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Ave, I have Adobe Photoshop CS and Macromedia Studio MX 2004 installed on my PowerMac G5 Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I just recently got a 30 Day Trial DVD Set of the Adobe CS3 Master Collection Suite. I'd like to install & try it - but I don't want to remove or have any problems for my existing...

Ave, Alright I download, compiled & installed the latest pure-ftpd ftp server from pureftpd.org .. and it seems to have started off ok. Since there is no Leopard Compatible PureFTPD Manager out yet, I need to create/modify users manually. Does anyone know how to do that for Pure-FTPD FTP...

Ave, I wrote a small AppleScript to mount network shares on share points. The scripts works fine in Panther (10.3) but does not work in Leopard (10.5). Any clues how I can automate this following shell script: (PS: I don't care if I use AppleScript, Automator, or something else - I just...

Ave, I have two hard drives in my PowerMac G5 - One has Leopard (10.5) on it and one has Panther (10.3.9) on it. I dragged my folders that were on Panther onto my Leopard hard drive. Now all those folders have screwed up permissions. Anytime I edit a file, it's either locked or I have to...

Ave, Somehow my PHP won't access, won't even acknowledge the existence of a file that is outside the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder. This was never a a problem before in any Mac version - it just started with Leopard. I don't know what has changed where, in httpd.conf or php.ini or...

Ave, I used to run Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther, and used a neat shell command to mount a Windows Share on a Share Point in my Mac. Using the Share Point, different PHP Scripts in my Web Sites hosted on my Apache Web Server were able to access the files on the windows share. Following is the...

Ave, Running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Title says it all - accidentally (moronically) deleted "httpd" from the /usr/sbin folder. Is there any way to retrieve/restore the file? Thanks!

Ave, My problem stems from the fact that the PHP 5.2.4 that came with Leopard is pretty rudimentary, hardly any extensions pre-compiled. Unfortunately the current Entropy PHP 5.2.4 is NOT compatible with Leopard - upon installation it gives the infamous "postflight script error". My...

Ave, Is it possible to import Entourage mail boxes (perhaps even account information etc) into Apple Mail (Leopard) ? I had been using Microsoft Entourage but would like to switch to the new Apple Mail that came with the Leopard installation. Couldn't find any utility/import feature...

Ave, I know about DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut, Compressor - all very good but very expensive Video Encoding / DVD Authoring applications. I was wondering if there are any cheaper options? Like in Windows - you can go high-end with Sony Vegas and alike, or go low-cost but hight-quality with...

Ave, Alright, yesterday by mistake I deleted the etc & var aliases - the two hidden files that sit on the macintosh hd root folder. Of course my system wouldn't work after that, rebooting to an ugly unix prompt saying things like "/etc/master.passwd: no such file or directory". Following...

Ave, I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.9 on a PowerMac G5. I just want to use the built-in FTP Server that comes packed with the OS. I'm able to use the user that is defined as a Mac user, however, I don't know how to add more users. Does anyone know how to add/configure users into this FTP...

Ave, Out of the blue - All of a sudden - Out of nowhere! I have the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 installed and i've been using it on a daily basis for the last 2.5 years now. Suddenly today it's applications won't launch anymore. Here's what's happening: Dreamweaver MX 2004: Bounces...

Ave, My man pages seem to have vanished!! No matter what I try to man, i get nothing but: "No manual entry for <command>" I have MacPorts installed, so i did "sudo port install man" to install latest man pages, which it did ... but it didn't make any difference. I can't get man to pull...

Ave, I&#8217;ve run into a permissions snag. I have Apache Web Server running on Mac OS X with PHP. I have a folder on a windows machine mounted on my Mac OS X as a share using the &#8220;mount &#8211;t smbfs //user@192.168.1.2/ShareName Share&#8221;. The &#8220;user&#8221; has full...

Ave, Mac OS X (10.3.9) I've written an AppleScript that does two things: Restart the Apache Web Server Mount an SMB share on a pre-defined share point. My script is performing the second function fine, but restarting the Apache Web Server is giving a problem. Here's my script...

Ave, Suddenly, out of the blue, the "man" command in my Terminal Window has stopped retrieving any results. For any command i try to 'man', it gives me: no manual entry for <command> Even "man man" gives me the same. I have no clue what happened! And how to fix it! Any suggestions...

Ave, Here's the problem. My Mac OS X is connected to a Windows 2003 Server. There is a Shared Folder on that server and the Mac OS X User has Full Permissions over that folder. That folder is Mounted on my Mac OS X using SMB. The Mac OS X has an apache web server, php and hosts my...