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Trying to boot OS X snow leopard from external hard drive, but not showing up as a startup disk
As the title says, I'm trying to boot from an external hard drive, but for whatever reason it isn't showing up under System Preferences>Startup Disk. I saved about 211 GB of data onto my external hard ...
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How can I disable the startup sound on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6? [duplicate]
How can I disable the startup sound on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6?
I have tried using Psst (deactivated now because it didn't work)
And also the Startup Sound Preference Pane:
Looks like Psst works for ...
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Mac OS X: Difference between start-up times
In Mac OS X (10.6.3) there's a big difference in the time it takes for the computer to become responsive when you either start up your computer from cold, or or when you log out and sign in as a new (...
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Where does Snow Leopard store per-user StartupItems?
I have several startup items shown in my "LoginItems" preferences. But, when I look at my ~/Library folder, there is no StartupItems folder, and the global /Library/StartupItems folder does not ...
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Run AppleScript on startup (background)
I want to run a apple-script on Mac OS X on startup.
The script shall run during the complete lifetime of the user session.
What is the best solution to do this?
My Script:
on idle
do shell ...
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Snow Leopard won't reboot after recent Security Update
This has happened to me after a recent Security update from Apple. Went to restart, and Mac just hung for ages with pinwheel spinning. Eventually turned off at back of Mac Mini. Trying to reboot and ...
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Why is svn trying to start when I log in? How (or even should) I stop it?
I upgraded my Tiger install to Snow-leopard last night.
All went fine except every time I start the machine, I'm told that svn requires Rosetta. I already know what Rosetta is and why I might want to ...
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