Recent content by TraciC

yes, exactly, and it's just happened again, in Mail, and took ages to stop. I had to put in a hard return to be able to type any more. I really don't think it's related to typing speed, and I have checked and rechecked all my trackpad and accessibility settings to see if they are causing the...

Oh ha ha ha that's absolutely hilarious. Or just rude, depending on how you look at it. Accidentally hitting the trackpad and highlighting some text would be one thing, but that's unlikely to be what is really happening, since the final letter *continues* being replaced after I click elsewhere...

Hello, I keep encountering a strange problem when typing quickly: suddenly, I end up overwriting the last character instead of moving along. As I say this happens when I'm typing quickly (I'm a pretty fast typist but not blinding); I don't know if I've bumped the trackpad or accidently swiped...

Thanks a lot guys. Believe it or not, wasn't in the bash shell, so have fixed THAT and now things work. God what a newbie.

Hi, Sorry for asking what is sure to be a stupidly easy question... what have I done wrong that makes my MacBook Pro (snow leopard) not recognize the aliases I've tried to add to my .bashrc file? They're super simple: alias ll="ls -l" alias la="ls -a" I need to solve this problem before...

Thanks for your reply, but if I delete that folder, won't I simply lose Safari? My apologies if that's a ridiculous thing to ask. I guess the kind of help I was hoping for would explain how I might go about reconciling my log-in name with my user name. For example, let's say my log in name is...

Whenever I'm using Safari, I get (very often!) the pop-up asking for a password to access my Keychain. I would be HAPPY to provide this, but there is a mixup in who Safari thinks I am and who I 'really' am when I log in to my computer; in other words the name it pops up is NOT my log in name...