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  1. philippe99

    Hard Disk Space

    Hi Obviously, something is eating your drive space, most of the time an application/InputManager/haxie not really ready for 10.4.11 and sendind tons of error messages to the system (logfile). Internet connection problems (DSL) can also be responsible for a huge volume of error messages First...
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    Slow Tiger

    Hi and welcome on macosx.com forums Jerry. Free hard space What about the free space on your drive ? Tiger is able to request up to 8G (check in my config PPC) for swapping memory onto files, especially if many applications are opened on the same time. So, one say that keeping at least 15% of...
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    software for making cards/menus (help)

    May I suggest you the Ragtime sotware http://www.ragtime-online.com/ You've a 30 days trial perios which must be quite enough to design your menu. In the "good old times" of Ragtime 5.x, the RagTimeSoloV5.6.4 release of this software was free but limited in some areas. This specific release is...
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    Toast Titanium freezes up when "toasting" a .avi

    If, through Toast, you plan to re-encode the .avi as a DVD (Video tab), Toast is well known to be so slow. And depending on the codec used to create the .avi file, Toast can be slower... yes, it is possbile ;) In my case, a typical 20' minutes when I drag a 700MB .avi file to the Toast803's...
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    ibackup or time machine?

    As far as I see around me (french forums) .. I do not have Leo... TimeMachine is very powerfull. However, in the 10.5.1 or older release of Leo, TimeMachine is very slow with certain brands of external USB2 drive ... and very..really very, very.. slow on USB2 'myBook' WesternDigital drive. On...
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    Terminal question for a Mac User

    Hi and welcome to macosx.com forums May I redirect you to these two pages which will give you basic information, then advanced on the Unix scripting way http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/bash-tute.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ These tutos are for bash Unix (yes, there is several Unix...
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    Confusing Error Message

    Janet, welcome to macosx.com Obviously, you face problems when your mac try to read the login information I would try to repair the disk and the permissions following this article: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
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    to use my new $200 ipod i need to buy a $130 operating system?

    Before buying Tiger for your iPod, let's Yamipod a chance. http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/screenshots/ It manually manages your iPod outside iTunes...but sometimes has difficulties to "see" the iPod And, well, there are other programs like this, whatever freeware-shareware-or...
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    My First Mac

    Vanostade (1) quel iMac as-tu ? les 1ers imac G5 blanc (les 1,7GHz 17'') sont réputés pour souffrir de la chaleur (2) pour récupérer tes Hotmail dans mail, il te faut un plug-in, du genre 'httpmail': http://mac-gratuit.fr/gratuit-266.html; je ne sais pas si cela fonctionne avec un hotmail.fr...
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    Mac Os Tiger Not Installing

    There is no problem to install Tiger on your machine. Did you select your internal drive as "Target Volume" ? Has your internal drive enough space to perform the install (around 5GB to be sure) .. especially if the "Archive and Install" option is selected ? Regards Phil
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    MacTheRipper

    MTR is a ripper, so it will only extract the files from the DVD... several files if you rip the whole DVD... two (movie+audio) if you extract one chapter But you'll get .VOB files as DVD contains VOB files To obtain other format (like .AVI or DIVX), you need to re-encode what you've...
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    Drive Errors Burning Data Dvd

    Buffer underrun means that the burning process is too slow (due to a bad media most of the times) for the SD. In Toast, burner settings (alt-R), Advanced tab, is the "Buffer underrun protection" enabled (must be the default) ? If no, enable it and test again if yes, change media brand
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    Manually reset Airport

    Hi. I have a non-Wifi cable modem-router. Behing this router, an AccessPoint1 connected to the router by an Ethernet cable. A wood table above the AP1 (and router) a PPC G5 10.4.6 running Airport In another room (10m) a G3 10.3.9 connected to AP1 by a combination of "ethernet+AP2" (because...
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    Link Errors (All Invalid Links Here)

    You're right Cheryl. I was confused by the fact that the last -let's say- 10 tickets I answered recently never received a response from the user. So, I was thinking the system had a problem Regards Phil
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    Link Errors (All Invalid Links Here)

    I cannot understand what this notification means. When I click on the link, I go back to "My questions" which are all closed. Scott, since you officially jump to 2.0 code, how can I visually see if a user has answered me ?? I must confess I stop answering questions and close all my tickets...
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    [FIXED] Notifications points to bad entries list

    And I've just discover this afternoon that notifications means... answer from the customer I was sitting for two days before the Beta2 'My tickets' waiting for a colour change of some questions' title, indicating a possible response..as in the old system... and not paying any attention to the...
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    [FIXED] Notifications points to bad entries list

    Scott, in my account, I have a "(1) Notifications" clickable link which drives to a page full a "01/01/1970" entry dates At this time, I'm quite sure for not being involved in macosx.com, neither being able to use my first computer -a 1978 Commodore 64- ;) Philippe
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    An annoying -not important I think- problem

    Hi everybody. On my Imac G5 20 '' PPC 10.4.4 (June'05), as on all my friends equivalent machines, when the Mac boots, the initial grey screen changes its brightness while a horizontal is scrolling down. This occurs one just before the grey wheel appears indicating the start of the booting...
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    [FAQ]Powerbook G4 Not Detecting Any Usb External Hard Drives

    To a macosx client's question, another client (so not a tech) has made the following answer Q: i just recently bought a new powerboook G4 1.67ghz. Unfortunately i have tried 2 USB EXTERNAL hard drives and neither is being detected by the laptop..what to do? ipod works fine. R: The reason...
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