Recent content by lbrandt

Anyone run into the following? After first logging in there is no problem. At some point in the next few minutes, all the Desktop icons and associated lettering of all files are not clickable any more, nor dragable. It's like they are just pixels on the desktop. Everything is normal for...

I see lots or errors identical to this one: ---------- Feb 12 13:10:36 lbrandtxp System Preferences[28031]: MobileMe login error: Error Domain=DotMacProxyErrorDomain Code=-103 UserInfo=0x6e9fd30 "Unable to access your .Mac user name or password. Please verify your .Mac member name and...

In MobileMe System Preferences, in the Sync panel at the top, there is a checkbox entitled "Synchronize with MobileMe". When I try to check the box, it will not stay checked, keeps reverting to unchecked. I have an active and paid up Me account and have signed in to it. This problem may be...

.776... on 12" PowerBook G4 with 1.5 GHz CPU and 1.25 GB memory

So tell me again why I just bought an Extreme, at twice the price, for my simple home Mac-only network? Express now has added shared USB for printers and disks, and n technology,right, so what does Extreme have that's better than Express?

Any special action on my part to make this happen?

never mind - it was two corrupted preference files.

In moving from my old Powerbook to my new one, I have a couple of problems that I think are permissions related. 1. Saving downloads to the desktop does not work. When I try to drag something to the Desktop it won't work and tells me that "The item cannot be moved because Desktop cannot be...

Check out this software - Outlook2Mac. You run it on a PC.

I run Apple Mail in IMAP mode against an Outlook Exchange server. The server has a Public folder with 10s of thousands of individual messages and subfolders, some locked. Two problems occur when Mail synchronizes this folder: 1. I get an error message every time a locked folder is found...

I'm sure this is old hat to the experts, but... I noticed lots of disk access on my TI powerbook. Running the Activity Monitor app, I saw that 50-75% of the CPU cycles were going to a process called mdimport. Google it and you find that this is a mac-only process - the MD stands for MetaData...

I should have made clear that by "upgrading" I meant buying a new machine, which I assumed would have a max memory greater than 1GB. Thanks for all the opinions. My budget will not be unlimited, so I conclude I should forgo 2GB in favor of more disk or a faster processor if it comes down to...

I don't do image processing or graphics creation, mainly office activities. Currently have 1GB in an 800MHz Ti Powerbook. I'm considering an upgrade in the next few months. Has anyone notice much performance improvement (any way you care to define it) by going beyond 1 GB? If so, how does...

Lurk gets the prize - my undying gratitude; it was the Kingston memory. Its shitty of Apple to change their specs, causing me and others so much frustration. Anyone have a recommendation for a high-quality memory vendor?

Thanks for responding, jwennet. It's a Ti 800MHz Powerbook with 1GB memory, all else is stock. Was running (and am now re-installing) 10.3.9. I'm giving up on Tiger for now - can't afford to waste more time at present. I guess I should feel some sense of pride having such an unsolvable...