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When my PC is turned on, everytime I reboot my macbook I get a prompt asking me for a user/pass to access my PC server. It seems finder is automounting 1 folder from the PC, this appear in finder at the top level when I click my "macbook"...... Where exactly is the setting that is causing...

I have a drive connected via USB 2.0 It's newly formatted with 2 partitions. Running 10.5.6 on a macbook. The drive seems to work fine, the problem is whenever I reboot the two drives don't mount in finder. When I look in disk utility. I can see the drive listed but the partitions are...

Is there any way to see exactly what files and folders are created(and where) when I install an app?

I search high and low for an answer to this but could not find it. If I want to insert the command symbol in an email or text document on my system how do I do it? I've seen it written many times and even have it in my clipboard now ? but have no idea how to make it myself?

Ever since switching to OS X when Panther came out I've longed for a decent FTP app but there just isn't one. Compared to the full featured Windows programs, CutFTP Pro, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FTP Voyager etc etc all the Mac FTPs look pathetic in comparison. I know everyone raves about Transmit...

OK, I'm panicing a bit. In almost 2 years of use my Powerbook G4 has been pretty solid, no problems. I have the latest Tiger installed btw. Todat I'm browsing with Safari, one of the bookmark menus when clicked gives me the spinnin circle, it won't go away and eventually I power down(hold...

A few weeks ago I noticed that when certain window were ontop, the unified toolbar of the window behind went white. This happens in only a few apps with certain types of windows. For example in Mail it happens with the About and Address panel window, but not previous recepients. Screenshots...

I have a folder on my desktop which contains various html, php an image documents. If I create a smart folder and have it look only in this folder for files of type 'PHP Source' it will only list 3 of the 10 php files that are in there. At first I couldn't work out why.... Then I realized...

If I have my applications folder open in Finder, pressing 'S' will highlight Safari, pressing 'S' again will highlight Stickies. Pressings again will go back to Safari and so on. I have many more applications that begin with the letter 'S' so I don't understand this behaviour at all? why does it...

Is it possible, using USBOverdrive to map CMD-TAB to one of my other mouse buttons? you can do it in SteerMouse but I can't seem to figure it out in USB Overdrive.

Is there any way to stop OS X from leaving these pointless files on a windows share? For every file.gif left by my Mac on my Windows Share, I get a ._fie.gif, a tiny file that windows does nothing with. Sorry if this has been covered before but I searched and couldn't find an answer.

I seem to have spent the last two days trying to get my head around how Tiger deals with File & Icon associations. I started using OSX with Panther and Tiger seems alot more Windows like with the way it handles associations. I was always led to believe that in OS X, a file opens with the...