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    How to completely delete trash on mac book pro?

    My hard drive does the same thing. I have not figured it out either. I delete caches, etc.... with no affect. I recently maxed out my MacBook Pro memory to 8 Mb, thinking that the computer was using the hard drive as a memory reserve but putting in the maximum memory had no effect on the hard...
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    Lion: Lost headphone and mic ports after install

    I would try this: Resetting Permissions 1. Restart your iMac, and before you hear the chime, hold down the Command and R keys. 2. You’ll be at the Repair Utilities screen. Click the Utilities item in the Menu Bar, then click Terminal. 3. In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and...
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    Lion: Lost headphone and mic ports after install

    Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) Before Resetting the SMC Try each of the following steps in this order before you reset the SMC. Test the issue after completing each troubleshooting step to determine if the issue still occurs. 1. Press Command + Option + Escape to...
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    xml files on a mac

    xml is raw data. By your comment - "Data and the script to display it can be embedded within an XML file" and thus the raw data needs processed. It is raw data to APIs. If something needs processed, by definition it is given in a raw form as I stated. As you stated the data needs to be...
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    xml files on a mac

    Here's my experience with trying to do something with .xml extension, though it may be a short experience, I wasted a lot of hours trying to use an exported .xml file format from one application and importing it into another. The .xml file is a raw data file and just that. A careful choice...
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    How doI get rid of tabs in Firefox?

    RonaldMAcDonald, Hamburglar here. Tabs are a integral part of browsers, just as Ronald MacDonald goes with MacDonalds. Do you want to view one website at a time? Then don't open another tab. Pretty simple.
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    Need my Password for Everything

    OK fixed! Thanks for your help. What I ended up doing: Opened terminal typed in "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash", then typed "~/.Trash" to see if there was a trash directory (was deleted with previous command), then completely shut down the mac, restarted, where the mac made a new .Trash directory.
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    Need my Password for Everything

    I am running the latest, OSX 10.7.2. I never set the admin account(account I always login too) to any parental control. What I have dine is 1) deleted the .Trash folder and made a new one via terminal - did not fix the problem. 2) started up with the Lion disc I made and run Disk Utility -...
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    Need my Password for Everything

    Hi, Every time I put something in the trash the system wants me to type in my password and then immediately empties the trash without me telling it too. Also if I move files to different folders the system ask for my password. Any ideas on how to fix this? Model Name: MacBook Pro Model...
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    macbook g4 can't bootup after wireless driver installed

    Reset the PRAM. Could be the driver hardware issue in the firmware library.
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    How to make a bootable Snow Leopard USB in Lion?

    Try resetting your NVRAM and then see if you can boot from the USB. Learn how from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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    I have no sound on my MBP. No output device found

    If you look into the Jack where your headphones or external speakers plug in, do you see a RED Light? Try a minute tinkle of WD-40 onto the headphone jack and then insert and pullout the jack several times, followed by gently inserting and removing the audio input jack a few times. At least...
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    organizing voice footage

    iTunes will do that. 1) You will need to import the track from the cd to iTunes. Next--- 2) Highlight the track, right click, scroll to get info,click the options tab, select where you want to start and end the track, click ok.
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    Need Help Resizing Photo

    Ain't that a damn shame. I was hoping to get another week out of this problem.
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    Need Help Resizing Photo

    If you know the dimensions for the FOID card, try: http://www.cutmypic.com/
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    malware proxy server?

    Buy Little Snitch- $29.95. It is a great program that can prevent and tell you who is trying to access your computer. http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
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    malware proxy server?

    Download DNSChanger Removal Tool for free. Go here: http://www.dnschanger.com/
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    How to find the correct extension for old files which now appear as Unix Executable

    Do you have a copy of TextWrangler? If not you can download it--it is free from Bare Bones. http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ I had determinedly tried to wreck a file, which was very small, and contained a minimal amount of formatting information (basically, just a particular...
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    Bizarre Addition and Subtraction to HD space

    Hi all, I am having the HD free space that is displayed at the bottom of each open window either show exactly 30 gig of free HD space added or subtracted i.e. at one start-up it will show 430.17 GB available then a couple start-ups later it will show 403.17 GB available. I have ran...
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    I'm not too computer literate (painter)

    Drag them in the trash
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