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~/.Trash owned by root! 6 18 (1/4/2013 6:37:44 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Weird and I have no idea how it happened. I tossed a few things in the trash. Then I tried to empty it, but Finder (and Pathfinder) did not have the "empty trash" menu items active (ie. they thought I... Bread

The $1499 iMac 21.5 - weird 16 34 (12/5/2012 5:13:48 AM) comp.sys.mac.system So a friend is planning on buying a new 2012 21.5" iMac and was asking whether to get the $1299 model or the $1499 model. As far as I can tell, the main difference is that for $200 extra, you get the *... Bread

Hard drive replacements in 2011 iMacs 8 32 (11/16/2012 6:36:27 PM) comp.sys.mac.system So the 2011 iMacs apparently have this issue where the internal drive has to have Apple-specific firmware. Or at least that was the case as of May 2011 when they came out. It has to do with temperature ... Bread

The TV show which just won't freaking go away 33 63 (9/18/2012 10:29:36 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I made the mistake of buying a single episode of a single sitcom via Apple's store on my iPad. I watched it. I synced my iPad. iTunes copied it to my hard drive. I deleted it from the iPad. Eve... Bread

Mail.app - "stack" gets "stuck" 0 56 (9/13/2012 5:40:13 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps If I select several messages in Mail (v 6.0 in Mountain Lion), the batch of selected messages animates into a "stack" on top of the message viewing area. Nifty animation much like that on iOS. If I th... Bread

back to my mac, snow leopard 2 26 (8/21/2012 9:14:18 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm I did a little googling and poking around on Apple's site and found nothing, so please bear with me if this is something I should have found but didn't. Since moving to iCloud, what's the story regardi... Bread

Great cust svs from AgileBits re: 1Password 6 37 (7/6/2012 11:07:51 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Just sharing a good customer experience. I'd been having trouble with 1Password and Chrome. Long story short, I sent cust svc e-mail - we went back and forth about 4 times - but every time, they were ... Bread

Quicktime X - has no Save - only Export! 18 123 (6/29/2012 10:43:36 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Jeez, how annoying. I just want to split a video in half. Easy enough - use Duplicate, so I have two copies, then use Trim on each to trim down to the half I want to keep in each case. Then I can't s... Bread

Fascinating article (TidBits) about Sandboxing and Gatekeeper 17 47 (6/27/2012 12:18:55 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps http://tidbits.com/article/13071 Totally worth reading. --snip-- Answering Questions about Sandboxing, Gatekeeper, and the Mac App Store by Rich Mogull > Apple’s strategy relies on five technical... Bread

Microsoft Office update and Firefox 20 42 (5/1/2012 7:02:35 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Just curious if anyone knows why, when I use Microsoft Update to update my copy of Office, it insists that I kill off Firefox before it can finish the installation. Was it the Sharepoint browser plugin... Bread

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Backup versus/vs. Sync in Mac OS X 10.8.3's iTunes with an iPhone 4S? 23 1 (5/6/2013 5:47:27 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hello. Are iTunes' backup and sync with an iPhone 4S, two different things? I noticed last night, backing up did not copy iPhone 4S' data to MacBook Pro's Mac OS X 10.8.3 softwares. However, Sync did. I ... ANTant (1288)

Happy Birthday, WWW 8 7 (5/1/2013 6:24:30 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Well, happy belated birthday; I'm a day late.  Can you believe that the web is only twenty years old?  (Of course the internet is much older.)  It's changed our lifestyle as much as the telephone, radio, te... michelle14 (18403)

replacement for the Finder 146 15 (3/19/2013 9:11:57 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Is there any kind of replacement for the Finder in Mountain Lion? Maybe something I can download from the App Store? The Finder in Mountain Lion can be really really slow sometimes. Just a whole lot of s... bob3904 (233)

Top of iTunes hidden by Menu Bar 9 1 (5/8/2013 9:36:32 PM) comp.sys.mac.system MacBook Pro Running iTunes 11.0.2 under OSX 10.8.3 It's been working fine until a couple of hours ago. Now, I can't see the Header (or Title Bar) of iTunes, because it's hidden by the Finder Menu Bar. ... copespaz (197)

Sync Notes? 16 3 (5/6/2013 4:58:40 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Hello. My client uses Notes in his iPhone 4S' iOS5. How come iTunes doesn't synchronize them to his 13.3" MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8.3 and all updates? We didn't see any settings for Notes in iTunes.... ant (767)

Syncing folder with the cloud 26 3 (4/29/2013 11:14:36 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, OS 10.6.8 I have a folder that I would like to keep synced with a copy in the cloud (Dropbox, Google Drive, whatever). Googling turned up an app, MacDropAny, wit... dfmanno (360)

[NEWS] Adobe kills Creative Suite 161 2 (5/7/2013 9:21:50 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Adobe started the desktop publishing industry and now it looks like they're going to be the ones to kill it ... Adobe Announces New Creative Cloud Apps, Abandons Creative Suite ----------------... yourname3 (528)

The return of 10.8 104 6 (4/27/2013 8:53:15 AM) comp.sys.mac.system ....on my system, anyway. I was on 10.6.8 for the last several months because I really didn't care for the 10.8 front-end. However, as expected, software started to complain about the version, so now I'm ... howard578 (1956)

iEvade 6 1 (5/13/2013 7:24:55 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps New app from Apple: http://tinyurl.com/dx7l83b ... baiheli.pip (53)

Week-at-a-Glance Calendar App 3 1 (5/12/2013 2:15:31 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Does anyone know of a calendar app for Mac OS X that displays each week as 2 columns: col 1 is Mon, Tue, and Wed; col 2 is Thu, Fri, and Sat/Sun (in one box)? On my iPhone/iPad, Easy Calendar uses that d... gary_w12 (52)