Recent content by jillhives

I have a computer graveyard in my spare bedroom for fear of donating or recycling old Macs with data still on them. 1) first generation Intel Imac that has overheating issue that couldn't be economically fixed - this unit won't boot up, but the hard drive (and data I'm assuming) is still...

Using: OS 10.4.9 intel imac. preview files with names like: 8vc68e0u.pdf and lk8w7yr5.pdf keep appearing on my desktop. Sometimes 5 or 6 at a time. When I try to open them I get "File Error: couldn't open file" from Preview. I usually just throw them away, but could I have some sort of...

When control clicking to download jpgs or files through Safari, the files fill up the right side of my desktop, down to the lower right hand corner. After filling one column, the files will begin to stack up in the lower right-hand corner rather than filling the rest of the deskop. Firefox and...

I am at an office making the switch from PC to Mac! we are having problems loading files from the PC server to Mac (tiger) - when files come across they are trucated w/ ˜ at the end of the name. this is major problem b/c the defining part of the names in our file system are at the end of the...