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Using Tiger, I had updated a few folder icons using the copy/paste method in the Get Info window. They looked fine and they worked fine. Now that I've installed Leopard, though, they look terrible because they're completely different in every way from Leopard's default. My plan is/was to...

Just out of curiosity the other day, I ran "w" from my terminal. I was surprised to see that, even though there was someone else logged in (with user switching turned on) only my login was registered. I went on to discover that only my terminal session was registering. My actual login to the...

Increasingly, I've been running across the need to open a zipped archive without necessarily extracting it. I just want to inspect the contents. With WinZip, ZipGenius, etc. I'm able to do that on my Windows machines, but I can't seem to find something like that for OS X. I hope I'm just...

This is driving me crazy. I'm a regular user of locate on my unix boxes, but in OS X it behaves differently in a number of ways. I've created an alias (I use tcsh, in case it matters later) "updatedb" for "sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb" and not that works similarly. I've also installed a...

I've been having a world of trouble getting SuperDuper's scheduled backup to complete without errors. It seems to be a different error every time. I'm backing up my MacBook Pro to a bootable image on a Windows 2003 file server. SuperDuper's support has been terrific and Dave Nanian (who...

Something that keeps bugging me is that whenever I make changes to an account in Mail preferences there's no way to immediately and explicitly save those changes. Instead, I have to click on another account (or another preference icon) and then click "Save" when the prompt appears. Am I...

I'm not sure exactly what I did, here, but in the last month or so I've noticed that entirely too many of my photos no longer display as thumbnails and some won't even display. All I see is a gray, dashed outline. When "editing" the photo I see a bang (!) in the center of the gray, dashed...

Although there are a number of "print to windows" threads, I didn't see one that quite matched my problem. I can connect to the server, I can even print to the server, but what gets printed is nonsense. It looks like its printing raw data. Any idea why it's doing what it's doing an how I...

I find myself constantly using the locate command on my new Mac (I'm a switcher, but this seemed like a geekier question) frequently and I'd like to set up a cron job to run locate.updatedb so that my database stays reasonably current. It seems, though, that I need to run that under sudo. Is...

I'd like to set up a "Friends & Family" rule that will move incoming mail to a specific mailbox. Setting up the Sender is easy: Sender is a member of my Friends & Family group. That, however, misses all mail I send out to friends and family. Is there any way (short of creating a "Me" group)...

I'm not sure if this is a switcher question, exactly, since Thunderbird on Windows does the same thing, but I'm so new to Mac that it may qualify anyway. In Mail, replying to all *literally* replies to all recipients - including me. Since I'm sending the reply, I don't particularly need a...

I'm a recent convert and now that I've gotten past (well, almost) the constant oooo's and aaahhh's, there are one or two things that annoy me. Or, more likely the case, one or two things I'm doing wrong and the result is annoying me. These things are all small (quite) and generally so...

Hey all - I'm on the verge of making "The Switch" and the only software for which I haven't found any user reviews is a personal finance package. I'm using Quicken 2004 at the moment, but have heard nasty things about their Mac version. Hell, I haven't been all that pleased with their...