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Some cards in my AddressBook (4.0.6 under OX 10.4.11) have begun to seem corrupted. I don't know how to fix them or how to prevent the rot from spreading. The specific symptom is this: For some cards, I see half a dozen different e-mail addresses. The extra address are valid addresses, but...

What IS mods? And who asked it to run flat out, soaking up all my cpu cycles? For the last 2 years, whenever I ran a backup, sometime during the backup I got a message that "mds quit unexpectedly". I figured there was some conflict between mds and the backup, but the backup never seemed to...

After much experimentation, I believe I have stumbled on a way to avoid the problem with custom date formats described earlier in this thread. Here's the problem and how to avoid it: In the Tiger preference pane International>Formats there's a button labeled "Customize". Pressing this button...

I tried again to edit com.appple.systempreferences.plist. This time I rebooted from another drive, and inserted the changes while I was sure that the file was not in use. Immediate result: when rebooted from the drive with the modified file, the system hangs. Next result: after again...

The file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist includes the ONE custom date format set by the Interational preference pane. You can see it (in terminal) by the command: defaults read com.apple.systempreferences AppleIntlCustomFormat For example, my custom setting of the...

The OS X prefPane "International" lets you select from among various national date formats, or to set a "custom" format from its basic ingredients. However, there appears to be a bug in the prefPane such that if you set any one of the four date formats (known as Short, Medium, Long, and Full)...

Where is the date format controlled? The System Preferences panel "International" lets one specify Custom formats for Short, Medium, Long, and Full formats. However, setting any one of them causes the other three to revert to the default. I'd like to find where all four are stored, so I can set...

I had a similar go-round over my Epson 2200 (and was startled to see the GIMP default drivers). However, despite Epson's advice to "wait for new drivers," when I just re-installed the old Pre-Tiger Epson drivers, they worked perfectly. Possibly you might have similar good fortune...