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Re: How to tell App Store to ignore update? - 1 year ago

Quoteka jowct Tested this tonight with Sierra. Bizarrely, clicking about an inch to the left of, and slightly above, an update caused it to be hidden. So you click in a blank area not quite vertically aligned with the item you want to hide. Makes perfect sense, right? That didn't do the trick for me... maybe a screenshot would help?

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Re: How to tell App Store to ignore update? - 1 year ago

Appreciate your response, but I said in my original post I tried that. That feature is apparently gone.

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Re: How to tell App Store to ignore update? - 1 year ago

I don't want to turn off ALL updates, just a specific app.

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How to tell App Store to ignore update? - 1 year ago

Right clicking on an update notice in the App Store no longer allows you to have the store ignore updates for a specific app (I'm in Sierra). What's the new trick?

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Re: Accessing SMB3 server from High Sierra - 2 years ago

Afraid that did not do the trick. I'm sure it's a server side problem. Worked fine until they did the upgrade, and there is a stable connection on 2 of the three servers.

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Re: Accessing SMB3 server from High Sierra - 2 years ago

Thanks, I will give that a try and let you know.

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Accessing SMB3 server from High Sierra - 2 years ago

A client who has always connected properly to his company's Windows server via SMB (for mounting designated directories) is now getting dropped when connecting, since his IT department upgraded the server (now running SMB3). It is affecting all the company's Mac clients. I suspect they need to install a patch on their end, and though they are more cooperative than some other companies with antipa

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Re: Later boot drives not recognized by Startup Disk in Yosemite - 3 years ago

Thanks. Just so I know I'm not crazy!

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Re: Later boot drives not recognized by Startup Disk in Yosemite - 3 years ago

I unplugged all external devices as test. However, I am running my boot drive as an SSD on a Sonnet Tempo PCIe card. That could be a cause for the option-boot issue. BUT I also have a mirrored boot drive as a partition on a standard spinning drive, and THAT should show up in the startup disk pane (assuming the PCIE is the issue). It feels more like Yosemite doesn't want to reboot into the later

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Later boot drives not recognized by Startup Disk in Yosemite - 3 years ago

Haven't seen this before... recently had occasion to reboot my 2010 MacPro from an archived Yosemite disk, and when I was done and wanted to reboot into Sierra, the Sierra disk did not show up in Yosemite's Startup Disk prefs pane. I was able to reset it using Terminal, but why should this be? (Also: holding "option" at startup does not show me available startup disks, it just hangs aft

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Re: Help with Time Machine - 3 years ago

No, it was a clean install WITH migration assistant.

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Re: Help with Time Machine - 3 years ago

Thanks for the advice, you're probably correct.

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Help with Time Machine - 3 years ago

When I upgrade my OS by installing on a new volume, Time Machine always wants to do a full backup of the new drive (regardless of the fact that many of the files are unchanged from what is in the TM archive). Is there a way to avoid this, or do I need to wipe that Time Machine drive and start over?

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Re: Reinstalling recovery partition - 3 years ago

OK, so I did a clean install of Sierra on single-volume external (firewire) drive, still NO recovery partition installed (basic installation went fine). Recovery Partition Creator didn't help either. Seems like I'm following all of the instructions. I have no idea why I can't get this happening.

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Re: Reinstalling recovery partition - 3 years ago

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Re: Reinstalling recovery partition - 3 years ago

Quotebtfc Ah, I missed the part that says the Recovery Partition Creator only works on EXTERNAL drives...

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Re: Reinstalling recovery partition - 3 years ago

I was afraid that was the case. The volume I'm installing on is a partition on a drive already. I suppose I could install on a spare single-volume drive and then clone it to the volume where I want it, whereupon CCC will offer to clone the recovery partition.

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Re: Reinstalling recovery partition - 3 years ago

QuoteOnamuji QuoteJoey Cupcakes (sidebar: rebooting while holding down the option key so I can choose the startup disk does not work either- on a mid-2010 MacPro) El Cap and Sierra hide the Recovery partition from the EFI startup disk screen. You must use Command+R to boot to the Recovery volume. Yes, I know this, I was mentioning that in addition to not being able to boot via Command + R, a

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Reinstalling recovery partition - 3 years ago

I need to reinstall the recovery partition for Sierra, which I just installed on a disc that I did not reformat before installation. I created a small empty partition for this so I could try the Recovery Partition Creator method (version 4.0.4. I followed those instructions and it told me it was successful, but I have not been able to reboot into it using command-R, the small partition is still v

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Re: The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D. W. Griffith) online until Jan. 13 - 4 years ago

Quotepdq The...umm...director that brought us "Birth of a Nation"? Well, yes, but also the director that invented or refined most of the storytelling and camera techniques of cinema, directed Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921)...

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Address book- multiple addresses for single contact, how to print? - 4 years ago

I have contacts in my Apple Contacts list that have both a primary and secondary snail mail address. When I print address labels, I want to print only the primary address but Contacts automatically prints a second label with the secondary address. How do I tell it to print labels only for the primary address?

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Re: OK, I did it. iOS 10 on my iPhone 6s - 4 years ago

QuoteOnamuji After dealing with a few stupid interface issues by fixing the home button, signing out from the app store so that I have control over my own music collection once again and deleting nearly all of the Messages add-ons that I tried in the first few hours after the update, the only thing I really abhor is the new notification system. Little gray popups that inexplicably take up a third

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Re: Your Rarest Mac? - 4 years ago

I've got an SE-35 in the closet with ethernet, juiced up CPU and 4MB of RAM! Needs an analog board, but perfectly serviceable- we used it in my old company in the mid '90s as a mail server.

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Re: Can't copy folder because "one or more items can't be changed..." - 4 years ago

That's right, Apple removed permissions repair from disk utility in El Capitan. Still, I did think of that and it's one of the reasons I ran Onyx so, no.

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Can't copy folder because "one or more items can't be changed..." - 4 years ago

Now that I've got my friend's new iMac running El Capitan cleanly and all his old mail is imported and everything's grand, I want to make a copy of the Mail folder for a baseline & backup. Done this a million times through the years. I even did it earlier today, before I got it working. But when I try to duplicate the folder either within the same folder or to another location, I get an error

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Re: Force re-cache of mailboxes in Mail (El Capitan) - 4 years ago

I reimported the offending mailboxes from within 10.11 mail instead of just moving the folders and letting 10.11 update them, and it appears to be stable. Knocking on wood.

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Force re-cache of mailboxes in Mail (El Capitan) - 4 years ago

Migrating a friend's old Entourage 2008 mail to a new iMac. Had to jump through a bunch of hoops as El Capitan's mail has a bad bug which crashes the program instantly when you try to do an import from mbox format... had to import to Mail in Snow Leopard on his old iMac which went great, then was able to import from that into El Capitan. (It is a very new machine; I would have loved to drop the O

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Re: Need a large file/folder distribution solution (long) - 4 years ago

Quotejdc Can you break them up into individual pieces? So instead of one file with 4-6 in it, 4-6 files instead? If you are stuck with slower DSLs, at least a 1 GB file might be easier to take in. But with any online solution, you are alwasy going to have to come back to the lowest common denominator, the slow DSL people. A simple web site with links to the files (even if they are on DB

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Re: Need a large file/folder distribution solution (long) - 4 years ago

I am also investigating FTP options.

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Need a large file/folder distribution solution (long) - 4 years ago

I need to distribute sets of large files to multiple recipients- video and audio. A typical folder of such files will contain 4-6 video files (different camera angles of a live musical performance + an audio file with a master mix) and can easily total 9GB or even larger in aggregate. We would prefer a solution that will link to a folder rather than a single zip file. While the zip file has th

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