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    Official: Mojave Thread

    That did it. Thanks!
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    Official: Mojave Thread

    I upgraded my iMac from Mojave to Big Sur. Couldn't stand it. lost some great apps, 16 bit etc, and just a host of other dislikes. Reinstalled from my back up (Mojave) and kept getting the dialog box, Incompatible Disk, this disk uses features that are not supported on this version of Mac OS...
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    Installing El Capitan

    I have the folowing: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac12,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz with two 1tb firewire externals that I regularly back up to via Carbon Copy Cloner. I can boot from either of these drives with no problem and be perfectly...
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    Installing El Capitan

    I have an iMac circa 2011 running 10.6.8 and want to install El Capitan. My question is that I have a couple of external drives with 10.6.8 compatible software that I still use. If I clone my existing HD to the external, install El Capitan and later wish to reboot from the external to use the...
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    "apply to enclosed items" grayed out

    G5 with OS X10.4. Recently noticed the when I Get Info to change permissions for a folder to read & write for owner, group, & others the Apply to enclosed items is grayed out. Never really had to change this before, but wanted to do this to sent a group of files to someone else for their use...
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    images in email

    Thanks a bunch. This will take some thought on my end as to just what I need to do. Thanks
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    images in email

    Running a G5 single processor with Tiger & Firefox. My dsl account is with yahoo/sbc. What I want to do is sent a holiday greeting to several people, many of which I haven't contacted for a while, and want to embed an image into the email. Not attach. Attachments can scare people away and I...
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    Tiger and FontExplorer X

    Really sorry about the delay in getting back to you. Here's what I have: Trashed Fontexplorer and all the related files that I could find, still have problems understanding OS X. I have no Helvetica in FontBook. And System>Library has HelvLTMM, Helvetica LT MM, and Helvetica.d font. The...
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    Tiger and FontExplorer X

    Anyone work with FontExplorer X? I'm having problems that I can't get an answer to. Helv and Helv Bold are resident system fonts. When I try to import/add my Helv library with like about 30 faces, I get an error message not allowing me to do so because of the existing fonts. Since the...
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    Best OCR software for OS X ?

    Depending on what you want to do. Acrobat has a Paper Capture feature, which is pretty straight forward and easy to use. It does have its limitations and will capture the type onl, not size, style, etc. If you already have Acrobat, not just the reader, you might save a couple of bucks. HTH
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    Mac/pc File Differences With Adobe Illustrator

    We use AI 8, 9, 10, and CS. When saving for clients, especially those pc users I generally save back to AI 8. 10 is very problematic and 9 isn't much better. CS seems to be a lot better but not everyone can use those files. We also have a very old rip and 10 & CS file cause problems. Just a...
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    Random Temporary Freezing

    Check out g5freeze.com. You're not alone
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    How to Use Opentype On Ai 10 (with Os Tiger)

    have your client convert text to outlines, the the fonts won't be needed.
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    Onyx & Menus

    FYI: Found my own answer. It turns out that Onyx did nothing wrong except change the view setting to use relative date. After unchecking that, everything returned to normal.
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    Onyx & Menus

    Ran Onyx on my G5 sp only to find that my Hard Drive folder is in a strange order (list).When I went to View/Arrange to put thing in alpha order Arrange and CleanUp were greyed out. Thought I understood how to use Onyx, but apparently I don't. How can I change the sequence on the contents of...
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