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I downloaded Mountain lion and got all the new features except mirroring? Went to setting and box was checked for mirroring when available but I still get no mirror button. Any ideas?
Depending on the age of your iMAC, you may not get the "mirroring" functionality. Lifehacker.com offers a solution called airparrot.
Or, it could simply be that you have no device live on your network that can accept the mirroring (Apple TV 2 or newer with very latest updates).
mac is a year old, have up to date software on apple TV 2 can use airplay from iTunes on mac just can't get mirror button?
Have you enabled it on your Apple TV 2? Check in the settings there. I assume you have also turned it on in the System Preferences, Display prefs on your Mac.
airplay in enabled system preferences(display) has checkmark in box that says Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available?
OK, so you have that side of it. How about your Apple TV? Is it enabled there? Are they both on the same network?
how do you check to see if you are on the same network apple tv is enabled i can play music from mac to tv
Check to see which network your Mac is using, and which your Apple TV is using. See if they are the same. If the Apple TV can play music from your Mac, then they probably are. Not sure why you aren't getting mirroring, then.
I've got the same problem, mirroring not recognizing my Apple TV while iTunes can play to it. I assumed mirroring was more than previous airplay. Am i wrong or do i have a glitch?
Make sure you have it turned on in Display Prefs. Make sure AirPlay in on in your Apple TV. Make sure your Apple TV is running the latest software. Make sure they are both on the same network. If that all doesn't work, it might be that your Mac is too old to support this feature.
You seemed to be able to open Text Editor and be right at the a screen where you could see your text documents and select one. The only way I can get to this screen is to first open a text document and then click on Save As. How are you getting to this Text Editor screen without first having to open a text document?
I believe I just answered my own question. I had a text document that was never closed, so when I launched Text Editor it would open that document and another new one. Once I closed that text document (File-->Close), and then clicked on Text Editor I got the screen you got.
Or, just use File, Open.
Hi Gary,, should we be deleting the Messages Beta before putting on Mountain Lion
or will installation of M.L take care of replacing the Beta?
I wouldn't delete it. The MLion update should update it.
Hi Gary
Getting some odd mouse pointer behaviour with Mountain Lion. Twice now the pointer has dissapeared behind a window. It is then possible to move it out from behind and it then stays visible. The last time this happened was when i opened a Firefox window.
My custom mailboxes disappeared. There is no "on my Mac" or "iCloud" designation. No bueno amigo!
Hi Gary,
I'm currently running 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) on my MacBook Air. Would now be a good time to update to Mountain Lion? I mean, if I leave it too long before updating, will it then become impossible?
Thanks,
~Corinna
Impossible? Not sure what you mean. Waiting won't make a difference in that respect, unless you wait so long that Mountain Lion has been replaced by OS X 10.9 and your machine can't run 10.9.
As far as a "good time to update" -- why wait? Say you use that MacBook for 24 more months. Would you rather spend $20 now and use MLion for 24 months? Or spend the same $20 6 months from now and use Lion for 6 months and MLion for 18 months?
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. How do I know what OS my machine will be capable of running in the future?
Although Mountain Lion looks great, I love using 10.6.8 ... it's very comfortable for me, so I don't really want to change.
So how do I know if my machine will or will not be able to run 10.9 when it comes out? And if I've upgraded to 10.8 in between, will that change things? I mean, could I upgrade from 10.6.8 to 10.9, or MUST I upgrade to 10.8 in between for 10.9 to work?
Thanks Gary.
We just don't know. There's no way to predict what the upgrade requirements will be for the next version of OS X -- even Apple doesn't know yet.
Corinna I know how you feel. I am tired of the constant need for Apple to come out with new operating systems. I am running Snow Leopard myself, which puts me two updates behind. What makes it more frustrating is that I have to buy Lion before I can upgrade to Mountain Lion (I clarified this fact at my local Apple store).
That's not true. You can upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. You just need to have SL up-to-date (10.6.8) so you have have Mac Ap Store. As a matter of fact, this is the ONLY way to update from SL to ML.
Gary...I can get the dictation icon up; and when I talk it acts like it hears me but it doesn't type my words...do I need to add an external microphone?
The internal works fine. If you see the levels change when you talk, you know it hears you. Perhaps your connection is having trouble -- it has to send the audio to the server and then get back the text. You have to hit "done" for it to do this, and then wait.
Okay...it worked when I hit done! Must have missed that in your video! What would I do without you?
Another question...iCloud tabs aren't working for me on my Mac...I have web pages open on both my iPad and iPhone and they aren't there when I click the cloud in Safari on my Mac...it just says "iCloud automatically shows all the open pages on my other devices"; and yes all devices have IOS 6.
Is Safari checked in your iCloud settings? On iOS too? I haven't tested this, maybe it isn't working yet for iOS.
Figured it out...apparently this feature won't be available until IOS 6 becomes available.
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/; which explains the new Mountain Lion Features, under the Safari section it displays "When you open web pages on your iPhone or iPad, iCloud Tabs makes them available on your Mac, too.6" Footnote "6" displays "iCloud Tabs on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch requires iOS 6."
Gary, hello how are you doing? I installed Mountain Lion this morning and after that I tried to do a backup with my spare hard drive but my machine doesn't recognize the HD. When I open Time Machine the hard drive appears but nothing works. Any clue???
Thank you very much.
Sorry, it is impossible for me to know what is going on without seeing it.
Hi Gary, When is the best time to download so that my printer and scanner will be able to function with this new app.?
Not sure what you mean. App? So you mean OS? Are you concerned that your printer and scanner will not work with Mountain Lion? First, if they both work with Lion, then I'd imagine they would work with Mountain Lion. But you should be able to check with the manufacturer of each to see. The big difference would be what you mean by "work." For scanners some people define work as if they work with regular software (Photoshop, Preview, Image Capture, etc). Other people define "work" as whether the custom software provided by the manufacturer works -- which is often not the case since manufacturers don't do a good job of updating those.
Hi Gary, am I going crazy or has Mac removed RSS search engine gone from my Mac Os X on its recent update? Thanks
Yes. RSS is gone from Safari and Mail. The App store has many good RSS apps.
Another great no waffle video, thank you.
Gary.....I was unaware that RSS would no longer be available in Mountain Lion.
Is there any way you know how I can recover the RSS feeds I was using in Mail and subsequently lost when I upgraded? I would like to use those feeds in another reader.
Thanks !
That's a good question. I don't know how easy it would be, but I suppose those might be on your Time Machine backup. Perhaps in your Library, Preferences folder? Maybe as one of the Mail prefs? Fish around in your TM backups to see and report back.
Gary....thanks for your advice. Unfortunately, it did not do the trick for me, but I did learn this one and it worked for me. I found all the old feeds I had on Lion and was able to find the feeds I wanted to use in Mountain Lion:
1. Go to Finder, type Command+Shift+G, and then paste ~/Library/Mail/V2/RSS/ into the search field.
2. To renew feed subscriptions (requires an RSS app): From the newly opened RSS folder, open the info.plist file. Look for the string following RSSFeedURLString, copy it, and then paste the string in to the new RSS reader.
Don
Yes, that's basically what I meant. But I thought that if the plist file was gone, then you could find that same file in an old TM backup. Glad to hear it was actually still there in the folder.
Hi Gary, unlike Growl which you mentioned, the new Notification Center does not allow addition of third party software, only Apple software. Specifically, I was hoping to get it to alert me to new emails, but given I use Thunderbird instead of Mail, I cannot add Thunderbird. I could do this with Growl, though Growl has issues of its own, where it does not alert me to new emails in Thunderbird, even though it's configured to. I was most disappointed when I found this out as it was one of the main reasons I upgraded, as I do not use Cloud, nor do I have an iPhone or iPad.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you and everyone of this if you didn't already know.
Not true. Third-party developers CAN use the MLion notification center. But the developer has to add that functionality. In your case the developers of Thunderbird have added that capability for Growl, but not yet for OS X notifications. OS X notifications are less than a week old, whereas Growl has been around for years, so give them a chance -- or maybe contact them and let them know you want that feature.
Thanks for that clarification re Thunderbird Gary, I guess I'll just have to wait and see what developers add this functionality to their apps.
Hi Gary, i have a problem with the iCloud tab on safari...when I try to open it, it doesn't show the tabs open on both my iPad and iPhone..Do i have to set something so my icloud will open in my safari?
You have to wait for iOS 6 to come out for this to work across Mac and iOS.
thanks a lot!
I noticed you are able to re-order reminders in the new Mac OS App. This was a big miss in the iOS app for me. I assume they have the feature in iOS 6. Have they announced which devices will be able to run iOS 6?
Yes. On the ios 6 page at the Apple site they have a list at the bottom: iPhone 3GS and newer, iPad 2 and newer.