Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

In my system's Preferences folder, there's a file named
__??!!Hello??!!__. It's invisible, with unknown type and
creator code. It's very small, and I have no idea where
it came from. Is anyone familiar with this, and is it something

Desktop Swap Pro, an app that changes the desktop background
image at a user-defined interval, occasionally unexpectedly quits
due to an error of Type 41 (or maybe it's -41?). This appears to
happen when another app is attempting to do something at the

With the announcement of the Mac Pro, I wonder if there might be an
Intel-based Mac in the future, similar tot he way apple followed the MacBook
Pro with the MacBook models? I would like to see something in a mini-tower
configuration with less expansion capability than the Mac Pro. ...

I searched the archives and I didn't find anything recent on this topic
so I'm hoping someone here has some experience with this.  I am trying
to use my old G4 laptop with 10.4.7 installed in Target mode with a
newer G4 laptop as the host (also on 10.4).

I hope this is an okay place for this question.
My trash can is visible on the dock.  It's empty and I put something in
it, I can see that "something is in the trash."  If I empty it, it looks
--- empty.

Hi - maybe someone can help me here - my imac can't connect to the internet
anymore.  Probably the modem has been destroyed by a recent lightning storm.
Where can I get a replacement for it in the UK.  Is it fairly easy to fit?
Thanks

I used Disk Utility to copy a DVD. After the DVD is copied, I want to
delete the image file with extension cdr from the hard drive, but I
couldn't figure out how. Please help. I'm using mac os 10.4.6.
Thanks,

One of my managers wants an auto-response to go out to anyone who
e-mails her while she's away. I know how to set this up in mail.app, but
it seems to me that there should be a way to get the response generated
on the mail server (which is just using the built-in mail software). I'm

has anyone heard of the definitive, minimum system Leopard will require?
if so. post.......

Greetings;
I'm a relatively-new mac user, by way of very long Windows and long-ish
unix use.  The last environment I worked in at home was a Fedora Core
release, and the gnome-terminal application had a feature that I

As I noticed there are many people praising Apple for adding "time
machine" to Leopard, a backup solution, I must give a link. It is NOT
same thing. Time Machine will be extendible like Spotlight and it will
be part of OS running root level. It is just if you like a automated

Does anyone have any pics of the motherboard?  What is it?  Especially
made for Apple?  Does Intel even make a motherboard with PCI Express and
no PCI? Or any detailed pics of the inside of the box?  It looks like
they're coming out with an interesting product.  

I have downloaded a corpus of  spam messages from the SpamAssassin archive.  
To which directory do I need to copy them in order to use them to train
SpamAssassin.
My instructions tell me to use the command:

Each time I try to download Microsoft's 11.2.6 Updater for MS Office from
http://download.microsoft.com
I get the following dialog box:
"The connection to the update server was interrupted. The server might be

My mac recently crashed due to me overloading the desktop (stupid I
know, and a mistake i definately wont be making again!!) anyway i
managed to get it looked at and sorted, it still had everything on it,
and i have now deleted most of the junk i had on it, but the guy who