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Stop Transmission Opening Dialogue Box Window For Each New Torrent Added

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Want to Stop Transmission Opening Dialogue Box Window For Each New Torrent Added?

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Transmission is a great piece of software, but in its default settings state it does have some quirks that can be a little annoying. To learn how to stop this you can watch the below video, or continue reading.

When adding a new torrent, a dialogue box ALWAYS opens, even after you have set your default download locations for both complete and incomplete files.

Transmission BT New Torrent Dialogue Box Window

Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t get that window, and downloads just added and started automatically without you having to click the “Add” button every time?

Here’s how to stop this annoying behaviour once and for all!

Open Preferences, and click on the “Transfers” tab. Make sure you are looking at “Adding” and not “Management”.

To stop it from opening that annoying window make sure ALL of these options are unchecked.

Transmission window display preferences

**NOTE** – Be sure that EVERY option is unchecked! I found in my testing that leaving one checked (as shown below), and un-checking the parent option still made the window appear, even though the check was greyed out

Transmission preferences capture

As always, make sure you are using the latest version of Transmission BT which can be downloaded HERE.

How To Fix Microsoft Office Excel Merged Cells Need To Be The Same Size Error Dialogue Message

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Microsoft office excel Merged data has to be the same size Error

Has Microsoft Office Excel ever confronted you with the error dialogue box that says “To do this, all the merged cells need to be the same size” when you are trying to sort your columns and data? It was driving me crazy, but a little dig into the documents settings revealed the culprit. To solve it just click the little triangle in the top left hand corner of your spreadsheet once to select the whole document.Microsoft office excel Merged data has to be the same size Error

Then right click on it to reveal some options and select “Format Cells”

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This will open another menu with six tabs. Select the “Alignment” tab. Once selected, find the “Merge Cells” option.

Format Cells Option Window

Once you have found it, click it a few times until the box is empty.

Merge Cells Check Box

Once the check box is empty, click “OK” and you are back in the game!

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Disable and stop that annoying delete confirmation dialogue box in OSX Lion

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delete-dialogue-boxI know that dialogue warning boxes are there for a reason, and they protect us from accidentally deleting stuff we don’t really want to delete, but I work with dozens of files, and dozens of versions of files at a time. If you are someone who has the need to delete files a lot, and likes to see the “Empty” trash can icon (like me) it is possible to disable that annoying “Are you sure you really want to empty your trash can, even though you just specifically right clicked on the icon and purposely selected the “empty trash” option?” dialogue box.

Click on your desktop to activate the finder, then under the “Finder” menu, select preferances.

delete-confirmation-dialogue-boxOnce you have selected “Preferences” and the preferences pane is open, its just a simple matter un-checking the “Show warning before emptying the Trash” option.

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Its only a little thing I know, but if you are a true “Power-User”, this is a godsend that can save you a lot of extra clicks.

 

Mac Mail requires “Force Quit” – Computer won’t shut down

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Mac Mail Won't QuitLast week a problem appeared with my Macbook Pro. Each time I wanted to shut it down I would get a dialogue box error pop up telling me that Mail had cancelled the shut down. It became very frustrating. Each time I wanted to shut off the computer I had to “Force Quit” mail.

Force Quit Mac MailDetermined not to be beaten, I delved into mac mail preferences to see if I could spot an error. After some time I spotted my problem. Recently I was waiting on an important email, and I set mail to check for mail every minute. It occurred to me that mail was probably checking for new mail and working online when I was trying to close it, therefore it was cancelling shutdown.

check-mail-intervalOnce I set “Check for new messages” to every 5 minutes, the problem went away.

**UPDATE** – Since writing this article I have also learned that if you have RSS feeds setup up in Mac Mail (Versions before Mountain Lion) closing the app and system shut down will also fail if the feeds are being updated!