Re: Blue screen and incomplete screen.

2012-07-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, Unfortunately the log you sent was only the same as originally sent to WAMUG, so it doesn't tell us much at all. I would need to see a log showing the BSD process name corresponding to current thread & System uptime in nanoseconds onwards...that shows the kexts. Do you recall what

Re: Blue screen and incomplete screen.

2012-07-12 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Hello Ronni, I might have had Safari and mail open and earlier I had been looking for a password in keychain and may not have quit that. The blue screen has not recurred and had not happened before and the same for the screen with the dock half displayed and no other icons. A solitaire game suit

For Sale - MacBook Pro 17"

2012-07-12 Thread S Beach
Hi All *In case anyone is interested I am selling my trusty MacBook Pro 17". * I would probably keep using this faithful workhorse if it were not for my ongoing need to run high end CAD software and I am selling now because the time is right for tax purposes and because it still has apple car for

Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial version of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's share of the desktop space can do nothing but increase. This thing will set Windows users all over screaming in all directions. Having upgraded my copy of Parallels to versi

Re: Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8

2012-07-12 Thread Daniel Kerr
Lol Peter are you sure you're not a comedy writer in your spare time :)) Nice "Review" ;) And OS X8 just makes it look funny,...all it needs is an ) under it,... X8) and it's smiley glass made (look sideways)...lol Aren't we glad we're Mac users,lol Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWiza

Re: Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Crisp
Peter, thanks for some entertainment with your colorful review of Win8. It really was quite amusing to read. Regards Pete On 13/07/2012, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > Lol Peter are you sure you're not a comedy writer in your spare time :)) > Nice "Review" ;) > And OS X8 just makes it lo

Re: Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8

2012-07-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, Great Review! Honestly written by a Mac expert... I loved it :-)) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/07/2012, at 12:41 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial version > of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's s

Re: Blue screen and incomplete screen.

2012-07-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, That's good to hear it has only happened once. I suspect it was a Finder hiccup of some sort. I would suggest you Repair Disk Permissions using Disk Utility. And keep regular backups just in case. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/07/2012, at 9:53 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrot

Re: When I open iPhoto I get a Spinning grey wheel

2012-07-12 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi, I would just like to thank Ronni for all her help and patience with this problem, over a very long period. I am still working through your answer, but wanted to say thanks so I can take my time as the Aperture Libraries are 11.3GB & 35.4GB. Matt. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing Li