Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

For no reason I can determine, the ownership setting (Ignore Ownership
on this volume) on two partitions on an external drive have been changed.
I have an external hard drive which is partitioned
I duplicate using Retrospect my internal drive and my wife's hard drive

I have some encrypted files I need to trash. The way I have been doing
this is to use get info on each file and then clicking unlock then when
in the trash they will be emptied. This is a manual point and click
process. I would like a quick command line script to do this. I know a

I get alot of music from allofmp3.com (cheap, drm free)
How do I get the list to show in the correct order (i.e. how it is sold
in the shops...) .
I don't want it sorted alphabetically or by date added etc.

I'd like to type a copy of some graffiti with a heart symbol.  That sort
of thing was easy with Classic.  I'd use Key Caps to check out the
limited number of fonts.
In Tiger, I have found a couple of suitable characters with Character

I have never bought a computer from Ebay, but am thinking about buying a
used iBook G4 because my ibook G3 is just too slow. Some of the
descriptions for the ibooks offered at Ebay boast that the item can be
"registered" at Apple. What the crap does this mean and is it an

Is there anywhere I can get a download for installing X11 on Tiger.  The
Apple site only seems to offer X11 for previous versions of MACOSX...
and I don't have the installation discs available.
Axel

Simply Speaking is a high tech Voice recognition and Text to speech
software program that allows you to dictate into any Windows program.
You speak and Simply Speaking will convert your voice into typewritten
text. Simply Speaking can also read back to you any highlighted text

I am trying to set up network printing on my Mac and I keep getting
prompted that CUPS printing services is not running. How do I turn it
on???

My network port is really loose - I'm a recent switcher from a PC, so
I'm now sure if this is how all Macbook Pros are - but the Cat5 cable
doesn't "click" in - any slight movement touching the cable pulls it
out and i lose my connectivity until I push it back in.

So I'm trying out Macintosh Explorer and a few things are great.  
However it wouldn't copy files from one hard drive to another.  I tried
dragging them, using Edit, Copy/Paste and keyboard shortcuts.  None
worked.  ???  The premise for this program is great for ex-Windows

"One or more items have special permissions and cannot be copied".  
I'm backing up my hard drive and am repeatedly getting this.  What can I
do?  What is causing it?

Hi folks. OSX 10.47 G5 dual. I have a folder with a large number of
subfolders in it. In each folder is an html file. I need to make an
identical text change to each file. BBEdit is perfect for the job
but...I must open each file first. Surely there must be a utility that

I am currently using the  Stuffit Expander 11 and Mac OS 10.4.6 and I
am unable to download the .cab file for a case brief template I
retrieved from Microsoft.com.  Please advise

I have just got a new mobile phone, and so am using iSync to push all
my contacts from Address Book in 10.4.7 to the phone.
Trouble is, the phone now is full of contacts that I deleted a long
time ago from my Address Book, and some of the newer contacts are not

I know I have made a few postings recently but I have never upgraded to a
new computer before.
These should be the last 2 questions I have
1.  I want to purchase additional Memory for my Mac.  I have an iMac that