Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

Has anybody else noticed that Leopard seems to be remember (or store in
the volume's .DS_Store file) the desktop location of a removable hard
drive's icon?
Another small but more significant change is that you can no longer

On a MacBook Core 2 Duo with 2 GB RAM. Under this same machine I had to
reboot every 24 - 36 hours as pageouts would be approaching pageins for the
apps I usually had open and how I used them. The whole thing would bog down
with 5 swapfiles and then the pageouts would really ramp ...

I have mixed feelings about Stacks but have kept my Downloads folder on
the Dock and added another folder.  I have run into one annoying
cosmetic bug.  Basically so far I have a bunch of disk images in my
Downloads folder. The icons for the actual files for all of them are the

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I purchased Leopard for our iMac G5 (2.0 GHz PPC, the Ambient Light
Sensor model just before the built-in iSight camera models came out).  
When I let it restart on request, it wouldn't boot.  It got to a gray
screen and made extensive disk access sounds, but never booted, instead ...

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Hi, I'd like to open a pdf file with the Preview app from the Terminal,
I've tried /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview file.pdf,
but doesn't seem to work.
Any idea ?

Darn, can't get rid of Boot Camp Assistant start up message:
  "You need to update your software"
...on my Intel MacBook Pro core duo.  (15 incher)
Downloaded the latest firmware, message popped up right after

The Florida "Castle Doctrine" law basically does three things:
One: It establishes, in law, the presumption that a criminal who forcibly
enters or intrudes into your home or occupied vehicle is there to cause
death or great bodily harm, therefore a person may use any manner of ...

I have eagerly grabbed every MacOS since 7.5 and never regretted it.
Until now.
After hearing of others' bad experiences I decided to try out Leopard
for myself. I backed up my HD and installed 10.5.

I have spent the last few hours trying to source an answer to the
following. First of all the setup:
- D Link Wireless Router
- Quicksilver G4 (Tiger) connected via ethernet to the router

Here's the situation....
I have a MacBook Pro which I use both at home and at the office.
I have two external hard drives at each location. One drive at each location
will be the recipient of a SuperDuper! backup and the other drive will be the

Is there a way to run OSX and apps from a smaller partition (or small
HD) but have your User documents, especially graphics and video files,
on a larger partition (or second internal  HD)?
As far as I can see, OSX insists of having user files on the boot disk.  

This is frustrating.
Obviously within TM itself Apple intends a search-by-content.
Not by the name of the file, bet by words within the file.
When the TM screen is on, the one with the tightly tiled windows and the

If your machine has the capability, can one run multi monitors in
different resolutions?  I'd like to be able to have a 22" (1680 X
1050) widescreen for movies and some photos, and a 4:3 monitor (1280 x
1024) that can be positioned in portrait mode (1024 x 1280) for