Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006

After a hard drive failure and several days putting all the pieces back
in place, I see the need to make a full backup of my bootup hard drive.
It contains System Software (10.3.9 and 9.2.2) and my applications for
both systems. How do I make a copy of that Hard Drive that will be

Based on the Intego definition it is first "real" trojan effecting Mac
OS X. It has capability to distribute itself without user intervention.
IMHO we must help ClamXAv and Clam project to add definitons for this trojan.
(I am just a user, got Virusbarrier from my first G5 switch ...

Hi, I've recently bought Tiger and I am enjoying it very much, I do
however have an issue with the Dashboard.  When adding a widget to
the dashboard on other Macs, I loved the way it has the "water
effect" as it seemingly immerges from the screen.  My widgets,

i have recently bought a refurb imac g5. i really like it. here's my
question, though:
the new computer has an 80gb hard drive. my old imac g3 had a 40gb hard
drive, and it was about 3/4 full. when i turned the imac g5 on for the

Are Hurz and Pfurz still needed to burn to DVD-RW from iDVD on the
latest Macs (e.g., iMac G5 iMac Core Duo)?

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this (:
I am looking for a way to print plain text to a file using 6.0.8.
Any one know if PrintToPDF will work with 6.0.8, printing to a pdf will
be be ok as well but what I really need is to a text file.

Hi all, as of the past week, my display will no longer go to sleep
according to my settings in "Energy Saver".  Right now I have it set to
sleep in 1 minute - but the display always remains active.  Is there a
way to instantly set the display to sleep?  I know how to set the

... just curious:
When I hit cmd-opt-j to erase the contents of my junk folder in Apple
Mail, it asks me if I'm sure if I really want that. Is there any way to
turn off this question somewhere? I clicked thru all of Mail's

Mac OS X malware "OSX/Oomp-A" discovered -- effects seem innocuous
Andrew Welch of Ambrosia Software has discovered and described a new
piece of malware for Mac OS X dubbed the "Oompa-Loompa Trojan
(OSX/Oomp-A)"

I am giving the smallest, opensource and reviewed by versiontracker
users utility. I bet one can do it with a command from Terminal too.
That is not the case.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29175

iBook G4 10.4.5  I put things in a burn folder hit burn am then asked to
put in blank DVD  so I put in a FUGI DVD + RW but it spins the spits it
out. What am I missing? Never did this before. Thanks.

Well, I bought a new iMac Intel core duo and it started up fine.  But
when I was installing an external modem I inserted a CD, installed the
driver and the instructions said to restart the computer.  I did this
before ejecting the CD.  The system tries to restart, I hear the ...

This may well be an issue/feature on all versions of Mac, but how do
you get the full file name for files with long file names to display
properly in finder when looking at files in list view?
After about 50 or so many characters I can no longer scroll the column

I used firewire to transfer my G4 laptop to a MacMimi desktop; it looks
like some of my stuff just got dumped in a folder my my old computer
log in on it. My Documents are there. But no bookmarks transferred into
the new Safari, nothing is in my new Calender. Same for the add-on

i've had a 6360 performa for 9 years, not being a very demanding
computer user as you would guess...
i've recently decided to get a mac mini to step into the 21st century
and was wondering how to transfer my old files onto the mini.