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Guess you are right. The content of the plist is being kept in memory all the time. That's why the plist is changed everytime a widget is being moved on screen, not when the Dashboard is finally closed. No chance to achieve what I'd like to do. Thanks for your helpful hints!

Exploring the Dashboard, I found that screen positions and a list of all opened widgets are written to the file "Users/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist" everytime a widget is moved on screen or the Dashboard is closed. The strange thing is that the Dashboard does NOT load that...

Hi everybody, yesterday I purchased Acrobat Professional 7 upgrade from the German Adobe Store. For some reason the resulting file "Acro_70_Pro_Gre_Upg.dmg.bin" can't be decompressed/mounted by Stuffit Expander 9. Also, Toast Titanium 6 can't decode/mount the file: It just tries to create an...

You'll hardly find an inkjet producing reliable CMYK color proofs without additional RIP software. I have been using an EPSON Stylus Photo 1290 with iProof X PostScript RIP (http://www.iproofsystems.com) for several years unter PageMaker, Freehand, InDesign and others, and the results are quite...

You're right about the need for a genuine Apple backup solution with advanced features. I've been waiting for it since I purchased my first Mac in 1984 here in Bavaria, Germany. Purchased Dantz Retrospect about ten years ago, performing synchronized backups of all internal disks every evening...

THANKS! Didn't know that feature yet. Do you think that creating a disk image this way would be a better choice than using Carbon Copy Cloner?

THANKS A LOT! Already cloned my system disk to a big FireWire drive, launched from there, and it worked flawlessly. Just SnapzPro (Ambrosia) required to be registered again. Guess that registration issues won't be a major problem.

Hi everyone, just copying the folders "System", "Users", "Library" and "Documents" from the current startup disk to another disk doesn't make that disk a second startup disk, right? Anyway, that disk isn't shown in the System Preferences as a valid system disk. How can I frequently make a...

There is a problem with ElGato EyeTV (USB) concerning several webcam applications like SiteCam (NuSpectra). Although the video signal comes in via USB, SiteCam and other applications (BTV, EvoCam, ImageCaster, Oculus, ...) do not recognize EyeTV as a valid video source. I want to use a standard...