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I have an iMac circa 2011 running 10.6.8 and want to install El Capitan. My question is that I have a couple of external drives with 10.6.8 compatible software that I still use. If I clone my existing HD to the external, install El Capitan and later wish to reboot from the external to use the...

G5 with OS X10.4. Recently noticed the when I Get Info to change permissions for a folder to read & write for owner, group, & others the Apply to enclosed items is grayed out. Never really had to change this before, but wanted to do this to sent a group of files to someone else for their use...

Running a G5 single processor with Tiger & Firefox. My dsl account is with yahoo/sbc. What I want to do is sent a holiday greeting to several people, many of which I haven't contacted for a while, and want to embed an image into the email. Not attach. Attachments can scare people away and I...

Anyone work with FontExplorer X? I'm having problems that I can't get an answer to. Helv and Helv Bold are resident system fonts. When I try to import/add my Helv library with like about 30 faces, I get an error message not allowing me to do so because of the existing fonts. Since the...

Ran Onyx on my G5 sp only to find that my Hard Drive folder is in a strange order (list).When I went to View/Arrange to put thing in alpha order Arrange and CleanUp were greyed out. Thought I understood how to use Onyx, but apparently I don't. How can I change the sequence on the contents of...

Anyone have any suggestion for the Best wireless mouse for the money. My G5 SP OS X 10.38 is NOT Bluetooth compatible. Been looking at the Logitech version that does not require Bluetooth. Really cheap enough, but is it one of those - You get what you pay for? Thanks

A couple of months ago I got my New G5 (love it). And was playing around with iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie and iDVD. Showed this to a friend, who is strictly peecee. Totally impressed him. iLife won't run on a peecee, so do any of you know something close for a peecee head without breaking the bank...

Just purchased an additional internal hard drive (160 gig) for my G5 OSX 10.3.8 single processor. After installing the drive I was told that it was not recognized, erase and format? I said yes, then was presented which a whole array of options, partition, etc. All I wanted to do is copy (with...

Recently had to reinstall system software (G4 running OSX 10.3.8) and got pretty everything back working as before. However, I have an annoyng problem. When I drag a PhotoShop file to the PS icon in the dock PS launches but will not open the document. Looked in PS prefs and couldn't find a...

I've had a 8500 for a while and just bought a new G5. The 8500 has zip drive and a ton of stuff on the hard drive I want to get to the G5 and both are connected to a hub. How do I go about connecting the two so they will see each other. The light on the hub shows that they are both active. Now...

I recently purchased a new G5 just at the first of the year and I am thinking about getting a wireless mouse and maybe a keyboard. The $60 mouse requires a $40 adapter unless you have Bluetooth built-in. How do I know if Bluetooth is present or not. Apple told me that unless I bought it...

Anyone else really dislike OS X "Find". There's got to be something better. I got spoiled by using MacUser's FindPro. What a great little tool!! After the rapid search, you could copy, move, open, trash plus other options. Anyone know of anything similar to find files/items? Thanks

Any plans for forums on individual applications, PhotoShop, Illustrator, etc?