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    After improperly ejecting drive, I get the spinning beach ball WAYYY too much

    Hello, A few weeks ago I hooked up a external hard drive (a vantec nexstar 3 usb 2/eSata enclosure witha 500gb maxtor inside) to my g4 mac mini. Like a doofus, I unplugged the usb cable before ejecting the drive, got, the error message about the drive possibly being damaged, and sure enough...
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    automatically sync folders on file save?

    Hello, does anyone know if there is any solution out there that will sync two folders on the saving of a file to a "watched" folder? All I need to happen is when I save a file to a folder, it gets automatically synced to another folder, without me having to mess with it. thanks, rich
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    Xserve or no?

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    is this network setup good?

    We just got an xserve for the studio. The thing is we actually have two offices, which are located down the hall from each other. So i was thinking of this scenario as the setup: STUDIO A: The xserve sits here, and connects to the outside internet and our local network. All the...
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    We need to get a server..XServe or just plain desktop?

    We are looking to get a server here at our studio (it's a mixed network of macs/pcs). right now we are looking at 5-6 connections to the server...but we're thinking that's probably going to grow steadily in the future. We are thinking we definitely want a mac, but we aren't sure if we should...
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    combine ical, mail, address book?

    Hey, this is probably an old topic but we were just discussing it today. We really like iCal, Mail, and Address Book, but we don't like having the three separate apps open. We were using Entourage specifically because of this, but we'd really like to move away from it, and to the i-Apps. Any...
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    dot-underscore files when copying from os x to pc

    Whenever we try and copy files from os x to a pc (win xp) we always get additional files that are named the same thing, except with a ._ at the beginning of it, and it is ghosted out. So if i copy a file named "1.jpg" from a mac over to the pc, there looks like there is two files, "1.jpg" and...
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    my ipod is frozen, what do i do?

    i have the u2 ipod and its just froze in mid song...even the backlight is is lit and wont trun off. is there a way to reboot the ipod? all the clickwheel buttons are useless as this point.
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    connecting to 802.11g network without airport

    Ok, first things first...i bought this 3 in 1 motorola package of a wireless router, a notebeck wireless card and desktop PCI card, think that it would be a given that macs and motorola stuff would be compatible, or that i could at least go and download a mac driver for the pci card. I set...
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    Any news on MacWorldSF?

    I'm thinking of getting a new G5 (either the iMac or desktop, havent decided yet), and was wondering if it would be worth it to hold out until then...
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    computer crashed during OS update

    not sure what do here. heres the situation: While installing the latest OS update through Software Update, the computer crashed. Now when the computer tries to boot i get error messages saying: disk0s10:0x8 (UNDEFINED). disk0s10:0x8 (UNDEFINED). disk0s10:0x8 (UNDEFINED)...
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    saving files across the network and permissions dilemma

    Hey, I recently set up an imac to use as a file server for our studio. There are two of us here, each with our own computer (one pc and one mac) and the imac. What we are running into is when one of us creates a file or folder on the imac, the other one doesnt have good enough permissions...
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    is there anyway to speed up browsing a remote comp?

    Hey...i mount my computer at work (bahaha - realized how that sounded as i typed it) using afp on my home computer. everythign works great, b ut browsing the drive through a finder windo wis pretty slow. is there anyway to speed that up?
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    port problems

    ok, heres my situation: 3 computers behind a router: an imac (ip: 106), a g4(111) and a pc (108). Now, the imac is an ftp server...but, i also want to have ftp access to the g4. I've opened up port 21 on the router to send the ftp traffic to the imac (that's working fine). I am trying...
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    i think my router decided to stop port forwarding...

    It was working, but now I cant connect to my computer through the router using anything..ftp, ssh, http,nothing. I have all the ports forwarding, and i tried resetting the router, and i got nothing, and ideas what the problem could be?
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