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Jim Scott give new life to old Macs – Times-Standard Online

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If anyone has working but old computers I’d be happy to fix them like Mr. Scott and donate them to your charity of choice.  If you don’t have one, I will find one and donate them on your behalf if you like.  There are always people who can use older computers.

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Solved! Missing GarageBand instruments upon installation! – InsanelyMac Forum

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Two ways to solve this.

  1. coolchiselz method: You can manually extract it by,1.
    Go to the trash can, see there’s a tar file downloaded from the apple site.
    It should be as this.

    GarageBandExtraContent.tar 1.12GB

    Double click it to unstuff.

    2.
    Now you see GarageBandExtraContent.pkg, also double click it.
    Installer will launch, continue and continue, finish the installer.

    3.
    Open the garageband, you’ll see the updated apple loops and instruments.

  2. Kale R. method: Thank you! You sir, are a gentlemen and a scholar. However, I had to take the necessary steps that differed from your instructions (to help avoid confusion for other readers, as I know this is a widespread problem).1. I found the .TAR file (GarageBandExtraContent.tar) in the trash.
    2. I dragged the .TAR file to the desktop
    3. I unarchived it and a new folder appeared on my desktop.
    4. In the folder, there was another .TAR file (GarageBandExtraContent.pkg.tar) and an unknown file with no file extension. It was called signature.
    5. I unarchived the new .TAR file and in the new folder was the .PKG file (GarageBandExtraContent.pkg) you mentioned.
    6. I followed the onscreen instructions and opened GarageBand.

    The missing instruments and loops were installed and functional! Thanks again for the help, coolchiselz!

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“You can’t open the application iPhoto because it may be damaged or incomplete.”

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Apple – Support – Discussions – iphoto doesnt work ….  Terence Devlin solution worked!

To re-install iPhoto

1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2. Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name. On 10.6 those receipts may be found in the Finder using the Go menu and selecting Go To Folder

In the resulting window type

/var/db/receipts/

3. Re-install.

If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.

If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only.

 

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Back To My Mac: Starting… But never starts

Apple – Support – Discussions – Back To My Mac: Starting… But never ….  Turns out to be several problems.

  1. Yvan Zivkovic said: Well, luckily, I did find the problem!I looked into it and compared some things to other computers that BTMM did work, and one obvious thing I saw was that my System Keychain on my main computer was broken. Deleting it and replacing it with the System Keychain from another computer ended up fixing it!

    For the record, the System Keychain is found here:

    /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

    Every time I tried to turn on BTMM, it would create a ‘System.keychainold’, and not sign on. It needs to create a key called ‘username.members.mac.com’, since the system keychain was busted/corrupt, this key could not be made and BTMM would not log on.

    I hope this helps anyone who suffers from the same problem!

  2. blufiresw said: or me, the problem was my clock being out of sync. I forgot that I’d turned off automatic date/time a while ago. Once I checked the “set date and time automatically” box, BTMM turned on successfully.
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