Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

i have an ibook running mac os x 10.1.4.
i have started to notice that the cursor is off, meaning that when i
click on an icon, i need to click slightly below that actual icon
because i can't click the icon when the cursor is over the icon.

Hey all, I'm a Net. Admin for PC's and Unix but know almost nothing
about MAC.  I have a Mac at a elementry School that has a frozen mouse
on boot.  I checked the System Preferences and the only thing that
loads on start is a calendar, which is not causing the issue.  I

I am getting a new iMac and would like to transfer my years collection of
letters which are in folders, by year, as MS works text files.  How can I
transfer them to Office:mac word files?  Dave Fisher

I bought a 20" iMAC G5 last June, and my son has an iMAC G3 running OS
X 10.0.4, could i use my install CD with that came with my MAC to
upgrade his own, ? or do I have to buy a new CD ?

Actually have been sort of "out of it" on the Macintosh front since
MacOS 9, so I'm looking for a little help here.
A couple of years ago I bought my wife a Mac iBook 500mhz.  The one
that came right after the clam shells.  I upgraded to MacOS X 10.2.8

Up Front: I have Goggled this till I am dead. I have completely deleted the
application using Finders Find and deleting everything that said Nikon, or
referenced Nikon. I have re-installed many times.
System was recently upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3.

Suppose that I try to apply a label to a Mac file.
But the label refuses to "stick" staying at None.
Why would a file refuse to be adorned?  Modesty?

Thanks for everyone's help with my last post about my seemingly dead
iMac DV edition. It was, in fact, dead - brain dead. So, alas I was
given (FREE) a new (to me) iMac G3, one of those greenish turquoise
colored ones the other day and had my hard drive from my old mac handed

I am thinking about purchasing an iPod.  Beyond the multimedia
capabilities, an intriguing aspect is the calendar and contact lists.
The only thing that seems to be missing is the ability to create appt's
and contacts on the device.  I don't want a PDA as that is overkill for

Hi there.  It used to be, pre-OSX, that booting from the install CD
would still load a desktop and mount your hard drive, so if your system
got corrupted you could examine and back up the contents of your drive
before reinstalling the system.  A friend of mine is in the same boat ...

What could cause a file created under Mac OS X (3.5.1) to
become invisible when moved to a Mac OS 9.2 folder?

I have a file in my Trash, I don't know how it got there:
Default Folder X copy.prefPane
I empty the trash, it goes nowhere.  Nor does trash complain. I pull it
out and look at it.  It's not locked. What gives?

Remember how I was impressed that the Eudora I had on my 9.1 G4 ran
great under OS X in classic mode?  I restarted (after installing a few
updates) and started up Eudora again the same way I had
before -- by clicking on an alias to its preferences.   I then realized

OK, every time I try to access the "Security" part of System
Preferences, the application "System Preferences" crashes.
I've tried:
• logging out and back in

What is the easiest way to get OS X to save syslog entries for more
than 7 days? Appologies in advance if this should be obvious.
Thanks,
Locke