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    iBookG4 not recognize LaCie harddrive

    I just had this problem running a Lacie 160gb external drive (USB). It had been quite happy connecting to my iMac until I used it to back up some PC files, then it wouldn't boot on the Mac anymore. First thoughts were that the drive had died and I'd have to take it back to the shop, but I...
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    Mac OS not booting!!!

    We had a similar problem on one of our work iMacs running 10.3.x One day the user was trying to print a large file and open an e-mail with a large file attached. The Mac locked up and when she restarted it ended up with "Darwin BSD Login" on a black screen. I checked the web and found quite a...
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    Users Losing Connection to 10.2.8 Server

    I know this thread has been open for a long time now, but we've had this type of problem on and off for years and I believe we recently solved it. We have OSX clients connecting to an OS9 server, and the clients were getting disconnected constantly. I suspected a timeout issue or network...
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    Mounting failed??

    Hi George This article is useful - there's some stuff in there you can ignore because your machine wasn't upgraded from Panther. It explains the process and talks you through it; http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/04/29/tiger.html?page=1 Tiger by the way is 10.4.2 - some people...
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    Entoruage Bug

    Hi there We use mostly Entourage and a few clients using Mail. We're not running with Exchange Server but we've had similar problems to those you describe, with messages getting duplicated. This and other wierd behaviour often followed by total crash of the clients mail application. Users...
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    Problem with iMac g4

    Hi there I had the same problem recently with a Mac at my workplace. The user had used copy and paste commands within the Mail application to move folders (!!) and this crashed the Mail app. Then he couldn't re-boot and got the same screen you describe, which sat there for ages. I tried...
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    Mounting failed??

    Hi there Here's what I would do. If it's under warranty take it back to the shop and get them to fix it. If you would rather try to sort it yourself, you could try the following beforehand; 1) Firstly, is your hard drive full? Probably not, but worth checking. If it is, delete some files...
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    Huge number of files on disk

    Hi sourcehound, thanks for your views on this. I don't want to break anything or waste my time trashing files if this is about what you would expect for a normal OSX machine - it's just that some of our Macs are considerably lower, around the 100,000 mark, and work files won't explain the...
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    Huge number of files on disk

    Can anyone help with this - we run Retrospect backup to do client backups overnight. We do full recycle backups so we always have room on the tapes, and we've found it better to back up all files rather than being selective (clients leave files all over the place, and sometimes having system...
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    Users Losing Connection to 10.2.8 Server

    Hi there. We have a similar problem, although we have OSX clients connecting to an OS9 server. The clients lose their server mount every day, sometimes several times a day. It's a drag. Our local Mac dealer has taken this up Apple who say they no longer support OS9. I have started to monitor...
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    MacOS X - MacOS 9 connection drops out

    Hi subspawn, some news on our efforts so far. I checked the OS9 server recently and found that even with the Energy Saver control panel unchecked in Extension Manager the server was napping! So I reactivated the Energy Saver Control Panel and double checked the settings - everything was set...
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    MacOS X - MacOS 9 connection drops out

    Hi there We've had this problem on our network. A couple of OSX clients have to mount an OS9 server to access a data file for an application that runs in Classic on the OSX machines. The mounted volume keeps getting dropped. About a year ago this was happening all the time - every day they...
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