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Soldier of Fortran posted: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 Well that's useful as hell, thanks!
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When doing an OS upgrade (a full version, like from Mavericks to Yosemite), do most people just do a flatten-and-install from scratch? The past three OS X upgrades that's what I did because coming from the Windows world, nobody ever upgrades the OS. Do most of y'all just do the upgrade through the App Store?
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May 30, 2015 04:34
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Always upgrade. (I'll backup then flatten once a decade or so as a "easy" way of clearing cruft.)
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May 30, 2015 04:56
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Yeah, I've gone from 10.8->10.10 and across computers without reformatting. The Mac experience seems to be a bit better at this than most other OSes.
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Upgrading is cool. My current install is from 10.6 to 10.7 on a 2009 MBP Migration Assistanced to a 2012 MBA (although I guess this counts as a fresh install?) with 10.7 to 10.10, all via the App Store. I guess I probably should to a complete wipe one day, there are a couple of apps from 2010 hanging around.
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Whereas here I am, accidentally updated the kernel on my Mint box at work, and I'm afraid of rebooting it because of what could break.
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May 30, 2015 15:15
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People who like watching Netflix and saving battery power on their Mac should never use anything other than Safari. Less than 6% CPU while I'm playing an HD movie, and that's on a 13-inch Late 2013 2.4 GHz, OS X 10.10.3.
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Binary Badger posted:People who like watching Netflix and saving battery power on their Mac should never use anything other than Safari. Less than 6% CPU while I'm playing an HD movie, and that's on a 13-inch Late 2013 2.4 GHz, OS X 10.10.3. Safari is insanely good on MacBooks. I get like 12-14 hours of work using google drive on safari and around 5 using it on chrome (which is sometimes necessary if I can't find wifi  ). I also use handoff all the time between safari on my phone, iPad, and MacBook and it's really good!
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May 30, 2015 18:55
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Binary Badger posted:People who like watching Netflix and saving battery power on their Mac should never use anything other than Safari. Less than 6% CPU while I'm playing an HD movie, and that's on a 13-inch Late 2013 2.4 GHz, OS X 10.10.3. Yeah, plus watching stuff in Safari is the only way to see most full HD content In the higher bitrates Netflix provides. I think anyway. Breaking Bad never plays in HD on Chrome for me.
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Any of you try Synergy with a Windows 8.1 host (wired) and an OSX 10.10 client (wifi) lately? I just tried it tonight and encountered a really awful bug where if you leave the keyboard or mouse inactive for a couple seconds there's a ~1s delay in using either of them on the client device. I saw a couple people reporting the issue on github but the developer closed their reports without offering any kind of solution. One example: https://github.com/synergy/synergy/issues/3807 I also tried ShareMouse and experienced the same thing. Is there some kind of sleep mode on the Macbook that could be causing this?
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PINING 4 PORKINS posted:Any of you try Synergy with a Windows 8.1 host (wired) and an OSX 10.10 client (wifi) lately? I just tried it tonight and encountered a really awful bug where if you leave the keyboard or mouse inactive for a couple seconds there's a ~1s delay in using either of them on the client device. I saw a couple people reporting the issue on github but the developer closed their reports without offering any kind of solution. I'll have to dig it up, but I had to make some registry changes on Win 8.1 for the sleep issue there. Also, make your Mac the server. I had nothing but problems the other way around. I do that with my rMBP and have zero issues.
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May 31, 2015 05:58
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flosofl posted:I'll have to dig it up, but I had to make some registry changes on Win 8.1 for the sleep issue there. Thanks for the help, I'd appreciate it if you could find those registry changes because it's not really feasible to have the MBP be the server in my situation.
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PINING 4 PORKINS posted:Thanks for the help, I'd appreciate it if you could find those registry changes because it's not really feasible to have the MBP be the server in my situation. Found it in a txt doc. Not 100% this will fix your issue. For reference I'm running 8.1 Pro 64bit. Try this. Since you're using it as a server, I made a change from client to server. I *think* I found it originally on the dev's GitHub as a bug report. quote:powercfg /REQUESTSOVERRIDE PROCESS synergys.exe SYSTEM DISPLAY AWAYMODE You'll probably have to bounce the service after you do that.
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PINING 4 PORKINS posted:Any of you try Synergy with a Windows 8.1 host (wired) and an OSX 10.10 client (wifi) lately? I just tried it tonight and encountered a really awful bug where if you leave the keyboard or mouse inactive for a couple seconds there's a ~1s delay in using either of them on the client device. I saw a couple people reporting the issue on github but the developer closed their reports without offering any kind of solution. That's not what that link shows. The day the bug opened he replied asking for more information. Two months go by without a reply and he closes it as obsolete. Probably assuming that after two months of not answering a question asked within hours of the problem occurring the user solved it themselves or gave up on the software.
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flosofl posted:Found it in a txt doc. Not 100% this will fix your issue. For reference I'm running 8.1 Pro 64bit. Thanks! I did confirm that running the server on the Mac and the client on the 8.1 PC fixes the problem like you said it probably would, which is too bad because I don't want to swap the keyboard and mouse permanently to the Mac. I'll take the issue up with their forums. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 16:32 on May 31, 2015 |
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May 31, 2015 16:29
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If you can hook your macbook up via ethernet it should work better. That's what I do anyway.
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Question about Time Machine. So I have about 1 years worth of backups. I have noticed though, that sometimes when I enter time machine to look for something to restore there are no backups on some dates and I would need to keep scrolling through the backup dates to find a actual backup. As an example: I enter time machine, goto the "Applications" folder from last month. Time machine shows me nothing, if I go to the previous couple days or weeks, there might not be something there as well. I might have to go back 2 months or 6 months before anything actually appears in those restore folders. Is this normal behaviour? It's quite inconvenient. I get that the Applications directory might not of changed during a backup, but how are you suppose to know when the files were last created\edited\etc.
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Hi guys, this is more a photography centric question about working with Macs/PCs. I just bought a new Macbook and loaded a whole bunch of photos onto it using Lightroom. I tried plugging in an external NTFS hard drive in but it has trouble writing. What's the best way to deal with this situation? In the future, should I just have a large NAS using CIFS so that it can play nice with all devices?
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OS X can only read NTFS, not write. You can find an NTFS writing driver like Paragon NTFS, Tuxera, or MacFuse (if that even works anymore.)
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caberham posted:Hi guys, this is more a photography centric question about working with Macs/PCs. You can, or you can get one that does both SMB *and* AFP. You'll need the AFP if you want to use it for Time Machine, I believe. For instance, I have a WD My Cloud EX 2 that I can use as a Time Machine target along with storing other files, and all the shares mount as AFP in OS X.
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flosofl posted:You can, or you can get one that does both SMB *and* AFP. You'll need the AFP if you want to use it for Time Machine, I believe. For instance, I have a WD My Cloud EX 2 that I can use as a Time Machine target along with storing other files, and all the shares mount as AFP in OS X. Also, in case anyone isn't aware Yosemite now defaults to using SMB if you don't specify anything or just browse and open from the Network section in Finder.
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Mercurius posted:Yeah, my Synology at home is the same. AFP for Time Machine and SMB for everything else, works great. Huh, I *just* tested my "flosofl" share (not the TM share), and it shows as mounted with "afpfs" using the "mount" command in terminal. I also verified SMB with my gaming computer on the same mount point.
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flosofl posted:Huh, I *just* tested my "flosofl" share (not the TM share), and it shows as mounted with "afpfs" using the "mount" command in terminal.  Here's the output I get either way: code:
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So I have a question from frequent Mac users: How do Macs (Specifically Macbook Pros) handle overheating? I'm used to PCs either completely locking up or just shutting down. However, the Macbook I'm working on seems to not doing that. The mouse works and responds, but I can't click or do anything, but the mouse moves. Is this standard, or is this a special snowflake case?
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Gothmog1065 posted:So I have a question from frequent Mac users: How do Macs (Specifically Macbook Pros) handle overheating? I'm used to PCs either completely locking up or just shutting down. However, the Macbook I'm working on seems to not doing that. The mouse works and responds, but I can't click or do anything, but the mouse moves. Is this standard, or is this a special snowflake case? They start ramping up the fan and throttling, if it still gets too hot they shut down. Are you sure you are overheating? Are you using the trackpad or an external mouse? If you're on a trackpad do you use tap-to-click or not? Does the trackpad button do the click? Does it persist after a restart? Does it appear randomly or when you do something specific?
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Sprat Sandwich posted:They start ramping up the fan and throttling, if it still gets too hot they shut down. Are you sure you are overheating? Are you using the trackpad or an external mouse? If you're on a trackpad do you use tap-to-click or not? Does the trackpad button do the click? Does it persist after a restart? Does it appear randomly or when you do something specific? I think the fan is going bad, it's blowing, but not quite enough to keep it really cool. I'm using the trackpad and it works until suddenly it stops doing anything but moving around. No highlighting anything, no clicks, no nuffink. I use tap to click and also the manual click. It stops after a restart, and the computer will last longer depending on how long it's off. It's semi-random, but it never goes real far. However, after replacing the thermal paste, I can now go much further than before. It also does the same thing on a Linux Live CD I was using (Knoppix) to test the HDD with SMART data. Before I replaced the thermal paste, I could only get the background to load, but after replacing the paste it will actually load the tool bars and stuff so I can actually do a thing or to before it starts doing the same thing. Both the bottom of the laptop where the CPU is and the heat sink are incredibly hot. So I think the heat is moving to the radiator fins but there isn't enough air to move it off.
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Gothmog1065 posted:I think the fan is going bad, it's blowing, but not quite enough to keep it really cool. I'm using the trackpad and it works until suddenly it stops doing anything but moving around. No highlighting anything, no clicks, no nuffink. I use tap to click and also the manual click. It stops after a restart, and the computer will last longer depending on how long it's off. It's semi-random, but it never goes real far. However, after replacing the thermal paste, I can now go much further than before. It also does the same thing on a Linux Live CD I was using (Knoppix) to test the HDD with SMART data. Before I replaced the thermal paste, I could only get the background to load, but after replacing the paste it will actually load the tool bars and stuff so I can actually do a thing or to before it starts doing the same thing. You can try an SMC reset https://support.apple.com/et-ee/HT201295 The first thing it should do after it's done is run the fans at max speeds so if it wasn't ramping up properly you'll know. I also assume while you were changing the thermal paste you got all the dust out as well?
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Whats that paid app that disables scroll wheel acceleration?
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Is there a more apropos "bootcamp" thread? Before I start talking' bout it here...
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Not really, but your problem might turn out to be with Windows in which case you can just repost over in the thread for Windows questions.
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carry on then posted:Not really, but your problem might turn out to be with Windows in which case you can just repost over in the thread for Windows questions. It's actually more Bootcamp specific. But I don't know if it's a solvable problem. I just want to commiserate/wonder about/and wish for new bootcamp GPU drivers... Didn't know if there was a better place to talk about that. I guess I don't have too much poignant to say about it. I just saw that Witcher 3 got an ATI driver update for better performance gains and was feeling really "left out". :\
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Gothmog1065 posted:I think the fan is going bad, it's blowing, but not quite enough to keep it really cool. I'm using the trackpad and it works until suddenly it stops doing anything but moving around. No highlighting anything, no clicks, no nuffink. I use tap to click and also the manual click. It stops after a restart, and the computer will last longer depending on how long it's off. It's semi-random, but it never goes real far. However, after replacing the thermal paste, I can now go much further than before. It also does the same thing on a Linux Live CD I was using (Knoppix) to test the HDD with SMART data. Before I replaced the thermal paste, I could only get the background to load, but after replacing the paste it will actually load the tool bars and stuff so I can actually do a thing or to before it starts doing the same thing. Probably not your issue but I noticed something like this minus the heat on my MacBook. Turns out my bluetooth mouse was turning itself on and taking input preference over the trackpad. Same symptoms.
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Feenix posted:It's actually more Bootcamp specific. But I don't know if it's a solvable problem. I just want to commiserate/wonder about/and wish for new bootcamp GPU drivers... Didn't know if there was a better place to talk about that. I guess I don't have too much poignant to say about it. I just saw that Witcher 3 got an ATI driver update for better performance gains and was feeling really "left out". :\ You should be able to install any GPU drivers you want. I have an nvidia card in my Macbook Pro and just install the universal drivers and it works fine.
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Man this fucker is being frustrating. Sprat Sandwich posted:They start ramping up the fan and throttling, if it still gets too hot they shut down. Are you sure you are overheating? Are you using the trackpad or an external mouse? If you're on a trackpad do you use tap-to-click or not? Does the trackpad button do the click? Does it persist after a restart? Does it appear randomly or when you do something specific? All I can say is poo poo gets really hot during operation, doesn't seem to be a lot of air movement over the radiator. However the replacement fan did not fit properly, going to have to order another. Sprat Sandwich posted:You can try an SMC reset https://support.apple.com/et-ee/HT201295 This did nothing sadly. Blinkz0rz posted:Probably not your issue but I noticed something like this minus the heat on my MacBook. Turns out my bluetooth mouse was turning itself on and taking input preference over the trackpad. Same symptoms. Fairly certain this model doesn't have bluetooth. If it does, I don't see a place to turn it on or off on the keyboard (no physical switches). Okay, now I'm scratching my head. I still think heat is an issue (could be wrong, have been before!), but it keeps going back to the Disk Utilities, no matter what I do. I have that Lion OS thing I paid for, it will run the installer, if it doesn't lock up, it will get to the main part, then go back to Disk Utilities. I haven't fully scanned the HDD yet (not sure if Knoppix has that on disc), and I think a MemTest is in order, unless I'm completely missing the target. At this point, I'm really not sure what the hell is going on.
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Gothmog1065 posted:Fairly certain this model doesn't have bluetooth. If it does, I don't see a place to turn it on or off on the keyboard (no physical switches). Every MBP has Bluetooth. There's no physical switch or key, it has to be enabled and disabled through System Preferences.
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There should be a dozen local places you can take it to that will thoroughly clean it out for you and even apply new thermal paste.
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Well, I'm giving up for tonight. I think I made things worse. I ended up formatting the hard drive, now the stupid USB isn't actually loading the software, it fails every time I try. I'm about to tell the woman to throw it off a bridge and get a new one. It's not a heating issue, I was able to do a bunch of stuff in Knoppix and it never got about 65C, though that seemed hot to me (Via lm_sensors). I can get to the disk utilities on the flash drive, I've completely erased it and reformatted it via Disk Utilities, but it still won't install. Shaocaholica posted:There should be a dozen local places you can take it to that will thoroughly clean it out for you and even apply new thermal paste. I've already done that though. The local place I'd rather hit them in the face with the MacBook than let them work on it. Gothmog1065 fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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spaced ninja posted:You should be able to install any GPU drivers you want. I have an nvidia card in my Macbook Pro and just install the universal drivers and it works fine. I wish. Very sadly, not the case. I can download any driver for ATI Radeon and when I try to install it it says it cannot find hardware or something. I am on Win 8.1. Not sure if things are different on Win 7, etc... When I google it, I find basically anyone talking about a similar situation getting the same errors as I. It just doesn't work... :\
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spaced ninja posted:You should be able to install any GPU drivers you want. I have an nvidia card in my Macbook Pro and just install the universal drivers and it works fine. Not if you have an AMD thingamabob. Those have unique device IDs not supported by the mainline video drivers. Boot Camp comes with some driver from summer of 2014, and AMD's own site has a Boot Camp specific driver that starts with a 301.xx version number, which seems to indicate a special fork that was already months old when it came out last December. You're welcome to try editing inf files, if you fancy running in test signing mode so you can self sign your drivers. You may even get the extra performance, but you won't get the 5K support for your shiny new Retina 5K iMac. Also, the system isn't exactly the most stable at running really GPU heavy things. I've tried the latest release of the demoscene thing, mercury's Timeless, which manages to trigger TDR three times, before finally failing the demo back to desktop mode, with nothing displaying in the window while the music continues to play to the end. I know it's not really an AMD friendly demo, but it shouldn't outright crash the drivers repeatedly.
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On my Macbook, in Mail, when I select my primary (Gmail) account, Mail immediately hangs. It shows me the list of mails, but not the content of the selected mail. This is independent of the selected mail, or of Gmail. I can open the same mail, also from the Gmail account, on my iMac (also in Mail). When I delete the specific mail and restart, so it has another mail selected at startup, it also hangs. Any ideas? I guess the worst-case scenario would be removing and re-enabling my Gmail account inbox ...
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