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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 353: Popping the Spinning Beachball!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2011

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

September’s second Mac Geek Gab Premium episode launches right into things with John and Dave helping listeners with questions about Spotlight filtering (including where it does and doesn’t apply), Mail issues (including attachments not auto-saving and rules going inactive), and a listener’s daughter who solved the spinning beachball her dad kept experiencing! All this and more on this very special Premium episode. Join now for just US$25 and get this episode and 2 extra episodes per month for 6 months. Support your two favorite geeks today!

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The Mac Geek Geek Cab number 353 Premium for Thursday, September 15, 2011. Oh, I Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab the show where well

0:30.0

you are a premium subscriber and we thank you for that.

0:35.0

Here in Durham, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:40.0

Here in Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

0:45.0

So, John, I got a new toy.

0:50.0

And it's something you don't know about yet.

0:54.0

A toy?

0:55.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:56.0

We, we, we, well we bought MacBook Airs for all the full-timers here at TMO, and I wasn't going to get one quite yet, but because I did a bunch of them, they gave me a deal on it.

1:09.0

And so I have an 11-inch MacBook Air now, which I got yesterday.

1:15.0

And it is by far the best laptop I've ever used.

1:19.6

I have, I've got ahead for a day,

1:21.0

so you know, there's still shiny new syndrome going on it but

1:23.6

but yeah it's fantastic and and knowing that at some point you know I got the

1:30.9

new I'mac and and so I had relegated my old Macbook pro to just being my travel machine

1:36.0

between whenever that happened and whenever I

1:39.0

Wanda getting an air and so I had can I totally put line on fresh, which I mentioned, and had it set.

1:45.6

And my thought was, well, I'll use this, but then I can just migrate over to another

1:49.0

fresh Lion machine, and I'll be good to go.

1:52.2

And so that's what I did. But course you know I started setting up the air and I'm like oh yeah that's right

1:56.9

There's no you know firewire target disc mode. It's not but I did the whole migration assistant thing over Wi-Fi

2:03.6

you launch migration assistant on both machines you tell one of them it's almost like a

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