Recent content by ra3ndy

Yeah, I just read the same thing over here at mashable This whole thing could just be one crazy coincidence.... here's hoping.

So while logged into Gmail's web interface, I opened Mail.app. Mail.app predictably timed out, and upon returning to Safari, noticed that I'm now getting an "Oops… the system encountered a problem (#717) - Retrying now…" error, then clicking Sign Out changes it to a (#104) error...

Interesting observation: It seems that after my connection times out that I can't even connect to gmail's web interface, which gives me a 503 temporary error for about 5 minutes after the timeout in Mail. So something about Mail is actually breaking my gmail account for a brief period it would...

Spoke too soon. Down again. hibbers, you are very lucky. I'll keep up the good fight for those of us that haven't made it out yet.

Actually, hibbers, i think you may be on to something. I disabled POP and made sure my settings were aligned with these recommendations. So far it seems happy. I'm more inclined think it was having POP enabled on the account than the Mailbox settings inMail, as I changed them last night to...

Thanks, Satcomer. Unfortunately no, the OS hasn't enabled a port 993 block. I wish it were that simple. I am left to wonder what changed in Mail 4.0 on Snow Leopard that makes Gmail so unhappy.

Thanks for the suggestion, but no dice. Same symptom, works for exactly 1 network operation, then times out again.

SO Here I am with my brand new MBP running snow leopard, setting up my gmail in Mail.app, account settings identical to my iMac (still running 10.5), and it keeps throwing up a timeout error on port 993. It seems that re-entering the password in the account settings window makes it work for a...

Sorry to be a pest, I just stumbled across the answer over here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007110800450816

Hi all, Selling a mac, and would like to do just what the title states, back to "factory settings" without removing updates & Apps. This used to be relatively simple in Tiger and earlier, but then they got rid of the netinfo database in Leopard. The private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone file is...

You can either search eBay for a disc that's specific to your Mac model, or buy a retail copy of OS X from Apple. Once you have a disc, there is no serial number or activation or anything, just hold down the C key after the boot chime to boot from the disc, then follow the prompts to install...

When you bought this PowerBook, did you get any discs? If so, you need to Erase & Install. You can't know what weird things people will do to their macs that convince them to finally sell it. If you didn't get any discs, I recommend you buy a retail disc from Apple. That said, here's things...

best bet for my money (or lack thereof) is http://opensourcemac.org

Could be an ownership issue. Try copying it to your desktop from the DMG before trying to import. If necessary, change the owner by opening Terminal and typing the following: sudo chown -R yournewshortname ~/Desktop/Mail and hit return and enter your password. (Note: Be sure to replace...

from comac: Most Geniuses have USB & Firewire Hard Drives, not flash drives. Flash drives aren't reliable enough for repeated booting, and tend to read/write slower than a good External HDD anyway. And I say MOST because no 2 Genius departments are the same in my experience. I've known...