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    Save Account Changes in Mail Preferences

    'Is there no way to save changes before being prompted to do so?' - no
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    I really need help bad!

    'how do (you) borrow a os 9 disc from Apple [you do / can not], or do (you) mean from a person' - the latter. The focus of the sentence was on "'OS 9' installer disc". '... pear pc ... tiger ... burn os 9 ... do (you) think that would work' - possibly. Notable 'Roxio Toast 8' link.
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    I really need help bad!

    '"You must update your computers firmware before you install Mac OS X." Now there is no firmware on the new hard drive, it never even had mac on it! It is a fresh new drive.' - firmware is installed onto a programmable chip, on the Mac; not anywhere on a hard disk drive. '... i have a pc and...
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    Full Start Up Disk

    01. Click once on the upper right 'Desktop' hard disk drive icon. 02. Select the 'File, Get Info' menu item ('Command I'). 03. Note the 'Capacity:' and 'Available:' values. '... besides pictures and a few programs' - is vague. Locate the folder(s) containing the pictures and installed...
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    I am unable to open a ".sea" file.

    To download 'epson11019.sea.hqx', ['Printer Driver v1.8aAs'] which becomes ' epson11019.sea' after 'StuffIt Expander' de-encoding, implies you are using MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or 10.3 (Panther). If indeed you are - then double clicking on 'epson11019.sea' should result in the installer...
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    Getting Solver in Excel to work

    Select 'Excel's 'Tools, Solver...' menu item.
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    Secrets of the OSX color picker

    'OSX's color picker ... Anybody got any inside knowledge on all the above?' - no. Some, yes. 'Where are the personal color swatch lists stored?' - in 'NSColorPanelSwatches.plist', located in the current users' '~/Library/Colors/' folder. 'In what format?' - XML. 'Can they be backed up...
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    new to mac, spent days, cant figure, need HELP

    01. Deleting an 'iPod' library will not effect which (decompression) applications are executed, to handle files of various formats. 02. If you double click on a downloaded '.dmg' file, and 'Disk Utility' launches, instead of 'DiskImageMounter.app' of '/System/Library/CoreServices/' - then you...
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    I'm afraid I've gone stupid. Array question.

    class blahblah { private: int thisarray[]; public: blahblah() }; . . . // In a 'Constructor', etc. (where applicable), ... for ( n=0 ; n<4 ; n++ ){thisarray[n] = n;}
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    How to get rid of modem icon in menu

    'Hold down Command key, then click, drag and drop it out.' - Doh!
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    Won't Scan?

    Consider downloading and installing the 'HP PSC 1200 Series - Mac OS X v10.3 and v10.4 (Universal)' software / driver(s), obtainable from HP.
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    Older pink iMac

    'Can I connect my iMac (OS Tiger) to her pink iMac?' - yes, it is called Target Mode.
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    How to get rid of modem icon in menu

    'Is there a way to make this (modem/phone icon) disappear?' 01. Launch 'System Preferences' (in the /Applications/' folder, or via the 'Apple, System Preferences' menu item). 02. Click on the 'Network' utility icon. 03. From the resultant window's 'Show:' popup menu - select 'Internal...
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    copying groups of filenames as text in Finder

    'Does anyone know a workaround' ... Suggestion 01: Have 'TextEdit' (or mostly any other text editor application) launched and in 'plain text' view (select the 'Format, Make Plain Text' menu item). Paste your copied files and / or folders into a 'TextEdit' document window. Suggestion 02...
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    Finder Crashes regularly

    Missing information: Mac model. '... and all I find there ('~/Library/Contextual Menu Items') are 3 plugins - no suggestion as what to do next so I came back here for help.' - normally, a '~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/' folder does not exist. It can be created by the user and / or during the...
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    Itunes Copying Itself

    Information not provided: Mac Model, MacOS X version, 'iTunes' version, size of hard disk drive. To have only 1 GB of hard disk drive, hdd, storage space remaining will cause numerous problems - operating system, application, and user wise. The 'iTunes Library file' (in the...
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    Saving favicons in Safari?

    'faviocns' are stored in ones' '~/Library/Safari/Icons/' folder and in RAM; not in any cache files. However, I do not have a 'Mac Pro' available, and thus cannot attempt a similar scenario as freaky. --- With 'Safari' quitted, lock the 'Icons' folder (and optionally, lock - the 'Caches'...
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    How do you back up bookmarks, favorites?

    Backing up ... Address Book: '~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/' '/Users/s/Library/Application Support/AddressBook' '/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/', and '~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist' Mail: '/Library/Mail/', '~/Library/Mail/', and...
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    Uninstall Program, Problem

    Assuming you dragged the icons, from the disk image window, of the respective applications, to a location on your hard disk drive - you can drag the 'Desktop' disk images to the trash can. Each dragged icon will disappear. If you, by chance, launch (open, run) an application from the...
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    itunes help PLEASE HELP!

    01. Posting a request, and then again and again - all within nine (9) minutes ... 02. Information not provided: Macintosh model, MacOS X version, 'iTunes' version, manufacturer and type of disc burner [1], manufacturer and type of media, was Mac (very) recently updated? - if so, what was / were...
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