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    Frozen Desktop

    Anyone run into the following? After first logging in there is no problem. At some point in the next few minutes, all the Desktop icons and associated lettering of all files are not clickable any more, nor dragable. It's like they are just pixels on the desktop. Everything is normal for...
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    Registering my computer in Mobile Me

    I see lots or errors identical to this one: ---------- Feb 12 13:10:36 lbrandtxp System Preferences[28031]: MobileMe login error: Error Domain=DotMacProxyErrorDomain Code=-103 UserInfo=0x6e9fd30 "Unable to access your .Mac user name or password. Please verify your .Mac member name and...
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    Registering my computer in Mobile Me

    In MobileMe System Preferences, in the Sync panel at the top, there is a checkbox entitled "Synchronize with MobileMe". When I try to check the box, it will not stay checked, keeps reverting to unchecked. I have an active and paid up Me account and have signed in to it. This problem may be...
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    Benchmark your Mac

    .776... on 12" PowerBook G4 with 1.5 GHz CPU and 1.25 GB memory
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    New Airport Express

    So tell me again why I just bought an Extreme, at twice the price, for my simple home Mac-only network? Express now has added shared USB for printers and disks, and n technology,right, so what does Extreme have that's better than Express?
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    Mac OS X 10.4.6 released...

    Any special action on my part to make this happen?
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    Permissions Problem

    never mind - it was two corrupted preference files.
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    Permissions Problem

    In moving from my old Powerbook to my new one, I have a couple of problems that I think are permissions related. 1. Saving downloads to the desktop does not work. When I try to drag something to the Desktop it won't work and tells me that "The item cannot be moved because Desktop cannot be...
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    Importing Outlook (PC) PST files in OSX

    Check out this software - Outlook2Mac. You run it on a PC.
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    Mail and Exchange server

    I run Apple Mail in IMAP mode against an Outlook Exchange server. The server has a Public folder with 10s of thousands of individual messages and subfolders, some locked. Two problems occur when Mail synchronizes this folder: 1. I get an error message every time a locked folder is found...
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    mdimport

    I'm sure this is old hat to the experts, but... I noticed lots of disk access on my TI powerbook. Running the Activity Monitor app, I saw that 50-75% of the CPU cycles were going to a process called mdimport. Google it and you find that this is a mac-only process - the MD stands for MetaData...
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    Memory beyond 1 GB

    I should have made clear that by "upgrading" I meant buying a new machine, which I assumed would have a max memory greater than 1GB. Thanks for all the opinions. My budget will not be unlimited, so I conclude I should forgo 2GB in favor of more disk or a faster processor if it comes down to...
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    Memory beyond 1 GB

    I don't do image processing or graphics creation, mainly office activities. Currently have 1GB in an 800MHz Ti Powerbook. I'm considering an upgrade in the next few months. Has anyone notice much performance improvement (any way you care to define it) by going beyond 1 GB? If so, how does...
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    "Tiger" 10.4.1 maybe in May

    Lurk gets the prize - my undying gratitude; it was the Kingston memory. Its shitty of Apple to change their specs, causing me and others so much frustration. Anyone have a recommendation for a high-quality memory vendor?
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    "Tiger" 10.4.1 maybe in May

    Thanks for responding, jwennet. It's a Ti 800MHz Powerbook with 1GB memory, all else is stock. Was running (and am now re-installing) 10.3.9. I'm giving up on Tiger for now - can't afford to waste more time at present. I guess I should feel some sense of pride having such an unsolvable...
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    "Tiger" 10.4.1 maybe in May

    Well, I've spent the afternoon with the Geniuses at the local Mac Store trying to get Tiger to install. After wiping the drive, zapping pram, reseting firmware still no go. Panther re-installs just fine, thank you. Even if 10.4.1 would solve the problem, I'm not sure how I'd manage to take...
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    Can't install Tiger

    :mad: I have a 800MHz Titanium. Installing Tiger, it starts verifying my internal drive and then just thrashes, making no progress. Checked the disk using Disk Utility that came on the Panther install disks - it found no problem. Tried to start up with 3.0.2 Disk Warrior - it too gets...
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    Best way to back up?

    Not elegant and not the cheapest but foolproof and easy to set up. Buy Chronosync for $25 Buy a small firewire drive for $140. Tell Chronosync which folders on the mac you want to be duplicated on the firewire drive, and tell it that you want the Mac to have priority every time. Tell...
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    [HOWTO] - Outlook (PC) & Outlook Express to Mail.app

    If it is possible for you to use the IMAP protocol (rather than POP), then the files are left on the server and can be accessed by any mail client, Mac or PC (or Linux I assume). Now the IMAP server can be accessed by Mail (Mail and most other clients can speak IMAP). Then your mail can be saved...
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    Personal Info Managers

    Anyone had experience with the app Boswell by Copernican Technologies? Seems to be a very powerful indexing/finding/versioning tool for text. Downside is that to take advantage of that power, everything (mail, word files, powerpoint presentations, spreadsheets etc.) has to be converted to text...
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