Re: Keychain loosing passwords

2020-08-09 Thread 'John Hobbs' via iMac Group
Russell I hear you and used to have the same problems but not now. I let the password manager do its thing even for important stuff and it just seems to work then again I ditched my 2009 iMac for a 2017 model on high Sierra John > On 8 Aug 2020, at 21:32, 'Russell Courtenay' via iMac Group >

Re: Forgot Keychain password

2017-03-19 Thread 'John Hobbs' via iMac Group
What were you doing when this happened? On 19 Mar 2017, at 17:39, Fred Thiel wrote: > My iMac running SnowLeopard 10.6 asked me for my Keychain password. The > menulet isn't even showing up in the menu bar anymore. I tried every > combination of every password I could

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-29 Thread 'John Hobbs' via iMac Group
Nice to know you got sorted. And nice to know that after all these years this list is still here for us all. On 29 Jan 2017, at 13:29, Bill Spencer wrote: The solution was for my source to add the file to his Dropbox account and then have me download it from there. Everything is now fine. Many

Re: Mac for Windows PC dummies

2016-09-13 Thread 'John Hobbs' via iMac Group
On 12 Sep 2016, at 15:09, J Janks wrote: I'm not the Mac user the hubby is but he is NOT tech friendly in the least. He has a desktop iMac 5.2 (I did find that is produced week 34 of 2006) that is running OS X Tiger. I found the update log but can't find it again so based on memory last

Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?

2012-07-13 Thread John Hobbs
On 12 Jul 2012, at 22:33, Al Poulin wrote: Download Speed: 1017 kbps (127.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 375 kbps (46.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Al These are not dsl speeds. They are more akin to isdn rates. I take it you were previously able to watch Youtube videos without buffering which

Re: How rare was the Blue Dalmatian iMac?

2011-06-13 Thread John Hobbs
On 13 Jun 2011, at 16:45, johnwd5 wrote: Hello, I know this color scheme came out around the same time as the Flower Power and I heard some models had a combo effect of the two color schemes. Does anyone know much about this iMac's history? Thanks. John Hi John Check out this link at

Re: more issues with core duo

2011-04-18 Thread John Hobbs
On 18 Apr 2011, at 09:36, william wrote: My core duo imac which was having problems with video artifacts and shutdowns has presented a new problem. Now i am unable to boot up. It goes to the screen with the Apple logo then the wheel just spins over and over. I am able to boot up on my Snow

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-02 Thread John Hobbs
On 29 Nov 2010, at 04:26, Santa wrote: I've turned the System Preferences/Sound/ Input level up, but even shouting will not drive the blue bars past half way. Is Internal mic. or Line In selected in that panel? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group

Re: External Drive

2010-06-05 Thread John Hobbs
On 1 Jun 2010, at 20:53, Run Vzel wrote: Kathy K k...@spotart.net May 31 12:09PM -0700 wrote: I don't have loads of $ to spend, and also need to know that my graphics software is going to be compatible with the OS upgrade. (Adobe CS3, and InDesign CS2, Quark 7, Freehand MXa—yes, the

Re: WE have been spammed

2010-05-28 Thread John Hobbs
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Re: wireless mice and labs

2010-04-28 Thread John Hobbs
On 28 Apr 2010, at 18:05, Bruce Johnson wrote: New iMacs ship with wireless mice nowadays. This is all that Apple offers, Time this thread ended or changed it's name. Anyhoo You are wrong Bruce. New iMacs ship with whatever keyboard and mouse you wish to choose if you order via Apples website

Re: imac g5 conundrum

2010-02-14 Thread John Hobbs
without thinking this used to happen to me if I started garageband the sound would come back. Is your friend using another audio program which is changing priorities? On 14 Feb 2010, at 22:47, Gladys Perez-Almiroty wrote: good sunday to all: my friend inherited my imac g5 running tiger up

Re: help with dashboard

2010-01-28 Thread John Hobbs
On 28 Jan 2010, at 18:57, Don Hinkle wrote: My wife's iMac has Dashboard and it irritates the hell out of her, she doesn't use it and it activates when she doesn't want it to. We've tried trashing the app and rebooting and it still shows up. Is there anyway to get it totally off her machine and

G5 isight imac died

2009-12-11 Thread john hobbs
fully updated Tiger its the last of the G5 imacs 2.1ghz. Anyone have any ideas please. John Hobbs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide

Re: Wake for Ethernet network administrator access

2009-02-02 Thread John Hobbs
On 2 Feb 2009, at 15:47, Hal Hahn wrote: I am logged in as admin on the G3. Will that make a difference? Thanks, Hal Hal I just checked on G5 with 10.4.11 If you are not logged in as admin the options you require will be greyed out. As in showing faintly grey and not selectable.

Re: Wake for Ethernet network administrator access

2009-02-02 Thread John Hobbs
On 2 Feb 2009, at 05:04, Hal Hahn wrote: energy saver preferences contains no option for Wake for Ethernet network administrator access, which does appear on other Macs I've seen running OS 10.4.11. Just a guess but are you logged in as admin? John