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Forgive me if this doesn't belong in this forum, but I'm not sure where to start and I read that this might be the router. I have an Airport Extreme. My Mac is running Lion (10.7.2) and it's using a wired connection tot he router. When I attempt to visit a specific web site after not having...

I just renamed a folder on my desktop and it disappeared. The folder name was "temp". I renamed it to "Temp" (capital T). I simply clicked on the folder, pressed Return, re-typed the folder name with a capital T, and it disappeared. It wasn't in the Trash. I opened Terminal and checked to see if...

Spotlight under Tiger used to do this. Under Leopard, it does not. I'm tired of having to remember where a preference file (.plist) is located in order to delete it. I want to simply type a partial name of the file and get it with a Spotlight search. Can this feature be turned back on...

I just purchased a 4TB (2x2TB) external drive from OWC. I have two scenarios for its use and I'd like opinions on which is better. I have a lot of movies and video files (as well as other files that eat a lot of disk space). My setup is as follows... Mac Pro (late 2007 model) 1x500GB internal...

I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. I would like to do the following, and am wondering if this is a good idea... 2GB Internal Drive = Operating System and... 2GB Internal Drive + 2GB Internal Drive (Striped RAID) = 4GB = Time Machine. (This is a total of three drives, one containing...

I have a Mac Pro from late-2006. I'd like to put three 1.5TB drives in it (one for the OS and two raided together for Time Machine -- I'm doing this now with three 500GB drives). I've heard that some motherboards cannot support drives up to that size (on computers manufactured by companies...

I have three internal 500GB drives in my Mac Pro. I'd like to know if I can set them up as one large volume with hotswap capabilities. I've heard before that I can use RAID to get a single 1TB volume out of the three, and swap out any of the three drives if only one fails at any point in the...

I purchased this card for my Mac Pro: "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (early 2008) Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro" http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB137Z/A I spoke with multiple Geniuses. I spoke with AppleCare. Everyone is telling me that this is the card for my Mac Pro model. They looked up...

I have a Mac Pro that was purchased in November of 2007 (I believe it's called the "early 2008 model", as opposed to the "first-gen Mac Pro"). I currently have the ATI Radeon X1900 card. I've been having issues (more and more over time and, according to reviews of the card, I'm not alone) and...

I am getting the following error from Time Machine when doing my first backup. The startup disk being backed up, and the TM disk are both the same size. Macintosh HD: 465.44 (total); 393.99 (free); 71.45 (free) Time Machine: 465.44 (total); 465.29 (free) The Time Machine error is: Why...

Time Machine stopped backing up two days ago in the middle of the day. The error is the same just about every time. I've repaired permissions, deleted .inProgress files, updated the OS to the latest release, applied all security patches, etc. I've spent three hours working on this, and need some...

I have a CAF file that I want to export to MP3. I don't want to use iTunes to do this, since I figure that QuickTime should be able to do it for me quickly. There is no export to MP3 available, however. I looked around on the Web and saw some QuickTime components, but cannot seem to find a...

While playing World of Warcraft for the last few months, I've noticed a problem that happens during higher framerates in the game where it will crash and take the video with it. My monitor will go blank, and it is as if I turned off the Mac Pro without turning off the monitor first. The game has...

Prior to installing Leopard, I had set up a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences for "Secure Empty Trash". That menu item still appears for the Finder, however, there is a new one now that I am running Leopard, and the old menu item causes a trash empty to fail. Here is what I see (I have...

Last night, I ran an "Erase Free Space" operation on my Mac Pro. The drive is 500GB, so I ran it because I was mainly curious to see how long it would take to complete. I selected "Zero Out Data" as the security option, so that it wouldn't take forever, and let it run. After about two hours...

I have two Macs and need to have several folders on them kept in sync. How can I do this? I assumed that I would write a script for it, but, I'm thinking now that, if someone else has already written one, or if someone has written an application (free or commercial - doesn't matter), I'd be...

I'm looking for a full Mac-compatible KVM switch. Here is the setup that I have: 1. Mac Pro with DVI video out (using a DVI to VGA converter to connect my 21" Dell monitor to it, for now) 2. Linux PC with VGA out I have tried Belkin's Flip (USB model) (http://www.belkin.com/flip/), and...

I just got a new Apple Bluetooth keyboard and it will not pair with my iBook. When I use the Bluetooth Setup Assistant, it sees the keyboard, and then asks me to type the passcode. I type it, hit the Return key, and it just sits there forever. I didn't have an issue pairing the keyboard with my...

I'm looking for suggestions for a Bluetooth laser mouse with tilt wheel. I use SteerMouse as my mouse driver, and the tilt wheel is very important. My Mac Pro will have Bluetooth, so I wanted the mouse to be Bluetooth as well. I prefer a scroll wheel, as opposed to Apple's scroll ball on...

I decided to try to verify my startup volume today via Disk Utility. It failed, stating that there was an error. I decided to boot from my Mac OS X Tiger installation DVD and repair the volume from there. It attempts this three times in a row, and reports an error. Here is the information below...