Mac Forum / General / General / September 2005

My company has two locations that need access to the same shared folder
currently residing on a Mac desktop running OS X 10.3.9 at Location A.
Location B would like to connect to that Mac's shared folder and
interact real time with the documents. The Mac hosting the shared

Is there a way to change the location of where the Finder window for a
mounted volume shows up when you open (double-click) the mounted
volume's icon?
FYI, I'm automounting a couple of volumes on my iBook from my G4. I use

I am tring to upgrade the 160 MB hard drive with 1280 MB scsi.
The problem is that the drive is not detected with Drive Set-Up.
Can anyone help me in details ?
Thank You very much in adsvance.

Using an iMac (1 gig, 15 inch flatscreen, lampshade) with Tiger, the
modem is now having trouble hanging up between faxes (when sending)
and I've been having to reboot each time to reset the modem.
Is there any simpler, reliable way of hanging up the modem?

Newbie to the fray here so I'll be brief.
My beloved PB is gettin' a little creaky. Any of you Übergeeks want to
instruct me as to how to not completely kill my system, and/or any
replacement bushings, connectors, et al.......

I work with a Mac OS X Client who is connected to a Windows Server 2003 via
AFP. I am programming on the Mac and copy the whole project (e.g. for
backup) to the Windows Server. Now I have the problem that I have file names
who have a length of 33 characters and more. I can't copy ...

I can not seem to figure out what logic iTunes uses to read an ID3 tag.
I have been tagging all of my music with a separate program (Tag &
Renam) and then adding the new folders to my iTunes library.  Now there
are two seperate fields on the ID3 tag, one being "Artist" and the

I know this is a dumb question, but what the hell.
I have two 40 GB FireWire drives daisy-chained to my OS 10.3.9 laptop,
which has about 20 GB total data on its internal HD.  Every few days I
do a Retrospect incremental backup to one of these and a SuperDuper!

I have a Mac Mini running OSX 10.3.9.
Recently, it "changed its protocol" (for lack of a better term) on me
without my knowledge or consent.
Used to be, when I turned it on, a progress bar would appear as it booted

Mail "Quits Unexpectedly" at least once/day, usually while getting mail.
I even send in those reports to Apple.
Is it just me?
m-m

This might be an Adobe specific problem, but it seems sensible to start
here.
I have Illustrator 5.0, which only runs in Classic.  I have After
Effects 5.5, which runs in Panther.  I'm trying to create a text object

My dual processor G5 has a Maxtor 160 GB hard drive that crashed with a
repeating "whistle-click" sound. Apple will replace it but authorized
attempted data recovery. I will remove the top cover and see if there
is any obvious mechanical problem I can correct. Has anyone else tried

I am encountering two problems:
1) My calculator application crashes whenever I hit the "update
currency" button.
2) When I burn music from my computer onto a CD (mp3's) nothing

I left my Dual Processor G5 2.5 GHz machine running OS 10.4.1 and
several apps. When I came back the drive was making a repetitive
click-whistle-click-whistle sound, and computer was crashed.  I placed
a boot disc in the CD drive and tried to reboot by holding down C and

In the old mac OS I could email a plain old mac file to a mac user, but
in OSX this does not seem to be the case.  I always have to .sit, .zip,
or .hqx a file before sending it these days.  What a pain, but its life.
John