Recent content by gtackett

Sorry for the delayed response. I've been getting ready to change jobs. Now that is done with but Christmas still awaits so time is limited. We've already tried resetting PRAM and the SMC, so moving on from there: I know for certain that the drives are rotating the media at least a small...

I finally got around to powering off my Mac Pro. I disconnected the 3rd party Blu-ray burner and powered back up. The Apple SuperDrive still ejects immediately any media I load (blank DVD-R, factory produced music CD, already burned DVD-R, etc.). So I powered down again, left the Blu-ray...

I've tried at least three different commercial disks (one of which was an OS X distro DVD, the others music and software CDs) but neither drive recognizes them. I'll try disconnecting the Blu-Ray next time I power the system down. Here's what System Information tells me. For each drive I...

I have an Apple Superdrive and an LG Blu-Ray burner (both internal) in my "Early 2009" Mac Pro 8 core system. They were working until, a few days ago, I updated to OS X 10.9 from the most recent OS X 10.8.x. Now, although they eject upon command, they don't recognize any media. When media...

I'm using a PowerPC G5 dual 2GHz with OS X V10.5.8 with all updates installed that have been released as of this date. I've looked at a number of other topics here and elsewhere and have tried a number of ways to get this to work: I tried using Onyx and one or two other system tools that...

I'm using a PowerPC G5 dual 2GHz with OS X V10.5.8 with all updates installed that have been released as of this date. I've looked at a number of other topics here and elsewhere and have tried a number of ways to get this to work: I tried using Onyx and one or two other system tools that...

I'm using a PowerPC G5 dual 2GHz with OS X V10.5.8 with all updates installed that have been released as of this date. I've looked at a number of other topics here and elsewhere and have tried a number of ways to get this to work: I tried using Onyx and one or two other system tools that...

I'm using a PowerPC G5 dual 2GHz with OS X V10.5.8 with all updates installed that have been released as of this date. I've looked at a number of other topics here and elsewhere and have tried a number of ways to get this to work: I tried using Onyx and one or two other system tools that...

Fryke, I initially suspected Firefox because I first noticed the files appearing while just browsing--not specifically downloading anything. However, I came across this thread about similarly named folders (not ordinary files) showing up when using You Control: Desktops. I am also using...

Wow! I am also using You Control: Desktops! I'll have to try what you suggest. Did you report this to the You Control: people? Were you also having any problems with Finder crashing? I'm seeing that when I try to open a certain file.

I keep getting a lot of files with names like this appearing on my desktop: 2DF4E13B-58D9-4F98-A239-6AFF2F8CCF5B-311-00000024DF1FD99B 4C626D42-AEA3-440D-8E78-5D67D1BFD916-15412-0000057729783733 69AA3C3E-C1F2-4C85-8CD5-617D38EF0CBF-15412-0000057752AD2ED8...

Three years later I wound up buying a used Atto SCSI card which has been working quite well.

Well, I'm seeing something rather similar on my 10.4.11 G4 system but the strange items are files instead of folders. They're usually locked, but not always, and they're always the same size (4.3 MB). And in my case I have a hunch that they're somehow associated with running Firefox, instead...

I did exactly as you suggested, and then installed the latest update(s). After reinstalling a handful of control panels and applications that were in the System folder I had the system back to normal, and the old version of CUPS was gone. Quite a while ago I had originally installed this...

A little background: Some time ago, back in the 10.3 "era" I think, I installed CUPS on my system. Then along came 10.4.x and broke the version of CUPS I was using (I think that was the story.) So I backed down to CUPS v1.2.12 which I've been using since then. (The details are a little foggy so...