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So in the nearish future I hope to upgrade from my iBook G4 to a desktop. My dad just got a 2.4GHz iMac, and it was very impressive. I'm trying to decide between that, or a Mac mini. I liked the new keyboard but also love mine, and my 19" LCD monitor is perfectly acceptable. The issue is in...

So when I make a movie in iMovie and post it to my site with iWeb I have one simple thing that I'd like to do, but I can't figure out how. A lot of our videos start with a black screen and then fade in a title of the event or whatever. When I post those in iMovie the thumbnail that people click...

So I have a folder of RSS feeds in my Bookmarks bar. It used to have a number pop up next to it when one of the links inside had a new entry. It no longer does this, and I don't recall when the behavior changed. I surely didn't change any settings in Safari, but maybe a software update or...

Second the Unison suggestion

Great idea. I did that and then did Apple's suggestion. When I had tried it on the mounted drive it said I didn't have authority to change some of the files, but locally I could with an admin password. I copied everything back over to the network drive and it all seems to work as it did before...

So I just upgraded to iLife '06. Everything seems to work fine except iPhoto. It loads up, says I have to upgrade the library and then eventually gives me an error message saying that I need to have read/write permissions for everything in the iPhoto Library and gives me some instructions on how...

Those are not the names of the accounts. I changed them right before I took the screenshot because I'm becoming a more paranoid privacy freak by the day. Apparently the names I chose are also the default names, leading to some confusion. In reality the "old IMAP" is my fastmail account and named...

No, they are all named by me.

So I had an IMAP server on mail.app when I was using Panther. When I upgraded to Tiger I had no problems with it. I have recently added a second IMAP account, but for whatever reason Tiger treats this one differently and it annoys me. See the attached screenshot to make things most clear...

So I recently had a major meltdown and had to reinstall my OS. The relevant part of my setup is that my Music and Photos are stored on my older G4 (hereby server) and the relevant libraries and .xml and whatnot symlinked. I connect my iBook to the server with IP over firewire and plug my iPod...

I'm going to give Diskwarrior a shot, but I'm not too optimistic. I don't think the sparseimage exists. I've searched for it a bunch of ways. Its disappearance is possibly my fault. Awhile ago I kept having two desktops pop up in my list of places to save things. I didn't know why, but saved...

Never done the archive and install. How do I do that? Is it an option I've forgotten about when you boot from the install CD?

Yeah, I've rebooted a number of times, mounted the iBook as a firewire HD on my other Mac, nothing makes the .sparseimage show up or get me any data back. I am beginning to lose hope. I suppose I could try Norton or something, but I'm not sure what it could do for me. Another oddity (in...

Did both of those, still nothing there. Also the new Library has root permission, so that everytime I log on as my original user account any changes to the dock, etc are reset to default. Thankfully my music and photos are on a different Mac, but for whatever reason even new accounts on my...

See above. I don't seem to have a .sparseimage. There is one that can be found for my wife's account, but not for mine.

Yes, filevault is enabled. But as root I don't see anything different, no .sparseimage. There is only my new Library and a 0kb .autodiskmounted file that has root ownership. Tons of space left.

I really don't think there's anything that can be done, but I need to share my horror anyway. Maybe it will serve as a warning to others. Tonight I lost everything. I plug a monitor, keyboard etc into my iBook and use it as my main computer. I unplugged it to take it downstairs and listen to...

I like having a colored background to my chat windows in iChat. So I drag a solid color .png onto the window. I try this in the preferences window (where you can set the fonts, bubble colors, etc) but it doesn't stick for new windows, and once I quit and restart iChat it's gone all together. Any...