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    best way to compress files for mac and windows?

    Wow. Where to start.. if you don't already know why this is a bad suggestion, then my explaining it won't make any difference, lets just say a clean 'no'. So, that doesn't really answer my question. Anyone else?
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    best way to compress files for mac and windows?

    What is the safest corrupt-recoverable way to compress a large (16GB) set of files for use with mac and windows? I have tried winrarring into parts, but winrar doesn't support par recovery, and unrarx for mac doesn't tell you which part is corrupt. Is there a half decent .rar extraction...
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    How can I have a one-click button in OS X to 'restart into bootcamp windows XP' ?

    Much. Amazing how months of googling can be seconds for another person. With only 15 seconds spent, you have saved me hours. Thanks.
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    How can I have a one-click button in OS X to 'restart into bootcamp windows XP' ?

    As I said, it's not one single bad experience, but thanks for your constructive input.
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    How can I have a one-click button in OS X to 'restart into bootcamp windows XP' ?

    Okay, I'm a long standing apple customer. I have paid quite a lot for 3 years apple care, and was told in the apple shop that apple would answer my questions on how to use OS X. Having had many bad experiences with apple in the past, I thought I would give them another chance. I gave them a call...
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    How can I have a one-click button in OS X to 'restart into bootcamp windows XP' ?

    SHORT VERSION: How can I have a one-click button in OS X to 'restart into bootcamp windows XP' ? LONG VERSION: I have bootcamp running windows XP on my mac pro. Apple have made a simple button in Windows to 'restart in Mac OS X'. This is great and really fast to do. But for some reason...
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    help - a hundred problems - prob 1: how to make alias?

    i have been trying to get around these problems for a long time now, and its now impinging on my career and potentially destroying my life due to client deadlines etc. so any answers very much highly deeply appreciated. I have searched til the death of me, for a forum thread relevant to OS X but...
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    Simple Media Player for mac OS X?

    I have tried windows media player for mac, but it won't play .aif files. .aif is a file-type often associated with macs, I need, and would expect, any mac player to be able to play .aif files.. just looking for something hassle-free really, seems to be hard to find for mac.
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    Simple Media Player for mac OS X?

    tried VLC player, it can't queue files in a playlist, and playing a .aif file, the sound stutters and it plays at different sample rate to the source file resulting in "chipmonk" sound..
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    Simple Media Player for mac OS X?

    Is there a simple free media player I can install on my mac, to be able to play music? itunes doesn't play 24bit files. Quicktime is unreliable and sometimes only plays the first 4 seconds and then cuts out. When Quicktime is working, it loads up a brand new quicktime player each time I...
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    TFT Won't Power Up With MAC G5

    My tft screen does not turn on 50% of the time when I turn on the mac. To fix it, I have to keep manually resetting the mac until the tft powers up. OS X starts up fine, but the tft screen itself does not "power up". It just remains on standby. I tried the tft with 2 PCs, it works 100% of the...
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    g5 won't boot up

    the boot up problem appears to have been fixed by taking faulty crucial ballistix ram out of the machine.
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    g5 won't boot up

    okay, I just turned on the mac again and now it has a lot of text on screen "unresolved kernel..." ...loads more text... "panic: we are hanging here...", and then a restart computer message in 4 different languages appears ontop of all that text "...button for several seconds or press the...
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    g5 won't boot up

    My dual G5 won't boot up. It makes a loud whirring noise which gets louder. I haven't installed any new hardware or software. The symptomns are not always the same each time I turn it on, the only constant is that it doesn't boot up. Sometimes a white screen, sometimes the screen doesn't turn...
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    mac won't restart

    hmm yeah I have no car though, and as a student, no money, so there is no way for me to transport this thing or to pay for a repair. It's kinda critical to my degree. I have looked on the apple site a few times but can find no email support. say if i manage to find the "PMU battery". how do I...
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