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I have been using time capsule for only a few weeks and I have noticed that the file it has created "Elliot Newman’s MacBook Pro_001b63936847.sparsebundle" only reads a file size of 95GB, when the disk I am backing up has 148GB used. Does this mean the backup doesnt contain all my files? I...

I had some issues with my system recently and so I decided to re-install osx completely from scratch, I backed up my old Users directory onto an external drive and then wiped my internal HD and reinstalled 10.5 Now I am up and running again, with a fresh start I would like to get my mail back...

would you trust this? here Its much cheaper than any other place I can find, but how trustworthy is buying from ebay like this? I have heard lots of bad stories...

I would like to buy this and setup using disk utility so that they are mirrored, and use the machines internal drive as the boot drive and keep it quite empty, for apps etc. The thing I was wondering is how would I setup the two external drives, I presume they would both have to be connected...

Hi all, I am looking at moving over from the desktop world to the laptop world, and instead of upgrading my G5 to a mac pro I am thinking that the macbook pro is a better option, the spec of these laptops looks really good. I was looking at the macbook pro 2.4 15 inch model, and would like...

Hi all, I have a G5 dual 2 ghz 2 gig Ram running Tiger, and I am thinking about changing over to a macbook pro as I am away from home quite a bit... I work in film visual effects and I go on set for photoshoots and my work always give me an underpowered dell with windows media viewer to...

I do a fair amount of heavy photoshop work, that brings even my G5 dual 2ghz with 2bg RAM to its knees (I work with 10K X 8K multi layered 16 bit RGB tifs). The thing I dont get is even when I quite photoshop, activity monitor says I am still using 1.8 gigs of ram. Only after a restart can I...

I have a G5 dual 2ghz PowerPC (the version with the 8 ram slots)... I have it configured with 4x 256mb ram and 2x 512mb to tally 2GB ram, I have a 250GB HD and the geforce 5200. I do a lot of hefty scanning - we are talking 500mb scans, so I often have vuescan and photoshop running with...

I cant seem to get imagemagick to install. I have downloaded from here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php and I have tried to follow the install guide, but im no command expert so I must be going wrong somewhere, heres what I do: I have downloaded...

has anyone used this little cool but huge storage device??? thinking of buying one!

looking at getting one for my windows machine... the 20incher. anything I need to know/purchase to make this work? I hear they need a special type of graphics card to work - is this the case? many thanks.

using a netgear router, everything works on the windows side of things, but when I try and connect my mac it doesnt work. I goto the airport icon to the top right menu bar, and select netgear as my network (so my airport does see there is a network) it then gives me a window with options of...

Installed all the latest wacom drivers, restarted, deleted all the wacom drivers and re-installed them, and still no joy. it used to work on my old G4 but now I have upgraded to a G5 and tiger its not working anymore. the wacom software is installed and shows up in preferences saying "a usb...

Is there a way of adding another dvi port to my G5? I currently have two 21" CRT, but I am now looking to purchase a 32" LCD TV, which, of course I want to plug into my G5 too, but I dont want to have to unplug one of my 21" CRT to plug the LCD in... can I get a splitter? Oh and I guess the...

Does anybody know if there is a way of getting focus-follows-mouse in OSX? I really would like it!

whenever I right click on something be it a link or a file it takes ages (well a few seconds) for the options window to appear, does anybody else think its slow to pop up? Running OSX 10.4.2 G5 dual 2ghz 2 gig ram

G5 dual 2.0 2gb ram tiger 10.4.2 Logitech optical mouse USB overdrive Just upgraded from a G4 to the above config and I am noticing that the mouse is freezing quite frequently for a second of so after I change a value or a field or adjust something in any application. I have chacked the mouse...

running tiger on g4 1.25 MDD, with an airport extreme card installed. We also have two xp machines that are using a belkin wireless router something like this: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493 When I goto assist...

All this time I have thought that apple have a true 64bit solution with the hardware (G5) and the OS (tiger). However, I was in a meeting today at work and we where discussing a 3D paint program (maxon.com). We had a rep in from maxon, and we got into discussing this program on XP, Linux, and...