Mac Forum / General / General / April 2007

What is the best way to import a full user account from a Mac to
another one? I know this can be done on a brand new Mac but how to do
it in the other situations? Is copying the account sufficient? Even
when the former account is a G4 and the new one a Intel?

I haven't heard any talk about this in all of the recent back-up
threads. With everything else from .Mac is this a good option to buying
an external Hard drive and Retrospect, etc?

Can the volume level of the OS (10.4.9) system alert sounds be set to a
different, lower level than that of the iTunes music playback level?
Or are the two inevitably linked together - as they seem to be on my G4
Quicksilver.

I need to copy (to useable files, not into a proprietary backup scheme) about
300 gigs of files.  The files are on a Novell server.
There is a problem in that the folder structure sometimes gets too long, and
you can't read the file.

G5 2mhz tower
Turning ON the Mac after 30 minutes is OK
but if the computer is OFF for 4 hours or more
then the Mac frooze at startup: no screen, no USB

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I use my .Mac iDisk to synchronize data files between an iBook and an
iMac, both running 10.3.9.  I can modify a data file on one computer,
and the iDisk will automatically update the file to the other platform.
I find this very convenient, and I like the security of an off-site

Is there a way to extract individual original files from a Safari web
archive? Like the source from the background, linked files, etc., that
are obviously inside the archive, since you can view the page in its
entirety while off-line?

Hi. I am having trouble expanding .pkg files on my Mac.  I have my .pkg
files set to open up with installer.app.  However, when I double-click
the .pkg file, I see the icon open, but then installer.app does not run.
Also, when I double-click installer.app the same thing ...

I'm wondering about what all of this data caching/logging is for.  I
never use it.  For instance, in Safari, there's a feature where a drop
down menu displays URL's close to the one I'm typing.  It's a nuisance.
It appears that Safari has stored every URL I've ever used, and they

i have just noticed that my mac is giving off a single beep sound
every 20 minutes.
i have times it and it is exactly 20 minutes. the beep isn't any of
the standard

i would like to know what is the most popular way in the Mac world to
protect/licensing a commercial software
What i need a 3rd part software to
protect/licensing my product (not just the installation process),

I have an original iMac G5 from 2004 and I was looking at the hard drive
while replacing the power supply and noticed a black four-wire cable
that connects from the front of the drive to an area on the main board
near the RAM slots. What is that cable for? I know its not the SATA ...

I need to make a bootable classic system disc with one key item removed
form it's system folder.
Toast is currently incapable of making a bootable disc, and their
"support" site claims that some third-party utility somewhere could

Any suggestion on drives (~80 Gb) that run cool enough that they can safely
be used to replace the original (and almost full) hard drive in a slot-load
iMac G3?
Al Preston