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    copying certain files from ibook to g5

    I know I can copy ALL of my files from my ibook, but I just want to copy over only a few folders from my desktop with firewire. How do I do this? I have been hooking up an external drive to the laptop, copying the folders, and then hooking the external to the G5. This takes forever though...
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    STRANGE CD burning problem -

    Since upgrading to Tiger, I have tried to burn CD's of images for safekeeping. I can put 100 images in a burn folder or drop them right into the CD on the desktop. I check them to be sure they are there and then burn. Once the burn is complet , I get a cd full of 100 images of the FIRST image on...
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    Music folder cant be found - iTunes and Tiger??

    I backed up my music folder in Panther before a clean install of Tiger. I installed Tiger and then brought over my music folder from the external and put it in my home directory. Open iTunes and it is empty. What am I doing wrong that it wont find my music?
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    Automater...can we make our own actions?

    I want to take certain mail, when it comes in, have it saved as a PDF and placed in a folder of my choice on my hard drive. IS there a way to create an action for these steps and have it run automatically when mail for a certain account comes in? How do I create an action?
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    weird mail2 problem

    When I get mail on my .mac account in mail, I can read it but as soon as I click off of it, it disappears. Anyone know why it does this and what I can do to stop it? I cant find my mail anywhere when it disappears.
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    Anyone else get the email about the QT movie on Tiger?

    I got an invite but had to wipe my hard drive to install this thing...I now have no invite. Can someone please give me the link to it?
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    creating a backup...what is included?

    If I created a backup image to an external hard drive, what is included in that backup? Will all of my mail and all of my data be securely backed up or will I lose that? Also, if I do this and clean install Tiger, can I pull infor from that backup and place it in Tiger? Pardon me for asking...
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    Finder Question...help!

    Normally, when I insert a DVD/CD into the DVD/CD tray, that CD shows up on the left side of the finder window after I name it. i can then drag files into the DVD and once they are on the dvd, I can click the "nuclear" symbol and burn it. For some reason, I cant see the CD nor the "burn" symbol...
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    Cant use Stuffit Expander

    For some reason, i cant use stuffit expander on my new G5. I downloaded an FTP client and tried to install it, but the error pops up saying Stuffit Expander has all of a sudden quit and asks me to report the problem to apple. What can i do to fix this?
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    weird Entourage problem

    for some reason there is about 14 emails in my .mac account on Entourage that I cant delete. they do not wshow up in my mail on mac.com, but they will not delete from entourage. Any ideas?
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    stupid stupid iDisk

    Why is it that I have 250 megs of space, of which NONE is used, but when i go to put a movie in my Public folder it says I dont have enough free space? This is aggrivating me. I have synched it and synced it until I am tired of it. I cant get the space it needs. What am i doing wrong? I...
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    Microsoft Office and student discount question

    Im a student...not a traditional student, but an adult student going to a technical college. How does Microsoft verify that I am a student with the discount for the student version? Does anyone know?
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    Format an external?

    I have two external hard drives, one of which is NTFS (yeah, i know, but I was running XP then). the other is Fat32. The Fat32 I can read and write TO, but the NTFS, i cant, obviously. What I want to do is take all of the files (wedding imags from my weddings) and move them to the Fat32 drive...
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    Couple of newbie questions

    Hey guys...if these have been asked before, please forgive me, but I need answewrs. I have two questions about networking the Mac and a PC 1. I can see the network, save files to and from the mac to the pc, but no matter what i do, I cant print to the printer hooked up to the PC. It always...
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