Don't do latest secuity update unless you have to....

Not trying to scare anyone, but I just had a huge scare, thought I'd warn others.
I'm a senior in college, about to graduate. I stupidly updated my computer on a whim. After trying to restart, my Mac was frozen on the grey screen for a half an hour and the blue screen for 20 mins. Scared the crap out of me - I have so much important stuff on my Mac!
Luckily, it restarted and I immediately ran Backup and put files onto a USB card. Just a warning
On a side note, my Mac has been SLOW for about 3 weeks. I'm actually wondering if it's possible I got a virus through iChat. My friends PC got infected and was sending messages to everyone on his buddy list. My Mac has been acting funny ever since. Any thoughts?

Erin Clancy, you wrote:
I still consider Mac's OS to be far superior. As a
matter of fact, yesterday, when I couldn't find my
camera cable, I put my memory card directly into my
printer to try to print directly from there. Lo and
behold, iPhoto popped up and asked me if I wanted to
import the photos. Awesome Didn't know I could do
that.
I tried your tip and an icon appeared on my desktop.
I double-clicked the icon and there were my photos in the memory card!
Now I do not need to purchase a memory card reader!
I wish I could give you a 50 point star for your tip!
Thank you very much, Erin! 
iMac 20" Mac OS X (10.4.9) Canon MP600

Similar Messages

Iphone 4 not recognized and will not sync after latest itunes update. I have done all trouble shooting and uninstalled and reinstalled itunes to no avail.

iphone 4 not recognized and will not sync after latest itunes update. I have done recommendedl trouble shooting and uninstalled and reinstalled itunes to no avail. Can I go back to earlier version of itunes or restore computer to fix?

'The installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\Web kit.resources\inspector\Images\Spinner Inactive Selected.gif.'
That one's consistent with disk/file damage. The first thing I'd try with that is running a disk check (chkdsk) over your C drive.
XP instructions in the following document: How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
Vista instructions in the following document: Check your hard disk for errors
Windows 7 instructions in the following document: How to use CHKDSK (Check Disk)
Select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, or use chkdsk /r (depending on which way you decide to go about doing this). You'll almost certainly have to schedule the chkdsk to run on startup. The scan should take quite a while ... if it quits after a few minutes or seconds, something's interfering with the scan.
Does the chkdsk find/repair any damage? If so, can you get an install to go through properly afterwards?

HT4623 How do I remove the updates after you have updated them?

How do I remove the updates after you have updated them?

In iOS 7 they remain in a list. This is because now you can optionally turn on automatic app update and so you may want to be able to tell what apps have updated recently. You can just ignore the list if you don't care. Also you will only see the red number badge when there are new ones to update.

Even after latest soft update i still have apps wating to redownload again on my iphone , what do i do? also i heard i should email apple , whats the address?

even after latest soft update i still have apps wating to redownload again

In over three years, I have yet to have a problem or meet someone who has.
Most never have an issue.
As this is a support forum, designed for those with issues, of course you will see problems here ( many self inflicted). If you visit a hospital, you are likely to see many sick people, even though most are not sick.
It is really up to you, but most users never have an issue.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/23/iphone-tops-j-d-powers-customer-satisfact ion-survey-for-4th-year-in-a-row/

I have an Ipod 5 and you can not listen to music unless you have headphone plugged in

I have an Ipod 5 and you can not listen to music unless you have headphones plugged in

- Try cleaning out/blowing out the headphone jack. Try inserting/removing the plug a dozen times or so. There is a little switch in the headphone jack that disconnects the speaker when the headphone jack is inserted.
Try the following to rule out a software problem
- Reset the iPod. Nothing will be lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iPod.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store. Seems you have a bad headphone jack.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

You can't send a message on behalf of this user unless you have permission to do so

Hi,
We are on Exchange 2010 SP2 with multiple domain name. All works ok. We need to be able to use other domains while sending email. For example, i have a default reply address set for [email protected] along with other addresses i.e [email protected] etc on
policy. I am receiving emails and can reply only using [email protected] I get the following error if i try to send email from [email protected]
[email protected]
You can't send a message on behalf of this user unless you have permission to do so. Please make sure you're sending on behalf of the correct sender, or request the necessary permission. If the
problem continues, please contact your helpdesk.
Users should have the ability to choose an address as they need rather that fixing to a single 'set as reply address'. I am sure it is possible. Can some provide some help/direction?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Byron,
Looked like a workable solution but could not get it to work. I am getting NDR with permission issue. I have created the distribution group with email address. Added the user in it. Given the user Full access and SEND AS permission.
Hi, I'm not sure what issue you are running into, but you can definitely give a user Send As permission for a group and then send as the group. I just verified in my test environment.
To assign the Send As permission, the easy way it in AD User and Computers.
Enable Advanced Features from the View menu first. This allows you to see the
Security tab.
In ADUC, find the group and open the Properties.
On the Security tab, Add the user.
With the user selected in the list, Allow the Send as
permission.
There may be a bit of lag time before that begins to work as Exchange may have cached some AD permissions, but it definitely works.
Byron Wright (http://byronwright.blogspot.com)

TS1424 i have just done the latest itunes update and now have the following message come up when i try to open itunes

i have just installed the latest update and the following message has come up. Text box - Unable to locate component. Message - the application failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.
I have tried reinstalling and it has not helped.
I have gone to uninstall what ever is installed on the computer but cannot find itunes in the program list but do not want to just delete all apple applications with out knowing what they are. So, how do i delete the existing itunes program on my compouter??
I am also hoping that i will be able to do a restor eform the cloud once i get this sorted

Hello, fletch72.
Thank you for the question. I see you have uninstalled, reinstalled and the error is persisting. Try one more time uninstalling all components of iTunes in the order specified of the article below. These steps must be processed in the order specified or the error will persist. Once this is done attempt to install iTunes again.
Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1923
If the issue persists, you will need to process the steps in the article below for each component and reinstall.
"The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable" alert when removing Apple software in Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3704
Cheers,
Jason H.

WARNING: Don't install the Keyboard Update if you hate the whine!

Don't install the keyboard update! It will fix some bugs on IOUSBFamily which allowed the mirror widget/photobooth hack.
In other words, if you install the keyboard update, you won't be able to shut your macbook up when it whines using the mirror/photobooth hack.
So unless you can't hear the whine or it doesnt concern you, don't install it.

To "undo" the patch, you need Pacifist and your Tiger DVD #1
With Pacifist open the following Package :
Your Tiger DVD/System/Library/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg
Then select in the file list :
System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext
Click "Install". It will ask you if you want to replace the files, select "Replace" (you can check the box if you want).
Then exit Pacifist, repair the authorizations of your hard drive. This will revert back to the 10.4.5 driver and should allow you to use Mirror/Photobooth and even MagicNoiseKiller.
Restart.
As always remerber that this trick modify your system folder. If something goes wrong you can screw your installation. So SAVE YOUR DATA BEFORE TO DO THIS. DO NOT TRY IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU DO.
Hope this help.

Latest Secuity Update kills twain support in Photoshop

After installing the latest security update, Photoshop Elements 3 crashes at launch when it gets to "Building Twain Menu..."
Others have had the same problem and I found a work around on MacFixIt: move the twain plugin out of the Plugins folder. This kills the Import From Twain Device function so you'll have to use ImageCapture, EpsonScan, VueScan or another utility to scan.
iMac 2.16Ghz 20" Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) Epson CX5000 All-In-One

I don't think this is specific to the security update. The Adobe TWAIN driver is notoriously buggy and ditching it has long been one of Adobe's solutions for when the program won't launch at all. Most scanners that allow you to do this have their own scanner plug-ins (Like canon) that supersede this one anyway. It's really no big deal.

AppStore doesn't know there are updates unless you kill it?

I noticed on the web that Fring had updated their iPhone app. I went to the App Store (via the iPhone) and it said all my apps were up to date. I thought, that's odd and tried again, same thing. It was not until I went into the recently used apps tray, killed the App Store, exited the tray and select the App Store icon again that if finally found 9 updates to Apps I own. So, if you never kill it you will never know there are App updates? Really?

Interesting... It may be an intermittent issue then, similar to how I get black squares in the camera roll and pictures that don't show up. That is until the app is killed or the phone is rebooted.
I should mention that I don't believe I had rebooted my phone in several days so this App was backgrounded and each time I'd bring it up to look for updates I'd have none. If the same thing has been happening to you, you might want to try killing the App in the recently used tray and selecting it again from your home screen.
I really am starting to feel like this was sort of rushed to market. This stuff was not tested well, or was released with these issues known (even worse). Maybe there are Apps that cause it to get into this state, some that are not working properly in iOS4?

The latest Firefox update, which I have installe on my macbook Os 10.68, seems full of bugs

I am so fed up with the latest version of firefox. It is incredibly slow, when I enter one url in the web bar it will send me bouncing off to a random address that is on my bookmards toolbar. Before the latest firefox update, I had already noticed it had become ridiculously slow. I read some support articles and it suggested uninstalling some add ons and reinstalling them. I did so, i even got rid of the ones I felt I no longer needed them. It fast slighter faster for maybe a day, then just as slow again. In the mean time, I installed google crome browser, b/c I have a blog with blogger, and there are just some things you can't do with blogger unless you're using Chrome. By accident, I discovered there were several things I could all of a sudden do online that I couldn't do with Firefox (reply to messages on a forum I post on, access a free menu planning feature on Canadian Living Magazine's website).
After their latest update, everything has gotten worse! That's when it got even slower, and started bouncing me around the web. I even cleared the cache, which was incredibly annoying since I had so many places all over the web that I had set to be automatically signed in to, and I spent an entire day having to recover all these passwords, and clearing the cache did nothing to fix the problem in any way. I will wait two days for a response from this forum. The only reason I haven't ditched Firefox completely is because of it's adblock feature. The adds on Chrome drive me nuts. If I have not received any suggestions that seem worth my time and energy, I'm uninstalling Firefox, and might consider returning to it when they come up with a new update.

Well, that's pretty made my decision final. I'm ditching firefox for good. The only reason I was willing to use it at all, was because of Ad block. I already tried uninstalling, disabling add ons, like I mentioned previously. The whole proceeding with Firefox safe mode thing sounds like way too much trouble than it's worth. Since I already have Safari Browser, that came with my Macbook, and I need Chrome Browser for using Blogger, I'm uninstalling Firefox and I'll just use those two. Chrome Browser annoys me enough of the time that I don't want to use it as my primary browser. Safari is fairly good though, especially if I only use it occasionally, that means if runs very quickly. Thanks for the advice. It's too bad. When I started using Firefox about 4 years ago, I loved it. Now it drives me absolutely crazy. I'll just start gathering all my passwords that are stored in Firefox and then uninstall it.

Firefox tries to install update then says cannot install update because you have to close another Firefox window, repeats every minute. Doesn't stop.

Update cannot install, says I must close any other Firefox window. (No other window open ) Cannot install update because another Firedox window is open.Since a recent update occured, You Tube videos flicker and browser favorites flicker. There is a flash card speed adjustment. The Flash Player and Firefox is not in sync.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update (Software Update not working properly)
Remove the files in the updates and updates\0 folder:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates)
Do a clean reinstall:
* Download a fresh Firefox copy from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html and save the file to the desktop.
* Uninstall your current Firefox version and remove the Firefox program folder before installing that copy of the Firefox installer.
* Don't remove personal data when uninstalling.
* It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere (not in the Firefox program folder) and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.

Can not update since you have not owned the major version of software.

The forums have multiple posts regarding the error "You can not update this software since you have not owned the major version of this software."
Apple's solution is to archive the message without any comment or solution. Some people mention that Apple does not want people to have multiple accounts. We have multiple devices, why would we not have multiple accounts. I do not want all of my sons games on my phone. Could someone please offer a solution without deleting my post like last time.

Is this article of any help http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495 ?
No idea why this has appeared three times
Message was edited by: King_Penguin

Can't update Xcode – "You have updates available for other accounts" and other errors.

I have 2 Macs, a 2008 Mac Pro running 10.8.5 and a 2009 MacBook Pro running 10.9.0, soon to be downgraded to 10.8.5. I can't install the Xcode update on either Mac, and I can't update MacTracker on my Mac Pro, which suggests that no updates work at all.
When I try to update, it says "You have updates available for other accounts" and "Sign in to ________ to update applications for that account." I'm already signed into that account. I tried logging out, closing the App Store, and logging back in. Then I tried logging out of both the App Store and iTunes as per a fix I found online, and it gave me "Unknown error" once I tried to update.
Is there a fix for this or at least a regular .pkg I can just install? Honestly, it's easier to update stuff in Debian Linux than on OS X 10.8 and up now.

Please try each of the following steps you haven't already taken, until the issue is resolved. After each step, relaunch the App Store and try again.
1. Follow the instructions in this Apple Support article.
2. If any App Store purchases were made under a different Apple ID, or if the bundled iLife applications were accepted under a different ID, sign in to the App Store with that ID to update.
3. Alternatively, delete the probem applications and re-download them with the ID you're using now. If you haven't already purchased them with that ID, you'll have to do that first, because purchases can't be transferred from one account to another.
4. Select the Purchased tab in the App Store window. If you see an item in the list marked "You have 3 apps to accept," click Accept.
5. Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore/adoption.plist
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window may open with a file selected. If it does, delete the selected file. You may be prompted for your login password.
Then repeat step 4.
6. Select
Store ▹ View My Account
from the App Store menu bar, then select View hidden purchases. If you're trying to update any hidden purchases, unhide them.
7. Launch iTunes and select
Store ▹ Authorize This Computer
from the menu bar.
8. If you've moved any App Store apps out of the Applications folder, or into a subfolder, put them back. Never move or copy those applications. If you have backup copies of the apps on another volume, unmount it and try to update again.
9. Contact Account and Billing Support.

HT1338 the mac won't stay on unless you have it plugged in

hi everyone my baby dropped some water on my mac air in swich it dryed the mac is charge at full but will not tun on with puting the charger on at all time sometimes when it gors uo it says time is june 2008

Hopefully your MacBook Air is stilll in warranty or you have Applecare? If these problems are persisting after the MBA has had time to dry out thoroughly you need to make a complete backup and then get an appointment to take it to the Genius Desk at the nearest Apple Store or an Apple Certified Repair facility. I would not risk further damage by continuing to attempt to use it.

Don't do latest secuity update unless you have to....

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for