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• Share files from Pages on the intranet in collaboration with?

  I know we can download our corporate records on iCloud and then everyone in the office can collaborate on them, but for reasons of backup and protection of personal information, we would prefer a lot to keep them in our box of Mac OS X Server. Is there anyway to work collaboratively on them, i.e. the iCloud OS X Server services?

  Experiment.

  Create a shared folder on your server and save your files and see what happens.

  Give the appropriate permissions.

  I read Apple and MacWorld summary of what is happening, is not precise enough to be useful IMHO.

  Also, I wouldn't trust all software Apple including 5 Pages or iCloud or nothing to do with iCloud, especially passwords you can claim. A recipe for disaster, from 5 Pages General incompatibility and ever-changing file formats as well as the imparsability of the. file format of pages when things go wrong, as they inevitably do.

  Have you looked at more reliable alternatives such as Google Docs or LibreOffice [free]?

  Peter

• How to clean of the Mac server permissions issue

  I'll have some very frustrating problems with permissions in the Group shared on mac server folders. When I create a new set of permissions at the top of the folder hierarchy and spread so it seems just create another copy permissions in all folders under the root rather than deleting the previous permissions and write those I want to set up. In other words, I end up with several sets of permissions by user for each folder and file.

  So the question I'm asking is how to clean all these permissions to all folders and files and start again?

  The main issues I'm having, it's that I have even with full administrative rights'm get denied permission to open files and save them to the server.

  My server is running OS X El Capitan 10.11.4, version 5.1 Server mac

  The simplest (and usually faster) is to clean up you permissions to use the chmod of the Terminal command.  If your ACL multiply in an uncontrolled manner (please not that some versions of Office for Windows, used to cause this) you can quickly delete all the ACL, and then start again.  To do this, follow these steps:

  1: stop all services of files to ensure that no one is change data while you work on it.

  2: remove all ACLs by using this command (replace with the actual path to the data):

  sudo chmod-r n/path/to/your/share

  This will remove all the ACLs for all files and folders/path/to/your/share and recurse to everything in the folder.

  Now, if you think that your POSIX permissions are Leech, you can also reset this with two orders of the handle.  To restore all standard directories umask, use:

  sudo find/path/to/your/share-type d - exec chmod 755 ().

  To restore all files standard umask, use:

  sudo find/path/to/your/share-type f-exec chmod 644 ().

  Note: Your permissions model may be more restrictive and some workflows rely on the limitation by POSIX.  If so, these commands do not be what you want.

  And there you have it.  The three commands above can remove all ACLs and set all folders to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and all files to 644 (- rw - r - r-).

  Once you reset data, return to Server.app > sharing or.app > server > storage and assign your permissions.

  Reid

  Apple Consultants Network

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Foundation Services.

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Collaboration & control»

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Advanced Services '.

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• Cloning of a Mac mini with application Server

  We bought a condo in Florida and I want to my server it doubles. I use Mac mini (2 different models) with 2 drives external (one for Time Machine backups) and one for data.

  What is the best way to install the Apple Server on Florida related to the Mac mini so I don't have to install it from scratch?

  Yesterday I tried (in vain) to use the Migration Wizard to move all of my Mac mini to the Florida-bound one. Can I use 3rd party app "Carbon Copy Cloner" instead?

  Any recommendations on how to configure the 2nd server would be appreciated.

  The replication server is a relatively trivial process and can be accomplished by using disk utility.  However, the source drive and the destination drive should not be active at the time of cloning.  For example, you have Master Mini and you want to be replicated on Mini replica.  The best way to do it with the included tools must start Master Mini from another disk that contains an operating system to start.  Then start the Mini replica in target disk mode and connect it to the Mini Master (already started from another drive).  Disk utility to clone the Master disk on the drive of replica.

  Ah, but cloning is the easy part.  The question I have for you is that you really want an exact replica?  The reason why I ask, is that your current server should have a name and a fully qualified domain name.  It's server.pauljohnson.com and it has a 10.0.0.10 IP address.  If you clone the device to another Mac, there will also be a name of server.pauljohnson.com and it has a 10.0.0.10 IP.  If two of your networks are configured on the 10.0.0.0/24 subnet then you won't be able to connect to each other.  Similarly, if you depend on external access to devices and must comply with DNS, then you can only point to one of the servers, unless you have a form of installation program to distribute the load between the two locations of load balancing.

  What services run you on the servers other than the Server Time Machine?  Do you intend to have a VPN tunnel between the two institutions?  If you use Open Directory, and DNS, you can configure master and replicas of the two services.  Of course, this should only be done with a tunnel VPN in place I would not recommend exposing these services to the internet.

  Then await you replicate data also?

  Start with a list of services and a list of expectations about how you want client machines work when moving from one place to another.

  Reid

  Apple Consultants Network

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Foundation Services.

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Collaboration & control»

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Advanced Services '.

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• Unable to save Mac screen captures to PDF more

  I used to be able to save Apple screenshots on a Mac in PDF format. I even had an app which allow me to choose the output on the fly format and also I would rename the PDF file and the location to be saved. He worked for many years (or so it seemed). Recently, I had to go back to this workflow and in El captain, the PDF save screenshots option seems to be deleted. I can't find the app on the App Store. Research on new applications to get PDF save capacity only provides applications with outputs of Screen Capture image.

  My workflow is that I generally capture screens (music) in PDF format, can combine unique screenshots in a PDF document and editorially mark upward. In general, I've used Acrobat Reader or even Acrobat Pro and occasionally, an excerpt. The team uses Acrobat and therefore the end result must be look great with annotations in Acrobat.

  New savings Apple of the screenshots is now PNG and Acrobat do not like these and will not let me import them in PDF format. I don't want to go to a 3rd party app to convert png to PDF. That's happened? Where is the PDF option?  Is - this another example of animosity Adobe vs Apple?  I even upgraded to Adobe Creative Cloud applications complete thinking that it would improve the material. Acrobat DC does not seem to do better.

  I also want to move the workflow of digital edition for iPad and iOS.  It would be nice to have everything together, including the integration of iCloud or DropBox for Mac/iOS compatibility and collaboration group.

  The iPad Pro and Apple pencil (with its ultra-fine tip) could do a great digital editing and the combination of editorial markup. This could be very exciting. However, because the group needs Acrobat for markup editorial, I think I still need screenshots of Acrobat PDF.

  Help! The popular alternative solutions or apps. Thanks in advance.

  PS - I tried to type this question into an iPad, and the police was white (so invisible). Wow.

  John

  What version of Mac OS were you using that allowed the registration of the screenshots as something else? I just checked our oldest work Mac, a PowerMac G4 OS 10.4 'Tiger' running and, when the tiger was the most recent thing 11 years ago, it is by default in .png. Each OSX release since records in .png. It is not new on El Capitan.

  Have you used a third party before capture app? Did you use a Terminal command to change the default format? This article shows how to use the Terminal to make the change in pdf format:

  http://www.MacObserver.com/TMO/article/changing_the_default_screenshot_format/

• Profile Manager: set default browser on managed Mac

  Run Server.app on OS X 10.10.5. Things are generally a lot. But there are two elements which, for the life of me, I can't find a .plist to:

  1. Default browser.
  2. Toggle natural scroll.

  We use Chrome, often against the guest account, which is annoying to always say the Mac Yes, 'make Chrome my default' over and over again.

  And most of my colleagues and students don't like "natural scroll" so I want that it by default.

  Google has failed me. Any help is appreciated.

  If you use the guest account, you are generating a file on each connection and destroy on every disconnection.  Why don't you just customize the template of the user so that it contains the values that you want to push?  Otherwise, you generate custom profiles that can be difficult to build.

  The default browser setting is stored in:

  List of ~/Library/Preferences/com. Apple.LaunchServices/com. Apple.LaunchServices.Secure.p

  The syntax of this file is a little funky, I suggest creating the file the way you want and then copy the plist in the model of the user.  For example, create an account on a machine.  Let's say the account is jeff.  You can use this command, once the file is created containing the default browser settings:

  sudo cp-r /Users/jeff/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices system/library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/

  This copies the entire com.apple.LaunchServices folder in the Preferences of the model folder.

  With respect to the direction of travel, it is located in the invisible. GlobalPreferences.plist file.  The key is com.apple.swipescrolldirection and you can set this value in the model of the user, allowing all instances of comments to inherit the setting.  An example of the command is:

  sudo write system/library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/. GlobalPreferences.plist com.apple.swipescrolldirection - bool FALSE

  If I remember, that a value will work for a trackpad and a magic mouse.

  I hope this helps.

  Reid

  Apple Consultants Network

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Foundation Services.

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Collaboration & control»

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Advanced Services '.

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• copy of the mac to windows server data

  Hi all

  My apologies in advance if this ended up in the wrong section of the forum, hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

  I work for a company that currently stores its files on an OS X journaled NAS device, connected to a Mac Mini via the lightning cable and the mac connects to the network via ethernet.

  We are planning a migration of large data (~ 18 TB) from a NAS device mac to format, on a Windows Server (like using NetApp storage solution / VM datastore)

  I wonder what could be the best application to manage the data transfer? In Windows environments, I used Robocopy or FTP and love it, but not really know on the side of Mac of things when it comes to data migrations.

  We have a paid version of ChronoSync we use to run our nightly backups to other NAS material - I see that this has developed in a few searches on Google.

  2 other products that pop up in my research are arRsync and SuperDuper - can someone comment or recommend these products?

  That's what I look for in an application to manage the transfer:

  -support to copy the attributes of file from the MAC world to Windows

  -support the recovery if the transfer fails / break

  -being able to provide a significant peace of mind summary when the transfer is complete (sort of like ChronoSyncs connect)

  -GUI based and have a nice interface

  -Be reliable to transfer large date - currently about 18 ~ TB

  Looking forward to hearing your comments, no doubt let me know things that I have to take into consideration during the planning phase or "traps".

  Matt

  So I'm going to bite and offers some advice.  Summer by this much (sigh).

  First of all, some of the things to watch for:

  1: naming.  Mac users in storage Mac can use any character that they want: and.  For example, my.file! @# $> That's so important # $123. .    can be a file name.  Cannot * REALLY IMPORTANT FILE!  Yes, there are spaces in the and at the end.  Yes, this will make panic window.  You need to do a review of the names of files and folders before you try to migrate.  Search for files that begin and end with the space character.  Beware reserved characters in Windows.  Clean your name prior to migration.  For more information, see here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx

  2: maximum length of the path.  Yes.  In this day of unicode several parts of Windows can only manage a path of the file system maximum of 256 characters.  See the link above.  If you arrive by a system of support for paths longer (like OS X and * nix operating systems) that you want to review the length of your paths.  Test, test and test again with all of your tools, including your backup software.  Make sure he can see both paths that exceed the API limit and also it is able to restore data in ways that exceed the length.

  3: SMB is always a nightmare.  Numeral ID of file crawling, to slow down the reading of the directory, to Hung Finder.  Your version of Mac OS will have degrees of success.   10.8 was a mess with DFS.  10.9 was a wreck of train with Windows cluster servers.   10.10 has huge issues with ID of file enumeration and periodic deadlock.  Yet once, test in your environment.  Get comfortable with the nsmb.conf file.

  4: do not leave your sleep of Macs.  Reconnect the AFP inactive supports.  To connect to a server, let mac sleep, wake can renegotiate the connection with the server (generally) volume.  SMB does not.  If your Mac to sleep with documents open on the part of the SMB, you are in a world of pain.

  5: Be prepared to not be able to find anything.  Research on the shared Windows resources has been a frustrating situation.  You will have taken in charge of Spotlight from the server so that you can use a directory to search like Find Any File trawling or be ready to manage Spotlight index on each workstation and hope for the best.

  Regarding the methods to get the data from one place to another, you must realize that there is a time constraint.  Using a 4 GB/min of transfer GigE, assuming that no problem and rule without interruptions, 18 TB of data will be 75 hours to copy.  Now, since it is a SAR passes to a Windows system, you probably won't get 4 GB/min so increase this number by 20%.  If the Windows Server on writing virus scanning, add another 10%.  If possible, the best advice I can give you is to do it in logical blocks.  Now, I don't know your data set, so this is not possible.  However, if you have several shares, move an action by end of week to ensure you have enough time to perform the copy and also to correct problems that may occur.

  About the tools, I have always used rsync because it allows the two detailed logging and works also in additional line.  Should we get disturbed for any reason, you can pick up where you left off.  Unfortunately, this isn't based GUI.  Also, the rsync 2.6.3 included with OS X is not sufficient to support all the features of file system.  I prefer to build a copy of the last branch 3.  I'll also include some of the patches as indicators of file and compression of hfs.  If it's just data, the patches may not be necessary.  If you need a GUI tool, CronoSync is correct.

  And finally, if you find that SMB on Windows is just too frustrating, there's Acronis access connect.  It is a supplement to the Windows Server native AFP and Spotlight.  Over the past years, I was faced with questions SMB through many versions of Mac OS X.  Of course, several questions are in corporate environments where I have no visibility to the configuration of Windows Server.  I have no idea what they are doing on these machines, but I don't know that OS X integration was harsh.

  I hope this helps.  Good luck in your project.  Test and test even more before putting forward your end-users.

  Reid

  Apple Consultants Network

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Foundation Services.

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Collaboration & control»

  Author - "El Capitan Server - Advanced Services '.

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• What is my MAC is infected with spyware or malware?

  Recently, I installed a network monitor (Little Snitch) on my MacBook Pro OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 race (15-inch, late 2008). I noticed a number of connections (to sites on the internet, including apple, google, mozilla, msn, etc.) by a "pandurated" program, located in the directory/Library/pandurated/happy/MacOS. Then, I checked the MAC activity monitor, which shows a process of "pandurated" with a user name "mijl". This "mijl" username is not saved on my Mac. Is my MAC infected with the malware / spyware?

  You can register here and ask. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac is a software developed by Thomas Reed, a collaborator of high level here for many years. In the past, there most likely would have found your question and responded to him directly, but he is now only looking at matter to ASC resulting from the use of this highly respected program (you should probably run - it works like a scanner after the global infection for Adware, malware and keyloggers, to see what he could come up with. It is completely safe and even recommended by Apple tech employees. It does no changes to the system and, should it find anything, gives you the choice of what to do next.) If you run it, or have any questions, there also a dedicated support forum.) He is quite knowledgeable and generally very useful.

• How Indesign works with Mac Mini OS 10.10.3 and also be compatible with CS5.5?

  Get a new Mac Mini OS 10.10.3. Looking to buy InDesign or CC, which is also compatible with the old Creative Suite 5.5 on network.

  Your only regular channel options are now a perpetual license for CS6, who will never see another update, or a subscription to CC (which also includes the CS6). You can open files CS5.5, either, but you need to export IDML pourUtilisateurs CS5.5 open. Collaboration with others using different version is a bad heavy workflow problems...

• Twitter Widget does not work in Captivate 8 (Mac)

  When I add the A3C widget to my lesson, check to add Twitter Collaboration, enter my Twitter handle and then click on register, I get an error indicating that the widget has expired. When I followed the instructions for sending an email to get the latest version, I get a bounce back. How can I get the latest version of this widget to make it work in Captivate 8 on a Mac?

  

  Hello

  Welcome to the Adobe Forums

  You can later download the Widget here: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/de077110-1e10-439c-b256-96b46e584254

  Note: Use Insert-> Widget in Adobe Captivate

  Thank you

  Gerard Vikram

  Adobe support

• Are Dreamweaver 6 Mac models trade recommended?

  Design of web sites with Dreamweaver 6 Mac learn right after a lifetime in InDesign and print.

  Going to a Web site for an environmental organization non profit which will be updated in collaboration by the photos and text including non-tech savvy authors.

  Wonder if I'm better off from scratch with a clean fluid grid DW page layout? Or purchase of a business model of DW for maybe $ 50 to $ 100?

  Concern that business models of DW will be fully editable (am a designer after all), might have incorporated advertising or indecipherable/confusing code.

  Ideally the site would have the purity and the simplicity of Wordpress, but have also a schedule update-able, lists and possible areas of worksheet.

  The current site is hosted by GoDaddyon not sure if any Linux operating system limits here? There '1 of 2' MySQL databases so I have to create a new PHP doc as opposed to fluid grid? Can I mix the two? I would like to upload files via FTP.

  Want all HTML 5 If possble. In the meantime I'll make some Dreamweaver tutorials. Have knowledge of CSS a few years ago, but need many fresh products.

  Thank you

  Print design has about as much in common with the design of web sites, because the leaves of tea to elephants.  Before to start building a web site (not for profit or not), you must learn the fundamentals of the environment that you are handling.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • and to a certain extent, JavaScript

  Away from business models.  You won't know how to work with them.

  Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an advanced level skill that requires very strong CSS skills and a good command of CSS Media Queries.   You can't really build RWD until you can first build a stable desktop available, fixed-width.

  HTML, CSS & Web Design theory tutorials-

  • http://www.html.NET/
  • http://w3schools.com/
  • http://www.csstutorial.NET/
  • http://phrogz.NET/CSS/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
  • http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/sessions/Web-design-theory/

  When you have a good knowledge of the basics, do this tutorial in 5 parts:

  Create your first web site in DW CC-

  http://www.Adobe.com/devnet/Dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1.html

  And much later...

  Responsive Web Design

  http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-Web-design/

  Introduction to CSS Media Queries

  http://www.Adobe.com/devnet/Dreamweaver/articles/introducing-media-queries.html

  CS6 (17 min video) fluid grid layouts

  http://TV.Adobe.com/watch/learn-Dreamweaver-CS6/using-fluid-grid-layouts/

  Creative cloud 12.2 grid improvements in fluid layouts

  http://blogs.Adobe.com/Dreamweaver/2013/02/updated-fluid-grids-in-Dreamweaver.html

  Step by step tutorial - fluid construction grid Layouts in DW CS6

  http://www.Adobe.com/inspire/2012/08/fluid-grid-layouts-Dreamweaver-CS6.html

  Good luck!

  Nancy O.

• Problem opening 9 pre project created on Mac Windows

  Hi, I've recently migrated from a Mac to Windows 7 and struggling to open my project files on the Windows computer. I created several PrE9 projects on my Mac, but now I need to open some of these files on a PC with Windows 7. I get the message error "the project is not compatible with the current version of first Elements". I opened successfully to other CS5 project files (, PS) on both platforms. It of the first I've seen Adobe files open on Mac, but not PC.

  So, assuming that this will be impossible, export the PRE Mac to Windows version? Cross-platform collaboration is impossible with pre 9? This does not seem likely. What Miss me?

  I have some title animations that I created on Mac I want really to reuse in new Windows projects, go ahead. I hope I don't have to recreate from scratch!

  Thanks for any help.

  Unfortunately, the project files created on the Mac platform are not compatible with the Windows version of the product, and vice versa.

  You cannot work on the same project file on a Mac and a PC. I'm sorry.

• Best practices: collaborate between Mac and PC

  Department of development for the Web of my not-for-profit organization is expanding - me on a PC using Dreamweaver and ColdFusion, me / PC more a co-worker in Dreamweaver on Mac.
  
  I'm looking for some advice from someone who did the development with a Mac and PC. Basically, I'm looking for "best practices" on how we work together, without spoiling each and other work. It will focus on aspects of the design of the projects: CSS, for example. I work primarily on ColdFusion coding that allows to make information in our databases .cfm pages.
  
  I am just afraid to get into a situation where he has made changes to a single version of a file and I have make changes to another - disaster! Otherwise, I'm worried (as he's a new guy... I've known him for about two weeks!) that his work could "ruin" pages that worked very well until he got his hands on them.
  
  Advice would be really appreciated. Because him and me have these complementary skills, this could be a great collaboration. I want to just make sure we do it as straight as possible from the get-go. -diane

  > I'm looking for some advice from someone who did the development with a Mac
  > and
  > PC. Basically, I'm looking for "best practices" on how we should
  > collaborate, without spoiling each and other work. It will primarily focus
  > on
  > aspects of the design of the projects: CSS, for example. I work mainly on
  > the
  > ColdFusion coding that allows us to extract information in .cfm pages
  > of
  > our databases.

  Consider using check-in/check-out option in DW.

  -Darrel

• Why my notes sync between my Mac and iPhone?

  I have my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks and my iPhone is running iOS 10.0.1 and used to synchronize my notes! Is it because of the huge gap in operating systems? I SHOULD update my Mac to Mac OS 10.10 + for this problem? Thank you!

  In order to synchronize Notes between your Mac and iPhone, you must configure iCloud > http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/

  But this requires macOS Sierra 10.12, the latest available version and the last iOS available for your iPhone.

• How can I tell Siri on Mac who I am

  When you use Siri on my Mac, he thinks I'm my partner. How can I change the contact information so if Siri knows who I am?

  You must select the card that you want your card and use it card ➙ do this sheet my sheet menu option:

  

  Siri will use this card.