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This is a beginner question on the setting: "ignore ownership on this
volume."
Is it correct that a boot volume must NOT have Ignore Ownership
selected? If so, for the non-expert why not?

Has anyone seen a translators or know of reader apps that would allow
you to view Visio or MS Project files?  One of the downsides of being
one of the few Macs in an almost all PC based company is not being able
to view these kinds of files unless I call back and ask them to send ...

i promise that i searched this topic many times over before posting (as
well as mac documentation). i saw similar questions, but not an answer
to what has happened to me.
i have an iMac G5 (tiger 10.4.x) with a firewire external hard drive. i

All my BBEdit text files have no icon; likewise my jpegs. If it was
Classic I'd "rebuild desktop" but not sure what to do in these modern
times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25pogue.html
New York Times, January 25, 2006
David Pogue
Intel Inside. Huh?!

Hello, all!
I have a 12" iBook G3 (900 MHz) (version 2.3?) with 640 MB of RAM (128
built-in and the max of 512 added) running OS 10.2.8 (Jaguar) and I am
thinking of upgrading to Tiger (finally).

I just put in a new Toshiba 60 G drive and I then tried to install OS
X. I get to the question of "preferred device" for the installation and
there are no devices in the window. Do I need to do something else
first before I install the operating system?

  How is it possible to change the mouse cursor size with Panther?
  Thanks and bye.

Hey, fellow OSX fans:
I have a six-month old iMac G5 running OsX 10.4.4 and Safari 2,0.3.
Recently, I've begun to have problems printing web pages from Safari.
Usully, only the top 3/4 of the pages prints out, the and rest is

I have an iMac using OS 10.4.4 with 512 Meg RAM. I have been increasing
troubled by the slowness of the system. Too often when

Dear members:
While in the process of making back-up copies of my applications' CDs and
DVDs I was surprised by a message from Retrospect stating that if I
proceeded to duplicate the disk with the option "Ignore Ownership" checked

I had a hard disc crash on my ibook G4. After replacing the hard disc
for a new one (by my own) the CD-ROM drive crashed on my ibook G4.
However, we managed it to install a Tiger system on my ibook by means
of a second ibook (fire-wire).

 Hiya. I'm running OS 9.2 when I use a music sequencer program (Cubasis
from Steinberg) while "waiting" to move up to OS X 10.4 and leave 9's
fussy aspects behind. I am happily using OS X 10.2 for everything else;
no sweat there. Here's the issue that's really plaguing me.

Anyone know what's going on? For various reasons (mainly kids mucking
around with my Mac) I had to do a clean system install of OS9.2.2 on my
G3 beige tower and since then my USB/Firewire card PCI card (in a G3)
has stopped working. I think it has do do with the relevant USB

How do I create new "shares" in AFP? I'm running Panther, and I want to
serve folders other than my home and the entire hard disk.
I have searched through many manuals before asking here.
Thanks.