Fwd: Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

Hi, Here is a list of things apple say you can ignore when doing verify disc permissions the link to the information is below . Regards Dean >> From: Elijah >> Subject: Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you >> can safely ignore >> Date: 14 August 2012 4:48:

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

Dear Ioana, Yes, I have a rule set up on my mac in mail preferences that moves messages from macvisionaries to a mailbox I have created. I have not got any rules in Google itself - I did not know it was possible.. And I have turned off all the labels. Thanks for trying to help. I will double c

iPhoto and email

Hi I just tried to send a photo by using the action menu and email from within iPhoto. I got errors that the server wouldn't respond. I was then able to copy the photo and paste it into a email created from within Mail and send normally. I then repeated the same steps again with the same resul

Renaming my Mac

Hi I know this might be a strange question but how would I go about renaming my Mac. It's current default name is Garth's Mac Book Air but I would like to change this Garth iblindtech.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. T

Re: A way to renable the backspace key to go back a page in Safari

I have fairly limited experience with all of Safari but I have always used the Commend-arrow keys to go back but I use tabs as much as possible. I believe Safari under Mountain Lion does more with tabs instead of opening new windows. I usually go back by pressing Command-w to close tab or wind

Ripping from cd to .ogg vorbis

Hello guys. I know that I can rip into MP3 format using iTunes, however, is there a way that I can somehow get an application which will allow me to rip from a CD into ogg format? Thanks for any help. Chris. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: Ripping from cd to .ogg vorbis

That would be max from www.sbooth.org. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-08-14, at 7:40 AM,

Re: Renaming my Mac

Hi Garth, To rename your Mac, open System Preferences and click on "Sharing". If you then VO-Right past the toolbar, you'll see a "Computer name" text field. If the name is dimmed, just uncheck the box that says, "Click the lock to make changes", enter your password, and you'll be able to chang

Calendar Appointments on the Mac

I have a question about the list of appointments possible in Calendar. On IOS devices, you can see a full list view of all appointments, past and present in a single view. I was thinking since Mountain Lion's approach in many apps is more closely similar to their IOS counterparts,, that list c

Re: Renaming my Mac

Cheers Gavin, I was digging around in Users and Groups, completely skipped over sharing. On 14/08/2012, at 10:11 PM, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: > Hi Garth, > > To rename your Mac, open System Preferences and click on "Sharing". If you > then VO-Right past the toolbar, you'll see a "Computer name

A few queries related to programming: vim, configuration files, etc

Hello listers. I have a few questions related to programming on the mac. I frequently code in C, C++, Python and Java, and I often come across situations where I have to edit configuration files for a few applications, etc. 1. what is the best editor or IDE? I have tried using vim from the terminal

Re: Having Mail not automatically mark a message as read when I move to it

Hi, Could I have the steps please I need to disable the pain since It seems to have reappeared for some strange reaspon. Thanks. Matthew matthew Dyer Sent from my mac mini. e-mail/msn: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com Skype: graduater 2004 Follow me on twitter at mdyer1. Facebook: ilovecount

Re: Having Mail not automatically mark a message as read when I move to it

Hey. How do I inable mouse keys in voiceover in sl does anyone remember. I do not have a mouse of any kind on my machine so will have to use the mouse keys to do this. Matthew matthew Dyer Sent from my mac mini. e-mail/msn: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com Skype: graduater 2004 Follow me on

Re: Please explain disclosure triangles

I do not hear the word "plus" or "minus". How do I click on it? Sorry for silly question. On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Chris wrote: > Hey at least we do not get those stupid balloons on the mac yea! > > On 13/08/2012 17:36, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: >> It's more like those stupid balloon

Re: Using Boot Camp

No, no passwords anywhere. That may well be the difference. On 8/14/12, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Is your windows partition Password locked? This might be the the cause of > the differences we're seeing. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.applet

Re: sort of figured out GarageBand

Okay, thanks. I'll have a look at some of the other effects in there as well, they could come in handy. On 8/14/12, Chris Blouch wrote: > 100 is a single note up and -100 should be a single note down. There are > controls but I couldn't figure out a way to access them so I just typed > the values

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

Well put Les. I have almost given up on a lot of tables on the mac, and numbers is driving me crazy, as sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. I know Apple is working on these things, and they aren't the easiest problems to fix, but hey, I lack patience. On Aug 12, 11:27 pm, Les Kriegler

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

Hi Brian, I assume you continue to use the Mac, and as a result, your feedback is important. Good luck as we both continue to traverse the Mac world! Les On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Well put Les. I have almost given up on a lot of tables on the mac, > and numbers is

Re: Please explain disclosure triangles

If you are in the finder in list view each folder will read FolderName Collapsed or FolderName Expanded You can use plain old up/down to go up and down the tree and then right left to expand/collapse the folder. Once expanded, up/down will include all the child files/folders. If you are focu

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac

You have to switch to day view to see a list. Personally I think a list view should be added to the toolbar. I wrote to Apple expressing my disappointment with Calendar and felt it should be more intuitive, be more iOS like and require less interacting. This is my observation of the app as you

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

Would be great if someone could post how they set everything up in gmail or mail, as I am still coming to the group and using auto webspots to navigate. Would love to get the group thread through mail, but not in my main mailbox Thanks On Aug 13, 5:31 pm, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Hello Iona, > >

Re: Ripping from cd to .ogg vorbis

iTunes doesn't present the full QuickTime export options so even if you have the xiph ogg plugin for quicktime iTunes won't present that option. QuickTime Pro will export in any format supported by QuickTime (including ogg with the plugin) but you have to buy the pro version. CB On 8/14/12 7:

Re: Cannot copy track from shared library to my own computer

Hi, If you have Home Sharing turned on for both machines, with the same Apple ID, you'll see the other computer in your Sources List under the Devices section. If there is no Devices section, then your Home Sharing is either not set up accordingly or there is a network issue. Once you have fo

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

Hi, Brian, In Gmail, you can first set up labels and then set up filters to allow messages to be sorted by these labels. However, this requires a lot of website navigation. You can do this from any computer using any platform. In Mac Mail, you would first create new mailboxes from the mailboxes

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

Hi, I'm not sure if I understand your question totally. In standard view, your messages are in conversations and by default, a couple of lines of the messages is displayed. Vo will read this summarized version of the message and in some cases, this will be the entire message if the sender is

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac

My personal preference would be to use the Reminders app for appointments. Teresa On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > You have to switch to day view to see a list. Personally I think a list view > should be added to the toolbar. > > I wrote to Apple expressing my disappointment

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac

In a day view like this, wouldn't the list only be events for that given day? I was looking for a list of all available appointments regardless of what day it is. It would just sort them in chronological order like it does on IOS. You seem to have a lot of criticisms for the calendar ap. I don't

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac

That is the thing, the full list is present in the day view. I could understand if some of the table and row stuff was actually relevant, but you don't hear iOS reading it all out, and I can't find a way to switch it off. On 14 Aug 2012, at 16:52, Steve Holmes wrote: > In a day view like this,

Re: Calendar Appointments on the Mac and Syncing Google Calendar to iCal

Now that I have learned to put appointments on my calendar by writing "Meeting on 14 August at 15:00," for example, I have found no problems with calendar whatsoever. I do with when adjusting alerts that we didn't have to keep tabbing back to where we were in the event details scroll area, but

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

Hi, guys, Here is the original article I used to fix my mail issue. I did notice a message from the Mac Visionaries group slipped through to my main mailbox just this morning, but other than that I cannot remember having any issues, and I don't seem to have missed any messages. Note that this

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

Thanks, Alex, that's helpful. I've enver used Terminal or thought of going about renaming that way -- I'll loook it up. Harry On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Or you might use terminal to batch rename all the files to .zip. After > all, they are really just zip files with the e

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

Thanks for the link. I think I have solved the problem. Had to do this by resorting to the standard view in gmail which was fiddly but I think I have managed to uncheck all the boxes. Removing labels by itself did not help. thanks again for your generous sharing. Andrew On 14 Aug 2012, at 18:04

Re: Cannot copy track from shared library to my own computer

HI Tim, Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately I still cannot locate that famous copy button. I see the music in question but after the list table with music I want to new playlist. I activated the shortcut menu of the track I want to get and found a copy option. I pressed it but even after 1 mi

workaround was Re: Cannot copy track from shared library to my own computer

I lost patience and jaust found it in finder on the network and copied it in automattically add to itunes. Best, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > If you have Home Sharing turne

Growl in Mountain Lion

Hey all, I have never used Growl before and have been reading through all the threads on it to get a better understanding, but still am not sure what the whole point of it is. I was surprised to learn that Growl is installed on my system, as I don't recall ever installing as saw that you had to bu

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

Hi, Just a quick update that the advanced imap controls that allow you to choose what to synchronize is now a main feature of mail settings. No need to look for it in labs. I did have to ask my husband for help since I could not locate the show and hide labels in imap in the basic html google s

RE: Growl in Mountain Lion

I love growl for dropbox notifications. I don't use it for much else at this point since Pianopub seems to be broken, but it can be used for all kinds of neat things. I'm sure others can be of more assistance, but once you get it set up the way you want, Growl is awesome. I was having trouble get

Mail hanging up when view bye conversation checked

My mail program goes busy for a while when I'm viewing messages with view my conversation checked. This doesn't seem to happen under any other viewing options. I have four gigs of Ram, and am running VMWare fusion. Any thoughts? Antonio -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

Yes, the messages are read while cursing through and I do have a horizontal bar immediately following the collapsed vertical bar. Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-14, at 1:24 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi,. > > When are those messages being red? As you arrow through them?. > Have to ask again, sorry,

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

Did you make sure that the number of preview lines is 0? Very strange! Best, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > Yes, the messages are read while cursing through and I do have a horizontal

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

Where might I find that setting? Jeff On 2012-08-14, at 7:49 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Did you make sure that the number of preview lines is 0? Very strange! > Best, > > Ioana > > Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online > stores. > > On Aug 14, 2012, at

Re: Please explain disclosure triangles

This is so super. Thank you. My son spent time with me today and helped me so much. I discovered that my biggest issue with opening files is that I did not realize how long I had to wait before the file actually opened. I tend to be impatient and my son just kept telling me to wait and let t

Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

Since upgrading to ML, I have paid some bills with my on-line banking site with no problems whatsoever. Today, though I was able to log on successfully multiple times, as soon as I attempted to do *anything* on the site, I was thrown off, and a "problem report" came up. When I tried to quit out

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

The one good answer I can give you is that Cookies and clearing them is found in Presences. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are s

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

I looked in Safari preferences, and under the Privacy tab, there is references to which cookies to allow, but I did not see any option for clearing them. I also cannot locate a general "empty cache" Looked in Security as well. . On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Th

Re: Preview Pane in Mac Mail (Mountain Lion)

It worked for me, and nothing is marked as read once I arrow over it anymore. unfortunately, I can no longer use vo-j, which I wouldn't mind if cmd-o didn't read the subject and some other text all over again before reading the message. Also, the handy feature, where arrowing would decide in whi

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

Anohter thing you could try, is the Reset safari option, which is found in the safari menu. In there, you can do things like clear history and other things. Try that, and then try going to your bank's site again. On 2012-08-14, at 10:00 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > I looked in Safari p

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

I did see that; was worried that this would clear all my saved passwords and such. Christine On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > Anohter thing you could try, is the Reset safari option, which is found in > the safari menu. In there, you can do things like clear history and oth

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

Hi Christine, I'm not at my computer, so I can't check this first, but try going to the menu bar (VO-M or Control-F2), right arrow to the Safari menu, then arrow down to a "Reset Safari" menu option. I think one of the submenu options you can check is to clear or empty the cache when you perform t

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

I did go into reset Safari, kept checked anything and everything I thought might help -- I did not see reference to emptying caches, cookies, or anything resembling that. I reset top web sites; reset history; unchecked saved names and passwords; I think I left only two or three things unchecked.

Re: Text edit and icloud

Hi there! Happily, I also figured out that somehow when installing ML, it had changed my icloud settings. So once I went in and unchecked documents, as I don't want my documents in the cloud, Text edit started behaving nicely again. Yay! No opening with the strange wizard and saving defaulted to

Re: Three running applications?

Hi Earl. When I go into the application chooser, it only shows one application, finder. Hmmm. Where are the other two hiding and where did that third one come from when I didn't change anything, as far as I know? Thanks. Veronica Watch and hear The Guide Dog Glee Club sing the Star-spangled Ba

what's the most accessable way to list things on ebay?

hey all i have some things i want to list so what's the most accessable way to list things on ebay? kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Growl in Mountain Lion

Hi Brian. I use Growl for Trillion, Skype since it's the only way for you to hear if someone wrote you a message, Menuweather, and Itunes via GrowlTunes to hear what song is being played. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Re: Exceedingly scary and confounding problem with on-line banking account

Hi Christine, I read your original post again, and noted the mention of Java, which is used by some banking sites. Java is not installed by default under Mountain Lion, and depending on whether you upgraded or performed a clean install of ML you may have a version of Java that is not compatible

Re: Three running applications?

Hi, I wouldn't worry about it. It might be some app running in the background like dropbox for example. Or, it might be a function of iCloud. I'm really not sure. But I don't think its anything to be alarmed about. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.applet