Set Up in Yosemite

Can anyone provide directions on how to set up a My Cloud using Yosemite... The device cannot be found on the Network, although it displays the steady Blue light. I have no log in details as I am a new user. How do I get connect and complete the set up? Thanks

Hello,
Take a look at these links:
How to map a WD network drive on a Mac
You can also try using the WD My Cloud Setup for Mac.
Also check pages 11 and 21 of the User's manual.
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705103.pdf

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Hi is it possible to set CS3 on Yosemite ?

Hi is it possible to set CS3 on Yosemite ? one license is setted on my imac but on ibook is it possible too with yosemite?

Hi Stephengel,
Its not recommended to install a CS3 product on Yosemite as :
1) We have not tested this.
2) There is no support available for CS3 on Yosemite as well.
Sorry to say but I would recommend you to upgrade to CC. Here's a link that can help you with the pricing.
Cheers,
Kartikay Sharma

HT1349 Upgrade retail Mac Box Set apps in Yosemite through App store.

I did a clean install of Yosemite and am now reinstalling iWork and iLife apps from my retail Mac Box Set. It installs but when I try to upgrade the software I get the message that it does not qualify to upgrade with my User ID. Is this because I didn't originally register it correctly? I tried doing the registration through the iWork apps but still get the same message. Are these earlier apps useless now and must be repurchased through the App Store?

Perform the following, stopping with the first one which works:
1. Open the Mac App Store's Purchases tab. If you're prompted to accept them into your Apple ID, do so.
2. Move them out of the Applications folder(they may need to be put into the Trash temporarily), and then see if you can download them for free from their individual product pages. If you're asked to buy them, see #3.
3. Click here, contact Apple, and wait for a response.
4. Buy them.
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I have an old Airport Express that won't connect/set up with Yosemite. Any help appreciated

Hi, as the title suggests I have an old Airport Express that I have always used wirelessly to connect to my hifi but now that I have upgraded to Yosemite it won't connect via Airport Utility 6.3.4 and Yosemite won't let me use Airport Utility 5.6 Seems I'm stuck between a rock and hard place! Ethernet is no use as the hifi is in another room. Yosemite is running on an iMac and is connected wirelessly to Virgin Broadband. Thanks, Alex.

If the AirPort Express is very old, such as the original 802.11b/g - only models A1084 or A1088 you will need a commensurately older version of both AirPort Utility and OS X to configure it. Those models were discontinued about seven years ago and support for them is gone. Ethernet won't make a difference anyway.
You may find instructions or links to web sites with instructions to modify OS X in an effort to circumvent that restriction. I cannot emphasize enough just how bad an idea that would be.

MacBook Pro will not boot up after Yosemite reinstall

I see that someone else has a similar problem but a potential responder asked A.N.Other with the same issue to start a new thread - hence this post.
I have a MacBook Pro, mid-2010 (I think) 500GB HD and maximum RAM. I installed Yosemite several months ago. The machine ran more slowly after installation. Eventually it reached a point where even typing a line of characters would set the beachball spinning. I removed seldom-used apps: there's about 25% free disk space. I ran Onyx on it, which I have used successfully over the years. I tried all the usual remedies e.g. verifying the disk (okay) and repairing permissions using Recovery Mode. Despite permissions being repaired a number of times, the same permissions - almost every one of which involved iTunes - continually recurred. I made a full back up. I switched the machine off then restarted it in Recovery Mode and used it to Reinstall Yosemite. It did take an age to download and then indicated that it was installing with "22 minutes remaining". That 22 minutes ran to several hours but I had seen this happen before, so just waited. It then went to the next step which is a restart - when the progress bar got to about 40% it slowed right down then stopped completely at about 50%.
I left it running overnight but the bar had not moved by the following day. I switched the machine off using the power button, then on again. The result was the same - freezing at about 50%. I have, since then, tried to start in Recovery Mode as well as Safe, Target, etc but there is simply no response to the keyboard commands - the logo and the progress bar appears, gets to 50% and freezes. When I did the full backup to an external HD I created a Recovery Partition on that: I have tried starting the machine without the HD plugged into the USB port and also with it plugged in - no difference, save that when it is plugged in the power light on the HD comes on, is static and then goes off.
I frankly have no idea what to try next. I need to access data on the machine or the backup pretty urgently: I am typing this request for assistance on a very old PowerBook G4 running OSX10.5.8 - at least THAT is reliable!
Any suggestions would be much appreciated - I live several hundred kilometres from the nearest Apple retail store and would like to avoid that trip if possible.

I didn't try or allow it time to sleep in safe mode. Out of frustration, I decided to use recovery mode using time machine with my external HD and went back to the last setting before installing Yosemite. Seems to be working fine now without Yosemite. I guess I will wait til Yosemite is improved before upgrading to it.

How can I upload to Facebook with an account other than what Yosemite uses?

iPhoto let me use a separate Facebook account than Yosemite's internet accounts. I want my wife to use Photos (like she used iPhoto) while I keep the one set up in Yosemite's internet accounts. I use Lightroom for photos and want to let my wife use my Mac just for Photos. I don't see a way to do it and would rather not set up a system account for her. She has her own PC but wants to use my Mac just for Photos.

Kudos! I too am frustrated about this change to my personal page. I also know Apple is not to blame. I also manage a page for the company I work for using pages app. And that app is UN affected and I can choose from any photo stored on my phone (4). I do keep them seperate so I can keep a professional aspect for the company. But if you want your personal page linked to your public or work page, this maybe the work around your looking for.
Hope this helps. Now go like my work page please. Copies Unlimited in Milan TN.
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How can I get the Maverick's Calendar on Yosemite?

I'm a lawyer and I use the default OS X Calendar app extensively. I have Yosemite on my MacBook Air and dislike the Calendar app because it lost the "list view" that exists on the Day View in Mavericks' Calendar app. I've look at BusyCal and it is decent though not as polished as the OS X one.
For example: at 9 a.m. I might have 10 cases set. On Yosemite, you can not read any of the names or cases - only a few of the letters because the display shrinks it down on the "calendar" and you are unable to see them all at once. On Mavericks, you had this same view BUT on the side window, you had a list of all the events and you could read them perfectly.
I otherwise like Yosemite but the Calendar app is a deal breaker. Does anyone know how I can keep or add the Maverick's version of Calendar or mimic it's functionality to show all my appointments/events in a list?

If you really want to snippy with me, feel free. If you think you are being clever in any way, you really need to stop patting yourself on the back. If you haven't noticed, this thread is mine. Yes, mine. And I'm allowed to express my opinion on my view of characteristics of an app that I believe are accurate. Is this opinion supported by facts? YES, and I listed them. In fact, I have subsequently search other threads and other forums and my position is being shared by others. Facts: Maverick's Calendar allowed multiple day entries/events to be reviewed at once without having to select each entry to find out what is on the calendar. This provides efficiency. Also, it's similar to what people have when they hit the little magnifying glass in iOS' calendar app. You see, many people actually have events in their life that are important and many times those events all happen in close proximity to each other.
And yes, no one twisted my arm when I became a beta tester for Yosemite. The whole point was to provide valid feedback to my chosen hardware and software supplier. You see, I have been using Macs since OS 6 - yes, 6. My hope is to improve the software to help people. The whole point of beta testing is to see what the current state of the application/OS is and how to better it.
You are also mistaken: ignorance of facts IS a defense. Ignorance of the law is not. Get your cliches right, will you. Go back to trolling.
Blessings.

Kodak printers and Yosemite

I reported the problem of my Kodak printer not working after updating to Yosemite and have been following the chat, trying out the suggested fixes to no avail.
I finally had a call back from Kodak and they are aware of the issue which has affected people word wide. I tried the suggested fixes and they finally confirmed that their development group are working with urgency to produce new software for us to download. The issue is to do with the extra security within Yosemite.
I will post details as I receive them from Kodak.
Frank

Having followed other threads I found a temporary fix to overcome the problem. This involves entering some code but is not difficult.
Changing the Sandbox
1. in Spotlight Type Terminal and then press enter.
This should bring up the terminal window/program.
2. In the Terminal type sudo sh -c 'echo "Sandboxing Relaxed" >> /etc/cups/cups-files.conf'
It will ask for your password.
3) After that type following: sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd
After that if you are lucky the printer driver should start to work. (which it did in my case)
I hope this works out for you, if not then you can do following to revert the changes:
In case you want/have to revert the changes:
1) Open the terminal as usual (Spotlight type Terminal hit enter and wait for the terminal window to appear)
2) then type: cd /etc/cups
3) then type: sudo nano cups-files.conf
4) 'type in your password'
This brings up a command line editor which you can use to edit the file
5) Remove the last line which Says Sandboxing Relaxed
6) press 'ctrl x'
And then confirm with y when being asked if you want to save the changes
7) after that type sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd
After that the changes should be reverted and you are back to stock behavior.
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When it asks for your password just type it in and press return, it does not show up on the screen as it is hidden, this stumped me and I had to search of the answer.
This sets the sandboxing back to how it was under Mavericks. When Kodak come out with an updated driver you can reset it to the higher security setting contained in Yosemite.
Best of Luck this has worked for me on a Macbook pro and an iMac .

Default; File Fault On in Yosemite?

I run a free Mac consultation service and recently I have had a few clients with Hard Drive issues on brand new MBA's. On investigation I found they had File Vault switched on. They were completely unaware of this and denied switching it on themselves. The issue here is that many people cant even remember their Admin Password much less a Recovery Key. It unnecessarily complicates repair, restore and login issues and causes problems with backups using third party Apps such as Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. I know everyone is a little paranoid these days but unless you are a spy or carrying top secret files internationally what the heck are you worried about.
I personally use a small encrypted .dmg Folder for the few details I would not want accessed. Otherwise who cares? I can always erase my laptop from Find My computer.
Why would Apple do this and if it's not Apple then it's the dealers and they have even less right to make those sorts of decisions for a user without proper explanation and query.

Got it! Now I understand; "But what's new in OS X Yosemite, is that more users are likely to enable FileVault than ever before—as at installation you have to consciously opt-out of having your hard drive encrypted, rather than opt-in."
Taken from this site (all credit to them)http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/yosemite-filevault/
So it would appear that you are correct. File Vault will be enabled unless you choose not to.
I can only say if I was given the option at my recent upgrades I must have pressed "no".
Can't say I remember that so it may be an inclusion of the most recent version 10.10.2 that behaves this way.
My guess is a lot of people would opt for this without thinking much about the possible complications. After all everybody wants security, right?
Setting it this way Apple seems to be saying, this is what we advise but the choice is up to you. I'd call that enticement.
As for devices bought already set up with Yosemite by a dealer for a purchaser my guess is they would advise enabling File Vault.
I love the heading "Take that FBI !!" Wow, emotive stuff for the paranoid among us.;)

Updating an External Hard Drive Operating System to Yosemite

I have a MacBook Pro (late 2007), it was upgraded to 500GB hard drive. I use the old hard drive as an external hard drive for backing up files from the MacBook Pro. It's operating system is version Mac 10.6.8 and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Can this hard drive be upgrade to Yosemite 10.10?

Yes. You'll be given the option to choose it when setting up the Yosemite installation.
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Print window reads "Stopped 'Filter' failed, 1 Page"

Hi
When I go to print a doc my Print window shows the following message "Stopped 'Filter' failed, 1 Page" and refuses to print. I have checked all of the necessary things regarding the printer i.e. calibrating, cleaning printheads, ink supplies & printing test pages etc. Have DL'd all of the up to date drivers and have ensured that I am printing via a solid USB connection and yet still I get nothing. The printer is an Advent AW-10 and was working absolutely fine until I updated to Yosemite however I'm not sure whether or not this has anything to do with it but in my experience of updating OS's it usually does, any help would be fantastic.
The machine I'm using is a Mac Pro v10.10 OS X Yosemite
Look forward to any ideas/help,
Best,
Alex

A rule of thumb: treat any OS update as if it is untested and you are now going to give it one, hang onto your old system 'as is' so you can revert or dual boot.
Check before installing a new OS for problems, for drivers, to insure your hardware and applications and if any need updates check here:
http://www.roaringapps.com
Backup - twice at least. And you may need to start with a new TimeMachine backup drive with new OS so you can revert back; also, even if it is just a smaller partition on your much larger TimeMachine drive, create a partition large enough to hold a system image, clone, that you can boot from if needed.
And definitely do not install new OS over the old. Yes you are suppose to be able, yes there tends to be more issues though if you do - the 'easy' way can turn into the long hard road instead.
And because it might be a good chance to reformat and initialize your drive. Or use this as an opportunity to buy and install a new better system disk drive (SSD preferable at this point - even if you have an SSD from 2-3 years back).
On another topic: those 'forced shutdowns' only make matters worse. ie, directory corruption and damage, possible corruption of files, plist (preferences) for which:
Got files that are not backed up? take care of just those.
Use Recovery Mode and repair the disk drive twice, "top" drive name and again with the system volume name.
Follow up with Safe Boot - might even do that twice.
Use Internet Recovery Mode and do a clean install - to another drive!
... but before you do so, save the installer, copy it to another disk or flash drive etc and then create your own flash installer (Lion DiskMaker is very easy to use for that).
Then you will at least have a solid system, have only Apple updates to worry about, and can begin to build back up.
Setup Assistant makes it easy to import all your old settings and such from your old system or from TimeMachine.
Any problems from there would be OS X 10.10.1 alone. If it IS working though, now is a great time to make a system backup image (clone, something you can restore from or boot from if needed).
And testing done.
People have been doing something along those lines for years, there are dozens of "lists" of "Best practice for updating or installing a new OS"
And done right you have a good safety net so you can -
Set aside the new Yosemite OS for later /
Go back to Mavericks that was working and continue to use that all the time or when you need to do something (print) that requires 10.9.5.
Then when Apple or another vendor has updates for your system, you can install and try those out.
You could end up with backup sets for both Yosemite and Mavericks.
And before you do install say 10.10.xyz some day, make sure you have the last version - would not want a power outage, disk failure, or the update process to go kaput and leave you with no good working system.
See if you can repair and uninstall and reinstall - or delete - the preferences and files and printer cache etc so your system does
Print as it should
Shutdowns properly and no freezing
No directory or disk issues
SMC and NVRAM have been cleared and reset and Startup Disk is reset to the proper default volume
Sorry for length, just meant to say "do some basic system maintenance" is all. :-)

Photoshop CS5 problem

When trying to set up a custom paper size in CS5 the application quits.
This keeps me from either setting up a new size or changing one of the sizes that were set up before Yosemite.
I've searched for CS5 Yosemite upgrade with no success.
Can anyone help me.
Thanks

Uninstalling won't do anything to help.
Just go to the character and paragraph palettes, open the menu at the top right of each, and reset them.

Questions for MlchaelLAX

I have been reading the discussion 'Reverting back to Snow Leopard', started on the 25th of May, and note your advice :
Once you are forced to migrate to Mavericks (new Mac, etc.) you can run most PowerPC apps in Snow Leopard Server installed in Parallels. Be sure to order a copy of Snow Leopard Server from Apple now ( 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only)); for $20 and put it on the shelf for when you need it.
My questions :
1) Why do you suggest Snow Leopard Server? Would just Snow Leopard itself be sufficient?
I ask because I might find myself in the same postion as the OP, with a new system but needing to use some of the older apps still.
2) Would you recommend Parallels over Fusion? I have used Fusion with my SL machine, although Fusion would need some serious upgrading presumably for use with Yosemite. If Snow Leopard and Fusion will suffice, then I'd be all set for a Yosemite system.

Thanks for your reply, Michael.
My situation is as follows :
iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB memory
OS 10.6.8
Fusion v 3.1.1
A bit 'out of date', eh?
I used Fusion to run Windows XP but haven't had cause to use either in the past 3 to 4 years.
I am trying to plan ahead a bit, very tentatively. If I get a machine with Yosemite, and if my current iMac goes belly up, I want to be able to use a few apps that need Rosetta. There is no upgraded Intel version of the most valuable one.
Thus my interest in this whole discussion. I would have to buy a newer version of Fusion, or just go for Parallels, and hope to be able to continue using the few old apps I want to preserve.
I can't find a cheap version of SL Server here in the UK. There's a well known online seller, named after a big South American river, offering what purports to be the server version for £24.99, but it looks suspiciously like a mis-labelled client version. Another item for sale is described as Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard Unlimited Client, and goes for £99.17.
I'm a little cagey about the former, and the latter is overkill for what I need.

Mail: Choosing outgoing e-mail

Since Yosemite I've been unable to find how to choose from which e-mail I'm sending from in Mail. I have one gmail account and in preferences there are two Outgoing Mail Servers (SMTP) that it's able to connect to. I have 'use only this server' unchecked. Yet when I compose a message I'm not given the option to choose from which outgoing account I'm sending my e-mail from. It seems to choose the e-mail associated with my account. This was working in Mavericks.
thanks

Hi captain chris,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact nature of the issue you are describing. If you have multiple email accounts set up in Yosemite Mail and are having issues selecting the outgoing account or setting a default outgoing account, you may find the following article helpful:
Set the From or Reply To address
If you use several email accounts in Mail, your messages are sent from the account of the currently selected mailbox. However, you can change which account is used to send messages. You can also specify an address where you want to receive replies to your message.
Change the account for the current message: Move the pointer over the From field, click the pop-up menu that appears, then choose an email address. If you set up email aliases, those are also shown. For some accounts, you can choose or change the outgoing mail server.
Use the same account for all messages: Choose Mail > Preferences, click Composing, click the “Send new messages from” pop-up menu, then choose an email account.
Set a Reply To address: Click the Header Fields button in the toolbar of the message window, choose Reply-To Address Field, then enter the address where you want to receive replies to your message.
Mail (Yosemite): Address an email message
Regards,
- Brenden

I changed my internet box and now my airport extreme light flashes amber what I need to do to get the green light back

I changed my internet box and now my airport extreme light is flashing amber but I have internet connection, how can I get the green light back

When you change modem (the internet box I presume) you should reset the AE to factory and redo the setup completely.
However if you merely want to stop the amber flashing.. find the cause.
Open the airport utility and click on the AE..
It will give you a list of faults or problems... fix each one and the light will turn green.
The most likely fault is double NAT.
That means the AE should be in bridge mode.. but if you list the fault we can give you further help with what to do to fix it if you cannot understand the instructions.
Apple does give a procedure to remove the problem although it may not always be the best solution.
eg Ignore.. the light will turn green.
Lately Apple is saying to use double NAT and ignore the problem.. I do not thing that is a good idea at all.
To bridge however may be easier after a full factory reset than trying to do a change to the setup.
If you run Yosemite.. then I recommend the following.. please read AE for TC.. (Time Capsule is what I mainly use but the setup is identical).
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
ie Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 and TCwifi for basestation and wireless respectively.
Even better if the issue is more wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round.
2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking. If the TC is main router it will not be an issue.
In your case bridge is most likely required.. and it is up to you how you deal with this one.. for now see if it is stable.. if it gives you issues come back and fix it.
4. Set IPv6 to link-local only on the computer..
This is strange one in that apple should have fixed this up ages ago.. but we are finding the auto setting even on Yosemite is still giving the wrong setup.

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