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bought non-wireless priinter by mistake
On 12/13/14 5:26 PM, micky wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:18:12 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: On 12/9/14 2:35 PM, micky wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:42:49 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: On 12/8/14 9:29 PM, micky wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:00:07 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: On 12/7/14 1:59 PM, micky wrote: snip Since this reply is primarily Mac help for micky, if you're only interested in Windows related stuff, skip on to the next message. :-) micky, this could get a bit over the top for the Windows people, so if you wish, feel free to take this to email if you feel it's appropriate. If you want to do this, screenshots are very useful, and the ability to do this is built in to OS X. Read this to find out how. http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_S...ts_in_Mac_OS_X MS made a big deal of its new "Snipping Tool" in Win 7, but it's a poor system compared to OS X. You need 3rd party software like Irfanview to match OS X in this case. Also, I had to do some web searching in order to try to reply to your questions. And it will depend on how familiar you are with the Mac way of doing things, too. Very little. Let me ask you a question. He was going away and worried about burglars breaking in and stealing his computer. I told him a much greater risk was harddrive failure and he should get a backup drive. He said Yes. Because of what's below** I lent him a 1.5TB internal drive and a BlacX caddy, and we connected it together and he bought and installed SuperDuper. I tried to look at the backup it made, but because I know so little about Mac, I didn't know if I was looking at the original or thte backup. But he continued to run SuperDuper, with scheduled backups. Months later something went wrong and his old in and out email was missing. He looked, he said, on the backup and it wasn't there either. Unless I've lost track, this is on the old Mac, right? That's older than the first Mac I ever bought, which is this Mac. LOL And I don't have enough knowledge about his system to get very specific. What I've learned since buying this Mac, both systems accomplish the same things, they just do it differently with fairly drastically different looking UI's, coupled with a totally different OS command set. But the bottom line is it's not always that much different from driving a Ford or Chevy when viewed from the average user's perspective. I don't run SuperDuper, although I was going to check it out when I was looking for an alternative to Time Machine. Time Machine is Apple's back up program that appeared in 10.5 Leopard, it will not work in 10.4 Tiger. I purchased a competing program to SuperDuper, but never got it installed. But I do use Time Machine, and from what I understand, Windows 8's File History is MS's version/answer/whatever to Time Machine. From what I see Time Machine do, it's really just an incremental backup system that runs far more often that people have traditionally set up their backup software to do. There seemed to be a chance that it had run and made the backup just like the original, no email. But it wasn't scheduled to run. I didn't know what to say or do. A month ago when my harddrive started clicking, I rushed to get my HD and caddy back to make full backups. I looked at the drive first and it had no partitions. I'm not stupid enough to give it to him that way, and he's not technical enough to delete a partition (but the subject is a sore one with me, even though we talked often and he hasn't complained again, so I haven't asked him.) NTFS and the Mac's HFS filesystems are completely different animals. Apple apparently introduced the ability to read NTFS drives in Tiger, but even today, OS X (AFAIK, I'm not running the current OS X Yosemite), Mac's cannot write to NTFS drives. Using 3rd party software, you can. I've not looked recently, but I've not found anything in Windows land that will read Mac formatted hard drives. I'm completely guessing here, but based on your next paragraph, you gave him an NTFS formatted drive. When the Mac wouldn't write it, he may have formatted it HFS for the Mac. When you got it back, Windows threw in the towel, because it cannot read/write/format HFS formatting. So to you, it looks empty. If you haven't done anything to this drive yet, you could download Gparted, the version that boots from a CD. I think it will read HFS drives, but have never looked to see if it really can. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php Then I found out that Mac and MS have no partition designs in common. And I don't remember partitioning the drive at his house. I'm sure I checked this before I gave the HD to him, but even if I didn't, how could we/he run SuperDuper without its complaining that it couldn't write to the harddrive. It didn't complain at all. And I know it gave a list of drives to choose one for the To: drive and the external drive was on the list. What happened? At the moment, I don't have enough info to know, only to guess at possibilities. 1. Perhaps SuperDuper automatically formatted the destination or your friend told it to do it. 2. Was SuperDuper configured to back up everything, or is the default to just back up some things? Did you friend change the configuration? 3. Have you looked at the drive using a Mac to see if there's anything on the drive? There's just so many possibilities for a problem. Take Time Machine, for example. While it will show me any NTFS drives/partitions, it cannot back up an NTFS partition. So while I can read, write, and format both NTFS and FAT drives (combo of OS X features and 3rd party software), I only have HFS formatted partitions attached to my Mac. snip -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 33.1 Thunderbird 31.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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bought non-wireless priinter by mistake
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:57:02 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote: On 12/10/14 7:48 PM, micky wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:48:34 -0500, Fred McKenzie wrote: In article , micky wrote: Oh, and an Ipad. Micky- Next you will find that the iPad will not print to the USB printer, even though it is on the network. The iPad uses the AirPrint system, which only works over Ethernet or WiFi, NOT USB. Ugh. I should have asked Fred in my reply to him if this applies to all iPads, or just some of the older ones. There are iPad Printing Apps that can get around the problem (PrintCentral for example), and Apps from various printer manufacturers (BTW, this reminds me. He doesn't have an apple laptop after all, I think. He has an apple ipad, or whatever by apple is called a tablet. I don't like to be pushy in helping him, because every guy likes to do things themselves if they can. Plus I don't know much about apple stuff. I'd like to learn, but on someone who is more desperate than he is.) The iPad is Apple's tablet, and there's a smaller version called the iPad Mini. Thanks. that work with their printers. However they can not be used from within other Apps unless they have an "Open In" or "Open Using" option. They have their own web browsing, mail and photo functions to enable printing. There are also programs that run on your computer to share its printer as AirPrint over the network. The computer must be turned on any time you want to print from the iPad. He might be leaving it on anyhow. I wouldn't do that but I don't tell him he shouldn't. And from what you say, it might turn out to be a good thing. I'll keep the words AirPrint in mind. Fred |
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