QMaster Preferences on Intel Mac

It will be some time before I am able to acquire FCS 5.1, and apparently OS X won't let you load PPC preference panes on Intel Macs.
Does anyone know a workaround to set up QMaster services and sharing without having to use this prefpane? The software is installed on each of these machines, so if anybody knows which flatfiles the pane edits to get the raw pref information, it'd be a big help

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Bluetooth Not Available on Intel Mac mini

I keep losing the Bluetooth wireless connection between my Apple wireless mouse and keyboard and my Intel Mac mini (which is running Mac OSX 10.5.5)
Tried re-booting but it doesn't always come back.
Looked in System Preferences, but if the connection is lost, Bluetooth has disappeared as if not installed. If the connection is present then all seems OK. You can check battery levels etc.
Left to itself Bluetooth can re-appear sometime later as mysteriously as it disappeared, maybe after half an hour or so. Very annoying as I have to result to using an Apple USB mouse and keyboard when the connection is lost.
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regards,
BJ

Ok, I've resolved this on my machine, at least for the time being.
Here is what I did. I am not advising anyone else to do this and I am in-no-way stating this will fix your problem. I'm just relaying what worked for me. If anyone chooses to try this then it's on their own head!
I opened my Mac Mini and located the Bluetooth circuit board just in front of the rear power button. I removed the small phillips screw holding the board in place and noticed that the connector that connects the board to the main motherboard was not seated well. I removed the connector and reattached it, making sure I felt the 'click' as the connector was pushed home.
I had also read on the net that the routing of the bluetooth ariel cable may cause problems due to interference from the USB ports. I took the opportunity to extract the ariel and run it over the disk and away from the USB ports. Before putting the lid back on I booted up to check Bluetooth was working again.
So, I now have my Mac Mini with Bluetooth working again. We shall see how long this lasts - perhaps the root cause was a loose connection, in which case it may be fixed permanently now. I shall report back in a few weeks.
Be aware that opening your Mac is going to invalidate any warranty. Mine was out of warranty anyway so I was not bothered. I've also got a degree in software and electronic engineering so know my way round the insides of computers. Please make your own assessment of your level of expertise before deciding to try what I did. It may not work for you anyway!

HT204053 i dont have the icloud icon in my system preference on my mac. what do i do?

i am trying to find my pics and photo stream on my icloud on my mac and there is no icon for pictures, i have all of iphones and ipads backed up to the cloud but there isn't a picture icon showing they have been uploaded. I go into system preferences on my mac and there is NO icloud icon. what do i do???

Your signature says you have 10.4.6 (Tiger) - is this correct? (If it isn't please keep your signature up to date to prevent confusion). The minimum requirement for iCloud is Lion 10.7.5 (Mavericks preferred): the iCloud Preference Pane does not appear on earlier systems - the MobileMe pane appears on Lion and earlier but is now non-functional - you cannot now open or access a MobileMe account.
To make use of iCloud you will have to upgrade your Mac to Lion or Mavericks, provided it meets the requirements - if you are indeed running Tiger it's possible that you may not be able to.
If you are rusing an Intel Mac you will have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first to be able to access the Mac App Store - it's available in the online Apple Store. However if you have a PPC Mac you cannot run Snow Leopard and cannot proceed further.
The requirements for Lion are:
Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
2GB of memory
OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
7GB of available space
Lion is available in the Online Apple Store ($19.99). Mountain Lion (10.8.x) is also available there at the same price (though it's reported to have been removed from sale in some countries so may well cease to be available generally) but there seems little point as the system requirements are the same for Mavericks (10.9.x) - which is free - unless you need to run specific software which will run on Mountain Lion only.
The requirements for Mountain Lion and Mavericks are:
OS X v10.6.8 or later
2GB of memory
8GB of available space
and the supported models are:
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
It is available from the Mac App Store (in Applications).
You should be aware that PPC programs (such as AppleWorks) will not run on Lion or above; and some other applications may not be compatible - there is a useful compatibility checklist at http://roaringapps.com/apps:table , and that no system later than Tiger will run the Classic Environment.

Slow performance on Intel Mac a damaged disk?

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I'm experiencing very slow performance on my Intel Mac 216 Ghz core duo, with 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Running OS 10.6.8. Have been experiencing reduced performance, can't use Entourage email or Chrome, Firefox browsers at the same time. Ran Utilities to repair permissions, only a Java set of issues. Disk Utilities found no problems with the disk. Have experienced this issue increasingly for 5-6 months. Using Activity Window i see that Entourage, Word, Safari, Chrome, even System Preferences pane sometimes "Is not responding". Other system services take longer than before.
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Read on this board discussion 23238910 to use Terminal Window to do a syslog comand. The results in the Text Edit reads
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Hi, Steve
I just found the key to trigger this "bug". In Acrobat or Reader's Preferences, choose "International", and there's a "Choose Font" option. I can choose between "Application Default Font" and "GB18030 compliant Font" (I don't know if this later GB18030 option shows in non-Chinese environment).
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I'm running into some problems here and there where things freeze up, kernel panic, stuff like that -- on my new March 2009 Intel 8-core Mac. I'm wondering if I have some old PowerPC files or preferences buried in folders somewhere that could be causing the problem.
My question is: is there a program out there, or a built-in way, to scan my Intel Mac for PowerPC files, preferences, etc., so that I can find and delete them?
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Well, sure, but I doubt this is the source of your problem.
Anyway, if you run System Profiler, select Software, and then look at "Applications" "Extensions" and "Frameworks" you can see which items are PowerPC, Universal, or Intel, and which are 64 bit.
I strongly recommend you do not go deleting any items willy-nilly as a form of troubleshooting. The chances you will cause more harm than good are virtually guaranteed.
Also, preference files are not PowerPC or Intel. They are just files. Only executable code is built for a specific processor.

TUTORIAL: How to make PPC Plug-Ins work on Intel Macs!

Hi guys, I wanted to share this brillant method with you all, collect ideas and create a list of Plug-Ins, you have succeeded to make work (I guess nearly all PPc Plugs will work this way but lets better stick to facts). Maybe there is a way to work with more than 1 Plug - Feel free to report and contribute! Kudos goes to a dear friend of mine... Let' share some power...
"I noticed some people complaining about not being able to use Trilogy and Atmosphere on Intel Macs. There's a tricky way to do it that takes about ten minutes to set up the first time and after that is easy. It probably works for other PPC-only instruments as well.
Here's the outline: OSX for Intel contains a layer called Rosetta, which runs PPC software that hasn't been updated. (You might run Microsoft Word via Rosetta and not even know it.) In general, Rosetta is no good for audio software: you can't use it for a sequencer or a recording application. But it's good enough for a lightweight plugin host like Rax, which does nothing but serve as a host for Atmosphere. So you can load Atmosphere into Rax via Rosetta, then run it alongside a UB sequencer like Live or Logic.
The only tricky part is connecting the two together. You need to get MIDI out of your sequencer and into Rax, and you need to get audio out of Rax and back into the sequencer. The MIDI can go via an internal IAC bus. The audio can go via the handy freeware audio-routing utility Soundflower.
Here's how to set up:
-- download Rax version 1.2.3. (Version 2 and up won't work.) You can find it at http://macmusic.org/software/view.php?id=395 . Use the serial in SerialBox to install.
-- download and install Soundflower from http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower
-- in Audio MIDI Setup, create a new IAC bus. Instructions on how to do this are at http://www.spectrasonics.net/news/Creating-an-IAC-Bus.html . Name it Rhino. (You can name it whatever you want, but in these instructions I'm going to call it Rhino.)
Now you're ready to go.
-- Open your sequencer and create a MIDI track and an audio track. Set the MIDI track's output to Rhino. Set the audio track's input to Soundflower 2ch.
-- Open Rax and load Atmosphere. In the Preferences, go to the Audio tab and set Audio Device to Soundflower 2ch. Now go to the MIDI tab and, under MIDI Inputs, make sure Rhino is the only thing checked.
You should now be able to send MIDI from your sequencer to Atmosphere, and then hear the audio through the sequencer. One last stage is to sync Atmosphere to your sequencer's MIDI clock, so that tempo-synched effects will work properly.
-- Still in Rax Preferences, on the MIDI tab, set the MIDI Clock dropdown menu to Rhino. Close the Preferences window. At the top of the main Rax window, make sure the Ext. Sync box is checked. The Tempo window should say 0, which means Rax is following the sequencer's master tempo.
And you're done. Save the Rax document and you can open Atmosphere with a single click. Trilogy works the exact same way, obviously.
If you want to use multiple instruments from Rax, you'll need to use SoundFlower 16ch and send MIDI on a different MIDI channel for each instrument (using the same IAC bus).
Anyone who's tried this, please post your results in this thread. Especially, try out other PPC instruments, and try using multiple instruments at the same time, and let us know how it works for you."
Maybe one of the Admins wants to sticky this
With my very best,
Vic.

There's another shortcut I've used successfully in order to access 'old' PlugIns on an Intel MBP :
Just use Logic 6 - and take full advantage o' that ole rotatin' rosetta
Meaning : Other than with native Logic versions 7 and 8, Logic 6 has to be fully emulated by the rosetta engine, and if your intel mac is fast enough, it does so very well - thus including all PPC PlugIns you still may have installed. Also works fine for PlugIns that were converted via FXpansion's VST-AU manager.

Intel Mac Mini and Sony Wega displays

I purchased one of the G4 based Minis for use in my media center. At that time I had quite a bit of difficulty getting it to work with my Sony KDF-60xs955 60" HDTV. I did eventually get it working and stable but the process, when written down for others in this forum post, is somewhat intimidating.
My parents really need a new machine for their daily use and I'm going to be donating that Mini to them. Before I replace it with a new intel Mini (yay Front Row!) I want to know whether it will autodetect my television or not. I have no desire to spend the 4-5 hours needed to hack it into working again, plus the hassle of getting it to work again any time I switch displays for a few hours. More importantly I don't feel like I should have to...The HDTV is automatically detected by a PowerBook and that works flawlessly.
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Hi there,
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For the moment I could only suggest to use the Real-player sound samples as a work-around. Real player does work on the Intel Mac with these sound samples. Just that on my machine it does only download and I have to start it from the desktop instead of right inside of Safari. Maybe it's just a question of preferences, but it does work, at least.
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Bootable Backup on Intel Macs?

I read this on the internet. Has anyone checked this out?
A Bootable Backup for an Intel Mac
Shortly after I got my shiny new 20″ Intel iMac I read in a forum somewhere that booting from an external firewire enclosure was no longer supported on the Intel-based Macs. I was disappointed to hear this, because I’ve used this feature on my PowerMac in the past to great advantage, it makes upgrading your system hard drive very easy, and the same would apply to recovering from a hard drive failure.
I decided to try anyway, so I connected my IoGear Ion external firewire drive to my iMac and started a disk cloning operation using Carbon Copy Cloner, a very popular Mac backup program that works well on my PowerPC based Macs. It kept asking for my Admin password, and it eventually locked up without having finished the backup.
Then I tried LaCie Silverkeeper with no luck either.
Next I bought a shareware license for a program called ChronoSync, which seems to be well written, but also failed at the task of creating a bootable system backup. In a later email exchange with the author of that program I was told that kind of an operation was “not supported”.
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Well... If you are using CCC, the only way to use it to restore would be to start up from the bootable backup and run CCC from there. Unlike Disk Utility, CCC can clone the disk being used for startup; Disk Utility want the "source" disk to not be "busy." On the other hand, if you are using Disk Utility from the Mac OS Installation Disk, the backup does not need to be bootable. The backup can even be a disk image, which has the advantage of not occupying the entire external drive.
A bootable backup has several advantages. First, running from an optical disk is slow if you are going to be making backups at regular intervals; I'm not sure if want to boot from the Mac OS X Installation Disk so often. Second, the bootable backup will serve as an emergency boot disk to diagnose problems that you may have with the internal drive. If you buy tools like DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro, you can run them from there.
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Solutions! Intel Macs, 10.4.8, and WiFi

It appears there is a known issue with resolution for 10.4.8 users of Intel Macs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304482
Some have found also switching from TKIP to AES resolves their problem.
Others have found checking and upgrading the firmware of their third party router solves their problem.

An alternative solution posted on the same thread:
"- Pull these to your desktop:
/library/Preferences/system configuration folder
~homefolder/library/preferences/com.apple.systemprefereces.plist
- Restart the computer
- Once up, go into System Preferences > Click Assist me at the bottom > choose ASsistant.
- Walk thru the setup to join your network
- Once done, in network preferences goto the airport settings, Make sure you choose your network as the prefered.
- Restart the computer
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Special thanks to PR0X.

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- Try dropping the modified document onto the application and see if it launches manually. Failing that, try opening the document from within the application.
- failing that, try launching the application first so that the system is aware of its existence and then try opening the documents/assigning the default app to it via Get Info after. This happened to me initially with a new user who had their Word documents (.doc) opening in TextEdit despite Office being installed. Additionally, my experience with Mac OS X Server and managed applications for users showed that sometimes an application (particularly a third party app) would be interpreted by the Server/App management as a generic preference file and not be registered/implimented. Once I ran the application once on the server, Workgroup Manager and the app management setting recognized its existence and all was well. This is a long shot but anything is possible!

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Go to espon leopard support page.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportLeopard.jsp
Download your driver. Read the enclosed document, it's still based on tiger but here's what you do. Open the system preferences panel. Open Print & Fax. Where your printers are listed on the LEFT hit the "minus" sign and uninstall the printer there. Then install the new epson driver you downloaded.
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I clicked the "enable Flash tracks" button in Quicktime
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the preferences, but that hasn't helped. As I say it worked at
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Welcome to Apple Discussions
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