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    AddressBook has corrupt entries

    Some cards in my AddressBook (4.0.6 under OX 10.4.11) have begun to seem corrupted. I don't know how to fix them or how to prevent the rot from spreading. The specific symptom is this: For some cards, I see half a dozen different e-mail addresses. The extra address are valid addresses, but...
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    mds hogging the cpu -- and quitting unex

    What IS mods? And who asked it to run flat out, soaking up all my cpu cycles? For the last 2 years, whenever I ran a backup, sometime during the backup I got a message that "mds quit unexpectedly". I figured there was some conflict between mds and the backup, but the backup never seemed to...
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    Tiger "custom" Date Formats

    The OS X prefPane "International" lets you select from among various national date formats, or to set a "custom" format from its basic ingredients. However, there appears to be a bug in the prefPane such that if you set any one of the four date formats (known as Short, Medium, Long, and Full)...
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    Os X System Date Format (international)

    Where is the date format controlled? The System Preferences panel "International" lets one specify Custom formats for Short, Medium, Long, and Full formats. However, setting any one of them causes the other three to revert to the default. I'd like to find where all four are stored, so I can set...
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