From dave at davesevick.com Tue Sep 1 13:37:54 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:37:54 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Texting while driving - a PSA produced in the UK that gets the message out ... Message-ID: <3C7C437B-4A9F-4363-8E98-71C959133E5E@davesevick.com> but in a very graphic way .... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/09/still_think_its_ok_to_text_whi.html From ronladams7 at gmail.com Tue Sep 1 14:20:08 2009 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (R_Adams) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:20:08 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Leopard and Smart Folders Message-ID: <0A0D771E-CD0E-4028-9817-C11EF9CAD321@gmail.com> There seems to have been a change in the way smart folders are populated in Snow Leopard. I like to keep a smart folder called All Today. It is a great troubleshooting tool. For example, there is a bug in using your mouse to select Expose "Show Desktop". With this smart folder, I can change the Expose settings and quickly see that com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist is the possible problem site. Unfortunately, Snow Leopard is not populating an realtime smart folder very elegantly. One has to open the smart folder, show search criteria, and toggle search locations to properly populate the folder. For example, here is a "All Today" search criteria: Create a new Smart Folder w/ search conditions as follows: Kind = Any System Files = Are Included (Option+) ANY of the following are TRUE - Last Opened Date = Today - Last Modified Date = Today Save the folder Close finder and open the folder. You will see that the folder is not properly populated. Now, open "Show Search Criteria" and toggle Search location at the top. Now correctly populated. It is a nuisance to have to drop down the menu to show the search criteria and then toggle. This was not the case in Leopard. Can anyone think of a work around? thanks -- Ron From charles at firthconsulting.com Tue Sep 1 17:46:11 2009 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:46:11 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] iPhone app wins top honors at Microsoft sponsored event Message-ID: To quote the event organizer when presenting the award: "Awkward.." http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/08/iPhone_app_wins_top_honors_at_Microsoft_sponsored_event56282747.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090901/23dd0935/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Tue Sep 1 21:59:16 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:59:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] ALERT: Office 2008 and Safari crashing under Snow Leopard .... Message-ID: <1FB5D7E8-5E73-4716-8146-C0832509512E@davesevick.com> From one of my clients tonight : "Unfortunately, my experience has not been a good one with Office and Snow Leopard. The biggest issue is that Word crashes a lot (80% of the time) when I go to save a document...particularly if I did an edit and try Save As. The document will save but the crash occurs and the warning message asks if I want to send the info to Microsoft and tells me the data may be lost. So far, no lost data, just very annoying. Also, I had Safari crash once and I also got a random black/blue screen that wouldn't wake up until I closed the laptop cover and reopened." ============== Reports of slowness after SL install ; Here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The document will save but the crash occurs and the warning message asks if I want to send the info to Microsoft and tells me the data may be lost. So far, no lost data, just very annoying. Also, I had Safari crash once and I also got a random black/blue screen that wouldn't wake up until I closed the laptop cover and reopened. " ============ Although Microsoft says it is ready ....... http://www.officeformac.com/blog/Ready-for-Snow-Leopard Ready for Snow Leopard? Aug 28, 2009 9:57 AM Hello from the Enterprise side of the MacBU! For those who may not remember, I am a Sr. Product Manager focusing on the Enterprise customer segment, and one of my favorite parts of my job is sitting down with customers and talking about our plans, and getting input and feedback from them based on their environments and business needs. With our recent announcements, including the release of Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition (http://www.officeformac.com/blog/A-New-Outlook-for-Mac-Office ), and Apple?s release of Snow Leopard today, I?ve been quite busy with these types of meetings. Folks are interested in Office 2008 compatibility with Snow Leopard as well as learning more about how to ensure their organizations have reliable Exchange support. I thought I?d take a minute to post about some of the common questions and hot topics that have come up during these conversations: Q. Are there any differences with Office 2008 for Mac running on Snow Leopard vs. Leopard? A. Office 2008 for Mac is Snow Leopard tested and ready! Best of all, with the launch of Snow Leopard, the bulk of the Word 2008 Spaces issues have been fixed after our collaborative efforts to address the problem. Q. How does Entourage Exchange server support compare to Snow Leopard Exchange Server support via Mail, iCal, Contacts? A. Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition offers the most complete Exchange client on a Mac with overall improved e?mail and calendaring support for better reliability, compatibility and security. Based on our six year history in delivering Exchange support, we have spent time listening and working with our customers to best understand their needs to provide the most complete Exchange scenario with an integrated workflow between calendar, mail, contacts, tasks, and notes. To date, we?ve seen great response from customers on the Web Services Edition release, and are eager to continue to get essential feedback from them that we can apply to our new email application, Outlook for Mac. Q. What are the top requests that Enterprise customers request? A. Each customer and their environment are different, but there have definitely been some consistent requests. The top one was delivered in Entourage, Web Services Edition which was the ability to sync your tasks, notes, and categories with Exchange Server. We?ve also been asked to improve the SharePoint experience for Mac users to allow for stronger cross platform collaboration, which drove the release of our Document Connection tool that shipped with our Service Pack 2 release, and we will continue to invest in SharePoint for the next version. Some other features that are highly requested and have been announced are getting rid of the single database that we have in Entourage today, and deliver a file-based database. This will come out with our Outlook for Mac release. Finally, we consistently get requests for Information Rights Management support, which we will deliver in the next release of the suite coming out Holiday 2010. Q. What does the MacBU have in store for the future? A. Well, I can ?t really go into much more detail than has already been announced, but we are continuing to listen to our customers and are hard at work to deliver on the top requested features in our core apps for the next version of Office for Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), and in connecting to our Microsoft server and service products such as Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communication Server. As always, we are listening and we greatly value your input! Please continue to submit feedback to us either through your account representative or through our ?Contact Us? page athttp://www.microsoft.com/mac/contactus. mspx. Stay tuned for more exciting news and details as we drive towards the next version of Office for Mac! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you're at 12.2.0 and the updater says there's no new software availalble, manually go to www.microsoft.com/mac and download the 12.2.1 update. On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Dave Sevick wrote: > Microsoft Discussion Groups: > Problems with slow downs, and possible font issues ..... > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.mac.office&tid=63a41b23-119e-4a1c-b9cc-c3d3f41223b3&cat=en_US_121572df-97f7-480e-abff-bbefff045ff2&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=&p=1 > > ============ > One of my clients writes tonight : > > "Dave, > > Thanks for the update. Unfortunately, my experience has not been a > good one with Office and Snow Leopard. The biggest issue is that > Word crashes a lot (80% of the time) when I go to save a > document...particularly if I did an edit and try Save As. The > document will save but the crash occurs and the warning message asks > if I want to send the info to Microsoft and tells me the data may be > lost. So far, no lost data, just very annoying. Also, I had Safari > crash once and I also got a random black/blue screen that wouldn't > wake up until I closed the laptop cover and reopened. " > > ============ > > Although Microsoft says it is ready ....... > > http://www.officeformac.com/blog/Ready-for-Snow-Leopard > > > Ready for Snow Leopard? > Aug 28, 2009 9:57 AM > > Hello from the Enterprise side of the MacBU! For those who may not > remember, I am a Sr. Product Manager focusing on the Enterprise > customer segment, and one of my favorite parts of my job is sitting > down with customers and talking about our plans, and getting input > and feedback from them based on their environments and business > needs. With our recent announcements, including the release of > Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition (http://www.officeformac.com/blog/A-New-Outlook-for-Mac-Office > ), and Apple?s release of Snow Leopard today, I?ve been quite > busy with these types of meetings. Folks are interested in Office > 2008 compatibility with Snow Leopard as well as learning more about > how to ensure their organizations have reliable Exchange support. I > thought I?d take a minute to post about some of the common > questions and hot topics that have come up during these conversations: > > Q. Are there any differences with Office 2008 for Mac running on > Snow Leopard vs. Leopard? > A. Office 2008 for Mac is Snow Leopard tested and ready! Best of > all, with the launch of Snow Leopard, the bulk of the Word 2008 > Spaces issues have been fixed after our collaborative efforts to > address the problem. > > > Q. How does Entourage Exchange server support compare to Snow > Leopard Exchange Server support via Mail, iCal, Contacts? > A. Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition offers the most complete > Exchange client on a Mac with overall improved e?mail and > calendaring support for better reliability, compatibility and > security. Based on our six year history in delivering Exchange > support, we have spent time listening and working with our customers > to best understand their needs to provide the most complete Exchange > scenario with an integrated workflow between calendar, mail, > contacts, tasks, and notes. To date, we?ve seen great response from > customers on the Web Services Edition release, and are eager to > continue to get essential feedback from them that we can apply to > our new email application, Outlook for Mac. > > > Q. What are the top requests that Enterprise customers request? > A. Each customer and their environment are different, but there have > definitely been some consistent requests. The top one was delivered > in Entourage, Web Services Edition which was the ability to sync > your tasks, notes, and categories with Exchange Server. We?ve also > been asked to improve the SharePoint experience for Mac users to > allow for stronger cross platform collaboration, which drove the > release of our Document Connection tool that shipped with our > Service Pack 2 release, and we will continue to invest in SharePoint > for the next version. > > Some other features that are highly requested and have been > announced are getting rid of the single database that we have in > Entourage today, and deliver a file-based database. This will come > out with our Outlook for Mac release. Finally, we consistently get > requests for Information Rights Management support, which we will > deliver in the next release of the suite coming out Holiday 2010. > > > Q. What does the MacBU have in store for the future? > A. Well, I can ?t really go into much more detail than has already > been announced, but we are continuing to listen to our customers and > are hard at work to deliver on the top requested features in our > core apps for the next version of Office for Mac (Word, Excel, > PowerPoint, and Outlook), and in connecting to our Microsoft server > and service products such as Exchange, SharePoint, and Office > Communication Server. > > As always, we are listening and we greatly value your input! Please > continue to submit feedback to us either through your account > representative or through our ?Contact Us? page athttp://www.microsoft.com/mac/contactus. > mspx. Stay tuned for more exciting news and details as we drive > towards the next version of Office for Mac! > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It occurs to me that there's likely a way to do this, or something much like it, in the Mac world, and I'm not talking Xserve. http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ Interesting, very interesting.... - Marty -- "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090902/8d137c37/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Sep 2 19:45:45 2009 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:45:45 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Cisco VPN tip for fresh OSX installs Message-ID: If you just did a clean install of OSX and you have the Cisco VPN you may be stuck trying to figure out how to restore your saved connections in the Cisco VPN client. Obviously, if you have the original PCF file then there's no worries - just re-import the connection. But what if you've lost said files? Go to your backup of the old machine (You did make a full backup right?) and go to /Volumes//etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/ Profiles/ Here you'll find all the PCF files for your connections. Just dump them into the same location on your new machine: /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles/ You can do this via the Terminal or using the Finder's "Go -> Go to folder..." command. From dave at davesevick.com Wed Sep 2 22:57:16 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 00:57:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple ships a known vulnerable version of Flash with Snow Leopard Message-ID: <30FE1706-9734-48AC-A18E-F9D072AA4F59@davesevick.com> http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/02/apple-ships-vulnerable-version-flash-snow-leopard/ Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Graham Cluley, Sophos Filed under: Apple, Malware The last thing you expect when you upgrade your operating system, is that you will have some of your security silently downgraded. But that's precisely what seems to have happened with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which ignores that you have been keeping Adobe Flash up-to- date and downgrades it to an earlier version, as the followingYouTube video shows: So, lets explain what's going on here. Imagine you have a Mac. Imagine you have been really diligent about keeping your copy of Adobe Flash up-to-date (Adobe is commonly targeted by the bad guys, and so Adobe has been releasing regular security updates for Flash and PDF Reader) Now, imagine (like me) you got your copy of Snow Leopard on Friday, and have now updated your computers. Unfortunately during the course of that update (and unknown to you) Apple downgraded your installation of Flash to an earlier version (version 10.0.23.1), which is known not to be secure and is not patched against various security vulnerabilities. The version you should be running is the latest version of Flash Player for Mac - 10.0.32.18. Mac users are not informed that Snow Leopard has downgraded their version of Flash without permission, and that they are now exposed to a raft of potential attacks and exploits which have been targeted on Adobe's software in recent months. I urge all Mac users who have upgraded to Snow Leopard to double-check that their version of Adobe Flash is current and - if not - update it immediately from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ This should be done as a matter of priority. Adobe is the "new Microsoft" when it comes to security vulnerabilities, with hackers targeting their software looking for vulnerabilities to exploit. This has lead the company to follow Microsoft's example by releasing regular security updates. Mac users who have been diligent enough to keep their security up-to- date do not deserve to be silently downgraded. We know that hackers keep finding security holes in Adobe's code - and that's deeply concerning because it is so widely used by many internet users, whether on Mac or PC. It's vital, therefore, that users ensure they are running the latest version - and that, in the future, operating system manufacturers do not reduce their customers' level of security without warning. If you're not sure which version of Adobe Flash you have on your computer (whatever operating system you use), take 30 seconds to visit their website. Adobe will not only tell you what version of Flash you are running, they will also tell you what version you should be running. Read more? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090903/5dc7b0a6/attachment.htm From gsebastian at navigatorprinting.com Thu Sep 3 08:19:50 2009 From: gsebastian at navigatorprinting.com (Glenn Sebastian) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:19:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Leopard and network printers without Appletalk! 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They cannot explain how or why .... Now let's take a closer look: 1. They state they were not backing up ( yes, I showed them how and even got the equipment for them long ago ). 2. They have years of precious photos and emails ... that now, when gone, have so much special meaning. ===== 3. I'm headed over there today to survey the situation .... I will report back here what I find. I mention this here because "you don't know what you've got till it's gone ...." I'm hoping all is better than it appears. But for now, they are VERY distraught. ------- Please do not let this be you. Back up you data every day. Dave From marc at soraccophoto.com Thu Sep 3 09:13:22 2009 From: marc at soraccophoto.com (Marc Soracco 412.400.4407) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:13:22 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] True story .... "you don't know what you've got till it's gone ...." In-Reply-To: <83ED6849-B371-4354-9886-CC4F6A18F04A@davesevick.com> References: <83ED6849-B371-4354-9886-CC4F6A18F04A@davesevick.com> Message-ID: I think Joni Mitchell said that quite a while ago.... still true.... Can't stress enough to folks in my household, Backup then Backup again! Storage is cheap and your ONLY refuge should things go south! Best Regards, Marc Soracco President/ASMP Pittsburgh Marc Soracco Photography Inc. 3706 Northfield Drive Gibsonia, PA. 15044 Office: 724.443.6927 Cell: 412.400.4407 Web: www.soraccophoto.com Email: marc at soraccophoto.com On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Dave Sevick wrote: > Got a call late last night after the NPMUG meeting. > > A client of mine, that I have not heard from in over a year, calls to > tell me they bought Snow Leopard, installed it as per the instructions > on their iMac , and now everything is gone. They have lost all their > data. They cannot explain how or why .... > > > Now let's take a closer look: > > 1. They state they were not backing up ( yes, I showed them how and > even got the equipment for them long ago ). > > 2. They have years of precious photos and emails ... that now, when > gone, have so much special meaning. > > ===== > > 3. I'm headed over there today to survey the situation .... I will > report back here what I find. > > > I mention this here because "you don't know what you've got till it's > gone ...." > > I'm hoping all is better than it appears. But for now, they are VERY > distraught. > > > ------- > > Please do not let this be you. Back up you data every day. > > Dave > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090903/1c25c72b/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Again this week, we received more than normal Macintosh donations, and we're falling a bit behind in keeping the receiving area clear of Macs. Today we refurbished 23 Macs and de-manufactured another 17, passing the pieces along Goodwill's recycling chain. After adding another G4 iBook from the Marty Swartz workshop, our all-time total is now 2,121. A construction note: Yeah, they're still at it. The 26th St. intersection with East Carson looked like an oil refinery underground as all the utilities are rebuilt. ComputerWorks store access is still an adventure. They're open, but you have to dance about the fences. We'll have another workday on Friday, September 11. Hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Fri Sep 4 19:39:58 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:39:58 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install Message-ID: So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone ...." My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for recycling the lyrics . =========== The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to retrieve anything. In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 installation. I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..." I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can really be heartbreaking. Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very expensive. Moving forward : 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple Store will look into this with them. 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com .... they don't work ! Researching the cause this weekend. I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090904/ec0d3b24/attachment.htm From wtjames at mac.com Fri Sep 4 22:10:59 2009 From: wtjames at mac.com (William James) Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:10:59 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Your last comment applies to me, Dave. I installed Epson 10.6x drivers from Epson for an NX400. They don't work. If you find anything please let us know. Bill James On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: > So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've > got till it's gone ...." > > My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for > recycling the lyrics . > > =========== > > The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all > their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music > and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to retrieve > anything. > > In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their > Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 > installation. > > I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but > listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer > failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old > boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..." > > I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you > that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your > favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can > really be heartbreaking. > > Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 data > was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of getting > Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very expensive. > > Moving forward : > > 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! > > 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had > photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back > back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst > all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple > Store will look into this with them. > > 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! > > 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 > > 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. > > 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. > > > btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com > .... they don't work ! > > Researching the cause this weekend. > > I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug William James Pittsburgh, PA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/34c8ced9/attachment.htm From charles.snyder at gmail.com Sat Sep 5 04:22:12 2009 From: charles.snyder at gmail.com (Charles) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 06:22:12 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <90969984-6D01-49D9-9EBE-71E8C6177EDD@gmail.com> Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound really basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to backup their data. Is there a better solution than time machine? Thanks and have a safe long weekend; Charles iPhone On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: > So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've > got till it's gone ...." > > My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for > recycling the lyrics . > > =========== > > The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all > their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music > and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to retrieve > anything. > > In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their > Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 > installation. > > I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but > listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer > failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old > boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..." > > I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you > that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your > favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can > really be heartbreaking. > > Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 data > was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of getting > Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very expensive. > > Moving forward : > > 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! > > 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had > photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back > back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst > all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple > Store will look into this with them. > > 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! > > 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 > > 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. > > 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. > > > btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com > .... they don't work ! > > Researching the cause this weekend. > > I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/5ab3fbd5/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sat Sep 5 05:14:38 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:14:38 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Backup software recommendations In-Reply-To: <90969984-6D01-49D9-9EBE-71E8C6177EDD@gmail.com> References: <90969984-6D01-49D9-9EBE-71E8C6177EDD@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Charles wrote: > Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound really > basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to backup their > data. Is there a better solution than time machine? > > Thanks and have a safe long weekend; > > Charles Charles, Please continue to use Time Machine and add as many strategies as you can ... more redundancy is better. This includes burning to CD or DVD, or just using flash drives. Everyone feel free to add to this quick list : Disk to Disk "cloning tools", so that you have an external hard drive exactly matching your computer's internal hard drive : SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html SilverKeeper http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ Files and folders ( not your entire hard drive, but specific files and folders ) to a remote location: My Secure Backup http://cranstoninc.com/mysecurebackup/ MobileMe http://me.com Mozy http://mozy.com/ Network backups , for several office or home computers Retrospect http://www.retrospect.com/ BRU http://www.tolisgroup.com/ TimeCapsule http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/ Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've >> got till it's gone ...." >> >> My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for >> recycling the lyrics . >> >> =========== >> >> The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all >> their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music >> and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to >> retrieve anything. >> >> In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their >> Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 >> installation. >> >> I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but >> listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer >> failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old >> boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..." >> >> I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you >> that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your >> favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can >> really be heartbreaking. >> >> Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 >> data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of >> getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very >> expensive. >> >> Moving forward : >> >> 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! >> >> 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had >> photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back >> back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst >> all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple >> Store will look into this with them. >> >> 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! >> >> 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 >> >> 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. >> >> 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. >> >> >> btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com >> .... they don't work ! >> >> Researching the cause this weekend. >> >> I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... >> >> Dave >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/c3f487c1/attachment.htm From tony at tastardata.com Sat Sep 5 07:20:34 2009 From: tony at tastardata.com (Tony Auretto) Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:20:34 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please see this link on Luminous Landscape: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/woes.shtml I would guess that it addresses this issue. Tony AurettoTastar Data Systemswww.tastarsupply.com412-884-8077Fax: 412-884-9077 -----Original Message----- From: William James To: Dave Sevick Cc: NPMUG Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:10:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install Your last comment applies to me, Dave. I installed Epson 10.6x drivers from Epson for an NX400. They don't work. If you find anything please let us know. Bill James On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone ...." My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for recycling the lyrics [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_of_the_Canyon] . =========== The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to retrieve anything. In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 installation. I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..." I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can really be heartbreaking. Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very expensive. Moving forward : 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple Store will look into this with them. 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com [http://epson.com/] .... they don't work ! Researching the cause this weekend. I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... Dave_______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com [mailto:NPMUG at davesevick.com] http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug William James Pittsburgh, PA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/f18969f6/attachment.htm From dadditude at gmail.com Sat Sep 5 09:44:18 2009 From: dadditude at gmail.com (Dadditude) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:44:18 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install Message-ID: <4572D716-1A72-42B9-B5AB-8D74F62FCABB@gmail.com> I can't speak for others, but I have my Mac Mini (160GB drive) backing up to two partitions on a 500GB external drive as follows: 1. Using Carbon Copy Cloner (http://is.gd/2UVm7), I have a scheduled incremental backup every night at midnight. This is done on partition #1 of the external drive, named "Boba Fett" (since he was a clone). This partition is exactly the same size as the internal drive, and this incremental backup creates a bootable copy of my internal drive, which is great in case the internal drive fails physically. 2. Time Machine is set up on the second partition of the external drive, named "H.G. Wells" (for reasons which SHOULD be obvious). This second partition uses the rest of the 500GB external drive. It would be better to have these two backups on separate physical drives, as if something happened to my external drive, both backups could be list. This is something that I will probably address sometime in the future. Hope this helps! -- "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Charles wrote: > Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound really > basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to backup their > data. Is there a better solution than time machine? > > Thanks and have a safe long weekend; > > Charles > > iPhone > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: > >> So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've >> got till it's gone ...." >> >> My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for >> recycling the lyrics . >> >> =========== >> >> The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all >> their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music >> and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to >> retrieve anything. >> >> In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their >> Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 >> installation. >> >> I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but >> listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer >> failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old >> boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..." >> >> I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you >> that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your >> favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can >> really be heartbreaking. >> >> Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 >> data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of >> getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very >> expensive. >> >> Moving forward : >> >> 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! >> >> 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had >> photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back >> back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst >> all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple >> Store will look into this with them. >> >> 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! >> >> 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 >> >> 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. >> >> 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. >> >> >> btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com >> .... they don't work ! >> >> Researching the cause this weekend. >> >> I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... >> >> Dave >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/b24612c3/attachment-0001.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Sat Sep 5 10:00:06 2009 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:00:06 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install In-Reply-To: <4572D716-1A72-42B9-B5AB-8D74F62FCABB@gmail.com> References: <4572D716-1A72-42B9-B5AB-8D74F62FCABB@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5107A04F-3B80-4C40-BDCD-750458F839F5@firthconsulting.com> I do something very similar, but with two separate dual-disk mirrored external drives. I have a 500GB mirrored external WD disk (2 500GB disks mirrored) with a single volume called TMBackup for Time Machine. So yeah, I'm mirroring my TM backup for no good reason, but hey - it was there ;) Then I have a 1TB mirrored external WD disk (2 1TB disks mirrored) that's partitioned into 2 volumes - one the exact size of my laptop's HD and used with SuperDuper! for nightly cloning. And one partition called "Stuff" for my videos, music, ISOs, archived data, etc (which is relying exclusively on the mirroring for any kind of data protection - not great, but this stuff isn't prone to accidental erasure since it's not an OS partition, and the data is mostly re-creatable and non-critical. All my work/financial/etc data is on the laptop HD) I also use my iDisk (www.me.com) for off-site backup of some critical stuff, like my Quickbooks data and company files. That I do by hand (not a fan of the syncing software, or the Apple Backup software) Charles On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Dadditude wrote: > I can't speak for others, but I have my Mac Mini (160GB drive) > backing up to two partitions on a 500GB external drive as follows: > > 1. Using Carbon Copy Cloner (http://is.gd/2UVm7), I have a scheduled > incremental backup every night at midnight. This is done on > partition #1 of the external drive, named "Boba Fett" (since he was > a clone). This partition is exactly the same size as the internal > drive, and this incremental backup creates a bootable copy of my > internal drive, which is great in case the internal drive fails > physically. > > 2. Time Machine is set up on the second partition of the external > drive, named "H.G. Wells" (for reasons which SHOULD be obvious). > This second partition uses the rest of the 500GB external drive. > > It would be better to have these two backups on separate physical > drives, as if something happened to my external drive, both backups > could be list. This is something that I will probably address > sometime in the future. > > Hope this helps! > -- > "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we > quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes > > On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Charles wrote: > >> Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound >> really basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to >> backup their data. Is there a better solution than time machine? >> >> Thanks and have a safe long weekend; >> >> Charles >> >> iPhone >> >> On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: >> >>> So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've >>> got till it's gone ...." >>> >>> My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for >>> recycling the lyrics . >>> >>> =========== >>> >>> The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all >>> their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music >>> and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to >>> retrieve anything. >>> >>> In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their >>> Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 >>> installation. >>> >>> I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but >>> listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer >>> failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old >>> boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it >>> was ..." >>> >>> I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell >>> you that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even >>> your favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes >>> can really be heartbreaking. >>> >>> Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 >>> data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of >>> getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very >>> expensive. >>> >>> Moving forward : >>> >>> 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! >>> >>> 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had >>> photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back >>> back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst >>> all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple >>> Store will look into this with them. >>> >>> 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! >>> >>> 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 >>> >>> 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. >>> >>> 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. >>> >>> >>> btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com >>> .... they don't work ! >>> >>> Researching the cause this weekend. >>> >>> I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NPMUG mailing list >>> NPMUG at davesevick.com >>> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Printing and copying work fine, though... -- "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes From charles.snyder at gmail.com Sat Sep 5 18:27:58 2009 From: charles.snyder at gmail.com (Charles) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:27:58 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install In-Reply-To: <5107A04F-3B80-4C40-BDCD-750458F839F5@firthconsulting.com> References: <4572D716-1A72-42B9-B5AB-8D74F62FCABB@gmail.com> <5107A04F-3B80-4C40-BDCD-750458F839F5@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: <827F41AA-4318-4314-98AF-60CB550006E8@gmail.com> iPhone On Sep 5, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Charles Firth wrote: > I do something very similar, but with two separate dual-disk > mirrored external drives. > > I have a 500GB mirrored external WD disk (2 500GB disks mirrored) > with a single volume called TMBackup for Time Machine. So yeah, I'm > mirroring my TM backup for no good reason, but hey - it was there ;) > > Then I have a 1TB mirrored external WD disk (2 1TB disks mirrored) > that's partitioned into 2 volumes - one the exact size of my > laptop's HD and used with SuperDuper! for nightly cloning. > > And one partition called "Stuff" for my videos, music, ISOs, > archived data, etc (which is relying exclusively on the mirroring > for any kind of data protection - not great, but this stuff isn't > prone to accidental erasure since it's not an OS partition, and the > data is mostly re-creatable and non-critical. All my work/financial/ > etc data is on the laptop HD) > > I also use my iDisk (www.me.com) for off-site backup of some > critical stuff, like my Quickbooks data and company files. That I do > by hand (not a fan of the syncing software, or the Apple Backup > software) > > Charles > > > On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Dadditude wrote: > >> I can't speak for others, but I have my Mac Mini (160GB drive) >> backing up to two partitions on a 500GB external drive as follows: >> >> 1. Using Carbon Copy Cloner (http://is.gd/2UVm7), I have a >> scheduled incremental backup every night at midnight. This is done >> on partition #1 of the external drive, named "Boba Fett" (since he >> was a clone). This partition is exactly the same size as the >> internal drive, and this incremental backup creates a bootable copy >> of my internal drive, which is great in case the internal drive >> fails physically. >> >> 2. Time Machine is set up on the second partition of the external >> drive, named "H.G. Wells" (for reasons which SHOULD be obvious). >> This second partition uses the rest of the 500GB external drive. >> >> It would be better to have these two backups on separate physical >> drives, as if something happened to my external drive, both backups >> could be list. This is something that I will probably address >> sometime in the future. >> >> Hope this helps! >> -- >> "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we >> quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes >> >> On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Charles wrote: >> >>> Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound >>> really basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to >>> backup their data. Is there a better solution than time machine? >>> >>> Thanks and have a safe long weekend; >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> iPhone >>> >>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: >>> >>>> So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've >>>> got till it's gone ...." >>>> >>>> My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for >>>> recycling the lyrics . >>>> >>>> =========== >>>> >>>> The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all >>>> their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music >>>> and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to >>>> retrieve anything. >>>> >>>> In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their >>>> Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 >>>> installation. >>>> >>>> I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but >>>> listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer >>>> failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old >>>> boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it >>>> was ..." >>>> >>>> I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell >>>> you that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or >>>> even your favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over >>>> iTunes can really be heartbreaking. >>>> >>>> Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 >>>> data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of >>>> getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very >>>> expensive. >>>> >>>> Moving forward : >>>> >>>> 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! >>>> >>>> 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had >>>> photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back >>>> back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst >>>> all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple >>>> Store will look into this with them. >>>> >>>> 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! >>>> >>>> 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 >>>> >>>> 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. >>>> >>>> 6. Grief counseling and pep talk. >>>> >>>> >>>> btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com >>>> .... they don't work ! >>>> >>>> Researching the cause this weekend. >>>> >>>> I hope this story helps to educate and warn people .... >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NPMUG mailing list >>>> NPMUG at davesevick.com >>>> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NPMUG mailing list >>> NPMUG at davesevick.com >>> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/8c1a485d/attachment-0001.htm From charles.snyder at gmail.com Sat Sep 5 18:30:27 2009 From: charles.snyder at gmail.com (Charles) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:30:27 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install In-Reply-To: <5107A04F-3B80-4C40-BDCD-750458F839F5@firthconsulting.com> References: <4572D716-1A72-42B9-B5AB-8D74F62FCABB@gmail.com> <5107A04F-3B80-4C40-BDCD-750458F839F5@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: <3D6B17E0-B06B-4F9B-BDF0-827C745BADEF@gmail.com> Sorry for the previous blank message. Wanted to say thanks for the ideas! Going to try superduper tomorrow! Thanks again Charles iPhone On Sep 5, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Charles Firth wrote: > I do something very similar, but with two separate dual-disk > mirrored external drives. > > I have a 500GB mirrored external WD disk (2 500GB disks mirrored) > with a single volume called TMBackup for Time Machine. So yeah, I'm > mirroring my TM backup for no good reason, but hey - it was there ;) > > Then I have a 1TB mirrored external WD disk (2 1TB disks mirrored) > that's partitioned into 2 volumes - one the exact size of my > laptop's HD and used with SuperDuper! for nightly cloning. > > And one partition called "Stuff" for my videos, music, ISOs, > archived data, etc (which is relying exclusively on the mirroring > for any kind of data protection - not great, but this stuff isn't > prone to accidental erasure since it's not an OS partition, and the > data is mostly re-creatable and non-critical. All my work/financial/ > etc data is on the laptop HD) > > I also use my iDisk (www.me.com) for off-site backup of some > critical stuff, like my Quickbooks data and company files. That I do > by hand (not a fan of the syncing software, or the Apple Backup > software) > > Charles > > > On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Dadditude wrote: > >> I can't speak for others, but I have my Mac Mini (160GB drive) >> backing up to two partitions on a 500GB external drive as follows: >> >> 1. Using Carbon Copy Cloner (http://is.gd/2UVm7), I have a >> scheduled incremental backup every night at midnight. This is done >> on partition #1 of the external drive, named "Boba Fett" (since he >> was a clone). This partition is exactly the same size as the >> internal drive, and this incremental backup creates a bootable copy >> of my internal drive, which is great in case the internal drive >> fails physically. >> >> 2. Time Machine is set up on the second partition of the external >> drive, named "H.G. Wells" (for reasons which SHOULD be obvious). >> This second partition uses the rest of the 500GB external drive. >> >> It would be better to have these two backups on separate physical >> drives, as if something happened to my external drive, both backups >> could be list. This is something that I will probably address >> sometime in the future. >> >> Hope this helps! >> -- >> "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we >> quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes >> >> On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Charles wrote: >> >>> Data loss scares me greatly! Question that's going to sound >>> really basic- besides time machine, what are people doing to >>> backup their data. Is there a better solution than time machine? >>> >>> Thanks and have a safe long weekend; >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> iPhone >>> >>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: >>> >>>> So .... "don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've >>>> got till it's gone ...." >>>> >>>> My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for >>>> recycling the lyrics . >>>> >>>> =========== >>>> >>>> The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all >>>> their data while install 10.6. Several years of photos and music >>>> and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to >>>> retrieve anything. >>>> >>>> In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their >>>> Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install" over a failed 10.6 >>>> installation. >>>> >>>> I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but >>>> listening to the story it seems that the Snow Leopard installer >>>> failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old >>>> boxes to find 10.5 installer DVDs to "go back to the way it >>>> was ..." >>>> >>>> I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell >>>> you that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or >>>> even your favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over >>>> iTunes can really be heartbreaking. >>>> >>>> Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover. And since new 10.5.1 >>>> data was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of >>>> getting Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very >>>> expensive. >>>> >>>> Moving forward : >>>> >>>> 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew ! >>>> >>>> 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had >>>> photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!! We got 2375 songs back >>>> back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst >>>> all other bad news. Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple >>>> Store will look into this with them. >>>> >>>> 3. Time Machine 1TB drive was installed ! >>>> >>>> 4. Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1 >>>> >>>> 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched. >>>> >>>> 6. 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/37778a98/attachment.htm From alexmacimac at mac.com Sat Sep 5 19:21:59 2009 From: alexmacimac at mac.com (Alex MacArthur) Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:21:59 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] The benefits of waiting a few days - sounds like Snow Leopard is Apple's answer to Vista in these early stages of implementation Message-ID: <6E0A63D6-9AD3-4BFE-B25B-4C3642873FC5@mac.com> Since most of the major revisions to OS X are shortly followed by a bug fix , I decided to hold off for a few days . Thankfully !! I use software that is not on everyone's plate ( i.e. VectorWorks ) , so I will probably delay implementing Snow Leopard until I get word from Nemetschek Software that VectorWorks is compliant . Even the changeover to Leopard ( 10.5 ) required an expensive upgrade to run that software - the previous version had display problems after the move to Leopard - all I recall was the cost to upgrade VW, which was about the same as a Mac Mini . I tend to err on the side of file safety , and have been buying external backup drives with every new change of Mac hardware . I have never regretted that investment - particularly after my G5 iMac was stolen , and has yet to be recovered . My latest , a Time Capsule just sits in the corner , doing its thing without prompts on my part . Just what the doctor ordered , even if a little expensive compared to other external drives . Wireless and effortless - can't ask for more ! Alex p.s. I've had good success with Data Rescue II software in the past , but the files I recovered were not written over . It even worked for the SD card from my camera when I realized in horror that I had just scrubbed photo files before downloading them . Luckily I realized right away what I had done and took no other photos before the recovery process . The recovery was 100% . Good luck to those who lost data . 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090905/ba92c322/attachment.htm From marty.swartz at gmail.com Sun Sep 6 14:18:02 2009 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:18:02 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Leopard and Parallels for Windows Message-ID: Hello, all - I suspect more than a few of you use Parallels for Windows. I've just gone through a time-eating hassle upgrading one of the machines in our household, and I want to save you from going down the same blind alleys. If you ARE a Parallels user, make sure that you upgrade to version 4.0 before you install Snow Leopard. I tried just the opposite, and it didn't work. Parallels v3 will not work in Snow Leopard, and you can't run the v3 to v4 updater _after_ you perform the SL upgrade. Happily, I had a bootable backup on an external Firewire drive, (I have a Neptune from OtherWorld Computing,) so I was able to restore the MacBook Pro to its initial state and start over. Yay backups! 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I've just gone through a time-eating hassle upgrading one of the machines in our household, and I want to save you from going down the same blind alleys. If you ARE a Parallels user, make sure that you upgrade to version 4.0 before you install Snow Leopard. I tried just the opposite, and it didn't work. Parallels v3 will not work in Snow Leopard, and you can't run the v3 to v4 updater _after_ you perform the SL upgrade. Happily, I had a bootable backup on an external Firewire drive, (I have a Neptune from OtherWorld Computing,) so I was able to restore the MacBook Pro to its initial state and start over. Yay backups! Best, Marty Swartz -- GRAVITY. It's the LAW. Obey it! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090906/13533c47/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I inadvertently used the boot camp drivers from my original Leopard install disk (for the iMac) instead of the one that came with the laptop. As a result, many of the laptop specific features just wouldn't work right under boot camp. When I realized the error, I tried to update the drivers with the ones from the macbook's install disk, but things were still never quite right. So I got my Snow Leopard family pack upgrade a week ago, and went through and updated the Mac side of the laptop. Everything went fine - I didn't see the exact starting number, but it saved me over 10GB of space on the hard drive. Then I went to try to update the boot camp drivers again - and got this error message that Windows was unable to uninstall the old drivers because the source files did not match. Huh?? A couple days later I ran some google searches, and found similar comments from other people. The solution: Go back to the original disk used to install boot camp and "uninstall" the drivers from there. Then install the new drivers from the new snow leopard disk. So I pulled out the old disk, and was pleasantly surprised to find that uninstalling the old drivers was an option. So I did that, then installed the new boot camp drivers from the SL disk - and suddenly everything works great! For the first time, I now have wireless access on the Windows side, I can now see the "Macintosh HD" and read files from it, and the trackpad finally works right - things like tap-to-click and two- finger scrolling. The sound is working better, and although I haven't been able to try it yet, I think the iSight camera will finally work. So if you're running boot camp on your mac and run into weird Windows error messages - try uninstalling from the original Leopard disk and things may work out. Regards, Chris Hardin From dave at davesevick.com Mon Sep 7 10:48:59 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:48:59 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] ..... maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone ...... Message-ID: <11C20B71-44B4-4858-ACB6-13A395B618FE@davesevick.com> http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/ Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event Arlington, Virginia September 8, 2009 ======== start clip ======== Every single one of you has something you?re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That?s the opportunity an education can provide. Maybe you could be a good writer ? maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper ? but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor ? maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine ? but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team. ======== end clip ======== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090907/87ad9d69/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Mon Sep 7 12:09:17 2009 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:09:17 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] So you want to speak to a human being? Message-ID: <7FBA2346-FC9E-4F11-9C6C-7DD4D776D7BB@mac.com> For those of you seeking customer service revenge... Enjoy, but be polite when you really do speak to a human on the phone. http://www.gethuman.com/ Robert A. 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Industry reviews: http://www.macworld.com/article/131313/2007/12/scansnaps510m.html http://reviews.cnet.com/scanners/fujitsu-scansnap-s510m-document/4505-3136_7-32640998.html http://www.maclife.com/article/fujitsu_scansnap_s510m Dave From dave at davesevick.com Mon Sep 7 15:08:26 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:08:26 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Microsoft and Apple .... favorite topics for humor ..... 1) Eulogy For A Microsoft Mascot 2) Power To The iPod People Message-ID: <214E1941-B6DF-4A85-81C5-56216B88832B@davesevick.com> 8/29/09 Stories: 1) Eulogy For A Microsoft Mascot 2) Power To The iPod People The top two clips of a "greatest hits" compilation of humorous moments on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me .... were about Microsoft and Apple .... Enjoy ! http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=8-29-2009 Warning: The humor is not meant for children .... Dave From dave at davesevick.com Mon Sep 7 18:20:32 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:20:32 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] TechMan: Computer-support Genius Bar lives up to name - By Ced Kurtz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Message-ID: TechMan: Computer-support Genius Bar lives up to name TechMan recently had a positive experience with computer support, something so rare these days I thought I ought to write about it. (Yesterday) Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/technology/#ixzz0QTAuOKTQ Sunday, September 06, 2009 By Ced Kurtz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TechMan recently had a positive experience with computer support, something so rare these days I thought I ought to write about it. I recently bought a copy of Snow Leopard, Apple's operating system upgrade. When I got it home and attempted to install it on my iMac, it would not install. So I went to the Apple store and waited in line at the Genius Bar, which is what Apple calls the support desks in its stores. (If it called them the Dummy Bar, they'd probably get a lot less business.) After about a 40-minute wait (Tip: Make an appointment in advance on the Web), a technician checked my disk and found nothing wrong but he gave me a new disk anyway. When I tried the new disk, it also would not work. Remembering that I had bought Apple Care for the computer (a three-year enhanced support and repair program that now sells for $169), I went to the Apple Web site at Apple.com. There I was prompted to enter the serial number of my computer. When I did this, I got a message saying I would receive a telephone call from Apple within one minute. Thirty seconds later my phone rang and in about two minutes, a technician came on the line. He understood my problem immediately (and our conversation was unhampered by a language barrier). After trying several things unsuccessfully, he said he thought I had a problem with my computer itself, not the software. I would have to take the computer to the Apple store. I was the first person at the Genius Bar Monday morning. (I love the smell of Genius in the morning). The technician said tests would take more than an hour, but I had to get to work. So they said they'd call me, which they did about 2 p.m. They had reinstalled the Leopard operating system on my computer, installed the Snow Leopard upgrade (instead of making me go home and get my copy, they installed one of their own) and found no problem with the hardware. I picked up the computer that evening. No charge. So what's the point of this saga? You've all heard of the "Apple tax," referring to the fact that Apples cost more than PCs. In general it is true. Apples do cost more. But my recent experience suggests to me that one of the things you get for paying the Apple tax is a higher level of service. True, I paid for Apple Care, and without it I would probably not have been treated as well. But I saw a lot of people coming to the store with problems and no Apple Care and being taken care of. It costs Apple to staff stores and a Genius Bar. (Geniuses aren't cheap.) And it is true that Apple stores aren't as ubiquitous as Subways -- there are only two in the greater Pittsburgh area. Everyone knows that the price of PCs has been under inexorable downward pressure. To stay in business, PC makers have had to cut costs. One of the ways they cut costs is to reduce service by trimming their support staffs and outsourcing support (often to India). In the end, is this a good idea? For business customers it probably is. Businesses want the lowest possible price on computers and have their own people to support users. I am not taking sides in the endless, pointless Apple vs. PC war. I own more PCs than Apples. And good Apple-care-like enhanced support plans are available from PC makers as well. If you are a seasoned user or a business, by all means go for price. But maybe PC makers should offer a consumer-friendly computer with a pledge of good support for a higher price. They could include some well-written actual printed manuals. It would be part of the cost of the computer, not an add-on coverage plan. I'd be willing to bet that lots of people would pay for a better computer experience. It's a simple matter of getting what you pay for. Read TechMan's blog at post-gazette.com/techman. The TechTalk video podcast is at post-gazette.com/multimedia and the audio version is at post-gazette.com/podcast. Follow PGTechMan on Twitter.com. First published on September 6, 2009 at 12:00 am Read more:http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09249/995697-96.stm#ixzz0QTBVQ6KE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090907/9b9cb47b/attachment.htm From pcarras+ at pitt.edu Wed Sep 9 14:49:26 2009 From: pcarras+ at pitt.edu (Peter Carras) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:49:26 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs appears at Apple Media Event Message-ID: <7DA7C389-8921-4677-A8B8-4DFA98EB3D1C@pitt.edu> Steve Jobs made a public appearance today at the Apple Media Event. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/technology/companies/10apple.html? _r=1&hp > Jobs Returns to Apple and Touts New Lineup > > By BRAD STONE > Published: September 9, 2009 > > SAN FRANCISCO ? Steven P. Jobs, Apple?s chief executive, appeared > on stage Wednesday at an Apple music event, more than three months > after returning from medical leave and nearly a year since he last > addressed a large audience. > ?I?m vertical, I?m back at Apple and I?m loving every day of it,? > he said after a rousing standing ovation from the crowd of Apple > employees and journalists, who were gathered for the announcement > of new products and services related to music. He mentioned that iTunes software will work with Twitter, and that news was enough to temporarily bring Twitter to a halt. http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/09/steve-jobs-apple-technology-internet- twitter.html By the way, the new iPod Nano will have a built-in FM radio, microphone, and a video camera. And a pedometer. And Voice Over to tell you what songs are playing. http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/specs.html --- Peter L. Carras -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090909/44021d98/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Sep 9 17:20:39 2009 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:20:39 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Great new feature of iTunes9 and iPhone 3.1 Message-ID: You can now sort your app icons onto the homepages of the iPhone using iTunes. So instead of having to arrange your apps on the phone directly via the "wiggling app icons" method, you can build your home screens and place the apps exactly where you want them using iTunes, then sync that with the phone. Very cool :) From wexfordpa at mac.com Wed Sep 9 17:24:51 2009 From: wexfordpa at mac.com (Ralph Waechter) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:24:51 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] So. I have this crazy question . . . Message-ID: Actually, two of them. Here goes. I recently upgraded to Leopard (yes, I am a slow adapter so all of you bold types can find the glitches, advise Apple and then when I go, most of the stuff that would make me crazy is fixed . . . ). But, two things that I have not figured out yet: First, after I upgraded to 10.5.8 I also upgraded to iLife '08 (a really, slow adapter so I purchased the package). The albums that my wife had been putting together in the earlier version have simply disappeared. The photos are here, thank goodness, but the organizations of them into these albums seems gone. I have the "as uploaded from the camera" original "albums" but not the created ones. Any thoughts on whether this organization can be found here? Second, there is an icon in the dock labeled as "Downloads". Right now it seems to have in it a Sophos antivirus I downloaded (yes, Dave Sevick, I took your warnings to heart and purchased even though I am a single user, not a company). But, whenever I download a file -- e.g., a Word doc, a .pdf, whatever) rather than go to this place, it seems to go to something else named "Downloads" that pops up as/after I download the file. This happened with 10./5, but I never understood where to find this list once I closed it -- it contains nearly everything I've ever "downloaded" - from the Internet, from email, etc. So, really two sub-questions: first, why doesn't this stuff find its way into the 10.5.8 dock icon named "downloads"? and second, where is the place that pop up of file downloads such that I can find it after I close it ... ? Appreciate your help as always. Ralph P.s. When it seems safe to enter the water on SL, please send around a notice and I will jump in. From bob at peirce-family.com Wed Sep 9 18:53:23 2009 From: bob at peirce-family.com (Robert Peirce) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:53:23 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Excel 2004 for Mac and web pages Message-ID: <33AA0956-1C9C-4806-BEE7-62820ED47F43@peirce-family.com> Excel for Windows allows you to open a web page and select a specific field. If the web page changes, Excel will usually still find the data. Not so, it seems, on a Mac. I have to specify a particular cell and if the web page changes in any way, that cell probably will no longer contain the data I am after. Does anybody have a solution for this, including OpenOffice, Excel 2008 or whatever? I would prefer to stick with what I have, but it isn't working. From bob at peirce-family.com Wed Sep 9 20:16:15 2009 From: bob at peirce-family.com (Robert Peirce) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:16:15 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] [uva-mess] Excel 2004 for Mac and web pages In-Reply-To: <074D7AAA-A725-47E2-B6C6-0BA356ED8065@virginia.edu> References: <33AA0956-1C9C-4806-BEE7-62820ED47F43@peirce-family.com> <074D7AAA-A725-47E2-B6C6-0BA356ED8065@virginia.edu> Message-ID: <40BC33B3-A36A-405F-9328-A852092AA4F7@peirce-family.com> On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Will Martin wrote: > Hi, Robert. > > I wish I could help, but your description of the feature is a > little vague. Would you mind providing an actual URL to one of the > Web pages you are talking about, and a description of the specific > data somehow linked between the URL and the spreadsheet? It might > give the rest of us more to go on. This URL is used to get the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). In Windows Excel, you can actually select that item from the web page. 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090909/b07f10f8/attachment-0001.htm From bob at peirce-family.com Thu Sep 10 08:13:10 2009 From: bob at peirce-family.com (Robert Peirce) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:13:10 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] [uva-mess] Excel 2004 for Mac and web pages In-Reply-To: <78B34B7F-E592-42DD-939E-7E62B9990296@virginia.edu> References: <33AA0956-1C9C-4806-BEE7-62820ED47F43@peirce-family.com> <074D7AAA-A725-47E2-B6C6-0BA356ED8065@virginia.edu> <40BC33B3-A36A-405F-9328-A852092AA4F7@peirce-family.com> <78B34B7F-E592-42DD-939E-7E62B9990296@virginia.edu> Message-ID: On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Will Martin wrote: > Sorry to bother you with requests for more details, but in working > with spreadsheets since 1986, I've never worked with anybody who > has asked about this feature in Excel before. It's new to me. > > I pull up my virtual machine running Vista, open IE and go to the > link you gave me and pull up Excel 2007 and I can't figure out how > you do what you say you do in Windows Excel. Once I understand what > you are doing, I can begin to research alternatives on the Mac. > Until then, I'm useless to you. Oops!! I wasn't completely clear what I was doing. I am actually imbedding the query in a spreadsheet. This is a brief note I wrote to myself when I first started to play with this stuff. On a Mac, the query must initially be stored in Office/Queries. Once there you can activate the query and imbed it in the spreadsheet via Data->Get External Data->Run Saved Query. You can remove it by finding, or knowing, the root of the query, selecting it and clicking on Data->Get External Data->Data Range Properties. You then unclick the "Save query definition" box and it will go away. Here is a query I prepared and imbedded in my spreadsheet. This one gets a list of the most active stocks. Stick it in Office/Queries and you will be able to imbed it in a spreadsheet. ? Most of the queries in the spreadsheet I am using from the Windows machine were installed there, so I don't know all the details about them except that they get specific information from a web page. The Mac gets the entire web page and the query cannot be edited as it can on Windows. As applied to this particular query, your goal might be to extract the third most active stock, or something like that. You can do this in Windows, at least I hope you can for this particular query; I really don't know for sure since I wrote it on a Mac!. You can't do it on a Mac, at least not in 2004, if the web page changes at all from day-to-day because the third stock will move up or down by a line or two and the Mac has to access a specific cell. 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And this way if some geek in Finland figures out how to make GCD even better, Apple can incorporate those improvements into OSX. And besides, "the enemy of my enemy" right? (Although I expect a LOT of downloads of the GCD source code will end up in Redmond - good luck getting it to work in the code-mess that is Windows) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090911/f9ef0e05/attachment-0001.htm From tyrone at infionline.net Fri Sep 11 11:52:07 2009 From: tyrone at infionline.net (Todd Tomasic) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:52:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Lepard Message-ID: Hello, My wife uses the older version of Word. Any one know if I will have a problem if I upgrade? Todd Tomasic P.S. I use the upgrade Super Duper! From charles.snyder at gmail.com Fri Sep 11 12:04:19 2009 From: charles.snyder at gmail.com (Charles) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:04:19 -0700 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Lepard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm still on office for mac 2003 and it works just fine with Snow Leopard- but I had to install Rosetta! iPhone On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Todd Tomasic wrote: > Hello, > > My wife uses the older version of Word. Any one know if I will > have a problem if I upgrade? > > Todd Tomasic > > P.S. I use the upgrade Super Duper! > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From charles at firthconsulting.com Fri Sep 11 12:27:06 2009 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:27:06 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Lepard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <037E1D0E-DF55-41FE-B3A3-362054C5F6A8@firthconsulting.com> Correct - Word 2004 is PPC-only, so it requires Rosetta to run on Intel OSX. By default, OSX 10.6 does not install Rosetta - you need to add it to the install via "Customize" On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Charles wrote: > I'm still on office for mac 2003 and it works just fine with Snow > Leopard- but I had to install Rosetta! > > iPhone > > On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Todd Tomasic > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My wife uses the older version of Word. Any one know if I will >> have a problem if I upgrade? >> >> Todd Tomasic >> >> P.S. I use the upgrade Super Duper! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From bob at peirce-family.com Fri Sep 11 12:56:00 2009 From: bob at peirce-family.com (Robert Peirce) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:56:00 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Lepard In-Reply-To: <037E1D0E-DF55-41FE-B3A3-362054C5F6A8@firthconsulting.com> References: <037E1D0E-DF55-41FE-B3A3-362054C5F6A8@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Charles Firth wrote: > Correct - Word 2004 is PPC-only, so it requires Rosetta to run on > Intel OSX. By default, OSX 10.6 does not install Rosetta - you need to > add it to the install via "Customize" I didn't know that. As with everything else (up until 10.6!) it just worked on my Intel machine. Why doesn't 10.6 install Rosetta, I wonder? Is it because 10.6 won't work on a PPC, or so I am told, and Apple is trying to wean us from anything that old? From charles.snyder at gmail.com Fri Sep 11 13:29:52 2009 From: charles.snyder at gmail.com (Charles) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:29:52 -0700 Subject: [NPMUG] Snow Lepard In-Reply-To: References: <037E1D0E-DF55-41FE-B3A3-362054C5F6A8@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: I think I'll go open office or google docs well before I pay for another office suite. iPhone On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Robert Peirce wrote: > On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Charles Firth wrote: > >> Correct - Word 2004 is PPC-only, so it requires Rosetta to run on >> Intel OSX. By default, OSX 10.6 does not install Rosetta - you need >> to >> add it to the install via "Customize" > > I didn't know that. As with everything else (up until 10.6!) it just > worked on my Intel machine. > > Why doesn't 10.6 install Rosetta, I wonder? Is it because 10.6 won't > work on a PPC, or so I am told, and Apple is trying to wean us from > anything that old? > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From sarahbrim2 at mac.com Fri Sep 11 14:06:50 2009 From: sarahbrim2 at mac.com (Sarah Brim) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:06:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] MAC MOD Message-ID: Hi NPMUG friends, Does anyone know anything about the MAC MOD? It is suppose to be a social networking site for Mac Users. It seems to ask lots of semi- personal info. I was thinking about joining, but decided to do some research first. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks, Sarah From ronladams7 at gmail.com Fri Sep 11 16:40:39 2009 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (R_Adams) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:40:39 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Technology and a few dollars.... Message-ID: <0A326D35-EB28-4E66-80B9-4D06C7DD8EBC@gmail.com> Amazing times.... a 20 year old journalism intern, her friend, an idea, a video camera, a laptop for editing, and YouTube. The story has caught ACORN, the mainstream media and the White House flat footed. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDk3ZDA5YTA1MGNmNTA1NTE4NTE2NzYyOTMxNjg4YzA= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090911/f322ad8c/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Sep 11 17:12:57 2009 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:12:57 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, September 11 Message-ID: <9FFCA00B-CEF4-4B57-9B63-3E5819802528@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. Today was spent attacking the backlog of donated Macs Goodwill has received in the past three weeks. Donations dropped of significantly this week allowing us to make a big dent in the loading dock bins. Today we refurbished 15 Macs and de-manufactured another six, passing the pieces along Goodwill's recycling chain. We also re-imaged three Macs from ComputerWorks store returns, and condemned eight Apple Studio Display CRTs to the truck for Great Lakes Recycling for safe and proper recycling. Our all-time total is now 2,137. A construction note: It's still there. You know what to do :-) We'll have another workday on Friday, September 18. Hope to see you there! As a planning note, we will NOT have a workday on Friday, September 25, in honor of the G-20 Summit diplomacy or mass civil disobedience, whichever you may prefer. We just don't want to try to get here from anywhere just then :-) Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From alexmacimac at mac.com Sat Sep 12 06:40:35 2009 From: alexmacimac at mac.com (Alex MacArthur) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:40:35 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: PDFpen 4.2.1 Fixes Snow Leopard Issues References: <5539144E-7C98-41EC-9810-8176BE8FD2D3@davesevick.com> Message-ID: <949BF568-DB16-4F3B-9D0E-F9E32A7C4248@mac.com> Begin forwarded message: >>> Subject: PDFpen 4.2.1 Fixes Snow Leopard Issues >>> >>> Hi , >>> >>> We just released PDFpen 4.2.1 and PDFpenPro 4.2.1. The update >>> fixes several issues related to Snow Leopard: >>> >>> - Fixed problems with opening some PDF documents on Snow Leopard >>> - Fixed Quartz filters on Snow Leopard >>> - Improved click selection behavior on Snow Leopard >>> - Fixed problems with filling some IRS forms >>> - Combine PDFs and Split PDF scripts no longer require Rosetta >>> >>> Download PDFpen 4.2.1 / PDFpenPro 4.2.1 >>> This update is free to registered users of PDFpen 4.x and >>> PDFpenPro 4.x. >>> >>> We have worked very hard to address Snow Leopard issues, and will >>> continue to do so. Thank you for all the feedback. If you have any >>> questions, please email them to us at support at pdfpen.com. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> The PDFpen Team >>> at SmileOnMyMac >>> >>> How to Upgrade Your License to PDFpen 4 /PDFpenPro 4: >>> 1. Download the new PDFpen 4 or PDFpenPro 4 and launch the >>> application. >>> 2. Select "Purchase / Register ..." from the application menu. >>> 3. 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We were also able to clear the fourth floor storage area of our unprocessed inventory and place them near our work area which should allow us to be a bit more productive. These iMacs are the last of the 400+ Macs donated to Goodwill by the Keystone Oaks School District back in mid-2007. We've found these machines (about 100 eMacs and 300 iMacs) to be in excellent condition with a very high rate of successful refurbishment. In case you're wondering, the eMacs are long gone; they were the first to be refurbished in late 2007. The fourth floor now only has our completed machines. Today's count was 79 OS X iMacs with CDs, 24 OS X iMacs with CD/DVDs, 10 600 mhz OS X iMacs with CD-RWs and 11 OS 9.2 tray-load iMacs. This does not include the inventory already in the ComputerWorks store. Our remaining unprocessed inventory now only resides in Goodwill's basement; most of it was brought with us during the move from the CRC's previous location in Lawrenceville. Our looming crisis is we don't have enough Apple USB keyboards and mice for the Macs we will be completing in the next several weeks. Please check those closets and basements for any you don't need. Please? A construction note: It's still there, only it's even worse. You know what to do :-) We'll be taking a week off to avoid the potential traffic havoc the G-20 summit promises to create. We will have our next workday on Friday, October 2. Hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From ronladams7 at gmail.com Sat Sep 19 00:48:00 2009 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (R_Adams) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:48:00 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Show Hidden files Message-ID: Slick trick in Snow Leopard.... http://lifehacker.com/5362911/cmd%2Bshift%2Bperiod-toggles-hidden-file-visibility-in-snow-leopard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nathan comes to Cranston IT following a very successful 5 year stint with Apple were he was a lead Creative and helped Apple develop training programs in their retail stores. ----- Visit our website www.cranstonit.com to learn more our new training classes and Nathan. Patrick Cranston Cranston Consulting, Inc. 888-813-5558 www.CranstonIT.com patrick at cranstonit.com Is your data secure? Get MySecureBackup and never worry about data loss again! www.CranstonIT.com/MySecureBackup -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090919/f6180007/attachment.htm From alexmacimac at mac.com Tue Sep 22 09:31:57 2009 From: alexmacimac at mac.com (Alex MacArthur) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:31:57 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] How can I restore iPhoto from Time Machine ? Message-ID: <28A6DFC1-4E33-4E1E-88A6-CC7D2226C1A0@mac.com> I updated several apps from Apple a couple of days ago from my Administrator account , and iPhoto did something strange - it asked which user account to use . I selected one and returned to my daily use account . Now I have accesss to my mobileme gallery ONLY ! Events shows no items . I figured that by going back a couple of weeks in Time Machine and restoring iPhoto would do the trick . It hasn't ! Any suggestions ? I know my photos must be back there somewhere . Alex From alexmacimac at mac.com Tue Sep 22 17:14:39 2009 From: alexmacimac at mac.com (Alex MacArthur) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:14:39 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] iPhoto and Time Machine Message-ID: I located my 'lost' iPhoto files . I went back to my User files on the HD , opened pictures , then found the iPhoto files with almost 20 GB of HD space taken . Returned to my desktop and voila . I could access them again . Purely by stumbling around . Love this Mac software !! Alex From marty.swartz at gmail.com Wed Sep 23 06:52:53 2009 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:52:53 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] A primo iMac at Goodwill, but not for long Message-ID: Dear Mac Friends: Once in a while an especially nice Mac shows up at Goodwill. Here's one I've just finished refurbishing, it won't stay long. Call them at (412) 481-0922 if you are interested. I don't know the price they'll want, I'm just the grease monkey. GOODWILL TRACKING NUMBER IS APL7378. Serial number is W8544KCWTAQ. iMac 17" G5 1.95 MHz (a model NOT susceptible to capacitor failure) clear and bright LCD display, 1440x900 pixels 160 GB hard drive 512 MB of PC4200 RAM (can add 2GB upgrade for $40 at OtherWorld Computing:) http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/4200DDR2M2GB/ "Superdrive" optical drive Airport extreme, bluetooth This is a PowerPC machine, so it can be upgraded to OSX 10.5 (Leopard), but not to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) - Marty -- "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes From ronladams7 at gmail.com Sat Sep 26 18:04:06 2009 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (R_Adams) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:04:06 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Exclusive: Apple dictated Light Peak creation to Intel, could begin migration from other standards as early as 2010 Message-ID: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From dave at davesevick.com Mon Sep 28 06:48:16 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:48:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Researcher: Hackers pay 43 cents per hijacked Mac Message-ID: http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=27276&pagtype=allchandate Gregg Keizer Computerworld A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said on Thursday. In a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 security conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Sophos researcher Dmitry Samosseiko discussed his investigation of the Russian ?Partnerka,? a tangled collection of Web affiliates who rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars from spam and malware, most of the former related to phony drug sites, and much of the latter targeting Windows users with fake security software, or "scareware." http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=27276&pagtype=allchandate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090928/f7cbf771/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Mon Sep 28 19:53:16 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:53:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] NPMUG moves to Tuesdays this fall ... Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1 Message-ID: The NPMUG is being moved to Tuesdays this fall 2009 ..... Tues Oct 6 Tues Nov 3 Tues Dec 1 This fall we are enjoying a lively discussion of the Sermon On The Mount and Book of Matthew at our local church, the Calvary UMC on the North Side. All are welcome, btw .... please join us. Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors. Please see our new site, designed on a Mac by some very cool guy using iWeb '09, v 3.0.1: http://calvarypgh.com So if you want to know who's responsible for this sudden change in plans ... well ..... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090928/fb0a58e0/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Open Hearts, Open Minds, > Open Doors. > > Please see our new site, designed on a Mac by some very cool guy > using iWeb '09, v 3.0.1: http://calvarypgh.com > > So if you want to know who's responsible for this sudden change in > plans ... well ..... > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug William James Pittsburgh, PA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20090928/2389251d/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Mon Sep 28 20:22:22 2009 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:22:22 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Who is that guy? Message-ID: <0EDCE1E6-D84B-4745-B5EB-48375D0C560D@mac.com> I understand Mr. Jobs isn't as forgiving..... ;-) Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Tue Sep 29 12:03:45 2009 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:03:45 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] "Wired in a Wireless World" ... excellent repeat of event focusing on "internet predators" of children Message-ID: <1C236932-4CCB-4337-9220-51FB00855716@davesevick.com> Dear Apple folks, This is an excellent event for those concerned about internet predators tracking kids .... they examine how predators work, how to recognize warning signs and how to prevent it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ! Dave ============== From Family Ministries Team - Wired in a Wireless World 2009 Got kids? Got cell phones? Got kids who want cell phones? Suffering from parental peer pressure? Are you wondering about the culture of cell phones, texting and sexting, and how your children are going to survive this student culture? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this evening is for you and your family. Plan now to be present on Tuesday, November 17 at 6:30pm-8:00pm as Dutilh Family Ministries Team hosts: Dorn Checkley of the Pittsburgh Coalition Against Pornography Rhonda Rearick of the Cranberry Police Department for this informative evening. Here you will gain practical insight as you maneuver life together with your children. Parents will learn about the legal issues surrounding these subjects. There will be separate sessions for students in grades 5 -12 (age level groups). There is no cost and this will be a community-wide event. Register at Dutilhumc.org or by calling 724-776-1094. Questions about the event? Debbie Pisor Doug Raraigh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The app's features include old-school written articles, live streaming video, localized traffic and weather, and -- coolest -- the ability for users to upload cellphone photos or video to iReport, the network's online haven for amateur reporting. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/cnn-iphone-app-takes-mobile-news-to-the-next-level.html CNN video demo http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/09/29/am.seg.iphone.app.cnn?iref=videosearch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It also provides synchronization of email across multiple computers and mobile devices. Kerio MailServer works as a smart cross platform alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server. Our local certified Kerio reseller is CranstonIT .... and they have been invited to speak at one of our upcoming meetings. http://www.patrickcranston.com/kerio/index.html Growl 1.2 is out and Snow Leopard ready .... and is best explained as an open-source tool for application notifications .... useful notifications that you control. http://growl.info/about.php Mail Attachment Iconizer 2.1 one great handy tool for getting those attachments in your email to just be a nice little icon .... rather than appearing opened fully "inline" . Mail Attachments Iconizer 2 gives you control over attachment handling in Apple Mail. It fixes the most annoying Apple Mail flaws and allows you to configure how attachments are displayed and sent using a simple interface. http://lokiware.info/Mail-Attachments-Iconizer I could be talked into giving a quick review of these at the Monroeville Public Library at the County of Westmoreland Mac Users Group meeting tonight :-) Hope to see you there ! Thursday October 1, 2009 7-9PM http://web.mac.com/cowmug/COWMUG_/Welcome.html or if you can drive that far, see our Canadian brothers at http://cowmug.ca/ ( just kidding ) Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20091001/571b4e2d/attachment-0001.htm