Apple LaserWriter 8500 B/W to go
Hi, I need to put this on the road verge soon, working model with optional tray. It is a Black and White A3+ printer that is very much dated. Pity to dump it, so if anyone wants it for whatever. Thanks Rick. -- 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: Mountain Lion Download
Followup. Mountain Lion is now downloaded and the installer copied onto an unused and reformatted iPod 8Gb. I followed the instructions with pictures at http://www.mactalk.com.au/content/creating-bootable-usb-sd-card-mountain-lion-drive-2431/ which was provided by Daniel Thanks again. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:30 AM, Tim Law wrote: Ronni, I am deeply indebted to you. :-) Two things are immediately noticeable. One is that the download in the App Store is a strong 1mb a second. ie. I timed 10 mb and it took 10 seconds. This is very sweet. Second, that I used to have slow connections on iView (1Mbps) yet achieve good speeds with Speedtest.net. I couldn't figure it out. Now I am getting 4.5 - 5.0 Mbps on iView and it's up on the top level of their scale - totally different. :-) Speedtest.net is showing 15Mbps download which is about what I normally got. All these were tested with the App store streaming in Mountain Lion at 1mb/sec. So, the Lesson. Do not use OpenDNS as a DNS server. I assume it is okay to still use it as Search Domains Like we all say, THANKS Ronni. :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:15 AM, Tim Law wrote: Okay thanks I'll try that. I've left OpenDNS as the search domains, and changed the DNS server to those you gave me. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, That could be your problem, I've heard of Mac App Store download problems with OpenDNS. Perhaps try using Bigpond Western Australia DNS Server IP Address Primary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.242.33 Secondary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.226.33 Cheers, Ronni I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of
Re: Time Machine backup
Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ? For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Yes, delete the User's User sparsebundle from Time Capsule. It possibly does contain some data (therefore taking space) To delete the backups for one computer without disturbing anything else on the Time Capsule's Internal Disk. 1. Connect via Ethernet cable if possible as much faster than deleting via Wi-Fi 2. Open Time Capsule under Shared in Finder Sidebar 3. Click the Data folder 4. You will now see a x.sparsebundle file for each of the computers that have been backing up. The file contains the name of the computer and the MAC address so you should be able to easily identify the x.sparsebundle file that you want to delete. 5. Click the x.sparsebundle file to highlight it and then click the 'Gear' shaped icon just above and select 'Move to Trash'. NOTE: Be very careful since you will not be able to retrieve the file if you make a mistake and delete the wrong file. After it has deleted everything contained in the sparsebundle; setup Time Machine in System Preferences Select Disk and let Time Machine backup the MacBook Also, is a Time Machine backup a 'whole computer' backup or is it account specific? Time Machine backups the complete system UNLESS you have chosen to exclude any items from backups. You need a full backup of the system in case you ever need to do a full Restore. Do you have more than one User Account on any of the MacBooks? If so post back and I'll explain more. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 6:36 AM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Thanks Ronni, I can see I have at least one issue to resolve- the computers name. Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it. By contrast the other two MacBooks are properly named after their user. So I will follow your instructions to correct that tonight when I'm home again. The other issue I don't see an immediate solution for is my inability to unmount the disc image, there is no Eject triangle next to Time Capsule in the Finder side bar and nor does it appear on the Desktop. Maybe this won't matter when the name is resolved as there was never a backup in place from which to continue from it seems. I fully expect a first time backup is needed. For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Also, is a Time Machine backup a 'whole computer' backup or is it account specific? Regards Pete On 02/08/2012, at 10:00 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Just a quick reply before I shutdown from computer work for the day. First, it is important to distinguish this error message from another, similar Time Machine error that states “The backup volume could not be mounted”. This is important as the causes and cures for these two errors can be very different. *Unmount the Backup Disk Image* (TC) If, for some reason, you have manually mounted the Time Machine backup disk image (sparsebundle), or Time Machine failed to eject it after the previous backup, subsequent backups may fail. (Console - “Failed to mount disk image”… “Backup failed with error: 21”) Eject the backup disk image
Re: Time Machine backup
Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ? For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Yes, delete the User's User sparsebundle from Time Capsule. It possibly does contain some data (therefore taking space) To delete the backups for one computer without disturbing anything else on the Time Capsule's Internal Disk. 1. Connect via Ethernet cable if possible as much faster than deleting via Wi-Fi 2. Open Time Capsule under Shared in Finder Sidebar 3. Click the Data folder 4. You will now see a x.sparsebundle file for each of the computers that have been backing up. The file contains the name of the computer and the MAC address so you should be able to easily identify the x.sparsebundle file that you want to delete. 5. Click the x.sparsebundle file to highlight it and then click the 'Gear' shaped icon just above and select 'Move to Trash'. NOTE: Be very careful since you will not be able to retrieve the file if you make a mistake and delete the wrong file. After it has deleted everything contained in the sparsebundle; setup Time Machine in System Preferences Select Disk and let Time Machine backup the MacBook Also, is a Time Machine backup a 'whole computer' backup or is it account specific? Time Machine backups the complete system UNLESS you have chosen to exclude any items from backups. You need a full backup of the system in case you ever need to do a full Restore. Do you have more than one User Account on any of the MacBooks? If so post back and I'll explain more. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 6:36 AM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Thanks Ronni, I can see I have at least one issue to resolve- the computers name. Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it. By contrast the other two MacBooks are properly named after their user. So I will follow your instructions to correct that tonight when I'm home again. The other issue I don't see an immediate solution for is my inability to unmount the disc image, there is no Eject triangle next to Time Capsule in the Finder side bar and nor does it appear on the Desktop. Maybe this won't matter
Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Ah yes, I can picture the X now that you mention it. Thanks Daniel! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:34 , Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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
Re: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Hehe. I remember most the boxes and think I pretty much have them all for restoring purposes :)) Will see if I have one or two later tonight when back. :)) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:35 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Ah yes, I can picture the X now that you mention it. Thanks Daniel! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:34 , Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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 -- 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: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
If Daniel can't find his OS X 10.5 Install DVD I have one... Yep with the big X Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/08/2012, at 6:35 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Ah yes, I can picture the X now that you mention it. Thanks Daniel! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:34 , Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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 -- 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: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Remembering that X triggered another memory. I have a version squirrelled away in a DVD case. :-) I has the decal of the X on it so I believe it is one that I purchased to upgrade from Tiger some time ago. Thanks kindly for the offer (and the functioning neurones) Daniel. I will get back to you if my DVD is, in fact, locked to a non eMac model. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:35 , wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Ah yes, I can picture the X now that you mention it. Thanks Daniel! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:34 , Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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 -- 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: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Thanks Ronni! It's great to be part of such an active community. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If Daniel can't find his OS X 10.5 Install DVD I have one... Yep with the big X Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/08/2012, at 6:35 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Ah yes, I can picture the X now that you mention it. Thanks Daniel! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:34 , Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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 -- 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
Re: Wanted: OS X 10.5 Leopard Install Disk
Hey Carlo, We are Consultants, we have installation discs of all OS X's and disk images, we have to be able to reinstall clients systems. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/08/2012, at 6:43 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Thanks Ronni! It's great to be part of such an active community. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: If Daniel can't find his OS X 10.5 Install DVD I have one... Yep with the big X Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/08/2012, at 6:35 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Ah yes, I can picture the X now that you mention it. Thanks Daniel! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 18:34 , Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo I may have one. Will check when home. Though Leopard wasn't a cat on box. It was a starry X symbol floating in space :)) A cat on box was Snow Leopard :)) Just for those playing at home. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 03/08/2012, at 6:30 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hello all, I have a friend running an eMac and he recently upgraded his 3G modem. The new modem requires a minimum OS version of OS X 10.5. Luckily this particular eMac has a maximum install version of OS X 10.5. So I am looking for an install disk of OS X 10.5 Leopard. It would need to be one that is not tied to a particular model of machine - the DVDs that used to come with a Mac purchase were tied to that particular model of Mac -- so it would probably have to be the version that came in a box with a picture of a Leopard on the front. Naturally I will pay a fair price for the disk. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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: SLOW Late 2009 iMac after Mountain Lion installed
Hi Alan For comparison, I have a late 2009 Macbook Pro with the same Processor as yours, 8 GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive with only 47GB free. I have not seen a noticeable slowdown since installing Mountain Lion. Generally it seems to be business as usual. Given my experience I would suspect that your problem may be a software issue. Hope this helps to give you some comparative info on similar hardware. Regards Shayne On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hello all Getting to grips with the new features of Mountain Lion following my upgrade from Snow Leopard. I find applications are taking an appreciable time (2 to 3 times longer than expected?) to respond. At this stage I ask WAMUG to monitor their experience. I don't want to spend time trialling possibilities, or doing a clean install, just now. Perhaps a trend of evidence will emerge over time. My iMac is quite workable so it is not urgent to pursue. The Apple Communities forum has some discussion on this topic but no very clear cause and direction has emerged. The problem may just be the processor. My iMac is late 2009 with basic specs (21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz) but with 12GB of RAM. 500GB hard drive has 360GB free. Previously found these specs were not good enough to drive AirParrot mirroring whereas a similar vintage 27 higher-optioned iMac had no problems. (I realise my iMac will not handle AirPlay Mirroring, which is a most desirable feature.) I think this also demonstrates the advantages of a solid state drive! Something to seriously consider for the next new computer - - -. (Probably no coincidence that Apple have been marketing SSD computers since Lion.) Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- 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
WAMUG Meeting 1 Only Reminder: This Tuesday 7 August 2012 (Please Do Not Reply)
G'day all WAMUGGERS If you haven't set your iCal up for the meeting this coming Tuesday, 7 August 2012, then you best do so or stick a note on the fridge. Talking of which, I wonder how long it will be before someone comes out with a fridge door with an inbuilt electronic note pad on it (in it?)? Anyway, I digress. Make yourself a reminder because this is the only reminder I'm sending out this month. Why? I hear you ask. Well, I'll be in Rottnest, feet up, rugged up, book in hand (a proper paper type book I can turn the pages of!!!) and wine within reach and, hopefully, listening to thundering rain. Enjoy the meeting. See the website for full details. http://www.wamug.org.au/meetings/. 7 pm start - 9 pm finish. The others will see you there. Regards Pete Smith (Please Do Not Reply) -- 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
WaMUG Web Page
Hi Pete, Can you tell me, please, who set up and maintains WAMUG's web page and mailing list? I'd like to see if they'd be interested in doing same for WA Mental Health Review Board. Cheers, Michael Hawkins -- 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: Time Machine backup
Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ? For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Yes, delete the User's User sparsebundle from Time Capsule. It possibly does contain some data (therefore taking space) To delete the backups for one computer without disturbing anything else on the Time Capsule's Internal Disk. 1. Connect via Ethernet cable if possible as much faster than deleting via Wi-Fi 2. Open Time Capsule under Shared in Finder Sidebar 3. Click the Data folder 4. You will now see a x.sparsebundle file for each of the computers that have been backing up. The file contains the name of the computer and the MAC address so you should be able to easily identify the x.sparsebundle file that you want to delete. 5. Click the x.sparsebundle file to highlight it and then click the 'Gear' shaped icon just above and select 'Move to Trash'. NOTE: Be very careful since you will not be able to retrieve the file if you make a mistake and delete the wrong file. After it has deleted everything contained in the sparsebundle; setup Time Machine in System Preferences Select Disk and let Time Machine backup the MacBook Also, is a Time Machine backup a 'whole
Re: Time Machine backup
Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ? For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Yes, delete the User's User sparsebundle from Time Capsule. It possibly does contain some data (therefore taking space) To delete the backups for one computer without disturbing anything else on the Time Capsule's Internal Disk. 1. Connect via Ethernet cable if possible as much faster than deleting via Wi-Fi 2. Open Time Capsule under Shared in Finder Sidebar 3. Click the Data folder 4. You will now see a x.sparsebundle file for each of the computers that have been backing up. The file contains the name of the computer and the
OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- 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: Time Machine backup
Hi Peter, Did you turn OFF Time Machine before following my instructions to delete the sparsebundle? Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:08 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ? For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Yes, delete the User's User sparsebundle from Time Capsule. It possibly does contain some data (therefore taking space) To delete the backups for one computer without disturbing anything else on the Time Capsule's Internal Disk. 1. Connect via Ethernet cable if possible as much faster than deleting via Wi-Fi 2. Open Time Capsule under Shared in Finder Sidebar 3. Click the Data folder 4. You will now see a x.sparsebundle file for each of the computers that have been backing up. The file contains the name of the computer and the MAC address so you should be able to easily identify the x.sparsebundle file that you want to delete. 5. Click the x.sparsebundle file to highlight it and then click the 'Gear' shaped icon just above and select 'Move to Trash'. NOTE: Be very careful since you will not be able to retrieve the file if you make a mistake and
Re: Time Machine backup
Hi Carlo, yes I am a big fan of rebooting all devices when all is quiet and no data transfers or backup occuring. Just prior to me rebooting the TC, Jo's Macbook and James' Macbook just completed their successful hourly backups. so shortly after this was over I re-powered the TC AND Tim's Macbook, just in case. but still no effect. I am very patient with restarts too, to ensure full reboot has settled before commanding any further actions - in case activity were to interrupt something important settling. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:13 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ?
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Hi Pete, Perhaps Tims Macbook is still somehow associated with the old sparsebundle, which because it has be semi-erased can no longer be mounted. I think you should nuke the old sparsebundle using Terminal if you can and then using Time Machine preferences reselect the the Time Capsule for you backups. So to delete the sparse bundle proceed as follows. 1) In Finder mount the Time Capsule by clicking on it in the Finder sidebar. Navigate to the Data directory but no need to do anything further in Finder. 2) In Terminal now do the following $ cd /Volumes/Data 3) At this point type $ ls -l and you should see User's.sparsebundle or whatever it is called 4) Still in terminal type $ sudo rm -rf sparse bundle name Where sparse bundle name is the name from step 3) Good luck! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:22 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, yes I am a big fan of rebooting all devices when all is quiet and no data transfers or backup occuring. Just prior to me rebooting the TC, Jo's Macbook and James' Macbook just completed their successful hourly backups. so shortly after this was over I re-powered the TC AND Tim's Macbook, just in case. but still no effect. I am very patient with restarts too, to ensure full reboot has settled before commanding any further actions - in case activity were to interrupt something important settling. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:13 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never
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Additional note. In step 4) you will be prompted for a password. Enter the password for the Mac account you are logged in with. C --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:35 , wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, Perhaps Tims Macbook is still somehow associated with the old sparsebundle, which because it has be semi-erased can no longer be mounted. I think you should nuke the old sparsebundle using Terminal if you can and then using Time Machine preferences reselect the the Time Capsule for you backups. So to delete the sparse bundle proceed as follows. 1) In Finder mount the Time Capsule by clicking on it in the Finder sidebar. Navigate to the Data directory but no need to do anything further in Finder. 2) In Terminal now do the following $ cd /Volumes/Data 3) At this point type $ ls -l and you should see User's.sparsebundle or whatever it is called 4) Still in terminal type $ sudo rm -rf sparse bundle name Where sparse bundle name is the name from step 3) Good luck! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:22 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, yes I am a big fan of rebooting all devices when all is quiet and no data transfers or backup occuring. Just prior to me rebooting the TC, Jo's Macbook and James' Macbook just completed their successful hourly backups. so shortly after this was over I re-powered the TC AND Tim's Macbook, just in case. but still no effect. I am very patient with restarts too, to ensure full reboot has settled before commanding any further actions - in case activity were to interrupt something important settling. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:13 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for
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Ok. Well I hadn't then but I have now and retried the process with no difference to result. Upon trying to move to trash the sparse bundle file, I get this error message. Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred. (Error code -50) I had this come up earlier prior to switching off the Time Machine. I can't help thinking that there should be a new sparsebundle file creating itself which inherits the new computer name ie Tim's MacBook. Is my thinking accurate? Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:22 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Did you turn OFF Time Machine before following my instructions to delete the sparsebundle? Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:08 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this all tonight I hope. Just to expand a little more on accounts and machine name, I am actually unsure how User's User came about, yes embarrassing I know, I bet a few chuckles by others, me included. In any case I'll sort that out. On Tim's MacBook, there are two accounts, one for Tim, the other Administrator. 98% of the use of both boys MacBooks is to play a confounded game Minecraft. The other 2% is for iTunes so they can play the West Coast Eagles theme song and synch their apps from iPod Touch's they both have! Anyway, Tim's account is set up with Parental Controls (he's 9), which works fine, but for some reason I never fully explored, Minecraft won't play (I forget the error message) under Tim's account, so I permit him to use the Administrator account - with me doing the login. We have Net Nanny (specific password controlled) on all Macbooks for content control set very HARD and that seems to give the requisite regulation. I suppose there is some exposure he could corrupt something with his Admin privileges but with Time Machine I can restore. So maybe I should explore why Tim's account prevents Minecraft running - if I have the energy that is. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete, Currently it is User's User and that by the way is not my sons name! I think the apostrophe not being ASCII will throw it Yes, having any punctuation mark in Computer Name can/will cause problems with Time Machine How on earth did your son's MacBook get the name User's User? What name does he have in System Preferences Users Groups ? For housekeeping, should I delete the User's User sparse bundle file? Yes, delete the User's User sparsebundle from Time Capsule. It possibly does contain some data (therefore taking space) To delete the backups for one computer without disturbing anything else on the Time Capsule's Internal Disk. 1. Connect via Ethernet cable if possible as much faster than
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Hi Carlo, tried that and at step 2) I get -bash: $: command not found I think Terminal commands as you suggest might be needed given the state the MB is in. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:36 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Additional note. In step 4) you will be prompted for a password. Enter the password for the Mac account you are logged in with. C --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:35 , wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, Perhaps Tims Macbook is still somehow associated with the old sparsebundle, which because it has be semi-erased can no longer be mounted. I think you should nuke the old sparsebundle using Terminal if you can and then using Time Machine preferences reselect the the Time Capsule for you backups. So to delete the sparse bundle proceed as follows. 1) In Finder mount the Time Capsule by clicking on it in the Finder sidebar. Navigate to the Data directory but no need to do anything further in Finder. 2) In Terminal now do the following $ cd /Volumes/Data 3) At this point type $ ls -l and you should see User's.sparsebundle or whatever it is called 4) Still in terminal type $ sudo rm -rf sparse bundle name Where sparse bundle name is the name from step 3) Good luck! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:22 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, yes I am a big fan of rebooting all devices when all is quiet and no data transfers or backup occuring. Just prior to me rebooting the TC, Jo's Macbook and James' Macbook just completed their successful hourly backups. so shortly after this was over I re-powered the TC AND Tim's Macbook, just in case. but still no effect. I am very patient with restarts too, to ensure full reboot has settled before commanding any further actions - in case activity were to interrupt something important settling. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:13 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User sparesbundle root folder still remains too. What am I missing? Regards Pete. On 03/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Minecraft is probably setup to Run as Administrator. Also Net Nanny might be restricting it in Tim's Account. Time Machine backups As an administrator, there’s no special magic you have to perform to back up all the User Accounts using Time Machine. By default, Time Machine backs up all accounts. When restoring data from a Time Machine backup, each user is limited by their account’s privileges. With a locked down parentally controlled account, for example, that account’s user won’t be able to access Time Machine (though you, as an administrator, can by modifying the account’s limits, do what needs to be done, and then restore those limits). And no user can access the contents of another user’s backed up files from within Time Machine. (However, an administrator can browse a Time Machine backup folder within the Finder, navigate to another user’s folder, and change the privileges on that folder to gain access.) Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 5:18 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, thanks for all that Ronni, I'll go through this
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Hi Pete, I have seen that condition before where bash is not installed. To rectify things you need to reinstall the same version of OS X over the top of your current install - I think you said it was OS X 10.5 Leopard. Take all the usual precautions before the install. I'll give you a quick run down here but if you need more detail on any step post back. 1) In disk Utility verify disk and if necessary repair disk. 2) Still in Disk Utility repair permissions. 3) Because Time Machine is not working, find an external drive of sufficient capacity and make a clone of you internal drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner but others use Super Duper. You will have to use an older version, CCC 3.4.x, to handle Leopard. 4) Run the install of Leopard again on your internal hard drive. All your data, application, and preference files will be preserved but system files will be refreshed. I believe that once you have done all that, you can then proceed to deleting the sparse bundle and re-establishing Time Machine backups. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 23:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, tried that and at step 2) I get -bash: $: command not found I think Terminal commands as you suggest might be needed given the state the MB is in. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:36 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Additional note. In step 4) you will be prompted for a password. Enter the password for the Mac account you are logged in with. C --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:35 , wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, Perhaps Tims Macbook is still somehow associated with the old sparsebundle, which because it has be semi-erased can no longer be mounted. I think you should nuke the old sparsebundle using Terminal if you can and then using Time Machine preferences reselect the the Time Capsule for you backups. So to delete the sparse bundle proceed as follows. 1) In Finder mount the Time Capsule by clicking on it in the Finder sidebar. Navigate to the Data directory but no need to do anything further in Finder. 2) In Terminal now do the following $ cd /Volumes/Data 3) At this point type $ ls -l and you should see User's.sparsebundle or whatever it is called 4) Still in terminal type $ sudo rm -rf sparse bundle name Where sparse bundle name is the name from step 3) Good luck! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:22 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, yes I am a big fan of rebooting all devices when all is quiet and no data transfers or backup occuring. Just prior to me rebooting the TC, Jo's Macbook and James' Macbook just completed their successful hourly backups. so shortly after this was over I re-powered the TC AND Tim's Macbook, just in case. but still no effect. I am very patient with restarts too, to ensure full reboot has settled before commanding any further actions - in case activity were to interrupt something important settling. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:13 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new sparesebundle for Tims Macbook and kick off a whole new backup. I've unmounted the Timecapsule many times and reset the backup process to kick off but every time I re-run the process I get the message The backup disc image could not be mounted. I was expecting to see the Time capsule disc image on the desktop during the backup process (like the other Macbooks) but it doesn't do that. It needs a big stick to fully reset the need to start backup with Time Machine. The User's User
Re: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
THank you for not attending the Olympics. You already have the Gold medal for taking us all to Mac olympus. Without you there would be no WAMUG and we would be fighting the Titans of unknown maladies. tom samson On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- 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
Re: Time Machine backup
Ok thanks for that Carlo, I understand what you're saying, I have a spare 150GB external drive, what format does it need setting as to create the clone? It is a 250GB Macbook with 180GB showing available in Finder, I think the 150GB is big enough for this cloning process. I will do a browse for the CCC 3.4.x version. Thanks heaps for help here. Stay tuned - ! Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 11:20 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, I have seen that condition before where bash is not installed. To rectify things you need to reinstall the same version of OS X over the top of your current install - I think you said it was OS X 10.5 Leopard. Take all the usual precautions before the install. I'll give you a quick run down here but if you need more detail on any step post back. 1) In disk Utility verify disk and if necessary repair disk. 2) Still in Disk Utility repair permissions. 3) Because Time Machine is not working, find an external drive of sufficient capacity and make a clone of you internal drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner but others use Super Duper. You will have to use an older version, CCC 3.4.x, to handle Leopard. 4) Run the install of Leopard again on your internal hard drive. All your data, application, and preference files will be preserved but system files will be refreshed. I believe that once you have done all that, you can then proceed to deleting the sparse bundle and re-establishing Time Machine backups. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 23:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, tried that and at step 2) I get -bash: $: command not found I think Terminal commands as you suggest might be needed given the state the MB is in. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:36 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Additional note. In step 4) you will be prompted for a password. Enter the password for the Mac account you are logged in with. C --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:35 , wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, Perhaps Tims Macbook is still somehow associated with the old sparsebundle, which because it has be semi-erased can no longer be mounted. I think you should nuke the old sparsebundle using Terminal if you can and then using Time Machine preferences reselect the the Time Capsule for you backups. So to delete the sparse bundle proceed as follows. 1) In Finder mount the Time Capsule by clicking on it in the Finder sidebar. Navigate to the Data directory but no need to do anything further in Finder. 2) In Terminal now do the following $ cd /Volumes/Data 3) At this point type $ ls -l and you should see User's.sparsebundle or whatever it is called 4) Still in terminal type $ sudo rm -rf sparse bundle name Where sparse bundle name is the name from step 3) Good luck! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:22 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, yes I am a big fan of rebooting all devices when all is quiet and no data transfers or backup occuring. Just prior to me rebooting the TC, Jo's Macbook and James' Macbook just completed their successful hourly backups. so shortly after this was over I re-powered the TC AND Tim's Macbook, just in case. but still no effect. I am very patient with restarts too, to ensure full reboot has settled before commanding any further actions - in case activity were to interrupt something important settling. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:13 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Peter, Have you tried rebooting the Time Capsule itself. When none of your computers are backing up and it's quiet. Just unplug it, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Alternatively you can reboot it from AirPort Utility but unplugging when it is idle works fine too. Just for good measure. Reboot Tims Macbook at the same time. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok, this is testing me a bit. I have renamed Tims Macbook so username is Tims Macbook. I also tried to delete the User User's Sparesebundle and it says can't do that as Bands is still in use. I managed to get into Bands and was successful in deleting the contents of Bands but unable to delete the root folder for the sparesebundle. That is probably not relevant as I am hoping to create a new
Re: Time Machine backup
Hi Pete, The best format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a GUID Partition Table but ultimately you can, with extra work, get back to normal from anything that records all your data. You could also do a Time Machine backup rather than a clone. As for the size difference, you are quite right that you may be able to get by with the smaller drive. Here are some areas where you could save files. I have put them in approximate order that I would leave things out until I had enough space. For you it may be different. 1) Choose not to clone any directories that you would not miss if they where not there. In my case say a collection of iView downloads. You may also be able to get by without your Downloads directory. 2) You can leave out directories that you have copies of on other computers. 3) If you need some files in the Downloads folder, trim any .dmg files that you have already installed or that can be easily downloaded again. In my case, say a Mountain Lion image or the latest Libre Office .dmg files. 4) The software will make a few smart choices for you. It will likely not, for instance, copy the paging file if you happen to have one. 5) Clean our your caches and log files. 7) Least favourable choice but in a pinch. Remember that your operating system refresh is very likely to work with no data loss. So if there is a directory of files that you have been thinking about deleting in any case you can exclude it from the clone. Some old podcasts or videocasts that you never seem to get around to listening to my be candidates. Good luck, and keep us posted. :-) Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 04/08/2012, at 8:47 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok thanks for that Carlo, I understand what you're saying, I have a spare 150GB external drive, what format does it need setting as to create the clone? It is a 250GB Macbook with 180GB showing available in Finder, I think the 150GB is big enough for this cloning process. I will do a browse for the CCC 3.4.x version. Thanks heaps for help here. Stay tuned - ! Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 11:20 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, I have seen that condition before where bash is not installed. To rectify things you need to reinstall the same version of OS X over the top of your current install - I think you said it was OS X 10.5 Leopard. Take all the usual precautions before the install. I'll give you a quick run down here but if you need more detail on any step post back. 1) In disk Utility verify disk and if necessary repair disk. 2) Still in Disk Utility repair permissions. 3) Because Time Machine is not working, find an external drive of sufficient capacity and make a clone of you internal drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner but others use Super Duper. You will have to use an older version, CCC 3.4.x, to handle Leopard. 4) Run the install of Leopard again on your internal hard drive. All your data, application, and preference files will be preserved but system files will be refreshed. I believe that once you have done all that, you can then proceed to deleting the sparse bundle and re-establishing Time Machine backups. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 23:08 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo, tried that and at step 2) I get -bash: $: command not found I think Terminal commands as you suggest might be needed given the state the MB is in. Regards Pete On 03/08/2012, at 10:36 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Additional note. In step 4) you will be prompted for a password. Enter the password for the Mac account you are logged in with. C --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 03/08/2012, at 22:35 , wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, Perhaps Tims Macbook is still somehow associated with the old sparsebundle, which because it has be semi-erased can no longer be mounted. I think you should nuke the old sparsebundle using Terminal if you can and then using Time Machine preferences reselect the the Time Capsule for you backups. So to delete the sparse bundle proceed as follows. 1) In Finder mount the Time Capsule by clicking on it in the Finder sidebar. Navigate to the Data directory but no need to do anything further in Finder. 2) In Terminal now do the following $ cd /Volumes/Data 3) At this point type $ ls -l and you should see User's.sparsebundle or whatever it is called 4) Still in terminal type $ sudo rm -rf sparse bundle name Where sparse bundle name is the name from
Re: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
Hi Ronni I have been enjoying the rowing so it will be nice to share a personal interest this evening. Today's West has the Men's fours final scheduled for 5.30 pm. Maybe some preliminary lead up to the actual event. Also describes it as the most anticipated showdown of the regatta with the Poms the favourites. Good luck to your family. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- 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
Re: SLOW Late 2009 iMac after Mountain Lion installed
Hi Shayne Thanks for your comments on speed with a Mac with comparable specs. Problem now fixed (??). I had an odd event yesterday which may have caused the slowdown. NeoOffice advised of a software upgrade (to 3.3 Beta2) which I accepted. However it did not seem to download as I immediately got an error message neooffice.dmg not recognized. It was not clear if this was an iMac or NeoOffice message in Safari. In Downloads I clicked on the X across the greyed-out image. The image disappeared and presumably went into Trash. I returned to the website a little later to attempt another download. Got the same error message. This time I perused the N.O. website for help (I had just paid them $10 which went through without problems!). I then noticed the Download folder was displaying an activity bar 50% complete. Yes, despite the error message the .dmg file was apparently being downloaded anyway. NeoOffice 3.3 was eventually installed and it worked. Did housekeeping and the image file sent to Trash. Later at night I attempted to Empty Trash - but got message that …dmg was in use and could not be deleted. Closed the App; put back the file from Trash and then Trashed it again. Same message. Finally did a Restart. This time the process of trashing the file from the download folder and emptying trash worked perfectly. There is a possibility that the first NeoOffice download I had Trashed was still downloading in the background (in Trash?) when I started the second download. I don't know if it was the first or second download that required the Restart to free up any handles that may have locked up. It may have been this lock-up that caused the slowdown effect long past the time when NeoOffice was installed. The speed has been good today. I checked iStat Pro and now have Activity Monitor open and they shows no problem with resources. And again, it seems that a good old fashioned Restart cleared away all the cobwebs. Cheers Alan On 03/08/2012, at 7:47 PM, S Beach sbscr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan For comparison, I have a late 2009 Macbook Pro with the same Processor as yours, 8 GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive with only 47GB free. I have not seen a noticeable slowdown since installing Mountain Lion. Generally it seems to be business as usual. Given my experience I would suspect that your problem may be a software issue. Hope this helps to give you some comparative info on similar hardware. Regards Shayne On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hello all Getting to grips with the new features of Mountain Lion following my upgrade from Snow Leopard. I find applications are taking an appreciable time (2 to 3 times longer than expected?) to respond. At this stage I ask WAMUG to monitor their experience. I don't want to spend time trialling possibilities, or doing a clean install, just now. Perhaps a trend of evidence will emerge over time. My iMac is quite workable so it is not urgent to pursue. The Apple Communities forum has some discussion on this topic but no very clear cause and direction has emerged. The problem may just be the processor. My iMac is late 2009 with basic specs (21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz) but with 12GB of RAM. 500GB hard drive has 360GB free. Previously found these specs were not good enough to drive AirParrot mirroring whereas a similar vintage 27 higher-optioned iMac had no problems. (I realise my iMac will not handle AirPlay Mirroring, which is a most desirable feature.) I think this also demonstrates the advantages of a solid state drive! Something to seriously consider for the next new computer - - -. (Probably no coincidence that Apple have been marketing SSD computers since Lion.) Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- 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 -- 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: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
Actually Ronni the man in bow position is No 1 ( and gets across the line first - which is what we are hoping for) Bill ( one of the rowing lurkers on WAMUG) On 04/08/2012, at 11:41 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I have been enjoying the rowing so it will be nice to share a personal interest this evening. Today's West has the Men's fours final scheduled for 5.30 pm. Maybe some preliminary lead up to the actual event. Also describes it as the most anticipated showdown of the regatta with the Poms the favourites. Good luck to your family. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- 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 -- 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: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
Hi Laura Tom anyone else interested in the Men's Four Rowing Final A. Thanks Laura for the Good Luck... Aussie Good Luck! A very kind person emailed me offlist to tell me that 'Final A' which is the one the 'Oarsome Foursome' and our 'Will' is in, is on at 5:30PM today not 6:30PM as I mentioned previously. Then I had a phone call from my sister in Melbourne alerting me to the change of time. Originally the Men's Four Final B was to be run at 5:30PM and Will's Men's Four Final A was listed to be run at 6:30PM. The Final B must have been run earlier? There has been a lot of press since the first heat of the Men's Fours A saying this is the best chance Australia has had since the last 'Oarsome Foursome' of years ago to knock the British Team off. In their first heat they rowed a Olympic Best time, which got the Media in an frenzy and the British worried ;-) I noticed the odds are still in favour of the British Team (and should be as they are the World's Best have been for some time), but our team have the speed and technique to beat them, if everything goes according to plan :)) They will be giving the race their all; they know they can go even faster... and they want Gold! Our family are very excited and very proud of the team. Just before 5:30PM the champagne will be opened at my place in anticipation of the boys bringing home GOLD for Australia! Whatever happens we are very proud of the four rowers and of course especially of Our Will! Bring Home GOLD! Cheers, Ronni On 04/08/2012, at 11:41 AM, Laura Webb el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I have been enjoying the rowing so it will be nice to share a personal interest this evening. Today's West has the Men's fours final scheduled for 5.30 pm. Maybe some preliminary lead up to the actual event. Also describes it as the most anticipated showdown of the regatta with the Poms the favourites. Good luck to your family. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad -- 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: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
OK Bill, I'm wrong with 'Bow' then because Will is the fourth rower at the back of the boat...(good looking kid like his Auntie:) John Dunkley-Smith is the first rower at the front of the boat... we want the front of the boat across the line first :) On 04/08/2012, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Actually Ronni the man in bow position is No 1 ( and gets across the line first - which is what we are hoping for) Bill ( one of the rowing lurkers on WAMUG) On 04/08/2012, at 11:41 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I have been enjoying the rowing so it will be nice to share a personal interest this evening. Today's West has the Men's fours final scheduled for 5.30 pm. Maybe some preliminary lead up to the actual event. Also describes it as the most anticipated showdown of the regatta with the Poms the favourites. Good luck to your family. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni -- 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: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
And rowing is the only sport where you sit down and go backwards! I see that 720ABC is slating the final for 6.30pm WST Bill On 04/08/2012, at 12:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: OK Bill, I'm wrong with 'Bow' then because Will is the fourth rower at the back of the boat...(good looking kid like his Auntie:) John Dunkley-Smith is the first rower at the front of the boat... we want the front of the boat across the line first :) On 04/08/2012, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Actually Ronni the man in bow position is No 1 ( and gets across the line first - which is what we are hoping for) Bill ( one of the rowing lurkers on WAMUG) On 04/08/2012, at 11:41 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I have been enjoying the rowing so it will be nice to share a personal interest this evening. Today's West has the Men's fours final scheduled for 5.30 pm. Maybe some preliminary lead up to the actual event. Also describes it as the most anticipated showdown of the regatta with the Poms the favourites. Good luck to your family. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni -- 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
Re: OT - Australia Men's Four (Oarsome Foursome) Rowing for Gold Sat. Night
There are two Finals of the Men's Four one is FINAL B (which does not have an Australian Team competing) and FINAL A (which has our Australian Team competing) It was listed that the FINAL 'B' would be run first at 5:30PM WST and the FINAL 'A' (our Aussie Team) would be run after that at 6:30PM WST Now I notice they just have listed Men's Four Finals 5.30PM WST. So I will be watching from 5:30PM onwards don't want to miss it!!! I have set EyeTV to record as well, so covering all bases :) Champagne is chilled ;-)) Chn Nine 9 GEM 90 are televising live from 3:30PM Cheers, Ronni On 04/08/2012, at 12:28 PM, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: And rowing is the only sport where you sit down and go backwards! I see that 720ABC is slating the final for 6.30pm WST Bill On 04/08/2012, at 12:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: OK Bill, I'm wrong with 'Bow' then because Will is the fourth rower at the back of the boat...(good looking kid like his Auntie:) John Dunkley-Smith is the first rower at the front of the boat... we want the front of the boat across the line first :) On 04/08/2012, at 12:01 PM, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Actually Ronni the man in bow position is No 1 ( and gets across the line first - which is what we are hoping for) Bill ( one of the rowing lurkers on WAMUG) On 04/08/2012, at 11:41 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I have been enjoying the rowing so it will be nice to share a personal interest this evening. Today's West has the Men's fours final scheduled for 5.30 pm. Maybe some preliminary lead up to the actual event. Also describes it as the most anticipated showdown of the regatta with the Poms the favourites. Good luck to your family. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 03/08/2012, at 10:15 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello People following the 2012 Olympics. The only thing Mac about this post is my favourite relation is rowing for a Gold Medal :-)) My Brother's Nephew is rowing for gold Tomorrow Sat. 4 @ 06:30PM WA time. The 'Men's Four Rowing' Final A. The team is John Dunkley-Smith, Drew Ginn, James Chapman, William Lockwood (my brother's nephew). Will is the fourth Rower in the boat 'Bow'. All my family, expect me are over in London and have been supporting Will and the team. I have been supporting from back here in Australia :( They are in a very good position to beat the British team, the team are feeling very confident they have the speed and technique . They rowed an Olympic fastest time and feel they can better that speed in the final. My brother phoned me tonight and said the team have something 'up their sleeve' for the Final... We hope so and wish them all the best of Aussie Luck. Bring Home Gold! Cheers, Ronni -- 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
1password for iPad
I have used1password on my Mac for some time, has anyone used the iPad version and transferred the Mac passwords to the iPad? Any info would be appreciated. John Sent from my iPad -- 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: Time Machine backup
Ok, thanks for all that Carlo. Cloning process is underway. In the mean time I went looking for system disc. The two black MacBooks were a purchase of reformatted MBs loaded with 10.5.8 from my previous employer. I've never needed the system instal discs before now too. So I have system OSX discs for 10.5.2, 10.5.4 and 10.6.1 (from SWMBOs white MacBook). Do I take a leap and go 10.6.1 or end up backward from 10.5.8 where it currently is? Having cloned 10.5.8, is the data restore process easy into a 10.6.x machine? I've NEVER done a system restore before so a little unsure and dreading the consequences of destroying my 9yo's Minecraft creations!!! Regards Pete On 04/08/2012, at 10:34 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Pete, The best format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a GUID Partition Table but ultimately you can, with extra work, get back to normal from anything that records all your data. You could also do a Time Machine backup rather than a clone. As for the size difference, you are quite right that you may be able to get by with the smaller drive. Here are some areas where you could save files. I have put them in approximate order that I would leave things out until I had enough space. For you it may be different. 1) Choose not to clone any directories that you would not miss if they where not there. In my case say a collection of iView downloads. You may also be able to get by without your Downloads directory. 2) You can leave out directories that you have copies of on other computers. 3) If you need some files in the Downloads folder, trim any .dmg files that you have already installed or that can be easily downloaded again. In my case, say a Mountain Lion image or the latest Libre Office .dmg files. 4) The software will make a few smart choices for you. It will likely not, for instance, copy the paging file if you happen to have one. 5) Clean our your caches and log files. 7) Least favourable choice but in a pinch. Remember that your operating system refresh is very likely to work with no data loss. So if there is a directory of files that you have been thinking about deleting in any case you can exclude it from the clone. Some old podcasts or videocasts that you never seem to get around to listening to my be candidates. Good luck, and keep us posted. :-) Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: 0404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 04/08/2012, at 8:47 , Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok thanks for that Carlo, I understand what you're saying, I have a spare 150GB external drive, what format does it need setting as to create the clone? It is a 250GB Macbook with 180GB showing available in Finder, I think the 150GB is big enough for this cloning process. I will do a browse for the CCC 3.4.x version. Thanks heaps for help here. Stay tuned - ! Regards -- 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
