Has anyone else tried setting up an encrypted drive?

Wow, what POS software comes with this thing!! It claims to be Leopard and Time Machine compatible.

After installing "Freecom Hard Drive Pro" software, for which there is no updated version for OS X since last year's version on the freecom.com support website:

- it enables the "backup" button on the HD, which, rather than triggering Time Machine, seems to back up independently from TimeMachine. I stopped it as it was apparently copying stuff over to a different location than Time Machine

- the only reason I bothered to install the software was to use encryption. After installing the software, the manual instructs the user to press the "Encryption" button. This brings up: "you don't have an encrypted partition set up yet" (good). Then click "Configure" / "Modify Encryption":

"UNKNOWN EXCEPTION GETENCRYPTION" :eek:

From there it goes downhill!!

Freecom didn't notice this minor detail????????

Perhaps I am being too harsh and someone can come to my rescue with a good pointer? Please!!

I have kalyway 5.4 on my Dell inspiron 1300 laptop and sometimes it boots up to leopard, and sometimes it doesn't(it just gets stuck at the blue screen)Can anyone explain this? leopard is the only OS on my hard drive.
Thanks
~Endrien

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am running OS X 10.4.11 on a "Santa Rosa" (Late 2007) MacBook. I bought it with 1GB of RAM. A few weeks ago I purchased 4GB or RAM. I installed it correctly. I then upgraded to Leopard. I was unsatisfied with the enormous RAM usage so I downgraded back to Tiger. The only thing I don't get is in the Activity Monitor for Tiger it shows I only have 3GB of RAM. But when I go to Appe>About This Mac, it says I have 4. In Leopard it also showed that I had 4GB RAM in the Activity Monitor. So, how to I enable that last GB of RAM in my activity Monitor?


-Any help is greatly appreciated

Auteur: a href=http://www.freeplayer.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofileu=47911 target=_blankpomme85/abr / Sujet: Configuration sur Mac OSX Leopardbr /br / span class="postbody"Bonjour, br / br / Je suis sur Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5, je suis connectée à la Freebox en Ethernet et le mode routeur est activé. J'ai donc ouvert le port 8080 sur la freebox mais malgré ça je ne peux pas me servir de Freeplayer. Sur la TV quand je veux cliquer sur quot;Se connecter au Freeplayerquot; rien ne se passe, je peux seulement sortir... br / br / Que faut-il faire de plus ? br / br / Merci img src=http://www.freeplayer.org/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif alt=Smile border=0 / /spanbr /

I have a unibody Macbook 2.4 with 4GB RAM, running the latest version of Leopard (10.5.5). In activity monitor, I see each process has uses virtual memory of over half a gig, with a total VM size of over 40GB. :eek: Is this normal? Is all this virtual memory eating space on my hard disk? Why does each process require so much virtual memory? Is all the software on my Macbook, bloatware?

The attachments show what I am saying. Do others also have similar VM statistics?
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My situation. Two Apple computers, one iMac 2.8 Ghz and one MBP 2.16 Ghz, both with 10.5.5, an Apple TV 160GB (with 2.3 software) and Airport Extreme (7.3.2 software). The AE is @ 5Ghz with 802.11n only (I got cordless speakers @ 2.4Ghz, so I chose the 5 Ghz for the AE)

I hooked the iMac to the AppleTV which is in the living room, next to the Airport Extreme. Streaming HD-content on my AppleTV is surprisingly smooth (as it should be imho).

However, when I use AirTunes on AppleTV, after a few minutes the iMac gets disconnected from my AE, leaving me without any internet connection and music from AirTunes. I have to 'disable' airport and then 'enable' it again to get my internet connection working again. However, it will disconnect again a few moments later. However, all the time this is happening, the WiFi internet connection on my MBP and iPhone is working flawless.

This is driving me crazy, to say the least. Here's what I've done so far
- Used the MBP for streaming to airtunes: same problem as with the iMac. The internet connection drops on my MBP, while on the iMac and iPhone, it's still working flawless
- Changed 5 Ghz to any available mode on the AE (802.11n with b/g; 2.4 Ghz).
- No wireless security
- No MAC-address security
- Reset the AE
- Shut down all the interfering appliances (such as my mobile phone and cordless speakers)
- Reinstalled OSX Leopard on my iMac (the MBP is a work-based machine and I refuse to reinstall it for some airtunes problem).
- Reset the AppleTV

All without any luck. The internet connection dropped twice while writing this post and, like I said, this is really driving me crazy. I haven't always had this problem, so I'm inclined to believe this is a software problem. However, my software knowledge is quite limited: other than the things I tried I have no clue what to do.

So any help is greatly appreciated.

I am trying to enumerate the contents of a directory. The code I use is this:

Code: int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
       
        NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
        NSString *fs2OpenDirectory = [@"/Volumes/MECOS/GAMES/FreeSpace2/FS2_Open-20080717_trunk.app" stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
       
       
        NSDirectoryEnumerator *dirEnum = [fm enumeratorAtPath:fs2OpenDirectory];
       
        NSString *file;
        while (file = [dirEnum nextObject]){
                [dirEnum skipDescendents];
                //NSDictionary *fileAttr = [fm fileAttributesAtPath:[fs2OpenDirectoryContents objectAtIndex:i] traverseLink:NO];
                NSLog(file);
        }
   
    [pool drain];
    return 0;
} However, the result I am getting is that some folders are missing from the enumeration! Here is my result:

Code: 2008-11-22 14:05:02.421 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] .DS_Store
2008-11-22 14:05:02.425 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] bluePlanet
2008-11-22 14:05:02.426 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] data
2008-11-22 14:05:02.426 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] derelict
2008-11-22 14:05:02.427 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] ereg
2008-11-22 14:05:02.427 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FreeSpaceOpenInstaller.jar
2008-11-22 14:05:02.428 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2_Open 3.6.9 (debug).app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.430 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2_Open 3.6.9.app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.432 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2_Open-20080717_trunk (debug).app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.435 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2_Open-20080717_trunk.app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.439 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2_Open-Xt_1208.app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.441 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2_Open_0414.app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.442 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2MissionsCRCs.txt
2008-11-22 14:05:02.444 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] FS2OGGcutscenepack.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.444 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] fs2uninst.dll
2008-11-22 14:05:02.445 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] fsport
2008-11-22 14:05:02.448 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] Installer
2008-11-22 14:05:02.450 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] launcher6.ini
2008-11-22 14:05:02.451 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mp-710_adveffects.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.451 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mp-710_effects.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.452 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mp-710_models.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.452 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] multi-mission-pack.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.457 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] multi-voice-pack.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.458 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mv_adveffects.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.458 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mv_core.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.459 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mv_effects.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.460 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mv_models.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.461 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mv_music.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.461 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] mv_textures.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.462 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] old FS2_Launcher 4.app
2008-11-22 14:05:02.465 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] patchw32.dll
2008-11-22 14:05:02.467 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] root_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.468 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] smarty_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.469 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] sparky_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.469 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] sparky_hi_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.470 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] stu_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.470 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] tango1_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.510 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] tango2_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.528 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] tango3_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.529 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] tangoA_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.530 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] temp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.531 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] tools
2008-11-22 14:05:02.532 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] Transcend
2008-11-22 14:05:02.533 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] Uninst.isu
2008-11-22 14:05:02.533 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] warble_fs2.vp
2008-11-22 14:05:02.534 foundationtooltest[1409:10b] Warzone Below is the image which shows the contents of the specified directory. You can clearly see that some folders are missing such as "testdirasdasdasdasdas" . I am using leopard and Xcode 3.1.

Can anyone help?
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Hey guys,

Atm I am using Safari on my main user account and it works perfectly. I can go on to my other account and use it perfectly. I want to be able to run the two at the same time on one user. I found out how to do this:

/su (user)
-Prompts for password-
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOs/Safari

Until recently this has worked and I have been able to use both Safari's but now whenever I try it comes up with an error message:

pc-1-37:~ Rob$ su Shared
Password:
bash-3.2$ /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOs/Safari
2008-11-22 11:34:15.240 Safari255:10b No Info.plist file in application bundle or no NSPrincipalClass in the Info.plist file, exiting
bash-3.2$

Any ideas how I can corrects this guys?

All help appreciated!

MacOs X 10.5.5/Safari 3.2.

I'm currently porting a library of effects (depth of field, glow, HDR etc.) from Windows to Mac OS and am looking to create floating point framebuffers in Cocoa. The documentation seems straightforward and I've setup and validated a hardware accelerated pixel format as follows...

// ID of main display - running MBP mid-late 07 with 8600M GT GPU with Leopard 5.5
CGDirectDisplayID display = CGMainDisplayID();

GLuint attributes[] =
{
NSOpenGLPFAScreenMask, (NSOpenGLPixelFormatAttribute)CGDisplayIDToOpenGLDisplayMask(display),
NSOpenGLPFAWindow,
NSOpenGLPFANoRecovery,
NSOpenGLPFAAccelerated,
NSOpenGLPFADoubleBuffer,
NSOpenGLPFAColorFloat,
NSOpenGLPFAColorSize, (NSOpenGLPixelFormatAttribute)64,
NSOpenGLPFADepthSize, (NSOpenGLPixelFormatAttribute)24,
NSOpenGLPFAMinimumPolicy,
0
};

NSOpenGLPixelFormat *fmt = [[NSOpenGLPixelFormat alloc] initWithAttributes: (NSOpenGLPixelFormatAttribute*)attributes];

if (fmt) {

printf("pixel format VALID!n");

// check details of returned pixel format
GLint noofVirtualScreens = [fmt numberOfVirtualScreens];

GLint colourFloatBuffer, colourSize, alphaSize;
[fmt getValues:&colourFloatBuffer forAttribute:NSOpenGLPFAColorFloat forVirtualScreen:0];
[fmt getValues:&colourSize forAttribute:NSOpenGLPFAColorSize forVirtualScreen:0];
[fmt getValues:&alphaSize forAttribute:NSOpenGLPFAAlphaSize forVirtualScreen:0];

printf("number of virtual screens = %dn", noofVirtualScreens);
printf("Colour Buffer = %dn", colourFloatBuffer); // 1=okay
printf("colour size = %dn", colourSize);
printf("alpha size = %dn", alphaSize);

[fmt autorelease];

}
else
{
printf("pixel format not valid!n");
}


I seem to get a valid pixel format with a 64 bit colour buffer setup okay. However, on rendering into a subclass of NSView I get nothing at all - just a white b/ground as if the context is not bound to the view. If I remove the NSOpenGLPFAColorFloat flag and set the colour size to 32 I get output as normal.

Has anyone else tried using floating point buffers on the 8600M and run into similar problems? I'm wondering if there are properies of the NSView that need to be changed?

Thanks in advance.

C

Hi guys

recently got my new 2.53 MPB (love it totally by the way)

I have just installed vista 64bit via boot camp but have found that there are problems with the drivers for the following

Ethernet controller
SM bus controller
Coprocessor

I have changed the driver for my graphics card but despite installing all the drivers from boot camp / leopard cd the above drivers are still not working

can anyone tell me when I can find these drivers thanks

I've used Disk Utility to format a USB memory stick as FAT32 so I can swap it between my MBP and various Windows boxes at work, but while Leopard has no problems using the stick and reports it as being a FAT32 volume, it appears to the Windows machines as being unformatted.

I've done a bit of Googling and this does seem to be a known issue with Leopard. Certainly, I never had this problem with Tiger.

I've got round it by simply formatting on a Windows PC, but just for reference, are there any known Leopard-based fixes?

I've been having all sorts of problems lately on my Macbook Pro. Things are starting to slow down. A restart doesn't fix it. I'm pissed off how Safari acts like it's running on the iPhone(before firmware 2.2 that is). It crashes like every 30 minutes or something. Even when I'm scrolling Macrumors.

Here's another thing. Whenever I click Restart from the apple menu, does nada. Only thing it closes is my iTunes. Safari, Mail, iCal just sit there.

Then, I manually quit the app but I have to force-quit mail every single time. Even when I'm not restarting. Mail works awesome and fetches my gmail and everything but it refuses to quit. I have to force quit at least 3 times for it to actually quit.

So, I'm thinking to erasing everything and do a clean install of Leopard. But before doing that, I wanted to ask if it is practical, because I have a lot of stuff on here so back up would take hours.

I mean, do users who do a clean install experience that new fast feeling?


P.S. My hard disk space is about 65 GB out of 200. Not too bad right? I don't believe that is the problem.
P.P.S: Running 10.5.5

Hi everyone!
i am newbie in this forum
i hope everyone can help me with my problem.

i try to install leopard 10.5 RC2 on my laptop
after i insert DVD then boot, it shows loading kernel proses
but it stuck at
"MAC framework succesfully initialized"
"Using 4580 buffer header and 4096 cluster IO buffer header"

please help me!
[IMG]D:Pichaton's Documentsleopard[/IMG]


my laptop is:
Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 1.46 Ghz
896 mb DDR2 RAM (128 mb shared for vga)
SIS Mirage 3 Graphic (SiS672 series)
SiS Chipset
80 gb HDD
matshita DVD-RW

sorry if my language is poor
Thanx for your attention.
mail me at pichaton84@yahoo.com

Well I finally managed to get the install of Leopard(I can't remember if it was Kalyway 5.4 or jas 5.4) but after installation, it boots up, gets past the apple logo and then goes to a blank blue screen with no cursor or anything and just does nothing. I've tried booting with -x -y and -v but it still has the same effect. Can anyone help?
System specs:
Intel Pentium M Processor 740 (1.73GHz/2MB Cache/400MHz FSB*)
512MB of RAM
Intel integrated Media Accelerator 900 graphics card
80gb HD
Thanks
~Endrien

Posted by Dennis Sellers

TidBITS Publishin has released ”Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard,” a 147-page ebook that explains how to sync data from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) with other Macs and a variety of devices from Apple and other companies.

Hi, all.
This is my first post, I recently bought a used MBA, I always want one when it first came out, finally wait until now because of the big price drop:)

My first mod to my MBA is to upgrade the hard drive.

I wasn't pay much attention when I purchase this replacement hard disk, didn't notice the MBA only takes 5mm height, as most 1.8" in the market are 8mm.

But since it's in my hand right now, I decided to put it on see if the MBA recognizes it.

Not too much surprise, leopard installation went very smoothly.

After the installation, the available space is about 95gb.

And because of the 5400rpm, it feels faster.

Too bad the bottom won't close because of the height of this drive.

But at least this gives me an idea, and I know there's a Toshiba 1.8" 120gb 4200rpm 5mm out there, and it should fits perfectly in MBA.

Anyway, I'm still debating myself rather getting this Toshiba drive or a Samsung 32gb SSD(Same drive as used in the Rev.A SSD version, but different capacity)
As the price of these two drives are pretty much the same (around $150 range)
I have another computer for my main work, so I'm toward getting a 32gb SSD:p

Here are some picture taken from the iphone.
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I am trying to figure out what the best way is to create a bootable DVD frm a DMG file?

Upon first purchasing Leopard 10.5 way back when it came out, I decided to back up the disk on my computer by creating a Disk Image. Turns out it was a good move because now that I need the disc, it seems to have picked up a big scratch on it's surface, and it simply refuses to mount at this point...

I can use either Toast or Disk Utility to accomplish this task (or the terminal if absolutely necessary, but I would really prefer using one of the GUIs I've just mentioned). I was hoping someone would be gracious enough to provide me with instructions on what would be the best way to create a bootable DVD from this DMG file...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

So, I had to do an emergency install of Leopard, and now I'm trying to get iTunes to find the music on my external hard drive.

I had stored my iTunes Music folder on the external drive before the new install. Now, when I point my new iTunes to use this folder as the new library location, nothing happens.

Do I need to manually drag my huge collection back into iTunes?

Thanks!

viJournal Lite 2.0viJournal Lite is a free lightweight version of viJournal. It's designed as an analogue of the good old-fashioned page-a-day bound diary - the kind you buy in a stationer's. You write your entries under dated headers and save them collectively by month and year. viJournal has many powerful features, all added in such a way that they do not clutter the interface or detract from the original purpose of having viJournal work like a traditional bound diary. Features:

• Optional file encryption
• Two optional layers of password protection
• Parallel notepad
• Multiple journals
• Export to RTF, HTML, PDF, MS Word

WHAT'S NEW

• Redesigned interface. New integrated Library makes it quicker, cleaner and easier to manage your journals, entries and security.
• Note that viJournal Lite now requires Leopard. If you need a version for Tiger, you can still download viJournal 1.9 from the SkoobySoft website.

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ok first of all, thanks to icchansan for all his help. he showed me the osx86 project HCL which didnt have my laptop on it. So what are my options now?

i have a sager np2096

centrino 2 2.53
4GB DDR2
nvidia 9600MGT
intel pro wirless 100
9 cell battery
blue tooth
intel robson 1GB
sigmatel sound
and a clevo mobo with an ICH9m bridge

anyone have anything to say? im really fed up with vista and i want leopard really bad yet, seeing as i work at ralphs as a bagger, i lack the financial base nessecary to purchase a MacBook Pro and i got the same notebook basically for $1600 vs. $2700. :fail
HALP! :woz:

I just bought a new Rev A. Macbook Air for my GF. I don't have it yet...

Currently she has a Powerbook 12" running Tiger.

She will want to do some very light file transfers. I don't see any real need to bother with migration assistant. Tranferrring her music, bookmarks, and address book are no issue for me. She barely has any apps worth transferring.

My only real concern is about mail, coming from Tiger to Leopard, and the fact that she uses a mix of email sources...MobileMe, Gmail, etc.

Setting up the accounts is not a problem, but I'm wondering about the actual message files on her Powerbook. After I set up her main user account on the MBA, can I just replace the mail folder in her home folder with the mail folder from her Powerbook? Some of the messages are IMAP, and some are POP accounts which she doesn't want to lose.

I did this very thing when I got a new desktop, but it was a Tiger - to - Tiger transfer, so I just want to check if there are any issues doing this from Tiger to Leo.

Thanks.

mcdj

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