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May have been asked before, but is there a really smooth app that'll merge folder contents and discard duplicates of files? Bonus if it can search my hard drive for duplicate files based on file name and file size without having to first merge two folders.
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I've only ever used Daisy Disk to identify space vampires, but I just don't trust something to identify dupes and nuke them. What if it got it wrong 
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Aug 12, 2012 01:43
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How much of the new features in 10.8 will not be applicable to me since I have a somewhat older MBP (first unibody, Fall 2008)? I do have an iPhone as well but really don't care about syncing, and I don't use Safari. I'm trying to decide whether it'd be worth the $20 for me.
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actionjackson posted:How much of the new features in 10.8 will not be applicable to me since I have a somewhat older MBP (first unibody, Fall 2008)? I do have an iPhone as well but really don't care about syncing, and I don't use Safari. I'm trying to decide whether it'd be worth the $20 for me. There's a list of features that require certain hardware at the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
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Thanks. Does the Notification Center work pretty well? Would be an easier alternative to having to check FB and Twitter individually.
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Aug 12, 2012 04:49
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actionjackson posted:Thanks. Does the Notification Center work pretty well? Would be an easier alternative to having to check FB and Twitter individually. Well Facebook notifications are "coming this fall". So there's that.
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for a cross-platform peer-to-peer folder syncing app? I've been using Windows Live As mentioned DropBox is great. Spider Sync is OK, but a real pain the rear end to setup. SugarSync, on the other hand, is a steaming pile of poo.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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actionjackson posted:Thanks. Does the Notification Center work pretty well? Would be an easier alternative to having to check FB and Twitter individually.
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Aug 12, 2012 12:40
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TACD posted:There's not a lot that hooks into Notification Centre yet. But in theory yes, I'm looking forward to more widespread adoption by everything that currently uses Growl, frankly. Hiss places Growl notifications into the Notification Center.
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Aug 12, 2012 13:28
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Hope this is the right thread, I bought a retro-link SNES-styled usb controller and I haven't used it in a while. Plugged it in today and it didn't work, even after a reboot. Isn't this supposed to be plug-and-play? I have gamepad companion but it's expired. Could that be what's stopping it from working? Any freeware suggestions for controller apps? I'm away from my mac right now, otherwise I'd have already tried uninstalling gamepad companion. Running 10.6.8
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Aug 12, 2012 17:05
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The Retrolink controllers are plug and play, so it should be configurable from emulators etc via the joystick/keypad configuration menu. If not, you could try updating or requesting a refund/exchange before it gets too late.
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Aug 12, 2012 18:32
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YouTube5 for Safari is officially broken. I can't watch a single YouTube video with it anymore without clicking on "use original player," and Vimeo videos were broken for the longest time already. It seems like the developer has also quit the project and isn't/hasn't opened up the source for other people to continue. RIP YouTube 5
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Aug 12, 2012 19:46
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Boris Galerkin posted:YouTube5 for Safari is officially broken. I can't watch a single YouTube video with it anymore without clicking on "use original player," and Vimeo videos were broken for the longest time already. It seems like the developer has also quit the project and isn't/hasn't opened up the source for other people to continue. Try FlashtoHTML5
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noirstronaut posted:The Retrolink controllers are plug and play, so it should be configurable from emulators etc via the joystick/keypad configuration menu. If not, you could try updating or requesting a refund/exchange before it gets too late. Actually, deleting the 'Gamepad Companion' preference pain (I just did a spotlight search for 'Gamepad' and it came up) allowed OS X to see it natively. Would've been too late and too much effort for a refund, as the controller, as nice as it is, was only $20.
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My new macbook air came with OSX Lion 10.7 I was thinking of upgrading to Mountain Lion, but I see it has horrible reviews, and everyone is saying that their battery life is 30% lower after upgrading. Should I stay away from Mountain Lion until these issues are addressed?
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ChocNitty posted:My new macbook air came with OSX Lion 10.7 I have a MBA and battery life is abysmal since my upgrade to ML. There is nothing compelling enough in the upgrade to offset the battery issue.
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ChocNitty posted:My new macbook air came with OSX Lion 10.7 But you should submit your Up-To-Date request now so you can install it when ML is better for you.
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Boris Galerkin posted:YouTube5 for Safari is officially broken. I can't watch a single YouTube video with it anymore without clicking on "use original player," and Vimeo videos were broken for the longest time already. It seems like the developer has also quit the project and isn't/hasn't opened up the source for other people to continue. Still works for me on Mountain Lion.
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Aug 12, 2012 22:16
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TACD posted:There's not a lot that hooks into Notification Centre yet. But in theory yes, I'm looking forward to more widespread adoption by everything that currently uses Growl, frankly. Hiss works, but all supported applications come up as 'Hiss' in the notification center, which is terrible. The new Growl developer API is supposed to replace 'Mist' with just a notification center plugin if the app wants it, which makes it just a way of abstracting Notification Center support, probably useless, except for helping Growl sell their for-pay product of course. Notification Center is better anyway, unless you really care about forwarding (maybe useful to like ten people) or custom skins (barf).
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kapalama posted:As mentioned DropBox is great. Spider Sync is OK, but a real pain the rear end to setup. Really? I've always found SugarSync to work a lot better than Dropbox or the alternatives I've tried. Do you mind if I ask what happened to make you hate it so?
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Arivia posted:But you should submit your Up-To-Date request now so you can install it when ML is better for you. This. You only have a few weeks to do it.
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A PC Game posted:Still works for me on Mountain Lion. Really? Just grabbed a random link from the GBS Youtube thread: this one. The spinning circle loading thing just keeps spinning and the only thing I can click on is to use the original player and the info button in the top right. Using the original player shows the video just fine but using the youtube5 player it just doesn't load.
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You know what sucks? Notification Center's icon in the menubar doesn't tell you if you actually have notifications. So I kind of have to just stumble upon them by accident. Sometimes after waking my computer though, some Mail notifications will pop up but not always. Didn't the early DP's of ML have a different icon that was similar to Spotlight's in that it would have a pulsing dot in the middle to alert you?
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Each app's red badge is (supposed to) show number of waiting notifications - which is another issue with using Hiss, the badges don't work.
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Bob Morales posted:There's a list of features that require certain hardware at the bottom of this page: "Power Nap requires a Mac notebook with built-in flash storage. May require a firmware update." Does this mean an SSD? Does it work on MBPs with aftermarket SSDs?
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Only the MBA and Retina MBP uses Power Nap
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Krakkles posted:Does it work on MBPs with aftermarket SSDs?
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I'm going to do a fresh install while i upgrade to Mountain Lion. My MacBook has been slow, and I really enjoy just starting over. Everything of value is on an external drive but I am confused as what will happen with my iPhone and iPad and also my wife's which is under a different account. How do I do the fresh install while not wiping my iOS devices completely?
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HorseHeadBed posted:Really? I've always found SugarSync to work a lot better than Dropbox or the alternatives I've tried. Do you mind if I ask what happened to make you hate it so? If Sygar Sync is used to sync, rather than just backup one computer, then anytime there are different versions of a file, then the location named is appended to the filename. I ended up with several thousand files named for instance, July Invoice-MyComputerName version.xls, next to the same file without the computer name attached. Luckily I had real backups of the folder.
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hadji murad posted:I'm going to do a fresh install while i upgrade to Mountain Lion. My MacBook has been slow, and I really enjoy just starting over. Everything of value is on an external drive but I am confused as what will happen with my iPhone and iPad and also my wife's which is under a different account. How do I do the fresh install while not wiping my iOS devices completely? Save your iTunes folder in ~/Music (or wherever you keep it) and after you reinstall, copy it back over and point iTunes at it. I believe for this last step, hold they option key while opening iTunes and it will ask you to choose the library.
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vikingstrike posted:Save your iTunes folder in ~/Music (or wherever you keep it) and after you reinstall, copy it back over and point iTunes at it. I believe for this last step, hold they option key while opening iTunes and it will ask you to choose the library. Thanks, managed this. My other concern involves my copy of Office. Will I just be able to punch in the serial and continue as normal?
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hadji murad posted:Thanks, managed this. Yep. I've never had any issues reinstalling/activating Office after a fresh OS install.
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Does upgrading to mountain lion cause you to lose all the things you have saved on your hard drive? Also, is it actually worth upgrading right now? I heard the OS has issues with battery life.
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Weird issue but cannot find a fix. Ever since the Mountain Lion update on my laptop the primary display its a gray background no matter what you attempt to set it to. The extended display shows a normal background and is changeable. If I switch the primary display from the laptop LCD to the external display the gray background follows the dock. Note this only happened on any laptop's upgraded to ML and reproducible, any tips on which plist to kill?
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Applesmack posted:Does upgrading to mountain lion cause you to lose all the things you have saved on your hard drive?
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Viktor posted:Weird issue but cannot find a fix. Outside guess: define a second space, see if you can change the wallpaper on that space. Turn Dashboard into a space, see if that fixes it. It sounds like you got hit by Steve's last, greatest gift - gray linen - going crazy.
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At work I upgraded to Safari 6 on 10.7.4, and I can no longer change my full screen browser width by dragging the far left or right of the browser. Is there any new way of doing this, or is it just broken or omitted?
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Arivia posted:Outside guess: define a second space, see if you can change the wallpaper on that space. Turn Dashboard into a space, see if that fixes it. It sounds like you got hit by Steve's last, greatest gift - gray linen - going crazy. Nope didn't work the desktop was locked in the second space. But in the end removing the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and a reboot corrected the issue.
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Macintosh posted:Didn't the early DP's of ML have a different icon that was similar to Spotlight's in that it would have a pulsing dot in the middle to alert you? Not pulsing, but it did "light up" (a la Twitter's menu extra) to show there were unseen notifications.
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