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horse mans posted:You are in luck, I just was doing this the other day. I'm going to recommend that you instead import them as dimages, which means that all the metadata will be preserved and so on. Here's my dumb script.
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Binary Badger posted:Maybe if you added 'sudo' in front of the hdutil command you'd only have to do it once per several tries. Yeah. Eh.
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So I have a macbook retina that I use for work and it's alright but I realized today that there's no spdif line in on these like my iMac had. Is there something usb that I can plug in that offers this? I want spdif specifically because I run it from my external monitor for when I plug my gaming pc and use an AB switch on my keyboard and mouse. I have a usb analog and it seems to have some terrible interference to the point of being useless.
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flyboi posted:So I have a macbook retina that I use for work and it's alright but I realized today that there's no spdif line in on these like my iMac had. Is there something usb that I can plug in that offers this? I want spdif specifically because I run it from my external monitor for when I plug my gaming pc and use an AB switch on my keyboard and mouse. I have a usb analog and it seems to have some terrible interference to the point of being useless. There might be better solutions in the hardware thread though.
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Sonic Dude posted:The Retina machines have S/PDIF over Toslink (and the newest models support 192kHz sample rates). I don't think that's any different from what optical audio-equipped iMacs in the past have used. Mines a 2012 13" and the audio port only has a headphone which I thought was audio out only
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flyboi posted:Mines a 2012 13" and the audio port only has a headphone which I thought was audio out only The same port does both headphone and optical digital.
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flyboi posted:Mines a 2012 13" and the audio port only has a headphone which I thought was audio out only It also has optical out the same port. If you don't believe Sonic Dude and CygnusTM, why not believe Apple's official specs page for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Late 2012 edition? http://support.apple.com/kb/SP658 Apple posted:• Headphone port Dunno if this is any use to you either, but I think it's related. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3625 Also I can't unsee Gizmo asking about Toslink outputs. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 1, 2014 |
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So what's the adapter I need? I used the toslink cable from my iMac but all I see is internal mic on the recording section Edit: re-read the link, it's audio output only, not input Headphone port Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack) Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone flyboi fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jan 1, 2014 |
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I picked up a new Griffin iMic for like $15 on eBay. It works well enough. At least a -50dB floor. I'd do that because trying to get anything useful into the earbud mic pin is hopeless. Edit:oops, forgot you wanted digital. eddiewalker fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jan 1, 2014 |
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Does the facility exist in OS X / iCloud to generate an URL to a particular Numbers spreadsheet that lives in iCloud document storage? My use case is this: I've got an Evernote note where I keep some tax-related information. I'd like to be able to click on a numbers://my-icloud-doc URL within that note, and have it open that particular spreadsheet.
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If you're okay with it opening in iCloud Numbers, start iCloud Numbers, select the spreadsheet you want, choose "Share Spreadsheet..." from the little gear menu in the upper-right, and use the link it shows you there. No need to actually share the document. I don't know if there's a way to make OS X Numbers open it.
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Soup in a Bag posted:If you're okay with it opening in iCloud Numbers, start iCloud Numbers, select the spreadsheet you want, choose "Share Spreadsheet..." from the little gear menu in the upper-right, and use the link it shows you there. No need to actually share the document. That's definitely better than nothing. I'd really prefer it open in the native app though (it would be awesome if it worked on iOS also, but the iWork iOS apps don't appear to have any URL scheme support whatsoever. I was thinking there might be a way on OS X though)
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Does anyone know why I have to (not always but usually) manually adjust the LEFT/RIGHT balance to my Apple provided iPhone headphones every time I plug them in to my MBP? It's a small annoyance, but really quite..annoying. Threads on the Apple support say a broken headphone jack but that's bullshit it works fine. This is software 100%. For now, I have re-ran the Audio MIDI Setup and did the Configure Speakers option to check the stereo settings. They looked fine, so who knows...we'll see if this holds. decypher fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Today I accidentally rsynced everything to the wrong folder, causing it to delete everything in the target folder that I wanted to keep. I then renamed the folder with the deleted files and went into time machine to recover the missing files, only to find out that apparently that one folder was not in time machine. Everything else is there, but that one specific folder is missing. I don't have my time machine drive handy, so these are the local tm backups I'm looking at. Why doesn't the local backup have the folder? It's not set to ignore that folder and that folder has definitely existed for months.
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decypher posted:Does anyone know why I have to (not always but usually) manually adjust the LEFT/RIGHT balance to my Apple provided iPhone headphones every time I plug them in to my MBP? It's a small annoyance, but really quite..annoying. It's not every time, but occasionally I'll have it fall out of balance on me. If it happened repeatedly I'd at least try resetting PRAM and SMC, and then taking it in to a store if that had no effect. I agree that it's closer to software than a broken port, though.
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carry on then posted:It's not every time, but occasionally I'll have it fall out of balance on me. If it happened repeatedly I'd at least try resetting PRAM and SMC, and then taking it in to a store if that had no effect. I agree that it's closer to software than a broken port, though. Wow, that still happens? That was something that drove me nuts on my old G4 PowerBook. It seemed to happen when the processor was at 100% for long periods.
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thegreatcodfish posted:Wow, that still happens?
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I have the weirdest bug going on in iTunes right now. I spent christmas in a different time zone, and for some reason since I've come back home the date stamp for my latest iPhone backup in iTunes is in CET, but both my phone and mac are set to GMT. Does iTunes have a third place to get the time from? 
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I know this forum isn't tech support, but I've got a rather odd situation. Someone I know started installing Mavericks and then closed her laptop. Naturally, that hosed things up a bit. Thing is, no matter what I do, I'm not able to reinstall OS X (not 10.8 or 10.9) on that machine. I've wiped the hard drive and even replaced the hard drive, but it just won't let me install it. If I try using the installer, I get an error saying "can't download additional components needed to install OS X." If I use a recovery image I prepared, it simply gives me an install failed screen after it gets most of the way done. This is frustrating the poo poo out of me. What on earth is the problem?
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What model laptop? 13-inch? 15-inch? Mid 2009? Mid 2011? What was it running before? Was it an SSD or a regular drive? Was there room for it or did they only have 4 GB left? Didja try reinstalling from a bootable drive, as mentioned in the OP?
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Binary Badger posted:What model laptop? 13-inch? 15-inch? Mid 2009? Mid 2011? What was it running before? Was it an SSD or a regular drive? Was there room for it or did they only have 4 GB left? After many hours, I still couldn't find a solution, so what I just did was took another laptop—exact same model in every way—and threw in the hard drive from the "broken" machine and installed Mavericks. Then I put that hard drive in the first computer, and... would ya look at that. Golly gee, it's running fine now. I still wonder what the problem was, though. Very strange!
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cloudline posted:I still wonder what the problem was, though. It's bad enough that I know the part number is 922-9771.
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Hey guys sorry for being retarded but I couldn't find a good answer and I'm very cautious/neurotic. Would following these instructions make a clean install from Mavericks (to Mavericks, I guess)? TIA
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Boatswain posted:Hey guys sorry for being retarded but I couldn't find a good answer and I'm very cautious/neurotic. Yes. The OS (re)install choice is based on what your recovery shipped with I believe. I used those steps with the addition of writing the Install Maverick to a usb bootable device as my install media to reinstall a mac mini that only offered Snow Leopard as its recovery install option.
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Thanks! My MBA came with Mountain Lion but according to Apple the recovery partition should have been overwritten to Mavericks when I updated? I'll see I guess.
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You can boot from recovery and it will say which version it offers to install without having to commit to an install. Just quit/reboot after you find out.
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Did SMB get any better with 10.9? With 10.7/10.8 I was recommended to use samba which I'm using now on a MM thats a file server. If I upgrade to 10.9 should I keep using samba or switch back to Apple's newer SMB?
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Shaocaholica posted:Did SMB get any better with 10.9? With 10.7/10.8 I was recommended to use samba which I'm using now on a MM thats a file server. If I upgrade to 10.9 should I keep using samba or switch back to Apple's newer SMB?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Define "better." It's dramatically faster, that's for sure. Random drop outs during streaming/copy operations. Mainly large files 1G-10G.
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Hey I had no issues doing a clean install using the recovery partition and the internet (from Mavericks to Mavericks). Thanks for your answers.
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Have a question about securing an iMac (running Mavericks). I bought my elderly parents an iMac. They can use it, but barely (tried iPad before you say that). Everything is fine most of the time...when it's not, I have to remote into the machine (use Logmein free - works great). The problem is, I have a shady family member who is quite malicious (behind everyone's back) and she likes to go in and disable Logmein as a startup app because she knows they don't know how to re-start it (long story as to why someone would do such a thing). She doesn't want me helping them out. This creates havoc as my parents call with an issue and their machine shows offline. I have to walk them through the process of searching "logmein" using spotlight to re-start the program so I can access their machine. I think she knows the password, so I just changed it remotely. Also, I registered "Logmein" as a hidden startup app in system settings, then clicked the lock icon. I still think she can close it from the menu bar, right? If so, is there a way to totally lock the system so that a user can't close running programs? There has to be a way (libraries, etc). I just need Logmein to run 24x7 with no possibility of being closed by anyone but myself (who has the password to the machine). Thanks
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What about using OSX native screen-sharing, lock the preference on, change passwords? I want to read the E/N thread.
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Seriously, it sounds like you're looking for a technical solution to a social problem. If this person is as determined as you seem to be implying, they probably will go as far as killall logmein. If she no longer knows the password then she can't repeat what she did last time, and hopefully that's enough. The only thing I can think of would be to see if LogMeIn can run as a daemon with admin privileges and ensure the active account does not have admin access, but even that might not be enough. I don't have much experience with LogMeIn; Teamviewer has the ability to be set up for unattended access (which lets you access the system from the login screen,) maybe LMI has it too? Of course, if your relative can somehow get the password off your parents, it's over.
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Guys it's my 41 year old sister. She can barely use a computer as is. She's not going to hack the thing. Long story and believe me, I'm fully aware of the social issue at hand. It's very difficult, trust me on this. And I happen to be 2,500 miles away and rarely have the chance to visit in person, so that's the reason I need a technical solution. But thanks for the suggestions. hotsauce fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Then how is it an issue? You changed the password, she can no longer do what she did before. Done. You'll have to have your parents restart the computer if she closes it from the menu bar, but there won't be any way to get rid of some indication that the program is running, as no one who makes these sorts of products wants them to be used for hacking/unnoticed intrusion. I'm not aware of any OS that allows you to prevent a program from closing, and neither Teamviewer or Logmein will want to implement that feature (at least in the free version) for the same reason they won't let you hide the icon.
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VNC has had a hidden mode forever.
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VNC isn't intended for impromptu over-the-net help requests, though, it requires open ports and a direct connection. Have fun setting that up, I guess.
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You could also try using broomstick to hide the icon in the menu bar. http://www.zibity.com/broomstick Hasn't been updated in a while but seems to work fine in mavericks.
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syndex posted:You could also try using broomstick to hide the icon in the menu bar. Thanks for this (and the other suggestions). Between changing the password, locking the startup item Logmein and this, she won't even know it's running. Of course she could go into system settings and try to de-register it as a startup item, but whoops, wrong password. That's all I need to know. Silent win is good by me. poo poo breaks, just have them reboot like was suggested.
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Shaocaholica posted:Did SMB get any better with 10.9? With 10.7/10.8 I was recommended to use samba which I'm using now on a MM thats a file server. If I upgrade to 10.9 should I keep using samba or switch back to Apple's newer SMB? It's improved quite a bit; I'd recommend using it. (Of note, OS X now defaults to using SMB2 when file sharing between two Macs running Mavericks.)
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