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Recently I noticed that on my iMac, running El Capitan, the Open Recent menu has stopped getting updated, both in the Apple menus, and for apps, and both for the Open Recent menu item, and the list that pops up from the Dock. I checked in System Preferences | General | Recent Items, and it is...

Hi, I have got itunes sharing going from my imac to my wife's MacBook, and there is a sub menu on the macbook under SHARED | Mark's Music for iTunesU, with everything there. But in the ipad Video app, under itunesU there are very few of the videos available. I want to watch the WWDC 2012...

Great, thanks. Will that handle the Aperture files as well?

Hi, I have a 1TB drive doing Time Machine and also storing my Aperture data. It is getting full, and I have bought a 3TB drive to replace it. How do I make Time Machine and Aperture both continue as before when i copy everything over? TIA Mark Patterson

Hi, I am putting my photos on a Maxtor with 500 GB. I initially just allocated an 80 GB partition when I wasn't sure how I was going to use it, with another back up partition. Now that 80 GB partition is too small. So I have tried Disk Utility, which seems to let me grow the current...

But you're never supposed to reboot a BSD system ;) OK, I rebooted, and guess what -- it works again! I'm very pleased about that. Thanks for pointing me to the manual, so to speak.

I was downloading a podcast, ejected the ipod from itunes, removed the ipod and itunes locked up. I had to force-quit it twice, and when I got back into it I got this error msg: The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file. I have...

Hi, I only recently upgraded my eMac to use 10.4, and now I find that PHP isn't working when I try to test a php page in Safari. It was working fine a few months ago. Can anyone explain how to do this? TIA, Mark

Hi, The good news is: I just updated to 10.4. The bad news is that when I ran Mail it had to do some import procedure, and now I can't read the messages in my inbox. They all still appear in the list, but the body and attachments of each of them have vanished. Instead I get a message that...

Thanks for your reply. It seems to be stably working now. I played with everything, Internet Access, Airport Setup, Airport Admin. When I was asked to set the password, that seemed to do it, but I tried so many things that it wasn't a scientific study. Regards, Mark

Hi, I hope someone can help. We have an emac and an ibook (and a windows machine) on our network. Today the ibook software updater applied the latest security patch, and an ipod update I think. That required a reboot, and since then the airport in the top menu has been registring zero...

I can play ogg files. I followed the advice on a site I found with google, editing the info.plist, putting an ogg file into the qt library, etc. I would just like to be able to put some artwork there.

Hi, I just added an ogg file to my iTunes. But I can't add artwork to it. Same problem as with this guy: http://emandtim.no-ip.com/tim/weblog/2004/12/itunes_album_ar.php. Why ever not? One possible clue is that the Info describes it as Quicktime movie file. Any insights here? Regards...