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Interesting. It would appear that Apple's KB article advocates unplugging everything; Headgap (as I read it) advocate pushing the cuda button with the power supply plugged in. At any rate, neither worked so I'm down to a total discharge of the machine. One question on this, though- Headgap says...

Hmmm. Battery is in correctly. Instructions followed from the Apple KB article (thank you for the link, nixgeek). Apart from pushing the PMU reset button twice (once with the battery out, once with the battery in), I did everything as per the KB article. However, still nothing. Are we getting...

OK, replaced the PRAM battery (which was probably due anyway), but... nothing. The most obvious thing is the fuse in the plug, which is fine. The power cord is fine. Everything's plugged in correctly, but still when I press the power button, absolutely nothing happens. Is there an internal...

I have a job that means leaving home for, sometimes, up to 3 weeks at a time. Sometimes when I have returned from a trip, my G4's internal clock has reset to 1/1/1901 (or whatever). I put this down to a flat internal battery and resolved to replace it at some point, but never got around to...

Not really, but I've got a workaround. Deselect "keep my music organised" and "copy music to itunes folder". When you add a track, click "consolidate my library" to copy it into your iTunes music folder in the correct directory. It's a clusterf*ck, but it works. The 35 character file name...

Trying to sync my master MP3 collection (on a G4 running OSX 10.4.9) with iTunes on my new laptop (running Vista with iTunes 7.6.2.9 on an NTFS formatted HDD). Copied the music files onto an external HDD, no problems. File names and folder structure preserved as expected. However, when...

That's great barhar, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

I was trying to be clever with my GF's iPod, and I ran a command through Terminal that revealed lots of hidden files (including the Network icon on the desktop). I'd now like to hide these again, but can't seem to find the correct bits and pieces to enter into Terminal to achieve this! Can...

Seems this is my problem! 2 questions: 1. How do I replace the logic board battery? 2. How do I prevent this from happening again?

Mine is doing very much the same thing. Might be the subject of a seperate post, but perhaps resetting the logic board etc might work? G4, dual 1GHz processor, 1.5MB RAM, Seagate 80GB HDD split into two partitions. The problem: Push the power on button- LED light underneath comes on-...

When you format a drive under FAT32, what's the maximum size that OSX and XP will be able to recognise? 64MB seems to ring a bell but I'm not sure.

I have decided that Final Cut Pro V3 is going to be what I need for my G4, running OSX 10.2.8 (Dual 1GHz processor and 1.5 MB RAM). I don't want to upgrade to 10.3 or 10.4 just so that I can run FCP 4 or 5, because I'm afraid my machine won't have the processing power to run that OS and do a...

Thanks for the replies, chaps. Racer- I think I'd rather go down the Final Cut route than the GoLive route (even though this *might* mean upgrading). Adambyte- do you mean to say that even with an older version of FCP I would still need to upgrade to OSX 10.3? I am trying to track down FCP...

iMovie is brilliant, apart from one thing: the quality of the final rendered movie. Titles look like they have been rendered with maximum JPEG compression. Embedded images, which look fine everywhere else, become barely discernable. 2 questions: 1. Is there a setting I haven't seen on...

I recently copied across from my PC "TW Cen MT", a True Type Font, into HD/Library/Fonts. It works fine in Photoshop and Excel... but not Word. I have a document where all the styles are in this font. The document opens normally and the font is displayed. However as soon as I click *any*...

Mmmm, very interesting. I like the flavour of that. Quick question about deleting iPhoto though. Will I lose functionality in pro-spec programmes like Final Cut Pro (which I don't have yet so I can't trial it), and also in lesser spec programmes like iDvD and iMovie?

I'm still in the process of giving iPhoto another chance, but I'm intrigued about this Automator thing. What is this?

Again, Lt Major Burns... a gentleman and a scholar, you are! Thank you very much! :)

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you very much!

I recently bought a second hand G4 with *LOADS* of stuff still installed on it. I therefore formatted the HD and reinstalled OSX 10.2.8, and when I came to reinstall iTunes (the dog's b*llocks of a music management programme!) I found that the new installation didn't have Party Shuffle on it...