MacBook Air problem with Remote Disc
I am trying to upload a disc to my MBA from a shared MBPro. Remote Disc recognizes the shared MBP and the CD but cannot access the data. Any suggestions?
Actually the restriction DOES apply to an audio CD.
From this document:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2057
"MacBook Air and Mac mini do not support playing DVD movies or audio CD media with Remote Disc. In addition, some discs, such as game discs, may be copy-protected and are therefore unusable. To play DVD movies, audio CD media, or copy-protected discs on the MacBook Air or Mac mini, use the MacBook Air SuperDrive."
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I no longer have the key or the discs.... So I restored using Time machine... and the computer works great... it just dosent have any room on the disk....
IS THERE A WAY TO format the disc and then install office (2011) without the discs and key???
ONE more thing... might as well get it out of the way.... my sister just bought her first mac... she had been using my iphoto for some time to download her pictures... how can i export her pictures to her new macbook without losing the information that is atached to them... like location time etc...
p.s. english is not my first language sorry for spelling...Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
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hello everyone i have macbook air, hello everyone i have macbook air and my startup disc is full i checked everything and and find out that all space is of OTHER and i dont know what is it and what i have to do with that
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
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Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
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Thanks for your input/assistance.MacBooks leave the factory charged to about 50% but the battery will slowly discharge even if it is off. Staple's probably doesn't have a really fast product turnover when it comes to Apple notebooks so it wouldn't surprise me if its been on the shelf for a while. As Oglethorpe said, charge it up, use it on battery after you've charged it and repeat several more times. If you are still worried about battery life contact AppleCare.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2048555&start=0&tstart=0
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