Am I too stupid to start a notebook or is something wrong?
My new MacBook Air doesn't start when I push the powerbutton. It only does if plugged in, not in battery mode. Am I too stupid to start a notebook or is something wrong?
Hmmm... When you plug it in, does the little light on the cord go green or stay amber? I guess the first thing I'd do is to plug it in and let it charge for a couple of hours (or at least until the light turned green and/or the charge level on the menu bar showed some kind of significant number, like at least 10%). If the battery was totally discharged (or disconnected) then presumably it wouldn't work in battery mode.
If you can run it plugged in and it reports that the battery is OK, and then you pull out the cord and restart and it won't start, I'd guess it was hardware. If the battery is bad or disconnected or something, presumably the battery health on the laptop would show a problem and furthermore when you were running and you took out the cord it would immediately crash.
I'm just guessing, but if you charge the battery, the battery shows good in the menu bar, and you pull it down and it shows the battery is OK, and it still won't boot in battery I'd take it to the Apple store.
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Brand new macbook pro does not start up am i doing something wrong
well i went to the apple store and baught a brand new core i7 17 inch macbook pro i am new to apple and this is my first time purchesing an apple product when i got it out of the box i plugged it in and let it charge before turning it on then i turned it on and it made a sound but then it comes up with a picture of a folder on a gray screen with a questionmark and there is like a clicking noise from inside am i missing something because i ave never used one before or is this not normal thanks
The clicking suggests you got a unit with a bad hard drive. Bring it back and exchange it for a another new one.
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Too stupid and/or lazy for anything but Arch?
Many times during the last 15 years, I made an effort to use GNU/Linux, mostly so-called "beginner-friendly" distributions, as my main operating system but never successfully. There were always some issues that I was too stupid or too lazy to understand and fix. So I kept using Windows and later on Mac OS X.
While still using Mac OS X, I inexplicably stumbled upon Arch some months ago and gave it a try. I followed the awesome Beginner's Guide to setup Arch on my notebook. For the first time there were no issues I could not resolve. Overall, it was beginner-friendly, transparent and fun. I have been using Arch as my sole operating system since then. Best computing experience ever.
Recently, I am becoming more and more interested in other GNU/Linux distributions and *BSDs. I tried to find a (desktop) system that:
1) followed KISS,
2) (easily) allowed a minimal installation,
3) was documented for the stupid and/or lazy.
I looked at Debian but its init system scared me. I looked at Gentoo but its compiling scared me. I looked at Slackware but its documentation scared me.
I am wondering: Am I unfoundedly scared by either of these? Have I overlooked a system? Or am I just too stupid and/or lazy for anything but Arch?it sounds to me like Arch is just the best fit for you
...and i can share my own perspective on the matter...
I've used many many distro's; gentoo (and a few derivatives), Fedora (and a few remixes), Ubuntu (and many of it's derivatives), puppy (and...same goes..), slackware, FreeBSD, PClinuxOS, debian (various versions), etc, etc....
i haven't found any distribution that i like better than Arch....and i do not 'distro-hop' anymore at all. there is absolutely no point for me to do so...
So I don't think you're too stupid or lazy for anything but Arch, it's quite the opposite... Arch is simple/easy to use, but does require the user to be somewhat competent, right? - i say this because things can break (although not too often), and the end-user has to be able to do things a little more hands on than some of the so-called 'user-friendly distro's'. we also all tend to be aware of where all config files are, how to edit them, where they are located, etc...the average archer knows the underlying system fairly well, i tend to think.
Arch also tends to offer some of the advantages of both meta/binary distributions; ie: ubuntu, fedora, etc....while also offering the advantages of source-based distributions; ie: gentoo, yoper, etc. because it covers both types, you also do away with some of the disadvantages of both types; ie: compiling from source is more often than not as simple as using tools like 'yum' or 'apt-get' (which i suppose could be taken as laziness, but i tend to think it is just a better design), while in say Fedora or Ubuntu, there is more to do, to accomplish the exact same end-result... another example, we also don't have to sit around and wait for the whole system to compile on system upgrades (unless you choose too, using pacbuilder), this to me is a significant advantage over source-based distro's too....
I feel as an Archer i reap the benefits of all distros, in other ways too. for example, if i want some patch from Ubuntu, or say some software that is found in a PPA - usually i can find it in AUR. i need not bother with adding software sources, or any of that stuff, all i have to do is use 'yaourt -S *pkgname*'... the whole thing is automated, it grabs the source, builds it, installs it and i am done. easy peasy
then, there is the part, where using the kernel (with the patches i want), is much easier than say Fedora or Ubuntu, etc. I used to have to download and patch everything myself for the most part. but same goes as the example above - now all that it requires it 'yaourt -S *pkgname*'... which is much better, you want to use your applications, not spend your evening patching and compiling everything manually, when you don't have too - right? I am a tinkerer, but i still try to take the most sensible approach, ya know...?
then, as someone else pointed out. We have some of the best documentation available in ArchWiki - this is why i switched to Arch in the first place. i had been using ArchWiki with other distributions for a long time. it got to the point, that i started to realize that maybe Arch as a better fit for me...and the wiki showed me some of the other advantages of using Arch over other distros...
anyway, that's my 2 cents on the matter
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HI again. installed and then uninstalled both Mackeeper and Blackberry with their software. Etrecheck still shows the same 'failed to load' error. Pasted below. Could you pls advise what is still going wrong? What am I missing? I donot seem to understand the detailed procedure of home/library etc for checking complete removal of clean my mac. Sorry to bother you and thank you a million times for your assistance!
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 512 MB
Startup Items:
GT Network Tuning - Path: /System/Library/StartupItems/GT Network Tuning
NMPCCardDaemonVMC - Path: /System/Library/StartupItems/NMPCCardDaemonVMC
NMPPPMonitor - Path: /System/Library/StartupItems/NMPPPMonitor
Freecorder - Path: /Library/StartupItems/Freecorder
HWNetMgr - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr
System Software:
OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0 days 0:9:7
Disk Information:
APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (225.09 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8
USB Information:
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.97)
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryVirtualPrivateNetwork (1.0.15)
com.silex.driver.sxuptp (1.5.1)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[loaded] BkBackupScheduler.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[not loaded] com.Affinegy.InstaLANd.plist
[loaded] com.intego.BackupAssistant.daemon.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist
[not loaded] com.rim.nkehelper.plist
[loaded] com.rim.tunmgr.plist
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
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[failed] cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist
[loaded] com.Affinegy.InstaLANa.plist
[loaded] com.intego.backupassistant.agent.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist
[loaded] com.rim.blackberrylink.BlackBerry-Link-Helper-Agent.plist
[loaded] com.rim.PeerManager.plist
[not loaded] de.novamedia.NovamediaDiskSupressor.plist
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
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[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist
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None
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
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Growl
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Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
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iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
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OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
RL Secure Plug-In Layer.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
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ContentManager.plugin
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None
Top Processes by CPU:
2% hidd
2% Safari
1% EtreCheck
1% fontd
1% PluginProcess
1% WindowServer
0% WebProcess
0% PeerManager
0% BBLaunchAgent
0% mDNSResponder
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147 MB WebProcess
139 MB Safari
66 MB mds
57 MB com.apple.dock.extra
57 MB CalendarAgent
49 MB Dock
41 MB BlackBerry-Link-Helper-Agent
41 MB Finder
41 MB WindowServer
33 MB PluginProcess
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Deleting All Emails all at once, I just am too stupid to find it
I hope somebody can tell me I'm a dunce who has totally missed something obvious. I get over 50 emails a day. I have to delete them ONE AT A TIME! Then they go to trash and I HAVE TO DELETE THEM ONE AT A TIME AGAIN! I know there has to be a better way, I am just too stupid to find it. This is so irritating, I'm considering turning off the email unless I'm out of town or something. How do you empty the inbox ALL AT ONCE!?! Or at least the trash ALL AT ONCE??!!
If by some weird fact of programming blind idiocy, there is no way to do the most basic thing I am talking about, which is common to every phone email system on earth, would the wise programmers at Apple do an update tomorrow so that we can EMPTY THE INBOX IN ONE MOVE, PLEASE!!!!A POP account is designed to be accessed with an email client such as Apple's Mail application on one computer or device only.
New messages received at the incoming mail server for a POP account are downloaded by the email client used to access the account with an option to remove messages from the server after being downloaded. Sent messages with a POP account using an email client cannot be stored on the server.
An IMAP account is designed to be accessed with an email client on multiple computers or devices with the ability to store all account mailboxes on the server - the account's Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk mailboxes with each email client used to access the account and the ability to create additional server stored mailboxes with the email client used to access the account - with the exception of the iPhone's email client. You cannot create additional server stored mailboxes from the iPhone's email client but any additional server stored mailboxes created with the email client used on your computer to access the account will become available with the iPhone's email client automatically.
All messages with an IMAP account remain on the server until deleted from the server - there is no setting to remove messages from the server when received by the email client used to access the account. All server stored mailboxes are synchronized with the server automatically with the email client used to access the account.
Receive a new message with the email client used on your computer and read the message, when checking the account with the iPhone's email client, that message will be available in the account's Inbox mailbox and will be marked as already being read since the account's Inbox mailbox stored on the server is kept synchronized with the server automatically. Delete a message from the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client used on your computer and this message will not be available when checking the account with the iPhone's email client. Send a message with the email client used on your computer and the sent message will be available in the account's Sent mailbox with the iPhone's email client automatically and vice-versa for all.
If you are accessing an IMAP account, instead of deleting all messages from the account's Inbox mailbox with the iPhone's email client one at a time, you can delete all from the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client used to access the account on your computer and all messages will be automatically removed from the account's Inbox mailbox with the iPhone's email client since all server stored mailboxes are kept synchronized with the server with the email client used to access the account.
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my iphone 4s shuts itself off all the time. starts normal and then shut it off and start all over again, what is wrong?
Your iPHone is designed by intention to shut off when there is a reason for the softwarer to believe that danger is immenent to the hardware. This can occurr if the software is running applications that have been corrupted due to all types of different scenarios. My best advice to you would be to restore your device back to default manufactures settings and do NOT restore the current backup of the IOS program currently running.
If this corrects the problem with your device intermittently restarting you will then know you have had applications there were corrupted on your device. Once you are convinced there are no issues with the hardware of your device you then are free to begin downloading software apps that were earlier on the device.
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Safari tries repeatedly to open a page. The page partially opens but then Safari reports that there's something wrong with page and I get an error message. This is happening at too many web sites for one site to be having issues.
I have a similar problem, Safari cannot load a complet page. It stalls e.g. ["38 of 42"]. sometimes it will complete loading after a long wait. just as often it will never complete the page,
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When I try to start a mail by clicking on an adress on an homepage, it dosnot work. Something wrong in my installation? Best regards, Lars-Eri
You mean when you try to click a link that begins with mailto: ? If so, what exactly happens when you click on such an email link? And do you have an email client installed?
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triple click the home button. Then you can go into accessability options in settings and turn off that feature
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At the AT&T store. Tried using iCloud but only 120 songs were transferred and when I access my iTunes account now it only shows 120 and not the 450 anymore that I purchased on my old phone. Tried to sync again from the phone to iTunes and it still not working.
I purchased everything under the same apple ID account I called apple support and spent almost 2 hours with tech support for assistance and we got disconected and they never called me back.
I'm at the point where I'm about to never purchase anything anymore from apple go to another company retrieve every single charge made on my bank account from iTunes and file a law suit against the company. It's being a week that I called for assistance and no one called me back to help me with this matter even after I responded a survey with a complaint about not getting a resolution to my problem.
If you could please help me I will appreciate, I'm out of the country now and can't stay on the phone for a long time.
I need to sell my old phone but as right now besides all my bank statements the old phone is the only evidence that I purchased the songs. -
rMBP: Sometimes, after having been shut down, i have to press the power button several times before the machine starts up. It's 3 weeks old, and this has happened 2 times now. Is there something wrong with my rMBP?
Did you purchase the Mac new?
You have 14 calendar days from the time your items are delivered to initiate a return as noted here.
Even though you are past the 14 day limit, if it were me, I'd take the Mac back and explain what's going on. Your Mac should work out of the box.
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When i start to trancfer songs from my itunes(music) library to my ipod classic,for example ( a new playlist with 50 songs) the estimated time is 5-6 hours,even more.Am i doing something wrong?
allow me to add that it also deleted all of the "genres" that I developed myself (I listen to a lot of obscure/experimental music)
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1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
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Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks without erasing drive
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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Reinstall Mountain Lion or Mavericks
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