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kode54 posted:So, how would I go about totally destroying and rebuilding my Spotlight indexes? code:
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What's up with the way Photos handles Thumbnails and Previews? Every so often I'll just get awfully low-res thumbnails in All Photos view. Any way to rebuild these? I know Photos actually stores them as jpgs inside the application.
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Is there a way to get quicktime to display playback statistics like frames dropped and actual rate (vs ideal rate). Its easy to visually tell if you're at 1/2 the ideal rate but its harder when you're at 23fps when you need to be 24fps. The nerdier players do this of course but Quicktime is also incredibly optimized which makes it a desirable solution for playback.
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May 8, 2015 23:54
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JamesOff posted:
And now. Bah, accidentally posted this to the Hackintosh topic by mistake. I'm running 10.10.3, and I can only assume this is a software issue that will go away if I log out and back in, but I can't at the moment because I'm in the middle of a Skype call. Anyway. I have a Magic Mouse, a Magic TrackPad, and a Logitech G9x. I was testing out Diablo 3 to see if they fixed the mousing issue with jittering cursor on retina displays that was introduced with the 2.2.0 patch. Nope. But then I noticed that the jittering did not occur with my trackpad. The cursor moved smoothly. But I had to break it, by powering off and powering back on my Magic Mouse. Now neither Diablo 3 nor the BattleNet app respond to the TrackPad's cursor. No clicking, and not even mouse over animations when the cursor passes over things. And even worse, since I did that, now whenever I open a menu with my trackpad's clicking, either left or right button type menus, and the menus loving close the instant I release the button. This wouldn't be so bad if I could get them to respond to the cursor while still holding the button, but nope! I guess I'll log out and report this poo poo to Apple, and maybe they'll tell me not to have so loving many pointing devices plugged in at once. FE: Yup, logging out and back in fixed it. It also frustrates me as I don't wait for everything to load up once I log in to try to type this in, and 5 million windows keep stealing my keyboard focus.
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May 9, 2015 03:35
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what's a good free HDD SMART checker for OSX?
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May 9, 2015 21:06
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brew with smartmontools?
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I would also like to have a GUI option for helping less-savvy family members diagnose their issues, but thank you for that rec--setting it up for myself now
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May 9, 2015 21:39
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TheQat posted:I would also like to have a GUI option for helping less-savy family members diagnose their issues, but thank you for that rec--setting it up for myself now I'm not sure if any SMART tools including the GUI ones are going to be of any value to someone that you're going to label as 'less-savy family'
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Shaocaholica posted:I'm not sure if any SMART tools including the GUI ones are going to be of any value to someone that you're going to label as 'less-savy family' I guess it's somehow unclear, but I'd like for them to be able to find the information and convey it to me by screenshot or something. It is not always convenient to do this stuff in person or by TeamViewer. Is there some reason that people like to make posts like this instead of just being helpful? There is ultimately literally no point to what you wrote. It's not going to dissuade me from looking for the software I'm looking for and it assumes you know more about the reasons I'm seeking this software than I do, which is ridiculous. emdash fucked around with this message at 21:53 on May 9, 2015 |
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May 9, 2015 21:49
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There is this front end gui for smartmontools: http://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/Downloads I've never used it. I use a front end on my windows box called hdd guardian but it looks like that is windows only.
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May 9, 2015 22:12
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You may try DriveDx. The non-MAS version even includes a driver to support SMART scanning USB drives that support reporting.
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May 9, 2015 23:37
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I use SMART Utility at work. It's not free but it has a trial, and it also has a plugin that supports USB drives.
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TheQat posted:I guess it's somehow unclear, but I'd like for them to be able to find the information and convey it to me by screenshot or something. It is not always convenient to do this stuff in person or by TeamViewer. Does OS X come with anything like MS Remote Assistance? I've always found that less frustrating than doing it blind over the phone(gently caress its hard not in english) or through text instructions in an email. TheQat posted:Is there some reason that people like to make posts like this instead of just being helpful? There is ultimately literally no point to what you wrote. It's not going to dissuade me from looking for the software I'm looking for and it assumes you know more about the reasons I'm seeking this software than I do, which is ridiculous. I really don't know the tools that well. Not trying to hinder you, just wait for more replies. Also, OS X has a horrible filesystem. The physical HDD hardware could very well be fine and the filesystem could just be degraded.
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May 10, 2015 01:19
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Shaocaholica posted:Does OS X come with anything like MS Remote Assistance? I've always found that less frustrating than doing it blind over the phone(gently caress its hard not in english) or through text instructions in an email. Apple Remote Desktop, as well as Screen Sharing, are both VNC based, and will allow the remote end to view and interact with what's going on. Well, I say interact, but it's more interfere, since there's only one mouse pointer, and obviously only one keyboard input focus. It should still be functional enough to assist someone in fixing something, since you can see what they're doing, and they can see what you're doing. Or at least I think it may be usable. There's always Team Viewer.
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kode54 posted:Apple Remote Desktop, as well as Screen Sharing, are both VNC based, and will allow the remote end to view and interact with what's going on. Well, I say interact, but it's more interfere, since there's only one mouse pointer, and obviously only one keyboard input focus. ARD seems nice but isn't free. I like MS remote assistance since it can email a remote assistance setup file which the other end just opens and voila connected. No IP addresses to enter, no app hunting since the file is default mapped to the remote assistance tool. Bonus that its all within the MS ecosystem so you know the other end has it already.
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I find the best (paid) all around remoting client is Remotix, which works with both VNC/ARD and MS Remote Desktop/Assistance / RDP. And it's cheaper than ARD client. Thing is, you could technically use any VNC client that supports Apple's authentication scheme.
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I'm just surprised there's nothing that comes standard with OS X so we can all remote help our parents/grandparents/gf/bf with basic poo poo. Although that might put some genius bar folk out of the jerb.
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May 10, 2015 02:32
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What do you use for backups in this age of tiny harddrives? I have a 30gb folder with pictures on my old desktop that I don't want to move to my rMBP (256GB is just not enough for archival) but I also don't want them keep them there forever as I haven't turned on that desktop in months.
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May 10, 2015 02:50
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gmq posted:What do you use for backups in this age of tiny harddrives? Time machine on an external HDD partition. I use a 500gb partition on a 2TB Seagate drive. I just plug it in whenever I charge my MBA once every couple of days or so.
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Shaocaholica posted:I'm just surprised there's nothing that comes standard with OS X so we can all remote help our parents/grandparents/gf/bf with basic poo poo. Although that might put some genius bar folk out of the jerb. Doesn't ichat have screen sharing? Presumably if you have a mac, you've got an icloud account too.
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Shaocaholica posted:I'm just surprised there's nothing that comes standard with OS X so we can all remote help our parents/grandparents/gf/bf with basic poo poo. Although that might put some genius bar folk out of the jerb. On my parents and grandparents computers, I have an admin account created with my appleID and Back to my Mac enabled. This allows me to just get into their computers when I need to without them screwing around. With your friends, you can ask to share their screen through the Messages app if they have signed into iMessage. http://osxdaily.com/2014/11/25/screen-sharing-messages-mac-os-x/
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Zenostein posted:Doesn't ichat have screen sharing? Presumably if you have a mac, you've got an icloud account too. Shin-chan posted:On my parents and grandparents computers, I have an admin account created with my appleID and Back to my Mac enabled. This allows me to just get into their computers when I need to without them screwing around. Neato, thanks. Curious if people actually use this in that capacity? Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 05:02 on May 10, 2015 |
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May 10, 2015 04:57
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Shaocaholica posted:Curious if people actually use this in that capacity?
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In the infuriating UI behaviour department: Chrome and paging. I swear it didn't use to do this, but recently when I double-swipe down in Chrome, it treats it as a "next page" swipe and changes to the next tab. Fine, I check Trackpad / More Gestures and set "Swipe between pages" as three fingers. But it still sometimes swaps between pages when I do a two-finger swipe. Is there some sort of trick to this?
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Chrome has its own multi touch code, separate to the OS, and it's less good. Maybe you can turn it off in one of the chrome flags pages.
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Which is why presumably two finger scrolling still doesn't work on Google Maps?
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outlier posted:In the infuriating UI behaviour department: Chrome and paging. Chrome has/had the worst multitouch implementation known to man. I've opened numerous tickets and only recently have I noticed a change. I used to go forward/back in my history every time I two finger swiped up down in any direction that wasn't exactly vertical as measured by precise scientific instruments. I guess they added some leeway in the vertical detection or something because it works "okay" now. Still get the fwd/back thing every now and then but it's -- better.
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Whirlwind Jones posted:I do all the time. I'm pretty sure that's its exact purpose. Does messages screen sharing allow the remote participant to control KB/mouse?
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Shaocaholica posted:Does messages screen sharing allow the remote participant to control KB/mouse? https://support.apple.com/kb/PH15056?locale=en_US I'm assuming it hasn't changed since. I haven't used it, but I'd almost assume it uses the same screen sharing/vnc capabilities built into the os, same as if you click share screen from the network browser.
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I have a 27" iMac that just had the hard drive go tits up after the last big update. It did the download, then on the restart it was just a grey screen, then it would shut off. I was able to get into my windows partition to use the web to trouble shoot, but that ended quick too. It started making noises n poo poo. I took it in and the Apple hipsters said they couldn't even see the drive. The whole thing was toast. I had stuff on it, but just porn, nothing really important. Have a new hard drive now though. All is well.
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May 13, 2015 05:17
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I wonder if it was one of the 1TB Seagates that got recalled, though I imagine that program is long-over. :T
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If you needed yet another reason to stay the gently caress away from MacKeeper... https://thehacktimes.com/mackeeper-0-day-flaw-more-than-20-million-users-affected/ quote:If you are a Mac user and not using MacKeeper, you probably seen it in some pop-under ads on spam or porn websites as advertisement and their infamous “Leave Page/Stay on This Page” dialogue, no wonder it been affected by 0-day emoemote code execution flaw considering what kind of ads campaigns they use for promotion…
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My (work-provided) MBP has McAfee Endpoint Protection installed. After the last OS update and after much cussing I figured out that this program really, really doesn't cooperate with the Messages app - if you fire up Messages while Endpoint is running it'll crash every drat thing on the machine, hard restart required. So what I do is I go into the Endpoint preferences, go to Application Protection, and I add an exclusion for Messages. Problem solved. And then that exclusion promptly disappears after a day or so, and my machine crashes if I don't go in and re-add it. Has anyone dealt with this, and can anyone tell me why in tell this exclusion keeps deleting itself? Edit: Nevermind, I should've followed the initial solution thread to the end. IT is setting the exclusion policy, it's nothing I can control. jackpot fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 14, 2015 |
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jackpot posted:My (work-provided) MBP has McAfee Endpoint Protection installed. After the last OS update and after much cussing I figured out that this program really, really doesn't cooperate with the Messages app - if you fire up Messages while Endpoint is running it'll crash every drat thing on the machine, hard restart required. So what I do is I go into the Endpoint preferences, go to Application Protection, and I add an exclusion for Messages. Problem solved. If it's a managed client then I'm going to guess that whenever it checks in to the mothership it reapplies the policy that's set up by your IT dept.
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flosofl posted:If it's a managed client then I'm going to guess that whenever it checks in to the mothership it reapplies the policy that's set up by your IT dept.
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jackpot posted:Yep, that's exactly what it's doing. I need to talk to IT and ask them to cut it out. REQUEST DENIED
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kuskus posted:I wonder if it was one of the 1TB Seagates that got recalled, though I imagine that program is long-over. :T Yes, they told me it was. Then I learned about a recall they had. But I had moved a few times since I bought it and no info came to me. No biggy. Wasn't to expensive to get fixed. Plus they were really nice. I had to carry that thing through the mall. An employee saw me a mile away and carried it the rest of the way to the store.
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Dick Trauma posted:REQUEST DENIED
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I have a very annoying problem, and hopefully someone here can help. I downloaded a game off of Amazon (Dragon Age Origins, if it matters), but the install won't complete - it freezes at around the 99% mark. It's written a massive amount of data to my hard disk, though. Any thoughts about where I can find it so that I can manually delete it? I'm on a MBPr 2.5 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM running 10.10.3. Any help would be appreciated. edit: got hold of Find Any File, and it worked beautifully. El Miguel fucked around with this message at 13:24 on May 15, 2015 |
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Is there an easy way to get a copy of Lion? I have a customer's laptop whose repair partition somehow became corrupted and it won't allow me to reformat from the mac itself. Can I just go to the store, buy Lion for $20, burn the DVD and do it that way? Not really sure how Mac's licenses work.
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