Connecting to my Samsung TV via HDMI worked flawlessly with Mountain Lion. With Snow Leopard, it doesn't work at all. What gives?

This is terrible. I want to downgrade.

Just to say, I plugged in a Sony and it still won't work. It's so weird, it worked absolutely fine to begin with and then nothing.

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Upgraded to Mountain Lion, now my login password doesn't work

Hello,
As the title says, I upgraded my iMac with Mountain Lion, and now my password doesn't work. I can't log in to the computer at all.
And no, I didn't forget it. It's been the same since I first got it (so an unfortunate hack on wireless wouldn't be out of the question...)
Suggestions? Solutions?
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Press Command and R keys while your computer is starting, go to Utilities > Terminal and type:
resetpassword
Press Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. If it doesn't work, reset the password

I upgraded to mountain lion from snow leopard, now my photo studio software is no longer supported by powerpc. Does anyone know of a fix so my photostudio will work?

I upgraded to mountain lion from snow leopard, but now some of my applications do not work, most specifically I would like to use my photo studio, but now it tells me that powerpc is no longer supported. Does anyone have any fixes to this problem? I would really like to continue to use software that I already have! Thank you for your help!

PPC software will not work in Mountain Lion because there is no longer any Rosetta emulator. You will only be able to run your older software by creating another partition on your hard drive on which you can install Snow Leopard. It need not be a large partition since you can still keep your files and programs on the main partition. You could also install Snow Leopard on an external drive from which to boot the computer.
To resize the drive do the following:
1. 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.
After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
After you create the new partition boot the computer from your Snow Leopard DVD and install Snow Leopard onto the new partition.

Is it possible since I updated snow leopard to mountain lion that my isight mic doesn't work properly my voice sound like a robot

is it possible since I updated snow leopard to mountain lion that my isight mic doesn't work properly my voice sound like a robot

is it possible since I updated snow leopard to mountain lion that my isight mic doesn't work properly my voice sound like a robot

Time Machine on Snow Leopard just doesn't work.

So I've had huge nightmares over the past few days over Time Machine.
So I've always been a big proponent of Time Machine. I always tell everyone that you NEED a backup solution, and while Time Machine may not be the be all and end all, it's a great starter solution for those that don't want any fuss.
But perhaps not anymore.
It just works, right? Well apparently not.
So a little while ago I performed a Time Machine-assisted hard drive swap for a MacBook (not mine). That is, I install a new drive, boot from SL DVD, perform a HD wipe, then restore from Time Machine. It seemed to go well.
Fast forward to more recently, I went on a trip overseas (Taiwan). While there, I obviously took a lot of photos, and it became that time again - purchase a new hard drive with more capacity for my MacBook Pro! HD were a little cheaper where I visited, so I not only bought a new drive for my MBP, but also a new drive for my wife's MB, as well as new external drives to upgrade our Time Machine drives.
While I was there, I decided to update my own Time Machine first - following the instructions from Apple's own knowledge base on the matter:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
I transferred my existing backups to the new drive to continue my Time Machine. I didn't notice any problem at the time.
Then I returned to my home country (New Zealand). First thing I did when I got back was to perform the Time Machine-assisted HD swap after making sure the OS were up-to-date as were their respective backups, on both my own MBP and my wife's MacBook.
That's when the troubles started.
First off, I noticed that a few images from my Aperture Library were missing. The album data and everything were there, but the actual files were not. They also did not exist anywhere on the Time Machine drive and as such never made it over to the new HD. Weird, I thought. They were there, clear as day on my original drive. They simply weren't backed up.
Now I'm aware of a few TM niggles, such as the false backups after verifying a disk, but I hadn't done that.
The second issue was much more major. My Wife's MB would be endlessly stuck on the white boot screen with the grey Apple logo. As it turns out, it's exactly this issue here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2738620?threadID=2738620&tstart=74
In short, the fresh Time Machine backups I made before transferring to the new HD showed no sign of updating the /System/Library/Framework/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security package, which is REQUIRED for the Mac to boot into 10.6.7 (it had an old one from before).
Great, I thought, but maybe I can fix that by installing a fresh 10.6.7 combo update on the MB via target disk mode.
No dice. On trying, it goes all the way to the end, and then fails installation. I had to resort to copying over the correct, more recent security package just to get it to boot.
After booting, what to do? Who knows what other files Time Machine failed to update, and what consequences they would have. After putting back the original security package, I tried updating 10.6.7 again. Nope, no dmgs would open - i HAD to use the new Security package for anything to open. Fair enough, but even with that, the installation would inevitably fail.
Problem with the package? Nope. Tried a fresh download, and checked the SHA and everything.
Time to do some blitzing. I pulled out my trusty Snow Leopard DVD and did a reinstall on top. That's gotta get my problem, right? Well, nope. After resetting to 10.6.0, the 10.6.7 combo updater STILL failed on installation. Furthermore, the updater no longer worked on MY MBP either.
What gives?
As it turns out, it was related to this:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11317470?messageID=11317470
In short, some files had the user immutable flag switched on, preventing changes from being made to those files (manifests as a little lock icon on the file icon). They included (and I'm sure not limited to) the Acknowledgement.rtfs in /Library/Documentation/, as well as a majority of the fonts in /Library/Fonts.
Checking back in the backup drives, it was clear that Time Machine was the culprit - instances of those files in the backups were also locked. When did that happen? Looking back, it looks like it happened when I transferred the backups from one Time Machine drive to another. But it wasn't all at once - in the first backup on one drive, one of the Acknowledgement.rtf files was locked, and the other one wasn't, but in the second onwards, both were. It was clear that Time Machine seemed to be doing it to those files. Which files and why? I have no idea.
So removing the uchg flag with "sudo chflags -R nouchg /" in terminal finally allowed me to apply the 10.6.7 combo update without failure.
So were the troubles over then?
Nope.
While checking if everything was fine, I noticed iPhoto on the MB had all the thumbs missing - after rebuilding, they weren't back, and only a .plist trashing fixed it (I consider this pretty normal - probably looking for the files on the old UUID drive or something).
But what gives? ALL the photos taken on the trip were gone! Not just the thumbs - the actual files were missing from the iPhoto Library! The data in the albums existed, just the actual files, just like my instance in Aperture on my own MBP.
Checked the Time Machine - again, it was clear Time Machine had completely stuffed up - the files were nowhere to be found on the Time Machine drive.
So currently, I've returned the original internal drive to the MacBook, performing a FRESH on new reformatted disk Time MAchine, and will use THAT to restore.
Nightmares, indeed. It's several days of work doing all the restores, considering I have limited drives to work with. And yes, rest-assured, I was doing enough permission repairs, and PRAM resets to ensure they weren't issues.
It occurs to me there are several faults with the most recent version of Time Machine (maybe 10.6.6 or something as that's when people had some of the issues above):
1) At some point in time, Time Machine may not update a necessary Security package (and probably other files too - I believe the files around it were also not updated), meaning that if you use that Time Machine to restore, the outdated package will cause your computer to fail to boot.
2) Transferring your backups to a new destination Time Machine drive may cause certain files to become user immutable or 'locked', with one consequence being you cannot update the OS.
3) Time Machine may fail to backup image files with the Aperture or iPhoto Library. Trying to remember back, I *think* this may be related to the fact that we changed time zones, as the unupdated image files were after the zones were changed. Strangely, every other file within the Library packages were updated, as album data was updated - just not the actual image files and folders.
Conclusion? I no longer trust Time Machine. The basic foundation of a backup service is that you trust it to do what it's supposed to do. After all this, how can I?
You might think they are isolated incidents, but they were occurring on two Macs that I have, and they same errors can be found in others.I think I have detailed some root causes, but who really knows.
At any rate you should keep an eye on at least these files I have detailed. Would love to hear Pondini on the matter, as I know he knows a lot about Time Machine.

Someone has suggested just installing Snow Leopard on the machine. Will that work?
If you can find a copy of the workstation version of Snow Leopard shipped with the same model of Mac mini, yes. Apple has not, to my knowledge, shipped a retail version of Snow Leopard new enough to boot your mini.
I've also heard there is a way to install SL while connected to my old Powerbook in order to suck the entire old drive onto the new machine in an operable manner. Is this accurate, and can this be done if my old machine is the Powerbook on the old apple chip when the new machine is intel based
No, it's not accurate. The OS on your PowerBook will not boot your mini.
what are the differences between the single pack and the family pack?
If you mean single and family pack of Mac OS X, the single pack is licensed for installation on one computer only, while the family pack is licensed for installation on up to five Macs.
Regards.
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Snow leopard dvd doesn't work

I bought snow leopard DVD but it seems corrupted. I put inside the Mac and it spit it out immediately. (I tried both sides ... :-) ... many times).
Other CDs and DVDs works fine.
My question is: since I have an original version and a serial number printed somewhere (I hope) on the Disk or on the package, is there a place where download the Mac OS Snow Leopard from?
I have Mac OS X 10.5.8
3.06 Ghz Intel Core Duo processor
2 GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM

No, you can't download Snow Leopard. You'll need to contact Apple and they will replace the disk.

Miror airplay does not work with Mountain Lion with my MacBook either with my Apple Tv.

Yesterday I installed the Mountain Lion on my computer, it is a MacBook Pro i core 7 and Mirror's airplay function does not deplay on my superior tool bar and it does not work. Does anybody know how to make it work? The apple TV is the last model.

I just installed Mountain Lion today, after finally getting the up-to-date code from Apple.
I have also downloaded and installed the update for Mountain Lion, that fixed Powernap issues.
Maybe it could have something to do with the firmware on the Apple TV? I am currently running version 4.4.4(3330)

Upon switching to Mountain Lion Wake for Network Access doesn't work

After switching to Mountain Lion, my Mac and MacBook computers are not visible in the finder as shared unless they are awake. They used to before. I have tried unchecking and rechecking "Wake from Sleep" in the Energy Saver Preferrence and restarting. No fix.

Please follow Linc Davis's advice to see if you have a Sleep Proxy server on your home network. For example, here is what the command shows on my home network:
dns-sd -B _sleep-proxy._udp local
Browsing for _sleep-proxy._udp.local
DATE: ---Sun 12 Apr 2015---
16:34:14.530 ...STARTING...
Timestamp     A/R    Flags if Domain        Service Type         Instance Name
16:34:14.531 Add        3   5 local.        _sleep-proxy._udp.   30-35-10-70.1 Pantry
16:34:14.531 Add        2   5 local.        _sleep-proxy._udp.   50-35-10-70.1 TV_Console
I have 2 Sleep Proxy servers active on my network (both are Apple Airport Extreme home WiFi Router base stations; the names Pantry and TV_Console are the management names I have given them).
If you DO NOT have a Sleep Proxy server, then you MUST use a special program to wake up a sleeping Mac. WakeOnLan is one such program.
<http://www.readpixel.com/wakeonlan/index.html>
The Sleep Proxy or WakeOnLan will send a specially composed network packet that the networking hardware listens for and will wake up the Mac when it is seen.
The Sleep Proxy server pretends to be your Mac while it is asleep, and if you attempt to connect to the Advertised service, the Sleep Proxy server will send that magic network packet to wake up the Mac, and forward the connection request to the new awake Mac.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy>

After upgrading to snow leopard photobooth doesn't work anymore

why is this a problem? it's saying that i can't use some programs anymore

amoolk wrote:
why is this a problem? it's saying that i can't use some programs anymore
What programs? Your topic only mentions Photobooth.
What exactly do you mean Photobooth does not work? Please describe in detail all you have attempted to do in order to resolve the issues.

I upgraded to mountain lion and now my screensaver doesn't work right

I am having problems with my screensaver since I upgraded to mountain lion. It only stays on the screen for a few mintues and then the screen goes black.
When I try a click my mouse and try to coneect to the internet my entire screen goes white. How can I fix this?

redskins4me wrote:
I have never had a screen saver that was a moving object. They have always been a still photo. My desktop is set to the picture I want and yes it is still. I do not like moving object as a screensaver and I have never had one that has been a video type
Yes you have! All of Apple's pre-installed screensavers are "movers." Check for yourself.
The screensaver that is showing is a custom aquarium.
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Now that we know you actually mean desktop pictures (wallpaper), troubleshooting suggestions will be a tad different.
Option key>Finder>Go>Library>Preferences - trash the com.apple.desktop.plist file, repair permissions, restart your comp & empty the trash when you reach the desktop.

ICal and Mail don't work after downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard

Hey everyone, after an extremely awful time with with Lion (it knocked out of my audio interface AND my wireless) I downgraded back to Snow Leopard yesterday. I made a Carbon Copy of my Lion drive with all my data on an external drive (which I still have) and after wiping my local drive clean I reinstalled Snow Leopard from my disk. After it was done I chose to transfer data from another system local system (I selected everything) and an hour and a half later everything was transferred over. After doing a software update, I've found that I get big error messages with iCal, Mail, and even the App Store that say they can't open and I'm assuming that it has to do with incompatible data that got transferred from Lion. Any ideas on how to get those programs back up and running?? Thanks so much for you help!
Luke
ps. here's the error message from iCal
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _kSecOIDX509V1ValidityNotAfter
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/Versions/A/ApplePu shService
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/Versions/A/ApplePu shService

> In the device manager the two ports are listed under "other devices" and no driver is installed for them.
Indeed the USB issue seems to be related to missing drivers.
You have to install this USB 3.0 driver:
[AMD USB Driver v 2.0.7.176 Windows 7 - 64 Bit|http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_driver_details.jsp?service=EU&selCategory =2&selFamily=2&selSeries=178&selProduct=7534&selSh ortMod=null&language=13&selOS=30&selType=all&yearu pload=&monthupload=&dayupload=&useDate=null&mode=a llMachines&search=&action=search&macId=&country=al l&selectedLanguage=13&type=all&page=3&ID=87792&OSI D=30&driverLanguage=42]
Furthermore you have to ensure that chipset driver was installed too.
The notebook supports ATI graphic chip and AMD chipset. The chipset driver is part of the ATI graphic card driver and therefore you should ensure that this driver would be installed too.

Mountain lion slow and dvd player doesn't work, help?

after updating to mountain lion everything moves very slowly when booting, logging in, or trying to type something in the texts fields. it also crashes and freezes up a lot and dvd player just tried to read the disk then spits it back out, the hard drive is brand new so is this a problem with mountain lion because i had no problems with any of this before the update? any ideas on what i should do?

Go to the App Store for a ML updater just released.

I just installed mountain lion and now my vmware doesn't work

Can anyone let me know if vmware fusion is not compatible with mountain lion and wether there is an upgrade i need to do to access my pc data? It will not open at all now.

Latest version is 4.1.3
Do you know what version your running?

I tried to install Mountain Lion, two times, but it doesn't work.

I have a MacbookPro 6.2 from 2011, and OS X Lion. What can I do? That is the first time.
After unsuccessful installing process I cannot stop the installing process. Again and again, the system tried it. I must install two times OSX Lion complete again after starting the labtop in a secure mode. Only in this mode I have access to the labtop.

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My latest MacMini is unable to detect my Samsung monitor via HDMI direct connect.

Hi
My MacMini (current model ie 1 week old) is unable to detect my Samsung monitor (it is about 6 months old and comes with HDMI port) via HDMI.
However, it is possible if I were to use the HDMI/DVI converter that comes with the MacMini.
FYI, I have tried swapping the HDMI cable but the result is still the same. I prefer to connect the the monitor directly to the MacMini without going thru the HDMI/DVI converter and appreciate any assistance.
Thank you in advance
jJP

Hi all
Finally I managed to get my Mac Mini connected to the Samsung monitor via HDMI-HDMI.
Below is the cut and paste of the thread I just posted which explains all.
Thank you again everyone for the advice and support.
Regards
JJPecke
Re: No Signal on HDMI TV After Lion Upgrade Sep 10, 2011 11:20 AM (in response to
Mac80)
Hi Mac80 I have been struggling for the past couple weeks since I purchased my Mac Mini (a few weeks back) to connect to the Samsung B2430 LCD monitor directly via HDMI-HDMI but to no avail i.e. "no connection detected" Fyi HDMI-DVI works, but I just wanted the HDMI-HDMI instead. I did exactly what you advised i.e. pull out the HDMI cable from the Mac Mini; power up & power down the Mac Mini; reconnect the HDMI cable to the Mac Mini; power up again... Wooa...lla... for some strange reason & though somewhat "primitive":-) ... It works. It can now detect my monitor at 1080p. I just shut down and switch it on again to make sure that it is not a fluke, it works! Fyi I just acquired another Samsung LED 27" monitor SA550 (same problem as above inititially but got it working via the above approach) Thanks alot Mac80 and really appreciate it! jJpecke

Connecting to my Samsung TV via HDMI worked flawlessly with Mountain Lion. With Snow Leopard, it doesn't work at all. What gives?

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