Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

Is anybody here knowledgable about Mac migrations?
I'm trying to transfer the programs, settings, and files on my iBook G4
(2005) with OS X 10.4.6 to an iMac G3 with 10.3.9. The iMac is refusing
to accept OS X upgrades beyond 10.3.9.

OK, here we go again. First understand that these question are not
inteded to be a Mac vs. PC troll, or should I more correcty say OSX vs
Windows XP troll.
Pdf and other files contained in web pages. Why the heck are they all

I downloaded a few things on BT that came as .mdf/.mds files. From what
I've read, these are Alcohol 120% disc image formats. Is there any way
to open these on a Mac (without Virtual PC or an Intell Mac)?

I have bungled an uninstall using my MacCD that came with my PowerMac
7500/100, (system 7.5.5) I forgot to remove my old system folder and now
when I try to reboot I get a bomb and error message reading: Sorry, a system
error occurred.

For some reason the keyboard shortcut splat+p does not print in all
apps, including word, on my machine.  i must have reassigned splat+p to
something else, but have no idea what or where.  Any ideas where I can
look?  I checked under system preferences, but there is no shortcut

All,
Suddenly I cannot spell check my docomnents using the edit/spelling menu item.
I have version 10.4.6 of OS-X.  The last thing I did was to install
iWork.  I had some trouble installing an older copy of iWork-05 that I

I have recently added a second drive to my dual 1.25ggb G4 running
Tiger because the old drive (with panther) was starting to play up
and also cause the fan to sound like a diesel engine! My problem is
that I want to avoid this old drive running at all unless absolutely

I've held off on updating to OS 10.4.6 due to the number of problems
reported on MacFixIt, MacInTouch and elsewhere. Now I read that some are
having problems with new Security Update released this week.
Prior advice from this newsgroup has been.... to proceed with the

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Trying to determine why two partitions on an external hard drive would
have their settings changed to "Ignore Ownership on this volume". I
noticed today in my Retrospect log a warning that those volumes had that
setting and are used for duplicates/clones. Going back in the log ...

Hi all..
I've some problem with iChat video conference.. I try to communicate
trough webcam with someone and I always have problem with video..
My webcam work properly, I use it with OhPhone-X who can use *one* fixed

Please assist me.
I wish to convert iMovie files to a suitable filetype to play on a DVD
Player/TV set.
What woould be a suitable filetype (mpeg etc) and DVD ROM Format.

 Is there something buried in the program package that comes with
Macbook pro that can access a scanner? If not, suggestions for an
Intel-friendly one?

Is there a program that will let me mount virtual CD images (much like
Virtual CD, etc. in Windows)? Many programs including games and the
language learning software "Rosetta Stone" require that files be on a
CD in order to run, and it is really annoying to have to dig out and

What's the best way to show .wmd movies on an Intel iMac?
Is there a Universal .wmd software yet?
Thanks!
earle