My mac bleeps 3 times

my mac bleeps 3 times when i move it while it is on please help it is a mc book pro and it is an early 2011

Three beeps can mean the RAM (memory) is faiing or has failed.
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The reason I am thinking this is because the little booklet that comes with the MTP says 'after you pair your MTP with a Mac, you can pair it again with a different Mac. To do this, you first remove the existing pairing and then pair the trackpad again'.
Can anyone advise, please?
If it can be paired with more than one MBP at a time, any suggestions why my system preferences search for the MTP is not producing any results?
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Yes, your keyboard, mouse or trackpad can be paired with multiple Macs. You can even have multiple keyboards, mice or trackpads paired with one Mac. The caveat is that the device can only be connected to one Mac at a time. The device can't be paired or connected with a Mac while it's currently connected to another.
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It depends on the size and number of photos you are sharing around.
Nothing wrong with putting a copy of the photos on the TC if that works for you. Each person can access the photo just fine like that.
I am not saying don't.. just beware of the risks so do it prudently..
But if the library is too large, you will steal space on the TC that should be used for backups.. if all the computers in the network are backing up to it, don't use too much of the spare space.
Better to buy a firewire drive (or USB but firewire 800 are much faster) and connect it to a computer that is regularly turned on. Share that drive to the network. It will then also be backed up correctly to the TC although again be careful of the amount of files, and still keep a straight copy backup somewhere else.
I am recent convert so workflow on the Mac is not my forte.. so perhaps some of the wiser heads can also drop in and post a reply.

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However, quoting from ASC contributor Pondini's excellent Time Machine FAQ:
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I am not sure what you mean by this.
is it ok to delete outlook ID's copy/backup as running out of space?
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http://www.officeformachelp.com/outlook/troubleshoot/

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Time Machine does not touch your BootCamp Windows.
It simply said ignores it completely.
Nonetheless, I am curious as to why you wanna restore a Time Machine backup.
Usually during partitioning with the BootCamp Assistant in OSX to make the Windows partition your OSX stays intact.
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what is the benefit of setting arp aging time on router and mac address aging time on switches close to each other?
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FastEthernet0/43 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 000d.5e11.4e2b (bia 000d.5e11.4e2b)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 1000 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 7/255, rxload 2/255
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Full-duplex, 100Mb/s
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input never, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 933000 bits/sec, 149 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 2981000 bits/sec, 263 packets/sec
2819781393 packets input, 3782332886 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 266693 broadcasts (0 multicast)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
4015025747 packets output, 2328228393 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 2 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
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ADVANCED: Is manually editing a SparseBundle partition the best approach for backing up 2 Macs to 1 Time Capsule?

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Issues:
— to ensure one doesnt "out backup the other" - AND since it isnt possible (practically) to Partition the HDD within the Time Capsule
or in other words: to prevent 1 computer from taking more space for itself by providing an equal amount of backup space to each computer)
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http://pondini.org/TM/A8.html
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The disk space is not adequate for the operation.. archive off the existing backup if you need it.. then start a new backup from each computer.. once you have a new clean backup then set one to 1TB (remember a 2TB only formats to 1.8TB though, so you really should set one sparsebundle to 800GB.. and leave the other one to fill the remaining space.. the disk must have 10-25% free space remaining for backups to work.
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This is not a 100% solution.. Even on ML it did not work reliably.. and if that is the case you can almost predict Mavericks will be worse... before it gets better.
James died before Mavericks came out so unfortunately we have no more information.. but Mavericks and how it handles sparsebundles could well be different.

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