Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

I'm trying to get an inexpert computer user switched from his old and
almost non-functioning WinXP system to a (proposed) bottom-end Mac system.
He's willing to try, and since his usage is so simple, the change should
be easy enough to deal with, so long as I do the setup, which ...

Is there an easy way to find out the following given a directory:
Total number of files
Total number of subdirectories
Command + I shows total size, but nothing about number of files or

After checking out BootCamp, I think it is not for me.
Oh, it runs the one and only Windows app' I use, namely "Dragon
NaturallySpeaking", every bit as "good" as when I ran Dragon on real PC
hardware.

Argh.
I was in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions , mucking
around, and it seems that I've upset the system of symlinks there that
point to the current java version.  Now I get a "command not found". Is

Considering changing from a 1.5Ghz G4 powerbook to a MacBook.
The powerbook has the ATI Radeon 9700 with 128Mb RAM. How does the
MacBook's video compare to this?
Thanks,

I cannot change permissions or ownership of some files on Mac OS X,
even using sudo. Other file permissions change just fine and I can't
see the difference. Here is an example (the files have many awkward
characters, I left those in just in case that is perhaps the problem):

I bought an ibook that had been used by a school system. It had teacher
and student passwords that were required for changing preferences. I
wanted to clean the hard drive and add my own Mac software, so I
changed the startup disk because I didn't have the password for

I've been playing around with Garageband and having lots of fun with
loops.
However, how do I manage to change chords from bar to bar in order to
effect a chord progression? Am I missing something? s the chord

I'm still new to Macs, I've only had mine since the start of the year,
before that, I mainly used Linux and (grrr) Windows.
Now, I might have done something stupid (since I'm a total noob). I
assume the right way to uninstall an app is to drag it to trash. I

I recently switched from PC to Mac, and am MUCH happier. I am looking
for a program that will create a calendar that I can print. However,
what I want is something like Microsoft Publisher as I want to be able
to put the name of the month and the names of the days of the week in ...

Does anyone have a recommendation?
My brother's business is expanding beyond his home office, and both he
and his new parter will require access to the company server from home
and while on the road; as will others as they start to bring on more

If I want an environment variable set for all users of a system what
file must be modified to create this environment variable.
I use tcsh as my shell and putting it in my .cshrc works for me but not
all users.

Please help
I deleted the account in Mail for Mac OSX and I lost all my emails! Is
this true? Please tell me that is not real? Tell me that I am
dreaming...

1. Isn't it awfully presumptuous to call it "the Genius Bar?" I don't
hand genius titles out lightly. With a name like that, I expect Isaac
Newton (or at least Isaac Hayes) to be working at the Apple Store,
squeezing his hands and waiting to help me with my busted iPod.

I find that when I reboot I often find a directory in the trash named,
"recovered files".  What are these and how do they end up in there?  
Before restarting the trash is empty and then when I restart they are
usually there.