Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

The thousands of files I mentioned in another thread
are on 64 audio CDs.  I wanted to try to fit them on
a single MP3 CD.
Using 'lame' from the command line specifying a compression

My friend has a iBook, OSX 10.3.4, and after visiting a certain web
page, it crashed and now won't open. We have tried to do updates as
well as download and install virus cleaning software, and the installs
will not work, in fact any downloaded files (dmg files) will not run,

I have a collection of over a thousand MP3s to put in iTunes.
I would like to keep them in the proper play order and use
the Album, Artist, Title, etc. for the titles of the subdivisions.
Of course, I could number those, but it would be nice if

Subject says it all. Is it possible?
The reason: My G4 tower is too noisy to enjoy listening to music.
Its an old 10GB iPod BTW so its Firewire, the Harmon Kardon system is
USB, also a couple of years old so probably not version II.

Hi -- The video on my iBook G3 just went black ... again! I'm trying to
remember what I have to do so that the family iMac G4 will see it as an
external hard drive. Then I can copy files over and bring it to the
shop. This is an emergency. Thanks!

Hello all, Christmas has replaced my stolen 3rd Generation iPod with a
5th Gen. Photo. Is there any reason why I couldn't use the Firewire cord
from the old model with the new one?
When I read that the new ones were using USB, I figured that the dock

I have a Mac Mini running Panther 10.3.9, and the Classic System Folder
seems to have version 5.0.2 of QuickTime.  It has no issues.  My
father, however, bought a newer Mac Mini, with Tiger 10.4.3.  He copied
over his System Folder from his ancient G3, which I think also has

I have a strange problem with my Mac. It's a dual 2.0 G5 from May 2005
with 1.5 GB RAM, running OS X 10.4.3. It now can't resolve any web
pages in Firefox or Safari. Firefox says, e.g., "can't find
google.com". Safari says I'm "not connected to the Internet". It's like

Specifically I'd like to convert MP3 to MIDI or at least downconvert a
high bit rate MP3 to a lower bit rate MP3. The reason is for ringtones
for my cell phone. My phone only uses MIDI, Polyphonic, or lower bit
rate MP3's and I'd like to change my ringtone from time to time with

If I have a volume mounted and attempt to use Spotlight to do a search
for an item, it does not search that mounted volume at all. Is there a
way that I can force Spotlight to search this area?

Seems that almost every time I repair permissions (10.3.9) the same
file -APBinary3.dat in System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ - needs to be
repaired. I can't find any information about it (nor even which of the
sub-directories it resides in since Find doesn't find it) and would be

Where does one turn on or off the automatic loading of a utility upon
startup, such as Virex for example?

I'm a mac webmaster and I've just put a Maxtor 200GB ATA-133 drive in
my Mirrored Drive Doors G4 Tower, which has a 66 and 100 chain.  I
figured things are backward compatible.  I might have gotten a little
ahead of myself, and this is my first 100+ GB drive... the 'more than

I tried running DiskWarrior 2.1.1 from OS9 about a year or so ago, to
look at a HD that had OSX installed.  Hey, I didn't know any better.
It ended up placing several files into a Rescued Items folder.  I have
left them there ever since, encountering no known problems.  But now

I've been reading up on graphics cards, specifically with regard to
optimising Blender 3D, but am unable to determine for certain which card
my system has.
I searched my system for "ATI" and found a bunch of extensions and