Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

My 10 year old son deleted some application  icons (real player, chess,
etc) from the application folder when  I was logged in as administrator
(while I stepped away for a few minutes).  Does this create any
problems? I just bought a nice MacBook and I don't want to see any

I'm running OSX 10.4.7.
I can do: telnet 127.0.0.1 25 successfully.
I can send mail to you@yourmac.com but can't receive from you@yourmac.com.
If you@yourmac.com tries to email me@mymac.com, a bounce is returned.

HideDragon is powerful software that can hide the desktop windows
rapidly. You can hide any windows on your desktop easily by clicking
the mouse's left and right keys together (or use the hotkey).To resume
these hidden windows whenever you like by re-clicking the mouse key (or

I am curious... If I buy a Mac with the latest OS X, and I set it to
auto update, but say 2 years later a couple different new versions of
OS X came out and I *didn't* buy the upgrades, will they still send
security/bug fixes for the version I have or do I have to upgrade to

I'm trying to use Migration Assistant on a new (well refurbished) G5
PowerMac with my old Digital Audio PowerMac booted in Target mode.
The old Digital Audio has two disks.  Each disk has a single partition.
One disk has a Volume named "Media".  Media does not have on OS on it,

Morning.
I want to search for files on a SMB server by File Buddy. But for each
trial after some minutes a messages appears: Failure -36. I've disabled
administrator mode, but the failure occures too.

I tried setting up a cron job for doing a nightly backup over the network,
and as far as I can tell, it just didn't run. crontab -l does show that
the job has been installed (no "you are not authorized" message). In other
Unix systems, I'm used to getting E-mail (via /var/mail) from ...

I'm having the strangest problem getting OS 9 to boot on one of the last
iMacs to support it. Specifically, I moved an HDD from a 400mhz Cube to
an 800mhz iMac G4. OS X works without a hitch (both OSs are on the same
partition,) but OS 9 doesn't start up properly.

Since upgrading from Panther to Tiger, I can no longer connect to a G4
running OS 9.2.2. I get a message saying
Connection failed
This file server uses an incompatible version of the AFP protocol. You

I had 10 GB free on my Powerbook.
I attached an external drive and ran Carbon Copy Cloner to do a backup.
About 2 hours later, I come back and find the system freaking out
because the primary disk is entirely full.

What is the name of the early Mac Logo that consists of a highly
stylized, Picasso-inspired, outline of an original Mac, mouse connected
-- and where can I find a decent sized one on the web?
This design is needed, not for a line of fake Macs I'm coming out with,

New Mac user (MacBook, OS X 10.4).  Networked printer is a Dell (Xerox)
1600n.  The MacBook finds the printer, but I have not been able to print to
it successfully.  Printer status shows a print attempt, but after a few
minutes we get "Jobs Stopped."

Can anyone please suggest a simple  free- or shareware prog for editing
small sound files. mp3 mp4 etc.  (Like Goldwave on PC).
I have Logic 7 but dont need to fire that up everytime i wanna top &
tail a 3 sec clip.

My brother's iMac (has like a 700mhz CPU) started to become really,
really slow and would kick him out of the internet after a few minutes.  
I came to visit from out of state.  I determined that the imac's
hardware seems to be fine.  I suggested that we reload the Operating

I don't know anything about Mac's, but am curious about some of these
systems on eBay under $100.
The spec seems to be PowerMac G3 350-400mhz, iMac G3 up to 500mhz, and
G4 350-400mhz for under $100.