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Mail 6.3 connection woes 1 5 (4/17/2013 5:57:33 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I just jumped from MacOS 10.6.8 to 10.8.3. I'm not an early adopter and did a lot of research on what needed to be upgraded and working before I took the jump. For the most part, it went fine. Some MyS... Michael

forward delete on MBP keyboard 5 16 (2/21/2013 4:04:22 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I have a Matias Pro which is a version of the original Mac 101 keyboard. It has Forward Delete in a group above the arrow keys along with Help, Home, Page Up, Page Down, and End. How are these keys mappe... Michael

Weird wake from sleep 9 63 (7/3/2012 8:35:24 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I never use sleep mode on my MacPro, so I'm unfamiliar with it. On my older machines, with various upgrades to hardware, Sleep stopped working so I just let the machine run with a screen saver. I just g... Michael

.Mac to .iCloud migration 9 183 (7/1/2012 8:20:55 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I manage an email listserv and about 10 people use .Mac or .Me (no ..MobleMe). Apple supposedly turned off .Mac yesterday, but email still works. If I change an address from .mac.com to .icloud.com, it bo... Michael

Refurb MacBook Pro laptop from Apple 3 81 (7/1/2012 4:29:13 AM) comp.sys.mac.system After the new notebooks were announced, I noticed a couple posters here mentioning they picked up a refurb'ed older MacBook with firewire, optical drive, etc. that aren't on the newer models, including the ... Michael

iTunes 10.5.1 always asking for AppleID 2 107 (11/18/2011 9:05:47 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I've set the new iTunes to not automatically update or download anything yet every time I start iTunes, it connects to ax.init.itunes.apple.com:80 to 'check in' to the iTunes Store. If there are iTouch Apps... Michael

Lion and CIFS/SAMBA 1 75 (7/22/2011 11:19:42 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I heard that Lion had to throw out the V2 GPL'ed SAMBA code because V4 is now V3 GPL. So it's not part of Lion. Does sharing with Windows networks still work? A week or so ago, someone from Europe posted t... Michael

Can't sleep on old G4 running 10.4.11 8 47 (2/8/2010 6:37:08 PM) comp.sys.mac.system A friend asked me why her system won't sleep any more. This is a very sudden occurrence apparently. Every day, she wakes her system, reads email, browses the web, then puts the system back to sleep. It's a... Michael

10.4.11 Security Update screws up a lot of stuff 10 54 (2/14/2008 3:10:51 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Luckily, I've been backing up my system before I install any Apple update since the Quicktime update royally screwed up my system a couple months ago. This latest update did a number of bad things(tm): 1) w... Michael

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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)

HP printer crash 1 0 (5/11/2013 3:06:59 PM) comp.sys.mac.system MacBook with 10.6.8 printing system had been working very well HP Deskjet AIO F4135 crashed repeatedly on Path: /Library/Printers/hp/cups/Deskjet.driver/Contents/MacOS/Deskjet Thought this may have hap... pure1 (14)

pop-ups 2 2 (5/13/2013 12:27:57 PM) comp.sys.mac.system MAC OS-X v 10.75 Firefox v 20.0 In my preferences in Firefox I have block-pop up windows checked but I continually get pops-up windows... particularly surveys. How can I stop this? ... gno52 (77)

Odd Lack of Mountain Lion Documentation 7 2 (5/11/2013 2:19:45 AM) comp.sys.mac.system With the Finder open there is a panel of options available when one selects "Show View Options" from the "View" menu. That produces a panel of options, one of which is "Use as Defaults". My attempts to figu... taliesinsoft966 (907)

How to use a Greek font 4 1 (5/14/2013 11:37:51 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps Dear friends: I am writing a paper using Microsoft Word for Mac, last version, and I need to include in it a short line in old Greek. I understand that there is a Greek font in OSX, so it should not be a p... jiclbchSINBASURA (178)

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 (50)

decline and fall of a MacBook 10.6.8 16 2 (5/11/2013 11:56:50 PM) comp.sys.mac.system For the last few months, I decided to start using the MacBook 10.6.8 regularly in house instead of saving it for on the road wifi. It has recently behaved like PC used to - gradually got slower and buggier... pure1 (14)

Browser for 10.5.8 43 1 (5/11/2013 5:30:52 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps Hi all, Can anyone suggest a decent browser for use on an old PPC Mini running 10.5.8? I've tried Opera, Safari and Firefox, none of them seem stable and the dowload sites don't offer much guidance as to w... bp39 (111)

Show ALL files including the ones that start with periods? 11 1 (5/11/2013 5:41:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hello. Is there a way to show ALL and access files in updated Mac OS X (10.5.8 and 10.8.3)'s Finder without going to Terminal (ls -all)? The reason is why I need to recover older backup copies from Time ... ant (767)

Delete all backups of "filename" from Time Machine not working in Mac OS X 10.8.3? 21 1 (5/11/2013 8:05:03 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hello. When I right click on a Time Machine (TM)'s back up file to delete ALL back ups. They don't seem to go away. I can still do quick look, restore, etc. on the requested deleted all files! Am I doing... ant (767)