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thanks in advance for reading! I have a doozy: I moved my hdd to my optibay and installed a new SSD into my main hdd bay (mbp late 2011) transferred data from hdd to ssd using superduper so the ssd is now a clone of the old hdd (and in the same place as the old hdd) and the ssd is the...

hey there. I'm macbook pro 10.6.2 using macmail 4.2 1077 when I get a normal unzipped attachment, it's no problem-- downloads fine. whenever I get a zip file attached, tho, I can see the components in the mail window, like normal. but when I download, it throws the (lets say 5) files onto my...

I travel a bunch. and when I open my computer to type a document or something, I don't need to waste time searching for a wifi network. and I certainly don't wanna tell 10.6 every time: "cancel -- don't pick one of these strange wifi locked networks" any one know how to stop 10.6 from nagging...

hello! made the switch to 10.6.2 2 weeks ago and I'm having what seems to be a problem usually associated with iStats. but: I don't have iStats. my problem: whenever I connect to an ext HD, my computer goes a bit nuts. the menu icons disappear and the system preferences get incredibly...

been using MacMail for a month now, and I'm a bit confused by the written out NAME that always accompanies the email addy. when I send someone an email that says, "<Joanne the skinny lawyer Polson> joanne@law.com" does she SEE that I'm calling her a skinny lawyer? (as a way to remember...

hiya. its frustrating me that my finder /folder windows always open the same/wrong way. (at least not how i want them to.) i want them to open in list view, with name column first-- and i want that column width x -- then size column next, width y -- etc but every time i open a new window...

hey all -- this ? was hard to define i guess -- and was unsolved by the great techs here at mac osx, so i thought i'd put this post out into the ether. because it's hard to define the problem i've put in my requests and a partial answer from a tech. >>>>>hiya. its frustrating me that my...

hiya -- how can i delete information from a picture- so the picture no longer shows up in my Finder search? i tend to search using the Finder Command-F searchbox i put in the word "party" and all these unrelated pictures come up. i assume there's some appendant info attached to the pic...

hiya. i want to convert all my music form MPEG to AAC -- but WITHOUT LOSING my playlists -- the order of the songs etc. Seems impossible. I have chucked all my old cds, so i can't "replace original" which is a trick I read about. The way it's been so far, i can't just go into my library and...

hey everybody. hope all's well. my powerbook g4 needs to go to the shop - logic board prob. so i used SUPER DUPER to copy my drive to an external hard drive. super duper reported that the EXT DRIVE was bootable. i then used my ext drive as a startup disk with my powerbook g4 (making the...

so, i use my ipod in my car, with a casette adapter. the volume output is way too low. it comes in at about half what my XM radio output is... so, i've been tooling around, trying to figure a way to boost the iPod output signal. tough. i tried highlighting th esongs and using cmd-I to...

is this some sort of Chapter-Indexing problem? (like i even know what that means...) sometimes when i download a movie off the net (i enjoy movies about geometry and stuff -- ya know: educational stuff. oh: and movies about human anatomy -- i like those too.), i can't play the whole...

i'm osx 10.4.4 g4 15" i wanna launch applications just by pressing a function key. used to do this with system 9 mac help seems to imply i can't >>> Note: You can create keyboard shortcuts only for existing menu commands. You cannot define keyboard shortcuts for general purpose tasks...

yikes. sometimes, when i'm at the coffee shop and i change batteries, the computer just DIES! it just loses power, and i have to power up again. needless to say, everything unsaved is gone... i'm g4, 15", osx 10.4.4 i have all the recent updates (one seemed to relate to battery life...

I know a lotta people don't like Entourage, but i've actually had as many problems with macMail, so far. I think i've settled on Entourage because it spell checks and automatically capitalizes emails and seems to miss fewer messages then macMail. which leads me to my ? Entourage has been...

when i watch a downloaded movie sometimes they suddenly open a link in safari tha t i dont wanna go to. is there a setting to change or something so that quicktime is never telling my browser where to go?? i'm 0sx 10.4.3 g4 15" qt 7.03 safari 2.02

is it possible to change the order in which address book entries are listed in entourage? right now, entourage sorts addresses very differnt from my mac AddressBook i'm just so used to looking them up by alphabetical first name, instead of last gracias... g ps: os10.4.3 g4 15" entourage 11.2.1

iTunes makes a LOUD echoing loop huh? sometimes when iTunes is playing something, it suddenly gets louder and louder ans skips in this flashback-y loop. it always rights itself after about 3 seconds, but man, that reverb-y loop thing is tough... heard about this? i'm os10.4.3 g4 15"...

huh? sometimes when iTunes is playing something, it suddenly gets louder and louder ans skips in this flashback-y loop. it always rights itself after about 3 seconds, but man, that reverb-y loop thing is tough... anyone know about this? i'm os10.4.3 g4 15" itunes 6.0.1

anyone know how to do this? right now, entourage sorts addresses very differnt from my mac AddressBook anyone know how to set tentourage to go by first name? gracias... g ps: os10.4.3 g4 15" entourage 11.2.1