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That is done automatically under OS X. See: http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html Item #41 (This site is for OS X 10.2, and is now mostly out of date. I haven't heard anyone complain of a problem with generic icons under OS X in years.) No, I believe you are referring to defragmenting...

The biggest difference that I've noticed so far with 10.5.7 is that running Disk Utility/Repair Permissions is drastically faster! In fact, it takes just a few seconds! Is it the same for others?

When it says, "please restart" does it look like the picture on this page?: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1392 if so, it is a kernel panic. Kernel panics are usually caused by a hardware problem, such as a cheap USB hub, bad RAM, or some other peripheral that your Macintosh is not getting...

I used to recommend DriveSavers, but I can't anymore. The last time that I sent a client there, they had raised their prices to ridiculous levels (they quoted something like $4,000 dollars.) Not only that, but they refused to do a mirror-image recovery of the drive, and even worse, they would...

Well, first, DO NOT continue to use your old computer (the one with the erased files on it)! If you save anything new to your hard drive it is quite possible that doing so will overwrite the trashed files you want to recover, causing them to become unrecoverable. Any one of these programs...

Many recent Macs, even MacBooks, support gigabit (1000Base-T) Ethernet. http://support.apple.com/kb/SP504 It depends on which model Macintosh you are upgrading from whether or not it also supports gigabit Ethernet. But some G4 PowerBooks supported gigabit ethernet...

Migration Assistant works great over Ethernet if you have a MacBook Air. Or in any case it works great over a wireless network. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2288 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322

For those lamenting the loss of FireWire Target Disk mode (due to a lack of FireWire in the new MacBooks and MacBook Air), this USB product provides a similar means for transferring files at high speed from one computer to another without having to do any configuration or install additional...

This excellent article might help: Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060911080447777 The first steps that I always take when confronting a Mac that is experiencing kernel panics is to: 1. Disconnect all peripherals other than...

If it's available, you might as well try it. Have you tried booting into Safe Boot as I suggested?

These laptops have no PRAM battery, so they can't boot if the battery is 100% dead. Have you given the new battery time to charge? Did you try booting into Safe Mode to see if the problem is a software one?

All right!!! I know how frustrating it is to lose your data. I'm glad that you got it back.

If you mail out a newsletter in Pages format, there are two potential problems. The first is that all of your recipients may not have a copy of the Pages application. Since Pages uses a proprietary file format (unless you Save As into another format when saving), it is unlikely that anyone...

Try booting into Safe Boot mode by starting up while holding down the Shift key until you see the rotating cursor. If the machine starts up normally, you most likely have a software problem, and we can troubleshoot from there. (In fact, just booting up into Safe Boot mode once, and then...

Whether your photos are on your digital camera (or on a removable digital memory card in your camera), or they are on your Mac's hard drive, but were trashed or otherwise deleted, you can recover them with any of these: Data Rescue II (I recommend this one) http://prosofteng.com/ Stellar...

Have a look at this mini-tutorial and see if it offers a solution: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070327092656342