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checked it out. While it does play the numbers... 907 Views / 2 Replies  
checked it out. While it does play the numbers 'bigger', that advantage is completely offset by the fact that the app pretty much takes up the entire screen and you can't minimize the size of the...
Posted by Filmo, on Oct 12, 2012 at 04:35 PM, in macOS
Larger Quicktime Frame Counters for viewing? 907 Views / 2 Replies  
In both Quicktime Player 7 and the current Quicktime Player (v10) the current frame position is given by an HH:MM:SS counter in the lower left of the controller bar.

Unfortunately, it's in...
Posted by Filmo, on Jan 9, 2012 at 03:30 PM, in macOS
Thanks for the info regarding Toast. We're... 846 Views / 3 Replies  
Thanks for the info regarding Toast.

We're most interested in read/rip capabilities in particular. For example, we often use Cinematize Pro to rip videos off a disc. Aside from RAM and CPU (4GB on...
Posted by Filmo, on Sep 8, 2011 at 09:05 PM, in macOS
Multiple External DVD drives? 846 Views / 3 Replies  
Sorry if this is an obvious questions, but is is possible to attach multiple external DVD burners/readers and have them all do distinct operations?

For example, with 3 externals, could we copy...
Posted by Filmo, on Sep 8, 2011 at 07:17 PM, in macOS
Booting from Firewire - Western Digital Disk 1,446 Views / 6 Replies  
I've put a Western Digital 320GB WD Caviar Blue drive into a OWC enclosure and am having problems getting it to act as an external boot drive.

I read that certain External WD drives are not...
Posted by Filmo, on Jul 9, 2010 at 09:16 PM, in Mac Desktops
I'll give TechTool a shot, but frankly if it is... 1,483 Views / 6 Replies  
I'll give TechTool a shot, but frankly if it is the problem, then the computer is a throw-away as I can buy a used working version on ebay for like $200 bucks, so why bother paying apple to fix it.
...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 30, 2010 at 06:44 PM, in Mac Desktops
Nothing else attached. USB mouse and Keyboard, no... 1,483 Views / 6 Replies  
Nothing else attached. USB mouse and Keyboard, no PCI cards or firewire.

Even tried pulling OUT the DVD drive and just booting with only the HD disk in the machine.

When I installed from the...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 30, 2010 at 05:59 PM, in Mac Desktops
Power Mac Dual 2.0 G5 - freezes 1,483 Views / 6 Replies  
My girlfriends computer is driving me crazy.

During operations, she got a that multi-languaged screen that dims the rest of the screen and says basically "You need to hold down the power button...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 30, 2010 at 04:25 PM, in Mac Desktops
Thanks everybody. I found AIC on my MacBook Pro,... 1,915 Views / 8 Replies  
Thanks everybody. I found AIC on my MacBook Pro, copied it over and everything now seems to work.

Not sure how it 'disappeared' from there in the first place...

The link provided by reader50...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 28, 2010 at 04:45 PM, in macOS
We're using QT Pro 7.6.6 on Max OS X 10.5.8 ... 1,915 Views / 8 Replies  
We're using QT Pro 7.6.6 on Max OS X 10.5.8

The AIC component is NOT in the Library/Quicktime/ folder !!

Not sure why this would be.
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 28, 2010 at 03:00 PM, in macOS
Getting Apple Intermediate CODEC without FCP? 1,915 Views / 8 Replies  
A client has sent us files encoded in the Apple Intermediate CODEC.

We don't have Final Cut Pro.

How do we get the CODEC installed on our machine in order to be able to view the files?

I...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, in macOS
I opened console today and am finding this error... 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
I opened console today and am finding this error in the crash reporter section:

Process: mds [57476]
Path: ...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, in macOS
Sorry, 'Share-1' is 'FileServe2' (forgot to... 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
Sorry, 'Share-1' is 'FileServe2' (forgot to anonymize it.) I've edited the post to reflect the change.
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 24, 2009 at 03:28 PM, in macOS
Here's what I get when I use your ls command: ... 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
Here's what I get when I use your ls command:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Jun 24 08:52 /Volumes/Leopard_Boot -> /
drwxrwx--- 3 root admin - 102 May 3 14:23...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, in macOS
Digging Deeper, I see the Volume permissions are... 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
Digging Deeper, I see the Volume permissions are set like this:


drwxrwxr-x+ 28 root admin 1020 Jun 21 14:50 FileServe1
drwxrwxr-x@ 16 root admin 612 Jun 22 18:09 FileServe2

Not sure...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 23, 2009 at 08:28 PM, in macOS
Spotless is useless on Leopard Server. 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
While I'm sure Spotless works okay on Leopard Clients, there's not much to recommend it for Leopard Server. It doesn't seem to play nice or recognize the distinction between shares and entire...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 23, 2009 at 07:22 PM, in macOS
Spotless for 10.5... 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
Spotless for 10.5 (http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/spot2/index.php)

Not sure how spotless works with Server, but I'll take a look. Anybody out there a Spotlight Pro??
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 22, 2009 at 07:44 PM, in macOS
Spotlight Problem on Leopard Server - not indexing 3,078 Views / 9 Replies  
Hi,

I've got Leopard Server 10.5.7 installed on a XServe.

There are two volumes besides the boot volume. They are internal and not firewire/usb/etc. In fact, they are three separate logical...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 22, 2009 at 05:39 PM, in macOS
Those apple ipod one are hardly compressive... 555 Views / 3 Replies  
Those apple ipod one are hardly compressive training on how to configure and admin a leopard server. They're more like 2 minute intros to "here's a neat feature" and that's about it.

Some of the...
Posted by Filmo, on May 4, 2009 at 03:21 PM, in macOS
Leopard Server 10.5.x Training DVDs 555 Views / 3 Replies  
Anybody have any experience with the various Leopard Server Training DVDs out there? Any recommendations of one learning series over another?
Posted by Filmo, on May 3, 2009 at 07:34 PM, in macOS
Here's a substitute I've found that seems to work... 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
Here's a substitute I've found that seems to work okay.

Quicksilver (http://www.blacktree.com/)

Added my Tiger Shares to the Custom search part of the program and can now search for files on...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 07:49 PM, in macOS
Yes. Further reading has lead me to the same... 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
Yes. Further reading has lead me to the same conclusion.

Is there a way to turn off 'spotlight' in leopard so that it defaults to simple folder search like did on Tiger for Shares?

Currently it...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 07:22 PM, in macOS
I agree that it's not working. I tried using the... 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
I agree that it's not working. I tried using the '-a' command to apply indexing to all volumes, but the index for the Shares doesn't seem to be working.

sudo mdutil -E -a

Should have erased...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 06:53 PM, in macOS
I'm not worried about Leopard Updates at this... 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
I'm not worried about Leopard Updates at this point. Unless I can get the Spotlight working, there won't be any further Leopard Client upgrades. Frankly our Tiger server is stable, so we see little...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 04:58 PM, in macOS
Update on Spotlight 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
Update:

Okay i used

sudo mdutil /Volumes/missing_share_name -i on

To start indexing on the Share that wasn't showing any results, from this tip here:...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 04:49 PM, in macOS
How do I do that? (Keep in mind that the... 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
How do I do that?

(Keep in mind that the Server is Tiger 10.4, not a leopard server). The hints i've found for turning on Spotlight on the Server do not seem to apply to Tiger 10.4 servers, but...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 04:07 PM, in macOS
I tried that. It does not work by file name... 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
I tried that. It does not work by file name either.
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 03:53 PM, in macOS
Searching Tiger Server (10.4.x) Volumes from Leopard (10.5.x) 1,000 Views / 13 Replies  
We're upgrading our clients to Leopard.

Our office server is Tiger (10.4.x)

Main thing I've noticed is that when you open a finder window on a Tiger Share volume, and then type in the first few...
Posted by Filmo, on May 1, 2009 at 03:39 PM, in macOS
I've placed an old G4 we had lying around into... 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
I've placed an old G4 we had lying around into Target Mode. The G5 server recognizes the main drive in the G4, but not the DVD drive. I'm now installing OS X Server 10.4 onto the G4 main drive....
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 07:54 PM, in Mac Desktops
Forgot to add, I've tried starting up the server... 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
Forgot to add, I've tried starting up the server with the "option" key held down and the firewire drive plugged into both the 800 port and 400 port. No love. It doesn't show up as a selectable drive....
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 07:17 PM, in Mac Desktops
Problem seems to lie with the process of mounting drives/partitions. 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
Okay FYI, Target Disk Mode does not work if you are using a Megaraid PCI raid card, particularly on the G5 server. It goes into the Target mode, but then looks on the SATA bus for the drives (which...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 07:08 PM, in Mac Desktops
I'm installing OSX Server onto a Firewire drive... 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
I'm installing OSX Server onto a Firewire drive now. Hopefully that will work. I'll post back once I get a little further along.
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 05:26 PM, in Mac Desktops
Disk utility is saying that everything is fine... 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
Disk utility is saying that everything is fine and that no repairs are needed. But it won't mount the volumes.

Disk Warrior gets to step 8 of the repair, but I'm not able to preview the repair and...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 02:37 PM, in Mac Desktops
Update - Still need help! Diskwarrior not working 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
Hi, ran Diskwarrior 4. It said it successfull built a new directory but that the new directory cannot replace the original directory due to a Mac OS services failure.
...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 02:11 PM, in Mac Desktops
Partition not mounting 2,079 Views / 10 Replies  
G5 Server with 3 1TB Drive set up in Raid 5 configuration conrolled by Megaraid G5 controller card

Set up as two Logical Drives

Logical Drive 0 is the drive (single partition) with the system...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM, in Mac Desktops
Yes, it needs the update. 1,262 Views / 3 Replies  
As I mentioned, these are all updates that show up when the Software Update is run. (I'm assuming that Software Update knows which updates are needed.) They did not install from the Software Update,...
Posted by Filmo, on Dec 30, 2008 at 09:15 PM, in macOS
Software Update not Working 1,262 Views / 3 Replies  
We have a G5 Server running the Server version of 10.4.x OSX

We're not using the Software Update Server. This is a problem with the normal Software Update that is accessed from the Apple Menu.
...
Posted by Filmo, on Dec 30, 2008 at 03:07 PM, in macOS
G5 XSERVE Apple Drive Module Capacity 929 Views / 1 Replies  
Hi,

I'm buying some empty drive trays for a G5 Xserve.

What is the maximum size drive I can put in the trays (ADM). I'd love to use three 1TB drives in a RAID 5 configuration, but read...
Posted by Filmo, on Aug 12, 2008 at 02:36 PM, in Mac Desktops
Tiger Server 10.4 and Perl DBI and DBD::Mysql modules 748 Views / 0 Replies  
It strikes me as strange that the default install of Tiger Server does not include these crucial Perl Modules.

I've tried Fink and compiling from scratch but no luck getting them to work.
...
Posted by Filmo, on Jan 29, 2008 at 02:44 PM, in Developer Center
I'm downloading it directly from Parallels at... 1,960 Views / 3 Replies  
I'm downloading it directly from Parallels at this link:

Download Parallels Desktop for Mac (http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/)

I've downloaded it a couple time and the DMG always...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 18, 2007 at 01:15 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
Problems with Parallels 3.0 Build 4128 image. 1,960 Views / 3 Replies  
Hi, I pre-ordered the upgrade. At the time they sent me a authorization for 3.0 to be followed later by the download.

Didn't get the download by e-mail (or link to), so I went to Parallels site...
Posted by Filmo, on Jun 15, 2007 at 10:40 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
Okay, so the consenus seem to be more is better... 1,125 Views / 5 Replies  
Okay, so the consenus seem to be more is better than less... :)

Anybody got a good connection on 2GB 200-pin memory sticks? Seem to be in tight supply/very expensive.

Currently I've got (1)...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 20, 2007 at 09:53 PM, in Mac Desktops
Memory Suggestions - 17" iMac 2.0 Ghz - Matched Pairs Advantage?? 1,125 Views / 5 Replies  
Got a 17" 2.0 Ghz Intel iMac that came with 1.5 GB of RAM.

I'm runing Parallels and whenever that's open, everything becomes 'sluggish', apparetnly it's quite the memory hog.

So, do I simply...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 19, 2007 at 02:37 PM, in Mac Desktops
Automounting of Mapped Network Drives 1,211 Views / 0 Replies  
I've mapped a network drive to my Parrelled version of Windows XP.

\\our-MAC_OSX_server.int\Sharepoint

And selected the 'connect' with different login/password so as to use our accounts...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 8, 2007 at 09:39 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
Coherence and Windows XP sleeping 1,112 Views / 1 Replies  
I've got Quickbooks Pro running in Coherence mode on an iMac, which is totally awesome!

The only bug I've noticed is that when Windows XP goes into 'sleep' mode or whatever it's called (where it...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 6, 2007 at 07:43 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
got it. Used "System Restore" under... 5,836 Views / 6 Replies  
got it. Used "System Restore" under "assessories"->"System Tools"

Rolled back to when the driver was attempting to intall and now it boots.

Redid the "upgrade Tools" and now everything works...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 5, 2007 at 07:51 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
I've put it in 'safe mode', but don't know how to... 5,836 Views / 6 Replies  
I've put it in 'safe mode', but don't know how to 'roll back' the video driver.
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 5, 2007 at 06:55 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
Parallels Upgrade Problem 5,836 Views / 6 Replies  
Upgraded Parallels to 3186. When I then opened my Windows XP Pro virtual machine, it said my Parallels Tools was out of date and to update. I did and during that process it came up with a hardward...
Posted by Filmo, on Mar 5, 2007 at 06:54 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
That sounds like a good tip. Thanks. 1,473 Views / 12 Replies  
That sounds like a good tip. Thanks.
Posted by Filmo, on Feb 27, 2007 at 11:34 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Secure Flash Drives for Mac OS X? 1,473 Views / 12 Replies  
Want to get one of those nifty little flash drives you put on a key chain. Seems like some of them offer on-drive encryption, but close inspection reveals that it seems only an option if you use them...
Posted by Filmo, on Feb 22, 2007 at 10:18 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
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