Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

Hey All,
I couldn't find any information about this online so I'm hoping someone
can help.  I'm trying to install MS Office 2004, which is an OS X app,
but it comes up with a message that there's something wrong with the

I would like to do the following :
Copy 100% of the contents of my current 10 gig  HD onto a 160 Gig HD . Take
that first HD and put in on shelf as a sort of snapshot in time that I can
go back to if needed and use the new drive as my one and only drive .

Had prob yesterday downloading 10.4.6 update.  I have 10.4.5. I left
the room during the download and it seemed to be progressing all in
order. When I returned there was an error message.  Unfortunately I
didn't note exactly what it was, but one of the recommendations was to

Hello All - I was a PC user for many years but switched to an iMac in
early January. Before I switched I had heard about the switch to Intel
processors but after some research I really thought that the Intel
processors would not be out for a while. Well as we all know I sure got

Ok, I just bought a mac mini, and am thoroughly impressed except....
I need to edit videos. Nothing fancy, but iMovie just doesn't cut it
(excuse me), and I understand FCS 5.1 won't run on the intel based
macmini (I don't want to go over old ground with this BTW, I don't want

I am able to print photos and color text just fine on two different
printers using my Ibook, but I can't print black text - and I can't
figure out why.  My ink cartridges are full - there shouldn't be any
problem.  Does anyone have a suggestion?

Help please
I posted this on Apple Discussions
Well yesterday I was listening to a song with iTunes (the latest
version) and copying a song to iTunes at the samer time and then

Mac newbie, have been using Linux for some time on intel, got ahold of
a 1.2 GHz w/256 MB mac mini, and wanted to try and run F/C 5 on it,
looking on the web for a little bit, i found out that i need to hold
the "c" key down while booting to boot from the DVD, burned with

Hey, my brother just installed 10.4.6 on his ibook.  I don't know
exactly what he did, but he told me that all that happens now is that he
has the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning circle at the
bottom.  It doesn't go past this according to him.  He's especially

In Classic I could get around pretty fast.  Documents and applications I
wanted handy were under the Apple Menu, where I used folders to add
submenus.  The Switcher made it quick to jump between applications.  The
Control Strip was also handy, especially for checking my internet

    The user here is running Mac OS X v10.3.9 with all updates applied.
The system has just undergone a permissions repair and the font caches for
the system and certain application families as provided by LinoType's
FontExplorer X have been removed (via the aforementioned FontExplorer ...

Where does OS X (both Tiger and OS X Server) keep the logfiles for the
ftp service as text (I need to access them from a terminal).
Also, I'd like to turn on some extra loggin (adding a -l to the
command). As far as I know this should be done to the

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I believe I've raised this problem before, but having created the CD a
while back I wasn't completely sure of the circumstances.
This time however I know the facts, so here we go again... ;-(
To quickly summarize: the problem is that many files are missing when I

I have an ipod and a bunch of songs in itunes and on my ipod.
Is it possible for me to set up itunes on my friends computer and use
her computer to download songs and put on my ipod.  She already runs
itunes with her own ipod.  Can I set up another user id on her computer