Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

Is there any way of stopping Finder from moving the columns so I can't
go backwards?  This hard to explain.  Say I move a video from one folder
to another.  As soon as the file being dragged by the mouse is on top of
the folder, that folder's column immediately becomes the far ...

My Macbook HD crashed last weekend and I am now up and running.
However, i have a big problem with my iTunes purchases.... Firstly, I
have a full system backup and my iTunes library was on an external
drive so i haven't lost anything I just can't find where my iTunes

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Why an Apple's computer (a Mac Book 13" black for example) costs
$1,499 (= €1,151.82) and in Europe €1,519?

i got a macbook white 2ghz, 1gig ram version....just wanted to ask if
i can use dual layer dvd's in the dvd drive?

Isn't it interesting that Microsoft hasn't seized upon this popular
expression as a promotion for, well, you know what!   ;-)

All of a sudden my Safari password won't save. It asks for it, I check
the remember box, and it won't remember. TIA -Dave

I'm totally baffled, and would MUCH appreciate some input from you gurus...
My network consists of a macMini (server), an iBook and a PowerBook 15.
All have happily communicated via an Airport Extreme for ages.
Today. though, the PowerBook can't mount the servers disks - after

I have a questions about the bash shell.
I created a .bash_profile to set up the path.
I added some personal directories to the path and when I open the
terminal the path is now set as I want it.

I am new to macs... i have installed 10.3.9
where is this magical address book program.
I read all about it.. but can't find it on my computer.

Just to add balance and perspective, partitioning does have some virtues.
With OS X version 10.4.8, I myself have bounced between only one
partition, to as many as 30 partitions, some of them as small as one MB.  
(one megabyte)

Just cleaning up my house and ran into a ton of old floppy software
that some of you vintage type might have a use for. Software includes
the following.
After Dark

Mail will not send messages even though the pop and smtp settings are
the same as Gyazmail which does send. The problem may be related to
Mail's appending :username onto the smtp address. TIA -Dave

whenever i seek a position in vlc player the video goes all
funny....the picture goes blurry for about 7-8 seconds and then it
fixes up... does anyone know why this happends and how to fix it.

I've found old posts on this topic and am hoping maybe things have
changed... I'd like to be able to search plain text files
- .java, .css, .xml, etc... I've found a number of elaborate hacks out
there, but none work particularly well. I even went to the extent of

The Machine: G4 AGP - AKA "Sawtooth", if I'm not mistaken.
"About..." tells me it has 704 Megs of RAM aboard, with a 9-and-change
Gig drive, another drive that's labeled for 30, but claims to be
26-and-change Gigs, and of course, the obligatory built-in Zip and a