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I just upgraded to Yosemite and now every time I start there is an empty "MerpAD Database Daemon" file in a folder named "Recovered files" in my trash can. I empty the trash but next time I start the OS it's there again. (If I don't empty the trash, there are two of them on next boot!) There...

I used the disk utility to repartition my main drive, formatted the new one as NTSF, and used Boot Camp to load Windows 7. I fiddled quite a lot with Win7 and finally got it looking and acting the way I want it to. When I get back to Mac OS X (10.9.3 3.4 GHz Core i7, 12 GB 1333 DDR3, 256G solid...

I am getting a dozen or so "My Dear Mr." emails a day offering me a million dollars if I'd only agree to blah blah blah. This wasn't a problem when they arrived in my INBOX. (I deleted them all so they are rule-erased when I quit the Mail session.) Now they are going into the BULK mailbox...

I have MS Office running on my new (mid-2011) iMac (OS X 10.8) and my wireless mouse seems overly sensitive when I'm inside Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Click-and-drag, e.g., to select an area in Excel causes the data to jump several columns before I can drag it. Selecting part of a drawing in...