Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear Listers, I've searched the archives of googlegroups for the answer but failed to find one. My spreadsheet is now over 100 rows long and it is growing. Increasingly, Numbers has become extremely sluggish, so much so that it is driving me mad. The constant "busy busy" message, the sluggishn

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I've got a 2011 core i5 macbook pro with 8 gb ram and an ssd and all the issues you reported. i can sort of get around with the find feature some times, but not always. IWork hasn't been updated since snow leopard. I'm wondering if it's partly a compatibility issue with new operating syst

RE: Bookmark bar in Safari

2012-11-18 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I must be doing something wrong, because all that does is throw me out of the bar with no action taken. I have tried this both on the bookmark bar, and on the list of bookmarks in the bookmarks menu. Any thoughts where I might be going wrong? BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholto

Re: Mail Busy ...

2012-11-18 Thread Mike Dailey
Thanks Candie, I will try that. I only have 3GB right now, so hopefully that will help. On Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:26:32 PM UTC-5, Candie wrote: > > I used to receive a great deal of busy messages also when I was in mail or > some other programs but then I updated my ram to 4 gigabytes a

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Andrew, I tried to duplicate this with a spreadsheet with over 220 rows but did not get the same result. Granted, your sheet may be more complicated than mine with more formulas and calculations. Have you tried turning Cursor Tracking off (fn-VO-shift-f3 when navigating through the sheet?

Re: Opinions on I Mac.

2012-11-18 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Kawal, Your best bet is to contact Apple to discuss specs for the 2 machines. I have a 21 inch model, and at the time, I believe I bought the fastest processor they offered. This was in March of this year. Les On Nov 14, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I plan to get the 27 inc

Facebook on the Mac

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Ring
Greetings all, I am attempting to do something I never thought I'd do, that is, set up a facebook account. I'm trying this on my Mac book Pro running Mountain Lion with all updates applied. One thing the page has is a combo box (rather than a popup button) that you're supposed to use to search f

Re: Facebook on the Mac

2012-11-18 Thread Michael Babcock
Dan typing in that combo box, and then utilize it just your down arrow after you type your friends name. It is a strange HTML form utilizing JavaScript that Facebook has implemented because it looks visually "appealing". Sent from my iPhone On Nov 18, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Richard Ring wrote: >

Renaming

2012-11-18 Thread Craig J Dunlop
Using mountain lion how do I rename a file or folder? I've looked through the menus and just can't seem to find the right command. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to ma

Re: Renaming

2012-11-18 Thread Michael Babcock
Highlight the file or folder, and press your enter key. This is the key to keys to the Right of the letter L. This will bring you into an edit field, where you can simply type the new name of the file or folder. Simply pressing enter again will rename the file or folder. I hope this helps. Micha

Re: Facebook on the Mac

2012-11-18 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello there, from my understanding, you completed your account, but is having issues with that search box which is annoying, correct? well. here's the deal with that: it will not read you what you're typing, but it will actually search, so say, if you type mauricio almeida and either press enter

Re: Renaming

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh, easy. When you're focused on the file or folder, hit your return key. This will then present you with a text box with the folder or file name which you can edit/rename at free will. When done, hit return again to accept the change. Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of

Re: Renaming

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Mike, you forgot the apostrophy key. It's 3 keys to the right of the letter l. L, semicolon, apostrophy, then, return. LOL! Sorry, I couldn't resist. Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions - Original Message - From: "Michael Babcock" To: Sent: Sun

Re: Facebook on the Mac

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Ring
Thanks, I'm gonna try this. Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Mauricio Almeida wrote: > hello there, > > from my understanding, you completed your account, but is having issues with > that search box which is annoying, correct? > well. here's the deal

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Ever since we went to Mountain lion, I have had problems with numbers slowing down big time on large files. I have Faillone the one thing that helps a little. I turned the mouse follows voiceover cursor off. I had it on, And I have found that it makes a difference. Maybe I should see wh

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I don't know if this'll help or not, but there is a way to enter data into numbers with TextEdit. I do this a fair amount. You can do this by putting carriage returns to separate the Rose, and separate columns with the . So let's say we have three columns and four rows that we want to m

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I just thought of something else, but some other person on this list is going to have to help you to do it if my ideas any good. Would it be possible to put lion or Snow Leopard also on your Mac so that you could run your numbers program on one of them instead? In my case, I could go to

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I'm revisiting tables. I think I might buy it. It's tediously slow, but I can press command shift A and bring up a go to range dialog which is similar to the one in excel. Then I can type the cell I want to visit, even if it's 80 or 100 rows down the table and I will eventually get there

Unable to install Adobe Flash Player

2012-11-18 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, Whenever I try to install the latest update of Flash Player, I get an error stating that the install failed. I checked in the console and got the following error :"Installer: CoreAnimation: warning, deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction; set CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS=1 in environment

Re: Opinions on I Mac.

2012-11-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Les. I know which I Mac I'm getting, just waiting for it to be released. Thank you for your advice. Kawal. On 18 Nov 2012, at 05:40 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Kawal, > > Your best bet is to contact Apple to discuss specs for the 2 machines. I > have a 21 inch model, and at the time, I

Mail Busy ...

2012-11-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I have 16GB of RAM and still frequently get Mail busy messages. The RAM upgrade did help reduce iTunes busy and Safari busy messages, however. If you're thinking of upgrading your RAM, which I generally think is a good idea, I'd recommend monitoring your RAM use with Activity Monitor app which c

Bookmark bar in Safari

2012-11-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Perhaps try pressing command-backspace? If that doesn't work, try Command-X. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to m

Re: Facebook on the Mac

2012-11-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Richard. Another site to use Facebook is m.facebook.com. I find it far more accessible than the regular Facebook site and that combo box you speak of to search for contacts isn't there. A normal edit box is there. You may find it a little inaccessible but there is a remedy to that. Go to your

Re: Facebook on the Mac

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Ring
I truly appreciate this advice. Thanks so much! Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Nov 18, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hi Richard. Another site to use Facebook is m.facebook.com. I find it far > more accessible than the regular Facebook site and that combo box you s

Having a small issue with Voxer

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Does anyone know with the Voxer ap for the IPhone how to clear messages out of your chat list? I used to could symply double tap on the message, then double tap in the upper right corner of the screen to open the chat settings for that conversation, then in there could find delete chat. Now, t

Re: Mail Busy ...

2012-11-18 Thread Anne Robertson
I hardly ever get Mail busy messages. I have a MacBook Air running Mountain Lion with 4 gb of RAM and a 128 gb SSD. I have 8 mail accounts and tens of thousands of messages distributed among around 100 or so mailboxes. I have Mail in classic view without the preview pane. I did a clean install

Re: Bookmark bar in Safari

2012-11-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Press command option B to show all bookmarks. There should be 2 tables that appear now. Press VO command T to jump to the first table. In here, arrow down to bookmarks bar. Press VO command T to jump to the second table now. Here, just press the delete key on the bookmarks you wish to

What exactly is Passbook?

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
So, ever since I upgraded to I O S 6, I've seen this thing on my home screen called Passbook. So what exactly is this thing, and does it work well with Voiceover? Unless I'm just stupid, it doesn't seem to be very accessible. It looks like something for keeping your personal data like credit c

Re: What exactly is Passbook?

2012-11-18 Thread Tammy
Hi, It's a place for storing passes, like airport passes and movie and starbucks cards etc. It's very accessible but you have to download the apps that work with it by going to the link that says appstore in the passbook app. I'm never used it myself but I've heard it works well and you neve

RE: What exactly is Passbook?

2012-11-18 Thread Daniel Miller
Not many apps support it right now, so if you don't do a lot of baseball games, movies, flying on Delta or United airlines lol, or starbucks, wallgreens, and a few others, it won't be of any use to you. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googleg

Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-18 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Dear tim, Erik and Gigi, Thank you for such prompt responses. Tim, I've tried working with the cursor tracking off. Things have improved somewhat for which I'm grateful but the second method you've described seems to be slightly better. Navigating with Vo+arrow does not seem to work very well a

Re: Mail Busy ...

2012-11-18 Thread Agent086b
Hello, could you explain what the PRAM you mention below is? Thanks Max. On 19/11/2012, at 9:06 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > I hardly ever get Mail busy messages. I have a MacBook Air running Mountain > Lion with 4 gb of RAM and a 128 gb SSD. I have 8 mail accounts and tens of > thousands of mes

Re: What exactly is Passbook?

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
So, can someone show me how to actually add something to Passbook? I see that the Apple store is one of the apps which it supports. I most certainly do have the Apple Store app on my phone. Are you kidding me? If you've not tried it, you should. It works fantasticly! I do have a coupon for

Re: What exactly is Passbook?

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I definitely do the Apple Store which is supported, and I also definitely do Starbucks, so in those cases, it'll be excellent. Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions - Original Message - From: "Daniel Miller" To: Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 6:33 P

Jailbreak ipad 3

2012-11-18 Thread Krysti .Power
Hey all Is there a jailbreak for ipad 3 with ios 6 It doesn't matter if it is unthered or not -- 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 unsubscribe from this group,

Re: Jailbreak ipad 3

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
If there is, I'll let you be the guinea pig and tell me how it works. My IPad 3, and my IPad mini are my babies, and I don't wanna brickem. LOL! Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions - Original Message - From: Krysti .Power To: macvisionaries@go

Re: Jailbreak ipad 3

2012-11-18 Thread Krysti .Power
Let me know if there is and ill deff be the ginnie pig On 2012-11-18 8:51 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > ** > If there is, I'll let you be the guinea pig and tell me how it works. My > IPad 3, and my IPad mini are my babies, and I don't wanna brickem. LOL! > > Thank you kindly, > > Chr

RE: What exactly is Passbook?

2012-11-18 Thread Daniel Miller
You can only put it in from an email, if you bought it digitally within the last week or so. I'm not sure you can add physical paper coupons to passbook -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland S

Re: Bookmark bar in Safari

2012-11-18 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Thanks for the help, but I think I am still missing something. I found the table, which has listings for history, bookmarks bar and bookmarks menu. But no matter how I interact with these listings I do not get the second table you mentioned. I would also like to delete a few of the book

Re: 1Password

2012-11-18 Thread Damashe Thomas
Hello, After installing the appstore version, you should only have to point the app to your dropBox 1password file and all should work. - Original Message - From: "ROD SKENE" To: Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:45 AM Subject: 1Password Hi everyone, I have a trial version

Re: Mail Busy ...

2012-11-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Max, The PRAM is the Parameter RAM. You reinitialise it by shutting down the computer, then holding down the Command, Option, letter R and letter P keys and pressing the Power key. Keep the four keys held down until you've heard the start up chime four times, then release them. Cheers,

Re: Mail Busy ...

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi. Sorry, but what does this command do? What is it useful for? I just say this portion of the message. On Nov 18, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Max, > > The PRAM is the Parameter RAM. You reinitialise it by shutting down the > computer, then holding down the Command, Optio