Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat-- 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 Event roundup/ Mavericks
Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. You will have to make sure that the Mavericks installer is in your Main Applications folder. The Terminal command assumes the installer is in its default location. You will have to move it back there after you copied it to another drive or moved it out of the Applications folder as explained above. Best to go here for all the detailed instructions to follow: http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks 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: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Apparently the DiskMakerX program has been updated to work with Mavericks now,…so that seems to be the easier way if you don't want to jump into Terminal. You can see more about it here as well - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/ And the direct link for DiskMaker X - http://diskmakerx.com All the normal back up, take care, be careful, not responsible if it goes wrong,…etc etc,…warnings apply :o) I just used the Terminal command from the above site and it worked great, no problems at all. My support boot drive now has a very nice Mavericks installer complete with self designed background picture. :o) (though my USB drive now has a lot of partitions,…with al the installers back to 10.6.3 and vanilla HD Boot drives,….lol). Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 24/10/2013, at 7:18 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. You will have to make sure that the Mavericks installer is in your Main Applications folder. The Terminal command assumes the installer is in its default location. You will have to move it back there after you copied it to another drive or moved it out of the Applications folder as explained above. Best to go here for all the detailed instructions to follow: http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Looks like TechTool Pro 7 is not yet ready for Mavericks. Clicked to open and got a message “not tested for this OS” or something similar ! On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:09 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Apparently the DiskMakerX program has been updated to work with Mavericks now,…so that seems to be the easier way if you don't want to jump into Terminal. You can see more about it here as well - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/ And the direct link for DiskMaker X - http://diskmakerx.com All the normal back up, take care, be careful, not responsible if it goes wrong,…etc etc,…warnings apply :o) I just used the Terminal command from the above site and it worked great, no problems at all. My support boot drive now has a very nice Mavericks installer complete with self designed background picture. :o) (though my USB drive now has a lot of partitions,…with al the installers back to 10.6.3 and vanilla HD Boot drives,….lol). Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 24/10/2013, at 7:18 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. You will have to make sure that the Mavericks installer is in your Main Applications folder. The Terminal command assumes the installer is in its default location. You will have to move it back there after you copied it to another drive or moved it out of the Applications folder as explained above. Best to go here for all the detailed instructions to follow: http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Hi Stephen, TechTool Pro v 7.0.1 works with Mavericks. If you are receiving the message that it has not been tested for this OS - apparently TTP 7.0.1 was tested in the final Developer Release of Mavericks! TTP 7.0.1 application is programmed to give the message you received when it sees any operating system beyond Mountain Lion. They say they have been using this approach since TTP 5... It doesn't make much sense to me or a lot of others, so hopefully Micromat will change this in an update. TechTool Pro 6 should not be used with Mavericks, you need at least version 7.0.1 Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 25 Oct 2013, at 9:08 am, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Looks like TechTool Pro 7 is not yet ready for Mavericks. Clicked to open and got a message “not tested for this OS” or something similar ! On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:09 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Apparently the DiskMakerX program has been updated to work with Mavericks now,…so that seems to be the easier way if you don't want to jump into Terminal. You can see more about it here as well - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/ And the direct link for DiskMaker X - http://diskmakerx.com All the normal back up, take care, be careful, not responsible if it goes wrong,…etc etc,…warnings apply :o) I just used the Terminal command from the above site and it worked great, no problems at all. My support boot drive now has a very nice Mavericks installer complete with self designed background picture. :o) (though my USB drive now has a lot of partitions,…with al the installers back to 10.6.3 and vanilla HD Boot drives,….lol). Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 24/10/2013, at 7:18 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. You will have to make sure that the Mavericks installer is in your Main Applications folder. The Terminal command assumes the installer is in its default location. You will have to move it back there after you copied it to another drive or moved it out of the Applications folder as explained above. Best to go here for all the detailed instructions to follow:
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Hi again Stephen, I meant to add that I would NOT run TTP 7.0.1 in Mavericks until Micromat release an Update. There are people experiencing crashes during a Surface Scan. Micromat are working on an update. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 25 Oct 2013, at 11:01 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, TechTool Pro v 7.0.1 works with Mavericks. If you are receiving the message that it has not been tested for this OS - apparently TTP 7.0.1 was tested in the final Developer Release of Mavericks! TTP 7.0.1 application is programmed to give the message you received when it sees any operating system beyond Mountain Lion. They say they have been using this approach since TTP 5... It doesn't make much sense to me or a lot of others, so hopefully Micromat will change this in an update. TechTool Pro 6 should not be used with Mavericks, you need at least version 7.0.1 Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 25 Oct 2013, at 9:08 am, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Looks like TechTool Pro 7 is not yet ready for Mavericks. Clicked to open and got a message “not tested for this OS” or something similar ! On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:09 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Apparently the DiskMakerX program has been updated to work with Mavericks now,…so that seems to be the easier way if you don't want to jump into Terminal. You can see more about it here as well - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/ And the direct link for DiskMaker X - http://diskmakerx.com All the normal back up, take care, be careful, not responsible if it goes wrong,…etc etc,…warnings apply :o) I just used the Terminal command from the above site and it worked great, no problems at all. My support boot drive now has a very nice Mavericks installer complete with self designed background picture. :o) (though my USB drive now has a lot of partitions,…with al the installers back to 10.6.3 and vanilla HD Boot drives,….lol). Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 24/10/2013, at 7:18 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. You will have to make sure that the Mavericks
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Ta Ronni, An oversight on their part then ! I will try again. On 25 Oct 2013, at 11:01 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, TechTool Pro v 7.0.1 works with Mavericks. If you are receiving the message that it has not been tested for this OS - apparently TTP 7.0.1 was tested in the final Developer Release of Mavericks! TTP 7.0.1 application is programmed to give the message you received when it sees any operating system beyond Mountain Lion. They say they have been using this approach since TTP 5... It doesn't make much sense to me or a lot of others, so hopefully Micromat will change this in an update. TechTool Pro 6 should not be used with Mavericks, you need at least version 7.0.1 Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 25 Oct 2013, at 9:08 am, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Looks like TechTool Pro 7 is not yet ready for Mavericks. Clicked to open and got a message “not tested for this OS” or something similar ! On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:09 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Apparently the DiskMakerX program has been updated to work with Mavericks now,…so that seems to be the easier way if you don't want to jump into Terminal. You can see more about it here as well - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/ And the direct link for DiskMaker X - http://diskmakerx.com All the normal back up, take care, be careful, not responsible if it goes wrong,…etc etc,…warnings apply :o) I just used the Terminal command from the above site and it worked great, no problems at all. My support boot drive now has a very nice Mavericks installer complete with self designed background picture. :o) (though my USB drive now has a lot of partitions,…with al the installers back to 10.6.3 and vanilla HD Boot drives,….lol). Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 24/10/2013, at 7:18 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. You will have to make sure that the Mavericks installer is in your Main Applications folder. The Terminal command assumes the installer is in its default location. You will have to move it back there after you copied it
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Whoops Ronni - just saw your last comment and will take heed ! On 25 Oct 2013, at 11:10 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi again Stephen, I meant to add that I would NOT run TTP 7.0.1 in Mavericks until Micromat release an Update. There are people experiencing crashes during a Surface Scan. Micromat are working on an update. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 25 Oct 2013, at 11:01 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, TechTool Pro v 7.0.1 works with Mavericks. If you are receiving the message that it has not been tested for this OS - apparently TTP 7.0.1 was tested in the final Developer Release of Mavericks! TTP 7.0.1 application is programmed to give the message you received when it sees any operating system beyond Mountain Lion. They say they have been using this approach since TTP 5... It doesn't make much sense to me or a lot of others, so hopefully Micromat will change this in an update. TechTool Pro 6 should not be used with Mavericks, you need at least version 7.0.1 Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 25 Oct 2013, at 9:08 am, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Looks like TechTool Pro 7 is not yet ready for Mavericks. Clicked to open and got a message “not tested for this OS” or something similar ! On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:09 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Apparently the DiskMakerX program has been updated to work with Mavericks now,…so that seems to be the easier way if you don't want to jump into Terminal. You can see more about it here as well - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/ And the direct link for DiskMaker X - http://diskmakerx.com All the normal back up, take care, be careful, not responsible if it goes wrong,…etc etc,…warnings apply :o) I just used the Terminal command from the above site and it worked great, no problems at all. My support boot drive now has a very nice Mavericks installer complete with self designed background picture. :o) (though my USB drive now has a lot of partitions,…with al the installers back to 10.6.3 and vanilla HD Boot drives,….lol). Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 24/10/2013, at 7:18 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24 Oct 2013, at 5:24 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: About installing Mavericks… Should we follow the same procedure as for Lion and Mountain Lion? That is, searching for and copying the file InstallESD.dmg.? Pat Hi Pat, It is quite a bit different to Make A Bootable Install Drive in Mavericks. There are a couple of ways to do it, either using Terminal, or you can use Disk Utility, (I would not suggest you use Lion DiskMaker as it is still in Beta for Mavericks). The easiest is Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively simple tool to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges. Note: if you leave the Mavericks installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.9, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive. You need a drive (a hard drive, SSD, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Create the Mavericks install drive Using Mavericks’ new bootable-drive-creation feature Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia provided by Apple to create a bootable Mavericks installer. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, it’s a relatively
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Brian, On 23 Oct 2013, at 3:04 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! I don't think Apple are ever going to bring back the MacBook Pro 17 unfortunately. A huge amount of people have sent feedback to Apple (myself included of course) that we really need a 17 MacBook Pro for work/professional users. But I don't think Apple will change their mind, once they decide to discontinue either hardware or software... They never bring it back!! I still live in hope, but I'm thinking this is 'false Hope' though :-(( And Daniel keeps telling me, and reminded me when we spoke today... Its never going to happen Ronni! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Good to hear everything went well with the upgrade to Mavericks for you. After taking almost 6 hours to download on my slow ADSL connection 558.0 KB/s! (since the Fibre cable was laid in our street must have done some damage to the old 'rotten' Telstra copper wiring)... Mavericks is running fine. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- 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 Event roundup/ Mavericks
Yes, I hate to be the bearer of bad news,…but I just don't think it's going to happen. (sorry) I think if you want to keep using the 17 MacBook Pro, and you feel the hardware is running well, the best investment you'd spend on it to keep going a little longer is adding a Solid State Drive to the machine. I've done a few of these for clients of late, and the pricing is very good now for either 250GB, 500GB, and you can even get 750GB and 1TB Solid State Drives. I added a 750GB SSD to my MacBook Pro 15 and it runs really really well. Well worth the money! And makes a huge difference! The boot time and Application running is so fast!! If you're interested drop me an email off list and I'm happy to price up some options for SSDs if you want :o) I have to go back and re-download my Mavericks due to a hiccup, but as my internet is bad between about 8.30pm and 11pm,…I have a bit more longer to wait for the speed to pick up again. (That's another rant about internet, but I'll leave that for another time,…lol). Glad your download went well and all installed nicely though :o) Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 23/10/2013, at 9:34 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Brian, On 23 Oct 2013, at 3:04 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! I don't think Apple are ever going to bring back the MacBook Pro 17 unfortunately. A huge amount of people have sent feedback to Apple (myself included of course) that we really need a 17 MacBook Pro for work/professional users. But I don't think Apple will change their mind, once they decide to discontinue either hardware or software... They never bring it back!! I still live in hope, but I'm thinking this is 'false Hope' though :-(( And Daniel keeps telling me, and reminded me when we spoke today... Its never going to happen Ronni! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Good to hear everything went well with the upgrade to Mavericks for you. After taking almost 6 hours to download on my slow ADSL connection 558.0 KB/s! (since the Fibre cable was laid in our street must have done some damage to the old 'rotten' Telstra copper wiring)... Mavericks is running fine. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
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Hi All So my 1 hour download and install seems quick then! No hick-ups except when the the estimated install time went from 48 minutes to 70 hours and 8 minutes :-) then back to 7 minutes! Thank you for the SSD suggestion, Daniel. Brian Sent from my iPhone5 IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 21:43, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Yes, I hate to be the bearer of bad news,…but I just don't think it's going to happen. (sorry) I think if you want to keep using the 17 MacBook Pro, and you feel the hardware is running well, the best investment you'd spend on it to keep going a little longer is adding a Solid State Drive to the machine. I've done a few of these for clients of late, and the pricing is very good now for either 250GB, 500GB, and you can even get 750GB and 1TB Solid State Drives. I added a 750GB SSD to my MacBook Pro 15 and it runs really really well. Well worth the money! And makes a huge difference! The boot time and Application running is so fast!! If you're interested drop me an email off list and I'm happy to price up some options for SSDs if you want :o) I have to go back and re-download my Mavericks due to a hiccup, but as my internet is bad between about 8.30pm and 11pm,…I have a bit more longer to wait for the speed to pick up again. (That's another rant about internet, but I'll leave that for another time,…lol). Glad your download went well and all installed nicely though :o) Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 23/10/2013, at 9:34 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Brian, On 23 Oct 2013, at 3:04 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! I don't think Apple are ever going to bring back the MacBook Pro 17 unfortunately. A huge amount of people have sent feedback to Apple (myself included of course) that we really need a 17 MacBook Pro for work/professional users. But I don't think Apple will change their mind, once they decide to discontinue either hardware or software... They never bring it back!! I still live in hope, but I'm thinking this is 'false Hope' though :-(( And Daniel keeps telling me, and reminded me when we spoke today... Its never going to happen Ronni! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Good to hear everything went well with the upgrade to Mavericks for you. After taking almost 6 hours to download on my slow ADSL connection 558.0 KB/s! (since the Fibre cable was laid in our street must have done some damage to the old 'rotten' Telstra copper wiring)... Mavericks is running fine. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
For most things I get around the cramping size of the 15 by using a large external screen. Bill On 23/10/2013, at 9:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Brian, On 23 Oct 2013, at 3:04 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! I don't think Apple are ever going to bring back the MacBook Pro 17 unfortunately. A huge amount of people have sent feedback to Apple (myself included of course) that we really need a 17 MacBook Pro for work/professional users. But I don't think Apple will change their mind, once they decide to discontinue either hardware or software... They never bring it back!! I still live in hope, but I'm thinking this is 'false Hope' though :-(( And Daniel keeps telling me, and reminded me when we spoke today... Its never going to happen Ronni! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Good to hear everything went well with the upgrade to Mavericks for you. After taking almost 6 hours to download on my slow ADSL connection 558.0 KB/s! (since the Fibre cable was laid in our street must have done some damage to the old 'rotten' Telstra copper wiring)... Mavericks is running fine. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- 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 Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au 0403 583 676 Thesaurus is an ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. -- 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
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Hi Bill, Yes, that is fine while working at home... But you can't carry a large external screen around all day with your 'portable' Apple Notebook ;-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 24 Oct 2013, at 6:17 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: For most things I get around the cramping size of the 15 by using a large external screen. Bill -- 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
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Hi Bill, What size back pack do you use to cart your screen around, and is it solar powered? Or do you fire it up on energy converted from cooking fats and oils scavenged from cafés, as you did with your Landcruiser? Cheers, Michael H On 24 Oct 2013, at 11:17 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: For most things I get around the cramping size of the 15 by using a large external screen. Bill On 23/10/2013, at 9:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Brian, On 23 Oct 2013, at 3:04 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! I don't think Apple are ever going to bring back the MacBook Pro 17 unfortunately. A huge amount of people have sent feedback to Apple (myself included of course) that we really need a 17 MacBook Pro for work/professional users. But I don't think Apple will change their mind, once they decide to discontinue either hardware or software... They never bring it back!! I still live in hope, but I'm thinking this is 'false Hope' though :-(( And Daniel keeps telling me, and reminded me when we spoke today... Its never going to happen Ronni! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Good to hear everything went well with the upgrade to Mavericks for you. After taking almost 6 hours to download on my slow ADSL connection 558.0 KB/s! (since the Fibre cable was laid in our street must have done some damage to the old 'rotten' Telstra copper wiring)... Mavericks is running fine. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- 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 Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au 0403 583 676 Thesaurus is an ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Hmm… I'll call it my desk top screen to avoid any speculation about energy sources (apart from the 5kW array on the roof). And it was a LandROVER ( and still is.) B On 24/10/2013, at 7:44 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Hi Bill, What size back pack do you use to cart your screen around, and is it solar powered? Or do you fire it up on energy converted from cooking fats and oils scavenged from cafés, as you did with your Landcruiser? Cheers, Michael H On 24 Oct 2013, at 11:17 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: For most things I get around the cramping size of the 15 by using a large external screen. Bill On 23/10/2013, at 9:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Brian, On 23 Oct 2013, at 3:04 pm, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! I don't think Apple are ever going to bring back the MacBook Pro 17 unfortunately. A huge amount of people have sent feedback to Apple (myself included of course) that we really need a 17 MacBook Pro for work/professional users. But I don't think Apple will change their mind, once they decide to discontinue either hardware or software... They never bring it back!! I still live in hope, but I'm thinking this is 'false Hope' though :-(( And Daniel keeps telling me, and reminded me when we spoke today... Its never going to happen Ronni! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Good to hear everything went well with the upgrade to Mavericks for you. After taking almost 6 hours to download on my slow ADSL connection 558.0 KB/s! (since the Fibre cable was laid in our street must have done some damage to the old 'rotten' Telstra copper wiring)... Mavericks is running fine. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 On 23 Oct 2013, at 6:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 -- 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 Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au 0403 583 676 Thesaurus is an ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au 0403 583 676 Thesaurus is an ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
On 23/10/2013, at 3:04 PM, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi All, So no MacBookPro 17!!! Off to say nice things to my 'old' 2008 one, which just makes into accepting Mavericks... Backed up and all permissions verified and fixed. Checked iCloud for calendar and contacts syncing - thank Brian Sent from my iPhone IOS 7.02 Well there is some compensation - the Retina display can easily be run in the same pixel dimensions as the 17, but it does depend on how comfortable you are with the smaller text size. I run mine very comfortably at the compromise resolution of 1680 x 1050 with no problems at all. Still much more screen real estate than the standard 1440 x 900. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Apple Event roundup/ Mavericks
Hi People, On 23 Oct 2013, at 2:25 am, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Mavericks, available today,…and wow,..it's FREE!! Will update any machine from 2007 onwards. Just need to update from the Mac App Store. As always,…make sure to backup before to start. (And make sure all your Applications will still work.) :o) Just a very quick message to people who might rush in an upgrade without first doing the preparations and backups which include a bootable backup checking that all your applications are compatible with Mavericks. Note: If you use an iTunes sync to transfer contacts, calendars, or notes to an iOS device or if you rely on older third-party software for syncing data like contacts or calendars,... Mavericks no longer includes Sync Services. “Most users won’t even notice it’s gone, but it will affect people who still use older versions of apps that rely on this mechanism to sync data with iOS devices” “The loss of Sync Services also means that you can no longer use iTunes (via Wi-Fi or USB) to sync calendars, contacts, and notes between your Mac and iOS devices. You must instead use a server-based system of some sort on both your Mac and iOS devices, which could be (among other options) iCloud, Google, an Exchange server” “You can still sync media, apps, and documents with iOS devices via iTunes, by the way—this change affects only calendars, contacts, and notes.” There are other changes also in System Preferences - “Apple renamed and rearranged several System Preference panes:” I have not got time at this moment to enlarge more, just alerting you to make sure you check what Mavericks offers and know what changes are in Mavericks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4-- 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
