.com.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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
U.S. Patent Office Honors Steve Jobs with iPhone-Shaped Exhibit
Hi WAMUGers, Another well deserved honour to Steve Jobs. http://mashable.com/2011/11/23/steve-jobs-patents/ U.S. Patent Office Honors Steve Jobs with iPhone-Shaped Exhibit: The late Steve Jobs has been hailed as a brilliant businessman, marketer, and visionary. He was also an prolific inventor, if the number of patents bearing his name are any indication. No less than 323 Apple patents list Jobs among the inventors responsible for them. Now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is honoring the Apple founder with a dedicated exhibit.” Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: U.S. Patent Office Honors Steve Jobs with iPhone-Shaped Exhibit
Yes. Truly well deserved. Steve Jobs is also on the short list for Time Magazine's person of the year. The panel is of two minds because Jobs is no longer alive. The panelist most opposed to honouring Jobs is actor Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network. There is a good deal of irony in this as Mark Zuckerberg beat out Steve Jobs for the title last year. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/11/09/steve_jobs_could_be_first_posthumously_named_person_of_the_year.html Cheers, Carlo On 25/11/2011, at 12:00 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi WAMUGers, Another well deserved honour to Steve Jobs. http://mashable.com/2011/11/23/steve-jobs-patents/ U.S. Patent Office Honors Steve Jobs with iPhone-Shaped Exhibit: The late Steve Jobs has been hailed as a brilliant businessman, marketer, and visionary. He was also an prolific inventor, if the number of patents bearing his name are any indication. No less than 323 Apple patents list Jobs among the inventors responsible for them. Now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is honoring the Apple founder with a dedicated exhibit.” Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Car charger for MacBook
I will be travelling around Tasmania in a camper van this summer and need to charge my MacBook at the times I won't be in a caravan park.. Rather than a heavyish inverter I was wondering if a dedicated car charger would be OK - something like this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Car-DC-Power-Charger-Adapter-Apple-MacBook-Pro-85W-/250815715621?pt=AU_Computers_Apple_Parts_Accessorieshash=item3a65c81925#ht_3420wt_907 Has anyone had experience with this or similar and could assure me, or not, as to its effectiveness and suitability. Cheers Mike Fuller -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
iCal entries keep disappearing
I'm about to ring iCal's neck. I'm running iCal 5.0.1 on a MacBok Pro running 10.7.2, syncing via MobileMe with an iMac and iPhone. Entries entered in iCal, either on MacBook Pro or iMac, sometimes stay, sometimes disappear. Doesn't seem to be any pattern. Then sometimes they disappear then come back. Should I be moving to iCloud? What are the cons? I haven't bothered because I have an iPhone 3G which apparently isn't iCloud compatible, so I don't want to move to iCloud only to find my iPhone no longer syncs with iCal. Any tips to solve this painful missing iCal entry phenomenon? Cheers, Steven -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
