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Thanks J.D. - I haven't touched a system disc in ages because I always clone my hard drive rather than reinstall when I swap machines, so I'd forgotten that option. Is it obvious how to get access to the Terminal once I've booted off of the CD - from what I remember, the OS X installers try and...

A friend of mine has a laptop (which I haven't seen yet, but probably a PPC-era one) that isn't booting due to no space being available on the hard drive. I already have a FireWire external hard drive (with Leopard) that I can boot from in TDM if the laptop also has a FireWire connection, but...

Although I can't suggest any OE fix programs, at the risk of offering a one-size-fits-all solution here's my response to a similar problem on how to repair the OE user files: As an aside, I might just add that Entourage (as part of Office X) seems to have no trouble at all in importing OE5...

Just a small postscript - I just saw on Apple's Mac OS X Tiger site that they have an innovative new feature Forgot Password: "...Conveniently reset the password for any user directly from the login window if you have set a master password for the system." Great, so what happens what you...

fryke - your '1-up-1-down' theory pretty much sums up exactly what I've been doing, though there has probably been more of a gap for me between machines than most people - my previous computer before my current (now old) eMac was an 8600/200, and before that was a positively ancient 486 SX. This...

My problem isn't that I feel compelled to upgrade myself but rather that the upgrade cycle is killing off creativity to some extent. My best and most current example is probably the differences (or lack thereof) between Photoshop 5 and Photoshop 7. Yeah, I've looked at both and apart from a new...

Hi All, Please excuse my facetiousness but I am growing more and more tired by the day of hearing that there is yet *another* new update or version of OS X on the way. Is there any chance that, just for once, we can stop all the upgrades for a while and just get to know the software we...

I don't know about iPhoto (not really a hardcore-enough application for me I'm afraid) but Fireworks MX 2004 has a very simple batch processing facility. If you have either this one or an earlier version, try going to File > Batch Process. Once you've chosen your images, you have four default...

At the risk of sounding churlish *DON'T* run Outlook Express 5 (ever again if possible :)). I have first-hand experience of a number of machines that have been seriously damaged by this application when it crashes, almost always requiring a complete OS reinstall. I should add that I have nothing...

Hello All, Following on from my earlier short-lived success in reinstalling Classic (more details in the 'Fixing OS 9 under OS X post), I found myself in the following curious situation... 1) I changed the startup disk preferences and booted up using my new OS 9 folder 2) The OS 9 system...

Have you tried running Disk Utility? It's probably a long shot but you could try a few different things: 1) Run Disk Utility and see if it comes up with any problems 2) Use the Verify Permissions option in Disk Utility 3) Try starting up the computer in 'Safe Boot' mode - just hold down...

Hi All, Thanks for the help everyone - I finally managed to get everything back in order thanks to the trusty Software Restore disks (after some interesting diversions into the heady world of installation packages and Pacifist...). For anyone else with the same problem, bobw's link is the...

I don't know whether this is any help but I just found this page talking about installing ProTools on dual-boot systems: http://www.digidesign.com/compato/osx/dual.cfm dodginess

Just to clarify the situation, are you talking abou the Reset Parameter RAM key sequence (which is Command, Option, P, and R)? Are you able to boot off of any OS disks or the Hardware Test disk? dodginess

What version of Photoshop are you using? What tools are you using in Photoshop?

Reading the post, it looks like the 'remedy' was both (for this particular person) but you should just try resetting the PRAM first then *possibly* reinstalling the OS - please forgive my hesitance but I'm not sure how non-destructive reinstalling OS X is (with OS 9 it just used to rename the...

Go ME! :D Just to expand upon an earlier point, copying the System Folder from the CD won't work because it it won't boot from it - you'll get a message saying some to the effect of "this machine can't be started from this operating system/please install the operating system" or some such...

symphonix - thanks for the suggestion... I think the problem is to do with the way my applications set passive (PASV) mode (or not) - I downloaded a copy of Transmit 2.6.2 and this seems to work fine. This therefore leads me to the conclusion that 1) network connections do not work...

I'll just add that I also have OS 9 and OS X and Office 2001 works fine under both - the mysterious missing menu problem happened randomly after I originally installed the software and was not caused by OS X (as far as I am aware). I have Office X now, which is fortunate given my recent...

Hi All, I hope somebody can offer some suggestions to what should be a straightforward situation - I can't get access to public FTP sites through any of my normal applications (including web browsers) but I can get access through the terminal. I had this problem before (and briefly fixed...