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can't get past 'welcome' screen

tramp — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:06:21 GMT

I've just bought a MacBook Pro, and am trying to set it up; I got the welcome screen and moved to my country, but pressing 'return', or tapping the pad, will not move me past the screen

Am I being neurotic?

Rhisiart — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:47:21 GMT

After upgrading to 10.5.7, numerous permission errors highlight regularly in Disc Utility, which I run weekly (probably for too often). I never saw these with 10.5.6, or for that matter any earlier incarnation of the OS.

I have also noticed progammes hanging more than before (especially Mail).

I have run DiskWarrior and that didn't report anything untoward.

Should I give up worrying about this and maybe join the Foreign Legion instead?

Using Remote Install, Trying to start up in network setup?

Jesse714 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:43:30 GMT

So, My buddy has a Powerbook G4. Its currently running leopard, His DVD drive doesn't ever read Verbatim DVD discs, And thats what we made our backup disc on. So were going to use Remote install, I can't find it anywhere on his computer, but besides that, it wont let us choose a start up disk as network setup, Even if we restart and hold option key, All that it shows is his current hard drive.. So is there a way to get it to start up as network... what am i doing wrong? Does his computer need to have a remote install app on his computer, and can we get the package off of the leopard disc??

Thanks for anyhelp

Powerbook g4 cd drive

SLO4SHO — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:35:07 GMT

So the cd drive on my powerbook g4 rejects dl disks. Usually it will finally reject the dvd a few times, and then it will mount it. But when i made a back up of my leopard disk for a fresh install on my powerbook it rejects the dvd and wont mount... and ideas on why, or how i can fix it? Thanks for any ideas

emails into trash

lisa barbanera — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:00:54 GMT

How do I put a large quantity of emails into the trash all at once? I need to get rid of emails in my inbox and also in my

External drive does not back up all mail

syncretic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:50:01 GMT

I have an IMAC running 10.3.9. I was told to drag my "User" folder to the External Drive to back it up. I've done this multiple times, and everytime some items that have strange characters cannot be backed up and interrupt the back up process. I then have to locate where it stopped and drag the remaining items manually, until it stops again for some other item, and I have to keep doing a manual back up until the end.

One of the items it most concerns me is that when it backs up Home folder>Library>Mail, it backs up all accounts but the main one (example: I have 4 different email accounts ending in @mindspring.com - The main user for this mindspring account (the "mother" of all) cannot be backed up because its folder in the Library of my Mac it is named as: POP/ncampos@mindspring.com and the character / cannot be backed up. The same happens with other items and I have to "skip" them in the back up

Once I modified this not knowing and erased all my mail! How can I back up and be sure I can reinstall my messages? I am in the process of upgrading to Tiger and don't want to lose all the info but want to do an "Upgrade" instead of Archiving. Please help!
Thanks

DS_Store

GeorgeKeen1 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:42:16 GMT

I have downloaded a landing page template that contains such a file, 7kb size. How do I open it?

Comedy Circuit Star Sarah Palin to pitch for next Presidency.

rubaiyat — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:28:40 GMT

What do you think her chances are, and is this a sign that the Republicans have nobody to aspire to the top so they are going for someone who can pitch for the bottom?

Wire Less Keyboard and mouse

edailey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:07:00 GMT

I am running a powermac dual g5 2004. Im having trouble with pairing the wireless mouse and keyboard with my system. Im running lepoard 10.5 with all updates. There us no bluetooth icon in system preferences. Can anyone help Ed

Zombie photos in iPhoto 6.0.6 Library

John Varela — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:30:02 GMT

I posted this to the forum but got no response.

There are photos that have been deleted from the iPhoto data base but remain in ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/...

There is no way to access these pictures using iPhoto. They can only be seen using Finder. They are complete files, both Original and Modified, and can be viewed though not in iPhoto.

I want to purge them. Is there a way to do garbage collection to clean up the iPhoto Library?

Or, since the iPhoto data base seems not to know anything about them, is it safe to delete them using the Finder?

Boot Camp not partitioning

solidbrolly — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:50:02 GMT

I tryed using Boot Camp to partition a windows drive. I've used boot camp before and had no problems. Now when I use it i get "the disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved." It tells me to use disk utility and format my drive to a single mac os format. I can't because it's my mac internal hard drive. I've used disk utility to repair the drive but it didn't need it.

G4 dual processor

djmast — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:40:01 GMT

Inadvertantly changed the language from English. finder will not let me open system prefernces to change it back and my desktop icons are not visible

Age of Empire 3 AI issues

morgan hammer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:02 GMT

Hello.
I'm having trouble with the AI working correctly with my Age of Empires 3 from Microsoft studios.
While loading any level/ scenario this error message pops up.
<00:00:00 (0):XS:ERROR 0003: could not compile file 'AILoaderstandard.xs'.>
The result in the gameplay is complete lack of computer opponent initiative. Of course this renders the game useless.
I got 2 GB DDR SDRAM on a 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 running OS X 10.5.7
I've tried reinstalling the software. I'm not too savvy about what else might work.

Please help. Thank you.

Morgan Hammer
morgan@flight2mars.com

Snow Leopard

jareddigby — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:23:08 GMT

I really want to install the beta of Snow Leopard I have just one hard drive. Apple says the beta cannot be updated:-(

(Snow) Leopard Installation on Mac Mini (Intel Core Solo)

bastones — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:25:16 GMT

In a few weeks time I'm getting my Mac Mini upgraded to 2GB memory for Snow Leopard when it comes out. My Mac Mini is a 2006 Intel Core Solo model, and in September I'll be wanting to buy Snow Leopard but I want to be 100% sure that my Mac Mini will be able to install Snow Leopard since its DVD media. I know I can't burn DVDs with this Mac Mini but, although may seem like a stupid question will I be able to install Snow Leopard with it being DVD media? I'm sure I can since the Mac Mini can "read DVDs", but I want to be certain before paying out �70 when its released in September.

Thanks.