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It's actually a harmless message... You will get it if you run more than one instance of your program. (Unfortunately this is pretty common while developing) See: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2005/Jun/msg00546.html Ta, Adam

I would like to be able to do backups by just dragging a desired folder onto an application that will allow me to back up across multiple CDs (if the data won't fit on one CD. I want a simple process since I will be asking my wife to do her own backups, ie something along the lines of: -...

I don't quite get what Apple/AOL mean when they say that iTunes is integrated into AOL... Does anybody have a screenshot or two? :cool: :D

This is really good work. Is this documented anywhere? anyone? @Arden No hard feelings huh? As I said I appreciate your helpful comments. But my original question was quite specific... I'm not really a newbie and I knew exactly what information I was after. Anarchie addressed my...

Fabulous! I noticed that her desktop picture got reset at the same time. So that file must have gotten trashed and reset all the GlobalPreferences... @Arden: I do do backups, as I said in my original post. And now I can restore that file from my backup!! Anarchie, thanks for the...

Arden, I really appreciate your help. Unfortunately your answer, while solving my problem, is not really practical. My wife has already re-created her color list, it's not exactly the same - but life goes on. So I just wanted to know where the color pref resides for my own curiosity...

How did she lose them? Well Deneba Canvas crashed at around the same time. We love Canvas, but well it crashed this once. Canvas is the best DTP tool out there in my opinion. Now I'm not suprised the pref got trashed somehow... But I just want to replace the relevant file. I'm not going to...

I mean the colors at the bottom of the picker. You know how you drag the colors to the bottom "tray" section? Well they all went blank for no apparent reason. I did a quick search for .plist files for with color in the name hoping to just copy it back over the new one, but couldn't find...

Can someone please tell me where the prefs list is for the Cocoa Color Picker (you know the one that Mail and Text Edit use)? My wife just lost all the colors for no apparent reason :( and I want to restore the file from backup... but can't work out where it is. TIA, Adam

OK, Sure it might be easy with OS X Server. But he was asking for OS X Client... I can't believe there is no way to do this with a normal OS X configuration. I can't afford OS X Server ATM, and I just want to set it up for a simple home network

blackoutspy: I have had a lot of trouble "browsing" to Windows computers in OSX... but basically what you should be able to do is - right click on Windows folder you want to share and select "properties". go to sharing tab and put in the share name and access level (ie everyone etc) select...

I heard it was possible to just purchase an airport card for your Mac and then use it like it was a basestation (ie then I don't have to buy a basestation)... Is this really possible? My eMac is the one connected to the Internet so I'm hoping I can just purchase 2 airport cards and get...

Stobe: What you are talking about is a filesystem as a database. You query the database for the file you want, it gives you the file. You assign meta data as per your own needs - good examples: iTunes song database, iPhoto photo database. So I think you should not worry - Apple are on to...

X-Wizer... Actually a cron job to delete all .* files from /Volumes every 10 mins would work, but I think to do it properly would require a little bit of work as you would have to be careful not to delete "non-MacOS" files... (ie files that start with ".", but not created by OS X) You...

After investigation I believe that the .DS_Store file stores the finder "View" setting- ie column, list or icon - and the other .* files are the resource forks of files on file systems that don't support resource forks (most systems)... I still feel sure that it must be possible for the system...