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Two things: 1. Before you cloned the drive, did you partition it via Disk Utility? Open Disk Utility. Click the drive on the left. Click the Partition tab on the right. Select Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). Choose the number of partitions from the popup menu (1 Partition, if that's all you...

This problem is back again. It went away when I reinstalled the OS about 6 or 8 months ago. Everything was working fine until recently. It works when I create another user account, but not on my main account. Any ideas, or ideas about where I can go to look for help with this one?

Have you attempted a restart? (To others: I know this seems like a rather simple thing that one would not think of asking, but I've read other posts on here that have ended with something like "Everything's OK now, I just restarted", so I thought I'd ask.) As far as downloading OS X, there is...

You don't want to use WAV files. I would look for something that is good at MP3 compression. I use phone recording software on my Windows Mobile device, and it outputs MP3 files (as well as several other formats). You want something like that. Uncompressed WAV files are going to eat a lot of...

Not all FireWire drives are bootable. It depends on the manufacturer, and many manufacturers don't even know for sure if their models will be bootable on a Mac, especially if they deal mostly with PC users and don't cater to a Mac audience. (At least, that's what I've read in a few places.)...

Seems that the Intel Macs can boot from an external USB drive, but not the Power PC Macs, based on what I've been reading since I posted the above question. Is that correct, or am I missing something?

But how do you install OS X on an external USB drive in the first place? Is this possible? I attempted to do so, and the installer told me that "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume." So, if I can boot from the USB drive, how can I get the OS...

So this is an OS 9 installation, not Classic in OS X?

There is also a very simple app, called FinderCleaner, that will clean these files from removable drives and folders. It even ejects the removable drive for you, when finished. TinkerTool is great, too, but for the other features it gives you in many other areas.

Others have pointed you to the preference in iTunes for running it from an external drive, so I'll just say that I keep my library on an external FW drive, and I used to keep most everything on that drive, prior to upgrading the drive in my iBook, including iPhoto. Everything runs great, too...

Or, you can turn on full keyboard access, so that you can use the Tab key to move from one button to another. Open System Preferences, and then the Keyboard and Mouse pane. Once there, click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab at the top of the pane. At the bottom of this screen, click the radio button...

I checked in this location, but there is no Desktop Pictures folder. I ran Classic (because I'm not sure if I ever have since my rebuild), just to make sure it is not somehow created the first time it is run, and it's not.

Where is the article that you used to to remove Entourage from the Spotlight index? You'll need to reverse the steps. Post the article and we'll take a look for you.

Yeah, I've been playing with it myself today. It seems that iconfactory.com doesn't have many iContainer icon sets for CandyBar, however. I also use Pixadex (you can download it from the same Web site) to manage a few thousand icons that I've collected in the past year or so. It works well with...

OK, this is my last update to this question. Sorry for all the info, but I wanted to preserve my steps. Better that I do this and screw up my system, when I have a fresh backup, then for you to screw up yours. I just tested out CandyBar, and it's slick. I changed the trash icons in a few...

I replaced my Dock.app file using a backup that I had made with TransParent Dock (which is a GREAT app, by the way), and got everything back to the way it was (i.e. - the Dock is now owned by the system again, it's the original file, etc.). However, the sounds for duplicating files and folders...

OK, so I tested the method I posted above. It worked. The only problem is that I noticed that my Trash sounds no longer work. Neither does the file/folder paste sound. Anyone know if that is a side-effect of the method above?

To change the icons that appear in the Dock for Trash and Finder, you need to edit a couple PNG images inside the Dock application. Browser to the following location. /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources To get into Dock.app, you are going to need to browse to...

I have a 12" iBook G4 running at 1.2GHz with 1.2GB of RAM and 32MB of video RAM. The box for Civilization IV says that is requires a 1.8GHz processor (or above) and 64MB of video RAM. My RAM beats the minimum requirements, but one out of three might not be enough. I've played games like...

Found the issue: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051003071125690 It was a null value in the speakable items for Address Book. If you have a company defined in Address Book, but you don't have the company name entered, you get this problem. I created a new user account, and copied...