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I have an old 15" Powerbook G4 (so PPC, obviously), running OS X.4.11. Earlier today, in the middle of a Terminal session, my keyboard started behaving very bizarrely. When I pressed keys on the right-hand side of the keyboard, they would behave as if they were random other keys. (For...

I *can* format the drive if I hook it up (with the same enclosure and cabling) to a machine running Panther. I forgot to mention that the connection to the enclosure is USB, not Firewire.

In another thread, the advice was given just to format, and worry about partitioning later. I've tried this, too, without success.

Hi. I have a Powerbook G4 running Mac OS X.4.7. I recently bought a 200 GB internal Seagate drive. (I put external in the subject line because I put it in an external enclosure.) When I try to partition the drive, Disk Utility locks up -- and stays locked up (say, overnight). As best as I can...

While I'm on the topic of logs, I also get an error on login that my login has not been recorded, because my UID is too large. I guess this is innocuous, but I'm curious why it occurs, since other Mac users I know don't get this message.

I just recently re-installed Tiger. I run as a non-administrator on my computer, and I suddenly found that I don't have permission to read system.log. I've run verify and repair permissions in Disk Utility, and, though there are plenty of special permissions, no permissions are changed. I...

On laptops, Fn+Delete behaves as forward delete. I'm not sure if there's any corresponding behaviour on desktops.

Oops. I guess that's not the right way to use em tags.

I thought I'd have to pay -- as much as I am a fan of Apple, they don't seem to have a very good record in terms of providing updates. (Poor folks who bought Quicktime Pro prior to the current version.) It's a shame, too, because the copying-photos-to-iPhoto-directory automatic behaviour is...

Software Update continually finds an iPod updater. Since I don't have an iPod and don't intend to get one, I ignored this update (using delete). I get a confirmation that it's ignored, then -- the next scan shows it again! This doesn't happen with any other updates I ignore. Does anyone know...

You do not have to have another user to use Fast User Switching. No actual switching will happen, but you'll still be able to go to the login screen while remaining logged-on.

Thanks to jellyrollo for asking this question. Much as I hate to prefer PCs to Macs for anything, this issue was really troubling me (but I never thought to ask about it). More thanks still to slur for pointing out this useful piece of freeware.

Sorry for so many posts in a row. The behaviour is really strange. I tried rebooting the Mac (a Powerbook G4), and the sounds came back, but now my headphones weren't recognised (all sounds played through the internal speakers, whether the headphones were plugged in or not). I thought maybe...

The system alert sound also isn't playing. My sampling rate was set to 48000 Hz, but changing it to 44100 Hz in Audio MIDI Setup (as suggested in Help) didn't help.

This is kind of a silly question, but I've noticed recently that I no longer get audible feedback when I perform actions like moving an item to the trash. I checked under Sound in System Preferences, and `Play user interface sound effects' is still checked. This is true for all my accounts...

Thanks to the poster who caught me out on misuse of language. Of course I meant `reformat the partition', not `repartition the partition'. nofupa, your advice worked perfectly. I tried it with format NTFS (which is in the Filesystems folder), but got an error message, after which nothing...

diskutil partitionDisk disk2 2 MBRFormat MS-DOS DOSVolumeName 10G HFS+ HFSVolumeName 10G Thanks a lot. I know this is pretty stupid, but which of these are variables and which are constants? I assume that disk2 is the disk identifier, 2 is the number of partitions, MS-DOS and HFS+ are...

Quotation marks, as in cd "important stuff", or slashes, as in cd important\ stuff, will make sure that it allows spaces. I only have one or two files with `unusual' characters in their names, but a tab-complete to access a directory named "Sinead O'Connor" (with the usual accent on...

I am sure partitioning can be done, because I did it. Mac OS can see the partitions; it's just that Windows can't. How do I format in FAT32 using Apple? There is an option to format with `MS-DOS file system', but that seems unsatisfactory (e.g., it only allows 8-character file names).

I have an external hard drive (actually an internal hard drive with enclosure) which I want to be able to use with both my Apple and my Windows machine. I partitioned it using the Mac, leaving some free space for the Windows machine, but the Windows machine (running XP) doesn't recognise the...