Recent content by robian

@Satcomer - Good suggestion, but the very first thing I did was boot into single user mode and run fsck -fy, etc. That helped a little, but not much. Late yesterday, however, I did isolate a problem that seemed to fix the problem for the most part. I booted into "safe mode" and downloaded an...

I'll give that a try, if I can get past the blue screen. Thanks!

Well, he's running 10.5.8. now and software update shows no other updates needed besides iTunes. However, now we can't get past the blue screen, and its constantly interrupted by pop-up alerts that various system apps (Spotlight, Airport Base Station, etc.) "quit unexpectedly." This is extremely...

Update: Tried to reboot again. Stuck on blue screen for over ten minutes now.

YASU didn't seem to help. It ran through its processes, but now rebooting takes "forever" with desktop items appearing and disappearing multiple times over a period of 5-10 minutes while this happens. Once stable, the system doesn't seem to run any better. iTunes still won't start. Other tasks...

Thanks, I'll give this a try and report the outcome.

My son's iMac (2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 6 Gb RAM, running 10.5.8) suddenly began to exhibit strange behavior today. (This behavior seemed to follow a seemingly routine update to Firefox 8.0.1). Suddenly the machine runs extremely slowly, taking 3-4 minutes to launch a variety of apps, mostly...

Many thanks... don't know how I missed this! Robert

I'm still running 10.4.11 on a g5 dual 2.7 in my recording studio and don't want to upgrade right now because of the expense of replacing and upgrading software. Is it still possible to download iTunes 9.2.1...? iTunes 10 won't work w/ Tiger. Does Apple have a legacy download page for older...

Perhaps this has been dealt with before, but I couldn't find it. Everytime I export a movie with Final Cut Express 4, it becomes slightly stretched wider. It doesn't seem to matter whether I choose custom settings, check the preserve aspect ratio box, or just export as a self contained Quicktime...

Not a foreign account, thanks though. This is related to Mail preferences, since the previous solution seems to have worked. Thanks, Satcomer... now I have to resetup about ten email accounts, but at least I can send mail! Best, Robert

The plot thickens... I've downloaded Thunderbird, and it's able to send mail without a problem, so the problem is strictly with Mac Mail. One, how do I fix it? And two, if fixing it isn't easy or possible, how do I import ALL my mail into Thunderbird? It doesn't seem to have an intuitive way to...

Good thought, but I've already tried it... As I stated in the original post, Connection Doctor connects with no problems. Perplexing, no? Robert

This is odd. Any mail I compose (in the standard Mac Mail app) goes directly to my outbox, and will not send. This is only true of my desktop computer. My laptop (using the same settings) sends mail easily. I can receive mail with no problem. Connection Doctor shows that I'm connecting to the...

This is a tough one... There is a site (newsguy.com, a Usenet provider) that I cannot access on my home computer through my own home network. (I have been able to access this site many times previously, just not for the past few days.) I can, however, access it on my son's computer (also through...