With regard to the question of "Will DVD's work?", the answer is VLC and/or
MakeMKV.
VLC has so far worked on any DVD I've tossed at it, even ones that
DVDPlayer.app did not like because of region mismatch.
And MakeMKV is designed to extract the movies from DVD's even when the DVD is
using more
> If you know the point in time when all the ports worked you can also
> do a git checkout of the tree, switch to an old commit (from
> approximately the time when everything worked) and use that one as the
> main ports tree. Then you will get all the old versions back.
This is a very useful acti
On 14 Sep 2017, at 13:25, Ian Wadham wrote:
> On 14/09/2017, at 7:57 PM, db wrote:
>> In case you have Time Machine or a clone, just restore /opt/local/ and
>> /Applications/MacPorts/.
> Heh, heh! Someone else suggested that and it was also one of the first
> things I
> thought of. But guess w
Hi,
On 14/09/17 10:49, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
On Sep 14, 2017, at 01:48, Chris Jones wrote:
Hi,
On 14/09/17 09:34, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 14 September 2017 at 10:10, Chris Jones wrote:
Update to Sierra, it will save you most trouble in the long run.
No need at all to go to a
No problem. When I moved to Sierra with my old MBP, it still read and engraved
CDs/DVDs and you can buy an external CD player on USB connexion, which implies
that Sierra can still deal with it!
Ciao,
Laurent
> Le 14 sept. 2017 à 13:40, Ian Wadham a écrit :
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> On 14/09/2017, at
Hi Chris,
On 14/09/2017, at 6:10 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> I understand what these messages mean and I have read the Macports Wiki pages
>> referred to, but I am uncertain what to do next.
>> 1. Do I need to do any cleanup of the failed run before doing anything else?
>> If so,
>> what comm
Hi everybody,
Thank you so very much for all the helpful advice and suggestions. I live in
Australia, so it is TV veg-out time and nearly bedtime. I will work through
all your replies in detail in the morning.
On 14/09/2017, at 7:57 PM, db wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2017, at 06:30, Ian Wadham wrote:
>
On 14 Sep 2017, at 06:30, Ian Wadham wrote:
> The most serious (for me) is KMyMoney, which holds all my finances and
> investments, and it is time for me to do annual accounting and tax.
In case you have Time Machine or a clone, just restore /opt/local/ and
/Applications/MacPorts/.
> On Sep 14, 2017, at 01:48, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 14/09/17 09:34, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On 14 September 2017 at 10:10, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Update to Sierra, it will save you most trouble in the long run.
>>> No need at all to go to a store to get it done though, just do
Hi,
On 14/09/17 09:34, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 14 September 2017 at 10:10, Chris Jones wrote:
Update to Sierra, it will save you most trouble in the long run.
No need at all to go to a store to get it done though, just do it
yourself Download the updater from the App Store and follow the
Hi Ian,
I also jumped from Lion to Sierra recently but my old Macbook pro with a HD
slowed down a lot and it took a couple of days to be functional again (you have
to reinstall XCode, XQuartz,…). OTOH, note that Firefox is not maintained for
Lion since end of 2016 I believe. Not very secure. Fi
On 14 September 2017 at 10:10, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> Update to Sierra, it will save you most trouble in the long run.
> No need at all to go to a store to get it done though, just do it
> yourself Download the updater from the App Store and follow the
> instructions. Firefox and LibreOffice mi
Hi,
I understand what these messages mean and I have read the Macports Wiki pages
referred to, but I am uncertain what to do next.
1. Do I need to do any cleanup of the failed run before doing anything else?
If so,
what command(s) should I use?
2. I had a local ports tree that I no lo
On 14 September 2017 at 06:30, Ian Wadham wrote:
> I am in a right royal mess with some KDE 4 applications and libraries from
> MacPorts
> on which I depend. After a failed "sudo port upgrade outdated" run all my
> KDE 4 apps
> give OSX popup messages like "kmymoney cannot be opened because of a
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