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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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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Mac OS X can only view online PDF in Safari
I use Chrome and Firefox to view PDFs online almost every single day. However, from yesterday I noticed that PDFs cannot be opened in both of them. The only browser can open a PDF document online is ...
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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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Weird Console log spam when switching spaces
I'm on an iMac running OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5, so whenever I switch spaces I see a bunch of these entries in my console log as part of system.log.
30/11/13 12:42:06.056 PM Dock[208]: ...
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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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Mac Mountain Lion sometimes work very slow, kernel is overflow, all apps is killed
Sometimes I have unknown delays in my mac.
Everything works well, but one time in 2-3 hours kernel is overflow,
and I need to wait about from 30 sec to 5 minutes untill it will end, and I will start ...
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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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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 keep group-writeable shares on Samba with OSX clients?
I have a FreeNAS server on a network with OSX and Windows clients. When the OSX clients interact with SMB/CIFS shares on the server, they are causing permission problems for all other clients.
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Is it possible to adapt a device driver such that it works with a very similar other device?
I am hoping to find a way to adapt a scanner driver such that it works with a very similar scanner.
The scanner I own is the CanoScan 8000F, but unfortunately the driver is only available for PowerPC....
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open -n /Applications/TextEdit.app/ not launching new instance?
$ open -n /Applications/TextEdit.app/
per the terminal of my MBPr running Mountain Lion the above will not launch a new instance of text edit. Instead it just brings open instances to the ...
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How can I migrate all keyboard shortcuts from one mac to another?
I have a lot of custom keyboard shortcuts and will be migration Macs. I tested Migration Assistant and it did not seem to get these.
I read somewhere that they are stored in the individual ...
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How can I clear the notification center from Terminal?
I really like terminal-notifier and how it allows you to send things to the notification center.
It even has a handy feature to remove the notifications that it sent, for example if I spoofed a ...
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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 isolate Mac OS X installers (e.g. Mountain Lion, Mavericks)?
I've upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion before. Now, I'm going to Mavericks.
I'm tired of downloading these big installers every time I have to use them. The installers are deleted after ...
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Apple Mac OS X Mavericks inside Virtual Box
BEGIN EDIT
In view of the Software License Agreement (SLA) posted by
MariusMatutiae, which documents the fact that Mac OS X is licensed to
run only on Apple-branded hardware, and can only be ...
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I am trying to find out screen resolution on my MacBook
I have a MacBook Pro 13". It is 3 years old. In System Preferences > Display there is nothing where I can change or see my screen resolution -- (I see you answered one user - go to System ...
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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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Run Crontab anytime after 4pm
I am trying to run a script through crontab in osx 10.8.5 that will run at 4:30.
30 16 * * 1-5 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python /Users/lego90511/PycharmProjects/Stock\ ...
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Mac OSX - Use two network connections to the Internet
On my Mac Mini Mountain running Mountain Lion 10.8 I have two network connections to the Internet. One connection, the one currently being used by this very Safari browsing session, is also very busy ...
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Can "safe sleep" actually be disabled on a Mac Mini running Mountain Lion?
I find that wake on lan stop working after my Mac Mini (late 2012 model, running OS X 10.8.5) has entered safe sleep (which is 4 hours after sleep starts). Because I often travel and want to remote ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut to toggle fullscreen in OSX Mountain Lion?
If I have a window on my desktop in OSX Mountain Lion, I see an icon in the top right corner o the window, made of two diagonal arrows pointing away from each other. I can click this to put the app in ...
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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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encrypted mountain lion is not booting , showing osx utilities screen
encrypted mountain lion is not booting , showing osx utilities screen . I have two accounts , user1 , user2. User2 is encrypted . Everything was working fine but when I tried to access guest account ...
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Second user vimrc file usage on vim running on Mac os X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion)
I am using MacVim:
:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 10 2013 17:49:20)
MacOS X (unix) version
I've executed :version in vim (to check what patches I had installed) and ...
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My Mac shuts down if left closed for a long period, even for a long time. Then the power button must be held to a long time to start up
My Mac (Retina, Mid 2012) running OSX 10.8.5 sometimes shuts down while closed, even if it is plugged in. When it does this, I need to hold the power button for a long time, 15 seconds or more. I don'...
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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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OS X 10.8 can't resize partitions on MBR disk
I have an external HD with a mix of Mac, NTFS and Linux partitions.
I wanted to use it to backup some partitions from my MacBook HD, and partially succeeded, copying a 100MB partition into an empty ...
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traceroute not showing hops
When I attempt to traceroute to an IP Address, I only get a single hop for output.
Traceroute has started…
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 google-public-dns-a....
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Cannot reach websites in browser on Macbook Pro
I'm sorry if this is an easy question. I am not used to OSX at all. I have a Macbook Pro which is connected to the internet. uTorrent is working and is uploading (I'm not currently downloading). I ...
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Why will nmap not update for me?
I'm currently running nmap 6.25 on Mac OSX 10.8.5. I tried to download the pre-compiled DMG bundle for 6.40 and install it. After installation it still shows me I have 6.25:
hehe~ ➙ nmap -V
Nmap ...
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What would cause a ColdFusion website to error in only one browser, on only one computer?
I'm using a MacBook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion. A particular website I am trying to visit gives me ColdFusion/Java errors anytime I try to access any of its pages. For a while I thought it was a ...
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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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How to configure network shared folder permissions
I have setup a local shared folder between my Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.4 Mountain Lion) and my Desktop PC (Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 64 bit).
On my Mac, the configuration looks like this:
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Is there supposed to be a dev folder in OS X? [closed]
I have the latest version of Mountain Lion installed. I'm curious - is the dev folder only supposed to be on a system in the developer version of the OS, or is it in all versions?
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Why is windows 8 - 32 bit that is running through Virtual box on mac is not using/showing the specified RAM?
I have upgraded ram of my macbook pro to 16gb and I am running virtual box to run windows 8-32 bit. In settings, I have assigned 8192 mb of RAM but when I run windows and check the properties of my ...
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iMac version 10.8.5 keychain isn't working and I didn't send the backup keychain to Apple
`How can we get into the computer without the usernames and passwords?What if there's an administration reset/backup keychain set and I can't remember what that is. I've tried every old password and ...
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Can't run postfix on Mountain Lion due to missing system_user_maps.db
When I start postfix, I see in /var/log/system.log the following error:
error: open database /etc/postfix/system_user_maps.db: No such file or directory
How should this file be created so that ...
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Should I wait for OS X Mavericks [closed]
I'm developing with XCode, but just realized the newest version requires that I upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion, which I am quite against as I don't need the (useless!) features. The upgrade itself is ...
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What causes commands to print on first line in Terminal.app on Mac OS X 10.8?
Every time I execute a command in Terminal.app, the command prints in the beginning of the first output line like this:
> ls
lsfile1 file2 file3
This only happens in Terminal.app, iTerm.app for ...
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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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How can I run Dropbox on Mac OS X Mountain Lion without logging in?
I'm using Dropbox to sync files to my web site, which is running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Problem is, if I am not logged in, Dropbox isn't running and as a result any changes I make to my web site ...
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Automate python script mac
I want to set up a python script to run every weekday(not sunday and saturday) on my mac OSX 10.8.4.
From what I have found so far, it looks like I want to use cron. But before I do something horrible ...
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Terminal not allowing single quotes
For some reason when I paste text into terminal it strips out single quotes. I also can't type single quotes. Double quotes seem to work fine. I don't have any problems with other programs AND when I ...
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How Do I Stop Intellij Automatically Shortening Code Blocks?
How do I stop the arrow thing from showing up. I know that, if I click on it, it will expand but I would prefer that it be expanded by default. I'm using OSX Mountain Lion.
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How to completely disable Mac MissionControl
As shown in the screenshot I have removed all of the keyboard shortcuts to go into Mission Control. Somehow occasionally it still happens. Problem is it then freezes the MBPro for couple of tens of ...
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Choosing Specific Files from Time Machine After Reformat
I had been using Time Machine for full back-ups of my MacBook Pro for a couple of years. Today, I reformatted my internal drive with the intention of building it up piece by piece, so I opted to NOT ...
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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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(new) Macbookair freezing for minutes, roughly 5 times per day, mouse movable - what could be the source of the issue?
Below the output of the console. I made the start and endpoint of the freeze bold. Do you have any idea what could be the source?
06.09.13 19:30:49,000 kernel[0]: sav: [EWOULDBLOCK][vnode:...