Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

I am trying to manually back up some folder to an external USB disk. But
when I drag the Library (in my home space) to the disk, I get a message
that "one or more files could not be copied". The message gives me a
choice to either stop or continue. I reluctantly click on the ...

I recently had a hard disk crash on my G4 PowerBook. Although the disk
was replaced and some of its contents retrieved, several GBs of valuable
data were missing. I decided that the only option was to go back to the
most recent Retrospect backup (end of August, as I have moved ...

Do my beady little eyes deceive me, or have Apple pretty well dropped
QuickTime VR? No mention anywhere at the QT sites, no mention of
authoring software, nothing.
Bummer really, just when I have a use for it.

My boss saw a program at the Las Vegas Apple Store and is looking to
purchase it but the GM of the store said it was unavailable. I will
describe as best as I can what it was maybe some one has seen it
before. We want to install it at our 5 playroom facilities for

Having searched through suitable Macintosh related newsgroups and seeing
that many of them aren't very active I'm wondering if there are any more
active web-forums for the topics I want to discuss.
Any good recommendations for forums where I can ask about:

My system has been screwed up since I had a power outage
a couple of weeks ago. I've had to reboot every 4 or 5 days
because the system gets so slow and the beachball of death
keeps showing up more and more often until it just stays.

I have a Casio digital piano and I was wondering if it would be overly
difficult to set up MIDI with it, GarageBand and the new iMac G5.
Thanks.

Is there a way to migrate both mail and address book from AOL 5 (Mac OS
9.2.2) to Mac OS X Mail?
regards,
-E

first off, I am not a Mac person ... But I want to put Firefox on my boss's
iBook G4, which just has IE right now.
I went to Mozilla.org and downloade "Firefox for OS X".  Downloaded
something of 8 or so MB in side  to the desktop  ... called

I'm not a Mac user yet but have a question regarding IPhoto. I like to
make photo books in Elements on my PC and have Kodak process them. I
like the themes in IPhoto but there are only about 8. Does any company
sell more? I think I'd get bored with just 8 as a choice. This is the

Hello, since yesterday I'm trying desesperately to transfert video movies
from my PowerMac 8500 to my PC, unfortunately without success.
My PC runs under Windows XP + Quicktime 7.0.3
My Mac runs under MacOS 9.1 + Quicktime 5 (tried with 6 also)

Is there a way to prevent iChat from doing audio?
I want it to stay text-only to make it less attractive
to immature children (plus give them more keyboard practice!)

Hi, hope someone can help.  I'm using an Imac G4 1Ghz, 17" screen running
Tiger 10.4.2.  I want to go back from Tiger 10.4.2 to Jaguar 10.2.8.
I can not boot from the Jaguar CD because it is an older OS than is
currently installed.  My question is how can I either boot from the ...

Appple want startup disk permissions repaired from the DVD (To repair
your startup disk, start up from your Mac OS X Install disc (CD or DVD),
then choose Utilities>Disk Utility...).  What is missed if I just run DU
from the startp disk?  It seems to work OK and the one time I ...

 I know that Journalling was implemented under Jaguar, but supposedly
improved to a great degree under Panther, as well as being enabled by
default at that point.
 I am running MacOS X 10.2.8, Jaguar, on my beige G3.