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In the Mac mail.app when I search all mailboxes or individual mail boxes for a word or phrase the "search entire message" option is grayed out and inaccessible although all the other search options are available like "from," "to," and "subject." I've checked the mail.app preferences and don't...

**** SOLVED **** I partitioned the external drive and backed up to the new partition, and voila! The backup works! Even backing up to a USB drive connected to my Airport Extreme! I recently upgraded to Lion, and now I'm having problems with Time Machine. When the backup starts I get the...

I've been running widgets on my OS X desktop for a few years, but since I've upgraded to Lion, the method of getting them onto the desktop doesn't work anymore. I used to be able to bring up Dashboard with F12, then click and hold on a widget then hit F12 again and drag the widget and it'd stay...

I have an early 2008 17" MacBook Pro with a 250gb hard drive, running Snow Leopard. I want to create a 70gb partition so I can install a second Snow Leopard OS so I can upgrade that to Lion without messing with my original OS partition. When I use disk utility to partition the hard drive, it...

Can anyone tell me what "Sophos" is? I believe it's something to do with Antivirus in MacKeeper. Whatever it is, it's generating a ton of error messages, and I'd like to remove it, but can't find any reference to "Sophos" anywhere on my MacBook Pro. This is driving me nuts, please help...

I have a 17" MacBook Pro that just died on me, it's getting the "curtain of death" kernel panic errors. I've tried resetting pram, and other resets, but nothing has worked. I don't have the cash to buy any of Apple's overpriced, underperforming replacement components, so I'm trying to find out...

I'm attempting to update my Windows XP Pro SP3 virtual machine using my Windows XP CD. (I'm running OS X 10.6.7, with Parallels 6.0). When I insert the XP CD into the Superdrive, it sits there for a minute or two, then ejects itself. This does NOT happen with any other CD or DVD I've tried...

I'm running OS X 10.6.7 on a 17" MacBook Pro, on a home network. I have 3 Windows XP Pro SP3 PC's on the network. I can connect from the Mac to any of the PC's, but I can not connect to the MacBook Pro from any of the PC's. I can ping the IP address of the MacBook Pro and get replies from the XP...

I'm running OS X 10.6.6 on a 17" MacBook Pro, with an Airport Extreme Base Station. I've hooked up 2 1TB Western Digital My Book external drives to the AEBS via a 4 port USB hub. They work perfectly (even with Time Machine!). Today I attached a WD 40 GB external drive to the AEBS, via the...

In my .bashrc file I have the following function to remove the tabs in a file. The filename (alogt2.pl) is passed in as the $1 parameter. I get the following error: sed: 1: alogt2.pl command a expects \ followed by text function fix_tabs() { if [ -z $1 ] ; then echo echo...

I'm having trouble reformatting a WD 1TB external drive. I'm using Disk Utility, and it gets to the point where it's shrinking the original disk, then just seems to hang for hours. Is there a terminal command, or a utility that I can use to see if anything is actually being done to the disk...

I'm running OS X 10.6.4 on a 17" MacBook Pro. For backups, I have a WD 1TB external drive, and I use Time Machine. I don't have Time Machine on all the time, as I don't need backups that frequently. The last successful backup I did was 7/16/10. I attempted to do another backup on 9/20, and...

I have been able to connect to my XP machines from Finder in OS X 10.6.4 with no problem for months. Now I'm getting strange errors. First, when I attempt to connect to server0, I get a connection failed error. Then I click on "Connect As" and a login dialog comes up with the registered users...

I'm running OS X 10.6.4 on a 17" MacBook Pro. I've just replaced my Linksys wireless router because my connection would intermittently drop, and the Apple experts in support found no reason for it on the MBP. My replacement router is an Airport Extreme. Two main reasons I bought it are: 1...

I have a 17" MacBook Pro and a MicroTek X6EL SCSI flatbed scanner. Obviously, there's no SCSI card in a MacBook Pro, so can anyone tell me if there's any way to use a SCSI scanner with a MacBook Pro? I kind of doubt it, but I thought I'd post this anyway, just in case there's some kind of...

I need to be able to mount samba shares and use them from within Terminal. I've searched and experimented all day, and can't get it to work. The latest attempt I made was: peterv@MBP17.local<619>$: pwd /Users/peterv/smb Fri May 14 13:18:02 EDT 2010 ~/smb -> peterv@MBP17.local<620>$...