Category: Snow Leopard

The case of the Mysterious disappearing disk space

 

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Mystery of the disappearing disk space — Reality Distortion: Macs, Mac OS… – StumbleUpon. Interesting. I wonder what caused that behavior. I have never noticed that in any Mac I’ve worked on.

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exFAT – how to share files between Mac and Windows 7

Do you want to share files between Mac and Windows 7? This is an easy way to do both read/write. Thanks Stress Test!

Open Disk Utility.app (Applications > Utilities), mark your external Disc (The entry starting with the size) and click on “Partition” on the right side. Select “1 partition” and as Format, select “ExFAT” that should work with files bigger than 4GB.

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via exFAT – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Magical Macintosh Key Sequences

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These are some keyboard tricks that it has taken me a decade to learn. I learned some new diagnostic and performance shortcuts as well. Great work! If you support Macintosh’s it is very helpful to know these.

via Magical Macintosh Key Sequences.

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Is Software Update downloading in the…: Apple Support Communities

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Thanks cathy fasano. Nicely done!

Go to System Preferences (under the apple) and Software Update is about the middle of the “Systems” line. On the bottom of the Pref panel for SW Update there are check boxes for checking automatically and downloading automatically. If you spend any significant amount of time attached via an expensive or slow connection, turn them both off.

I would turn off “download automatically” under any circumstances — when you are trying to do something and it runs really slowly, it’s pretty frustrating to realize that it’s because your computer was downloading 500MB of printer driver updates for a printer that broke and you threw in the trash two years ago!

via Is Software Update downloading in the…: Apple Support Communities.

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