Every so often my iMac acts like I have two screens

Especally with email, I find one email is on the screen but I then need to select mail in the dock to get to "the other screen." How to stop this?

Click once on the icon on the Dock, and change the application you want on all "screens" to be on All Desktops.

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Can iMac act like a target display? Can we connect a PC/MAC to iMac and can it just work like a monitor.

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My iMac acts like it has a virus, and says I'm not connected to the internet...Help

My iMac acts like it has a virus, it says I'm not connected to the internet. What do I do?

Internet Quick Assist:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1144?viewlocale=en_US
Troubleshooting internet settings:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1714?viewlocale=en_US

My photoshop CC acts like I have a trial account and asks repeatedly to sign on

My photoshop CC acts like I have a trial account and asks repeatedly to sign on. This happens about one third of the time I try and use CC. This is very frustrating as each time I have to resign on, enter my email and password which takes about 5 minutes each time. Once I sign on it acts like this is a new account although I have a clould account for a couple months now. How do I get this to stop?

Hi McBuck01,
Welcome to Adobe Forum,
Welcome to Adobe Forum,
You can go through this thread, it can help to resolve your issue:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5703632#5703632
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/trial--1-launch.html
You may be prompted to sign in but if you are on an annual plan you have up to 99 days to sign in. If you are on month to month then you may have up to 30 days to sign in. You can find more details on this in the Creative Cloud FAQ athttp://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html.
Do I need ongoing Internet access to use my Adobe® Creative Cloud™ desktop applications?
No. Your Creative Cloud desktop applications (such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®) are installed directly on your computer, so you won't need an ongoing Internet connection to use them on a daily basis.
An Internet connection is required the first time you install and license your desktop apps, but you can use the apps in offline mode with a valid software license. The desktop apps will attempt to validate your software licenses every 30 days.
For annual members, you can use the apps for up to 99 days in offline mode. Month-to-month members can use the software for up to 30 days in offline mode.
Regards,
Rajshree

HT201250 Is there any way to schedule backups on Time Machine? I hate it that backup happens every dang hour. I would like to have it back up at night.

Is there any way to schedule backups on Time Machine? I hate it that backup happens every dang hour. I would like to have it back up at night.

Richard Campbell2 wrote:
I hear you, I do. But the problem is that with my Mac, I have to stop and postpone whatever project I am working on while the backup occurs. It just slows down my computer.
Then something is wrong with your backups. Changing the interval will only deal with they symptoms, not the actual problem, and you won't be as well protected as with hourly backups.
If the backups are much larger than they ought to be, see #D4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
If the sizes are reasonable, but it seems to take too long, see #D2 there.

I have 2? How do I sync selected photos from my IPad to my IMac w/o losing all photos on my IPad and getting the phoos o my IMac. ou see I have two IMacs with different sets of photos. Also want to convert all Apple works docs to pages docs on my IMac.

I have 2? How do I sync selected photos from my IPad to my IMac w/o losing all photos on my IPad which will be replaced with the photos on my IMac.You see I have two IMacs with different sets of photos. Also want to convert all Apple works docs to pages docs on my IMac. Is there and app available to do the former. many thanks. b

The iPad and related software is designed to sync with only one computer. I suggest transferring the photos from one of your iMacs to the other so that all photos are on one Mac. Same for all other files you want to sync over.
To get those AppleWorks files to the iPad you'll have to determine if Pages will open them. If it will then use the file sharing feature of iTunes to copy them to Pages on your pad.
If Pages will not open the AppleWorks files directly you'll have to save them in some format that Pages will read. These include but may not be limited to Pages and Word formats.

Installed OSX 10.6.8 on iMac and now I have two icons in my dock for time machine and can't access either one. I don't think it is backing up to time capsule either. Anyone else have this issue?

I installed OSX 10.6.8 on iMac and now I have two icons for time machine in my dock. When I try to access either one the wheel goes round and round. I seem to have lost all back ups that were on Time Capsule. Not sure how to check or what to do. Thanks.

See what happens if you select the TM icon in your menubar, and select Enter Time Machine there.
If that doesn't help, try the things in #E4 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting

I have a scenario like i have two blocks in my report

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China 4000$
USA 8000$
Germany 6000$
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You can use Element link to have the desired results:
Here is the initial layout:
After applying Element Link, if you click on California, you will see this:
If you click on Colorado, you will see this:
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I have noticed my iMac's screen flashes every so often. Any ideas?, I have noticed my iMac's screen flashes every so often. Any ideas?

My iMac seems to be running just fine, but every so often my screen flashes. I have not noted any regular intervals for when it happens nor have I tied it to an particular activity I am doing at the time. Anyone else notice this happening?

Contact Apple Service, iMac Service or Apple's Express Lane. Do note that if you have AppleCare's protection plan and you're within 50 miles (80 KM) of an Apple repair station, you're eligible for onsite repair since yours is a desktop machine.

IMac acting like space bar being held down

My iMac is acting like the space bar is being held down, even when keyboard and mouse are disconnected. How do I fix this problem?

Well, some info, maybe more than you nedd, but...
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
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Before I transfer files from my PC to the new imac should I load office for Mac and parallees? Will this mean I have to open the new account on my imac first and thus have two user accounts when I transfer the PC? I would prefer to only have one account.

IIt was in my mind to load office then transfer. After to load paralels and transfer my windows system. I have a new copy of office for Mac plus paralels PC to Mac transfer version 8. As this is my first mac (I have ipads and iphones) I am unsure of what to do. Also to confuse matters I use a windows laptop as my sync machine for the phones and ipads (i do have a cloud account with backup) can I transfer both machines to my new imac? I will have a 1tb fusion drive + 2tb time capsule although I only have less than 400GB of data on both machines. Hope this is not too confusing for everyone but I am looking forward to sorting this mess out by just using the one machine.

Use the Office for Mac and ignore using Parallels for that. If you have PC only apps you have to run that are MS Windows only then consider Parallels. Just transfer your main PC, using Migration Assistant. If you don't know how then simply read over Pondini's article called Lion or Mountain Lion Setup Assistant tips and look for the section on migrating from a PC. Millions have done what you are about to, it's far from leading edge these days, if you go to an Apple Store to purchase they will offer this as a service, something you might be interested in.

Iphone photos upload twice to iMac, so I now have two of each one

Why have the photos on my phone uploaded twice to my iMac when I plugged it in? Also they have stopped coming in automatically over iCloud, why is this?
Thanks

Hi Ahmed,
Welcome to the community!
If you have two subscriptions in one Adobe account:
Can I install the software in 3 or 4 computers (using 2 at any one time) now that I have two subscriptions?
Ans. Adobe has moved to identity-based licensing with a technology that will not support multiple same-product subscriptions, so you can only buy one membership per Adobe ID. If you need two subscriptions to Creative Cloud, you will need to purchase each subscription with a unique Adobe ID.
When you install your software, you will be required to enter the same Adobe ID that you used when purchasing your membership, for the following reasons:
To help ensure that the person who subscribed is the same person who is installing the software
To enable Adobe to send you important account information in the event your subscription is about to expire or cannot be charged to your credit card.
2.Can Adobe extend my first subscription to May 2015 and cancel my second subscription?
Ans.Your first subscription will be automatically renewed untill and unless you do not cancel. In order to cancel your second subscription you need to contact customer support. Please refer:
http://www.adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/
3.Can I transfer my second subscription to my colleage and still continue to pay using my Credit Card for this new subscription?
Ans. CC cannot be transferred to another user as it is associated with your Adobe ID.
4.Tell me what can I do? I do not want to be paying for two subscriptions and use only one. After all, it was your system that validated that qualification.
Ans. I would recommend you to cancel one of the CC membership by contacting customer support on the link mentioned in answer2.
Please let us know if it helps,
Thanks!
Gurleen

Help! iTunes is making my iMac act like a Windows machine!

Here is the basic problem:
Some songs will not play properly in iTunes, pausing often and causing the spinning beach ball of death to freeze my iMac for 5 to 10 minutes at a time, sometimes longer. I am also having problems ripping those songs to a CD.
I am trying to decide if I should uninstall iTunes or simply back everything up and do a clean install of Snow Leopard and iTunes.
I’m also wondering if simply getting more RAM would solve my woes. I have 2GB, which worked well for years. I have 4GB coming in the mail.
I have a 2008 iMac. It has about 175GB of free space on its hard drive, about 144 GB in use. With iTunes playing a file and nothing of particular note open, it has just under 1GB of free system memory, or RAM. I have both the latest version of Snow Leopard and iTunes installed. All software is up to date. Except, of course, that I'm not running Lion.
I have a 45GB in music and 54GB in podcasts in my iTunes library.
I have corrected my hard drive’s permissions repeatedly but am unaware of any other maintenance I should be doing on my hard drive.
Here are some observations that may or may not be helpful:
Songs in the same folder are behaving differently, some consistently playing without a problem, others consistently spinning the beach ball. For example, five songs off an album will freeze up my iMac but the album’s other songs do not.
I can, however, duplicate the symptoms with otherwise dependable songs by having more applications open. Nothing major, say Safari, Finder and iTunes. What I don’t get is why some songs would play well and others not when only iTunes is open.
Having a handful of applications open now sometimes prompts the spinning beach ball of death. This never used to happen, hence the RAM coming in the mail.
When I check information on the malfunctioning music files, it shows they contain data, but I start getting the beach ball checking the file’s “sharing & permissions” status in "Get Info."
Interestingly, I recently had to stop backing up my podcasts in Time Machine because some of them were crashing it. My music files, however, have been backing up fine in Time Machine, so far.
Also, when I try to copy my music files onto an external drive or my desk top – in anticipation of reinstalling iTunes -- my iMac cites error 36 and stops the process.
My iMac’s performace problems started to occur before I finally updated to Snow Leopard a few months ago. Indeed, I thought updating would solve them.
I had been regularly updating iTunes, however, I recall reading somewhere that upgrading to Snow Leopard while having an up-to-date iTunes installed might cause problems.
There you have it. Any advice or insights would he most welcome.

Well, I seem to have solved my own problem. Do I get 10 points, I wonder? It appears that my poor iMac was in desperate need of a masssive cleaning. Thanks to other posts here and elsewhere, I found out about Cocktail, a free download -- unless you chip in for the more advanced version. This is a powerful and easy to understand tool. I used it to perk my iMac up to a level I have not seen in a LONG time. The spinning beach ball of death must go play elsewhere. Among other things, I cleared out all my caches, eliminated a ton of foreign languages and did several repairs, including tracking down and killing a corrupted permission. It also taught me how to tap into my computer's activity logs and gave me other useful insights. GOOD stuff. I did other things not related to Cocktail to free up processing power -- such as turning off file- size view option in Finder -- but Cocktail is what solved this problem. As I type this, I am happily listening to songs that earlier would not play. What a relief. I am now especially looking forward to that new RAM. We'll be blazing fast then, by gum.

My macbook makes a doorbell noise every so often. It seems like it is not connected to any kind of notification or event. Any idea what might be going on?

My macbook is making a doorbell noise sometimes. I have no idea why. It seems totally unrelated to anything I am doing or receiving on the computer. I do not use much on my mac other than Microsoft Word, Google Chrome and sometimes mail- its basically used for school and not much else. I just want to know what the sound means and if there is anything I should do. Any ideas?

What ISP?
What router?
Who made it, what software?
Is it just the iPad ( Anything else using wifi at your place having problems? ) ?
Give us something to go on.

Acts like it has a screen saver on it

Hi folks. We have an iPod touch - not latest generation. We can't see the screen. It behaves as if there is a screen saver on it - varying shades of purple vertical lines that fade in and out. I have restored the software twice but to no avail. If I slide my finger across the bottom, it sounds like it is waking up, but I still can't see any icons. It has not been dropped or gotten wet. iTunes behaves as if everything is functioning normally.
Any suggestions? I am attaching a photo. Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks!

Try the standard fixes:
- Reset:
Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore the iPod from backup via iTunes
- Restore the iPod to factory defaults/new iPod
If still a problem you likely have a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.

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