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surrender posted:I have an external 2 TB drive that I'd like to partition in half for Time Machine. However, Disk Utility tells me that I can't modify the partition map since the drive is using the MBR partition scheme. Is there some non-destructive way to partition it, or do I have to erase it and then create new partitions? Japtor is correct in that there is a util called gptgen in linux (also windows) that says it can do non-destructive conversion. It maybe available in homebrew. You can try this, but I obviously can't guarantee it will work. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptgen/
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Seriously, screw all mail clients. I decided I wanted to sync my mail setup between my desktop and laptop. So I've got Airmail Beta running on the desktop, but I read that only the App Store version has iCloud account syncing. So I bought that and imported my accounts into it. Head over to laptop, install Airmail from App Store, find out I didn't enable iCloud sync on any of the accounts, so I head back to the desktop and do that. Head back to the laptop, import accounts again, find out that all of the accounts have a "void password", so I have to log into them again. Only this continues even after I log into them. The two Google accounts repeatedly pop up a Google account login box, which asks for my password, then authenticator code, then permission to allow Airmail to do such and such with my account. It seems to work and has my unread mail in the inboxes, and I go about my business. About two or three hours later, I notice the Airmail icon has no unread messages popping up, so I click it. It brings Airmail to the foreground, along with a cascade of half a dozen Google login windows for both my accounts. So I give up on this poo poo, and decide that it would simply be better to give in and install Outlook. So I pull the trigger on a year of Office 365 (save 16%!) and download Outlook. Boy, was I wrong. I go and install Outlook, and slog through setting up my accounts. All work eventually, except my iCloud mail account, which throws authentication failures, which turn out to be because I somehow pasted a loving newline into the password prompt from the App Passwords web page. So that seems to work finally. But then I go and discover that it's apparently a royal pain in the rear end to coax Outlook into moving mail to the All Mail folder from Inbox, as a sort of Archive function. I give up on that and loving delete it, and now I'm back to using Mailbox, and whining to their twitter account because in the two years since they mentioned IMAP support on their blog as a future possibility, they haven't done jack poo poo to support more than Google and iCloud, and I don't really want to instruct one of my Google accounts to pull mail IMAP style from Yahoo and my ISP provided mail accounts.
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May 24, 2015 08:37
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kode54 posted:But then I go and discover that it's apparently a royal pain in the rear end to coax Outlook into moving mail to the All Mail folder from Inbox, as a sort of Archive function.
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May 24, 2015 11:40
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It's set, but they intentionally don't subscribe to the All Mail folder to prevent duplicate message downloading. You can't move messages to folders you aren't subscribed to. And then it's still harder to right click on every message, click Move to folder..., then search all mail and hit enter. Much easier to use a lazy man's client with swipe gestures in the message list, swipe to archive.
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May 24, 2015 12:00
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Someone posted the combination of options that results in all your photos from your devices being stored in your Photos library on your computer rather than iCloud Drive, but I've forgotten where that was. EDIT: Clarified. wdarkk fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 19:41
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wdarkk posted:Someone posted the combination of options that results in all your photos from your devices being stored in your Photos library on your computer rather than iCloud Drive, but I've forgotten where that was. iCloud Photo Library - off My Photo Stream - on edit - I'm guessing you have to also turn on the "Importing: Copy items to Photos library" option on the general tab of Photos.
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May 24, 2015 22:27
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This is kinda edge case-y but is it possible to set up Mail.app with gmail so it uses the same sort of "sorting" system that gmail does? E.g. promotions/social get filtered to their own folder and I'd only get notifications for stuff that ends up in my inbox. On my iPhone I work around it by using the gmail app, but there's no gmail app for OS X.
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May 25, 2015 15:13
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robodex posted:This is kinda edge case-y but is it possible to set up Mail.app with gmail so it uses the same sort of "sorting" system that gmail does? E.g. promotions/social get filtered to their own folder and I'd only get notifications for stuff that ends up in my inbox. I don't use Gmail with Mail.app so work with me for a second - can't you set up filters, that send messages to specific tags, when you connect with IMAP they SHOULD show up as folders (I think!), which will do everything that you want. I think. Are you using IMAP to connect? Am I wrong? Otherwise I recommend Tuffmail. The cost is low, the spam filtering is world-class, and you have full control of your folders and filters... Actually, I can sell you a domain name too so you can be robodex@robodex.ca (which is available, actually)
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May 25, 2015 15:20
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Pivo posted:I don't use Gmail with Mail.app so work with me for a second - can't you set up filters, that send messages to specific tags, when you connect with IMAP they SHOULD show up as folders (I think!), which will do everything that you want. I think. Are you using IMAP to connect? Actually I'm not sure how gmail does it. It's all done automatically--I think gmail learns which frequent senders are social or promotions and filters them into different tabs. On the gmail app and on webmail, it only notifies you of stuff that goes in your inbox. I don't have any filters set up since it does it automatically but when you connect a third-party client (like mail.app) it just puts everything in your inbox. I'll have to tinker tonight when I get home and see if it was just the way I set it up since I just used the automatic settings for gmail in mail.app. It's not a huge deal but as much as I try to manage all of my e-mail I still get a billion newsletters/e-mails from social media/etc that I don't really need clogging up my inbox, and it'd be nice to use the filtering gmail uses by default. That being said, I have no idea how it works or if it's even possible to get that functionality on an outside app.
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May 25, 2015 15:36
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Hmm. Well, try enabling IMAP and connecting with IMAP, otherwise since I don't use Gmail I don't know. (I have an account but I forward it to my main one, where it takes care of nonsense) I was pretty sure that Gmail tags become folders on IMAP, but again, I don't really know.
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May 25, 2015 15:59
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Gothmog1065 posted: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. Going to go back to this, since the question was never really answered. At this point, is there any easy way to get any OS onto a Macbook Pro with a corrupted recovery partition? I can put it on a DVD or a flash drive, don't care, I just need to fix this partition as it will not do it by itself (it fails after trying to download. It's on a 30mbps connection, hardwired into my router). A friend was trying to send me something via google docs, but the download always fails. Is there another source for these files? I'll put on Lion and update to Yos without an issue, I just got to get a base OS down first.
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May 25, 2015 16:53
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Gothmog1065 posted:Going to go back to this, since the question was never really answered. At this point, is there any easy way to get any OS onto a Macbook Pro with a corrupted recovery partition? I can put it on a DVD or a flash drive, don't care, I just need to fix this partition as it will not do it by itself (it fails after trying to download. It's on a 30mbps connection, hardwired into my router). A friend was trying to send me something via google docs, but the download always fails. Is there another source for these files? I'll put on Lion and update to Yos without an issue, I just got to get a base OS down first. Can't you do network boot? I don't know which machine exactly you have, or when that firmware update went out. But yeah, you have 30mbps - why can't you just download an image off the App Store from another computer? Or, hell, from torrents... But network boot will work. You could also take it into a fruit stand and have them reimage your drive. You have lots of options.
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May 25, 2015 17:41
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Pivo posted:Can't you do network boot? I don't know which machine exactly you have, or when that firmware update went out. But yeah, you have 30mbps - why can't you just download an image off the App Store from another computer? Or, hell, from torrents... But network boot will work. You could also take it into a fruit stand and have them reimage your drive. You have lots of options. I don't have an apple computer other than the one I'm working on. I was hoping to do something other than torrents (just to make sure they're clean), but if that's my only option then I'll do that. The closest Apple store is an hour and a half away.
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May 25, 2015 19:50
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Pivo posted:Hmm. Well, try enabling IMAP and connecting with IMAP, otherwise since I don't use Gmail I don't know. (I have an account but I forward it to my main one, where it takes care of nonsense) Gothmog1065 posted:I don't have an apple computer other than the one I'm working on. I was hoping to do something other than torrents (just to make sure they're clean), but if that's my only option then I'll do that.
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May 25, 2015 20:25
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Gothmog1065 posted:I don't have an apple computer other than the one I'm working on. I was hoping to do something other than torrents (just to make sure they're clean), but if that's my only option then I'll do that. Edit: 
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May 25, 2015 20:27
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Yeah sorry, Apple calls it "Internet Recovery" but what it's really doing is network booting an installer straight from the EFI over the Internet... Regardless, it's cool, if your machine supports it and you have a few hours...
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May 25, 2015 22:02
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Question about TextWrangler. Does anyone know how to permanently remove the file list on the left side? Every time I remove it, quit and re-launch it comes back.
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May 26, 2015 02:11
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robodex posted:This is kinda edge case-y but is it possible to set up Mail.app with gmail so it uses the same sort of "sorting" system that gmail does? E.g. promotions/social get filtered to their own folder and I'd only get notifications for stuff that ends up in my inbox. MailTab is similar in look to the iOS Gmail app.
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May 26, 2015 03:01
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lol internet. posted:Question about TextWrangler. I just used View->Hide Files, myself. It's never come back for me.
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May 26, 2015 03:57
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robodex posted:This is kinda edge case-y but is it possible to set up Mail.app with gmail so it uses the same sort of "sorting" system that gmail does? E.g. promotions/social get filtered to their own folder and I'd only get notifications for stuff that ends up in my inbox. Personally I would just use Fluid to make the gmail website into an "app". Give it an icon and put it on your dock, and baby, you got a stew goin'.
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May 26, 2015 04:29
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flosofl posted:I'm sure it's me being a stupid-head, but I could *never* get Airmail to see my iCloud contacts. I just gave up after a while. Just as a follow up, it was me being a stupid-head. At some point, I told Yosemite not to allow Airmail access to Contacts 
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May 26, 2015 04:56
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flosofl posted:I just used View->Hide Files, myself. It's never come back for me. Yeah mine keeps coming back after I quit.. not sure why.
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May 26, 2015 11:44
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TACD posted:Pretty sure Pivo meant Internet Recovery. Either that or ordering a USB stick are your only options for getting Lion on your machine legitimately without going to the store. It'll have to be the USB stick. The Option+R is what is failing (IT'll get about 1/10th of the way and just go back to the recovery screen with this gargantuan recovery log). Thanks guys. It's been getting frustrating, and I wrote the $20 into my price for the USB stick.
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May 26, 2015 13:10
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Gothmog1065 posted:It'll have to be the USB stick. The Option+R is what is failing (IT'll get about 1/10th of the way and just go back to the recovery screen with this gargantuan recovery log). Thanks guys. It's been getting frustrating, and I wrote the $20 into my price for the USB stick. Do you mean Command(⌘)-R? Because Option(⌥)-R isn't an valid boot key combination. Have you tried Command-Option-R? That forces recovery to use the Internet. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
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May 26, 2015 13:15
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flosofl posted:Do you mean Command(⌘)-R? Because Option(⌥)-R isn't an valid boot key combination. Yes, Command+R, the clover looking one. I'll try CMD+OPT+R when I get home, then order the USB.
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May 26, 2015 13:18
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Gothmog1065 posted:Yes, Command+R, the clover looking one. I'll try CMD+OPT+R when I get home, then order the USB. Clover one hehe. My buddy calls it 'dixie' cuz it looks like their logo. Dixie-R sounds cooler than Command
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I still call CMD the apple key 
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Gothmog1065 posted:It'll have to be the USB stick. The Option+R is what is failing (IT'll get about 1/10th of the way and just go back to the recovery screen with this gargantuan recovery log). Thanks guys. It's been getting frustrating, and I wrote the $20 into my price for the USB stick.  You can definitely get a DVD for Snow Leopard (which won't work on your machine if it originally shipped with Lion or later) but I don't think you can get physical media for any other OS X release any more. Maybe call up AppleCare and ask, but you might have to go visit a store. TACD fucked around with this message at 15:14 on May 26, 2015 |
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For $45 you can buy Apple's OS X Lion on an official USB drive, and not from Apple: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Mac-Lion-Thumb-Drive/dp/B0089FELB2 Some say it's OS X 10.7.0, others say it's 10.7.5. You can always just download the 10.7.5 combo update if necessary. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 18:18 on May 26, 2015 |
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May 26, 2015 18:15
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I still call CMD the apple key 
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May 26, 2015 21:43
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Okay, I solved my Screen Sharing login issues, by intiating a total nuke of the operating system and storage (minus the Boot Camp partition), and reinstalled. I'm slowly restoring, but software in the process seems to be inhibiting me from doing it properly. I want to restore only my home directory, to leave nothing to chance that something elsewhere was responsible for the Spotlight issues I was having. Finder takes 25 minutes to scan the entire Time Capsule backup image (over 100Mbps link) and finally starts, but then dies because there are apparently two files called ".localized" somewhere in the backup and my system's filesystem is not case sensitive while the backup's apparently is. Or something. So then I tried to do it with rsync. rsync took about as long as Finder to scan the source material. After about three hours of copying stuff, the Airport Time Capsule locked up and started flashing an amber light. Power cycled it, and it came back up with an amber light flashing interruption before going all green again. *shrug*
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May 27, 2015 11:05
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kode54 posted:Okay, I solved my Screen Sharing login issues, by intiating a total nuke of the operating system and storage (minus the Boot Camp partition), and reinstalled. The HD in the time capsule may be failing. The only non-network reason for the amber light flashing is SMART errors. EDIT: More info here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203198
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flosofl posted:The HD in the time capsule may be failing. The only non-network reason for the amber light flashing is SMART errors. AirPort Utility 5.6.1 reports no errors. And then about 20 minutes after I cold rebooted it, my connection died a second time, but the router stayed up. My ISP stayed dead for the rest of the evening, so I went to bed. Meanwhile, rsync finally finished. It had an average speed of 4807444.47 bytes/sec.
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Feeling very stupid. I recently did a clean reinstall of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. When I try and add my google account as an internet account, under the Internet Account system prefs pane, I get an error when I supply the app specific password generated by google (I'm runnings 2FA). The error reads "a connection error occurred." The process clearly isn't totally broken, because when I put my normal password in, I get a pop up informing me I need an app specific password. I've tried the unlock captcha and still no luck. I was able to generate and use a new app specific password no problem for my mail client, so I have no idea why it's failing at this now.
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Gothmog1065 posted:Yes, Command+R, the clover looking one. I'll try CMD+OPT+R when I get home, then order the USB. Went through the thread and looked up the machine. An A1278 with a 2.4 GHz i5 has to be a late 2011 13" MacBook Pro. 'Late 2011' was when they introduced Internet Recovery, so you will likely have success with Cmd+Opt+R. That said I think I've seen Internet Recovery get confused by a bad partition table. If that happens, there's a simple workaround . Even if you don't have any version of OS X to boot from, just make a Linux live USB stick of your choice (Fedora or Ubuntu should work) and use it to blow away the partition table in whatever violent way floats your boat. (I'd typically use 'dd' to copy a couple hundred megabytes' worth of /dev/zero over the start of the disk. Crude but effective.) (Just realized, since you're not familiar with Macs - To boot from the live USB, power down, stick the drive in, power up while holding just the 'Option' key, wait for the firmware to show its GUI boot device picker.) After you've done this, pull the USB stick, reboot, and you shouldn't even have to use Cmd+Opt+R. Macs with Internet Recovery automatically go to that option if they're turned on and the firmware finds a disk but no partitions.
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May 29, 2015 06:59
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BobHoward posted:Went through the thread and looked up the machine. An A1278 with a 2.4 GHz i5 has to be a late 2011 13" MacBook Pro. 'Late 2011' was when they introduced Internet Recovery, so you will likely have success with Cmd+Opt+R. I'll try this. Sadly I've already ordered the USB stick, maybe that vendor will take it back if this works and I haven't opened it.
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May 29, 2015 13:14
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Yosemite's disk partitioning is so much worse than Mavericks. Want to delete a partition? No problem! We'll just permanently stick it there as 'free space' that cannot be removed.
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May 29, 2015 16:08
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I think you can convert the storage out of a corestorage volume in place from the terminal, resize, and then reconvert it back.
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May 29, 2015 16:52
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flosofl posted:Yeah, but ⌘U wil merge two of the tabs like the old Norton Commander of DOS days. 
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flosofl posted:It also adds the ability to "Cut" files, not just "Copy" via keyboard or context menu. Nice app, though for anyone who doesn't want to bother with Finder replacements: Finder does cut & paste too, except in Finder you choose between copy/cut at paste time. Hold down Option when looking paste in the edit/right click menu, or hit ⌘⌥V
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