Re: Strange keyboard problem

2015-05-03 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Kevin, Look at the - System Preferences > Accessibility, then click 'Mouse & Trackpad'. Make sure Mouse Keys is OFF. If Mouse a keys is ON, pressing keys in the numeric keypad moves the pointer instead of entering a number. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 4 May 2015, at 11:46 a

Re: Yosemite - Spinning Beach Ball at Login

2015-05-03 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Your correction of my spelling noted. I could not save the log file to the Yosemite Installer USB stick ("you do not have permissions“). More comments - and questions - below with your points. > As I’ve been mentioning in my replies your User Account - Home Directory has > problems.

Re: Yosemite - Spinning Beach Ball at Login

2015-05-03 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Alan, My comments in Situ below > On 4 May 2015, at 9:18 am, Alan Smith wrote: > > Hi Ronni > > The bridges have been burnt! > > 1. Re-installation via OS X Recovery - no success. Download failed. > 2. Combo Update attempt failed. I copied the Combo DMG file to a bootable > drive, but

Strange keyboard problem

2015-05-03 Thread Kevin Lock
Hi, today I noticed that the numbers on my extended Mac keyboard are not working. The numbers in the QWERTY area work still.I have changed keyboards but the same problem occurs.I have tried the keyboards on other Macs here and they work fine. Repaired permissions, but still nothing.

Re: Yosemite - Spinning Beach Ball at Login

2015-05-03 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni The bridges have been burnt! 1. Re-installation via OS X Recovery - no success. Download failed. 2. Combo Update attempt failed. I copied the Combo DMG file to a bootable drive, but file displayed in Finder as “OS X Install” with a red flag. 3. Used USB bootable Installer to erase a

Re: iPhoto to Photos migration

2015-05-03 Thread petercrisp
Thanks Peter, yes have tried that and unfortunately no good. Back at the start of the thread i outlined these things. My iPhoto library is in a transitional state that did not complete which has left both the iPhoto library and the Photos library inaccessible.  Regards Pete. - Original Messag

Re: iPhoto to Photos migration

2015-05-03 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
> On 3 May 2015, at 8:02 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: > > Hi Ronni, apologies for slow response, been hard to remotely get wife to do > these tests. Below are the results of the two tests. > > The result of test E) Dialogue box pops up saying "Update Aperture to 3.3 > ". I don't have Aperture a

WAMUG Meeting Reminder: This Tuesday 5 May 2015

2015-05-03 Thread WAMUG Announcement
G’day all WAMUGGERS. Well, here I was, sitting, listening to the rain when my Calendar piped up and reminded me about this coming Tuesday. Yes, that’s right; did your Calendar remind you too that it's the monthly WAMUG meeting this Tuesday, 5 May 2015? We all have Quicktime Player on our Macs

Batch Change in Photos ?

2015-05-03 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, I cannot see how to make a batch change to photos in Photos. In photos help I am told Tip: To change the title, date, or description for multiple photos at once, select the photos and choose Photos > Batch Change. Then choose your options from the pop-up menus and click OK. However t

Re: iPhoto to Photos migration

2015-05-03 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi Ronni, apologies for slow response, been hard to remotely get wife to do these tests. Below are the results of the two tests. The result of test E) Dialogue box pops up saying "Update Aperture to 3.3 ". I don't have Aperture and when I selected to do the update to Aperture, the app store

Re: Yosemite - Spinning Beach Ball at Login

2015-05-03 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Fair summary of the status I think. I get odd results with a PRAM reset. Pressing and holding the Command-Option-P-R keys from just before or at the first startup chime and releasing them after the second chime gives me the normal login screen. If I don’t release the keys then the