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• Can not play videos Quicktime in Snow Leopard - no plugin available

  There is no plugin available for OS 10.6.8 Quicktime (Snow Leopard). How to view movie trailers who keep telling me that Quicktime is not installed?

  When you select:
  
  
  Firefox-> Preferences (Mac)
  
  Tools-> Options-> Applications (Windows)

  you will see a list of the requests for assistance that Firefox uses to the opening of other content. In the list in the Action column, you will be able to choose an action for a specific file type. For type .mov files, if your Quicktime Player appears as an option in the list, try to select "Use Quicktime Player", and then restart your browser.

  If she does not appear in the list, try to select always 'request', and then later questioned, should be an option "open with...". "and then you can navigate to the Quicktime program to select on your computer.

  Once you have used an external program like this, Firefox will remember your choice and it must appear in the Options-> Applications column. Then, when you click on a link to a file with the extension .mov file, the file opens in Quicktime Player, rather than trying to use the plugin.

  Some sites to look for signs in your browser of the Quicktime plugin and are .mov files if the plugin is not detected, which is unfortunately wrong programming of their share, but you can leave your comments on these sites.

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• at El Capitan Snow Leopard

  I can buy Snow Leopard and load it on an external drive, then go directly to El Capitan, or what I have to go through updates of Lion Lion of mountain etc. Just, I intend to run it from the external drive.

  Yes, you can now buy leopard and upgrade straight to el capitan.

  as long as your machine can be considered.

  OS X El Capitan - technical specifications

• "Add a printer" window does not display DeskJet 6988 in Snow Leopard 10.6.1

  I have a DeskJet 6988 printer that is connected wireless to my home network. I have two Macs, two Snow Leopard running that allows to connect to my DeskJet 6988 Hello impression. After the upgrade, the "Add a printer" window would not show my printer. I installed HP v2.1 for Mac OS X printer drivers (available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907) and also tried to reconnect my printer with an ethernet cable.

  Message edited by aburks on 09/19/2009 11:19

  I was able to manually add my printer by following these steps:

  -Install Mac OS X 10.6.1 using the software update

  -Install the latest drivers from HP printer from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907

  -Open System Preferences and go to the "Print & Fax".

  -Click the "+" button in the lower left corner of the window of preferences "Print & Fax".

  -Click the icon of the "intellectual property" at the top of the window "add a printer".

  -Select "HP Jetdirect - taken" in the "Protocol:"drop-down box.

  -Type the IP address of your printer in the "address:"field.

  -Make sure that the "print using:" drop-down list reads ' HP Deskjet 6980 series ' "»

  -Click on 'Add' in the lower right of the window "add a printer".

  Your printer should work! The key ingredient is to select 'HP Jetdirect - taken' in the 'Protocol' drop down box, I tried "Line Printer Daemon - LPD" and it did not work.

  Message edited by aburks on 09/19/2009 11:20

• Firmware does not install on Mac OSx Snow Leopard

  Hi all:

  I have a C4580 All in One Printer and I have a MacBook running snow leopard 2006 model. My printer does not fundamentally answer to one of the buttons on the face of the printer. I found that there is however an update critical for the firmware in the downloads section, when I run the firmware update, it won't go past the agree page. It just says: Okay then nothing.

  Y at - it something I'm doing wrong with that?

  Thanks for any help or advice on this subject,

  Paul

  Well, I found out what I have to do.

  I found the answer to my question already in this thread,

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/Mac-printing-and-scanning/HP-Photosmart-C4580-firmware-update-glitch/m-p/149284#U149284

  I hope this helps someone else.

• Hi, how can you get the latest OS for my not supported 13 '' Macbook Pro Snow Leopard?

  My MBP mid of 2009 was stationed for a while after some battery problems. After the age so I decided to solve the problem, but now I can't update to the latest OS El captain.

  Thank you

  You should be able to if you have the latest version of Snow Leopard. What version, specifically Mac OS X you have? i.e. 10.6.3.

• AE CS4 does not open with my install Snow Leopard

  I just finished install Snow Leopard and a new installation of my CS4 Production Studio, everything works accept for AE. It bounces just on the departure of bar, then stops. Nothing more. No idea why?

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• Could not open the Photos after Snow Leopard update to El Capitan

  I have an iMac 3.06 GHz, which has been updated to El Capitan on January 15. Most of the things were going well with the transition, but it seems to be "stuck" now between iPhoto and photo - I don't know how else to put it, but I can't open the Photos. When I click on it in the Dock, I get the attached screenshot. It has been like that for several years I did the update to El Capitan. At first, it seemed that iPhoto has been migrated correctly to Photos during the update. But then, after clicking on my backup external to iPhoto, it appeared that if the migration process began all over again.  I now have the image shown on the attached screenshot. He's been stuck on '50% complete' for several days. When I try to stop the Photos I get: "Can't leave the Photos when creating or opening a library."

  After doing some checks for similar problems in previous posts, I was clued in to take a look at my Applications folder. And here, it lists the following multiple iPhoto libraries:

  iPhoto Library... January 15, 2016 (Date last opened)

  iPhoto Library - old... January 15, 2016.

  iPhoto Library - old... January 29, 2016.

  iPhoto Library - old... November 26, 2015.

  iPhoto Library... November 25, 2016.

  Clearly - even for me! -something is all fucked up here

  There is no attached screenshots - to attach a picture click on the camera icon in the top bar of the new message window

  What format is the external hard drive? Is this a Time Machine backup or EHD are used by TM? How the EHD are connected to your Mac?

  And you should not have iPhoto (or pictures) libraries in your applications folder - they should be in your pictures folder

  One thing to try is force quit Photos (File menu ==> force quit), and then drag the iPhoto library you want to migrate the Photos icon in the Dock (if it is in an appropriate place on an appropriate disk)

  LN

• CHKDSK will not stop. When re-starting pc it goes back into the chkdsk command. When I try to boot in SafeMode (f8) happening in chkdsk. In addition, the CD/DVD does not work so I can't reinstall XP.

  After installing windows update was the CD/DVD drive on my Dell desktop computer was not recognized.  I downloaded drivers from Dell.  My pc has stopped and went into blue screen mode.  I don't have the error codes.  I got into safe mode and tried to run chkdsk.  Now, it is in a loop constant chkdsk.  It restarts automatically and run chkdsk again.  I interrupt to start safe mode by pressing F8, it gives me all the options of safe mode.  But after I selected one, it goes in chkdsk again and repeat the cycle.  In addition, given that the DVD drive is not recognized I have no way at this point to reload XP.  The only thing that I have access to are 'start-up' and 'set-up '.  I can change these settings, but so far nothing that I changed it helped.  Thank you!!!

  kag187,
  You need to access your BIOS (usually like F2, F10 or Delete at the moment it starts to boot, I must say on the screen).  Then set your boot order to boot with the CD player.  Then boot the XP disk.  If your system is not to see the player you have a hardware problem and nothing did\could from Microsoft, which would cause.  If the BIOS does not see your drive then ck with your OEM manufacturer for a firmware update or a new disk.

  Good luck QQ learn to deal!

• I have an icon that I can not delet I tried several times but it goes back

  the said icon _hiddenPbk I don't know how I got it on my desk can be is useful, but my computer is slow, because I got it.

  Hi felipku,

  I would check your system of viruses/malware. I suggest using some good antivirus programs check you the system. Here are a few options that Microsoft provides. You can also do a search on your search engine preferred for other popular antivirus programs. I suggest take a look at his post of post-it on the forums that has a list of antivirus programs proposed by others:

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistasecurity/thread/05e05fc2-e4eb-4A60-9384-7b1203941138

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• El Capitan will not install. Error message "file system check or repair a failure." Had to reboot with the snow leopard disc.  Any suggestion what happens?

  Trying to upgrade Snow Leopard to El Capitan.  El Capitan will not install.  Get the error message "failed to file system verify or repair.  Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. "After Setup could not restart without using the Snow Leopard disc (then to download all updates for Snow Leopard).  I tried reinstall and same results.  (in fact made three times)  I'm back to Snow Leopard 10.6.8... Any ideas what is happening.

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  Download Mavericks cannot be verified also applies to Yosemite.

• Snow Leopard update to El Capitan

  I need to upgrade my imac of El Capitan of Snow Leopard desktop (end 2008) 10.6.8 version. Read these forums useful to get advice, I do not understand some of the info/advice.

  I've been deleting old files and currently have 10.5 MB of available storage on the hard disk, the original mac hard drive.

  I have a 3 to backup (WD My Book for Mac) hard drive installed.

  Recently, I added 2 GB of memory for a total of 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRam.

  1. the same cloning to backup?

  2. If I have everything backed up on the external hard drive that automatically includes the old (current Snow Leopard) OS in case I need to go back or to be saved/cloned separately because I have seen recommended in the forums?

  3 partitioning?

  I read the recommendations to do a clean installation of El Capitan.

  Can I do this on the external hard drive?

  4 it is necessary to copy the old Snow Leopard and new El Capitan, as recommended, something about installing quit and dragging to the desktop.

  5 How long take to upgrade about once I start to download El Capitan?

  All the other advice that I missed would be greatly appreciated.

  Forgive me if I ask too many questions at a time. My problem to understand how to do without creating new problems is to find all the info in one place.

  And thanks to all those who help the rest of us who do not know these things.

  1. a backup copy of all of your computer includes all visible files but you would not be able to boot from it. A clone of the exact state of the hard drive backup and you can boot from it, or clone back again to restore a previous state. It is strongly recommended that you can return to Snow Leopard if you really pretty easily.

  2. Yes, if you make a clone.

  3 n ° operation of an external drive is slower. I should not do a clean install, because it will be wiping and after restore, your HDA drive. Partitioning, if you have enough space, may allow you to have both the old and new configurations available quickly, but it should not be necessary.

  4. this suggestion applies to the El Capitan installer that, left alone, will clear itself after installation. If you want to install on another machine is also good when you should leave as soon as it starts to install it and copy it to another location so that it remains available. None of this applies to Snow Leopard, which cannot be installed on disk.

  5. the download depends on your internet speed, and also how fast the server responds. I don't know about actual installation, but overall you must allow several hours.

• iPhoto was not installing with snow leopard

  I have an old 2007 MacBook on which I had to reinstall Snow Leopard.  I backed up, re-formatted, then re-installed to choose to NOT to reinstall the long list of software that I had had on the machine before.  When everything was done and I had recovered the data via the wizard migration, almost everything was back to normal, but has not installed iPhoto for some reason any.  How can I recover it?

  Install you from the original computer diskettes or an iLife DVD.

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• Leopard MacBook pro late 2008 - updated to update to snow leopard

  I have a macbook pro late 2008 with leopard on updated to snow leopard, which is the best upgrade, that I can do without problems?

  I upgraded to 8 GB memory and 500 GB MMX 200 ssd.  tTe upgrade was necessary because I installed el capitan and he absolutely killed my mac, so I got the diagnostics to find my drive was not hard.

  I'll reinstall leopard and use my snow leopard updated, but to what extent until I can go without problems over?

  In theory, it must be able to handle El Capitan. You can't really judge El Capitan performance enough if you ran it on a bad HARD drive.

  Your only real options stay with Snow Leopard, goes to the mountain, which is still fairly recent, Lion or El Capitan.  I think most people would say that Lion (10.7) alone is not worthwhile.  Mavericks and Yosemite are no longer available unless you already have a copy.  Mountain Lion is no longer receiver update but is not a fall to the same extent (yet) by the developers of software under Snow Leopard.  Some claim that it is the operating system more acceptable from 10.6.  You can always buy a download code for it.

• break-in Mavericks in Snow Leopard

  In April, I thought I spoke to by phone 6 Fusion vmware to virtualize my macbook 2009 end pro under snow leopard to a whole new macbook pro mavericks running by linking them with an ethernet cable after the installation of vmware.  The idea is that the machine of the snow leopard from 2009, with all its files and programs (so no need to reinstall the programs), virtualized on a brand new macbook pro mavericks, and I still have a 6 vmware fusion bookmark to a page which, in April, showed a diagram to connect two computers with a cable and saying it will now work with Snow Leopard to the Mavericks.  But now the link takes me to 7 merger with no diagram or information. I'm pretty sure that you can virtualize w / vmware an old windows xp pc to a new macbook pro installed Mavericks, but, as I said, since April, I really thought you could w / snow leopard too.  If no, what with snow leopard "Server" in a way that allows me to do what I want, without having to reinstall everything old software on the new macbook pro?

  Thank you.

  Stu22

  Hi Stu,

  SUMMARY:

  I have a number of programs that will not run on anything whatsoever beyond Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I need to open old files, data search, etc. These applications include Eudora (e-mail), Microsoft Office 2004 (which can open old Word and Excel files correctly), X (graphic) of the canvas, 4 final (musical notation) and more. I have run these programs to a guest from VMware Fusion running Snow Leopard Server.

  Here are a few thoughts that may help you when you are considering what to do:

  SNOW LEOPARD SERVER ON YOUR CLIENT VMWARE, NOT SNOW LEOPARD "CLIENT":

  Snow Leopard Server is running as a guest virtual machine but not the regular 'customer' of Snow Leopard version. The license for the 'client' (non-server) Snow Leopard version does not allow it. In addition, VMware imposes this restriction and allows only of Snow Leopard Server. There are ways to hack around the restriction, but why bother when Snow Leopard Server is so cheap? (See below).

  BUY SERVER SNOW LEOPARD FROM APPLE FOR $20 TODAY:

  You can always buy Mac OS X Server 10.6. 3 REV 1 (Snow Leopard Server, unlimited clients license). The price is $ 19.99. Order it by calling the Apple Store at (800) 692-7753 and ask for part MC588Z/a number. not all sellers will recognize what you want and will be able to find it, but don't lose heart - try again. I called and checked that it is always available since last night, November 26, 2014. It comes with Installation and Admin Tools DVD.

  ALL YOUR PROGRAMS RUN ON SNOW LEOPARD SERVER:

  Any program that runs on Snow Leopard 'client' will run under Snow Leopard Server. If you ignore the server components, in fact, there is no real difference.

  YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CREATE A HOST SERVER SNOW LEOPARD ON THE NEW MAC:

  Some new Macs have problems installing Snow Leopard Server from the installation DVD in a VMware virtual machine. Basically, the Mac OS X 10.6.3 installer DVD does not contain drivers for the latest Mac hardware. If you have problems, you may need to create the virtual machine of Snow Leopard Server comments in VMware on an older Mac, install the latest Apple updates (for 10.6.8 version), and then copy it to your new computer. You must run the Apple updates first on the old machine, so that your comments of Snow Leopard Server will get the drivers it needs to run on your new MacBook Pro.

  CREATE THE SERVER SNOW LEOPARD ON YOUR OLD MACBOOK PRO CLIENT?

  Maybe you have a copy of VMware Fusion version 5 running on your old MacBook Pro 2009. VMware Fusion version 5 is the latest version of the Fusion that runs under Snow Leopard. Create new comments of Snow Leopard Server on the old MacBook Pro, update the customer newly created to 10.6.8 on the old MacBook Pro version, then copy the .vmwarevm file to the new MacBook Pro. (Do not forget to delete the comments on the old Mac after copy you it to the new Mac, if you plan to use the Migration Wizard).

  WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN ON YOUR NEW SNOW LEOPARD SERVER COMMENTS:

  If it were me, I would first ask myself, ' do I really want my EVERYTHING old 2009 MacBook Pro running in a VMware guest? My answer would be, "certainly not!" I would just install these applications relatively little (and associated data files) that will not work on the new MacBook Pro with the Mavericks (or Yosemite). I named a few examples of applications in my SUMMARY, above. From my own experience, I set up new comments of Snow Leopard Server manually - install the applications 'fresh' and then copy the data files on the accounts on the comments of Snow Leopard Server. Yes, this means the set up the preferences for each application, but it is clean and it works. For the rest of your MacBook Pro 2009 applications, get the current versions and run them on your new MacBook Pro "native". Create VMware Fusion folders shared to move files back and forth between your new MacBook Pro (Mavericks/Yosemite) and guest of Snow Leopard Server as needed.

  MIGRATION-RELATED ISSUES:

  Let's say you want to move the entire 2009 MacBook Pro to a guest of Snow Leopard Server. Frankly, if it were me, I manually install all applications and copy all the data. Certainly, it would take a lot of time and effort, but it's the safest way to give a satisfactory final result.

  An automated approach would be to use the Apple's Migration Assistant. My experience with the Migration Wizard was not good. Whenever I tried Migration Wizard (with real Mac!), there were problems. I hope that your experience will be better; in fact, much better (eeek!).

  FIRST MAKE A BACKUP OF THE FILE NEWLY CREATED SNOW LEOPARD SERVER GUEST!

  If you start over, why go through the hassle of installing Snow Leopard Server and apply all the Apple updates, when you can just copy the file .vmwarevm to a backup first? Hello? (If something is wrong, copy the backup file and try again.)

  A good thing: If you have the time and patience, you can try different approaches to see what works. If something does not work as you like it, remove the VMware client and try something different. Here are a few things to think about...

  HOW TO MIGRATE YOUR MACBOOK PRO 2009?

  Let's say you have decided to migrate your 2009 MacBook Pro set to a Snow Leopard VMware guest. Suppose you have created a guest of Snow Leopard and it works now on your new MacBook Pro. Here are some considerations and approaches:

  * USE CARBON COPY CLONE TO CLONE THE MACBOOK PRO 2009 TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE?

  It's a good approach, but whatever you do will be VERY slow. Your MacBook Pro 2009 is compatible Firewire and USB 2.0. Your new MacBook Pro supports USB 3.0 (also 2.0) and Thunderbolt.

  FireWire is reasonably fast, but I've never seen an external Firewire drive which also has USB 3.0. External FireWire drives seem to have USB 2.0 only, which would be VERY slow attached to your guest of Snow Leopard Server. You can try to use a Thunderbolt/Firewire interface, but then you would have to treat it as a shared folder in VMware and exploring uncharted territory when it comes to file copy using Migration Wizard.

  In addition, I read complaints about the reliability of the Apple's Thunderbolt/Firewire interface. Maybe the problems have been fixed by now, but I don't know that I would trust that I could get a reliable copy of something far greater than a Mac together.

  * USE CARBON COPY CLONE (OR DISK UTILITY) TO MAKE A DISK IMAGE OF YOUR MACBOOK PRO 2009 FILE?

  An advantages of a disk image, it is that when it is copied to your new MacBook Pro, you can try to get Migration Assistant to work in different ways, based on conservation of the Snow Leopard Server prompt if you want to erase and start over. It will take a lot of disk space, however.

  You still have questions and a few tests before. You could get a Thunderbolt/Firewire interface, put your 2009 MacBook Pro in target disk Mode and use Carbon Copy Cloner or Apple disk utility to create a disk image file of it on your new MacBook Pro. (I would use CCC).

  The disk image and the host VMware files can be very large. You have enough disk space?

  You can create a disk image of the 2009 MacBook Pro on an external drive. Use Carbon Copy Cloner (or disk utility), but keep in mind the performance and reliability issues I described above.

  * RUN ON ETHERNET MIGRATION ASSISTANT?

  You alluded to this approach in your original post. Here is a link to a web page from Apple describing the process. Again, I think you will be pioneer territory unexplored here for the rest of us. Good luck! :-)

  http://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT4413

  If you decide to try the approach of Ethernet, then think about what follows:

  -Use Gigabit ethernet if you can. Otherwise, connect the two Macs. If you do not, copy speeds will be very slow.

  -You will probably need Network Adapter of the client server Snow Leopard VMware (VMware guest settings) in Bridged Networking mode.

  -If you connect the two Macs, you have to give (dedicated) fixed IP addresses on the same "subnet". It's three addresses IP - one for the 2009 MacBook Pro, one for the new MacBook Pro and the other for the Snow Leopard Server prompt. Go to the network settings in their respective system preferences. Don't forget to write their first original settings and put things back once the migration is complete.

  Common example IP set for you to use:

  192.168.0.250, 192.168.0.251 and 192.168.0.252; Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 router (gateway): 192.168.0.1

  192.168.1.250, 251, 252; Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 router (gateway): 192.168.1.1

  10.0.1.250, 251, 252; Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0; Router: 10.0.1.1

  I hope you have a lot of time and patience. Happy troubleshooting! Good luck!

  Post edited by: vmxmd
  Re-read the post and fixed the truncated sentence.