Leopard harder to use than Win XP
About a year ago I switched from Win XP to an iMac running OS X v 10.5. There are a lot of features that XP has that OS X doesn't that make XP much easier to use.
Manipulating windows is much easier in XP because you can grab any corner or side of a window and resize it. What i don't like about the MAC is that I must grab the lower right hand corner of the window to resize it. And heaven forbid that corner gets hidden under the dock.... Also, in XP you can open an application in it's own window and then float documents within that window. I find that easier to work with than the way the MAC deals with it's windows. And I just hate spaces - I find them annoying.
Is there any way to get some of the XP interface features onto my MAC?
You may find this useful:
Switching from Windows to the Apple OS - good advice from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
and from a user:
http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/one-page-crash-course-in-switch ing-to-the-mac
Very useful tutorials on Macs here:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/macosx/
Last but not least:
Learning how to use Apple OS X in 27 easy lessons!
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/work/
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Why is iPhoto so much harder to use than Picassa?
I have been with Macs ever since they first ones appeared, grey box and all. Having being forced through circumstances in a non-Mac-friendly coutry to use, in paralell with Mac also a PC in time I downloaded Google's Picassa. I have found it easy to use. When the iPhoto came out I have tried it and found it not really user frinedly. After a 2 year gap on PC/Picassa I just bought a new MacBook Pro and transferred the Library to iPhoto. I am having a ****
of a time looking at my photos, organsing and editig them. In Picassa they are seen as chronological folders, easy to name and organise into 'events' or whateveryou fancy.
In iPhoto, when I open and go to Photos it comes with something taken months ago. No way to see the recent ones taken. When I go to Recent it it shows me somethng from 3 weeks back. When I go to Last Month at least I can see some recent ones.
Is there a way of editing iPhoto to let you see Day, Week, Month, Year etc at a glance. It is **** at the moment and unless I find a way I will switch back to Picassa. I love Macs and would never use PC in my life given a choice but am finding, trying to learn the Lion, that Apple has been has either lost its touch, has been compromising to please the Windows community or has been infested by PC-thinking nerds, down there in California... Can anyone comment and help how to make my iPhoto easy to use? Is there a tutorial so I could evaluate its potential before I dump it? Cheers.View Menu -> Sort Photos.
Tutorials
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/
Search: Click on the Search Icon and then choose Date. Now you can find the photos from any day, month or year with a click.
Events: Your photos grouped by when they were taken. Want them in a Specific Order: View Menu -> Sort Events
I can happily testify that iPhoto is easy to use - but that's not much good to you. You're used to working one way, iPhoto works differently. I'm sure I would have many of the same issues if I went the opposite direction. What iPhoto won't do is work like Picasa (and indeed vice versa) Either you can adapt to it or just use Picasa on your Mac.
Regards
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Can I use a usb external hard drive larger than 2TB? I have tried to use a 3TB but it shows up as 800GB. Even tred to reformat in disk utility but only shows as 800 gb as well. It is a Seagate 3TB harddrive and enclosure. Nothing on the Seagate site about it other than it says Mac os through 10.6 is supported for larger than 2TB (might be old).
You might have better luck in the Snow Leopard community. I'll ask the hosts to relocate your post.
10.6 Snow Leopard -
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Thanks Dirk,
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How to backup external hard drive to another external hard drive using time machine ?
Hello,
i have an external hard drive which i store all my drum samples and sound library on and files are contantly changing, adding new sounds, deleting old ones etc ..
So my method of back up as of now is to just copy all the edited files and click and drag to the back up disk.
Now, my question is, how do i back up my external hard drive to another external hard drive using time machine ? I read somewhere that you can do this, i cant find the post however. It would be nice to automate the back up process rather than manually finding the files to copy over.
Thanks in advance !The question you pose is conditional, in that you should have more than an exact
capacity replacement for a clone, if the drive you are going from (or one going to)
has insufficient free space and that has a bootable clone on the drive; any space
tied up in a partition for Time Machine backup, takes away from the running space
if you should need to run the computer from a clone on the external HDD's other
partition.... Better to have a good capacity of additional reserve unused free space.
Be sure any clone copy that you hope to use as a re-close, that each in turn is tested
after a clone operation. Also consider using each running system's Disk utility and
have First Aid 'repair disk permissions'. Preparation of a new drive or even an old
drive that may have questionable artifacts or errors on it, should be reformatted. To
even go as far as Secure Erase (overwrite) at least one-pass before reformatting it
again, could help.
However, I'm not sure if the drives and situation you are looking at would necessarily
be a good match. It could work, but you'd need a reasonable size partition or hard
disk drive for a system. Snow Leopard and all its associated applications, can do
OK in a 100GB HDD. (My computers have more storage capacity than is used; so
for mine to have 60% free space, is good.) Virtual Memory is drive space used by
OS X, that can be a substantial amount for swap and temp files. Some applications
make duplicates of works-in-progress, for each change in an open file; that adds up.
{This question (& my reply) should've been in their own thread & not at the end
of one that is nearly three months old, + marked 'solved' by the original poster.}
So I guess I don't have a direct answer to your question; having just returned from
a few hundred miles and automobile issues, too. I'm not really thinking on-topic...
The clone should be on its own separate drive, and up to 3TB drive dedicated to
Time Machine may be overkill, however that software will consume old backups first
when it uses up all the space. Or usually that is what happens in TM backups. If
that isn't happening, there may an issue in how Time Machine is set up.
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Leopard to Snow Leopard can i use a large flash drive to backup first?
I've been using Leopard for 4 years with no problems.
Since Google decided to stop support for Leopard, and I use Chrome a lot I decided to upgrade. I won't be upgrading to Mountain Lion right right away. I ordered my Snow Leopard disks from Apple.
I understand that I need to backup. I want to backup with Time Machine before I upgrade the OS, but I don't have $75+ right now to purchase an external hard drive for this purpose only.
Can I use a large Flash Drive to run Time Machine? Like a 32 GB? I know that flash drives have a limited number of writes on them and can go bad, so I am thinking I could just use it this one time to make sure I have a clean backup. If this is possible, then can I set up Time Machine again later when I have an external drive?
Also, I have 2 cores on my Mac, but I have no idea how to use the 2nd core.
I'm also not sure if I need to purchase a specific external drive because I have a mac.
Thanks for the help.If you only need to make a full backup prior to upgrading, I would suggest using SuperDuper, which for creating a full, bootable clone is free. (It is not free when you start needing to make incremental backups, but you won't be doing that, at least not right now.) For a bootable clone, you only need a Flash drive (or external drive) as big as the total size of the utilized space on your hard drive right now, not as big as whatever the entire drive size is.
In the past, I would have recommended Carbon Copy Cloner for this, but it's no longer free or donation-ware and you don't have the budget for both that and some kind of external or Flash drive.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
You might also want to look around newegg.com for inexpensive USB external drives, or even large enough Flash drives. You'll probably find a much less expensive external hard drive than a Flash drive for this purpose.
You do not need to use Time Machine, but even if you did you could just make one full backup to a Flash or external drive and then unmount and disconnect it. An external for TM only needs to be so large because it's constantly taking snapshots of your drive and those add up. But you won't be using it that way.
Anyway, I think you're much better off with a bootable clone, should you need to restore that.
Don't worry about having 2 cores; that's nothing to do with backing up. -
Why is iCal so much harder to use????
Is it just me...but why does it seem like iCal is way harder to use in Leopard?!?!?! Just look at the number of steps/clicks it takes just to enter an entry.
In month view, you double click on the day, but you can only enter in a title. you have to double click on the new event before you can enter in any details or even a time. And the box that pop-up is a tiny little box. In the old version of ical you could enter in everything in the right hand panel right away.
Then there is viewing events you have to double the event to get a little pop-up in order to see the details of the event. All you had to do before was click on an event and it would display in the side panel. Much much easier and less work.
Does the new ical bother anyone else? or is it just me? it just seems like they rushed it. there's lots of other little annoyances and inconsistencies in it too.Why is it that I seem to be unable to reply to this post? Well, here goes another try:
I agree: iCal is harder to use. In addition, there seems to have been little or no super-improvement in iCal (etc.) as we move to Leopard. It looks to me as if Apple must have hired tired, clueless (typical) Microsoft programmers to "help" them in this latest development.
I sincerely hope that Steve Jobs gets his broom out and cleans house. The "improvements" in Leopard seem to be salted with Windows-like stupidity and productivity reductions. Is Bill Gates now working in the Apple Human Resources Department? -
I am backing up my computer to an external hard drive using Time Machine. It has been at 288.91 "used" for a while... should I just let it ride? It's been going for about 7 hours now
It does not immediately delete the files that are missing.. it merely tries to backup the new files it has discovered on the external drive. Since you moved the files there, the backup at least for a while will contain both copies.. and that is why it doesn't have enough space to backup.
Fixing the problem.. hmm pondini is the expert.. you should be able to delete the backup of the photos in existing backup.. there are instructions to do it.. but it is a very poor way to do things.
Much better. .archive off the existing backup.. this is long and slow but worth it. you need a usb drive of the same size as the TC drive. Then erase the TC and start a fresh set of backups.
The alternative is to use the USB drive as a new target.. but it is much slower than the TC internal drive.
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In itunes, can i save my music on another hard drive other than C?
i have the program installed on my computer, i would like the music to be saved on another hard drive other than C, is there a way to do that within itunes?
You can have multiple libraries, and switch between them using the shift-start-iTunes method. Normally a single library is all that is required. Each library connects to a single designated media folder, however you can import content from other locations if you choose. See Make a split library portable for reasons why this may not be the best approach. If you want to access the "same" library on more than one machine then you need to clone the library files as well as media.
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Hi
I got an e-mail stating that Apple has determined that certain Seagate 1TB hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail, and that mine was one that may fail and to book an appointment with Genius to click here. So after making an appointment we then took out iMac to the shop affixing thirty minuets before appointment time and had to Waite until 12-45hrs. When we were told that we would have to leave the Mac with them for two to three days to replace the hard drive.
Can anyone advise, is this normal to make an appointment only to find that when you get to the Genius department in the Apple shop they then say because of the amount of iMacs that have come in today it will take days to replace?Hi mende1
Thanks for replying but when anyone makes an appointment surely the work should be carried out then not to be told to come back days later especially when you have traveled over one hundred and fifty miles to get to the shops. It may have been a free replacement but the cost of petrol for the journey comes to more than one hundred euros. -
Restored a Snow Leopard TM Backup using Leopard disk
I needed to restore a Snow Leopard hard drive but I couldn't find my Snow Leopard disk. I proceeded to use the Leopard disk to restore my Snow Leopard Time Machine backup. After the restore, The computer would not boot up.(Gray Screen) Would this be because I used the Leopard disk instead of the Snow Leopard disk? If so, I suppose finding the Snow Leopard disk is paramount to properly restore and boot the drive. If not, how would I go about getting my computer to boot?
ThanksThor Stevens wrote:
I needed to restore a Snow Leopard hard drive but I couldn't find my Snow Leopard disk. I proceeded to use the Leopard disk to restore my Snow Leopard Time Machine backup. After the restore, The computer would not boot up.(Gray Screen) Would this be because I used the Leopard disk instead of the Snow Leopard disk?
yes. this absolutely can not be done. there are file system differences between leopard and snow leopard which leopard restore utility will not understand. using it to do a full system restore of a snow leoaprd system will invariably result in a nonfunctioning system. you need to find your snow leopard disk.
If so, I suppose finding the Snow Leopard disk is paramount to properly restore and boot the drive. If not, how would I go about getting my computer to boot?
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New MacMini.....Any problem with hard drive greater than 500gb?
I'm interested in buying a new MacMini. I could definitely use a hard drive larger than 500gb though. Is there any problem installing a drive larger than 500gb? Since the Mac store only offers 320 and 500gb, I'm wondering if there is some limitation (special size?) or other problem.
I'd rather not have to use an additional external drive.
Thanks in advance.
FabianHi Fabian,
any 2.5" SATA harddisk with a maximum height of 9.5mm fits in the Mac Mini.
OSX doesn't "care" about the amount of GB the harddisk has.
With the above specs 750GB seems to be the largest widely avaiable size but 1TB should be avaiable too.
Have a look at MacSales or NewEgg.
Regards
Stefan -
Back up to portable hard drive rather than discs - how?
Can i back up my itunes to my portable hard drive rather than disc as 'help' suggests? How do i do it?
Like CTJon suggests, just use Windows Explorer to copy the iTunes folder and all its subfolders over to your portable drive.
You can't do it using iTunes. iTunes only has the disk backup option.
For incremental changes, you can use SyncToy from Microsoft. It's free software and really easy to use. There is no way to make it automatic, though, so you need to remind yourself to do the regular backups. -
Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB external hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's update. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My guess would be it has created an entirely new backup of your drive when you upgraded to Mavericks.
See Here: http://pondini.org/TM/1.html
And here: http://pondini.org/TM/9.html
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I just backed up my mac to an external hard drive using Time Machine. What would happen if I turn Time Machine off and then plug the external hard drive back into my computer?
What I am ultimately wanting to do is make more room on my computer by backing up all of my files onto the external hard drive and then deleting them off of my computer. However, neededing to be able to retrieve them from the external hard drive later down the road.
From what I have read and am trying to understand, is that I probably shouldn't have used time machine. I need to use the external hard drive like a basic flash drive where I can put things on and get things off without having it automatically update through time machine everytime I connect it to my computer.
Not tech savvy at all and barely understand basics. I need very simple and easy to understand explanations.sydababy wrote:
and then deleting them off of my computer.
BIG BIG MISTAKE ..... youre making a linchpin deathtrap for your data trying to shove everything on a single fragile HD.
Dont suffer the tragedy other people make, buy another or 2 more HD, theyre cheap as dust.
The number of people who have experienced terror by having a single external HD backup is enormous. One failure that WILL HAPPEN, and kaput,......all gone!
Dont do it, its all about redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
follow here:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
Deleting them off your computer is fine....having only ONE copy is extremely BAD.
The Tragedy that will be, the tragedy that never should be
Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and squirreled away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.
Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.
Never practice at any time for any reason the false premise and unreal sense of security in thinking your data is safe on any single external hard drive. This is never the case and has proven to be the single most common horrible tragedy of data loss that exists.
Many 100s of millions of hours of lost work and data are lost each year due to this single common false security. This is an unnatural disaster that can avoid by making all data redundant and then redundant again. If you let a $60 additional redundant hard drive and 3 hours of copying stand between you and years of work, then you've made a fundamental mistake countless 1000s of people each year have come to regret.
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