Is there any way to hide the Public folder in your Home folder? I want to use the Fan option for my Home folder in my Dock, but since there's one more icon than the limit that my screen will hold, it cuts one icon off and shows a "1 more in Finder" item instead. I don't use the Public folder ever and want to hide it. I can't delete it because A) it won't let me, and B) even if I sudo it, it comes back at reboot. And for some reason the Developer tools "setfile" command I found on Google won't set its hidden attribute to true.
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Mac OSX Noob thread of OSX noobs
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GodfatherX
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edit: wrong thread/tab
Delightful Oonsk said:Just accidentally figured out I can use 2 fingers to scroll on the track pad of my macbook air.
What the hell.
Soon you will tell me you don't know the 3-finger, the 4-finger, and the pinch gestures?
There's a reason why the MacBook trackpads are considered some of the best, and that many even prefer them over a mouse.
Dreams-Visions
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pretty much.mrkgoo said:
nobody tell him about betterTouchTool. if 2 fingers gave him an orgasm, 3, 4 and 5 might be down right unhealthy.
Splash Wave
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Is it possible for my laptop's WiFi capability to degrade? I've had this Macbook Pro for over two years now and I feel like it does a terrible job of keeping a consistent connection.
Mr. Wonderful
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I know routers like to crap out all the time, so I don't see why a wireless card wouldn't either. Could be a driver issue, though.Jimmy Stav said:
mrkgoo said:
Dreams-Visions said:
:lol :lol
Yeah I had no idea. I have an ipod touch so I'm pretty familiar with the touch based interface, I just hadn't realized the MacBook pads did that. I've pretty much been living under a rock in terms of Mac development until the last month or so. Still trying to figure a lot about the OS and everything.
fixed for accuracy. for consumption of content that makes use of massive vertical scrolling and gestures, the trackpad is godly. for content creation on stuff like Photoshop, Powerpoint or the like, a mouse or tablet is still the best by far.mrkgoo said:
that said, yes, the trackpad on laptop Macs are by far the best in the industry, both in hardware and software implementation.
cooljeanius
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Click on System Preferences, then click on the Trackpad preference pane, then hover over each of the options. Prepare to have your mind blown.Delightful Oonsk said:
mrkgoo said:
Yeah, I do, but it didn't really matter, it was only two weeks old and all my data is server based.
What burns my chaps is the Applecare thing. I paid Applecare, right? They don't send techs out so I gotta drive to an Apple store to get the damned thing fixed and my closest one is three hours away. Or I can drive an hour and a half and drop the thing off for a week.
AlexMogil said:
Yeah, I guess that would suck.
However, try being in a country with no official apple presence, instead dealing with third parties, distributors and dealers.
The options are generally to wait ages for parts and stuff. I think many people don't realigned AppleCare here much, simply because you don't get the same level of services you do when dealing directly with apple.
For example, there was a battery recall for PowerBooks a few years back. In the US you could call , they ship you a new battery first, with prepaid packaging for shippingth defective one back. In new Zealand, we had to call up the distributor, whereby they took your old battery for 3-6 weeks before informing you to come and pick up the replacement when it arrived. I can tll you, a laptop without a battery for that long really sucked.
My sisters iPhone headphones crapped up, and she had drop them off at a designated mobile phone repair centre, where they charged her $50 bond for replacement. If the fault wasn't found, they would keep the bond. Replacements came in a week or two.
noirebanana
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I got a used MacBook from eBay today and have been updating its software and OS and stuff, but for some reason whenever I try to download the required Mac OS X Combined Update it says I do not have appropriate access privileges even though I'm logged in as the administrator. Any help and/or suggestions?
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/37088_you-do-not-have-appropriate-access-privilegesGamerGeorge said:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1216811&start=15&tstart=0
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1278
I would just format and reinstall honestly, since its preowned.
noirebanana
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giga said:
Thanks for the links. I would simply reinstall, but I don't have the install disc, unfortunately.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AMHWP8/?tag=neogaf0e-20GamerGeorge said:
noirebanana
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giga said:
I'll check that out, thank you.
Shrike_Priest
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scorcho said:
Then you must have an odd release that isn't catching the right updates or something. 1.3.10 is from November 2010. As far as I can remember it's been updated pretty regularly.
It's definitely my go to reader once I replaced Preview.
That said, unless you need any advanced features, Preview works great for just viewing. But Skim's annotation-features are a definitely a godsend for academic work.
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Futureman said:
Google Notifier: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_mac.html
Lets me know when I receive a new message, has some previews, and accesses your account through your browser when you click the e-mail.
Seems I've hit a snag with my SSD. All of a sudden I get errors with the drive after a reboot. Chrome's profile was destroyed (I had a backup) and CCC was reporting errors with a few files. The other files remained readable, but Disk Utility is reporting errors and it needs to be fixed. I moved the old Chrome profile folder to the trash, and restored the backed up one. Try to empty the trash and it can't delete the folders. Gives me an error about not being writable.
So I boot from my old drive, now sitting in the USB case that came with the SSD and it's soooo sloooow. As soon as it boots back into OS X, it gives me an error "The drive cannot be fixed. Backup your files, reformat and restore from the backup."
So here I am restoring the clone back to the SSD in hopes that it fixes it. But now I'm afraid it might happen again. I have 100GB to restore. I can't be doing this all the time!
What kind of warranty did my Kingston SSDNow come with I wonder.
The files that were apparently bad aren't even files that might have been written a million times or anything. They just seemed to be random files.
Ugh, so slow. It's been 4GB in 10 minutes. At this rate it'll take 24 hours to restore. 24 hours with this slow HDD. I've been spoiled.
I don't want to go back to HDD! I can't! I've tasted speed and I love it. I can't go back to that hell!
So I boot from my old drive, now sitting in the USB case that came with the SSD and it's soooo sloooow. As soon as it boots back into OS X, it gives me an error "The drive cannot be fixed. Backup your files, reformat and restore from the backup."
So here I am restoring the clone back to the SSD in hopes that it fixes it. But now I'm afraid it might happen again. I have 100GB to restore. I can't be doing this all the time!
What kind of warranty did my Kingston SSDNow come with I wonder.
The files that were apparently bad aren't even files that might have been written a million times or anything. They just seemed to be random files.
Ugh, so slow. It's been 4GB in 10 minutes. At this rate it'll take 24 hours to restore. 24 hours with this slow HDD. I've been spoiled.
I don't want to go back to HDD! I can't! I've tasted speed and I love it. I can't go back to that hell!
I dunno. But I bought it off Amazon which says it's backed by Kingston's 3 year warranty. So if I have any problems after re-cloning back, I'm giving them a call. I mean, this isn't a "normal" thing, right? I've only had it 5 weeks.mrkgoo said:
Thankfully I do still have the old HD and if I have to send it back for replacement, I can just boot from that and live with the speed decrease until it returns.
11.5GB in 35 minutes. Maybe it won't take as long as I was fearing.
You know. I had this exact problem on my old 2007 MacBook a few months before I discovered it was dying a painful but silent death. I would put QuickTime into fullscreen and it would instantly either shut my computer down or Kernel Panic.Burger said:
What is the computer? I would seriously look into taking it in. Is it still under warranty?
Seriously. Same exact problem. Shortly after I started getting random shutdowns when the processor got too hot. The fans weren't doing their job. Now the fans are dead, the processor is crying and the computer is resting peacefully next to my new one.
Burger
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Jasoco said:
No way is it under warranty! Had a complete logic board replacement several months ago under the nVidia 8600M failure program.
Hope the fucker isn't dying.
*Edit:
Looks like a driver issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2654072&start=60&tstart=0
Hmm. On the one hand, it sounds like the same problem I had. On the other, could two completely separate models have the same flaw? Mine was just a white MacBook. Yours is a Pro from a year later. And they're not even the same video or processor. I dunno.
If you had AppleCare, wouldn't it still be under warranty for at least a month?
Edit: Driver issue? Well, good luck. Try it out.
If you had AppleCare, wouldn't it still be under warranty for at least a month?
Edit: Driver issue? Well, good luck. Try it out.
smokeymicpot
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Jasoco said:
This sounds like what happening to my computer. Think mine is a 2008 macbook though. Going to be doing a full reinstall soon just gotta find some way I can back up my stuff. Since I do not have a external hardrive.
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Burger said:
What program is that?
Burger
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Jasoco said:
AppleCare? Yeah, they would have to pry the money out of my cold, dead hands. Laptop AC is almost a quarter of the value of the machine, for what? A guarantee that your premium, top tier piece of expensive computer will last AT LEAST 3 years.
I don't buy that shit on principle. Plus there are consumer protection laws in NZ that void AppleCare anyway. Shit, using NZ law Apple/the Retailer need to guarantee that a product last a reasonable length of time. For a MBP I would assume that to be 4-5 years plus.
*Thanks for the help
Just saying if you had it, you wouldn't be having this problem now.Burger said:
*You're welcome. What did you decide to do? It has been 3 years, maybe it's time for a new machine anyway? 3 years seems to be the average usage span I get out of my Macs before I retire them. The MacBook was the only one that ever actually had a problem. (Aside from a HD failure under warranty in my first iMac G3.