Mac Mini & Ext. FW Drive...Waking Up Issue

I've got a 1.83 C2D with a OWC Mercury external FireWire 400 hard enclosure with a WD drive. After the machine goes to sleep, it takes what seems like 10 seconds for the external drive to wake up. I've set my preferences to NOT put the hard drives to sleep but it still does it.
I wouldn't mind if the wake up was faster (a couple of secs), but waiting for an eternity to wake up is getting to be really annoying.
I've contacted OWC about the issue and they have no answer. Is this normal behavior or am I just overlooking something?

OWC has excellent tech support. Have you tried contacting them? Perhaps there is updated firmware for that enclosure on there site as well, or maybe it is just not functioning correctly.

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For instance, I live in the USA (Region 1). I'd like to purchase a couple of DVD's from Britain (Region 2). Will they play in my Mac Mini? Will I have to download any plug-ins, etc. to make it work?
Thanks!

The drive isn't region free, no. It can swap region codes 5 times (if I recall) but after that will remain on the last one set.
The easiest way to resolve this is to download VLC player. It doesn't take any notice of region codes, so the region 2 DVDs you want to play should work just fine. You can set VLC player to be the default application for DVDs in the CDs and DVDs preference pane.
VLC player can be downloaded from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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1)You should first look at system profiler if ID 5/6 is already used.IF Zip Drive is last in the row set Termination"ON"
2)according to Iomega's customer help you should use IomegaWare 3.0.4
3) You can download driver here
HTH

Mac mini 2012 new OWC SSD install issue

Hoping someone can makes sense of this report.
My macmini 2012 has been rock stable. 8 gig, Yosemite install.
Yesterday I installed an 120GB Electra 6G SSD as a second drive. Installed a fresh install of Yosemite. Everythign went without a hitch. System ran for 24 hours with non problems. Began installing my software and twice I came back to find the mini had rebooted under the original hard rive/system with a message that the computer had shutdown due to a hardware issue.
Checking Disk Utility the OWC SDD doesnt' even come up.
Rebooting it show shows up again, I can then select it as the start up drive and reboot with the SDD. Everything seems fine. Then a repeat several hours later.
This is the last report. Can someone translate? I don't know if I have a bad SDD, if it's a comptability/OS issue or if I possibly knocked something loose when reassembling. Thanks.
Anonymous UUID: 0324BA3D-2238-F9DA-88F3-7A5EABC15FB3
Fri Feb 13 16:20:59 2015
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8020bc1694): "launchd died\nState at Last Exception:\n\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.10.72/bsd/kern/kern_exit.c:361
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff812aa73e50 : 0xffffff802072fe41
0xffffff812aa73ed0 : 0xffffff8020bc1694
0xffffff812aa73f40 : 0xffffff8020bc135c
0xffffff812aa73f50 : 0xffffff8020c4b386
0xffffff812aa73fb0 : 0xffffff8020836e86
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
14C109
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: DCF5C2D5-16AE-37F5-B2BE-ED127048DFF5
Kernel slide: 0x0000000020400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8020600000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff8020500000
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thanks the replies. OWC sold me the kit, cable etc based on the Macmini's specs. I talked with support and the drive I installed should work with no issues.
They did have me reset the PRAM which did. They also told me I might need to install Yosemite 'several times before is sticks' - whatever that means. lol.
Anyway I zapped the PRAM. So far no mysterious restarts with the drive being unrecognized.
One thing I didn't mention though...
MacMini is in a backyard home office (about a 100 feet away with buried CAT6 cable connecting it to the network). I was using Screen Share from my MBP reinstall all my work software. Every crash occurred while using screenshare. I never had any crashes when I was actually sitting at the computer.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it - but I haven't used ScreenShare for any length of time to control the Mac mini since the pram zap. Figured I'll use the computer for a week or so and see how stable it is and then try using screenshare again and see if the behavior repeats itself.
Meanwhile I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I'm just suspect that it was a PRAM issue. But I'm a layman.

Photo library on Time Capsule and want iPhoto to recognise it rather than import to Mac Mini small Hard drive

As heading states, I have 100Gb of photos and want to have them "sorted" and viewable through iPhoto. at the moment when i add photos it is importing them from the TC to my mini's hard drive duplicating the pictures and using up valuable space. Is there a way of pointing iPhoto to the photo folder on TC as you would music and videos for iTunes library?

Yes there is but you shouldn't.
Here's why:
1. Is this a wireless connection? If you're trying to edit the Library (that is, make albums, move photos around, keyword, make books or slideshows etc.) or edit individual photos in it via Wireless be very careful. Dropouts are a common fact of wireless networking, and should one occur while the app is writing to the database then your Library will be damaged. Simply, I would not do this with my Libraries.
Problems with a Referenced Library
A Referenced Library is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing. The files are then stored where ever you put them and not in the Library package. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.
This is an attractive option for some users at face value, but it contains a significant number of issues that you might want to consider before making the decision to run a Referenced Library
How to do it:
iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck the box at 'Copy items to the iPhoto Library'
Now when you import iPhoto makes an alias in the Library Package that points to the stored file. Note: iPhoto still creates a thumbnail of the image and it makes a Preview of edited photos inside the Library Package.
Issues?
1. You are responsible for file management. That's more work:
You must first move the files from your camera to the storage location before importing.
If you want to delete files then you must first trash them from iPhoto and then afterwards find them in your storage and trash them.
Thereafter, you cannot move the files on early versions of iPhoto at all, on iPhoto 08 and later you may move them on the same Volume or Disk. If you move them to a new volume or disk the aliases my break. If they are on an different volume and you move them the aliases will break.
You cannot rename the files.
Migrating: moving to a new machine, moving the files to another disk are all a lot more complex.
2. You gain no extra functionality from running a Referenced Library. Nothing. This is just storage. You still manage the files via iPhoto. You edit them with iPhoto or via iPhoto's External Editor setting, otherwise you're changes will not be available in iPhoto. You don't save byte of storage space.
3. If you have the Library on one volume and the photos on another you if anything changes in the path to a file (Like if you upgrade your machine, move the files on the NAS or on to another one?) then the alias will break, and you'll have to repair it manually. For every photo in the Library. One at a time.
You can run a Managed library from an external disk. Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.

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Graphics Card
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Graphics Memory
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Display Connection
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Display Support
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The DVD burner worked perfectly until yesturday. The problem I am now running into is the DVD drive works fine during boot, and I can boot to the original Mac OS X disc that came with the Mac. But once the operating system is loaded, it is like the DVD drive does not even exist. It is not displayed in hardware, I can't burn DVDs, I can't watch DVDs, and I cannot eject anything by any means other than a forced eject during boot. Again, it is like as far as the OS is concerned, it does not exist.
I am also having this issue with the headphone port on the back of the Mac, but more on a intermitent basis. The headphone port works, and is seen by the OS 50% of the time, but the other 50%, the OS does not see it at all. And it is the same way with the integrated speaker. (The DVD drive is all the time.)
Everything works fine during boot, but not in OS X. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Good work, thanks for the report!

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I have just gotten of the phone with Apple Support here in Canada, more to let them know about this issue and yes, got the same message. The Fusion drive is very new technology and they have not heard much about this problem either. Their best advice was to wait untill the new iMacs role out with the same drive and see if the same problem is cropping up elseware. Maybe a solutiion will be forthcomming at that time?
Seriously, I must say..... very disappointing Apple! Steve Jobs is probably rolling over in his grave. Since when does Apple role out a product that does not work 100% out of the box? Since when does Apple adopt a "wait and see" approach to possible hardware glitches? Where is the quality control people!!
Even as a die-hard Macintosh fan, I must concede that Apple is loosing "street cred".
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Good Afternoon,
I have a Mac mini running OSX 10.5.8.
Today, I noticed that I couldn't access the Macintosh HD drive on the desktop as I did not have sufficient privileges. When I got-info on the drive, in sharing and permissions, I saw that "admin" suddenly had write-only privileges.
I could not 'unlock' the padlock to change the settings, it wouldn't react or ask for a password or anything. (I am the admin on the mini).
So I thought maybe it's just a restart needed; we run it for quite long times without a shut down.
Now it won't get past the gray Apple with spinner boot screen.
I've tried removing it from the mains to check if maybe the RAM would 'reset' or anything, but that hasn't helped.
Then, I got my OSX installation DVD to attempt booting into the repair function but, as I have the bluetooth keyboard, it won't register the keyboard at the early stage in the boot process - I cannot hold down C or other keys to boot into anywhere.
Having researched a bit, I came across others who also met this combination of issues, but none involving Macintosh HD itself and still being able to get to the gray Apple screen.
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Then, I got my OSX installation DVD to attempt booting into the repair function but, as I have the bluetooth keyboard, it won't register the keyboard at the early stage in the boot process - I cannot hold down C or other keys to boot into anywhere.
Hi- Stupid question, but did you actually try it? It should work, as the bluetooth drivers are one of the first things loaded before the apple logo even appears.
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I posted several questions about blue screen hang and was able to fix my problem, after LOTS of work and searching in various forums.
I had been unable to use my computer for over a month; it was simply hanging at the blue screen, and that seemed to happen when my Finder.app had crashed, hiding all my document icons on my desktop, etc. I also had been having issues with Time Capsule and my backup Iomega disk, which is touchy.
When I tried a fix my icons had returned but I had been unable to use computer after rebooting, and I had tried every sort of key combo including trying to boot from the original install CD, etc., but nothing worked. I could not even reboot using original 10.6 software CDs, and was only able to log in Single User Mode and had tried many fixes with Terminal, and finally, this worked, two of the fixes I used are listed below.
It seems, in part, that resetting certain "privileges" worked.
This tip first tip is for Mac OSX 10.3 to 10.3.9 and even though I am on 10.6.8, I ran it, and it worked. THis is the original link location: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1411
   1. Start up the computer in Single-User Mode.
   2. Type: in Terminal the command
     mount -uw /
   3. Press Return.
   4. Type (in Terminal, note space before mv)
      mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist preferences2.old
     Note space between ".plist" and "preferences".
   5. Press Return.
   6. Type:
     mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist preferences3.old
   7. Press Return.
   8. Type: reboot
   9. Press Return.
Then I followed up with this tip to "Reset certain privileges"
1. Start up the computer in Single-User Mode.
   2. Check the volume with fsck.
   3. Type: mount -uw /
   4. Press Return.
   5. Type: chmod 1775 /
   6. Press Return.
   7. Type: reboot
   8. Press Return.
When I rebooted, yayyyy! I was able to log back onto my computer, however, all icons were missing, again, so I typed this fix
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder & disown
I am not sure what 1775 means, but this fix got my computer back up, saving me at least a $150 bill at the Genius Bar.
When I typed those commands into Terminal, this is what returned, and seems to be some QXPscrpiting issue, though I have no idea what that is. and again, some Dropbox issues. If anyone has any idea what all those issues are regarding ScriptingCodes please let me know.
My-Mac-mini:~ username$ /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOSFinder &
[1] 892
Rangdrols-Mac-mini:~ username$ -bash: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOSFinder: No such file or directory
[1]+ Exit 127                /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOSFinder
My-Mac-mini:~ username$
Rangdrols-Mac-mini:~ username$ /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder & disown
[1] 894
My-Mac-mini:~ username$ 2012-08-25 19:37:10.594 Finder[894:903] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/QXPScript ingAdditions: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/QX PScriptingAdditions, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
    /Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/QXPScript ingAdditions: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
Finder: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
Dropbox: Entered INJECT_pthread_entry
Dropbox: Installing event loop timer
Dropbox: proc: 0x11d171e53
Dropbox: upp: 0x11d171e53
Dropbox: InstallEventLoopTimer: 0x101341dd8
Dropbox: GetMainEventLoop: 0x101341c41
Dropbox: timer installed!
Dropbox: Loading /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501/DropboxBundle.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Dr opboxBundle
Dropbox: dlopen returned: 0x11bb12090
module initializer in main thread?: 1

Great work, thanks.
As far as those errors, ypu have some missing OS components it seems.
And, before the mount -uw you really should've done this...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

If I have a Mac Mini ( no Disk Drive ) Can I Still Use Boot Camp ?

Hi, I have a ma mini... but i have came to a conclusion that I have no disk drive... so can i still use bootcamp ? I was wondering because all of the tutorials I watch, they tell me to insert my disk into the disk drive.
-Thanks for The Help

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
If you have a Mac mini without a built-in SuperDrive, you have two ways to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp:
- If you have Windows in a ISO file > open Boot Camp Assistant, tick the option to create a Windows installation USB drive and follow the steps.
- If you have Windows in a DVD > buy an external optical drive, connect it to your computer, open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the steps to install Windows.
Don't forget to download Windows support software, and install it just after finishing the Windows installation.
If you need help installing Windows, print this file > http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

10.5.8 Update sorts Mac Mini HTPC 10.5.7 display issues

Just a heads up really.
For those using a mac mini as a home theatre pc (or PVR) with a widesrceen TV, the important display resolutions that were missing from the 10.5.7 update appear to have been reinstated in 10.5.8.
In my case I previously had to revert to 10.5.6 because the 1360x768 resolution option was missing from 10.5.7. (Without that resolution option the desktop either did not fill the screen or ran off the edge of the 37' Philips LCD TV). Now that 1360x768 has been reinstated in 10.5.8 the mac mini is running into the TV fine under 10.5.8 and all is well.
The update works for me so if you've also had to revert to 10.5.6 to get the MM-to-TV display working correctly you might want to check out if the 10.5.8 update works for you too.
Cheers...
(ps It's worth making a Time Machine backup before using software update. In case 10.5.8 doesn't give the results you want it's easier to restore from TM than do a whole 10.5.6 reinstall).

Here is the process we used.
1. Run DU and repair permissions
2. Boot from install disk and make a disk image of the volume (just in case)
3. Install the combo 10.5.8v1.1 updater
4. Reboot
5. Install the combo 10.5.8v1.1 updater again due to a permissions database issue.
6. Only now run DU and repair permissions
7. If running mail services search Apple Support Forums for solution to the org.clamav.freshclam error. Note: this shows after you install the latest security update after 10.5.8v1.1
YMMV

Mac Mini replacement hard drive - will any 2.5" SATA drive fit?

I want to upgrade the hard drive in my Early 2009 Mac Mini. I see lots of good info online about how to disassemble and reassemble the Mini. But I can't find any info about hard drive compatibility.
Will any 2.5" laptop SATA drive fit the Mini? I want to make sure that all the connectors and mounting holes will line up correctly. I am thinking about Western Digital Scorpio Black.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks for the help!
Dave

I want to upgrade the hard drive in my Early 2009 Mac Mini. I see lots of good info online about how to disassemble and reassemble the Mini. But I can't find any info about hard drive compatibility.
Will any 2.5" laptop SATA drive fit the Mini? I want to make sure that all the connectors and mounting holes will line up correctly. I am thinking about Western Digital Scorpio Black.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks for the help!
Dave

Mac Mini - Server running Lion - Network related issues

I have a mac mini running Lion. I am having a few issues that did not exist prior to an upgrade. But for the life of me, I can't figure it out.
The problems I'm having are as follows:
1. screen sharing times out. It works, then stops after a while. If I go in and uncheck, then recheck remote management, it'll work again, but only for a while.
2. neither the air port or the hardwired ethernet will obtain an ip via DHCP. Works fine once I put in a static, but will never obtain a dynamic address.
3. Homesharing on Itunes will turn off after a while, same as the screen sharing does..
4. Time Capsule is no longer found by the Mac Mini. My macbook pro see it no problem. It also keeps the itunes homeshare and can get DHCP addresses fine, so I know it's not a router issue that is causing the issues on the mac mini.
Thanks
James

well to be honest I wanted a server to run more aspects of what I do privately (rather tahn at work) rather than use hosted accounts from disparate hosted providers on line. In partcular wanted a mail server to handle multiple mail domains, wiki server, web sever as per mail server and I was interested in what they would provide for iphone ipad etc as I have a few that I wanted to link to a server rather than individual macs and pcs
I also thought that Apple might bring their abilities to creating a great UI for essentially linux operating systems to a server os.
from initial views though it might have been easier (cheaper) to go to ubuntu and just their server version of linux. Anyway I will persist - I will read through the stuff you guys have linked me to - colinsolutions appears to have aimed me at some useful stuff. Looks like a bigger "project" than i imagined - but I havent looked at UNIX since 1986 so if I have to get into the command line it wont kill me I am sure.
thanks for the input - if anyone else can suggets good resources that would be appreciated.
ps simon - i found that the name for the server with the .local extension is visibile from the mac via finder and allows me to connect to the shared folder. so my server is sdhome - the shared resource is sdhome.local ... not sure if this helps but...

Remote install OS X on Mac Mini (sans disk drive)

I wanted to sell my Mac Mini so I went through the process of deleting the harddrive using that command-r screen on load up. But I completely forgot about re-installing the operating system. So now I get the blinking folder icon when it boots.
How do I re-install OS X? Is there a way to remote install it? I can't seem to find any information online.
My Mac Mini is a 2.3GHz Intel Core i5, 2GB RAM, 500 GB HD. It lacks the DVD drive so that option is not available.
Thanks.

It is called "Internet Recovery", this might be of some help.

Mac mini internal hard drive not recognised during internet recovery

mac mini 2.3GHz OS X Lion
I turned on my comp and got the folder with the question mark. Went into recovery and am not able to do any of the proceedures. I can see something in the disk utility, but it is not mounted. I was able to recover an old internal drive connected with a SATA wire, but not what I was looking to do. Have had this less than 2 months. I wish apple had better steps to follow for recovery. Just want it to function the way it was bought. Any help is appreciated. First time posting!

Sounds like either a failed Hard Drive or other Hardware problem.
Contact Apple or your local AASP and make an appointment to have it looked at.
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