Re: Adieu
I'm afraid I'll need to exit also, as a remote member with no way of participating in any of the other WAMUG niceties, but happy to join the the ACT email list Peter. I couldn't see any obvious instructions at its website though. What do I do ? Cheers, Steven On 27/06/2012, at 9:00 PM, Peter Sealy wrote: I would like to say adieu to you good folks as 30 Jun is just about here. I have not contributed a great deal to this group partly because by the time I have got around to reading any email which I could have answered someone else has answered the question, most often of course the indefatigable and amazing Ronni. That in no way dimishes the effort put in by many others to contribute to the group. The other reason for the paucity of my contribution is that I see myself as a minnow in the Mac geekdom. As an Age pensioner I have to ration my memberships to social organisations and while the membership fee may be 'only' a small amount to you still working, I need to be careful. I am the List Admin and Moderator of the ACT Apple Help Email List which keeps me busy in observing the Mac webosphere. And as a paid up member of this august group, that cuts out my 'hobby' fees. I lived in Canberra for many years but now live in Albury. We do not require paid membership of our MUG to join our email Help List. Merely being a Mac enthusiast is sufficient. That said we don't have many non-Group members in the List and if any of you sought to send your electrons eastward we would make you welcome. The warning is that our List is nowhere as active or cerebral as yours. Athough we do publish a monthly Newsletter (for financial members). Best wishes, see you in the Mac cloud. Thank you for the camaraderie. Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA -- 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
Query - transferring from Vista machine to iMac with Lion
I have a friend running Vista with MS Outlook (not sure what version of Outlook but whatever the latest version was about 3 years ago). She's just bought a new iMac, which we'll make sure is running 10.7.4 before we start, and wants to import mail and contacts from Outlook to Apple's Mail. Can somebody tell me the simplest method of exporting messages and contacts from Outlook on the windows machine, for import into Apple Mail ? Is Migration Assistant good for this? I do have a licensed version of Little Machine's O2M somewhere. Anybody know if that does anything over and above what Migration Assistant might offer? This friend uses Picasa for photo management, so I assume no need to transfer anything in this regard since Picasa is web based (happy to be corrected, I don't use Picasa myself). And she uses iTunes on her Windows machine. I'm guessing Migration Assistant would be good for bringing music collection across ? So I guess the question is, will Migration Assistant take care of everything, or will I need to do something else ? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Application to extract multiple email addresses from pdf or text document ?
Hoping there's a solution for this. I'd like to automatically extract a bundle of email addresses from a pdf document (which I could easily convert to a Word or other text based document), exporting the email addresses to an ordered list. Each email address mentioned within the document obviously contains the '@' symbol, therefore I need an application which will find and copy or export all 'words' containing '@'. Any solutions out there for Lion? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Application to extract multiple email addresses from pdf or text document ?
Please ignore. Found an online solution which did the job ... http://emailx.discoveryvip.com On 28/05/2012, at 12:06 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Hoping there's a solution for this. I'd like to automatically extract a bundle of email addresses from a pdf document (which I could easily convert to a Word or other text based document), exporting the email addresses to an ordered list. Each email address mentioned within the document obviously contains the '@' symbol, therefore I need an application which will find and copy or export all 'words' containing '@'. Any solutions out there for Lion? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Performance boost - Repair User Permissions
I've been experiencing sluggish performance for ages on my MBP running Lion, particularly when it came to using Spotlight, or the search facility within Mail. Then I came across the Repair User Permissions process detailed at: http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion After following this process, I'm ecstatic with the difference in performance. Chalk cheese. I mention it here in case anybody else has a sluggish Mac for no particularly good reason. Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Upgrading to Reunion v10
Hi Ian At risk of suggesting something you've already covered, if I were in your shoes I'd pose that question via http://www.reuniontalk.com - that way you reach not only a bunch of fellow Mac users, but a bunch of fellow Reunion for Mac users. I do have Reunion, but I haven't had time to upgrade to version 10 yet. I see that 10.0.1 maintenance release is just out, so that might solve you're problem if it's bug related. Cheers, Steven On 16/05/2012, at 12:52 AM, Ian Reid wrote: Good evening All Is anyone else having difficulty transferring from Reunion 9 to 10, particularly in upgrading old Family Files. Under Answers. How do I upgrade a family file from an earlier version , I continue to get stuck at Point 5. Instead of the Upgrade family File, all I get is the old version. I reckon I am following instructions but obviously am not. Thanks in advance. Ian Reid -- 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: Memory leakage? How to stop ?
on the hard drive and there is no point in duplicating the code. 8 Pageins occur anytime something is moved into Active RAM whether that is from Inactive RAM, the swapfile or files on your HD, or some other file on the hard drive. Pageins are measured in amounts of data, not in numbers of pages. 9 Pagouts occur anytime anything is moved out of Active RAM. This includes mapping into Inactive RAM, as well as writing to a Swapfile. Only data are ever written to the hard drive since instructions are already stored on the hard drive. Pageouts are measured in amounts of data, not in numbers of pages. 10 The OS breaks your memory space up into 'pages'. Applications that need access to data that is in memory call the data by page. 11 If an application calls for a page and it is in the RAM, then a 'page in' is registered. 12 If an app calls for a page from memory, and that page is currently stored in a swapfile on the hard disk and has to be read back into the RAM, then a 'Page Out' is registered. A 'Page-out' slows down the operation of the computer because the OS has to read the data from your hard disk into RAM first, rather than reading straight from the RAM. Hard disks take over 300 times longer to transfer a page of data, compared with reading from RAM. This soon adds up to slow overall performance. 13 If page-outs exceed page-ins, you definitely don't have enough RAM. Ideally, page-outs should be less than 20% of the number of page-ins. You should aim for less than 5%. 14 The only ways to reduce page-outs are adding more RAM, or reducing the number of open applications. While freeing up memory by working with fewer and smaller files and apps may help, more RAM is the only reasaonable solution. On 12/05/2012, at 3:38 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I'm running 10.7.3 on a 17 MBP which is probably getting a bit aged these days, 2.4 GHz Intel Core Due, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. At startup, I have around 50GB of spare hard disk capacity, of a total 250GB disk. Over the past month o so, what happens is that over around a 2 to 4 day period, the machine gets slower and slower, to the point that it's unbearably slow, so a restart becomes necessary. In line with the progression of slowness, seems to be disappearance of hard disk capacity. By the time I have to restart, a quick check of hard disk capacity, and it's down to around 1 or 2GB. Trash is emptied regularly (I almost always use Secure Empty Trash). Any clues as to what might be causing this? I've just noticed 10.7.4 is out, so I'll update to that to see if that makes a difference, but any hints in the meantime would be appreciated. Cheers, Steven Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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
Memory leakage? How to stop ?
I'm running 10.7.3 on a 17 MBP which is probably getting a bit aged these days, 2.4 GHz Intel Core Due, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. At startup, I have around 50GB of spare hard disk capacity, of a total 250GB disk. Over the past month o so, what happens is that over around a 2 to 4 day period, the machine gets slower and slower, to the point that it's unbearably slow, so a restart becomes necessary. In line with the progression of slowness, seems to be disappearance of hard disk capacity. By the time I have to restart, a quick check of hard disk capacity, and it's down to around 1 or 2GB. Trash is emptied regularly (I almost always use Secure Empty Trash). Any clues as to what might be causing this? I've just noticed 10.7.4 is out, so I'll update to that to see if that makes a difference, but any hints in the meantime would be appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Memory leakage? How to stop ?
Thanks Ronni. Have you checked your RAM usage in Activity Monitor? There's always been adequate RAM for my use, other than the odd occasion when more would be nice, which no doubt most people run into now and again. I don't think I've ever bought a Mac without immediately doubling the RAM, because unless you're the lightest of users, I think the default RAM installations are inadequate (probably by design). But those peaking RAM situations are usually temporary matters, solved by quitting another RAM hungry application or two. My problem is this kind of gradual deterioration of performance and hard disk capacity over a couple of days, which remains unresolved by quitting processes. The only solution I've found so far is a restart, which apart from it not having always been that way and shouldn't be, is a pain. Use Activity Monitor to watch your RAM usage. If Free memory falls to the point where Inactive memory is being released, you may want to consider adding more RAM to maintain maximum performance. I'll keep my eye on that out of interest. Free RAM currently at 740MB, inactive at 565MB. I'm reluctant to throw more RAM at it if the underlying problem isn't solved. You can also look at the 'Page outs' value, at the bottom of Activity Monitor's main window. This number indicates how many times your Mac has run out of available memory and used your hard drive as virtual RAM. This number should be as low as possible. I see that Page outs is defined as number of virtual memory page ins/outs, but the figure provided is, right now, 1.9MB. Isn't 1.9MB a volume figure, as opposed to a number of times figure? I don't get it what 1.9MB actually means in terms of number of times. Cheers, Steven On 12/05/2012, at 9:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Have you checked your RAM usage in Activity Monitor? Use Activity Monitor to watch your RAM usage. If Free memory falls to the point where Inactive memory is being released, you may want to consider adding more RAM to maintain maximum performance. You can also look at the 'Page outs' value, at the bottom of Activity Monitor's main window. This number indicates how many times your Mac has run out of available memory and used your hard drive as virtual RAM. This number should be as low as possible. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/05/2012, at 3:38 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I'm running 10.7.3 on a 17 MBP which is probably getting a bit aged these days, 2.4 GHz Intel Core Due, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. At startup, I have around 50GB of spare hard disk capacity, of a total 250GB disk. Over the past month o so, what happens is that over around a 2 to 4 day period, the machine gets slower and slower, to the point that it's unbearably slow, so a restart becomes necessary. In line with the progression of slowness, seems to be disappearance of hard disk capacity. By the time I have to restart, a quick check of hard disk capacity, and it's down to around 1 or 2GB. Trash is emptied regularly (I almost always use Secure Empty Trash). Any clues as to what might be causing this? I've just noticed 10.7.4 is out, so I'll update to that to see if that makes a difference, but any hints in the meantime would be appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Memory leakage? How to stop ?
I'm with you Ronni, up until: This number indicates how many times your Mac has run out of available memory and used your hard drive as virtual RAM. This number should be as low as possible. I like the number to be less than 2000 during a full day's use of my Mac. Others suggest a higher value as the threshold for adding RAM, in the neighborhood of 2500 to 3000. Assuming we're still on the subject of Page ins and Page outs I understand what you're saying, but where it gets muddy is that the information provided via the System Memory tab of Activity Monitor isn't a raw number. It's a volume figure, in MB. In other words, you're saying that the number indicates how many times your Mac has run out of available memory and used your hard drive as virtual RAM. Right now, my Page outs field says 2.1MB (0 bytes/sec). Example: Q. How many times has your Mac has run out of available memory and used your hard drive as virtual RAM ? A. 2.1MB 2.1MB of times? That doesn't make sense. 2.1 times makes sense, but not 2.1MB. It seems to be a grammatical problem. If I mouse over Page outs, it also explains Number of ..., and again, the information provided (at time if typing), 2.1MB, doesn't make sense in the context of the question. If not a grammatical problem, I'd be delighted if somebody can make the penny drop for me :-) Cheers, Steven On 12/05/2012, at 11:07 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You 'might' have some sort of memory leak; but Insufficient RAM and Free Hard Space do cause the problems you are experiencing. I'll try to type a fairly short response to your queries. I did post a long time back to WAMUG explaining 'Real Memory' 'Virtual Memory' in OS X. I always max out the RAM in my MBPs, 8GB RAM runs Lion fast, plus I also like to keep my Hard Drive with 30% free. Lion handles memory very well, but it does need free space to swap the contents of real memory to and from the drive. When your Mac gets low on real memory, virtual memory comes to the rescue. * Virtual memory means the system swaps the contents of real memory to and from the drive; this involves both writing (paging out), and reading (paging in). Virtual memory is far slower than real memory, so a fast system drive is the dominant factor for virtual memory performance. I see that Page outs is defined as number of virtual memory page ins/outs, but the figure provided is, right now, 1.9MB. Isn't 1.9MB a volume figure, as opposed to a number of times figure? I don't get it what 1.9MB actually means in terms of number of times. 'Page ins' or 'page outs' are how many times a page of memory is swapped out from disk to memory and vice versa. If the total 'page outs' is low compared to the number of 'page ins' after having used your Mac for hours of work, you may have sufficient RAM --- Otherwise, you should install more RAM. A few megabytes or tens of megabytes of 'page outs' are acceptable, but more than a few hundred megabytes means you’re losing performance in a major way— add more memory if possible. In my 'simple words' : This number indicates how many times your Mac has run out of available memory and used your hard drive as virtual RAM. This number should be as low as possible. I like the number to be less than 2000 during a full day's use of my Mac. Others suggest a higher value as the threshold for adding RAM, in the neighborhood of 2500 to 3000. *Always install more memory if possible, nothing else is faster than real memory. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 12/05/2012, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Ronni. Have you checked your RAM usage in Activity Monitor? There's always been adequate RAM for my use, other than the odd occasion when more would be nice, which no doubt most people run into now and again. I don't think I've ever bought a Mac without immediately doubling the RAM, because unless you're the lightest of users, I think the default RAM installations are inadequate (probably by design). But those peaking RAM situations are usually temporary matters, solved by quitting another RAM hungry application or two. My problem is this kind of gradual deterioration of performance and hard disk capacity over a couple of days, which remains unresolved by quitting processes. The only solution I've found so far is a restart, which apart from it not having always been that way and shouldn't be, is a pain. Use Activity Monitor to watch your RAM usage. If Free memory falls to the point where Inactive memory is being released, you may want to consider adding more RAM to maintain maximum performance. I'll keep my eye on that out of interest. Free RAM currently at 740MB, inactive at 565MB. I'm reluctant to throw more RAM at it if the underlying problem
Re: Setting up a website to replace Mobileme
An alternative free FTP application - Cyberduck (hope I haven't broke WAMUG rules with a hyperlink?!). Fetch I find marginally better, but I guess that's why it costs. Cyberduck does the job for basics. I don't suppose what FTP application? was the question though. I do host a Joomla based website (alpha1.org.au), but I didn't build it nor do I maintain it, but if knowing anything of the directory structure etc helps, ask away as I do have FTP and remote access the server. Cheers, Steven On 12/05/2012, at 1:57 PM, Geoff and Kaye wrote: Robert On 10/05/2012, at 8:25 AM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote: Are there any Wammuggers out there who have a mobileme website and have been able to successfully transfer its content to a new website? I've been battling with Joomla who say it's dead easy but frankly I'm bamboozled by the technicalities. Any help/guidance would be much appreciated. My current mobileme site contains hundreds of business and domestic pics but no text!. We use Fetch for FTP (I think our version was free but I cannot be sure) - it is a program which has been around a long while but has been continually improved. It is possibly not the most intuitive interface invented for an FTP program but it is very powerful and flexible. If what you want to do is just transfer files from one server to another, it is very easy with Fetch - you can set up two windows, pointing to the locations that you want to transfer from and to, and just drag and drop. If you want to copy your current site on Mobileme to you own computer then you just need one window displaying the Mobileme files and do a get. I have never used Mobileme so cannot tell you how to set up the FTP parameters to access it - but if you do not know then I am sure that others can help in this regard. Regards Geoff -- Geoff and Kaye k...@kgweb.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Attachment is there - but can't access - hotmail Apple Mail
I'm not sure if this is a hotmail issue, or a Mail issue, but lately I've had examples whereby somebody has sent me an email with attachment, but I can't access the attachment. From memory, this problem has arisen only when receiving from a hotmail address. Using Apple's Mail as email Client (Lion 10.7.3), I can see that the content (as in the attached file) must be within the email somewhere because in the Size column of my inbox screen, it says 691KB, and in the paperclip column, 2 attachments (1 of which is an embedded graphic in a sig file). However, when looking at the email itself, it indicates just 1 attachment of 31KB, being the embedded graphic. No sign of the attachment I want to access, and I've looked in the Mail Downloads folder itself. Yet Mail must begetting this 691KB info from somewhere?? Anybody have a clue as to what's happening here? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Queries - working with mail across an iMac and iPad
I don't have an iPad, but I am trying to help somebody out who does have one, as well as an iMac. The iMac is running Snow Leopard I think, and although the iPad has just been purchased, he bought an iPad 2. Traditionally this guy runs two separate mail accounts, one set up as IMAP, one set up as POP, on a particular domain, which I'll refer to as domain.com. There is good reason for one of each, and we need to keep it that way. The IMAP account isn't a problem. It's been set up on both the iMac and iPad, and is an account to which the content received doesn't need long term storage. Just view, act, delete, all is working fine. The POP account has been functioning on the iMac via Mail just fine. But the iMac is not something he can carry around with him, so has bought the iPad to primarily to keep in touch via mail and other web interfaces on the run. Queries: The iMac is still to be used for permanent mail handling. Whatever mail he sees on his iPad, he still wants his iMac to receive it. If the POP account is set up on each, with leave mail on server for X days, does this achieve that? Or will if the iPad retrieves a message first, will the iMac then see that as already retrieved and therefore not do so again? The mail account in question can be accessed via a web account, but apart from that requiring proactive login to check, any sent mail won't make it to the iPad sent folder, never mind the iMac. Is there an easy way to answer emails on the iPad, but so that they end up being stored in the sent folder of the iMac? I don't know whether iCloud offers a solution. I'm still using MobileMe because I'm waiting for the iPhone 5 release before upgrading from my current iPhone 3, which isn't compatible with iCloud ... and I know I have only until 30 June on MobileMe, at least that's last I knew. So I don't know the intricacies of how iCloud works with mail. But is iCloud a solution? Can we set up a 3rd party POP account such that mail can be read and sent from either iMac or iPad, and stored on at least the iMac? Or the cloud I guess ... as long as we're not forced to use me.com email address. A couple of restrictions on any solution ... For the POP account in question, we can't use it as an IMAP account. There are server storage restrictions. An option is to move to, say, gmail and set up the domain.com POP account within gmail. That will allow the account to be accessed from iMac or iPad with no effect on the mail, however the downside is loss of the niceties of Mail, which this guy is accustomed to and prefers not to change. Tips will be most appreciated. Thanks, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Queries - working with mail across an iMac and iPad
Thanks Ronni. On 22/04/2012, at 11:30 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: snip You can setup a gmail IMAP in Apple Mail. There's a thought. Now I know that I can set up a mydomain.com POP email address within gmail (gmail doesn't allow same for IMAP), and as far as the rest of the world is concerned, even though I'm logging into the gmail interface for both sending and receiving and managing mail, it looks like a mydomain.com email address. But if I then set up a gmail IMAP account within Apple's Mail, can I then send, receive, manage mail such that any gmail association is hidden to 3rd parties? The objectives of this being that (i) I capitalise on gmail's 7GB storage capacity (ii) I still enjoy the benefits of Apple's Mail app for handling mail and (iii) whether I use Mail on the iMac or the iPad, I still see all folders including sent, because it'd basically be a mirror of the gmail facility. Is that likely to work, before I spend a bunch of time testing? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Apple mail
Tom, once you've created a new message, and you see that an old email address has appeared in the 'To' field, place your cursor over the email address, at the right end. You should see a little downward pointing white triangle. Click on the triangle. Select Remove from Previous Recipients List. Cheers, Steven On 21/03/2012, at 6:23 PM, tom samson wrote: Can someone remind me as to how I can delete old addresses in mail? I end up sending some mail to our of date mail addresses by mistake - too quick for my own mind. tom samson -- 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
Can audio stream be captured via any browsers for Mac ?
I discovered recently that video can be easily captured from within Safari or Firefox, however I'd now like to capture a live audio stream, as in that put out by ABC radio via its websites. I guessed that if video can be captured, live audi could be to, but I've had no luck trying to find out how via a few web inquiries. Anyone have any tips? If not from within a browser, any freeware suggestions? It's just a once-only requirement for a couple of minutes, so purchasing an application will be a bit of a waste. Using OSX 10.7.3. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Can audio stream be captured via any browsers for Mac ?
Ronni, gave Audacity a test run, and it worked so easily I thought there must be a catch. So thanks for the suggestion. James, I downloaded Audacity, installed, opened, played the live radio stream via the relevant web page, pressed record in Audacity, done. Audacity then allows you to 'export' the recording to a range of formats. Cheers, Steven On 17/03/2012, at 1:55 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: hello Ronny does audacity records from an internal source directly? how to setup for this thanks James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 17/03/2012, at 6:31 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Audio Highjack Pro http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/ not free, you do have to purchase Or Audiacity free http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/ Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 16/03/2012, at 10:34 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I discovered recently that video can be easily captured from within Safari or Firefox, however I'd now like to capture a live audio stream, as in that put out by ABC radio via its websites. I guessed that if video can be captured, live audi could be to, but I've had no luck trying to find out how via a few web inquiries. Anyone have any tips? If not from within a browser, any freeware suggestions? It's just a once-only requirement for a couple of minutes, so purchasing an application will be a bit of a waste. Using OSX 10.7.3. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: TV antennas
Whilst they're out there Malcolm, I'd ask them to run an antenna point to every room that you think you might ever have a TV in. Might save paying another call out fee later. On 02/12/2011, at 10:49 AM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: We are just about to get TV Antenna put up on our new house :-) Is there any points to consider or any particular suggestions from the group? TIA for any. Can hardly wait to get in (14th Dec) :-) We are in Woodlands Mac Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au Skype docmactor -- 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: iCal entries keep disappearing
Yes to all of those, Ronni. I did a little more exploring of iCal / Lion / MobielMe sync issues and it seems there's a plague of problems. Seems to me a move to iCloud is going to be the only long term solution. Which will mean an iPhone hardware upgrade. Might not be such a bad thing to be forced to do ... my iPhone 3G has slowed to a crawl these days. Hopefully the iPhone 5 will be out before MobileMe disappears. An option is that I access Calendar via www.me.com/calendar - at initial glance that seems to be more reliable. Cheers, Steven On 25/11/2011, at 6:24 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, On 25/11/2011, at 3:07 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm about to ring iCal's neck. I'm running iCal 5.0.1 on a MacBok Pro running 10.7.2, syncing via MobileMe with an iMac and iPhone. Entries entered in iCal, either on MacBook Pro or iMac, sometimes stay, sometimes disappear. Doesn't seem to be any pattern. Then sometimes they disappear then come back. In iCal on your Macs, if you go to iCal Preferences Account Information … do you have your correct CalDAV information and Refresh Calendars: Push? And in ‘Advanced’ do you have enabled “Automatically retrieve CalDAV invitations from Mail? Click the ‘Calendars’ button, do you have all your calendars selected? Your iCal reads the calendars from MobileMe so any changes made in either place will be visible immediately. If this is not happening then these Apple Tech Notes provide instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3397 http://help.apple.com/mobileme/index.html#mmd67283e4 Should I be moving to iCloud? What are the cons? I haven't bothered because I have an iPhone 3G which apparently isn't iCloud compatible, so I don't want to move to iCloud only to find my iPhone no longer syncs with iCal. Well, you can’t move to iCloud if you have an iPhone 3G as it is limited to iOS4.3 and iCloud requires iOS5. The iPhone 3G S can run iOS5 but not the iPhone 3G. Any tips to solve this painful missing iCal entry phenomenon? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iCal entries keep disappearing
That rings a bell Carlo, but thanks for refreshing me on this anyway. It basically puts a timeline around an iPhone upgrade ... and hopefully by then Apple starts making some forward steps with Lion. Cheers, Steven On 25/11/2011, at 10:47 PM, cm wrote: Hi Steven, I don't know if you are aware of it, but MobileMe will cease to operate on 30 June, 2012. If you want to continue synchronizing your Mac and iPhone calendar after that date, you will need to find an alternative. Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 25/11/2011, at 16:24, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Steven, On 25/11/2011, at 3:07 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm about to ring iCal's neck. I'm running iCal 5.0.1 on a MacBok Pro running 10.7.2, syncing via MobileMe with an iMac and iPhone. Entries entered in iCal, either on MacBook Pro or iMac, sometimes stay, sometimes disappear. Doesn't seem to be any pattern. Then sometimes they disappear then come back. In iCal on your Macs, if you go to iCal Preferences Account Information … do you have your correct CalDAV information and Refresh Calendars: Push? And in ‘Advanced’ do you have enabled “Automatically retrieve CalDAV invitations from Mail? Click the ‘Calendars’ button, do you have all your calendars selected? Your iCal reads the calendars from MobileMe so any changes made in either place will be visible immediately. If this is not happening then these Apple Tech Notes provide instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3397 http://help.apple.com/mobileme/index.html#mmd67283e4 Should I be moving to iCloud? What are the cons? I haven't bothered because I have an iPhone 3G which apparently isn't iCloud compatible, so I don't want to move to iCloud only to find my iPhone no longer syncs with iCal. Well, you can’t move to iCloud if you have an iPhone 3G as it is limited to iOS4.3 and iCloud requires iOS5. The iPhone 3G S can run iOS5 but not the iPhone 3G. Any tips to solve this painful missing iCal entry phenomenon? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
iCal entries keep disappearing
I'm about to ring iCal's neck. I'm running iCal 5.0.1 on a MacBok Pro running 10.7.2, syncing via MobileMe with an iMac and iPhone. Entries entered in iCal, either on MacBook Pro or iMac, sometimes stay, sometimes disappear. Doesn't seem to be any pattern. Then sometimes they disappear then come back. Should I be moving to iCloud? What are the cons? I haven't bothered because I have an iPhone 3G which apparently isn't iCloud compatible, so I don't want to move to iCloud only to find my iPhone no longer syncs with iCal. Any tips to solve this painful missing iCal entry phenomenon? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Any CRM / CMS experts out there?
I need to make a decision on what software development route to go down, and leaning towards an open source CRM / CMS Mac compatible solution, with a big question mark over whether I even know what I'm talking about when I say that. Sugar CRM has been mentioned, but I don't know whether such a beast will do all that I ultimately need it to do. Is there anybody out there across this space, who wouldn't mind me calling them for a high level chat? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Any CRM / CMS experts out there?
Thanks Glenn. What I'm not sure about is whether I have 'extensive' functional requirements or not. I guess extensive isa relative term. I think so though, at least in the longer term. When you say 'hefty', do you mean as in terms of user friendliness? As in a layman like me picking it up and running with it? I suspect my understanding of CMS vs CRM is vague, and ideally what I need is ask an unbiased somebody question 1 ... This is what I need to do ... what type of software do I need?, and then question 2 This is the type of software I need to engage .. what's on the market and what's my best choice?. And then think about whether I can do the rest myself on a tight time budget, or get a 3rd party involved who specialises in it. Finding people who are (i) technically excellent in the space you need them and (ii) trustworthy is a challenge in itself. Will keep reading! Cheers, Steven On 19/11/2011, at 2:22 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Steven, There are a lot of options in this area. If you have extensive functional requirements, then Sugar CRM might be good for you, but perhaps check out cloud based services such as Highrise first, as Sugar CRM is a pretty hefty tool. You've mentioned CMS and CRM in the same sentence. If you are thinking of integrating CRM with a CMS, this article looks at CRM from a WordPress orientation: http://om4.com.au/client/wordpress-crm/ WordPress is an open source CMS. Very popular. 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are launched using WordPress, and it now accounts for over 55% of all websites that have a CMS. Happy researching. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 19 November 2011 11:54, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I need to make a decision on what software development route to go down, and leaning towards an open source CRM / CMS Mac compatible solution, with a big question mark over whether I even know what I'm talking about when I say that. Sugar CRM has been mentioned, but I don't know whether such a beast will do all that I ultimately need it to do. Is there anybody out there across this space, who wouldn't mind me calling them for a high level chat? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Any CRM / CMS experts out there?
Thanks Justin. I have to listen to you because it was you who originally suggested Saasu for an accounting solution, which I do now use and am reasonably happy with it. I think my needs probably go beyond the business catalyst you refer to, at least based on what I can read about it, but the Software Selection Implementation service could be of interest. Should I just fill in the Contact Us form? Checked out CapsuleCRM, thank you ... leaning towards open source if CRM is indeed what I need. Cheers, Steven On 19/11/2011, at 3:46 PM, Justin Davies wrote: Steven, if you are looking for the open source tools, then wordpress is excellent. In my view, having done it, it is better to get someone else to take care of the hosting etc and Glenn is the best guy to talk to in Perth on that. Another option is business catalyst which you can get a free trial of (I resell this product so excuse the plug - but I do think it is very good) http://emergination.com.au/online It does have a light CRM in it as well. So if someone fills in a form, it goes straight into the crm. You might find this one product does the trick. For CRM i really like CapsuleCRM which is free for two users and can plug into google contacts. I use this for business development for a client. Hope that helps Best regards Justin Davies On 19/11/2011, at 1:07 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Glenn. What I'm not sure about is whether I have 'extensive' functional requirements or not. I guess extensive isa relative term. I think so though, at least in the longer term. When you say 'hefty', do you mean as in terms of user friendliness? As in a layman like me picking it up and running with it? I suspect my understanding of CMS vs CRM is vague, and ideally what I need is ask an unbiased somebody question 1 ... This is what I need to do ... what type of software do I need?, and then question 2 This is the type of software I need to engage .. what's on the market and what's my best choice?. And then think about whether I can do the rest myself on a tight time budget, or get a 3rd party involved who specialises in it. Finding people who are (i) technically excellent in the space you need them and (ii) trustworthy is a challenge in itself. Will keep reading! Cheers, Steven On 19/11/2011, at 2:22 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Steven, There are a lot of options in this area. If you have extensive functional requirements, then Sugar CRM might be good for you, but perhaps check out cloud based services such as Highrise first, as Sugar CRM is a pretty hefty tool. You've mentioned CMS and CRM in the same sentence. If you are thinking of integrating CRM with a CMS, this article looks at CRM from a WordPress orientation: http://om4.com.au/client/wordpress-crm/ WordPress is an open source CMS. Very popular. 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are launched using WordPress, and it now accounts for over 55% of all websites that have a CMS. Happy researching. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 19 November 2011 11:54, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I need to make a decision on what software development route to go down, and leaning towards an open source CRM / CMS Mac compatible solution, with a big question mark over whether I even know what I'm talking about when I say that. Sugar CRM has been mentioned, but I don't know whether such a beast will do all that I ultimately need it to do. Is there anybody out there across this space, who wouldn't mind me calling them for a high level chat? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
iTunes 10.5 won't stream to Airport Express, at least not consistently
Has anybody else experienced difficulty streaming music from iTunes 10.5 to Airport Express and found a resolve? I'm not sure whether it's an iTunes issue or a more general 10.7.2 wireless issue, but first time I've ever had an issue streaming to Airport Express. Airport Express has latest firmware. I start off with iTunes not being able to see Airport Express as a speaker option. Upon restarting Airport Express, iTunes could see it, but after selecting Airport Express as the speaker option, iTunes tries to connect for 15 or 20 seconds, but fails. I then reset to factory the Airport Express, rejoined it to the network, and it worked for a while. But having stopped streaming and coming back to do so again after a few hours, no more Air Express in either iTunes as a speaker option, nor visible via Airport Utility, despite Airport Express showing a solid green light. I've also taken to hardwiring my Time Capsule to my MacBook Pro because wireless backups have become troublesome too frequently, as in backups just not taking hold or taking forever. This is a pain because I have an iMac backing up to the TC as well, too far away to be hardwired. Something else I've had trouble with are the kids' MacBooks not being able to see the network. I eventually resolved this by manually assigning IP addresses on those MacBooks. In case it's relevant, the wireless network I have is issued by an Optus-provided-and-configured CVG824G v3. I wonder if it's not that this device, or the Optus configuration, which gives me all the grief. But if it issues a wireless network which I can satisfactorily access from, for instance, the MBP I'm sending this message from, then why would it give me grief when it comes to other functions operating over the network? Could too many gadgets talking to the network be the problem? Apart from my MBP, there's an iMac, a wireless HP All-In-One, an iPhone, potentially three Nokia X5s, and a couple of MacBooks on an adhoc infrequent basis. I'm out of my league with this comment, but would manually assigning IPs to all devices be a potential solution? I say it only on the back of seemingly having solved the MacBook problems I used to have. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iTunes 10.5 won't stream to Airport Express, at least not consistently
Ronni, the TC is 802.11n (1st generation) running firmware 7.5.2, no updates according to Airport Utility. I bought it in about Aug/Sep 2008. Does that fit your definition of dual-band? I've steered clear of having the TC distribute a wireless network, mainly due to endless hours of wasting time with it in days gone by. Other than these recent problems with Airport Express, I haven't had call to change from the CVG824G transmitting the network (yep, it's a Netgear). But I suppose I could brave another shot at it. Steven On 07/11/2011, at 9:34 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, In case it's relevant, the wireless network I have is issued by an Optus-provided-and-configured CVG824G v3. I wonder if it's not that this device, or the Optus configuration, which gives me all the grief. Just reading this part of your email I would say it is very relevant. If your Time Capsule is one of the newer models that have Dual-Band, why haven’t you setup the Time Capsule as a Simultaneous Dual-Band 802.11n Wireless Network ... Turn wireless OFF on CVG824G v3 (which I think is a Netgear)? Time Capsule operates simultaneously on both bands ( 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz ), and your multi-band devices automatically use the best available band. This means all your Wi-Fi devices get the fastest possible wireless performance and the best possible range. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/11/2011, at 12:46 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Has anybody else experienced difficulty streaming music from iTunes 10.5 to Airport Express and found a resolve? I'm not sure whether it's an iTunes issue or a more general 10.7.2 wireless issue, but first time I've ever had an issue streaming to Airport Express. Airport Express has latest firmware. I start off with iTunes not being able to see Airport Express as a speaker option. Upon restarting Airport Express, iTunes could see it, but after selecting Airport Express as the speaker option, iTunes tries to connect for 15 or 20 seconds, but fails. I then reset to factory the Airport Express, rejoined it to the network, and it worked for a while. But having stopped streaming and coming back to do so again after a few hours, no more Air Express in either iTunes as a speaker option, nor visible via Airport Utility, despite Airport Express showing a solid green light. I've also taken to hardwiring my Time Capsule to my MacBook Pro because wireless backups have become troublesome too frequently, as in backups just not taking hold or taking forever. This is a pain because I have an iMac backing up to the TC as well, too far away to be hardwired. Something else I've had trouble with are the kids' MacBooks not being able to see the network. I eventually resolved this by manually assigning IP addresses on those MacBooks. In case it's relevant, the wireless network I have is issued by an Optus-provided-and-configured CVG824G v3. I wonder if it's not that this device, or the Optus configuration, which gives me all the grief. But if it issues a wireless network which I can satisfactorily access from, for instance, the MBP I'm sending this message from, then why would it give me grief when it comes to other functions operating over the network? Could too many gadgets talking to the network be the problem? Apart from my MBP, there's an iMac, a wireless HP All-In-One, an iPhone, potentially three Nokia X5s, and a couple of MacBooks on an adhoc infrequent basis. I'm out of my league with this comment, but would manually assigning IPs to all devices be a potential solution? I say it only on the back of seemingly having solved the MacBook problems I used to have. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iTunes 10.5 won't stream to Airport Express, at least not consistently
Thanks Ronni. I can access the CVG824G's setup via web browser. I vaguely recall Optus saying something about their hardware being provided on the basis of only a single device being on the network, but assumed that was a standard throwaway line to get out of support issues. Multiple devices have been functioning fine on the network for some time. Besides, what wireless modem/router in your average family home in 2011 has just one device accessing it? It's cable access that I have. The CVG824G is a wireless cable voice gateway. The first thing I went to do after it was installed by an Optus technician was update the firmware, but after fruitlessly trying to find out how to do so, discovered that you don't. Optus supposedly update firmware from its end. Don't mind shooting you through some screen shots of the CVG824G UI if interested. Further on the Airport Express issue, seems that when I turn off then, it works for a while, then eventually stops working, despite continuing as a green solid light. Maybe it's some cycle that the CVG824G goes through, eventually dropping the Airport Express out. Maybe the answer might be, despite the TC being older, hardwiring it to the CVG824G, and having the TC transmit the wireless network? Cheers, Steven On 07/11/2011, at 11:08 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, No unfortunately your 1st Generation Time Capsule is not capable of creating a Dual-Band Wireless Network. I have a 3rd Generation TC setup as a Simultaneous Dual-Band Wireless Network, that has computers, iPhones, iPads, wirelessly connecting to it. So back to the drawing board. Your Wireless Network is not functioning correctly if you have to connect your MBP via Ethernet to TC for TM backups to work, and the kids MacBooks can’t ‘see’ the Network. Would need to know all the setup configuration of your CVG824G v3 Wireless Network to be able to give any advise to sort the problems you are experiencing. Given that the Modem has been customised for Optus, you might not be able to change the configuration? It should be distributing IP addresses to all your wireless clients (that is if Optus are allowing you to have more than 1-2 clients connecting), if it is Dual-Band to be able to handle the 2.4GHz phones 5GHz computers. Also, are you on Cable or ADSL? I have to see a client now, but will be in and out during the day. Cheers, Ronni On 07/11/2011, at 8:19 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Ronni, the TC is 802.11n (1st generation) running firmware 7.5.2, no updates according to Airport Utility. I bought it in about Aug/Sep 2008. Does that fit your definition of dual-band? I've steered clear of having the TC distribute a wireless network, mainly due to endless hours of wasting time with it in days gone by. Other than these recent problems with Airport Express, I haven't had call to change from the CVG824G transmitting the network (yep, it's a Netgear). But I suppose I could brave another shot at it. Steven On 07/11/2011, at 9:34 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, In case it's relevant, the wireless network I have is issued by an Optus-provided-and-configured CVG824G v3. I wonder if it's not that this device, or the Optus configuration, which gives me all the grief. Just reading this part of your email I would say it is very relevant. If your Time Capsule is one of the newer models that have Dual-Band, why haven’t you setup the Time Capsule as a Simultaneous Dual-Band 802.11n Wireless Network ... Turn wireless OFF on CVG824G v3 (which I think is a Netgear)? Time Capsule operates simultaneously on both bands ( 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz ), and your multi-band devices automatically use the best available band. This means all your Wi-Fi devices get the fastest possible wireless performance and the best possible range. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.2 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/11/2011, at 12:46 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Has anybody else experienced difficulty streaming music from iTunes 10.5 to Airport Express and found a resolve? I'm not sure whether it's an iTunes issue or a more general 10.7.2 wireless issue, but first time I've ever had an issue streaming to Airport Express. Airport Express has latest firmware. I start off with iTunes not being able to see Airport Express as a speaker option. Upon restarting Airport Express, iTunes could see it, but after selecting Airport Express as the speaker option, iTunes tries to connect for 15 or 20 seconds, but fails. I then reset to factory the Airport Express, rejoined it to the network, and it worked for a while. But having stopped streaming and coming back to do so again after a few hours, no more Air Express in either iTunes as a speaker option, nor visible via Airport Utility, despite Airport Express showing a solid
Re: Google Search Agent cookie ?
Maybe this is what I've been experiencing ?? http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/beware-of-search-engine-poisoning-20111004-1l6go.html Though since deleting that Google Search Agent cookie, I haven't had a repeat of the problem. Begin forwarded message: From: Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au Subject: Re: Google Search Agent cookie ? Date: 24 September 2011 12:03:00 PM AEST To: wamug@wamug.org.au When you hover over the link [the bad one that looks good] doesn't it reveal the actual URL? I'll check next time it happens, but it only happens now and again, an then you can't duplicate it. It's gotta have something to do with this googlesearchagent cookie, because when it does happen, I notice the phrase Google Search Agent flash up somewhere or other, all happens a bit quick, probably the status bar is where I've seen it as the URL redirects. I deleted the cookie again, and it hasn't yet come back. I tried to log out of Google and back in again, to see if they would make the cooke reappear. The only discovery there is that either Safari or Google doesn't let me log out. All I get is Please wait ... - and at the end of that I'm still logged in. More trickery no doubt. On 24/09/2011, at 11:23 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 24/09/2011, at 7:35 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Has anybody noticed, when clicking on a Google search result to go the relevant web page, that a 'Google search agent' seems to hijack things and take you off to a totally unrelated website? I then back track to my original search results, try again, and then it's fine. It only happens occasionally. I'm using Safari 5.1. The latest example, a moment ago, is that I clicked on a search result, only to be directed to a totally unrelated Virgin Australia page. This is after having earlier had a look at the Cookie list within Safari, found a googlesearchagent.com Cookie, and deleted it. Now it's back again. Is this Google up to no good? Anybody know how this works? I have Cookie settings to block from 3rd parties and advertisers, but that's obviously not stoping this Cookie from returning, maybe because I'm logged in as a Google user? Hi Steven, When you hover over the link [the bad one that looks good] doesn't it reveal the actual URL? If you’re seeing suspicious pop-ups, unwanted toolbars, redirects, strange Google search results, or other unexpected behaviour on your computer, you may have been tricked into installing malicious software (also known as ‘malware’) on your computer. Apparently MacScan can remove the most common malware on your computer. http://macscan.securemac.com/ A Mac is not immune to everything, but assuming it is not the Mac you might have hit upon an infected server or an intentional malware link. It’s very unlikely that you have a trojan. The only known DNS Changer trojan is one of the three that the current version of Mac OS X protects you against, making it difficult to download and open without knowing what you’re doing. Mac Virus guide: http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/macvirus for more information. It is possible that your ISP’s DNS servers have been compromised, so switching DNS servers may do the trick. If it does, you should contact your ISP to let them know about the problem, if they aren’t aware of it already. Enter known good DNS numbers in either/both your mac System Preferences-Network-Advanced-DNS and router setup. Open DNS is ok - 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Google Search Agent cookie ?
Has anybody noticed, when clicking on a Google search result to go the relevant web page, that a 'Google search agent' seems to hijack things and take you off to a totally unrelated website? I then back track to my original search results, try again, and then it's fine. It only happens occasionally. I'm using Safari 5.1. The latest example, a moment ago, is that I clicked on a search result, only to be directed to a totally unrelated Virgin Australia page. This is after having earlier had a look at the Cookie list within Safari, found a googlesearchagent.com Cookie, and deleted it. Now it's back again. Is this Google up to no good? Anybody know how this works? I have Cookie settings to block from 3rd parties and advertisers, but that's obviously not stoping this Cookie from returning, maybe because I'm logged in as a Google user? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Google Search Agent cookie ?
When you hover over the link [the bad one that looks good] doesn't it reveal the actual URL? I'll check next time it happens, but it only happens now and again, an then you can't duplicate it. It's gotta have something to do with this googlesearchagent cookie, because when it does happen, I notice the phrase Google Search Agent flash up somewhere or other, all happens a bit quick, probably the status bar is where I've seen it as the URL redirects. I deleted the cookie again, and it hasn't yet come back. I tried to log out of Google and back in again, to see if they would make the cooke reappear. The only discovery there is that either Safari or Google doesn't let me log out. All I get is Please wait ... - and at the end of that I'm still logged in. More trickery no doubt. On 24/09/2011, at 11:23 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 24/09/2011, at 7:35 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Has anybody noticed, when clicking on a Google search result to go the relevant web page, that a 'Google search agent' seems to hijack things and take you off to a totally unrelated website? I then back track to my original search results, try again, and then it's fine. It only happens occasionally. I'm using Safari 5.1. The latest example, a moment ago, is that I clicked on a search result, only to be directed to a totally unrelated Virgin Australia page. This is after having earlier had a look at the Cookie list within Safari, found a googlesearchagent.com Cookie, and deleted it. Now it's back again. Is this Google up to no good? Anybody know how this works? I have Cookie settings to block from 3rd parties and advertisers, but that's obviously not stoping this Cookie from returning, maybe because I'm logged in as a Google user? Hi Steven, When you hover over the link [the bad one that looks good] doesn't it reveal the actual URL? If you’re seeing suspicious pop-ups, unwanted toolbars, redirects, strange Google search results, or other unexpected behaviour on your computer, you may have been tricked into installing malicious software (also known as ‘malware’) on your computer. Apparently MacScan can remove the most common malware on your computer. http://macscan.securemac.com/ A Mac is not immune to everything, but assuming it is not the Mac you might have hit upon an infected server or an intentional malware link. It’s very unlikely that you have a trojan. The only known DNS Changer trojan is one of the three that the current version of Mac OS X protects you against, making it difficult to download and open without knowing what you’re doing. Mac Virus guide: http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/macvirus for more information. It is possible that your ISP’s DNS servers have been compromised, so switching DNS servers may do the trick. If it does, you should contact your ISP to let them know about the problem, if they aren’t aware of it already. Enter known good DNS numbers in either/both your mac System Preferences-Network-Advanced-DNS and router setup. Open DNS is ok - 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Skype 5.3 keeps quitting
After working just fine since the version was released, Skype 5.3 suddenly starting quitting on me, and failing to relaunch (quits each time it tries to launch) on 10.7.1. I've repaired preferences, restarted Mac, to no avail. Found one suggested remedy on the web, being to trash ~Library Application Support Skype shared.xml then relaunch Skype, but that doesn't work. Downloaded 5.4 beta in case that solved the problem - nope. Another suggestion was to revert to an older version of Skype, so I've done that for now, going back in time to 2.8. This older version launches without quitting at least, but hardly a good solution. A clue may be that I was trying to launch Fetch 5.6 around the same time, and Fetch wasn't launching properly either. That problem solved with a reboot of the Mac. Anybody had the same problem and found a fix? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Skype 5.3 keeps quitting
Thanks Adrian. I pondered figuring out how to do a complete uninstall, however thought that it might cause loss of all historical chat, voice messages, etc. Is there as a danger of that happening do you know? On 20/09/2011, at 5:12 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon Steve, I have found the best way to solve this is to uninstall it (I use CleanApp for this,) download it and reinstall it from scratch. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 20/09/2011, at 2:52 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: After working just fine since the version was released, Skype 5.3 suddenly starting quitting on me, and failing to relaunch (quits each time it tries to launch) on 10.7.1. I've repaired preferences, restarted Mac, to no avail. Found one suggested remedy on the web, being to trash ~Library Application Support Skype shared.xml then relaunch Skype, but that doesn't work. Downloaded 5.4 beta in case that solved the problem - nope. Another suggestion was to revert to an older version of Skype, so I've done that for now, going back in time to 2.8. This older version launches without quitting at least, but hardly a good solution. A clue may be that I was trying to launch Fetch 5.6 around the same time, and Fetch wasn't launching properly either. That problem solved with a reboot of the Mac. Anybody had the same problem and found a fix? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Skype 5.3 keeps quitting
Thanks Ronni. That one I've tried. EVen tried twice, ie. reinstalled 5.3, then when that didn't work installed 5.4 beta over the top of 5.3. With all of that failing, 2.8 is the bandaid measure. Maybe I'll try a fresh install AFTER removing the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Skype, see if it makes a difference, and if so, introduce the folders and files within ~/Library/Application Support/Skype one by one, see if I can narrow down to an offender. Cheers, Steven On 20/09/2011, at 6:44 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Generally I would suggest as Adrian to uninstall any Application use AppZapper , AppCleaner, or similar, but perhaps in your circumstance here, where you want to uninstall Skype but make sure you keep your contacts chat histories, and then re-install Skype. A) Backup your Skype files first to a safe place (perhaps Desktop) Skype also stores chat histories and contacts locally on your computer. Skype for Mac OS X stores contact list files and call records in ~/Library/Application Support/Skype. You back up all files and directories beneath it. You could ‘Option-Drag’ the folder/files to your Desktop. 1. Then Open Applications and Drag your copy of Skype to the trash. Note: I don’t think then that the files above would be deleted, only the Application, BUT, you have backed them up to your Desktop just in case ;-) 3. Re-Install Skype Check in ~/Library/Application Support/Skype that the above files are there and that Skype works. If you find you need to restore your contacts and data, simply copy the files back to the directory mentioned above. I have never done this, so I take absolutely no responsibility. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 20/09/2011, at 3:37 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Adrian. I pondered figuring out how to do a complete uninstall, however thought that it might cause loss of all historical chat, voice messages, etc. Is there as a danger of that happening do you know? On 20/09/2011, at 5:12 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon Steve, I have found the best way to solve this is to uninstall it (I use CleanApp for this,) download it and reinstall it from scratch. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 20/09/2011, at 2:52 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: After working just fine since the version was released, Skype 5.3 suddenly starting quitting on me, and failing to relaunch (quits each time it tries to launch) on 10.7.1. I've repaired preferences, restarted Mac, to no avail. Found one suggested remedy on the web, being to trash ~Library Application Support Skype shared.xml then relaunch Skype, but that doesn't work. Downloaded 5.4 beta in case that solved the problem - nope. Another suggestion was to revert to an older version of Skype, so I've done that for now, going back in time to 2.8. This older version launches without quitting at least, but hardly a good solution. A clue may be that I was trying to launch Fetch 5.6 around the same time, and Fetch wasn't launching properly either. That problem solved with a reboot of the Mac. Anybody had the same problem and found a fix? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How do I make a server think I'm in a particular location ?
Ahh, is THAT what web proxies are all about. Seen 'em there forever and never really looked into what they do. Gave your suggestion a shot, Ronni, and worked a treat. Yep, can see why using these things would be dangerous, but in this case the benefit outweighs the risk. Thank you, Ronni! Steven On 10/09/2011, at 9:16 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You are treading on unsafe ground here! I'm hesitant to post, so anything below is taken completely at YOUR RISK! You have to Google for free http proxy, some of the lists you get as a result classify geographically the proxies, find one of those and then choose a US located proxy. Afterwards set your browser to use as HTTP proxy your selected proxy (what are the steps to do this depends on the browser you use). Some proxies work better than others and some just don't plain work with some big traffic sites, so you might have to try a few (unless you get a trusted proxy from a friend or company.) BEWARE that all your received and submitted data could be stored and even modified in transit by a malicious proxy, you cannot trust at all the data received, or that the other party has received the data as you have sent it. None of the above is recommended by me and I take no responsibility! Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/09/2011, at 3:18 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anybody know how I can make a server think I'm somewhere other than where I really am (geographically speaking)? Say I need to post something to a website which allows me to post only if I'm within a particular country (not necessarily the same country as the website's server). I assume my internet service provider provides details of my geographical location to the server. Is there any way of stopping the provision of this information? Or better still, providing an IP address for the country I want the server to think I'm in? I suppose somebody's going to tell me it's a breach of some code or law, I'm pleading ignorance, but it's all above board - just some dumb technical hoop I need to jump through. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Looking for graphic designer to work on an iPad project
Hi Glen My cousin's a graphic designer. He's in the UK though that's never affected anything. Something he's done recently for me is the booklet found at: http://alpha1.org.au/doc/AAAbrochure.pdf .. including the logo design. I've had him design a few logs actually, including the one you see at www.you-global.com. However he'd have a more comprehensive portfolio he could send you. I've no idea whether he's done animation or not, but if interested I'll send you his details offline. He works full time as a graphic designer, with the company charging the usual corporate rates, but if I refer you to him personally it'll be a 'homework' project at substantially cheaper rates. Cheers, Steven On 10/09/2011, at 5:14 PM, Glen Low wrote: Hi All I'm looking for a good graphic designer to work on a new iPad project. It will mostly be designing icons and small graphic objects, preference for actual illustrators who made skeuomorphic interfaces or comic books or who are into photography. It may involve some minimal animation, so if that's on your resume it would be good too.The app will be fun and I'm sure you'll enjoy working on it! Best if you have some samples of your work online or can send me some samples over email. I won two Apple Design Awards in 2004 for my Mac OS X work, and my app Instaviz has been in the App Store since December 2008, so this is a bona fide offer. Check out instaviz.com. Cheers Glen Low Pixelglow Software http://instaviz.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How do I make a server think I'm in a particular location ?
Anybody know how I can make a server think I'm somewhere other than where I really am (geographically speaking)? Say I need to post something to a website which allows me to post only if I'm within a particular country (not necessarily the same country as the website's server). I assume my internet service provider provides details of my geographical location to the server. Is there any way of stopping the provision of this information? Or better still, providing an IP address for the country I want the server to think I'm in? I suppose somebody's going to tell me it's a breach of some code or law, I'm pleading ignorance, but it's all above board - just some dumb technical hoop I need to jump through. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
What's the go with JB Hi Fi selling Macs with Snow Leopard ?
My sister-in-law bought an iMac from JB Hi Fi on 6 September 2011. Somewhere in Perth. It came with 10.6.8 installed. What's the go there? Surely resellers should be selling Macs with Lion pre-installed now? Shouldn't she have received Lion install disks, not Snow Leopard? She hasn't gone back to JB Hi Fi yet, I said I'd try to find out what should have happened first, or whether that's just how it is. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: What's the go with JB Hi Fi selling Macs with Snow Leopard ?
Postcode 6154, Ronni. JB Hi Fi not listed, so short of Apple's website not being up to date looks like the sister-in-law may have to lump it. I'll suggest they give Apple a call. Cheers, Steven On 10/09/2011, at 9:08 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You get what you pay for from places like JB Hi Fi, I don't think they are an Apple Authorised Reseller. I did a search of JB Hi Fi online if this is the iMac she purchased it clearly states Snow Leopard. http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/computers-laptops/desktops/apple-imac-21-5-2-5ghz-desktop-computer/649978 You need to go to http://www.apple.com/au/buy/ (upper-right corner) and enter the postcode of the JB-Hifi she went to and see what comes up for the resellers – noting the different types of resellers. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/09/2011, at 6:39 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: My sister-in-law bought an iMac from JB Hi Fi on 6 September 2011. Somewhere in Perth. It came with 10.6.8 installed. What's the go there? Surely resellers should be selling Macs with Lion pre-installed now? Shouldn't she have received Lion install disks, not Snow Leopard? She hasn't gone back to JB Hi Fi yet, I said I'd try to find out what should have happened first, or whether that's just how it is. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Using telephony with USB internet modems
The need for me to test the suggestions took a long time to arise again, but internet tethering via the iPhone was the perfect solution. Thanks Reg. The only question left open is why I never knew about this before, wasting money on internet dongles along the way :-( Oh well, better late than never. A negative about my iPhone 3GS I noticed along the way ... it's reception for 3G is a whole lot poorer than the Nokia X5 I had alongside it. I don't know if the X5 can do what the iPhone can do though in terms of internet tethering. Steven On 07/07/2011, at 10:46 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: Will this allow him to make phone calls from his Mac using the sim card and modem setup he described. He already has data and SMS access. Sent from my iPhone On 07/07/2011, at 8:14 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: As Reg has already mentioned if your iPhone is a G3S or iPhone 4 try personal hotspot (tethering) Keep a close eye on your Data download though as it does use it pretty quick. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2756 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/07/2011, at 7:59 AM, Reg Whitely wrote: Could you tether the iPhone with the Mac, or download Joikusoft for the Nokia and set up a wireless network? Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net On 07/07/2011, at 4:28 am, Steven Knowles wrote: Not having previously needed a portable internet device recently, at least not in Australia, a need has arisen, but only for a an hour or two. Upon discovering the extortionate internet access rates on offer from the hotel, I happened to have a USB modem I'd previously bought in Thailand, and happened to have a SIM with a few GB of data allowance on it from Amaysim. I put the two together, plugged it in my Mac, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that all worked without a hitch! The question ... whilst I have the internet modem and Amaysim SIM working for internet access, is there some kind of softphone application to access the my voice plan with that SIM? The software which came with the internet modem (HSPA USB Modem from TCT Mobile Limited, which seems to have some arrangement with Alcatel) has SMS functionality, and that works, but the software doesn't seem to have voice capability. What can I use? I do have an iPhone 3G, plus the cable which connects the iPhone to Mac for charging and syncing purposes. And a Nokia X5 in which the Amysim SIM usually resides. Could I use either the iPhone or X5 as the modem? If so, what settings would I need to play with if any? Many thanks Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Cyberduck woes
Running Cyberduck 4.1 on Lion on MBP 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. For the past week or two, I haven't been able to access the server directories I've always accessed in the past - via SFTP, via bookmarks - nothing has changed. Yet I installed Cyberduck on a an iMac I have, duplicated the bookmarks (manually) and accesses fine. I've compared about 10 times now the Cyberduck bookmark settings on my MBP vs iMac, both the same. Using Cyberduck on the iMac, I've disconnected from the server and quit Cyberduck in case there was an issue with two clients accessing server at same time, or the iMac connection blocking out the MBP connection. Makes no diff. I've reinstalled Cyberduck on the MBP. There are no password error messages. When I access via the bookmark, the status bar shows Opening SFTP connection to domain name a green dot appears next to the bookmark details, and there it sits spinning its wheels. The Activity window shows Mounting domain. And there things sit forever. It used to be that you'd trash a preference file for things like this - is there any similar fix I should try these days? Any clues as to the cause of Cyberduck working on one Mac and not another?! Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Missing attachment - Apple Mail in Lion?
A query regarding Mail 5 (Lion). I've received a message with, supposedly, an attached file which I need. In the Message Viewer, the size column shows 492KB, indicating an attachment, and the Attachments column shows 2 items, indicating the attachment in question, the 2nd obviously being a sig file graphic embedded in the message. However, viewing the message itself, the 'Save' button shows only one attachment, the graphic, 14KB. There's no file at the base of the message, where you'd usually see an attachment. I've brought up the forward and redirect windows, to see if that makes my missing attachment materialise. Nope. Even forwarded the whole message to a hotmail account to see if the attachment appeared in hotmail. No to that as well. The attachment's gotta be buried in the received email somewhere, otherwise I wouldn't expect Message Viewer to indicate 492KB and two attachments. The embedded graphic is small, definitely not 492KB, and this is about the size I'd expect the vaporised attachment to be. I've quit Mail and relaunched. Rebuilt the mailbox. No joy. Any clues as to how I might weed out this elusive attachment? Another thing ... quitting Mail and relaunching no longer remembers all open Mail windows. Previously reported searching issues still an issue despite following all suggested fixing attempts. Lion's Mail is one buggy app!! Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Missing attachment - Apple Mail in Lion?
Hi Ronni Yes, the Save and Quick Look buttons are on display. This area is which indicates a single small 14KB attachment, being the graphic, and conflicting with the 492KB message size in the Message Viewer. Scrolling down either when still in the Message Viewer (preview pane), or opening the message and scrolling down, makes no difference. No attachment visible. Other messages do show the attachments. Quick Look displays the small attachment (the graphic in the sender's sig file), however no left or right arrows in the Quick Look window to move to next attachment. It's as if the larger attachment's not there, but the size column displayed in the Message Viewer tells a different story. I've found the attachment though!! By doing so, seems something even more weird happening. This is what I did ... Opened the message. View Message Raw Source Knowing that the missing attachment was likely to be a pdf file, Command+F and searched pdf This identified a file name within this raw source text likely to be the name of the attachment (in this case img-803140111-0001.pdf) Via spotlight searched this file name, and up came a match, being the missing attachment. Here's the weird part ... looking at where this file had been parked, it seems to be parked within a hierarchy of files and associated with a completely different mail account, in fact an old one which is no longer active, and probably not active for a couple of years. This is where the attached file was nested Users my home folder Library (greyed, presumably an invisible folder) Mail V2 POP-old mail account user name@old dom...@mail.old domain INBOX.mbox great long code resembling a MAC address Data 1 2 6 Attachments 621945 2 img-803140111-0001.pdf Perhaps with such a convoluted nest of folders it's no wonder attachments are losing their way. But seriously, does that give anybody a clue as to what's going on? What worries me mostly is that old mail account came up just a couple of days ago for some reason, something associated with it for no good reason, and I just can't remember what it was now. Do others have this same folder hierarchy? If I navigate to the V2 folder (mentioned in hierarchy above), a whole bunch of folders are listed, each clearly associated with a separate mail account. Does anybody know whether this V2 folder should contain only active mailboxes? If I look inside the bowels of the folder associated with the inactive account in question (where my missing attachment ended up), worryingly it's got plenty of recent action happening, as in files modified today, yesterday, etc. Surely this shouldn't be happening inside the folder of a no longer used mail account?? I can't just delete the old account folder because it probably contains lots of historical messages I'd like to retain. Looking messy and a bit dangerous!! Cheers, Steven On 04/08/2011, at 11:04 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You have to scroll down to the bottom of a threaded email on the right window to even see them. No attachments show on the top of emails any longer (by the paperclip) Or do you mean the buttons that said quicklook and save? There are hidden by default, but can be seen if you click on the blue word 'details' on the top right of the message. Once selected, this view remains for all other messages. You should still be able to quicklook attachments from the message by selecting them and pressing the spacebar. If this doesn't work for you, then maybe there is another problem. The quicklook window is now a pale colour by the way. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 04/08/2011, at 8:14 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: A query regarding Mail 5 (Lion). I've received a message with, supposedly, an attached file which I need. In the Message Viewer, the size column shows 492KB, indicating an attachment, and the Attachments column shows 2 items, indicating the attachment in question, the 2nd obviously being a sig file graphic embedded in the message. However, viewing the message itself, the 'Save' button shows only one attachment, the graphic, 14KB. There's no file at the base of the message, where you'd usually see an attachment. I've brought up the forward and redirect windows, to see if that makes my missing attachment materialise. Nope. Even forwarded the whole message to a hotmail account to see if the attachment appeared in hotmail. No to that as well. The attachment's gotta be buried in the received email somewhere, otherwise I wouldn't expect Message Viewer to indicate 492KB and two attachments. The embedded graphic is small, definitely not 492KB, and this is about the size I'd expect the vaporised attachment to be. I've quit Mail and relaunched. Rebuilt the mailbox. No joy. Any clues as to how I might weed out this elusive attachment? Another thing ... quitting Mail and relaunching no longer remembers all
Re: Missing attachment - Apple Mail in Lion?
Ah, I remember now what the issue with that old inactive mail account. One of my draft messages disappeared, one which I access on an ongoing basis to store and add notes on a particular subject. After searching my machine with Spotlight, found it in some obscure folder ... related to that same old inactive mail account. Steven On 05/08/2011, at 1:05 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Hi Ronni Yes, the Save and Quick Look buttons are on display. This area is which indicates a single small 14KB attachment, being the graphic, and conflicting with the 492KB message size in the Message Viewer. Scrolling down either when still in the Message Viewer (preview pane), or opening the message and scrolling down, makes no difference. No attachment visible. Other messages do show the attachments. Quick Look displays the small attachment (the graphic in the sender's sig file), however no left or right arrows in the Quick Look window to move to next attachment. It's as if the larger attachment's not there, but the size column displayed in the Message Viewer tells a different story. I've found the attachment though!! By doing so, seems something even more weird happening. This is what I did ... Opened the message. View Message Raw Source Knowing that the missing attachment was likely to be a pdf file, Command+F and searched pdf This identified a file name within this raw source text likely to be the name of the attachment (in this case img-803140111-0001.pdf) Via spotlight searched this file name, and up came a match, being the missing attachment. Here's the weird part ... looking at where this file had been parked, it seems to be parked within a hierarchy of files and associated with a completely different mail account, in fact an old one which is no longer active, and probably not active for a couple of years. This is where the attached file was nested Users my home folder Library (greyed, presumably an invisible folder) Mail V2 POP-old mail account user name@old dom...@mail.old domain INBOX.mbox great long code resembling a MAC address Data 1 2 6 Attachments 621945 2 img-803140111-0001.pdf Perhaps with such a convoluted nest of folders it's no wonder attachments are losing their way. But seriously, does that give anybody a clue as to what's going on? What worries me mostly is that old mail account came up just a couple of days ago for some reason, something associated with it for no good reason, and I just can't remember what it was now. Do others have this same folder hierarchy? If I navigate to the V2 folder (mentioned in hierarchy above), a whole bunch of folders are listed, each clearly associated with a separate mail account. Does anybody know whether this V2 folder should contain only active mailboxes? If I look inside the bowels of the folder associated with the inactive account in question (where my missing attachment ended up), worryingly it's got plenty of recent action happening, as in files modified today, yesterday, etc. Surely this shouldn't be happening inside the folder of a no longer used mail account?? I can't just delete the old account folder because it probably contains lots of historical messages I'd like to retain. Looking messy and a bit dangerous!! Cheers, Steven On 04/08/2011, at 11:04 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You have to scroll down to the bottom of a threaded email on the right window to even see them. No attachments show on the top of emails any longer (by the paperclip) Or do you mean the buttons that said quicklook and save? There are hidden by default, but can be seen if you click on the blue word 'details' on the top right of the message. Once selected, this view remains for all other messages. You should still be able to quicklook attachments from the message by selecting them and pressing the spacebar. If this doesn't work for you, then maybe there is another problem. The quicklook window is now a pale colour by the way. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 04/08/2011, at 8:14 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: A query regarding Mail 5 (Lion). I've received a message with, supposedly, an attached file which I need. In the Message Viewer, the size column shows 492KB, indicating an attachment, and the Attachments column shows 2 items, indicating the attachment in question, the 2nd obviously being a sig file graphic embedded in the message. However, viewing the message itself, the 'Save' button shows only one attachment, the graphic, 14KB. There's no file at the base of the message, where you'd usually see an attachment. I've brought up the forward and redirect windows, to see if that makes my missing attachment materialise. Nope. Even forwarded the whole message to a hotmail account to see if the attachment appeared in hotmail. No to that as well. The attachment's gotta
Re: Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?
Thanks for your suggestions Ronni. I began having a look about online to see if any others were having similar issues. Yes, not only me having problems with Mail's search facility. Rebuilding mailboxes and re-indexing are the most popular suggestions, both of which I've now done, and like some others, has not resolved the issue. Lion has definitely slowed my MBP down, so maybe it's too underpowered now to effectively handle the full capabilities of Mail's search capability?? I'm guessing not though, because it's not that I'm getting slower results, I'm getting false results, ie. no returned hits when there are definitely matching hits. It's not every search though, which is consistent with the experience of others. I've now come across MS Word 2008 hanging when used with Lion. This is a known issue and Microsoft plans a fix. If anybody out there relies on Office 2008 and is planning on updating to Lion, might be worth thinking twice. Apparently updating to 2011 is an option, a little extreme to bypass a hanging problem though. For now I've downloaded OpenOffice until Microsoft come up with a fix. I thought one comment I came across on the web reflected one of my perceptions ... Apple seems to have made some changes for change sake or words to that effect. An example cited was Preview and the appearance of the navigation pane on the left instead of the right. Perhaps it's all part of the grand marketing plan ... over 250 features!. It seems silly to update a new system and then revert back to classic features, why update in the first place, but I have checked the Use classic layout box in Mail Preferences Viewing. I find the layout in Lion's Mail worse. And I was pleased to discover the scroll direction could be changed back from the confusing Lion way. I like to keep up with the latest OS, even if a little buggy, but I'm glad I haven't been billed more than AUD 31.99 for all of my Macs! Cheers, Steven On 27/07/2011, at 12:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 26/07/2011, at 12:55 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm finding the search facility for the Lion version of Mail very unreliable, as in not returning matching messages when it should be. I do have a fairly large accumulation of messages these days, but wasn't a problem with Snow Leopard. I'm wondering if others have found this, or is it a function of me running 10.7 on a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (must be 4 to 5 years old by now), which is now considerably more sluggish after moving from Snow Leopard to Lion. Hi Steven, Have you tried ‘rebuilding' each Mailbox? Click on each Mailbox, Go to Mailbox Rebuild. Wait until each Mailbox has rebuilt. Quit Mail Open Mail and try searching. If you are still not happy with your search results try: 1. Enable Indexing Open Terminal, and type the following: sudo mdutil -i on / If it asks for your password, type it in and hit return. Re-open mail. If this didn't fix anything, then you will need to re-index: 2. Re-indexing HD Go to System Preferences, Spotlight, click on the Privacy tab, click on the + to add the entire Macintosh HD to the list of Prevent spotlight from searching these locations and then remove the Macintosh HD by clicking the - button. Once you've done this is will automatically start re-indexing in spotlight. This can take a long time. When it has completed, Open mail and it should be working properly again. Please let us know how you get on. 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?
Hi Carlo It might be comforting to some to hear that post-Lion sluggishness isn't expected to be the norm, but it's definitely the case with my MBP, and a quick web search of something like 'lion sluggish' indicates it's not an issue isolated to me. Agree that initial TM backups and indexing will slow machine, but I'm talking some days post Lion update, indexing well and truly over (even though I did again in an attempt to try solve the Mail problem) and post-Lion TM backups being no different to pre-Lion TM backups, ie. past the initial post-Lion backup. Delays caused by (presumably) autosave were noticeable to start with, ie. spinning beach balls for several seconds now and again, particular when using Mail, but that seems to have disappeared. Though if I had to pick a use when sluggishness was most noticeable, I'd pick Mail. No stopclock measurements mind you, just feel. The changes I'm referring to are more the cosmetic changes, which are obviously subjective. Again Mail springs to mind as an example of cosmetic aspects being same or worse, even a little bland, but definitely no wow factor improvement aesthetically. At least not over and above what was, and maybe that's part of it how do you improve that which is already excellent? Not all negative ... Launchpad looks nice (not quite sure what it's got over accessing apps via having the Applications folder in the Dock, but nice to have options), and Mission Control is terrific. On the whole I remain ho hum about Lion, though that's when compared to Snow Leopard - OSX still walks all over its competitors. Cheers, Steven On 29/07/2011, at 12:24 PM, cm wrote: Hi Steven, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of OS X 10.7 Lion. There is very little reason for your MBP to run slower under Lion unless you have some extra processes are running in the background. When you first install Lion, spotlight will reindex your hard drive. This may cause a temporary slow down until the the indexing is complete in a matter of hours. Another possible cause for a temporary slow down is that Time Machine will back up all the new operating system files and this will result in an unusually large first incremental backup after the install. Apart from that I can't see that any of the features of Lion would require more CPU time than Snow Leopard. The automatic versioning does do saves as you type new data into a Pages document, for instance, but the saves are separated by tens of seconds and this is an age as far as the CPU is concerned. The new graphics effects in Mission Control only occur when the user instigates them and they use the graphics processing unit (the GPU) and thus will not impact significantly on processing time. If anything, the guarantee of system wide 64 bit drivers and software may result in a speed up. I have some minor problems with Lion, but slow operation if definitely not one of them. I also understand the rationale for many of the changes. Some are just to correct historical design flaws that were the result of poor judgement many years ago and became part of OS X. Others are to prepare the operating system to work more closely with iCloud and the Apple Store and to reduce reliance on local storage. OS X is also migrating towards the appliance model of the iPad where an application can be installed an used with a minimum of fuss and each application is responsible for its own data. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-29, at 09:24, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks for your suggestions Ronni. I began having a look about online to see if any others were having similar issues. Yes, not only me having problems with Mail's search facility. Rebuilding mailboxes and re-indexing are the most popular suggestions, both of which I've now done, and like some others, has not resolved the issue. Lion has definitely slowed my MBP down, so maybe it's too underpowered now to effectively handle the full capabilities of Mail's search capability?? I'm guessing not though, because it's not that I'm getting slower results, I'm getting false results, ie. no returned hits when there are definitely matching hits. It's not every search though, which is consistent with the experience of others. I've now come across MS Word 2008 hanging when used with Lion. This is a known issue and Microsoft plans a fix. If anybody out there relies on Office 2008 and is planning on updating to Lion, might be worth thinking twice. Apparently updating to 2011 is an option, a little extreme to bypass a hanging problem though. For now I've downloaded OpenOffice until Microsoft come up with a fix. I thought one comment I came across on the web reflected one of my perceptions ... Apple seems to have made some changes for change sake or words to that effect. An example cited was Preview and the appearance of the navigation pane on the left instead of the right. Perhaps it's all
Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?
I'm finding the search facility for the Lion version of Mail very unreliable, as in not returning matching messages when it should be. I do have a fairly large accumulation of messages these days, but wasn't a problem with Snow Leopard. I'm wondering if others have found this, or is it a function of me running 10.7 on a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (must be 4 to 5 years old by now), which is now considerably more sluggish after moving from Snow Leopard to Lion. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Lion - step backwards?
After a preliminary play with Lion, my first impression was that it seems to have taken a step or two backwards in terms of slick Apple interface. I can't put my finger on it, but it just seems to have lost a little of that smooth rounded aqua finesse and polish that I've become used to with Snow Leopard. Somehow Lion seems to be a tad clunkier, maybe just a tiny bit tacky in places. No doubt I'll get used to it. Maybe my expectations were set too high. I'm only talking aesthetics at this stage, I haven't had chance to play with the under-the-hood changes. Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Using telephony with USB internet modems
Not having previously needed a portable internet device recently, at least not in Australia, a need has arisen, but only for a an hour or two. Upon discovering the extortionate internet access rates on offer from the hotel, I happened to have a USB modem I'd previously bought in Thailand, and happened to have a SIM with a few GB of data allowance on it from Amaysim. I put the two together, plugged it in my Mac, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that all worked without a hitch! The question ... whilst I have the internet modem and Amaysim SIM working for internet access, is there some kind of softphone application to access the my voice plan with that SIM? The software which came with the internet modem (HSPA USB Modem from TCT Mobile Limited, which seems to have some arrangement with Alcatel) has SMS functionality, and that works, but the software doesn't seem to have voice capability. What can I use? I do have an iPhone 3G, plus the cable which connects the iPhone to Mac for charging and syncing purposes. And a Nokia X5 in which the Amysim SIM usually resides. Could I use either the iPhone or X5 as the modem? If so, what settings would I need to play with if any? Many thanks Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Reunion for Mac
Laura, why not buy via the download option online at: https://stone.he.net/~reunion3/WebStore/webcart.php USD 99 should hit your credit card for less than the same in AUD. And no need to wait for a CD. Cheers, Steven On 15/06/2011, at 10:45 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all I am aware that there are folk on this list who use Reunion for Mac. My current genie programme requires Rosetta which Lion will not support. So if I upgrade I need to purchase alternate genealogy software. Reunion is obviously the way to go but I am confused by the pricing. If I purchase in Australia it seems I will have to pay $179 but if I order the CD from the US I am quoted 109USD including postage (there is a rider that, if applicable, customs duty might be applied when received). Given the current rate of exchange there is a vast difference in these prices. Although I don't know, I doubt there would be any customs duty on a single CD. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Removing attachments from incoming Mail message
Thanks James. However I don't need to save the attachment, and even if I did save the attachment, it does not delete that attachment from the message, which is what I want to do. Yes, I can redirect, or re-send, or forward the message, and delete individual attachments, however this doesn't do what I want to do, ie. delete selected attachments from the message which is sitting in my inbox. Cheers, Steven On 29/04/2011, at 3:55 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: if you need to remove for keeping the attachement then, you can just click hold the save button in the address field, then pull down to the selected attachement if you forward then just prepare the letter you should see the attachements, place the cursor behind (after the selected one) then hit delete, that should remove the attachement within the forwarded letter James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ On 29/04/2011, at 1:12 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: This is a long shot, I can't see any way of doing it but maybe there is. I'm using Apple's Mail 4.5 (on OSX 10.6.7). If an incoming message has attachments, those attachments can be removed from the message by highlighting the message, then via menus Message Remove Attachments. However, if there are multiple attachments to a message, and I want to delete only one or some of the attachments, Mail doesn't appear to provide this option. It's all or nothing. Other than redirecting / re-sending the message, and removing an attachment that way, which is not ideal because it has side effects, does anybody know of a way to delete selected attachments, not all? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Removing attachments from incoming Mail message
This is a long shot, I can't see any way of doing it but maybe there is. I'm using Apple's Mail 4.5 (on OSX 10.6.7). If an incoming message has attachments, those attachments can be removed from the message by highlighting the message, then via menus Message Remove Attachments. However, if there are multiple attachments to a message, and I want to delete only one or some of the attachments, Mail doesn't appear to provide this option. It's all or nothing. Other than redirecting / re-sending the message, and removing an attachment that way, which is not ideal because it has side effects, does anybody know of a way to delete selected attachments, not all? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Excel not calculating
Jewels, you don't mention which version of Excel - this answer relevant to version 12.2.4 but probably similar if not the same for other versions. It could be your auto calculation preference settings. Excel Preferences Calculation icon make sure Calculate sheets is set to Automatic. I vaguely recall my spreadsheet calculations stopped working once, and for some reason this setting had changed from Automatic ... automatically. Cheers, Steven On 06/04/2011, at 6:54 PM, Julie Bedford wrote: Does anyone know how to rectify the Excel calculation function. It used to work, but now does not Thanks Jewels -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Excel page breaks
Maybe check ... Excel Preferences View Window options make sure show page breaks is selected. Cheers, Steven On 06/04/2011, at 5:56 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I have Office 2008, OSX 10.5.8. Excel refuses to display page breaks whatever I do. Anyone got a clue please?! Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mail attachments to PC
Chris, I have this issue with Mail also when it comes to single-page image files. I'm not sure why, but a couple of workarounds: Right-click and Compress the image file, ie. convert to a zip file, before attaching. This usually works, although there's a chance that the recipient's mail filters treat the zip file as suspicious. Some corporates don't allow incoming zip files at all. If sending a single page image file in a format which does handle multiple pages, such as pdf of tiff, add a blank page (Preview can handle this) so that you send a two-page document to the recipient. Happy to hear of easier workarounds and some insight into the underlying cause. Cheers, Steven On 05/04/2011, at 6:48 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi all I have been trying to send a normal jpg image using Mail to a client of mine who says she just cant access it. She asks me to Attach it rather than have it 'imbedded' in the email she receives? I have had this complaint before and it is always to a windows PC. Im not sure what to do here? If I convert it to a pdf it usually works, but a plain jpeg it doesnt? Can someone please advise me on this? Kindest regards Chris -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Calculating dates
If it's time duration you want to calculate, the spreadsheet within Google Docs can handle this by: Cell A: DD/MM/ HH:MM:SS Cell B: DD/MM/ HH:MM:SS Cell C: Cell B minus Cell A Where Cell A is the earliest date and time, Cell B is the most recent date and time, and Cell C is the calculated time duration which spans the date and time inputted to Cell A and Cell B. Cell C displays in the form HH:DD:SS Cheers, Steven On 05/04/2011, at 9:16 PM, Cari Jansen wrote: You'll find a series of date calculators available via http://www.timeanddate.com/date/timeduration.html Hope this helps. Cari Twitter.com/carijansen -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ray Forma Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 5:14 PM To: List Mailing WAMUG Subject: Re: Calculating dates Stuart, what exactly do you mean by 'the application that calculate dates'? I presume this app has something to do with calendar dates, not the edible or romantic ones? I normally look up dates on a calendar; I don't calculate them. The only calculation I can think of is the one where you want to know what day of the week a certain is. In that case I use M$ Excel. I format the cells in question to FormatCellsCustom, and then enter something like 'ddd dd mm '. I then enter a numerical date and the ddd part displays the day of the week. That's how I found out that I was born on a Wednesday. On 05/04/2011, at 4:34 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: Have just been looking at the application that calculate dates. Am trailing one of the freebies. There are applications ranging from free to $99 and doing various things. There are various people of various professions etc on the list. What experience have you guys had? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: MobileMe calendar upgrade - how to amend email address?
Thanks Ronni. I gave that a test. Sending the Mail Event went okay. When it came to accepting the incoming .ics file (I sent it to myself using a different mail address), iCal threw up: The server responded with an error. Access to “New Event” in “Name of Calendar” in account “u...@me.com” is not permitted. The server responded: “HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden” to operation CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation. The options to select from are Go Offline or Revert to Server (the latter being the default). If Go Offline is selected, the entry is inserted into iCal. If Revert to Server is selected, the entry is not placed in iCal. I guess the recipient wouldn't ordinarily be me, so not something I'd need to worry about. Anyway, could be a 2nd best option in the interim as you say Ronni, the downside being no auto notifications and audit trail of who's declined/accepted etc. Cheers, Steven On 26/03/2011, at 11:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 25/03/2011, at 2:03 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: MobileMe asked me recently to upgrade to the new calendar version, which I reluctantly did. Now if I set up a Calendar entry via iCal and invite others, the invitation is sent from my me.com email address, rather than the one I usually use. I can't see anything obvious, how do I override this setting and have iCal send invitations from an email address other than me.com ? I only have my me.com address in order to have a MobileMe account, so I don't want to use it publicly. Hi Steven, Perhaps a work around for you until something is resolved in MobileMe. I just tried this and it works fine, you can use any email address you choose. 1. Create an Event in iCal 2. Control-Click (Right-Click) and select “Mail Event” It’s easy and it sends a standard calendar event to the recipient. With a message informing them of the event you have invited them to, and “To add it to your calendar, click the link below. Which is a standard iCal.ics I know its not what you want, but might do in the interim. 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
MobileMe calendar upgrade - how to amend email address?
MobileMe asked me recently to upgrade to the new calendar version, which I reluctantly did. Now if I set up a Calendar entry via iCal and invite others, the invitation is sent from my me.com email address, rather than the one I usually use. I can't see anything obvious, how do I override this setting and have iCal send invitations from an email address other than me.com ? I only have my me.com address in order to have a MobileMe account, so I don't want to use it publicly. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: MobileMe calendar upgrade - how to amend email address?
Thanks Ronni. Subsequently found same quote at the support forums also. As I alluded to at the forums, the move is either sneaky, or stupid, and has put a dent in my respect for Apple. On 25/03/2011, at 6:43 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 25/03/2011, at 2:03 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: MobileMe asked me recently to upgrade to the new calendar version, which I reluctantly did. Now if I set up a Calendar entry via iCal and invite others, the invitation is sent from my me.com email address, rather than the one I usually use. I can't see anything obvious, how do I override this setting and have iCal send invitations from an email address other than me.com ? I only have my me.com address in order to have a MobileMe account, so I don't want to use it publicly. Hi Steven I don’t have an answer for you, other than send feedback to Apple. This is what Apple Support had to say: I do understand your concerns and see how this issue can be frustrating. Unfortunately at this time The new MobileMe calendar does not support inviting people to calendar events with personal emails. I do encourage you to leave feedback about this feature as our engineers do look at customer feedback to help make our features to customers better.” http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2790250tstart=0 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: MobileMe calendar upgrade - how to amend email address?
Thanks Carlo. I appreciate you taking the time to take a look at the problem, it's a good suggestion. It won't work for me due to the sync issue, but may work for others. Yes, my response may be negative, but no apology there. Apple's move is negative. I don't consider it negative on the basis of my personal objectives not being aligned with Apple's wider objectives. My ego falls short of me thinking I'm the most important Mac user and therefore all users should think and use their Apple equipment like me. However Apple has: Encouraged paying MobileMe users to upgrade to the new Calendar without giving prior warning of this important issue. What about business users who, for privacy reasons, don't want his or her personal email address divulged to all? By the time it's discovered, it's too late. I can think of plenty of scenarios in which this could prove embarrassing for those who prefer to, or even need to, have clear demarcation between personal and business communications. Unintended disclosure of a personal email address can lead to the uncovering of all kinds of additional details of an individual. Removed choice in terms of how a user's calendar works, again with no advanced notice. knee-jerk - adjective. automatic and unthinking (Apple dictionary). My reaction is neither automatic nor unthinking. I've been an advocate for Apple since 1994, and I remain so, but after thinking about it, albeit it didn't take me long to decide, I stand by my view that the move is either sneaky or stupid, mainly because of the wider ramifications it will have for quite a few, and the nature of those ramifications, ie. potential breach of privacy. I don't need to align my view with those who don't think the move is neither sneaky nor stupid. We're not living in a police state. As terrific as most members of this group, including me, think Apple and its products generally are, Apple shouldn't be protected from the critical voice of its users, minority or otherwise, when an arguably dud decision is made. Any organisation which takes that view has a short life expectancy. Sure, some users will think the me.com only is a fine decision, others won't, and others won't give a hoot either way. But I'd be prepared to bet a large sum of money that I'm not a tiny minority of iCal /MobileMe users who don't want calendar invitations to come from an email address which invitees have never heard of. Especially when the user, a paying user mind you, finds out only after the event. No hard feelings Carlo, just healthy debate and me getting my back up momentarily about what may be well a knee-jerk comment from your side. Cheers, Steven On 25/03/2011, at 8:06 PM, cm wrote: Hi Steven, Such a negative knee jerk reaction does make me less likely to respond. Apple's objective in serving the majority of its customers may not always align with your personal objectives. In any case I have just tested a work around that may or may not be useful in your case. One can create a calendar that is not part of Mobile Me by selecting in iCal File = New Calendar = On My Mac. An invitation sent from this calendar will then originate from your local Mail application rather than from the Mobile Me server. If that meets your requirements you can then transfer your appointments to this calendar with an export from the old calendar and an import to the new. The drawback of this workaround is that the calendar on your Mac will no longer be synchronised with Mobile Me. Another work around which likely does not apply in your case but may apply to some other members of WAMUG is that one can register one's own domain name with your Mobile Me account. I believe that then the mobile me email would then appear to come from your own domain name. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-03-25, at 17:05, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Ronni. Subsequently found same quote at the support forums also. As I alluded to at the forums, the move is either sneaky, or stupid, and has put a dent in my respect for Apple. On 25/03/2011, at 6:43 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 25/03/2011, at 2:03 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: MobileMe asked me recently to upgrade to the new calendar version, which I reluctantly did. Now if I set up a Calendar entry via iCal and invite others, the invitation is sent from my me.com email address, rather than the one I usually use. I can't see anything obvious, how do I override this setting and have iCal send invitations from an email address other than me.com ? I only have my me.com address in order to have a MobileMe account, so I don't want to use it publicly. Hi Steven I don’t have an answer for you, other than send feedback to Apple. This is what Apple Support had to say: I do understand your concerns and see how this issue can be frustrating. Unfortunately at this time The new MobileMe calendar does not support inviting people
Re: MobileMe calendar upgrade - how to amend email address?
Hi Carlo You have a deeper understanding than me of the underlying technologies involved, and thanks again for taking the time to explain extensively, it's appreciated. It's interesting, though pushes the limits of my technical capacity. Without wanting to be argumentative, I still think that regardless of technical considerations and limitations, a move like this by Apple has failed to do the right thing by that subset of customers who use MobileMe by virtue of its failure to inform, basic Change Management 101 stuff. The ramifications are quite tangible. Fortunately in my case I generated only one calendar invitation, to four invitees, before I figiured what was happening, but even then the flow on effects have wasted at least an hour of my time, as well as creating confusion and wasted the time of others. Multiply that a few million times, that's a potentially far reaching impact. Whether or not the transition is justified overall, the implementation has been botched by limiting the ability for layman consumers to make an informed decision, or plan for any impact it may have. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple finds itself on the receiving end of a legal action or two for failure to warn against a foreseeable consequence. Maybe the effect was buried in the fine print somewhere, but even if it was, this should have been a warning in BIG CAPS. Anyway, hoping for that future iteration soon! Surely there'll be plenty of call for it. Personally I've gotta put calendar invitations on hold, and no doubt it means I've gotta stop accepting invitations as well since the acknowledgment will no doubt issue from me.com. Lots of manual input :-( Cheers, Steven On 25/03/2011, at 10:15 PM, cm wrote: Hi Steven, I harbour no hard feelings at all for holding a rational debate. I know that it is annoying when an application or service does not meet our needs, particularly when it is a paid service and in your position I may feel the way you do. I do, however, want to put forward the case for a third motive (other than sneaky or stupid) for the design choices made in Mobile Me. It is the technical reason that the new Mobile Me service operates the way it does. Mobile Me is Apple's attempt to provide, for personal use, a low cost functional equivalent to Microsoft's Exchange Server. The features in particular that they wish to replicate are the sharing of calendars and of appointments -- no mean feat. Microsoft's solution is to charge a small business a large sum of money for a dedicated Exchange Server and computer (one small 100 person company that I worked for, paid $25,000 for their Exchange Server hardware and license). Running an Exchange Server is quite an experience and seems to use a good portion of the system admin's time. Mobile Me cannot match the experience provided by a personal dedicated Exchange Server but aims to deliver a subset of the features that Apple thinks users will find most useful. In the previous version of Mobile Me the calendar was local to your computer. Any invites were sent from your local computer and accepted back to your local computer. This made it easy to send the email from your local account. The new version of Mobile Me (previously in beta) allows one to share calendars with friends or to publish a calendar to a group. It also allows one to send invitations that require RSVPs. If you put an event on a shared calendar the event becomes visible to all those who are subscribing to your shared calendar. The shared event will also display the list of invitees and those who have accepted. The architecture Apple chose to solve this problem is to host all the shared calendars on a (presumable huge) Mobile Me server. Thus invites are sent from the shared server via the only SMTP service that the shared server is guaranteed to have access to -- namely Apple's own Mobile Me SMTP server. With extra work, Apple could associate an originating email address with each calendar, but this would have to be one email address per subscriber of each shared calendar, since if I subscribe to a calendar I want my invitation to come from me, whereas if you subscribe to a calendar you want the invitation to come from you. Note that this not even a feature of Exchange Server. So all the above is the third rationale that I mentioned. Namely that Apple has rolled out a fairly amazing service, but it will take a future iteration to add a feature that allows invitations to appear to come from a non Mobile Me registered email address. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-03-25, at 19:10, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Carlo. I appreciate you taking the time to take a look at the problem, it's a good suggestion. It won't work for me due to the sync issue, but may work for others. Yes, my response may be negative, but no apology there. Apple's move is negative. I don't consider it negative on the basis
Re: Timecapsule and 10.6.7
Alex, my MacBook Pro post 10.6.7 upgrade currently backing up wirelessly to TC running version 7.5.2. No problems as yet, though there's about 600MB of a 1.46GB back up to go. Cheers, Steven On 22/03/2011, at 8:31 PM, Alexander Hartner wrote: Hi all, It started when I wanted to print something via the printer attached to my TimeCapsule and it didn't work. After some investigations it seems that after the upgrade to 10.6.7 I am no longer able to access my TimeCapsule consistently from my Mac. I am still able to access it from a PC connected to the same network. I already tried to restart the TimeCapsule, but this didn't help. Does anybody have the same problem ? Alex -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Time Capsule back ups slowed to a crawl
I have a MacBook Pro running 10.6.6 backing up to a 1GB TC (running software version 7.5.2). Suddenly the backing up process has slowed to an absolute crawl, even when connected via ethernet. I've rebooted the TC a few times, no improvement. The TC has 270GB of space available, so I don't see that as an issue. Any suggestions as to what the cause of slowness might be? Trying to avoid a full reformat of the TC if I can. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Time Capsule back ups slowed to a crawl
Thanks Ronni. Yes, 1TB, spot on. I'm a decade behind the times. Sadly none of the A through D suggestions were applicable in my case, however TC did eventually reach the end of a back up it seems, though still behaving badly, as in slow. Right now I'm trying to see if Disk Utility can make an assessment. Currently checking catalog file with just 1 day and 4 hours estimated time remaining! Maybe my TC has reached the end of its useful life - nearly 3 years old now. We'll see. Cheers, Steven On 21/02/2011, at 8:24 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, On 21/02/2011, at 4:01 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I have a MacBook Pro running 10.6.6 backing up to a 1GB TC (running software version 7.5.2). I guess you mean a 1TB Time Capsule ;-) Suddenly the backing up process has slowed to an absolute crawl, even when connected via ethernet. I've rebooted the TC a few times, no improvement. A) Did you have a ‘failed backup’ just prior to this slowing down? The first backup after one that failed or was cancelled may appear to be running very slowly, while Time Machine recovers the partial in.Progress file from the previous one. Give it a long time before deciding there's a problem. B) The first backup after removing certain exclusions, especially System Folders and/or Applications, can appear to be extremely slow, as they involve tens of thousands of mostly very small files. It may also seem to report that it’s reached the amount to be backed-up, but then the amount will increase (often very slowly). C) Did you notice if Spotlight was indexing when the slowdowns started? Exclude it from Spotlight, via System Preferences Spotlight Privacy. Spotlight might decide to start indexing the backup volume while the backup is in progress, causing a huge slowdown in backup speed (doubling or even quadrupling the required time, not to mention sucking up CPU time). The solution? Exclude all backup volumes, and remember that after erasing a drive, you’ll have to re-exclude it; Spotlight has the temerity to forget about the excluded volume once it’s erased, even if the name remains the same. D) If you’re using the Directory Protection feature of Tech Tool Pro, exclude your Time Machine volume from it. It can slow your backups down significantly, and it won’t help fix a problem there, anyway. In addition, you probably want to exclude its files from Time Machine backups, as they may cause large backups. The TC has 270GB of space available, so I don't see that as an issue. Any suggestions as to what the cause of slowness might be? Trying to avoid a full reformat of the TC if I can. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to remove a person from a Skype group conversation ?
Hi Ronni I could do delete the contact from my main contacts list ... whether that also removes the contact from the group discussion I'm not sure. Intuitively you'd expect so. However it's not what I want to achieve, and plus knowing how to do delete someone from a discussion will be handy to know for ongoing reference. As it turns out, there's now another person in the group discussion who I need to delete, but I don't want to remove from my contact list altogether. You can add people to the discussion (termed conversation by Skype) no problem, there's a little pop up window which you can activate, but you just can't delete them unless they've typed something, which then gives you this 'kick' option. But not too good if you have to say Ronni, can you please type something so that I can kick you out. Hoping for a solution in the next Skype release, unless of course someone works it out in the meantime. On 17/02/2011, at 2:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, however the problem is that the person we want to remove, it's an old Skype name which she no longer uses, and has long since forgotten the password. I’m obviously missing something here ;-) Otherwise, why can’t you just Select the ’old’ contact in the Contacts list and hit Delete? Cheers, Ronni On 17/02/2011, at 11:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Ronni. A search on some of the text reveals you probably got it for this page. It doesn't seem to solve my problem though, but I suspect it may be relevant to verbal conversations. My problem involves text based chat for a group (my fault, didn't clarify that in my original question). I've now worked out that you can right click the name of someone who's contributed to the chat, and kick them, which seems to kick them out of that chat. However if a person is a member of the group discussion, but hasn't contributed, there doesn't seem to be a way of removing them. At the top of the Skype window for the group chat, each members name appears as a button, but no 'kick' or other removal option appears. An easy solution might be to ask the person to type something, so creating their name in the chat window, which can then be 'kicked', however the problem is that the person we want to remove, it's an old Skype name which she no longer uses, and has long since forgotten the password. I guess we'll just leave her there - I suspect it must be just a bug in the latest version of Skype. We could dispense with the existing conversation altogether, and start another, but then I presume we lose all the chat history. On 17/02/2011, at 11:06 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 7:59 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Can anyone tell me how to remove a person from a particular group conversation in Skype 5.0.0.7994 ? There is a drop down menu for each person which allows Call, Send Instant Message, or Show Profile. I can't seem to drag these people off the screen or out of the conversation. I can Add people to the conversation, but I just can't figure how to remove them. Hi Steven, I found this in my documents folder, but unfortunately I didn’t keep the URL where I located it from. I’ve never used the information below, so I can’t comment on it. Two ways: Way A): 1. You should already be focused on the conversation containing both persons. If you VO+left of the HTML area, you will noticed two buttons. One button will have a menu pertaining to one person, and the other button will have the menu pertaining to the other. 2. Press the button for person A and a menu will pop up. 3. IF you choose, end call the call will be dropped for person A but continue for you and the other person. The person a can still be called again from the same menu or text chatted with. Way B) 1. Look just to the right of the tool bar. You'll notice a scrol area. Interact with this area. 2. Notice that you now can see the two individuals you're talking to. VO left or right till you come to the person upon whom you wish to have an effect. 3. Now, Cease interacting with that scrol area. 4. IF you then look at the window you've landed in, you will notice that it's the window pertaining to the person you wish to effect. In this window you have control over their aspect of the conversation. Pressing command+w should close their window and leave the rest alone. Or: And once again, I’ve never tried this. /kick skype_id Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How to remove a person from a Skype group conversation ?
Can anyone tell me how to remove a person from a particular group conversation in Skype 5.0.0.7994 ? There is a drop down menu for each person which allows Call, Send Instant Message, or Show Profile. I can't seem to drag these people off the screen or out of the conversation. I can Add people to the conversation, but I just can't figure how to remove them. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to remove a person from a Skype group conversation ?
Thanks Ronni. A search on some of the text reveals you probably got it for this page. It doesn't seem to solve my problem though, but I suspect it may be relevant to verbal conversations. My problem involves text based chat for a group (my fault, didn't clarify that in my original question). I've now worked out that you can right click the name of someone who's contributed to the chat, and kick them, which seems to kick them out of that chat. However if a person is a member of the group discussion, but hasn't contributed, there doesn't seem to be a way of removing them. At the top of the Skype window for the group chat, each members name appears as a button, but no 'kick' or other removal option appears. An easy solution might be to ask the person to type something, so creating their name in the chat window, which can then be 'kicked', however the problem is that the person we want to remove, it's an old Skype name which she no longer uses, and has long since forgotten the password. I guess we'll just leave her there - I suspect it must be just a bug in the latest version of Skype. We could dispense with the existing conversation altogether, and start another, but then I presume we lose all the chat history. On 17/02/2011, at 11:06 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 7:59 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Can anyone tell me how to remove a person from a particular group conversation in Skype 5.0.0.7994 ? There is a drop down menu for each person which allows Call, Send Instant Message, or Show Profile. I can't seem to drag these people off the screen or out of the conversation. I can Add people to the conversation, but I just can't figure how to remove them. Hi Steven, I found this in my documents folder, but unfortunately I didn’t keep the URL where I located it from. I’ve never used the information below, so I can’t comment on it. Two ways: Way A): 1. You should already be focused on the conversation containing both persons. If you VO+left of the HTML area, you will noticed two buttons. One button will have a menu pertaining to one person, and the other button will have the menu pertaining to the other. 2. Press the button for person A and a menu will pop up. 3. IF you choose, end call the call will be dropped for person A but continue for you and the other person. The person a can still be called again from the same menu or text chatted with. Way B) 1. Look just to the right of the tool bar. You'll notice a scrol area. Interact with this area. 2. Notice that you now can see the two individuals you're talking to. VO left or right till you come to the person upon whom you wish to have an effect. 3. Now, Cease interacting with that scrol area. 4. IF you then look at the window you've landed in, you will notice that it's the window pertaining to the person you wish to effect. In this window you have control over their aspect of the conversation. Pressing command+w should close their window and leave the rest alone. Or: And once again, I’ve never tried this. /kick skype_id Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
My big criticism of the App Store
Intending to download a few of the free game apps for the kids via the App Store, I searched using the words ... free games Numerous came up, so I went clicking away, and inadvertently clicked a $12.99 icon. Immediately realising my error, thinking that I should get some kind of Are you sure you want to get slugged for $12.99?, to be safe I dived to the Dock and quit the pending download via right-click on the game icon. Downloading hadn't yet begun because other applications were downloading ahead of it. To check that I hadn't been billed, I had a look at my account via iTunes. Yep, the charge is there. I've sent a message to the App Store and await its response, but beware the stray click. I'll be making a song dance if Apple try to play hard ball. I've suggested to it that it needs some kind of Are you sure? step, ideally with entry of password again at point of sale, it's simply too easy to make accidental purchases. Probably a pain-in-butt extra step if you really do want to make the purchase, but on balance I'd prefer that than Apple getting stuck into my credit card over a wrong click. After all, any other move which is a tad dangerous, such as emptying trash, has some kind of are you sure step, or is reversible. I suppose when it comes to billing credit cards, fool-proofing isn't good for the bottom line. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Safari - no address field.
Command + I or View Show Toolbar On 31/12/2010, at 6:23 PM, Richard Anderson wrote: I have lost the address field in Safari - the blank space at the top where you type in the desired URL. Anyone got any idea how I can find it again! Dick Anderson -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Skype start up
Chris, try System Preferences Accounts select your account click on the Login Items tab select the Skype application if you see it click the minus button beneath Cheers, Steven On 31/12/2010, at 11:41 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Muggers In relation to the recent skype thread, I recently downloaded skype and installed it on my MBPro. Now, when I restart the machine, the first thing that appears is a skype login window. I think it is linked to the startup somehow, and I would like it to go away! Can someone please advise how I can do that? Im not sure if I should venture into the various folders in the System with out first asking people who know what they are doing. thanks very much for any advice Best regards and wishes for a great start to the new year Chris -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?
Thanks for the suggestion Robert, however the problem with going down Skype's 'forgot password' route is it send the new password details to the 'registered' email address, which is an old email address, no longer accessible, for this particular Skype account. I can't change the registered email address without knowing the existing password. Obviously the Skype application on the Mac knows the password because it logs in whenever Skype launches. Presumably the password is embedded in Keychain Access, but I don't know if there is a way to see application passwords in Keychain Access - surely an administrator of a Mac can do this somehow? On 28/12/2010, at 7:57 PM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote: Have you tried launching Skype and then selecting Forgot your/my password? On 28/12/2010, at 3:38 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show password', nothing happens, the password is not shown. Is there a way I can access the password? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?
Thanks Ronni. Unfortunately the Skype account in question falls into the first category, ie. never paid for any Skype feature. I have contacted Skype, but no joy, Skype quoting 'privacy reasons'. My argument was that if a user could change the Skype profile email address to a current email address it must mean that the person changing the profile email address has the Skype password, hence emailing the reset password details to the profile email address shouldn't be a problem, a point which Skype acknowledged but it couldn't help due to 'privacy reasons'. Basically a scripted answer which doesn't hold water. Based on the limited articles I've found on the web, it seems that Keychain Access doesn't actually store the password itself, it stores some kind of code which verifies the user to Skype, and then allows the log in to proceed. Something like that anyway. For any other Skype users out there, consider manually typing your Skype password into the 'Comments' section of the account in Keychain Access. Cheers, Steven On 29/12/2010, at 12:05 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA109/I-ve-forgotten-my-password;jsessionid=276BBA139DD258F1FBBB4E5B872465E6?frompage=category I don’t remember the email address I used when I created my Skype account and I have never paid for any Skype feature Unfortunately, if you cannot remember your registered email address or password, you’ll need to create anew Skype account. I don’t remember the email address I used when I created my Skype account and I have paid for at least one Skype feature in the past. If you have paid for at least one Skype feature, we can help you to reset your password even if you have forgotten your password and registered email address. Go to the Forgotten your password page. Click Forgotten your email address? Enter your Skype name and click Submit. Enter your first name, last name, country, and either a recent order number or the requested credit card details (we will never ask you for your full credit card number). If you are unable to provide these details, then please contact Skype Customer Service. You will be asked to provide further information to help us verify your identity. Once we have verified your identity we can change your registered email address and you will then be able to reset your password. If you are unable to provide this information then you will be asked to create a new Skype account. Click Submit. You will only be allowed a limited number of attempts at entering this information correctly. If this information is verified you will then be asked to enter your new password and registered email address. Click Submit. We will send an email to you confirming the changes. I don’t remember the email address I used when I created my Skype account and I am using a Skype business account Contact the Skype Manager administrator in your company. They will be able to reset your password for you. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 28/12/2010, at 6:24 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Robert, however the problem with going down Skype's 'forgot password' route is it send the new password details to the 'registered' email address, which is an old email address, no longer accessible, for this particular Skype account. I can't change the registered email address without knowing the existing password. Obviously the Skype application on the Mac knows the password because it logs in whenever Skype launches. Presumably the password is embedded in Keychain Access, but I don't know if there is a way to see application passwords in Keychain Access - surely an administrator of a Mac can do this somehow? On 28/12/2010, at 7:57 PM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote: Have you tried launching Skype and then selecting Forgot your/my password? On 28/12/2010, at 3:38 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show password', nothing happens, the password is not shown. Is there a way I can access the password? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How to access Skype password in Keychain ?
I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show password', nothing happens, the password is not shown. Is there a way I can access the password? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Seeking advice - Beyonwiz / TC / Mac networking
I should have spent some more time researching. I thought all Beyonwiz PVRs were Wi Fi enabled. I assumed their top end model would be anyway. So I went right ahead today and bought the newly released Beyonwiz DP-P2 2TB PVR, only to find tonight, trying to set it up, that it doesn't seem to be Wi Fi enabled at all. Unless I'm mistaken, I need to hardwire it via ethernet to a router. I guess I'll have to live with that mistake and think about how best to hardwire it to a not-easily-accessible router. The router, an Optus-branded Netgear wireless cable modem (CVG824G) is downstairs, the Beyonwiz is upstairs. Maybe I've been spoiled with the Mac UI and intuitiveness, but despite all the good reports about Beyonwiz, its UI has an air of Windows clunkiness about it. A far cry from Apple TV's interface. Anyway, I'll live with that as well. Before I go getting the house redesigned to connect the Beyonwiz to the Netgear router, I have a TC which I've now set up to Join a wireless network, ie. the network dished out by the Netgear router. Seems to be working okay, a couple of Macs also on this wireless network are merrily backing up to the TC. I've connected the Beyonwiz to the TC via ethernet. But now what? There's a 'Windows Sharing' section in which you can put a user name and password. I've put in the username and password of the TC, that doesn't seem to do much. How can a Mac (which can see the TC wirelessly) see the Beyonwiz, and how can the Beyonwiz see files on my Mac or even on the TC? The Beyonwiz user manual is largely silent on this, and I can see nothing helpful on the Beyonwiz support forum. Latest firmware on the Beyonwiz, 10.6.5 on the Macs. Any tips appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Seeking advice - Beyonwiz / TC / Mac networking
Follow up thought. Even more convenient than wiring the Beyonwiz to a TC, I have an Apple TV very near the Beyonwiz, with the Apple TV wirelessly connected to the network. Is it feasible to connect the Beyonwiz to the Apple TV via Ethernet to access Mac files at other places on the network? Long shot I suppose, my guess is no, but a question for those who know for sure. On 21/12/2010, at 10:33 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I should have spent some more time researching. I thought all Beyonwiz PVRs were Wi Fi enabled. I assumed their top end model would be anyway. So I went right ahead today and bought the newly released Beyonwiz DP-P2 2TB PVR, only to find tonight, trying to set it up, that it doesn't seem to be Wi Fi enabled at all. Unless I'm mistaken, I need to hardwire it via ethernet to a router. I guess I'll have to live with that mistake and think about how best to hardwire it to a not-easily-accessible router. The router, an Optus-branded Netgear wireless cable modem (CVG824G) is downstairs, the Beyonwiz is upstairs. Maybe I've been spoiled with the Mac UI and intuitiveness, but despite all the good reports about Beyonwiz, its UI has an air of Windows clunkiness about it. A far cry from Apple TV's interface. Anyway, I'll live with that as well. Before I go getting the house redesigned to connect the Beyonwiz to the Netgear router, I have a TC which I've now set up to Join a wireless network, ie. the network dished out by the Netgear router. Seems to be working okay, a couple of Macs also on this wireless network are merrily backing up to the TC. I've connected the Beyonwiz to the TC via ethernet. But now what? There's a 'Windows Sharing' section in which you can put a user name and password. I've put in the username and password of the TC, that doesn't seem to do much. How can a Mac (which can see the TC wirelessly) see the Beyonwiz, and how can the Beyonwiz see files on my Mac or even on the TC? The Beyonwiz user manual is largely silent on this, and I can see nothing helpful on the Beyonwiz support forum. Latest firmware on the Beyonwiz, 10.6.5 on the Macs. Any tips appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Seeking advice - Beyonwiz / TC / Mac networking
Thanks Brian. It's the big screen family TV viewing which wins over the eyetv option. I'm happy to accept responsibility for buying the wrong product, the workaround shouldn't be that hard once I figure out what it is. I do have an eyetv actually. A 'diversity'. I haven't had time to look closely at it, but each time the lid of the laptop closes, the one on which the eyetv software is installed (latest version), the channels don't save. So each time the eyetv software is launched again, the channel scan process needs to be redone. Anyone know offhand what might be the likely cause? Cheers, Steven On 22/12/2010, at 12:38 AM, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi Steven, I have a Topfield cabled - networked via an Airport Base Station, and that works when using OneButton FTP application for accessing and moving files about the netork. I don't know about the internet aspect though. You could package it up carefully and go and ask for a refund as it doesn't do as you wished/ your intended purpose... A couple of usb Eyetv tuners in a Mac may be a better idea. Brian On 21/12/2010, at 9:24 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Follow up thought. Even more convenient than wiring the Beyonwiz to a TC, I have an Apple TV very near the Beyonwiz, with the Apple TV wirelessly connected to the network. Is it feasible to connect the Beyonwiz to the Apple TV via Ethernet to access Mac files at other places on the network? Long shot I suppose, my guess is no, but a question for those who know for sure. On 21/12/2010, at 10:33 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I should have spent some more time researching. I thought all Beyonwiz PVRs were Wi Fi enabled. I assumed their top end model would be anyway. So I went right ahead today and bought the newly released Beyonwiz DP-P2 2TB PVR, only to find tonight, trying to set it up, that it doesn't seem to be Wi Fi enabled at all. Unless I'm mistaken, I need to hardwire it via ethernet to a router. I guess I'll have to live with that mistake and think about how best to hardwire it to a not-easily-accessible router. The router, an Optus-branded Netgear wireless cable modem (CVG824G) is downstairs, the Beyonwiz is upstairs. Maybe I've been spoiled with the Mac UI and intuitiveness, but despite all the good reports about Beyonwiz, its UI has an air of Windows clunkiness about it. A far cry from Apple TV's interface. Anyway, I'll live with that as well. Before I go getting the house redesigned to connect the Beyonwiz to the Netgear router, I have a TC which I've now set up to Join a wireless network, ie. the network dished out by the Netgear router. Seems to be working okay, a couple of Macs also on this wireless network are merrily backing up to the TC. I've connected the Beyonwiz to the TC via ethernet. But now what? There's a 'Windows Sharing' section in which you can put a user name and password. I've put in the username and password of the TC, that doesn't seem to do much. How can a Mac (which can see the TC wirelessly) see the Beyonwiz, and how can the Beyonwiz see files on my Mac or even on the TC? The Beyonwiz user manual is largely silent on this, and I can see nothing helpful on the Beyonwiz support forum. Latest firmware on the Beyonwiz, 10.6.5 on the Macs. Any tips appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Skype iPhone
David, I've found Skype's Unlimited World together with a Skype online number fairly hard to beat at about AUD 200 for the year. Works very well from my iPhone. It'd be nicer if calls to Australian mobile numbers was included in the price. Cheers, Steven On 20/12/2010, at 5:12 PM, David de la Hunty wrote: Hi all, Skype are advertising their mobile and text prepaid product. I have skype on iphone which gives free skype-to-skype calls but now you can ring non-Skype phones and landlines worldwide for very little money... has anyone tried this service, does it work from Oz and have you had any problems? Merry christmas muggers DD -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Skype 5 - how to save a voicemail message ?
Anyone know of an easy way to save a voicemail message left via Skype 5? I assume the voice message must sit on Skype servers, I can find any record of it on my local disk. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Skype group video conferencing
I hope I'm not guilty of spreading old news here, but I've just noticed release of Skype 5 beta for Mac, now enabling group video conferencing. http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/macosx/beta Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Domain Name Registration / Web Hosting
I have domain registrations and rent a VPS via http://www.dotinfohosting.com - I've had no probs, and represent good value for money from the looking around I did at the time. Cheers, Steven On 27/11/2010, at 1:15 PM, cm wrote: Hello all, I notice that the previous time this was asked was in 2005 so I just wanted to ask the group again for its received wisdom about domain name registration and web hosting. I am looking register a domain name and have the associated web site hosted. The site will be interactive and require an application server such as GlassFish to run JSF, or similar. Mac or Linux box would be preferred. Do you still think it a good idea to register with http://www.netregistry.com.au ? Or are there arguments to register a cheap .com domain name with http://www.namecheap.com ? I don't know if he is still active in the group, but Phillip McGree was recommending http://www.bottle.com.au Does anyone else have an opinion on them? Any advice or anecdotes about experiences would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Carlo -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone doesn't auto connect to wireless network
Thanks Ronni. I should have clarified, I've tried with Ask to Join Networks set to On, but still the Auto-Join setting won't stay On, and my iPhone doesn't automatically join the network. I run the network as a closed network, ie. SSID not broadcast, but that shouldn't matter, I've saved the name of it, and the password, in the iPhone. The name of the network is saved, however each time I have to manually join, I have to rekey the network password, which is a pain. CHeers, Steven On 21/11/2010, at 5:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You need Ask to Join Networks turned ON in Settings Wi-Fi Then known networks will be joined automatically. If no known networks are available. You will be asked before joining a new network. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 21/11/2010, at 3:39 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Despite having my iPhone 3G Ask to Join Networks switched to off, the SSID and password of my home network saved, my iPhone just doesn't want to automatically log into the network. I have to manually join each time I come back within range. I've noticed the Auto-Join feature, which I can see if I select the name of my network, however despite repeatedly setting this to On, it won't stay on. Even if I set to On, scroll down so that the feature scrolls out of sight, and scroll it back into view, during that process the Auto-Join feature switches back to Off. I also have Auto-Login set to On, which doesn't seem to work. Anyone have a clue how I can get Auto-Join to stay on? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone doesn't auto connect to wireless network
The strange thing is, the iPhone does remember the closed network. Each time I come back into range, if I go into iPhone's settings, the Wi-Fi setting says Not Connected. If I tap this setting, the Choose a Network section displays the name of the closed network. So obviously the iPhone is remembering. It's just that the iPhone won't remember the password, because if I tap the name of the network, up comes a password request. The disadvantages of broadcasting the SSID outweigh the disadvantages of having to manually connect, so I won't be broadcasting the SSID. The iPhone shouldn't behave that way anyway. Nevertheless, I've just tested things by changing to an open wireless network, closed down the iPhone a couple of times, restarted, but no change ... I'm still required to enter a password to join the network, despite the network name being remembered. No behavioural change between closed and open network. Cheers, Steven On 21/11/2010, at 7:22 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, The iPhone won't discover a closed WiFi network that is not broadcasting the SSID. You can force it to use it if you manually punch the SSID and encryption in, but it is lost every time you turn off your iPhone or go out of range of the network. Bottom line: broadcast your SSID. Cheers, Ronni On 21/11/2010, at 4:15 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Ronni. I should have clarified, I've tried with Ask to Join Networks set to On, but still the Auto-Join setting won't stay On, and my iPhone doesn't automatically join the network. I run the network as a closed network, ie. SSID not broadcast, but that shouldn't matter, I've saved the name of it, and the password, in the iPhone. The name of the network is saved, however each time I have to manually join, I have to rekey the network password, which is a pain. CHeers, Steven On 21/11/2010, at 5:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You need Ask to Join Networks turned ON in Settings Wi-Fi Then known networks will be joined automatically. If no known networks are available. You will be asked before joining a new network. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 21/11/2010, at 3:39 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Despite having my iPhone 3G Ask to Join Networks switched to off, the SSID and password of my home network saved, my iPhone just doesn't want to automatically log into the network. I have to manually join each time I come back within range. I've noticed the Auto-Join feature, which I can see if I select the name of my network, however despite repeatedly setting this to On, it won't stay on. Even if I set to On, scroll down so that the feature scrolls out of sight, and scroll it back into view, during that process the Auto-Join feature switches back to Off. I also have Auto-Login set to On, which doesn't seem to work. Anyone have a clue how I can get Auto-Join to stay on? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone doesn't auto connect to wireless network
Peter, I'm using a closed network in conjunction with WPA Personal security. No issues with any other Mac connecting, just the iPhone. And from the limited testing I've done, it doesn't seem to be isolated to the fact that I have a closed network anyway. The only other issue I've had in the past is with Windows machines being able to connect to the closed network with WPA security combination, with the workaround being to temporary lift the security and broadcast the SSID (which one of those fixes the problem I don't know). I don't have the background to understand the technological differences between broadcasting and not broadcasting an SSID, but it seems to me that it has some privacy upside, and conceptually shouldn't create any technical issues if a device knows the network name and security access details. I haven't tried your latest suggestion yet Ronni, but I'll give it a go when time and let you know the result. Cheers, Steven On 22/11/2010, at 10:37 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 21/11/2010, at 7:25 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Also, I meant to add, but hit send before I typed this: Automatically connecting to a network with a hidden SSID is a bad idea. Can you enlarge on this Ronni? My WiFi network has a hidden SSID, and I have no trouble connecting to it automatically from my iPhone, nor from my iMac or my Macbook Pro. Not only the SSID hidden, I'm also using WAPA2 encryption with a complex password, which I really DON'T want to be entering every time I want to access it myself, especially on my iPhone. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
iPhone doesn't auto connect to wireless network
Despite having my iPhone 3G Ask to Join Networks switched to off, the SSID and password of my home network saved, my iPhone just doesn't want to automatically log into the network. I have to manually join each time I come back within range. I've noticed the Auto-Join feature, which I can see if I select the name of my network, however despite repeatedly setting this to On, it won't stay on. Even if I set to On, scroll down so that the feature scrolls out of sight, and scroll it back into view, during that process the Auto-Join feature switches back to Off. I also have Auto-Login set to On, which doesn't seem to work. Anyone have a clue how I can get Auto-Join to stay on? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Genealogy software
Hi Lloyd Quite a lot of past discussion on this subject. See WAMUG archives and search Reunion. I'm not familiar with MacFamily, however I do use Reunion and can't fault it. A product dedicated to the Mac platform, its maker Leister Productions dropped Windows years ago. Support is terrific but you rarely need it anyway. Cheers, Steven On 23/10/2010, at 1:52 PM, Lloyd White wrote: I have been looking at two genealogy programs for Mac - Reunion and MacFamily. Both are about the same price. Does anyone have any experience with these or similar programs and could make a recommendation? If so I would appreciate your comments. Lloyd OS 10.6.4 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Best value wireless multifunction printer/scanne r for Mac?
The opinion of one salesman about Brother was that they're not bad for laser printers, but they fall short on inkjet. But yep, Brother worth a look if you need A3, and according to the same sales guy, no prob with Mac compatibility. To clarify for others though, the HPs I mentioned (8500 and 8500A) accommodated 'legal size' paper for flatbed scanning. Not A3. I think you need to move up to higher end commercial stuff for A3. A4 = 210 × 297mm Foolscap = 210 × 330mm Legal (USA) = 216 × 356mm A3 = 297 × 420mm Cheers, Steven On 21/10/2010, at 11:10 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Steven Yeh, I think you're right on the most offensive! (And glad you didn't take it as a dig. It's always sometimes hard to get gestures across on email, so I always try make sure things don't get taken the wrong way) :o)) (smiley faces are always a good safe bet) Makes you wonder who's making the money on the cartridges though, as I can definitely say as a cartridge supplier, there really is not that much margin in them! I suppose by the time everyone add's their little cut, it all adds up. But yes, I'd much rather pay a bit more for my printer (knowing that it lasts longer) and pay less for the cartridges. Glad you like the Epson range. I've always been happy with them. Hence why I have no problems ever recommending them. But yes, thy don't do an A3 unfortunately. They used to also do laser printers and they got out of that too. (Which is a shame as my Epson Colour C1100N has just chugged away for years! And barely eats toners at all!) I love it. I dread the day something goes wrong with it,touch wood. Brother do a nice A3 colour multifunction printer though. That may be worth a look too ;) Just to add more to the pile,..lol ;) Kind Regards Daniel On 21/10/10 8:58 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I don't disagree with you Daniel, and I definitely don't take it as a dig. Printers and printer consumables must be right up there in terms of the world's offensive on the environment. Hey, maybe we can lobby the government ... legislate for no more home printers! Publicly accessible printers only, wireless connectivity makes it possible. Collect your hardcopy from any nearby printer after putting in your PIN code. System charges your Paypal, periodically, based on usage. Printers can be housed in weather-proof cubicles, onboard web cams dissuading passing hoons from putting the boot in ... might be a good use for all those public telephone boxes which don't get used anymore (do they even exist? Can't say I know where a public telephone is anymore). I'd post my letter to Ms Gillard right now, except I don't have my printer yet. I did find some time to take a peek at the Epson products online by the way. They look good, but couldn't see any multifunctions with anything bigger than an A4 flatbed, which has evolved into a must-have for me. Marlene, only good reports about Epson if A4 flatbeds are good for you. Steven On 21/10/2010, at 10:14 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Steven Without starting a flame war, and please realise I'm not making a dig at you, or anyone else for that matter,... But this first thing always bothers me with these printers. The amount of good waste that we all go through with new printers that are still good, but it's cheaper to buy a whole printer then cartridges. What it must be doing to our landfill and environment. It's unfortunate. And although we can't really lay blame. As consumer's we're always look for something cheaper, and so the manufacturer make something cheaper (then get us on the cartridges). It's the chicken and egg situation. Do we blame them for making cheaper printer, or do they blame us for asking for cheap. I do remember not that long ago when I worked for RandomAccess (ok, yes that would be nearly 10 years,..omg that long!) when printers were in factor dearer and cartridges were cheaper. That didn't take long to change. And we see it happen with a lot of things these days. Quality used to be better and last longer. Now nearly everything is a throw away society. But I digress I try and keep my printers as long as possible and get the most out of them. Or pass them off to family or friends that don't have a printer (or when dies). I look at it that way, that at least I'm doing something. ;o) But yes,..it does make it very hard they way printers and cartridges work now. Again, not trying to point fingers,..just wanted to mention my view on it ;) Kind Regards Daniel On 21/10/10 7:19 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I like your suggestion David. Sounds sensible to me ... my understanding is that the manufacturers often lose, maybe break even, on the printer itself in cunning anticipation of making fat margins on consumables thereafter. Your move puts a bullet in that plan! :-) Daniel, after your Epson recommendation I'd probably take a closer
Best value wireless multifunction printer/scanner for Mac?
At risk of asking a dumb question due to the multitude of options, I need to grab a (preferably wireless but can hook into TC if not) multifunction office printer / scanner. Not so bothered about a fax function - who uses fax these days - but it'll probably have that anyway. Printing volume will be minimal, so will scanning for that matter, but just need one around since my HP Officejet 7210 died. Interested in views on the best Mac-friendly brand available at the moment. Anyone know what Choice recommended in their Multifunction printer report? I'll buy it if not. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
?*%$$# Time Capsule
I'm about to watch time fly and throw TC out the nearest window. I got over all of my previously whinged about error messages by one of two solutions, I don't know which one ultimately provided the fix, but erased data entirely, and disconnected all users (Airport Utility Manual Setup Disks Disconnect All Users). The backed up everything from scratch, the major downside being loss of all historical backups. The backups from scratch seemed to work. However now, not every time but intermittently, I get ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 169.72GB but only 122.2MB are available. Time machine needs work space ... blah blah blah TM waits for me to click OK. Then, if I 'Backup now' TM proceeds with a backup in the usual manner, and keeps going until next time I get the 'backup too large' message. According to the TM Preferences window, there is about 500GB of available space, which is about right after taking into account the two Macs I've backed up. I've been putting up with the inaccurate 'backup too large' message, however just now I had a need to go into TM and recover a previous version of a file I've stuffed up. Disappointingly, I find that TM hasn't been retaining old backup data. I have 'Now' backup, and that's it. No historical backups to wade through. I assume this has something to do with the 'backup too large' problem. The problem I'm having is with my MBP. I've checked TM on the other machine, an iMac, backing up to this TC. No problem. Retention of historical backups appear to be taking place for the iMac. All machines running latest OSX. Any suggestions? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: ?*%$$# Time Capsule
An extra clue on this. I've just noticed that when I do a backup from the MBP, apart from my TC disk image showing, another disk image comes up named Boot OSX. I don't think I've seen that before. On closer inspection of the Data folder on the TC, I see that there are three sparsebundle files for my MBP. Does that help?? On 19/10/2010, at 2:44 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm about to watch time fly and throw TC out the nearest window. I got over all of my previously whinged about error messages by one of two solutions, I don't know which one ultimately provided the fix, but erased data entirely, and disconnected all users (Airport Utility Manual Setup Disks Disconnect All Users). The backed up everything from scratch, the major downside being loss of all historical backups. The backups from scratch seemed to work. However now, not every time but intermittently, I get ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 169.72GB but only 122.2MB are available. Time machine needs work space ... blah blah blah TM waits for me to click OK. Then, if I 'Backup now' TM proceeds with a backup in the usual manner, and keeps going until next time I get the 'backup too large' message. According to the TM Preferences window, there is about 500GB of available space, which is about right after taking into account the two Macs I've backed up. I've been putting up with the inaccurate 'backup too large' message, however just now I had a need to go into TM and recover a previous version of a file I've stuffed up. Disappointingly, I find that TM hasn't been retaining old backup data. I have 'Now' backup, and that's it. No historical backups to wade through. I assume this has something to do with the 'backup too large' problem. The problem I'm having is with my MBP. I've checked TM on the other machine, an iMac, backing up to this TC. No problem. Retention of historical backups appear to be taking place for the iMac. All machines running latest OSX. Any suggestions? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
Thanks Ronni. Ahead of your email I ended up connecting my MBP directly to the TC (via ethernet) and continued to get partial backups followed by varying error messages. I connected an iMac directly to the TC as well, same problem. Even took the TC to a service shop, because a search of the internet indicated the problem could be the software not communicating with the hard disk, but the service shop couldn't see a problem. The TC was reset, tried backing up, more error messages. My latest move has been to erase the TC hard disk completely, and as I type it's 50% through a full back up, which is the most it's got to. A shame because I've lost all historical backups, but I was out of options. The web is full of reports about unresolved TC problems, TCs working fine then suddenly not, seemingly since the introduction of 10.5. Cheers, Steven On 16/10/2010, at 10:57 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Steven, I'm having an enforced Medical Break from WAMUG, but have given you a suggestion below. On 13/10/2010, at 8:44 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks for your help on this Ronni. I followed your suggestions through, and after a few attempts the back up seemed to get through things and all was good. Throwing things back to the group once again, I have a new TC related problem. Following relocation, I'm now on an Optus cable connection. I have an Optus-supplied NETGEAR CVG824G wireless cable modem to connect to the internet. All Macs talk wirelessly to the CVG824G just fine. I've connected the TC to the CVG824G via ethernet cable and the WAN port on the TC. As far as I know, the Macs should be able to back up to it that way. I can see the TC via Airport Utility, a delightful green dot appears next to the TC image. I had an orange dot initially, however I changed 'Connection Sharing' to 'Share a public IP address' from 'Distribute a range of IP addresses' (an overhang from trying to get round a single computer connection in a hotel), and now all seems fine. But … In Airport Utility under 'Internet' - Internet Connection - Connect Using: Ethernet Connection Sharing: OFF (Bridge Mode). Cheers, Ronni When I 'Back Up Now' the message my Mac throws up after a couple of minutes is ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk is not available. Time Machine Buddy says ... --- Starting standard backup Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://myfirstname%mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data NetAuthConnectToServerSync failed with error: 64 for url: afp://myfirstname%20mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data Backup failed with error: 19 --- Any clues? Many thanks, Steven On 30/09/2010, at 2:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for getting back with more information. From what I can gather from the widget error messages, they indicate that what's on your internal HD may not match the hidden File System Event Database that OSX keeps on each disk, and TM normally uses to see what's been changed since the last backup and needs to be copied. Since it is untrustable, TM must examine every directory (folder) on your system, and compare it to your backups, instead. This is, of course, a lengthy procedure. This is usually caused by an improper shutdown, but can be the result of other things, too. And once it occurs, the whole process must be repeated for each unsuccessful backup attempt until one completes normally. If you have had a force power-off, you'll get the UUID problem and TM will do a deep traversal. There's no way around that: it's the only way TM can be sure that all the changes made since your last backup will be saved this time. So, if at all possible, let it run. But Firstly: 1. Exclude the Time Machine Partition from spotlight, via System Preferences Spotlight Privacy. 2. In System Preferences Energy Saver make sure you don't have selected Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible. Probably best to also put Computer Sleep to Never as well. Then try a Time Machine Backup and if possible try not to use the computer too much while this backup is occurring. Don't interrupt the backup, it will take quite a long time to finish. If that doesn't help, note the time one of these backups starts, then use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to see if there are other messages indicating a conflict with your backups. When it starts, click Show Log List in the toolbar, then navigate in the sidebar that opens up to your system.log and select it. Navigate to the Starting standard backup message, then see what follows that might indicate some sort of error, failure, termination, exit, etc. Cheers, Ronni On 30/09/2010, at 10:19 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro
Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
Thanks for your help on this Ronni. I followed your suggestions through, and after a few attempts the back up seemed to get through things and all was good. Throwing things back to the group once again, I have a new TC related problem. Following relocation, I'm now on an Optus cable connection. I have an Optus-supplied NETGEAR CVG824G wireless cable modem to connect to the internet. All Macs talk wirelessly to the CVG824G just fine. I've connected the TC to the CVG824G via ethernet cable and the WAN port on the TC. As far as I know, the Macs should be able to back up to it that way. I can see the TC via Airport Utility, a delightful green dot appears next to the TC image. I had an orange dot initially, however I changed 'Connection Sharing' to 'Share a public IP address' from 'Distribute a range of IP addresses' (an overhang from trying to get round a single computer connection in a hotel), and now all seems fine. But ... When I 'Back Up Now' the message my Mac throws up after a couple of minutes is ... Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk is not available. Time Machine Buddy says ... --- Starting standard backup Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://myfirstname%mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data NetAuthConnectToServerSync failed with error: 64 for url: afp://myfirstname%20mylastn...@time-capsule.local/Data Backup failed with error: 19 --- Any clues? Many thanks, Steven On 30/09/2010, at 2:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for getting back with more information. From what I can gather from the widget error messages, they indicate that what's on your internal HD may not match the hidden File System Event Database that OSX keeps on each disk, and TM normally uses to see what's been changed since the last backup and needs to be copied. Since it is untrustable, TM must examine every directory (folder) on your system, and compare it to your backups, instead. This is, of course, a lengthy procedure. This is usually caused by an improper shutdown, but can be the result of other things, too. And once it occurs, the whole process must be repeated for each unsuccessful backup attempt until one completes normally. If you have had a force power-off, you'll get the UUID problem and TM will do a deep traversal. There's no way around that: it's the only way TM can be sure that all the changes made since your last backup will be saved this time. So, if at all possible, let it run. But Firstly: 1. Exclude the Time Machine Partition from spotlight, via System Preferences Spotlight Privacy. 2. In System Preferences Energy Saver make sure you don't have selected Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible. Probably best to also put Computer Sleep to Never as well. Then try a Time Machine Backup and if possible try not to use the computer too much while this backup is occurring. Don't interrupt the backup, it will take quite a long time to finish. If that doesn't help, note the time one of these backups starts, then use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to see if there are other messages indicating a conflict with your backups. When it starts, click Show Log List in the toolbar, then navigate in the sidebar that opens up to your system.log and select it. Navigate to the Starting standard backup message, then see what follows that might indicate some sort of error, failure, termination, exit, etc. Cheers, Ronni On 30/09/2010, at 10:19 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro (running 10.6.4) have begun failing part way through the back up process. I have a little Time Capsule backup widget which I have on Dashboard (can't recall name of the widget, but it gives a little extra narrative on what's happening during the back up process). A few days ago, when I noticed the back up process not completing, the widget gave the error as something to do with Spotlight. I no longer have the exact error message, but looking the error message up on the web led me to this page ... http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... which seemed to be about the problem I was having. The back up error message seemed to tie in with the fact that not long before that there was a Spotlight indexing process underway at a time I had to shutdown my machine, so interrupting the indexing process may not have been helpful. The suggestion of deleting the spotlight directory seems to make sense, and a better option than erasing the Time Capsule (which may end up being necessary if I can't get Time Capsule to index Spotlight again). Regards your questions Ronni ... Have you been able to backup to Time Capsule initially? Yes. Does Time Capsule appear in Disk Utility or in Finder
Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
Yep, that's the one I have. Doesn't seem to show it's name. On 30/09/2010, at 9:23 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, As I mentioned below in my reply to Steven, Applications Utilities Console App - System logs. But if you want a Widget to show the system logs: Time Machine Buddy: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html Cheers, Ronni On 30/09/2010, at 12:30 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Ok, I am interested in this thread and watching with interest. Is the Widget noted below something I could use to monitor my TM backups? There isn’t any indication of the exact part of the process that’s going on unless opening TM preferences and watching the progress bar – but still not much info about what is really going on. How do I get this Widget? Is it something users recommend I DON’T use? Regards Peter. From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:08 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume' Hi Steven, Thanks for getting back with more information. From what I can gather from the widget error messages, they indicate that what's on your internal HD may not match the hidden File System Event Database that OSX keeps on each disk, and TM normally uses to see what's been changed since the last backup and needs to be copied. Since it is untrustable, TM must examine every directory (folder) on your system, and compare it to your backups, instead. This is, of course, a lengthy procedure. This is usually caused by an improper shutdown, but can be the result of other things, too. And once it occurs, the whole process must be repeated for each unsuccessful backup attempt until one completes normally. If you have had a force power-off, you'll get the UUID problem and TM will do a deep traversal. There's no way around that: it's the only way TM can be sure that all the changes made since your last backup will be saved this time. So, if at all possible, let it run. But Firstly: 1. Exclude the Time Machine Partition from spotlight, via System Preferences Spotlight Privacy. 2. In System Preferences Energy Saver make sure you don't have selected Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible. Probably best to also put Computer Sleep to Never as well. Then try a Time Machine Backup and if possible try not to use the computer too much while this backup is occurring. Don't interrupt the backup, it will take quite a long time to finish. If that doesn't help, note the time one of these backups starts, then use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to see if there are other messages indicating a conflict with your backups. When it starts, click Show Log List in the toolbar, then navigate in the sidebar that opens up to your system.log and select it. Navigate to the Starting standard backup message, then see what follows that might indicate some sort of error, failure, termination, exit, etc. Cheers, Ronni On 30/09/2010, at 10:19 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro (running 10.6.4) have begun failing part way through the back up process. I have a little Time Capsule backup widget which I have on Dashboard (can't recall name of the widget, but it gives a little extra narrative on what's happening during the back up process). A few days ago, when I noticed the back up process not completing, the widget gave the error as something to do with Spotlight. I no longer have the exact error message, but looking the error message up on the web led me to this page ... http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... which seemed to be about the problem I was having. The back up error message seemed to tie in with the fact that not long before that there was a Spotlight indexing process underway at a time I had to shutdown my machine, so interrupting the indexing process may not have been helpful. The suggestion of deleting the spotlight directory seems to make sense, and a better option than erasing the Time Capsule (which may end up being necessary if I can't get Time Capsule to index Spotlight again). Regards your questions Ronni ... Have you been able to backup to Time Capsule initially? Yes. Does Time Capsule appear in Disk Utility or in Finder? Yes. Have you been able to 'select disk' in System Preferences Time Machine? Yes. Do Attempts to back up get backup disk is not available message? More detail in a second. Or is your problem Time Capsule gets stuck at Preparing Backup… ? No. Are you using Airport Utility v5.5.1? Yes. As I type, a back up is 20GB through a 104GB back up. I have a 250GB hard disk with 100GB available. I don't know why
Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
My Macbook Pro isn't backing up to Time Capsule. From this page http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... Glenn Carter refers to the following string for Terminal ... sudo rm -ri /path_to_volume/.Spotlight-V100 where /path_to_volume is the path of the volume in question. To replace 'path_to_volume' I've tried Volumes/Time Machine Backups Volumes/Data Volumes/Data/afp://Time Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data/MacBook Pro.sparsebundle ...but all give me No such file or directory. Can anyone please suggest what I should be using as the Terminal command? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Question re Time Capsule 'path to volume'
Thanks all for the suggestions. A litte more detail... Backups of my Macbook Pro (running 10.6.4) have begun failing part way through the back up process. I have a little Time Capsule backup widget which I have on Dashboard (can't recall name of the widget, but it gives a little extra narrative on what's happening during the back up process). A few days ago, when I noticed the back up process not completing, the widget gave the error as something to do with Spotlight. I no longer have the exact error message, but looking the error message up on the web led me to this page ... http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... which seemed to be about the problem I was having. The back up error message seemed to tie in with the fact that not long before that there was a Spotlight indexing process underway at a time I had to shutdown my machine, so interrupting the indexing process may not have been helpful. The suggestion of deleting the spotlight directory seems to make sense, and a better option than erasing the Time Capsule (which may end up being necessary if I can't get Time Capsule to index Spotlight again). Regards your questions Ronni ... Have you been able to backup to Time Capsule initially? Yes. Does Time Capsule appear in Disk Utility or in Finder? Yes. Have you been able to 'select disk' in System Preferences Time Machine? Yes. Do Attempts to back up get backup disk is not available message? More detail in a second. Or is your problem Time Capsule gets stuck at Preparing Backup… ? No. Are you using Airport Utility v5.5.1? Yes. As I type, a back up is 20GB through a 104GB back up. I have a 250GB hard disk with 100GB available. I don't know why the back up is so large. The widget I spoke of gave recent error details as ... --- Starting standard backup Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://steven%20know...@time-capsule.local/Data Mounted network destination using URL: afp://steven%20know...@time-capsule.local/Data QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| No pre-backup thinning needed: 118.85 GB requested (including padding), 133.81 GB available Copied 19.6 GB of 96.5 GB, 73391 of 183430 items Stopping backup. Error: (-43) SrcErr:NO Copying /users/steven/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/NML2NDeviceObserver_2010-09-29-193147_MacBook-Pro-2.crash to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro (2)/2010-09-28-085307.inProgress/***----/Macintosh HD/Users/steven/Library/Logs/CrashReporter Copied 88263 files (19.9 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Copy stage failed with error:11 Backup failed with error: 11 Ejected Time Machine disk image. Ejected Time Machine network volume. --- Those asterisks I've manually included, overtyping a code I thought may be private. That backup underway has just failed, with error message in widget showing --- Starting standard backup Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data-1 QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| --- I've tried the suggestions re identifying the path, still no success on that note. Happy to hear other suggestions for a fix, but ultimately I guess I may have to wipe Time Capsule. Cheers, Steven On 30/09/2010, at 5:21 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 30/09/2010, at 8:19 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 30/09/2010, at 1:08 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: My Macbook Pro isn't backing up to Time Capsule. From this page http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7059555 ... Glenn Carter refers to the following string for Terminal ... sudo rm -ri /path_to_volume/.Spotlight-V100 where /path_to_volume is the path of the volume in question. To replace 'path_to_volume' I've tried Volumes/Time Machine Backups Volumes/Data Volumes/Data/afp://Time Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data/MacBook Pro.sparsebundle ...but all give me No such file or directory. Can anyone please suggest what I should be using as the Terminal command? Cheers, Steven This is extremely difficult to answer without having direct access to your system. One way of sorting out the /path_to_volume is to open a Terminal window, then type cd at the prompt (note: include the space character after cd) then drag the icon of your Time Capsule disk onto the Terminal Window, and press return. If you then type
Best mobile internet solution for Mac in Thailand - sh ort term ?
Does anyone happen to travel to Thailand with their Mac and know about mobile internet solutions there? I have a 17 MacBook Pro (2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, maybe 3.5 years old now) running MacOSX 10.6.4. I'm going to Thailand for maybe 2 or 3 weeks, and will probably drive around a lot, staying at wherever I stumble across at night. Ideally I'd like internet access whether I'm stationery or not. I have an iPhone 3G in case that's helpful, but I imagine a dedicated USB dongle of some kind will be better in terms of speed. I prefer speed over cost, but obviously the cheaper the better, particularly in terms of buying hardware which may be useless beyond Thailand. Proven Snow Leopard-friendliness ranks high also. Suggestions appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Calculator
I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with the number of widgets which rely on the internet to pull data, dashboard loading can slow to a crawl. I imagine a data hungry widget or two would have the same effect. For instance, I had a widget from the Bureau of Meteorology. I noticed it always took a while longer than the others to load. So I deleted it, and the whole dashboard loading process increased in speed substantially. The preinstalled Calculator and Unit Converter widget combination are hard to beat for convenience, although the Calculator has only basic functionality. No doubt there's a fancier calculator widget out there though. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 4:28 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Steven. I do have an Easy Currency Converter widget but Dashboard always seems slow to load meaning I have to wait for all the various items, clocks, weather etc to appear. I find Calculator in the dock a much better option for a quick currency conversion. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Calculator
I've found the pre-installed weather widget loads quite quickly, ie. the one which if you click on 'i' for information is powered by The Weather Channel and Yahoo! If you bring up your Dashboard, you should see a black and white '+' symbol in the bottom left corner of your screen, ie. a white '+' on a black circular background. If you click on the '+' symbol, a row of optional widgets should slide open, each of which you can drag to the Dashboard as many times as you like (the more copies you drag onto your dashboard, the more slowly the Dashboard widgets load overall). If you don't see an icon for Unit Converter, you need to look at the bottom right corner of your screen, after you've clicked on the '+' symbol, and click on the right-pointing arrow. This should take you to the next suite of widgets available. If you still don't see Unit Converter, keep scrolling through your available widgets by clicking the right arrow again. You can scroll back by clicking the left arrow at the bottom left of your screen, near where the '+' symbol was which will have now turned into an 'x'. If for some reason Unit Converter isn't there, I presume you can find and install it via ... http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 1:41 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Steven Thank you. Yes you are no doubt correct in suggesting I delete some widgets. First to go will be the weather widget which does indeed take a long time to load. How do I find the Unit Converter to use with Calculator? I tried searching with Spotlight but all that comes up is today's emails to the List. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 3:25 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with the number of widgets which rely on the internet to pull data, dashboard loading can slow to a crawl. I imagine a data hungry widget or two would have the same effect. For instance, I had a widget from the Bureau of Meteorology. I noticed it always took a while longer than the others to load. So I deleted it, and the whole dashboard loading process increased in speed substantially. The preinstalled Calculator and Unit Converter widget combination are hard to beat for convenience, although the Calculator has only basic functionality. No doubt there's a fancier calculator widget out there though. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 4:28 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Steven. I do have an Easy Currency Converter widget but Dashboard always seems slow to load meaning I have to wait for all the various items, clocks, weather etc to appear. I find Calculator in the dock a much better option for a quick currency conversion. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Calculator
Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Wireless connection issue - Wii to Time Capsule
I'm scouring the web for clues, mostly which involve wireless security suggestions, but has anyone resolved problems connecting Wii wirelessly to Time Capsule? Up until recently my wireless home network has been pumped out by a Linksys WAG160N modem. However the wireless ability of the Linksys seems to have died, so to get round that I've plugged in a Time Capsule (latest firmware 7.4.2) to the Linksys to get my wireless result. Apart from a decrease in performance generally, Wii keeps disconnecting from other players when using the WFC facility within Wii game Mario Kart. A connection is established with WFC, but then at some point during the game, disconnection. I then realised that these problems started about the same time that I started using Time Capsule for wireless. With all the internet chat about wireless security being an issue, I've removed all wireless security, maintaining only a closed network which I presume will make no difference. Doesn't seem to have made a difference, despite having cleared existing wireless settings from the Wii and resetting. Suggestions appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Wireless connection issue - Wii to Time Capsule
Hi Peter With Wii's basic offering, there is news and weather which requires a connection to the internet. Gaming options are presumably game specific, but Mario Kart comes with the option of playing other gamers around the globe. Wii doesn't provide general internet on your TV so far as I know, but I haven't looked into the full suite of Wii applications. Cheers, Steven On 03/09/2010, at 4:00 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi Steven, you have got me thinking now, I have my Wii wirelessly connected to my Time Capsule (at least it was before I packed up and in the process of moving house) and used it only for the purpose of downloading the skins for some games the kids use. I am curious to know for why you want the wireless connection into the Wii and what possibilities exist for me that I don't even know that I have. Does this give internet onto tv screen? Regards Peter... -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Steven Knowles Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 6:36 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Wireless connection issue - Wii to Time Capsule I'm scouring the web for clues, mostly which involve wireless security suggestions, but has anyone resolved problems connecting Wii wirelessly to Time Capsule? Up until recently my wireless home network has been pumped out by a Linksys WAG160N modem. However the wireless ability of the Linksys seems to have died, so to get round that I've plugged in a Time Capsule (latest firmware 7.4.2) to the Linksys to get my wireless result. Apart from a decrease in performance generally, Wii keeps disconnecting from other players when using the WFC facility within Wii game Mario Kart. A connection is established with WFC, but then at some point during the game, disconnection. I then realised that these problems started about the same time that I started using Time Capsule for wireless. With all the internet chat about wireless security being an issue, I've removed all wireless security, maintaining only a closed network which I presume will make no difference. Doesn't seem to have made a difference, despite having cleared existing wireless settings from the Wii and resetting. Suggestions appreciated. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Apple Mail - rules query
In Mail (latest version within OSX 10.6.4), let's say I have the following mailboxes ... Mailbox A Mailbox B Mailbox C I have a rule such that if a message arrives in account 'Mailbox A', and contains a specific string of characters, then the message will be copied to Mailbox B. That works fine. What I now want to do is copy the arriving message to Mailbox C (as well as copying it to Mailbox B. However when I tried to add the action Copy Message To Mailbox C, the 'Copy Message' option is greyed out, presumably because I've already used the 'Copy Message' option in order to copy to Mailbox B. Mail doesn't seem to allow you to duplicate 'Copy Message' action within the same rule. So, I created a new rule, same as the first rule but replacing 'Copy Message to Mailbox B' with 'Copy Message to Mailbox C'. Upon testing this, Mail seems to act on the 1st rule, but ignores the 2nd rule. I suspect that this is due to: Each incoming message can have only one rule applied to it. Mail doesn't consider the message copied to Mailbox B an incoming message. Whilst typing out this query, I did figure a workaround, however it's not perfect so I'll keep typing. To my rule I added another action - 'Redirect message to Mailbox C'. Whilst this works, it does leave a trail, in that the message in Mailbox B is marked as 'redirected', which is not ideal. So if anyone knows how I can 'copy' an incoming message to more than one mailbox, I'd be interested to hear. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
