Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2008

My goal is to remove ID3 tags from all my mp3 files.  Please don't ask
me why or tell me I shouldn't.
I've seen it mentioned in many posts that iTunes can do this quite
easily by right-clicking a file (or group of files), selecting

Why is it that when I am composing an email that takes a long time to write I
get lots of copies in my deleted folder? This happens no matter if I'm using
my Gmail or Mac imap account.
At the end only one copy is sent and ends up in my sent folder. But the

I use SM as a browser, but would like to use the Mail.app that came
with my MBP when I e-mail people from a website.  So.. is there anyway
to make Mail the default on SM. If so, will it use my main mailboxes
from SM?

I have installed Mac OS 10.5 on a computer. Another computer has 10.4 so
I keep both. I would like to install "Mail" from 10.5 to 10.4 (i.e, copy
the "Mail" app in my 10.5 partition to my 10.4 one. Of course, I'd
delete preferences and copy folders in "/library" whose name ...

Tried this first on the iPod NG but no responses. Thought I'd try it
here.
My daughter is considering getting a MacBook to replace her WXP
machine. I am wondering if the best way to make the change is to export

I just added Bwana.app.  If I type "man:" into the URL line in Safari or
Firefox, both know that they have to open Bwana to process the request.  
How do they know that?
When I installed Bwana.app, I just dragged it to where I wanted it, and

I updated 2.4 from within the program to 2.5.  When I started a full
copy to my USB drive the new update locked up twice-once at 67667 files
copied and a separate second attempt at 24667 files copied.  For me all
is not well with the new Leopard upsate.  BTW I am running OS X 10 ...

I just downloaded this and installed it.  The program is really neat.  
However, . . .
I noticed the index function does not display programs the have periods
in them properly.  For example, a.b.1 shows up as a(1).  I have the

I am experiencing a weird problem. My Thoth works fine opening all
newsgroup I want to read except one of the soc.culture. one: trying to
open that group crashes Thoth. What could be going on?

I usually use MacSoup where this is easy to do.  I can't find how to do it in
Hogwasher.  i.e. to mark a message as "locked" or "tagged" and thus ensure it
is retained beyond the set purging date.

Dear friends:
I upgraded my Office 2004 to 2008 and I lost all my Entourage data and
settings on my Mac Book Pro!!! All my contacts, email accounts
settings, appointments, tasks are lost!!!

According to the Bible, God said to Moses, on whom be peace: I will
raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will
put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command
him. (The Holy Bible, New International Version, Deuteronomy chapter

iBook G4, OS 10.4.11, iTunes 7.6 (29)
If I decide to play a song twice in a row, the second playing will
always stop at the 57-second mark. The particular song doesn't matter.
The playback will resume and continue normally if I click the Play

Yes, another shaggy dog story but they are getting half way each week
and now talking about days rather than weeks
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/

If I buy an external drive, say a LeCie or whaterever it is called, will it
back up files on my windows partition, as well as my mac partition?