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    How to remove disk volumes??

    The "'Options...' settings" reference - was to a button (not a menu item). When proceeding through the various panels (when rebooted to the Install Disc), a panel of the drives available to have MacOS X installable on - will appear. The 'Options...' button will appear in the bottom center...
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    How to remove disk volumes??

    Boot from the provided or purchased 'Install Disc', via the 'Options...' settings - select 'Erase and Install', and proceed through the installation process. If you prefer - boot from the provided or purchased 'Install Disc', and via its 'Disk Utility' copy - reformat the disk as a single...
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    All Preferences Mysteriously Vanished

    Referring to 'The "." folder is probably the ". .fpbf" folder. You may have to delete that folder from the command line...' - please, do not do anything to either the '.' or '..' directories; as well as, any other directory and / or file whose name is preceded by a '.'. They are supposed to be...
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    How do I find out what is this cron job and delete it?

    While 'crontab -l' (or -r, or -e) applies to 'crontab' of the current user, such does not affect the 'crontab' file at '/etc/'. In 'Terminal' (in the '/Applications/Utilites/' folder), enter ... cat /etc/crontab ... and press <return>; or, in 'Finder' - select the 'Go, Go to Folder...'...
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    Locked at apple gear screen

    'After reboot it [the Mac] did not go to finder. It just hung at apple screen after tone. I tried to go to safe mode, could not get there either.' - consider booting up via the 'Mac OS X Install' (CD / DVD) disc, and using its' 'Disk Utility' to 'Repair Disk' and 'Repair Disk Permissions'. Then...
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    Locked at apple gear screen

    'Tonite I was listening to some itunes. An update was availiable so I did' - what update? - a system level or an iTunes update? If not the former - then do not update to MacOS X 10.4.9 - unless desired and / or required. Otherwise, you may be creating additional problems - not solving the...
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    HELP!! Classic starts up on my Tiger PowerPC

    A System 9 (MacOS 9) bootable PowerPC Mac cannot / does not boot into 'Classic'; it boots into 'System 9.x'. When booted into 'System 9.x' - all of the capabilities of 'System 9.x' are available. 'Classic', when launched, from a MacOS X booted Mac - is a crippled version of the installed...
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    System freezing up

    'Apple Imac ( 1 yr old)' - this could translate to an iMac Intel with either a 1.83 or 2.0 GHz Core Duo microprocessor, with MacOS X 10.4.4 - as the initial installaton. Is the above hardware and installed MacOS X version (assumed) correct? If not, please provide (in detail). Have you...
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    Accidentily Deleted System Profiler

    01. If 'System Profiler' was relocated from its original '/Applications/Utilities/' folder - the 'More Info...' button of the 'About This Mac' window, would still function correctly (that is, the button would still be enabled, and properly launch 'System Profiler'.). 02. It is very important...
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    Microphone in G4/733

    'Is possible to use micophone in G4/733?' - directly, no. Via USB, yes. To use a standard PC style microphone - you will need to purchase a device such as the Griffen 'iMic'. Another (possible) solution is a USB microphone, such as the 'Logitech USB Desktop Micophone'. I purchased such a...
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    Mac mini without display

    'Can I connect a Mac mini with a 12" Powerbook to use the PB screen with it? - yes '... and how?' - ... 01. Connect a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the Mac Mini, and turn ON the Mac Mini. (A network connection - wired / wireless, is assumed.) 02. Download 'OSXvnc' Install it on the Mac Mini...
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    How to install OS X on firewire drive?

    The MacOS X installation (restore) disc(s) for the '15" PowerBook (Aluminum)', install Jaguar (MacOS X 10.2.x). How were you able to install Tiger onto the PowerBooks' internal (boot) hard disk drive? Are you using a retail copy of Tiger (MacOS X 10.4.x) to install Tiger onto either the...
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    MiniMac Duo painfully slow

    Yesterday, 02.03.2007, two (in quantity) 1GB DDR2 SDRAM cards were installed into a provided Mac Mini (intel). The experience since (the RAM installation) is quite impressive.
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    Mac Mini

    Yesterday, 02.03.2007, two (in quantity) 1GB DDR2 SDRAM cards were installed into a provided Mac Mini (intel). The experience since (the RAM installation) is quite impressive.
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    address entries gone

    Option 01. Navigate to and open '~/Library/Applications Support/AddressBook/'. If a window titled 'AddressBook' exists and contains files and folders - you may have a chance of data recovery. If the folder exists but is empty - the contents have been removed (and data recovery may be...
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    Entourage

    '(this is what (I) understand the ~ to stand for)' - '~' or '$HOME', of Unix, represents the current users' 'Home' folder. 'I found the Microsoft User Data (MUD) folder but ...' - if you did previously trash and deleted the MUD folder; and then, launched 'Entourage' - a new 'Microsoft User...
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    I really need help bad!

    '... what do I do now' - apply a previously provided suggestion. 'is there a way to update the firmware from Open Firmware?' - eh, ... no.
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    OSInstall.dist (10.4)

    'OSInstll.dist' of '/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg/Contents/OSInstall.dist' - is just an XML (text) file. Drag the file onto 'TextEdit' (in the '/Applications/' folder) to view.
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    Full Start Up Disk

    'capacity: 111.47 gb, available: 2.7 GB, Used: 108.77GB on disk' - helps confirm your concerns, and original posts' 'Subject' (of 'Full Start Up Disk'). 'picture folder: 2.02 GB, music: 359.7 MB, application folder: 7.27 GB total' - confirms that not too many files (data and applications)...
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