Managing photo library
Against my wife's wishes, I am transitioning her to a Mac, replacing her current Windows laptop with an iMac (I already have an MBP). Her computer stores our photo collection, thousands of pics of our...
View ArticleRelentless Calendar Alerts
In my office we have about 6 people who share a calendar. I get nonstop alerts for every event, even though I have alerts turned off in my preferences. Here's a screenshot of a sample of my emails. Any...
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Mysterious photos taking up storage space.
About this mac says that photos are taking up almost 45 gigs of space but my photo library is on an external drive. I've used omni disk sweeper and it doesn't find anything. Any ideas on how i can...
View ArticleUnable to burn CD/DVDs in Finder
I was trying to burn a few MP3 for a friend of mine today outside of iTunes (ripped from flv). I threw in a CD-R and was prompted to choose what to do. Because it was a simple burn, I was going to use...
View ArticleWhy is Safari so much slower than Chrome?
Is there any hope for Safari ever improving? I try to use it, daily even, but time after time when I run into yet another YouTube stutter or appalling Google Maps frame rate I go back to Chrome. It's a...
View ArticleCan't backup my Photos library
Hi everyone, I recently got myself a new mbp. I backup up my old one but the only thing I want to restore is my photos library. When I plug the drive into my new mb It doesn't show the old backups in...
View ArticleTime machine
I recently upgraded my hard drives to 4tb. (1tb iMac, 3tb external)Problem is the drive I'm using for time machine is only 3tb. They'll be an obvious point in time that'll not be sufficient for backing...
View ArticleCan't open Flash player files in OS X
Hey everyone! Hoping someone can help out here. I am doing some slide presentations using Flash Player (I know, but it has to be this way). Previously, I would extract the file from a zip on to my...
View ArticleIs there no way to get Mavericks or Yosemite any more???
I'm still on Snow Leopard due to using this system for FCP7 and having on going projects and not wanting to upgrade in the middle of them. Now I'm upgrading both my system and OS and find that I can...
View ArticleBeach balling on right click in Firefox
and killing firefox doesn't help. If I try to restart firefox I lose access to the launch bar, actually anything that tries to open a link will just lock the system cold. The only option is to pull...
View Articlegetting "there was an error in iCloud preferences."
Evertime I open iCloud preferences I get this error. also none of my photos are uploading to iCloud even though I have it set to upload. Anyway to delete and retire the entire Icloud preferences? Thanks
View ArticleBitdefender software not removing!
Hi I ran the bitdefender antivirus app for mac and then ran the uninstall app However little snitch shows a process running every time called bdagentd Can anyone help me remove this sw?
View ArticleKeychain Help
Ive noticed recently that sometimes my passwords aren't saving across devices. For example, they show up on my iPhone, but I will get on my mac and go to the website and the password isn't set up. Some...
View ArticlePlease help me understand!!!
I know that I'm years behind as far us upgrading my computer so don't chew my head off, I have a Mid 2009 17 inch Macbook Pro 2.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo , 4Gb DDR3 Ram and Dual 9400 256 and 9600 GT 512. I...
View ArticleDropbox nasty OS X behaviour, gain complete computer control
This type of behaviour shouldn't be allowed by apple, they just don't care. I am really more and more convinced that big companies don't really care about our privacy and security. This is a serious...
View Articledisk first aid and time machine
I'm trying to run disk first aid on a time machine disk. It's a 2 GB disk, with about 628 GB used. How long should it take to run "Checking multilinked files."? Would it run faster if it had more...
View ArticleThere is a cursed YouTube video!!!
I clicked on this video but when it played it showed up glitchy so I reloaded the page but it was stuck and wouldn't reload and I couldn't load any other pages and my system was laggy and my clock and...
View ArticleApple Photos Library - easier way to select photos in finder?
I've been trying to find ways to easily select photos when you upload things through Safari, but up to now the best methods I've found are to copy photos to your desktop, or battle through this...
View Articlecan't mount a dmg image i made of my os drive
Hi there, i was told to back up my HD at a apple care centre in France because they had to replace the mother board due to issues, i used disk utility app to create an image then planned to restore it,...
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