Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

I wonder if I could ask the members of this NG their views on
partitioning the HD of a G5 iMac.  
When I had a Windows PC I had the disk partitioned into partitions
holding the OS, My Documents, Appllications and Games.  

If you are one that can not use your client app because there's no connection
from your school/work and so use GoogleGroups, please consider a posting
method that will help us *and* you.
If you must post to more than one group (and doing so is perfectly

I just acquired a Mac Mini two days ago, and used Migration Assistant to
copy most of my files and applications from my G4 Power Mac. In my
attempts to migrate my Mail and Safari settings (mailboxes, bookmarks,
etc.), I somehow ended up with two user accounts on the Mac Mini.

Weird. My MacBook Pro will not shut down nor restart on command. In
order to shut down or restart I must hold down the power button for
several secands, then press for a fresh restart. Am I damaging anything
by this move?

I use Photoshop on both Windows and Apple. I have wondered why Apple
don't just use the same international convention.
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I have just set up and old imac which is connected to the internet. It's a
iMac G3 DV SE 400Mhz 512KB L2 cache 512MB Ram 20GB Hard Disk. It is running
OS X  10.3.9 I think.
I'm looking for a virus scanner and a firewall for it or any other things to

Update OS X 10.4.10 seems stable. Boots twice. (Intel Mac Pro)

How do I get the Spotlight tool to search for every file ?
eg, If I type ScreenSaverEngine.app into spotlight it doesnt find it
even though it is accessible to me by navigating to it using the
Finder.

(Sorry if this is already common knowledge, thought it was worth sharing
though.)
As the subject suggests, I get the following error trying to launch OnyX
1.7.9 under the new 10.4.10 upgrade:

A kick a.s Mac Pro and it's beautiful to say the least.   And of course I put
Boot Camp on and installed XP (God knows why?) and now I want to remove it
and get the space back over to OS-X.   Can't seem to figure out how and
thought it would just be a matter of trashing the drive ...

I posted last week asking whether anyone knew of a good height
adjustable stand for a 17" iMac (intel).
I don't see any responses, so I'm wondering whether anyone can suggest
any other group or board that might be more focussed on accessories

My powerbook G4 DVD slot loading DVD drive will only read DVD-R and
ejects DVD+R.
Is this a feature or is my drive knackered ?

By the time I finally decided to get an iSight, they were discontinued.
What iSights I did find online are expensive. So....... is there a
good, comparable cam out there? Thanks.

Apple's market share:
May 2004  3.2%
May 2007  7.6%
This means that third-party developers have more incentive to develop

Shouild I wait until Leapard / will there nbe a better newer faster
version of the macbook out soon. 2.16Ghz seems fast enough but the
video is poor can we expect 256MB video for the same price later in
the year maybe ?