Mac Forum / General / General / August 2007

I'm not sure when this started, but I think its just in the last day.  
Every time I select something to attach and click OK, Mail closes.  
Without attachments, everything works fine.  Forwarding an
email its fine.  I've repaired permissions and Software Update is

Consider, now we can do almost all the great things that 95 out of a
hundred other people accomplish with computers, all on our Macs.
Of course we will have to worry about such things as partition viruses,
like the Michealangelo virus that affected boot sectors, but fortunately

I'm interested in replacing my 12" iBook G4's aging LCD backlight.
I've found replacement backlights on a few different sites in the
$20-$30 range, and I've done surgery on this computer before and am
comfortable with the procedure for removing the LCD from the

Good morning,
Is it possible to move a standard Apple OS9 font (namely Textile) from
an old OS9 box onto OSX Tiger?  I have to do some work for a non-profit
group which has used that font in its previous output.

How would you recommend to stress test my RAID1?
I still suspect bus errors and such generating bad data, and need to
prove it to Apple Care.
I previously had trouble with garbleded directory data, and suspect that

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Just purchased a 17 Macbook pro and transfered my home folder from
another laptop, a Pismo to the Amcbook Pro.
The Pismo would take forever to reboot or shut down, and I mean more
than 15-30 minutes. Now, the Macbook Pro is doing the same thing, when

My wife's uncle- a newish convert to Macs- sent me an e-mail asking
about a problem he has had with his iMac.  He recently found a number of
files in the Trash and has no idea how they got there.  He tried to open
one and got a dialogue box, of course, telling him that he had to ...

I installed BootCamp and a win$ partition on my MacBook
the win$ partition appears in my Finder as a drive NONAME  is it
possible to modify this label ? (I don't remember being asked a name
for it ..)

Hi, I just discovered that you can send SMS messages with Apples
Address Book application.
However for some reason the SMS pop up is disabled (greyed out) for
me.

My girlfriend needs to send in her iBook for repair of the screen. She
needs to do a backup. Assuming she needs to restore the hard drive when
it comes back, can I just do this:
Startup to a CD.

I apologize in advance, this seems like a simple operation but I can't
seem to figure it out.
How do I sort the 'purchased' songs in iTunes in the order they were
purchased?

I've never had a problem with updates before, but on my PB G4
I am having a disaster since I installed 2007-07 the other day.
Google Earth does not run anymore.  It uses 100% of the CPU
and blasts out zillions of messages on the console.

Whilst attempting to video conference with a friend using iChat I'm
getting the following error message.
"Disconected from video chat because: There is insufficient bandwidth to
maintain the conference".

(So when will there be an iPhone newsgroup? Until then:)
Apple provided the first updated to the iPhone yesterday in the
form of iPhone Update v1.0.1. It address a bunch of security
concerns that were TROLLING around the net this past week.