Using Classic Version of Search with Tiger
Hello all,
I hate Spotlight or whatever the new version of search is called. I have many hardrives, tons of files and lots of eBooks. This means that whenever I try and search for anything, I get about 400 results back making it pretty much worthless. I'd really like to use the classic version of search that just looks for the search string in the file name. I really have no need to search within files. How can I get this functionality back? Thanks!
Mister Patrick,
Welcome to the "I hate Spotlight, is there something wrong with me?" discussions. In my opinion Spotlight was designed by geeks, for geeks. The people who like Spotlight are the ones who like the fact that it doesn't work, so that they can spend time devising ways to try and make it work.
For the rest of us with stuff to do, the only way of finding files (uh, that's all you want to do, right?)is to forget there is such a thing as Spotlight, and use a utility called EasyFind, which you can download for free from VersionTracker.com.
People keep saying Apple might fix spotlight, others say different.
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How to perform a classic Mac OS search in Tiger
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In an this post I will describe how to perform a classic Mac OS search and give example results. You may perform the search with or without the spotlight database. This search falls under the smart folder implementation introduced with Tiger. I have done all my testing with Mac OS 10.4.11. I assume this will work with any version of Tiger or Leopard.
The results will be slightly different with a spotlight database on the partition and without a database on the partition. With a database, you will not see Unix hidden files. You may be able to use all of the spotlight special find features. I did not test much with the spotlight special fields. Without a database, using the special features nulls out the search and the "Search for" field seems to give the same result as using the name field.
This search technique was obscured by all the hoopla over spotlight. Authors of Tiger books avoided mentioning the Classic search interface. When I looked in Leopard books I noticed some authors put back information on the Classic search interface.
For testing I created these files
For testing I created a test "z-find" folder on my Macintosh-HD, containing files and folders with various attributes, then copied it over to my Spotless flash drive. This means both searches searched for the same file names.
I put these files on my Macintosh-HD and Spotless partitions.
Here is the list of files:
!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2122/3746333451_36daa677f8.jpg?v=0!
Here is the list of files again:
.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
.bash-copy-initial-dot/
bash-backup-inside-bash.html
ping_command_as_Give.html
bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery__yellow__4k.html
bash-copy/
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
ping_command-bash-copy.html
bash-copy-invisible-attr/
ping_command_as_Give.html
bash-folder__green/
ping_command_as_Give.html
Perform the Classic Mac OS search with a Spotlight database.
{color:red}By Classic Mac OS search I mean a search on the filename and the results shown in list format.{color} How do you get to this interface?
*Click on the Desktop to access the Finder.*
*Click on File then click on Find. (Command-F)*
Pick what folder you wished to search. With Tiger you can click on Others... to select a folder. Click on the plus sign to select the folder you wish to search. Be sure the selected folder in the list is the only one checked. In the first example I picked: /Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/
{color:purple}The "Search for" field on the first line is used for spotlight. Avoid using this box.{color}
*Click on the double arrow to the right of the first option (Kind). Go down to the name field.*
*Change the 2nd pop down field to Contains.*
*You can now search for the contents of a filename.* I searched for name contains: bash-
To see the Classic display format, click on the three line icon which is located on the upper left of the window (list view). There is a small refresh icon on the lower right of the window.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3240587496_741476de7b.jpg?v=0!
This is the result of the search with a Spotlight database:
bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
bash-backup-inside-bash.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery_yellow_4k.html {labeled with the Yellow attribute}
bash-copy {folder}
bash-copy-invisible-attr {folder}
bash-folder__green {folder and labeled with the Green attribute}
ping_command-bash-copy.html
You can create a smart folder to take you directly to the search panel. Just click on the Save icon to the right of the window near the top. For readers of books, you should look under smart folders.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3239759755_d5ebbefe05.jpg?v=0!
There are some downsides. Initially, the search will find both visible and invisible Mac OS files. However, the search seems to get confused between visible and invisible files when you select the visibility option. It seems to get the visible correct when you use visible but when you add invisible things get confused. Sometimes it will find invisible files and sometimes it won't. I used both the Unix invisible files and the Mac OS X visiblity attribute.
In putting the same search in the upper right-hand-corner spotlight search and in the Search for field, I did not get the same results. The spotlight search returned a 182 items while the with Search for field returned 179 items. The Search for field seemed to miss items in the mail boxes. With the Search for search you could display spotlight results in the classic format.
I did a successful search on my fat32 flash drive.
Perform the Classic Mac OS search without the spotlight database.
If you turn off spotlight indexing on a volume and delete the spotlight index, then Mac OS Tiger reverts to the prior Mac OS search facility. In the preferences for spotlight, you let searching continued on the partition.
Here is what I did:
I installed the spotless application.
http://www.fixamac.net/software/spot/
I use spotless to configure spotlight. Click on disabled indexing then click on delete index files.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/3239751839_c760c46628.jpg?v=0!
Spotless creates the .Spotlight-V100 directory with the _IndexPolicy.plist and _rules.plist to prevent indexing on the partition.
I performed the search for files containing "bash-" in the name field.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/3240587902_171d8d46c3.jpg?v=0!
This is the result of the search without the Spotlight databases:
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery_yellow_4k.html {labeled with the Yellow attribute}
bash-copy {folder}
bash-folder__green {folder and labeled with the Green attribute}
ping_command-bash-copy.html
Limitations:
Does not search in Unix hidden folders. That is folders beginning with a period (.) .
Sometimes will find files beginning with a period (.).
Does not find Mac OS invisible files.
Using the special features nulls out the search.
The Search for field seems to give the same result as using the name field.
Related tips:
• More hints by Baltwo
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050501162147222
•Spotlight in Leopard has been enhanced. See these articles for details:
See http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html and my mod to Finder's Find at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6725932 for what you can change so you can find stuff excluded by the default structure.
• FindAnyFile
"Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations."
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.html
• Use the terminal find command to list files from multiple directories.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ find ~/Desktop/iMac/z-find -iname "*bash-*" -exec ls -dF {} \;
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-batChmod.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-battery_yellow_4k.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/ping_command-bash-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy-invisible-attr/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-folder__green/
mac $
• You can use the Terminal to search the contents of a file.
You need to combine the find command with the grep command. I am searching for the word pdisk where file names containing "bash-" in the directory "/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find". The symbols {} \; are needed after the word to search. See:
man find
man grep
for cryptic details.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ find ~/Desktop/iMac/z-find -iname "*bash-*" -type f -exec grep -bil 'pdisk' {} \;
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
• findfile
"Here’s a simple command-line tool which uses FSCatalogSearch to search for files by name.
usage: findfile -r <volume> <name> "
Here is where to find: findfile.
http://cocoacafe.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/fscatalogsearch/
I am searching file names containing "bash-" in the directory "/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find".
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ ~/findfile -r /Volumes/Macintosh-HD/ "bash-" |\
additional input: grep '^/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/'
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-batChmod.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-battery_yellow_4k.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy-invisible-attr
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-folder__green
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/ping_command-bash-copy.html
Robert
This is the 1st version of this tip. It was submitted on July 31,2009 by rccharles.
Do you want to provide feedback on this User Contributed Tip or contribute your own? If you have achieved Level 2 status, visit the User Tips Library Contributions forum for more information.Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion.
In an this post I will describe how to perform a classic Mac OS search and give example results. You may perform the search with or without the spotlight database. This search falls under the smart folder implementation introduced with Tiger. I have done all my testing with Mac OS 10.4.11. I assume this will work with any version of Tiger or Leopard.
The results will be slightly different with a spotlight database on the partition and without a database on the partition. With a database, you will not see Unix hidden files. You may be able to use all of the spotlight special find features. I did not test much with the spotlight special fields. Without a database, using the special features nulls out the search and the "Search for" field seems to give the same result as using the name field.
This search technique was obscured by all the hoopla over spotlight. Authors of Tiger books avoided mentioning the Classic search interface. When I looked in Leopard books I noticed some authors put back information on the Classic search interface.
For testing I created these files
For testing I created a test "z-find" folder on my Macintosh-HD, containing files and folders with various attributes, then copied it over to my Spotless flash drive. This means both searches searched for the same file names.
I put these files on my Macintosh-HD and Spotless partitions.
Here is the list of files:
!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2122/3746333451_36daa677f8.jpg?v=0!
Here is the list of files again:
.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
.bash-copy-initial-dot/
bash-backup-inside-bash.html
ping_command_as_Give.html
bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery__yellow__4k.html
bash-copy/
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
ping_command-bash-copy.html
bash-copy-invisible-attr/
ping_command_as_Give.html
bash-folder__green/
ping_command_as_Give.html
Perform the Classic Mac OS search with a Spotlight database.
{color:red}By Classic Mac OS search I mean a search on the filename and the results shown in list format.{color} How do you get to this interface?
*Click on the Desktop to access the Finder.*
*Click on File then click on Find. (Command-F)*
Pick what folder you wished to search. With Tiger you can click on Others... to select a folder. Click on the plus sign to select the folder you wish to search. Be sure the selected folder in the list is the only one checked. In the first example I picked: /Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/
{color:purple}The "Search for" field on the first line is used for spotlight. Avoid using this box.{color}
*Click on the double arrow to the right of the first option (Kind). Go down to the name field.*
*Change the 2nd pop down field to Contains.*
*You can now search for the contents of a filename.* I searched for name contains: bash-
To see the Classic display format, click on the three line icon which is located on the upper left of the window (list view). There is a small refresh icon on the lower right of the window.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3240587496_741476de7b.jpg?v=0!
This is the result of the search with a Spotlight database:
bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
bash-backup-inside-bash.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery_yellow_4k.html {labeled with the Yellow attribute}
bash-copy {folder}
bash-copy-invisible-attr {folder}
bash-folder__green {folder and labeled with the Green attribute}
ping_command-bash-copy.html
You can create a smart folder to take you directly to the search panel. Just click on the Save icon to the right of the window near the top. For readers of books, you should look under smart folders.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3239759755_d5ebbefe05.jpg?v=0!
There are some downsides. Initially, the search will find both visible and invisible Mac OS files. However, the search seems to get confused between visible and invisible files when you select the visibility option. It seems to get the visible correct when you use visible but when you add invisible things get confused. Sometimes it will find invisible files and sometimes it won't. I used both the Unix invisible files and the Mac OS X visiblity attribute.
In putting the same search in the upper right-hand-corner spotlight search and in the Search for field, I did not get the same results. The spotlight search returned a 182 items while the with Search for field returned 179 items. The Search for field seemed to miss items in the mail boxes. With the Search for search you could display spotlight results in the classic format.
I did a successful search on my fat32 flash drive.
Perform the Classic Mac OS search without the spotlight database.
If you turn off spotlight indexing on a volume and delete the spotlight index, then Mac OS Tiger reverts to the prior Mac OS search facility. In the preferences for spotlight, you let searching continued on the partition.
Here is what I did:
I installed the spotless application.
http://www.fixamac.net/software/spot/
I use spotless to configure spotlight. Click on disabled indexing then click on delete index files.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/3239751839_c760c46628.jpg?v=0!
Spotless creates the .Spotlight-V100 directory with the _IndexPolicy.plist and _rules.plist to prevent indexing on the partition.
I performed the search for files containing "bash-" in the name field.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/3240587902_171d8d46c3.jpg?v=0!
This is the result of the search without the Spotlight databases:
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery_yellow_4k.html {labeled with the Yellow attribute}
bash-copy {folder}
bash-folder__green {folder and labeled with the Green attribute}
ping_command-bash-copy.html
Limitations:
Does not search in Unix hidden folders. That is folders beginning with a period (.) .
Sometimes will find files beginning with a period (.).
Does not find Mac OS invisible files.
Using the special features nulls out the search.
The Search for field seems to give the same result as using the name field.
Related tips:
• More hints by Baltwo
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050501162147222
•Spotlight in Leopard has been enhanced. See these articles for details:
See http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html and my mod to Finder's Find at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6725932 for what you can change so you can find stuff excluded by the default structure.
• FindAnyFile
"Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations."
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.html
• Use the terminal find command to list files from multiple directories.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ find ~/Desktop/iMac/z-find -iname "*bash-*" -exec ls -dF {} \;
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-batChmod.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-battery_yellow_4k.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/ping_command-bash-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy-invisible-attr/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-folder__green/
mac $
• You can use the Terminal to search the contents of a file.
You need to combine the find command with the grep command. I am searching for the word pdisk where file names containing "bash-" in the directory "/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find". The symbols {} \; are needed after the word to search. See:
man find
man grep
for cryptic details.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ find ~/Desktop/iMac/z-find -iname "*bash-*" -type f -exec grep -bil 'pdisk' {} \;
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
• findfile
"Here’s a simple command-line tool which uses FSCatalogSearch to search for files by name.
usage: findfile -r <volume> <name> "
Here is where to find: findfile.
http://cocoacafe.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/fscatalogsearch/
I am searching file names containing "bash-" in the directory "/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find".
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ ~/findfile -r /Volumes/Macintosh-HD/ "bash-" |\
additional input: grep '^/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/'
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-backup-copy-initial-dot-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-batChmod.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-battery_yellow_4k.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy-invisible-attr
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-folder__green
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/ping_command-bash-copy.html
Robert
This is the 1st version of this tip. It was submitted on July 31,2009 by rccharles.
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Mail icon displays the following "you can't use this version of mail with this version of mac os x"
Mail version 4.5
It was ok on friday, my daughter used the mac to update her ipod to ios6, would this cause a problem?
All my updates are up to date.
Any help, thanks.!! WARNING !!
about the September 2012
"Security Update 2012-004"
If you've got "Mail.app" in a folder OTHER THAN the root "Applications" folder,
MOVE "MAIL.APP" TO THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER
**BEFORE** INSTALLING THE "004" UPDATE!!
Because *IF* you use OSX's integrated Software Update app from the Apple menu to do the "004" updating, and *IF* your Mail.app is NOT in the Applications folder, then buddy, you've got some sitdown fixit time ahead of ya and/or some internet tie-up time downloading the "004" update file itself.
Been through it all, already. In fact, just got done getting my Mail back up & running. And I tried everything short of attempting to unpacking my "Mail.pkg" receipt file using... whatever... even Pacifist couldn't get it out. So that fixit "Plan D" died quick. And I'm not savvy enough to use Terminal commands to do "Plan E," so that SUDO stuff was my brick wall.
So I compressed my entire "Mail" subdirectory that contain all my emails, for safekeeping during the required surgery, or whatever would work, leaving the original Mail directory where it was. In case something bad happened in all my fixit whatevers, the one thing I *didn't* want to cross paths with was a hosed Library -> Mail folder. Then I'd be pssd. But I can wipe out that ZIP now 'cause all's well now. After 6 hrs of downloading thru a mobile broadband hotspot running at only 14KB/sec speed due to my having gone over my T-Mobile hotspot plan's bandwidth amount (throttled-down after reaching the limit, tho not cut off completely. Kinda nice, but it's a huge speed drop).
I tried moving the two Mail.app versions around, compressing them & then trashing the original so they wouldn't be recognized, blabla, even booted my Mac in Safe Mode & reinstalled the "MacOSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) Update Combo.dmg" update file, which in the past has fixed many problems. But after restarting, not this one.
Like a dummy who ignored knowing better, I had my Mail.app in a folder other than the Applications folder, with only an alias to that being in the Applications folder. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. The updater don't see that as nuthin special or useful.
So if you've got, like I've got, "old" icons for Mail.app (v4.5) in your Finder toolbar & in your Dock that all point to "Mail.app v4.5" in whatever folder you've got that in, other than in the Applications folder (where Apple apparently REQUIRES that it be located, and ONLY there, at least for OSX updating purposes), then after you download & autorun that "004" updater using Software Update, NONE of your pre-existing Mail icons will work. And MOST aggravatingly, **NOR** will your brand-new "Mail.app v4.6" work that came out of the "004" updating installation. So basically, your Mail.app's... all of 'em.... are hosed. But only if you run the "004" update without your "Mail.app v4.5" being located in your Applications folder and ONLY in your Applications folder. And duplicates of Mail.app, scattered around your HDD?? Always a problem with many Apple apps.... The Apple software engineers apparently like 'em to be in the Applications folder, and in ONLY there, and ONLY the latest version, and ONLY 1 single copy of each on your entire HDD. They just don't seem to stress that enough, it appears. Kind of an oversight for them to not emphasize that, IMO...
My recommendation for this particular September 2012 "004" update:
If you run Software Update, and if you see the "Security Update 2012-004" listed as available for download, UNCHECKMARK IT. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT USING SOFTWARE UPDATE ! Instead, download the actual update file itself.
Same thing, only a different way of doing it. Most importantly, you'll be skipping the auto-installation that Software Update performs.
AND you'll have that update file on your HDD for future fixits, should a nasty "unfixable" problem come up.
First, #1. Do a filename search for "Mail" (Option-Command-Spacebar). Scroll down to where the "Apps" are located in the list under the "Kind" column heading. First, find your Mail.app that's v4.5. Get that bugger into your Applications folder if it's not already there. Next, Trash all other "Mail.app" apps you see in that same list that you may have elsewhere on your HDD.
#2. Go here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1586
And download the actual "004" DMG update file: "SecUpd2012-004.dmg"
And of course, it's a biggie.... 270MB... so watching grass grow may be involved here if you've got a slow connection (go to a MacDonalds & do it, like I shoulda done).
3. After downloading, I'd recommend closing down all apps, emptying the Trash, and restarting.
Then, after restarting, run Disk Utility's "Repair Disk Permissions."
Then, doublecheck that the Mail.app version 4.5 is in your Applications folder.
THEN fire up & install "SecUpd2012-004.dmg."
Reboot.
After the reboot, your Mail.app version 4.5 in the Applications folder will have become Mail.app version 4.6 in the Applications folder, and all will be well again.
And you can dump that zipped-up "Username -> Library -> Mail" folder then, too.
Happy Mac'in!
Kevin Kendall
Macbook 7,1
(Apple's very last all-white Macbook model)
2.4GHz - 256GB Crucial SSD - 8GB Crucial RAM
OS 10.6.8 Build 10K549 + Win 7 Ultimate thru VMWare Fusion v5.0.1 -
Mail wants to use the restricted Service "Search With Google."
This is the response/error I see when I try to do a Google search from an email message - "Mail wants to use the restricted Service “Search With Google.”"
Interesting - I just created a new user account I named "Test", and tried "Search With Google" in Notes and it worked fine in this new account. Without any additional change, I went back into my normal user account, and tried to use "Search with Google" on the highlighted word, and it pulled up the Google search fine as well. No reason I can think of that these actions would have resolved the problem - e.g., either the creation of the "Test" account, or switching between this "Test" account and my normal account. Possibly creating new account caused a cleanup of the Safari preferences to point to version 6.0.(essentially reset the default)
Would be curious if droow007 solution works for others. Definitely quicker than the route I went :~) -
You Cannot Use This Version of iMovie With This Version of Mac OS X
+*Cannot Use This Version of iMovie With This Version of Mac OS X*+
Yes, I can. iMovie just doesn't want to cooperate. I checked the requirements, it says:
an Intel-based Mac, a Power Mac G5 with dual 2.0 GHz or faster processors, or an iMac G5 at 1.9 GHz or faster.
Well, I meet the requirements, I have an iMac G5 with 2.0 GHz, also with Leopard.
Why can't I use iMovie.
Message was edited by: QwedgeonlineOh, NVM I had to download the newest update!
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I just downloaded Snow Leopard to my Mac Book, now my ICalendar says I cant use this version of iCal with this version of Mac OS X, i currently have ICal 3.0.8.....what do i need to do?
Your profile shows you are running Snow Leopard. Put the Safari version you now have into the Trash. You need to reinstall Snow Leopard.
Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. -
WHEN I OPEN IDVD IT SAYS YOU CANNOT USE THIS VERSION OF IDVD WITH THIS VERSION OF MAC OXS. WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO GET IDVD WORKING?
First off, please don't use all caps! It's considered to be yelling.
I need to know more about your system and software.
How old is your Mac Pro? what Mac OS version came with it when it was new? What version of iDVD are you trying to use? -
Can I use Classic on a G4 with Leopard?
I have a bunch of old mid-90s games that I desperately would like to play on my newer G4 with 10.5. It's my understanding from my searching that Macs ceased compatibility upon hitting Leopard, but I think people are using "Leopard" as a catch-all to describe not just 10.5, but G5 Intels too.
Apparently Tiger (G4 PowerPC) was compatible with Classic Environment, and that's what I have, I just use Leopard on it.
Semantics aside, I have an old G3 with 10.3 on it that lets me use Classic Environment to run OS 9 so I can play those old games and use Starcraft's StarEdit. Thing is, it's a piece of crap next to my G4.
I do not have ANY of the Mac Installation discs for Classic (or any OS for that matter, so I can't use any of the emulators like SheepShaver and what-not), but is there some way to transfer OS 9 and Classic Environment from my G3 to G4 so I can play this stuff?
Is it even possible that they'd play with these things?Hi, MasterDogma -
Just adding some info in correction -
I know Leopard doesn't come with Classic, and I know the difference between operating systems and computers, that's my whole point.
Not sure that's correct. When you said -
Apparently Tiger (G4 PowerPC) was compatible with Classic Environment, and that's what I have, I just use Leopard on it.
and
...but I think people are using "Leopard" as a catch-all to describe not just 10.5, but G5 Intels too.
it indcates you may not.
The terms "Tiger" and "Leopard" do not describe nor refer to any hardware or computer model. They are explicitly the names for different releases of the family of operating systems known as OS X: Jaguar = OS X 10.2; Panther = OS X 10.3; Tiger = OS X 10.4; Leopard = OS X 10.5; and Snow Leopard = OS X 10.6.
Just as important, there is no such thing as a G5 Intel machine. All Power Mac models, of which the G5 is one, use the PowerPC processor. When the Intel processor machines were released, the "G" designation ceased applying. For example, the Intel successor to the G5 desktop is called a Mac Pro; the Intel succssor to the PowerBook is the MacBook Pro.
It does get a little fuzzy with the iMacs, since the iMac designation was retained for the Intel machines - hence the common usage of references like i3 and i5 to differentiate the Intel machines from the earlier G5, G4, and G3 models all of which use the PowerPC series of processors. -
How to install Os 9 to use classic aplications on a fresh Tiger systemCa
How can I install Mac Os 9 to use classic Aplications if I Just have,Tiger system on my g4, Please Help, where do I find info about this, Do I have to erase everything and start Installing 9 system and upgrade to tiger ???? Please Don't
i've all ready try with the mac os 9 cd that came with my g4 starting the computer holding "c" key but it didnt work, Tiger begins imidiatly, also try with the restore cd that also came with my g4 holding the "c" key but just gives the chance to install os X system
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I can't open mail/ message "can't use this version of Mail wigh this version of Mac OS X" this change occurred after a security update. tried to open in application with same responce.
Mac OS X v10.6: "You can't use this version of Mail…" alert after installing Security Update 2012-004
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Can't use this version of mail with this version of osx
can't open mail since downloading security update OSX 10.6.8
Mac OS X v10.6: "You can't use this version of Mail…" alert after installing Security Update 2012-004:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Fellow user Grant Bennet-Alder offers this solution:
Some users have reported this problem if the Mail Application has been moved out of the top-level /Applications folder, or duplicated in another location.
When the Security Update is done, the old version of Mail is disabled.
The solution has been to:
1) make certain Mail is in the /Applications folder
2) There is no other copy anywhere else.
3) Once steps 1 and 2 have been done, Manually download and re-apply the Security Update (2012-004) by hand.
Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard)
If the Mail.app has been LOST, it can be re-installed by applying the 10.6.8 version 1.1 combo update. But this update is quite large and it is usually not necessary:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 -
Using Oracle Text for searching with UCM 10g
I am using Oracle text with UCM 10gR3 and Site Studio 10gR4 and I am trying to sort the search results by relevancy and to also include a snippet of the retrieved document. I have the fields that the SS_GET_SEARCH_RESULTS service returns but the relevancy score is always equals 5 and the snippet contains characters such as < idcnull, /p, etc., which you can see are XML/HTML/UCM tags but which result sin even more strangeness in the snippet if I try to remove them programmatically.
I have read the Oracle Text documentation and there appear to be ways you can configure Oracle Text but I am not clear at all on what I can do from UCM. It looks like the configuration is either done in database tables or in the query itself, neither of which are readily configurable to me.
Is anyone experienced in this or know of any documentation this might help?
BillHi
If I remember correctly then this issue was seen with an older version of OTS component and Core Update patch / bundle . Upgrade the UCM instance with the latest CS10gr35 update bundle patchset 6907073 and also upgrade OTS component from the same patchset .
Let me know how it goes after this .
Thanks
Srinath -
Hi ,
My version of iMac (Os X 10.6.8) seems to be rejecting my Mail programme (4.5) and I'm forced to use Entourage. All my eMails are gone and I have to retrieve them by going into the Hard drive. Very disconcerting. Why did it happen and what can I do?http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424
Post back if you need help with this.
Btw, you're in the wrong forum. This one is for older Macs that can't run Snow Leopard. -
Use iPad as portable mac with Tiger?
I need a walk around the house using an adjunct to my Mac Mini (2005 pre intel) I now sit too long typing on the desktop keyboard and blood accumulates in the 85 year old legs and feet. Being able to take whatever file is being worked on and having a means to walk to a stand up counter, or work shop table, etc
would greatly improve the circulation. I've thought would an iPad work? it would need to access applications that work in oSx 10.4.11 such as MS Office 2004, Quicken, Safari, Firefox, mail, apple works, photoshop elements, iphoto.
My setup is via a D-Link router (wired) into a Comcast Cable Modem and I would expect any connection would be either USB or FW between the portable unit.
I have an early Titanium Laptop that runs 10.3.9 but it is too heavy to lug around very much.
Can an iPad help?>PS.. am having difficult time posting on the discussions since re-installing Tiger couple weeks ago. Using Safari 3.04.
when go to save this it often reverts to a blank with all I type missing. In a couple of other attempts it was not successful
hope this one works.
You're not the only one, I'm about to give up helping here because of losing so many posts, the bloat & slowness of the new forum, & sometimes being logged out many times a day... then other days it works fine.
>Seems like a good idea... Not familiar with that Mac.. Have any pointers?
I think it's the lightest one on the market, Apple has new ones if course...
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_air?mco=MTM3NjY1OT U
Info on older models...
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/index-macbook-air.html
eBay...
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=MacBook+Air -
Use wildcard in LDAP search with filter and filter args fails
Hi,
I'm writing a function that receives the search filter and the filter arguments and returns the attributes of the found entries but I'm having problems when I pass the wildcard '*' as argument. For example I'm looking for cn=* but instead it looks for cn=\2a (searches for cn containing *).
I'm using the InitialLdapContext function:
public NamingEnumeration<SearchResult> search(String name,
String filterExpr,
Object[] filterArgs,
SearchControls cons)
throws NamingException
The problem occurs in the class com.sun.jndi.toolkit.dir.SearchFilter format method where it replaces the filter place holders with the filter arguments. There it calls getEncodedStringRep to the arguments and that function returns the wildcard '*' escaped.
Is it supposed to behave like that? I don't have problems using the search function search(String name, String filterExpr,Object[] filterArgs, SearchControls cons) but I'd like to be able to separate the filter and the filter arguments.That's a forum artefact, as the boldface should make obvious.
My point is that you should specify the wildcard in the filter string, not as an argument. See http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/naming/directory/DirContext.html#search(javax.naming.Name,%20java.lang.String, java.lang.Object[],%20javax.naming.directory.SearchControls). (The forum will break that link too.) The argument asterisk is being escaped in accordance with what it says there. Or maybe you can escape it yourself as an argument as \0x2a.
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