Involuntary OSX Upgrade with Time Machine?...
If I install Snow Leopard on an outside laptop internal SSD hard drive that I’m using for an external hard drive and then do a Time Machine backup to it from an iMac that has Mavericks on it, will my...
View ArticleRemembering window position and size
So this started happening when updated from 10.6.x to 10.8.x. It seems to happen randomly. When I open a folder as a new window, it comes up as it's default size and position. I would then move the...
View ArticleInstalled Windows now OSX GONE! HELP
ok I installed windows 10 using boot camp. followed the instructions as I have done a few times in the past with no problems. but now I cant reboot into OSX. the partition is still there... I can see...
View ArticleAuto-mount a network drive after connecting to a wireless network
I am trying to figure out how to automatically connect a MacBook to a network drive after connecting to the wireless network that the drive is connected to. Here is the situation: I back-up my wife's...
View ArticleIs there an app to turn a page of test into dashes and spaces?
Hello. Newbie here. I mean something like this: I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills becomes after pasting into this possibly non-existent application: - --------...
View ArticleDEV HELP: I think I got hacked. Attached log file
I found my computer awake while the lid was closed. I opened the lid and the Location Services icon was on, and it said Maps was using my location. Thing is, the lid had been closed for over two hours,...
View ArticleMac Notifications
I get notifications from Mac Email and Messages. Every time I come back to my computer, I get notifications for every text message and email, over and over and over and over. Is there a way to just...
View Articlefile sharing help
I'd like to run uTorrent on my macbook air in the den and have the torrents sent over wifi to a directory on my mac pro (2006) in the office once completed. I've set uTorrent to send the file to the...
View ArticleF5 big-ip! What is this and why is it on my friends MacBook?
As the title suggests... I have a friend who contacts me on occasion when he's having OS X issues. He texted the other day that while trying to access enterprise email via his CAC card (mandatory) 90%...
View ArticleWipe data and install as new
Hi everyone, I have a Macbook pro early 2011 currently running IOS Yosemite. I am due to sell my macbook and need to wipe all data from it and install IOS Yosemite as fresh. Please could someone guide...
View ArticleWiping out hard drive -- is TM backup all I need?
As the title says, I'd like to wipe out my hard drive entirely do a clean OS X install. In the past, I used to just manually copy all my files to a hard drive and then manually copy them back, along...
View ArticleBoots in safe mode, Blue Screen
Hey guys a few questions.. imac snow leopard was working fine. Then it started only booting to blue screen.. i got it to boot fully into safe mode.. but there was no disk utility so I couldn't try...
View Articleripping a dvd
I have many home made dvd discs (with dvd menus etc) and i want to find some way to convert them to some file that will be playable to a mac, keeping the interface but without needed to be played on a...
View ArticleApp icons keeping coming back to dock after i remove them
any idea on why app icons would consistently keep going back into the dock after i right click and remove them, or drag them off of the dock to go poof. Ill open a program, close it, then it leaves the...
View ArticleeBooks back in iTunes
anyone have this issue where eBooks starting to show up in iTunes again? after iBooks pulled them? This is with My Audiobooks chosen as the sort!!!! from the Audiobooks icon from the menu. NOTHING in...
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iSCSI Initiator
Hello Fellows, I am new to OS X World. I am looking for a free iSCSI Initiator which is unfortunately lacks in OS X . I am (hard) Windows user (as I am a MCT ). In windows we have native functionality...
View ArticleExternal USB Drive does not show both partitions
Hi, I have an External USB 2TB drive which has two partitions. One called Backup and the other called Media. Up till about an hour ago everything was fine. I then got this message in OS X saying a...
View ArticleCould USB icons always be in same place?
I frequently add one or more memory card reader(s) to transfer photos/videos. After I eject them and connect them again maybe the following day, the icon(s) show up in a different position on the...
View ArticleMissing disk space
So i hope I havent missed anything here, but im trying to find ~13gb not showing up under my SSD on my 13" MBP on El Cap GM. I have 120gb Samsung 750 Evo drive, and my finder says I have 33gb...
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