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Hi if I create (with DiskUtility say) and mount a DiskImage, it is visible to all users. Since one of the primary use cases is to make an encrypted DiskImage to protect information, this seems an extraordinarily poor situation. Is there a way to restrict visibility to just the mounting user ...

Hi the printer on my Mum's old iMac (PowerPC, 10.4.11) has died so I need to get her a new one. Is there anything I need to watch out for in getting a new one ? Should I expect that most printers won't work with it since the drivers (I think) were then bundled with the printer s/w on...

Hi the mac mini no longer comes with a kensington security slot which is rather annoying. I was wondering if anyone had tried the security frame from tryten (or any other) and whether its slot handles kensington locks (I have a Kensington chain to attach to it) thanks Zag

Hi I cannot seem to activate Java 6 on my MacBook Pro (10.5.9) Core 2 duo 1. From the Java Preferences I have ordered On Name CPU-Type Version ------------------------------------------------- Y Java SE 6 64-bit 1.6.0_22-b04-307 Y J2SE 5.0...

Hi I am running Excel 2008 on my MacBook Pro. I'd like to conditionally format some cells in a single column with a condition format like: <COndition 1> AND <Condition 2> AND <Condition 3> However, the (paltry) help seems to suggest that I can only do a logical OR of the...

hi running a MacBook Pro, 10.4.8 The Internet COnnect application is misbehaving (I believe it has always done so - this is not my machine, it belongs to a friend who I am trying to help). When you select an External Model Dial Up configuration from the Menu, the configuration...

Hello I'd like to duplicate a DVD of running time about two hours. How do I do this with OS X 10.4 ? I know how to use DiskUtility to make a disk image from a DVD and then burn that. However, the disk image is of size 7.2Gb which won't fit on a standard DVD of capacity 4.2Gb...

Hi Couldn't find this in the archive ! A friend has just purchased a 15" MacBook. It's running 10.4.5 It has this very funny problem... When you view the Mac Help (i.e. with the Help Viewer) and select the "Work Smart, Play Hard" link, the Help Viewer window flashes...

Hi recently purchased my Mum an iMac G5 running Tiger (no updates to what it shipped with). It goes to sleep happily (from the menu) but it wakes itself up unexpectedly, usually after a couple of hours. It is often not attached to the Internet (dial up) when this happens. The only...

Hello I am running a powerbook G4 with 10.4.3 (totally uptodate) and a superdrive. 1.67GHz, 512MB RAM I wanted to back up my user folder. However, on burning the CD, an error (-43) arose, indicating that some items could not be located. The burning application stopped at this point...