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I once placed data from a Mac onto a USB (thumb) drive, properly ejected it, walked a few steps to another Mac, and inserted it. The USB drive was not recognized. Nor, was it then (recognized) - on the first Mac. The USB drive was inserted into a Wndoze base HP PCs' USB port - and it was...

'... but when printed out with the Laser printer they appear as - Page 1 of 1, Page 2 of 2, Page 3 of 3.' ... the same effect occurs on a HP LaserJet 1320n with 'Word' v. 11.2. One Microsoft 'Word' resolution: When 'Word's 'File, Print...' menu item is selected, and the 'Print' window...

The simple (easy, logical, proper) solution (to remove an individual 'Account'). 01. If in use, log out of the account to be deleted. 02. Via the 'System Preferences' Accounts' utility - click the 'Pad lock' icon button. The 'Authenticate' window will apear. 03. Enter the name and password...

'I haven't used Automater before and am interested in learning more about it.' - 'Automator for AppleScripters', 'Guides: Apple Applications, Automator', 'Google'. 'Can someone tell me to go about using it so I can run a script on an entire directory and remove "_SOMETHING" from each file...

'i have been trying for weeks to unlock the computer. the password he gave does not work' - ... 01. Visit someone with a retail copy of MacOS X. 02. Insert the retail copy into your iBook, and reboot the iBook - with the retail copy as the boot volume. 03. Reset the iBooks' password; and...

Ferdinand - an excellent reply, which fulfilled the original post - accurately and concisely.

'So in the address bar I see something like this: www. ... .swf ... Safari opens this file, but how do I download it? It's really simple, but I just can't remember...' Select 'Safari's 'File, Save As...' ('Command S') menu item.

'Double click the file and it will try to connect with that original URL.' - while I will not dispute such; I did disconnect this Macs' Ethernet cable, and then selected and double clicked on a random number (greater than 25) of '.webarchive' files. At no time did 'Safari' attempt to connect to...

'Is there anyway to get the original URL from the archive?' - I viewed the contents of several '.webarchive' files, and it appears that the files' source URL is not included.

Assuming only one of the many possible ways to interpret the original post ... 'If one has a PC running Windows XP, can a Folder Action script be assigned to it, and a networked Mac receive the notification of the assigned folder action?' - Yes. Windows does not have, nor supports...

In addition to 'riccbhard's requested manufacturer name and model number, is the product identified (by the manufacturer) as Mac compatible? Also, what version of MacOS X is installed on the eMac?

'Can anybody help or suggest another method to achieve the same result.' - AppleScript, via 'Script Editor' - in the '/Applications/AppleScript/' folder.

The rules of allocating 'minimum size' and 'maximum size' amounts (of RAM), based on the 'suggested size' and type of application was not too complicated; nor, of a hassle. A Mac (truly) running System 9.2.2 (not 'Classic'), and proper application memory allocations - runs circles over MacOS...

'Does sending an email to lots of people get it marked as SPAM?' - no (or more accurately - most likely not). However, sending 'lots' of e-Mails, or e-Mails with many 'To', 'Cc', and / or 'Bcc' entries - may result in one being 'blacklisted'. Either - automatically by the server system, or...

'PatchBurn' - info and download ('Jaguar' [MacOS X 10.2.x], 'Panther' [MacOS X 10.3.x], and 'Tiger' [MacOS X 10.4.x]) links.

Based on 'Alternatively I could save the PDF's for later printing.'. Partial sample code, to download a list of '.pdf' hypertext links. -- AppleScript code begins here -- set pdf_URLs to {"http://apps.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099h.pdf", "http://apps.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099sa.pdf"} --...

Below is a 'quick and dirty' working example of how to obtain e-Mail addresses from a FM database; associate '.pdf' files; and, to e-Mail the associated '.pdf' files - as attachments, via 'Microsoft Entourage'. -- AppleScript Code begins here -- set DB_Path to...

"I have a file containing 4000 pdf's," - if so, how do you separate pdf files from within the single file? if not, how do associate each '.pdf' file with an e-Mail address, or other field of the FileMaker database? What version of 'FileMaker' are you referring to? What e-Mail application(s) are...

'But are these problems symptomatic of anything in particular?' - yes, of a problematic MacOS X. Turn OFF the Mac, wait 40+ seconds, turn ON the Mac. Did it boot correctly, and relatively quick, this time? Are all of the fonts, 'System Preferences', gmail, and overall performance issues...

One could also modify the '/etc/crontab' file (via the 'Administrator') with ... 39<tab>2<tab>*<tab>*<tab>*<tab>root<tab>diskutil repairPermissions /; diskutil repairPermissions / ... (where '<tab>' means to press the actual 'tab' key) which will automatically execute the 'diskutil'...