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BTW, Snow Leopard client version works quite well in Parallels, if you follow some simple instructions.

YDD,

That is a really good question. Perhaps TrueCrypt?

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/22/storing-data-in-the-cloud-with-dropbox-and-truecrypt/

Thanks - TrueCryt might well be just the thing.

Crypt, even.

Parallels spams its users... while they're using Parallels. I guess that's why they can sell it so cheaply in those Mac app bundles. Obnoxious. Anyway, if you want to turn off the ads, enter this in Terminal:

defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES

Is there anybody left running 10.6? Just in time for 10.8, this week I upgraded to 10.7 and in so doing broke a few command line tools. To recover one of them, I need this file from 10.6:

/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenCL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libclparser.dylib

Could one of you with a 10.6 install send me that file at alan.lehman@gmail.com

Much appreciated.

Sent.

Thanks!

My wife's attempt to juggle (metaphorically) three laptops has ended in failure; triple the platforms, triple the risk. Her circa 2005 MacBook Pro has had what seems to be a logic board failure. On booting, it chimes and reboots endlessly. No change with SMC reset or PRAM reset. Doesn't boot far enough to boot from recovery partition, USB, or DVD. It's been backing up to Time Machine, so I'm not too afraid of data loss.

My thought is to get an external Firewire case, and put the MBP's drive into it to use with her 2009 MBP. All of her music and photos are on that drive. I'm not sure that there is room for them on the 2009 MBP. I don't know how the heck she'll preserve her existing playlists and albums, unless there actually is room to transfer them bodily onto the newer machine.

Anyway, not asking any particular question, but if anybody has thoughts that might improve the process (for me, not for amusement potential), I'd love to hear them.

Have you tried using it in target disk mode via Firewire?

Yes, it doesn't boot far enough. It literally reboots right after the chime. If you let it sit, it just chimes every 5 seconds until you shut it down with the power button.

JW, that sounds like the faulty motherboard issue I had on my old MacBook (white, non-Pro). That was a known issue at Apple, so even after it was out of AppleCare, they replaced the motherboard.

In other news, I'm finding that if I upload through Transmit files and folders to my server, I get 403 permission problems when I try to access the web pages i'm making (http://www.twoangstroms.com/TCRproto/shoutify/ is an example). Oddly, older folders such as http://www.twoangstroms.com/TCRproto/ are okay. I'm sure I didn't change any server or Transmit settings -- how to I rectify this?

ddt

The parent folder must have the wrong permissions, and when you create child folders, they are inheriting the permissions from the parent.

That's what I thought, but I did a Get Info on the parent folder, saw it had read/execute okay, and made sure all child folders did, too.

In fact, I created the shoutify folder, dragged files into it, couldn't load the site. I can load the TCRproto site, so I dragged the shoutify folder into that -- can load the TCRproto/index.html, but 403 on TCRproto/shoutify/index.html.

ddt



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John,

Assuming you managed to extract the hard drive from the dead 2005 MacBook Pro and get it into an external enclosure, you can essentially make that external drive the holder of iTunes media. On the 2009 MBP open iTunes -> Preferences -> Advanced and you can change the location of the iTunes Media folder to point to the Music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder in her old home folder on the external 2005 MBP hard drive. If you copy the iTunes Media Library.xml and other sundry files from her 2005 MBP home folder/Music/iTunes folder and replace the files in the 2009 MBP home folder/Music/iTunes I think you will keep all the playlists and other preferences from the 2005 MBP. I would make a backup of all the current files first so you can recover if it all goes horribly wrong. If the iTunes versions are vastly different on the 2009 and 2005 MBP the formats and even file names may have changed slightly. I have done this in the past and had some success. Of course if the external drive is not connected she won't have access to her media library, but I'm sure you are aware of that.

Hope this helps.
Benton



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Thanks, Benton, that's very helpful. Both of her iTunes ought to be relatively current.

You can buy a Cavalry USB adapter from Amazon. It is functionally identical to the Seagate GoFlex technology and reputedly makes it, except instead of a drive you get a snap together shell. I bought a USB 3.0 for use with the Retina. It cost $23.98 including shipping

I've already ordered a shell from Newegg. I'll look at the cavalry for next crisis.

Nice thing about the Cavarly/Goflex is that you can use it with any naked SSD drive, just plug it in the ass and off you go.

(one sitting behind this monitor....NAKED!)