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    Notice for Macosx.com Email Account Holders

    D'oh! I just looked here now. -thought I was going doo-lally in the brain!
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    damn, all 265 visits gone????

    damn, all 265 visits gone????
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    Error ) on Leopard

    To format your HD: (after backing up any data on it -this WILL destroy all data) Open Applications->Utilities->'Disk Utility' Select the disk in the panel on the left Click the 'Erase' tab Select 'Mac OS Extended (journaled)' Type in a name for the disk Click 'Erase' Job done! Sorry I didn't...
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    G4 tower wont get past smiling Mac

    Do you have a spare hard disk, firewire HD or even an iPod to try booting from? The fact that it won't boot from the internal HD, but will from CD points toward a disk (or disk controller) issue maybe? HDs are so cheap now, it's worth grabbing another one anyway :-) Good luck!
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    Photoshop file corruption, DT weirdness

    Well, I've never been so glad to discover a hardware problem! Even though I'd run memtest etc many times (sometimes for more than an hour) with no error, I'd never (until today) actually been on site when the freakiness (lines in destop background and menu bar, file corruption) was happening...
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    Photoshop file corruption, DT weirdness

    I'm desperately and doggedly trying to solve an intermittent problem on a PM dual G5 2.3, OSX 10.4.11, 4.5GB ram, GeForce 6600, Photoshop CS3 10.0 What happens is that the desktop background and sometimes the menu bar suddenly develop lines like this...
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    FireWire Drive does not mount.

    Does system profiler show anything under 'firewire'? What file system/s is it formatted with? Any reason not to update to 10.3.9? Have you repaired permissions (of startup disk) with disk utikity? Cheers, Alex.
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    Canon S70 camera - software wont work !

    Try this: open image capture, got to preferences, click 'camera', select 'image capture' as program to open when camera connected. Try both settings on camera itself for connection type (can't remember exact name of setting, but it selects between canon-specific or generic-type communication) In...
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    tv adapter?

    It sounds like your "red, white and yellow plugs" are RCA, or phono connectors, and the Apple site says the adapter will "connect to your TV, VCR, or overhead projector's S-Video or RCA (composite) cable" so it seems your excuse for buying a flash new tv is hosed. Cheers, Alex.
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