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In the Mac mail.app when I search all mailboxes or individual mail boxes for a word or phrase the "search entire message" option is grayed out and inaccessible although all the other search options are available like "from," "to," and "subject." I've checked the mail.app preferences and don't...

Here are the steps: 1. Open System Preferences. 2. Click on Mission Control. 3. Deselect Show Dashboard as a space. 4. In Terminal, enter the command "sudo defaults write com.apple.dashboard demode YES 5. Exit terminal. 6. Logout of Lion. 7. Log back into Lion. 8. Open Dashboard...

**** SOLVED **** I partitioned the external drive and backed up to the new partition, and voila! The backup works! Even backing up to a USB drive connected to my Airport Extreme! I recently upgraded to Lion, and now I'm having problems with Time Machine. When the backup starts I get the...

I've been running widgets on my OS X desktop for a few years, but since I've upgraded to Lion, the method of getting them onto the desktop doesn't work anymore. I used to be able to bring up Dashboard with F12, then click and hold on a widget then hit F12 again and drag the widget and it'd stay...

I have an early 2008 17" MacBook Pro with a 250gb hard drive, running Snow Leopard. I want to create a 70gb partition so I can install a second Snow Leopard OS so I can upgrade that to Lion without messing with my original OS partition. When I use disk utility to partition the hard drive, it...

Can anyone tell me what "Sophos" is? I believe it's something to do with Antivirus in MacKeeper. Whatever it is, it's generating a ton of error messages, and I'd like to remove it, but can't find any reference to "Sophos" anywhere on my MacBook Pro. This is driving me nuts, please help...

To All, thanks for all the help. I reseated the memory, and now I'm getting many more errors and they come much sooner during the scan. I'll be replacing the memory asap, and will post the results.

DeltaMac, Thanks for both of your replies. (I didn't see the first one prior to posting my memtest log, as I didn't realize there was a second page of postings x-). I'm going to try reseating the memory and do a retest, and I've already contacted OWC for an RMA to replace the memory I...

Dr. X, Here's the output of memtest. Unfortunately it never completes because I get another kernel panic. Can you tell if these errors mean the memory is bad? (Remember, I have no clue about what these errors mean.) Thanks, Peter V. Memtest version 4.22 (64-bit) Copyright (C) 2004...

Doctor X, I took your suggestion and got memtest. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to figure out what the log file is telling me. If I post it or send it to you, would you be willing to have a look at it for me? It shows some failures, but what concerns me is this: "Mac OS X 10.6.8...

Thanks for the tip, I'll search the forum. Do you know if there is a way to test if the RAM is failing? I don't want to replace it if it's not the problem.

I don't believe it's the hard drive, as I can boot up, and I've done the repair permissions, and repair disk options, and it hasn't helped. Thanks for the reply though.

I have a 17" MacBook Pro that just died on me, it's getting the "curtain of death" kernel panic errors. I've tried resetting pram, and other resets, but nothing has worked. I don't have the cash to buy any of Apple's overpriced, underperforming replacement components, so I'm trying to find out...

I'm attempting to update my Windows XP Pro SP3 virtual machine using my Windows XP CD. (I'm running OS X 10.6.7, with Parallels 6.0). When I insert the XP CD into the Superdrive, it sits there for a minute or two, then ejects itself. This does NOT happen with any other CD or DVD I've tried...

Satcomer, thanks for the reply, but I found the problem. Seems when I did a software upgrade a while back, the firewall setting for NMBD was changed during the upgrade (not something I wanted, or expected), thus I wasn't allowed to connect to the MacBook Pro. I reset the firewall, and all's...