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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead
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The Real Abed
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Do you have a backup of your data? As long as you have a backup of your stuff, you will never be "screwed". Computers can be fixed. But data can't be recreated. Also Mountain Lion will be waiting for you again once you get a new HDD.iMac HDD just died. Shit. Just got Mountain Lion too a few days ago.
Are you using the newest version?Has this update screwed up anybody else's Dropbox configurations? I can no longer right click on a file to copy the public link. I have to manually find and enter in the URL if I want to post the specific image now.
Macho Madness
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I'm not too worried, I bought AppleCare for a reason. Just unhappy about the situation of course.
Has this update screwed up anybody else's Dropbox configurations? I can no longer right click on a file to copy the public link. I have to manually find and enter in the URL if I want to post the specific image now.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40256028&postcount=604
DJ Crimson
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The Real Abed
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Did it fix it? Because I read that DropBox's new update was released to fix the problems ML caused. Just like when Lion came out. DB integrates itself into the Finder like a tick burying its head. It's understandable there'd be problems at first.
Been using ML for a few days now. It's definitely nice, though I haven't noticed that it's faster than Lion yet.
I have one minor complaint. Maybe I'm in the minority but I heavily use the app folder in my Dock to start my apps and since Mountain Lion the scrolling speed when using a mouse wheel (don't have a trackpad: Mac Mini) is painfully slow. On Lion it would almost go down the whole list when I scrolled once but on Mountain Lion it only goes down two rows of icons. So to get to the bottom of the list I have to scroll continuously and that is kind of annoying. I haven't noticed a scrolling difference with other apps yet so it's a little weird.
I have one minor complaint. Maybe I'm in the minority but I heavily use the app folder in my Dock to start my apps and since Mountain Lion the scrolling speed when using a mouse wheel (don't have a trackpad: Mac Mini) is painfully slow. On Lion it would almost go down the whole list when I scrolled once but on Mountain Lion it only goes down two rows of icons. So to get to the bottom of the list I have to scroll continuously and that is kind of annoying. I haven't noticed a scrolling difference with other apps yet so it's a little weird.
DJ Crimson
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Macho Madness
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I used to do this too but I switched to Spotlight and never looked back.
Have you tried Alfred? I've even removed Spotlight from the menu bar as Alfred is superior in every way.
smokeandmirrors
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Huh. Requested my code, received it in a matter of about a minute. Downloading now.
NYR
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Odd. If everything is working now, I would assume everything is okay...
Just installed it. That swoosh-animation in Safari's address bar is really annoying.
edit: Just had a look at the 200 feature list. As always a good laugh. Every single share button/menu in every app counts as one feature, in addition to the share button, the menu items and the sharing themselves. Prompts for unsaved documents and the iCal sidebar are "new" features as well, right.
edit: Just had a look at the 200 feature list. As always a good laugh. Every single share button/menu in every app counts as one feature, in addition to the share button, the menu items and the sharing themselves. Prompts for unsaved documents and the iCal sidebar are "new" features as well, right.
I'm hoping someone can help me. For some reason Safari is not working in Google Docs for me. In safari when I open Google Docs, I can intermittently not edit cells or even click on things. This problem only happens in Safari and only in Google Docs.
I had this problem a few times before updating, but it is happening a lot more now. Almost constantly.
Does anyone know if Safari 6 has a compatibility problem with Google Docs or is this just my machine?
I had this problem a few times before updating, but it is happening a lot more now. Almost constantly.
Does anyone know if Safari 6 has a compatibility problem with Google Docs or is this just my machine?
Burger
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Can someone help me please, I have a bunch of old Safari Plugins I want to get rid of, under
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
I can't trash them, can't even modify the permissions, can't authenticate by clicking the padlock, it does nothing.
Tried 'sudo rm -f' but it just tells me the file is a directory (it isn't). Can't chmod my permissions on. What the fuck?
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
I can't trash them, can't even modify the permissions, can't authenticate by clicking the padlock, it does nothing.
Tried 'sudo rm -f' but it just tells me the file is a directory (it isn't). Can't chmod my permissions on. What the fuck?
Gary Whitta
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One code is good for all computers using the same Apple ID/App store account.
Yea, he has a different apple id. But this is the second code they've sent me. I just got it this morning.
Gary Whitta
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It should be fine to give away then.
CrudeDiatribe
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.plugin files are actually bundles and therefore folders, so 'sudo rm -rf foo.plugin' should take care of it.
Burger
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Thanks!
Particle Physicist
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Quick question that might have been answered. On the specs needed for ML it says that you need 8GB free. My wife only has 4GB free. If I used the USB install method, can I get away with only having 4GB free? My wife is having a hard time freeing up the space on her laptop.
I'm assuming you have an 8GB usb stick? Why not move some files over temporarily to make 8gb free on t he laptop, install it, and then put back the files assuming there is enough space.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
I asked her to do that, but she got mad at me and said she didn't have time. So I don't want to fuck with her files if I don't have to.
The Real Abed
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How big is her drive? What did she fill it with? I bet a lot of her stuff can be thrown away. She just doesn't want to bother. She's a file hoarder. And she's just going to get mad if you try to clean up her drive.
I asked her to do that, but she got mad at me and said she didn't have time. So I don't want to fuck with her files if I don't have to.
lol got mad, tell her to figure it out herself then, ungrateful woman!
No but really, she's gotta have some junk on there she can delete. Or you can do the transfering for her so she won't complain. You said she has 4gb free, that's before downloading ML right? Because if it's after, then yea you can make the USB a boot drive and then delete ML for 8gb free.
At least 10% of a drive should be free at any one time (I think the rule is 10%). Digital cleaning need to be done!
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
She's a graphic designer, so she has tons of files she uses for projects and stuff. She should be backing everything up anyways. I keep telling her that, but who knows if she does. I finally convinced her to make space.. We'll see if it happens anytime soon. :/
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And GrandPerspective is delicious freeware to help on that task.
Splash Wave
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I have the same worry, but my MBA has been running significantly better since the install, so we'll see.
Did you have the same install experience as me? I haven't noticed any better results since installing, but not worse either.
The Real Abed
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SuperEpicMan
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I updated a few days ago and Safari has begun to occasionally close randomly when I am browsing the internet. My laptop is pretty new, I think it is the late 2011 model. Has anyone else encountered this same problem.
Oh darn. Candybar does nothing for Mac App Store apps.
Damn it, I wish they had forced iOS icons on us. The uniformity... so nice. Or it would be if Apple didn't suck at icon design.
At least I can change the iTunes/AppStore/Launch pad logos. The internet has much better taste than Apple, it would seem =).
Damn it, I wish they had forced iOS icons on us. The uniformity... so nice. Or it would be if Apple didn't suck at icon design.
At least I can change the iTunes/AppStore/Launch pad logos. The internet has much better taste than Apple, it would seem =).
SlowRevolution
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That's happening on my iMac (mid-2011).
Ingueferroque
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hyp
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how'd you do that?
http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/12/hide-spotlight-menu-icon-mac-os-x-lion/
Though despite this tutorial states otherwise, Spotlight did stop indexing new files and I had to disable and reenable it again (add the whole HD to the privacy section of the Spotlight prefpane, then remove the entry again).
Boaty McBoatface
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As good as Safari is, it's taking up 500mb's of ram doing nothing, which is terrible for my POS 2007 Macbook Pro with 2gb of ram
Intalled an SSD into this thing to give it extra life while I look for another computer, so far so good. I used a new MBP for a while and I greatly miss the awesome new trackpads and their gestures
Intalled an SSD into this thing to give it extra life while I look for another computer, so far so good. I used a new MBP for a while and I greatly miss the awesome new trackpads and their gestures
As good as Safari is, it's taking up 500mb's of ram doing nothing, which is terrible for my POS 2007 Macbook Pro with 2gb of ram
Intalled an SSD into this thing to give it extra life while I look for another computer, so far so good. I used a new MBP for a while and I greatly miss the awesome new trackpads and their gestures
Does it not take any more RAM? It's so cheap and it would give your computer another lease on life.
firehawk12
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Man, now hot corners don't work unless I restart the system.
I hope Apple patches this soon. I suppose restarting isn't the end of the world, but I'll admit that minute start time and the time to takes to open up everything is painful every time I sit through it. lol
I hope Apple patches this soon. I suppose restarting isn't the end of the world, but I'll admit that minute start time and the time to takes to open up everything is painful every time I sit through it. lol
NekoFever
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Mine's got better. I don't know exactly what they've done, but they've made it way less aggressive about switching to the discrete GPU when an app uses a lot of animations, and the couple of times I've used it on battery since ML have had much slower battery drainage as a result.
Hm, interesting. What year is your model? I'll be paying closer attention to see for sure if/how performance has changed over the next few days. Maybe do a power cycle as well, it's been a while.
Is this a known bug? I have had no issues with hot corners.
firehawk12
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Some people have posted on the Apple boards with the same problem at least.
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