Questions tagged [osx-mountain-lion]
Use for questions referring specifically to versions of OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion. Non-version-specific questions related to OS X should be tagged with [osx]. Questions about Mac hardware should be tagged with [mac]. Questions about running OS X on non-Apple hardware are generally considered off-topic.
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Kaspersky Security for Mac vs Kaspersky Virus Scanner from Mac Appstore
In the Mac Appstore you can find Kaspersky Virus Scanner for €9. On the Kaspersky website, you'll find Kaspersky Security for Mac, for $60. What is the difference between those two, except the price ...
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Install 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 on same machine
I have a MacBookPro with 10.6 running on it. I am using it as a base machine for development.
I want to understand how can I install 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 on same machine, so that I can continue to ...
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Move Google Calendar delegates under Google Calendar in Calendar.app
I'm using Calendar on OS X Mountain Lion. Everything is updated.
Problem: Is there any way to make it so that each delegate shows up under calendar.google.com, this would be ideal.
Or if they could ...
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Generate DKIM Key on Mountain Lion OS X
I have been looking around for a way to generate dkim keys on my mac, I have looked into opendkim, there is no brew formula or taps available, tried to compile it from scratch and it required the dkim-...
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How to install mac on a new hard disk without a dvd or bootble usb
How can I prepare myself for installing MAC on a new hard disk.
I am worried if someday I wake up and find my hard-disk has crashed then how can I re-install MAC on my new hard-disk. I know how to ...
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Time command not behaving correctly
I am having a weird problem with the time command. When I try and run
$ time rspec spec
It should return
Finished in 15.78 seconds
75 examples
real 0m22.334s
user 0m17.952s
sys 0m2.643s
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Cant exit fullscreen mode for app in OS X Mountain Lion
I think I've entered fullscreen with a program called BBEdit. The background turns into the one seen on the screenshot below, and I lose all other windows and, my dock etc. How can I exit this?
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Artificially blocked from upgrading to mountain lion
I have an older Mac Pro running Lion 10.7.5 and I'd like to upgrade to Mountain Lion given that the machine is probably too old to run Mavericks. According to the specs my computer meets the ...
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Sudo password not required? OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
I recently upgraded to a Macbook Pro Retina running OS X 10.8.3. I was going through the process of installing various command line tools when I noticed that it wasn't asking for my root password when ...
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Bootcamp both Windows 8 and Windows 7 on OS X Mountain Lion
I currently have Windows 8 installed via Bootcamp 4(?) via Mountain Lion.
I'd like to also install Windows 7.
Is there a way to do multiple bootcamp's - what is the best way to go about this?
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OSX 10.7 and up file sharing issue
first question here. Be gentle with me.
So....my question.
Since I upgraded from OSX 10.6 to 10.7 (then all the way up to 10.8.2). When I share files with my windows PC. It can see my entire mac ...
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How do I figure out why some apps won't connect?
I'm using Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), and have a couple of apps giving problems connecting at work. I'm using Socialite to keep track of Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds, and also use Adium for ...
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How do I partition my Macintosh HDD when data is already on it?
My macintosh HDD 500GB has about 350GB data on it. I want to create a 100GB partition and leave mountain lion on that and then move my data to the other 400GB partition. However when I go to create ...
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Is it possible to overclock a 2011 i7 macbook pro
I am just wondering if it is possible to overclock a 2011 i7 2.4 macbook pro? Either with software or if there is other ways of doing it.
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Does reinstalling OS X Mountain Lion cost anything?
I have to format and reinstall OS X Mountain Lion on my Mac Mini (which already has OS X Mountain Lion) after restarting.
When I get it from WiFi, will it cost anything to install it, as apple is ...
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SSH Connection to Dreamhost server refused
I know there are many questions asked on this issue, but I am still not certain on how to solve my issue. I am at a location where my guess is the SSH connection is blocked. Using the same Macbook (...
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Can I install Windows 8.1 as Bootcamp partition from OSX Mountain Lion using a USB stick?
I have the following:
Bootable USB stick with Windows 8.1 - 64 bit
MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8.5
The Bootcamp partition currently has Windows 7 installed.
I want to know whether I can ...
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Unable to launch OS X Mountain Lion VM on VMWare
I have OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 which was running fine up till yesterday. But today, when I tried to launch the same via VMWare Workstation, it is not going past the Apple Logo with activity ...
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How to enable the title bar for all windows on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
A colleague of mine has the OS X title bar on all of his different displays and he is not sure how he it was enabled. I would love to have a different title bar per display/monitor.
Any ideas on how ...
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VMWare Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (AMD) freezes at load after installing VMWare tools
I had a perfectly working Mac OS 10.8.3 image for AMD in which I developed a quietly big app for iPhone. Don't know why, but today I tried installing VMWare tools because somebody was promising more ...
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Mac mail icon open applications window
In the last couple of days I click on the mail icon on the dock and the applications window opens. Mail is highlighted and when i double click on it the mail window opens but I can't do anything with ...
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EFI VMWare Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0)
I am trying to turn on Mavericks in VMware, but I get this error:
EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0)
And then it restarts, errors again, restarts, errors, restarts, etc.
I don't ...
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How can I add myself to _www:staff permanently on osx?
I have a local instance of apache with an application writing to a cache directory. The cache directory is written to by _www:staff. It appears in the finder with a 'no-entry' icon. How can I add my ...
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How to use built-in PHP-FPM in OS X Mountain Lion?
I would like to know how php-fpm included in Mountain Lion (v10.8.5) can be used (eg. with NGINX).
I am afraid that some configuration might be needed before it is actually used.
NOTE: I know how to ...
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Double MySQL Running on Mountain Lion
After I've done a full restart, my Apache PHP server doesn't connect to Local MySQL ( connecting via 127.0.0.1 because localhost for some reason fails always ).
So I did this today:
➜ ~ mysqladmin ...
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Install octave using homebrew
I found a blog on how to do this here https://www.nesono.com/node/356 but when I do
brew install octave
I get
Error: No available formula for octave
I am on Mountain Lion 10.8.5
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Recover files from an 11" Air?
My 11" Air just went belly up and is spinning indefinitely at the start up screen.
In the past, this has required a full wipe of the hard drive and fresh install of Mountain Lion.
I'm currently ...
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Use camera to control applications on Mac OSX
Is there a way I can use the camera on my Macbook Pro to control the applications on my desktop? I would like to be able to wave to use waving gestures to change between apps, show the app expose, etc....
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Multiple commands using a .command script at launch
I'm trying to figure out why this command script isn't working.
killall Google\ Chrome;
open /Application/Google\ Chrome.app -args --disable-restore-session-state
. I am trying to kill any ...
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Mac OS 10.8.4 and Excel
I am trying to delete everything after the "," on each cell in a column of email addresses. For example:
[email protected],2013-08-06 13:27:53,bounced
[email protected],2013-02-06 13:05:47,...
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trying to find out if there is a command similar to "ditto"
I know if I want to in a sense merge one directory into another without over writing everything in there using ditto. But now I am trying to see if there is a way I can compare both directories.
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How to leave only english language in bash shell in Mac OS X?
I'm using Mac OS X operating system with bash shell and I'm really tired to change keyboard layout every time I switch to shell. Does anyone know how to automatically set english layout after ...
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How to intelligently sync two directories under OSX
This may seem like a simple request at first glance, but I believe it is not due to some critical subtleties I wish to keep track of. Here is the scenario:
I have a directory on my home workstation, ...
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Chrome and Safari show the same behavior on OS X
This has been bugging me for a while, and apologies for poorly constructed title, but it seems like Google Chrome and Safari are the same thing on OS X.
I use Chrome exclusively on OS X Mountain ...
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Replacing a disk in RAID1 on a mac 10.8 system
What is the proper and safest way for replacing one of the disks in a RAID 1 array (mirrored) on mountain lion?
Both disks are currently OK but one of those drives is much older than the other. ...
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Exited with code: 1 Error with launchd
I am trying to run a job with launchd which runs a shell script that creates a zip file I then backup.
I am receiving the error: 6/26/13 5:04:37.992 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[162]: (com.ian....
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How to collect all media file in a mac directory structure?
I'm trying to copy all media files (Mac file type of Image or Movie) to the same directory structure, only taking media files.
Is there a more efficient way than what I've got below?
Is there a ...
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How do I permanently disable the spotlight key?
I'm attempting to disable my spotlight hotkey so that I can make my Alfred hotkey CMD+Space. If I disable "Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut" through system preferences, it seems to stay disabled ...
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Lost system icons
I got an issue on my macbook pro retina 15".
Brand new that I bought a month ago.
Just updated it with 10.8.4
And now I lost all systems icons in finder, safari, app store and so on.
I spent some ...
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Easiest way to run a command with admin privileges as a standard user in OS X
Situation:
I'm running OS X 10.8.3 and i have 2 users, an Admin user and a Standard user. When i'm logged in as the standard user and i need to run a command with admin privileges in the terminal i ...
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How to access Flash global security settings on OS X Mountain Lion?
To access the settings manager, I followed the instructions here.
System Preferences -> Other -> Flash Player
Now I want to access the global security settings, in order to enable Flash to ...
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Uninstalled Ruby.Frameworks on Mac OS X 10.8
In an attempt to create a clean Ruby slate for myself, I uninstalled RVM, rbenv (yeah, I had both installed, whoops), Gem, Bundler, and the pre-installed version of Ruby. I didn't realize the chaos ...
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Possible Homebrew and Rubie issues after the installation of RVM on Mountain Lion
I've installed RVM via the line offered on the rvm.io homepage:
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled
In order of the installation process RVM automatically ...
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ActiveX Control on Mac OSX Mountain Lion
I am trying to render a page that requires ActiveX.
Everything is done locally, so the device I am trying to access by IP is on my local network. Anyway, the error I am getting on my Mac, (using ...
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Is there a way to customize the look of aliased items?
By default aliased items such as folders look like this:
Is there anyway to customize the look? For instance, I'd like to replace the arrows with something else. I've looked all over the system ...
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Can Application, Downloads and Document icons on the Dock be configured to just open finder?
Whenever you click on either Application, Downloads or Document icons on the Dock, you get this hard to read popup.
Is there any way to configure these buttons to open the appropriate folders in the ...
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OS X Mountain Lion has multiple Finder windows open
My wife's computer has had a lot of Finder windows all opening at the same time, and it bogs the computer down. When we restart it it relaunches again with hundreds of Finder windows.
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How do I copy a the OS X DVD that came with my Mac using a Windows machine?
Even with a clean install of Mountain Lion on an internal SSD, 8 GB of RAM, saving the ISO image to the internal SSD and two different brands (Verbatim & Titan) of unused dual layer DVD+R discs, ...
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How does one add all values that occur before a specific date?
I know I need the SUMIF function, but I can't figure out the condition for the life of me. Given the following table, how would I get $150?
Value | Date
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$100 | 1/1/2013
$50 | 1/...
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Delete/Clean PATH variables on Mountain Lion
I tried to install PhoneGap on my osx and accidentally set a bunch of PATH variables wrong, so now it looks like this:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Dev/android-bundle-mac-x86_64/...