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hi all just booted up this morning and noticed (heard) a lot of disk drive activity. wondering what was going on i looked at Activity monitor and mdsimport and mds? is taking up a lot of CPU time, its been going on for 10 mins now.. anyone know what is going on. i spent a lot of time...

hi all whenever i download a .ram file with safari, it assigns it incorrectly an adobe golive icon and so boots up GoLive, which is annoying.. in prefs how do i access the file helpers so i can change the assignement to quicktime or realPlayer??? regards andy

hi all if i do a clone of my osx (safari) hard drive running on a G4 with all permissions etc using CCC, can i then clone that back onto a G5 HD with no problems?? regards andy

yes thats it, the 17" display is fom an old g3, i've worked out i can connect this the one of the o/ps via and adapter, but i dont know what standard the other o/p is on my card.. new info, using the ever usefull wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi) i've come up with......i need a...

hi all, it says in the literature that my, nvidea 2mx card in my g4 supports 2 monitors, the lcd one i'm using uses the small 3x5 pin (half inch long) one.. how do i get my old apple 15' monitor to use the other one, the male connector on the monitor is about 1" long and has 13 pins, the...

hi all as a lot of people reccomend i dont use norton utilities with osx can anyone reccomend anything else that does a similar thing. A

hi all i'm running 3 macs in my house using ethanet and a netgear router, which also has wireless (not used because i have no wireless cards). now.. i was looking at my network to get something from the other mac when i spotted 2 odd folders in the network pane, i navigated to these and...

hi all my google maps widget was working great now just gets stuck in search mode. have reinstalled app from apple but still the same.. any ideas. A

thanks bjarne, one thing, when you say 'set a new value' for the home directory, what do you mean?? do you mean set a new location?? if so how, because the value its on at the moment doesnt relate to the drive the homw directory is using . A

hi all as i have 2 hard drives i want to use one for osx system and the other for ALL files documents photos music etc.. so when i backup or archive i just do the 'documents' drive but Tiger seems to default to the user on the osx drive.. eg moving i tunes music to 'documents' means that when...

hi all does a geForce4 MX graphics card work in a G4 733megs digi audio model?? i'm trying to get a dual (extended) display setup going. BTW card also has to work with OS9 because i also still use this for photoshop because its faster.. regards andy

anyone know if its possible to run 2 monitors on the new g5 imacs?? this doesnt come as standard but is there a work-around.. andy

thanks will try that, BTW whats the diference between the library on the hard drive and the one in the user?? both contain pref folder, plus lots of other similar stuff?? regards

thanks but no luck, still doing it.

thanks er no.. can you talk me through that, i'm new to osx and the lack of a sys folder (like os9) has got me a little lost.. A

hi all my dock keeps on freezing, it goes 'sticky' when running the cursor over it with magnification on, then it freezes on an icon. i can unfreeze by opening a new finder window (apple+n). but its annoying.. anyone have any ideas?? running tiger 10.4 on g4 733megs, 512 ram.

hi all from the sys profiler i have a:: CODEC: Texas Instruments TAS3001C soundcard in my g4, and want to get audio in,, cant find a mic socket, is this possible or do i have to get a new soundcard??? also is it possible to alter the overall tone (eq) of my audio out?? i can do this for...

very informative cheers andy

hi all i've just bought a second hand g4, which although old, is fast enough and has a satisfactory spec for my needs.... but i want to change the owners name, and shortname, passwords etc.. passswords are easy but the shortname is a problem, i cant seem to create a user account with all...

thanks, didnt have any of those because did a mininum install.. usefull stuff though.. BTW in that folder/Library/Application Support/.. whats mindvision??