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Recently it seems that every time I reboot the system (usually after a software update), Spotlight does not work. The search box pops up, but no answers are displayed for anything that is typed. If I examine the root folder, I find that there is a .metadata_never_index file there; if I remove it...

Is there a way to search for files within a folder tree that have a specific label or, more what I want, that do not have a label at all? I have a folder tree that contains a large number of files, a small number of which do not have a Finder label assigned, but I cannot convince the folder...

I was thrilled to see Exchange support in Mail/Snow Leopard, but I am less than thrilled with the experience! I should note that my first tests were to set this up as an Exchange 2007 account; I have not yet attempted to use the Exchange IMAP type account, but shall try that later. Setting it...

I have an external drive that I use to hold my Parallels virtual machines, so naturally I named the file system on that drive "Parallels". This works fine, except when I need a reboot. Immediately after a fresh reboot when I open Parallels it indicates that it cannot find any of my VMs! A quick...

How can I convince Apple Mail to forget about an old address when suggesting addresses as part of auto-completion? I do not wish to turn this feature off, just have one specific address removed. A specific instance might explain the reason for this better. I had an old email address for an...

I have two external drives which I do not wish Spotlight to index. I add both drives to the privacy list in the system preference panel, but every time I reboot (usually for a system update), Spotlight ties up my computer for several hours indexing these two drives again!!!!!! How do I...

I have an issue with my 24" Intel iMac, now running Mac OS 10.5.5 -- from time to time the system becomes extremely unresponsive. Even normal booting and regular usage on this system seems a bit slower than others seem to report, but from time to time it simply fails to respond -- often without...

I have several iMac systems, all updated to 10.5.3 and running iChat 4.0.3, but only one of them reliably permits me to add new buddies! On my main system I can add a new buddy by selecting an entry from my Address Book, and it adds it to the list grayed out and then makes it solid...

When I use Image Capture to scan in an image, and ask it to save the scanned image to the desktop, recently it started positioning the file icon off-screen. I can find it with a Finder window or the open dialog from any application (in ~/Desktop), but it is not visible. If, in a Finder...

After upgrading to Leopard I decided to give Time Machine a whirl -- and I had to turn it off recently since it causes sever delays with using Parallels, even if I tell it to ignore the Parallels folder! I have several Parallels virtual machines defined, and some of them have rather large...

Generally, I like the improvements in Leopard Mail, but there are some things that are annoying and one that is almost a deal breaker. What is extremely annoying, and renders it almost useless for me, is that if I create a TO DO from a specific email message, there is no link from the TO Do...

Last Christmas my wife and I designed a family calendar for her side of the family. Being frugal (actually broke, as I am still recovering from a second round of cancer, which depleted our savings almost completely), we decided to print it ourselves on our Epson MFC printer using heavy matte...

I am having some difficulty getting web serving to work in a manner similar to what I had configured under earlier versions of MacOS X. I note that Apache2 is now the default, and so I applied the following changes, in this order. 1. The contents of the ~/Sites folder were still intact, so...

I have an older lamp style iMac whose neck has become loose, so that the monitor will not stay in a position, but always drops to the lowest possible position. I do not want to damage the neck, but what tools can I use to tighten the joints a bit so it will stay in a set position?

Today I installed Leopard on an older G4 iMac in update mode - no problems, aside from being a bit slow to install and index, but then it was fine. Buoyed by this I decided to perform an update install on my daughter's first-gen Intel iMac. That did not go as well. After the main install was...

I have an Apple Extreme base stations that serves wireless internet to five (5) Mac computers and ethernet connection to one (1) Windows XP system (used for development work). The corporate bug management system is Bugzilla hosted on the corporate network which I access via VPN. 1. While I...

I received iWork 08 today, and my son and I eagerly installed it and started experimenting. We are very impressed! But --- there is one thing that we cannot figure out. If you have some data being displayed, and you select some or all of it and select a chart type (column) to be created...

Is there any way to configure Mail.app to permit the sending of mail messages from one Mac computer to another Mac computer on the same LAN without resorting to an external mail server? It seems ridiculous to me that I need to send an email to my wife (who sometimes needs information in...

I have one of the new Airport Extreme base stations (80211n) with one 80211n iMac and four 80211g iMacs (and macBook) with a couple of wired PCs as well. No software firewalls are enabled. With the old 80211g (Belkin) router that this replaced, my sone was able to stream University...

I manage a non-profit web site for a district in Little League. We use a MySQL datase (actually more than one) to manage a number of issues, including some game schedules and resutls. Unfortunately the web host service we are currently using prevents access to the MySQL databases from our own...