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buy 3 get 1 or free ??
Hi all, i haven't had time yet to read all the pages in this thread so pardon me if this has been asked before.
I bought 3 bundle's and was expecting that i would only have to pay for 2, but by the time i had orderd and i read it again, i thought ok may they mean i will get a 4th bundle for free ;-).
My question is, does anybody know how this works, i'm being charged for 3 bundles on my card but i only have recieved serials for 3 bundles and not 4.
I tried emailing the people from macupdate 2 days ago but stillhave no reply from them, so i'm sort of stuck now.
What can i do to get any more info?? Thanks in advance for that ;-).
Then an other thing , i tried the iVolume3 sound app, and my macpro went completly bezerk within 3 minutes.
I restarted the mac and then tried again, and i saw what the problem seemd to be, it was eating my memory in a big way.I have 8 gig's installed and from the moment i start iVolume3 i can see the free ram ( in menu meters) go down from 7,2 gig free to 800mb free within 3 minutes.
Once i stopped iVolume3 the eating of the ram stopped but did not get free i had to restart again for the problem to get fixed.
The strange thing was that when my machine hang the first time, the whole screen was frozen ( probably because of the ram thing ), i tried if i maybe could connect with my macbook to the macpro with screen sharing to see what happend, and gues what, i could close down all the programs and restart my mac pro without having to push the power button for a hard restart.
I was very surprised that this worked, it seems that it was not the total machine that hung , but just the part that connects y keyboard and mouse to the interface or something like that, since i could use the Mac pro just fine when i was logged in to it with screen sharing.
I of course wrote to the developer about this problem too and just like with macupdate , i have no response wath so ever.
It could be of course they are getting 1000's of mail at the same time and that that is the reason why i haven't got any reply yet , but i wonder if the people that put this bundle together bother to try out the apps they put in it, because , well you see my problem ;-).
Drive genius worked perfect i did not expect that much of an increase in system speed after defraging my drive, it was a joy and a beautifull made interface too.
I haven't had time to try any of the other apps yet.
But i have had some experience with virus barier in the past but that was no joy at all, and i had to litteraly erase my HDD to get it completley unstalled so i think ill stay away from that one for now.
I hope read some experience with the app in this thread , may things have become better by now, it's possible ;-).
Greetings , Data.
Hi all, i haven't had time yet to read all the pages in this thread so pardon me if this has been asked before.
I bought 3 bundle's and was expecting that i would only have to pay for 2, but by the time i had orderd and i read it again, i thought ok may they mean i will get a 4th bundle for free ;-).
My question is, does anybody know how this works, i'm being charged for 3 bundles on my card but i only have recieved serials for 3 bundles and not 4.
I tried emailing the people from macupdate 2 days ago but stillhave no reply from them, so i'm sort of stuck now.
What can i do to get any more info?? Thanks in advance for that ;-).
Then an other thing , i tried the iVolume3 sound app, and my macpro went completly bezerk within 3 minutes.
I restarted the mac and then tried again, and i saw what the problem seemd to be, it was eating my memory in a big way.I have 8 gig's installed and from the moment i start iVolume3 i can see the free ram ( in menu meters) go down from 7,2 gig free to 800mb free within 3 minutes.
Once i stopped iVolume3 the eating of the ram stopped but did not get free i had to restart again for the problem to get fixed.
The strange thing was that when my machine hang the first time, the whole screen was frozen ( probably because of the ram thing ), i tried if i maybe could connect with my macbook to the macpro with screen sharing to see what happend, and gues what, i could close down all the programs and restart my mac pro without having to push the power button for a hard restart.
I was very surprised that this worked, it seems that it was not the total machine that hung , but just the part that connects y keyboard and mouse to the interface or something like that, since i could use the Mac pro just fine when i was logged in to it with screen sharing.
I of course wrote to the developer about this problem too and just like with macupdate , i have no response wath so ever.
It could be of course they are getting 1000's of mail at the same time and that that is the reason why i haven't got any reply yet , but i wonder if the people that put this bundle together bother to try out the apps they put in it, because , well you see my problem ;-).
Drive genius worked perfect i did not expect that much of an increase in system speed after defraging my drive, it was a joy and a beautifull made interface too.
I haven't had time to try any of the other apps yet.
But i have had some experience with virus barier in the past but that was no joy at all, and i had to litteraly erase my HDD to get it completley unstalled so i think ill stay away from that one for now.
I hope read some experience with the app in this thread , may things have become better by now, it's possible ;-).
Greetings , Data.
Can you provide a step by step you went thu to get Drive Genius to work? I keep getting the "Red X" not allowing me to work on the O.S.
tia
I just run the installer for the app on my machine, and downloaded the DMG file wich you can burn to a dvd with diskutility for the bootable dvd.
Nothing special realy.Drive genius only works of course if the disk with the OS you want it to work on is not the disk you started up from, that's why you should burn the DMG to a dvd so you can start up from that and then reapaire/defrag your boot drive.
Is there a way to "Gift" an individual app like MacHeist did? I only need LittleSnitch and would like to see if someone wants to sell just that app to me.
Thanks for bringing me this great offer. Im also looking for holiday promo for database products. Glad to know that Navicat is also running a special offer for the mac community...this one offers 20% discount for all its MySQL/ Oracle/ PostgreSQL Database Management products and Java IDE Editor. This special lasts for a week and gives me enough time to evaluate before buying a license.
You can change your password by booting from the Install DVD that came with your computer. The option is under the Utilities menu.
"Union Island" is in the list of countries, "Ireland" is not. And "Dublin" in the "United Kingdom" required a five-digit ZIP code. (I used 90210, the only ZIP code I know.)
It took me three attempts to buy the bundle because my address was rejected until I found settings that worked.
It took me three attempts to buy the bundle because my address was rejected until I found settings that worked.
If it makes you feel any better, I had to enter my info three times until it worked, and I'm in the U.S. Anyway, I'm glad I did it - even though I won't use all the apps, the bundle is easily worth $50.
I just bought the bundle. The main reason why I bought it was for MacGourmet Deluxe (for my wife). We downloaded the demo a year ago and she loved it. I figured paying for that program by itself was $44.95 so the extra $5 will get me a lot more software to use.
Well here is my experience with the software so far. I defragged my main drive with drive genius and it made it through the process fine but then my computer would not boot. The hard drive couldn't be repaired by booting from the drive genius disk or the apple disk utility. Thank god for Time Machine/Time Capsule. It took over 24 hours for me to be up and running again but I formatted and installed the system software on a new drive and restored from Time Machine. It took a couple of days to get everything back to normal.
My second bad experience was about a week later. I started getting a -10810 error. I couldn't open the majority of my programs and eventually none of them would work. I did some research and found that some virus protection software has been known to cause the problem. I was able to disable the virus software and trash a couple of cache files and now everything works fine.
I was excited when I first purchased the software but I definitely wouldn't do it again. It ended up costing me several days of work. I hope others have a better experience.
My second bad experience was about a week later. I started getting a -10810 error. I couldn't open the majority of my programs and eventually none of them would work. I did some research and found that some virus protection software has been known to cause the problem. I was able to disable the virus software and trash a couple of cache files and now everything works fine.
I was excited when I first purchased the software but I definitely wouldn't do it again. It ended up costing me several days of work. I hope others have a better experience.
Yes, that makes me feel better.
I am just wondering because I thought everyone used standard lists. Why would Ireland be missing on a standard list that even includes individual French departements?
Drive Genius killed my Mac!
Warning - back up before you try anything fancy, as always. I tried to defrag my drive with Drive Genius, and my mac and drive became inoperable. Apparently I was the true genius that missed the "not compatible with RAID drives" - I use Apple's hardware RAID.
Drive Genius identified my drive as a RAID according to the icon, but went ahead and spent hours defragging it, supposedly completing successfully. The volume became completely corrupt, Drive Genius 1st told me on a verify that there were overlapping extent trees or something, but I was unable to duplicate that result. It later refused to even look. Booting got me in an endless reboot loop. I'm hoping Apple's RAID Card utility will bring life back to my RAID, it currently says "viable" on the verify and appears to be attempting to rebuild, otherwise Time Machine here I come!
I am sorely disappointed - the manual defrag section doesn't say its incompatible with RAID (as some of the other ones do, e.g. shred), and the program sure didn't try to stop me either. What a pain, hope I get it all back soon but its going to take a while. Of course, this was the main reason I bought the bundle....
Warning - back up before you try anything fancy, as always. I tried to defrag my drive with Drive Genius, and my mac and drive became inoperable. Apparently I was the true genius that missed the "not compatible with RAID drives" - I use Apple's hardware RAID.
Drive Genius identified my drive as a RAID according to the icon, but went ahead and spent hours defragging it, supposedly completing successfully. The volume became completely corrupt, Drive Genius 1st told me on a verify that there were overlapping extent trees or something, but I was unable to duplicate that result. It later refused to even look. Booting got me in an endless reboot loop. I'm hoping Apple's RAID Card utility will bring life back to my RAID, it currently says "viable" on the verify and appears to be attempting to rebuild, otherwise Time Machine here I come!
I am sorely disappointed - the manual defrag section doesn't say its incompatible with RAID (as some of the other ones do, e.g. shred), and the program sure didn't try to stop me either. What a pain, hope I get it all back soon but its going to take a while. Of course, this was the main reason I bought the bundle....
Good thing I don't plan on using Drive Genius. I have never defragged any of my Macs and everything has worked fine so far, so I don't plan on changing it.
I de-fragged with Drive Genius 2 and it wouldn't boot after it reported successful. Standard Leopard install with a 320GB hard drive. I purchased the bundle mainly because of this app and the first try it corrupted things which is quite disappointing. At least Norton under Windows always worked.
Time Machine saved me after 6 hours restoring and I won't be trying that again.
Time Machine saved me after 6 hours restoring and I won't be trying that again.
I have had pretty much the same experience has you. I had bought 3 of them thinking i would get a 4th set of serial numbers, Misha from macupdate said they would work with me to get the 4th set but i haven't heard back from them, but after reloading both my macbook pro and my mac pro, from defrag errors, the -10810 errors and little snitch completely broke screen sharing for me. So at this point i am pretty much done with the bundle.
also, don't defrag time machine drives. my data was still there but time machine would not complete the restore so i had to manually move it back over.
Keyque and default folders are cool apps that i probably would not have tried other wise.
Ben
I'm sorry to hear that other people have had the same issues I did but at least it lets me know that it is a problem with the apps and not user error. It's pretty sad that a program made to improve the performance of your hard drive can completely cripple it. I move a lot of large files around and thought it would be a good idea. It was either the virus software or snitch that started dragging my computers performance down until I got the -10810 errors. I have both of them turned off now.
I guess the lesson is if it's not broke then don't try to fix it.
I guess the lesson is if it's not broke then don't try to fix it.
Anti-Virus on the Mac. HA. Put a Virus in Windows and it goes crazy. Put that same virus in OS X and it'll just cry itself in a corner, confused on what to do.
You are so wrong. Mac OS X controls 8.9% of the market. Windows controls 89.6%. Hackers get a lot more from 89.5% of internet users than 8.9%. Mac OS X doesn't have a built-in Anti-Virus or built in security or awesome structure or whatever. Stop thinking Mac OS X is G-d or is like 10 years ahead of Windows because if that were true, Windows wouldn't control almost 90% of the market.
I'm not saying Macs suck I'm just saying that they're not 10 years ahead of Windows or 5 years ahead, they don't have a structure that protects the Mac from viruses, and also, Windows doesn't suck.
Same thing for Internet Explorer: it controls 70% of the market, and not 89.6% because of Firefox, not Safari. Safari controls only 7% so you can't say Internet Explorer sucks as a fact. You can state your opinion but you can't say that your opinion about Internet Explorer is a fact.
This happened to me. Just keep referring to the link sent you with your receipt and they will magically appear in a day or so. If not, contact MacUpdate. Some of the developers were having server issues.