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Plug the iPod into the Mac Pro (the one that I've been syncing the iPod with since the year dot), and nothing happens- that is, except for the iPod saying "Connected- eject before disconnecting". Up until a few weeks ago (coincident with the latest release of the iTunes software), iTunes...

I have had my Mac Pro unplugged for about a week or so whilst I did some building work. Plugged it back in today, and it's not finding the hard disk in Bay 2. Bay 1 contains the factory supplied 300 GB drive. Bay 2 and 3 each contain a 1TB drive, which I had set up as a RAID. Disk Utility...

Hi folks, The new Mac Pro only has 2GB of memory, and I'm going to need to up this for running FCS2 to a min. of 8GB. I was thinking about buying 2 x 4GB modules, but it appears that one 3rd party seller are advertising low density memory as being a selling point. Is this really a...

I've read all the manuals, and the only thing that I can muster is that the audio line out port on the back of my Mac Pro "can be connected to powered speakers". So I connect it to powered speakers, and nothing happens. Is there some setting somewhere that I am missing? I've connected it...

Just got my brand new Mac Pro with its NVIDIA 8800 card, which I bought thinking it would be compatible with the old Formac monitors I've got. It's not. Both of the monitors have this connector: I've managed to hook up one of the monitors using an adapter: Is this the only way...

I'm looking to replace my broken G4 with a new machine- either Mac Pro or G5- and run Final Cut Studio 2 on it. I'm looking for good dual screen support (2 x Formac 20" TFT screens), fast rendering and possibly 3 x hard disk slots (1 x small-ish for system stuff, and 2 x 500GB drives on a...

I have a job that means leaving home for, sometimes, up to 3 weeks at a time. Sometimes when I have returned from a trip, my G4's internal clock has reset to 1/1/1901 (or whatever). I put this down to a flat internal battery and resolved to replace it at some point, but never got around to...

Trying to sync my master MP3 collection (on a G4 running OSX 10.4.9) with iTunes on my new laptop (running Vista with iTunes 7.6.2.9 on an NTFS formatted HDD). Copied the music files onto an external HDD, no problems. File names and folder structure preserved as expected. However, when...

I was trying to be clever with my GF's iPod, and I ran a command through Terminal that revealed lots of hidden files (including the Network icon on the desktop). I'd now like to hide these again, but can't seem to find the correct bits and pieces to enter into Terminal to achieve this! Can...

I have decided that Final Cut Pro V3 is going to be what I need for my G4, running OSX 10.2.8 (Dual 1GHz processor and 1.5 MB RAM). I don't want to upgrade to 10.3 or 10.4 just so that I can run FCP 4 or 5, because I'm afraid my machine won't have the processing power to run that OS and do a...

iMovie is brilliant, apart from one thing: the quality of the final rendered movie. Titles look like they have been rendered with maximum JPEG compression. Embedded images, which look fine everywhere else, become barely discernable. 2 questions: 1. Is there a setting I haven't seen on...

I recently copied across from my PC "TW Cen MT", a True Type Font, into HD/Library/Fonts. It works fine in Photoshop and Excel... but not Word. I have a document where all the styles are in this font. The document opens normally and the font is displayed. However as soon as I click *any*...

I recently bought a second hand G4 with *LOADS* of stuff still installed on it. I therefore formatted the HD and reinstalled OSX 10.2.8, and when I came to reinstall iTunes (the dog's b*llocks of a music management programme!) I found that the new installation didn't have Party Shuffle on it...

When you create a folder, how do you choose what the icon is going to be? I've got a "Documents" folder on my desktop, and I want it to have a little Document on it. Likewise I've got a "Photoshop" folder, and I want it to have a little picture on it. Just for effect :).

To get some files off my corrupt OS, I am trying to transfer them to a USB memory stick. However I first need to mount the USB stick in the black text-only screen (what do you call that?- the one you get to if you boot up and hold CMD-S). How do I do this?

I've tried everything listed on http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/help/2/#7, but none of that worked. I've run the Apple Hardware Test CD, that showed no fault found. Basically, my G4 (running 10.2.8) starts up fine then freezes when it gets to one screen being Aqua (the normal desktop)...

It is with some remorse that I must admit that if there's one thing that my PC does better than my G4, it's handle my Fujifilm Finepix S5500. Importing using the Fuji supplied software- forget it. So I tried iPhoto, which is... WORSE!!! What I want to be able to do is plug the camera in...

OSX10.2.8, Dual Screens (Apple Flat Panel). Having a bit of a wierd problem, which started about a week ago. I can't recall what I did that might have made "displays" unstable. Everything else on System Prefs works fine. When I click on "Displays", I get "The Application System Preferences...

I'm thinking about getting an external HD that I can use on both my PC, running XP, and on my G4 running OSX 10.2.8. Two questions really: (1) anyone got any recommendations? (I was thinking about a LaCie 160GB Extreme II triple). (2) how can I check which firewire (400 or 800) my G4...

This is very wierd: I see my mouse pointer fine on one screen but it completely disappears when I move it to the other screen. The even wierder thing is that the mouse actually works fine on both screens. What can possibly cause this?