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Hi Guys Ive just bought a 300gb internal seagate barracuda sata drive to replace my 160 that ive been using a a second drive partitioned into 2. My G5 is mainly for music production use so i have a 160 root drive partitioned into 2 (100+60) and now a 300gb which im going to need to...

cheers Bob... problem sorted!

Hi Guys I cant seem to be able to delete a .sit folder from my desktop. I tried running a program called force delete but this didnt seem to work for some reason (sure it used to under 10.3.7) Any ideas? I dont know how to use the terminal Cheers Tom

Thanks, that cleared that up from me and i now have it working from text edit. Cheers I.F :D

I was lead to believe that osx comes with Mac speech (text to speak program) pre-installed.... well i got this info from a website, so it may not be true. Does anyone know anymore information about this and/or how I can get this program as my version of 10.3.9 doesnt seem to have it. The mac...

Hi Ive got a problem ive noticed in both Finder and Mac:msn. Whenever i restart my mac the view settings in my boot drive are all messed up. There is always 2 or 3 folders out of line and i have to correct this on the 1st window i open and then again in the applications window which seems...

Hi Guys My Mac (or should i say OSX) has developed some very minor but annoying all the same, problems. When i restart i find that several of the folder icons (within the boot drive) have moved slightly causing things to look untidy. Its always the same ones and to the same place...

Thank you!

Ok i see thanks. In addition, can you specifically password protect a particular folder?

...so other poeple can use my mac but not access important documents in that drive?? Im running osx 10.3.8

Hi Guys I've been using my Mac for mostly making music so i have a lot of audio files and applications spread across 2 drives each partitioned. Ive recently started using my main mac for pretty much everything now so i want to organise things away from just being organised for music and...

Another tip is that if you have already clicked a link to a .mov file and quicktime has opened it in the webpage, you can quickly save it to the hard drive by clicking 'file' and 'save as..' from the drop down menu in safari.

My friend had this problem when installing a cracked version of stuffit. Obviously dont take this the wrong way but if it is a cracked version it could well be the same dodgy version that could be floating around on the net and may be why it doesnt work so well. He deleted all the preferences...

Doh silly me! Right guys, only 5 mins after posting this i worked it out for myself so i will post the cure so anyone should need it themselves (mods feel free to delete this if you think it is of no use) As you would imagine (but i totally overlooked) if you go to 'System preferences'...

Hi Guys I have an annoying problem in OSX with regards to burning cds. Im fully updated to 10.3.8 and the problem only started after that upgrade. Im a toast user normally and have never once had a problem but now when i put a blank cdr in something in finder (not i tunes) trys to take...

Excellent that did the trick....thanks!

Hi and thanks for the welcome. If i look in syetem preferences -> Accounts i see 2 accounts. Mine and the old one. When i click delete it does what it should (ie creating the dmg in users-> deleted) but the account is still visible at login and in the above mentioned accounts folder. As...

Hi Guys Luckily ive been browsing your forums for a while and never had to register, but now. unluckily (for me) i have come across something i just cant get my head round. Ive just picked up a 2nd hand G5 (2Gb DP, 4gb Ram running 10.2.8) which is mainly for music production use. When i...