Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

This keeps popping up here.  MacWorld has written an excellent article
on the subject; it is Leopard oriented, but contains a link to a utility
for Tiger.
The article, which contains links and graphics, is at

Is there a simple way of addressing an e-mail (change of address) to my
entire address book?

Software Update shows an EFI firmware update for my MacPro, which
apparently fails to install. (The update runs on a restart, and
supposedly updates the firmware from MP31.006C.B02 to ...B05;
instructions include a note to check the version after the restart.)

Is it possible to get a video iPod (mine is a 5th gen) to shown the time
on the screen when a video isn't playing--- w/o going to the Extras pane
I mean?  And if so, how?

I recently installed Leopard and I bought an external firewire drive to
take advantage of time machine.
I have three partitions on the device.  One is for time machine.
A few times I had gotten the "device removal" dialog while the device

I installed Anacron yesterday and checked my system log this morning to
make sure it did what it was supposed to do. Do "operation not
permitted"  and "terminated" mean that something didn't get done right
or is the last item the one I need to be concerned about ("1 jobs run")

I installed Safari 3, and it seems to work OK, except that I have
problems with gmail now.
Gmail - only withe safari 3 - has at least the following new
"features"

I cant make this site http://playwide1.extra.hu/ work on mz Mac, whats
the prob? pls help

Time Machine recently started displaying an error message indicating the
"backup is too large for the backup volume":
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It refuses to back up now as a result of this error.

recently I have upgraded my macbook from the Tiger operating system to
the Leopard one.
Unfortunately from that moment, the applications iMovie and iDVD do
not work and when I start, for example iMovie, I get the following

Regularly receive MS WOrd ".doc" files from local authority and one or
two private individuals. I use a G5 iMac and these open in AppleWorks 6
using MacLink Plus as installed from the supplied software DVDs.
SOME of ,docs these translate perfectly into a straight,

There are two main things I don't know how to turn on.
First, how do you create root?  NetInfoManager seems to be gone.  I need
an actual login for root to do backups.  Well, I guess I could do it as
the user/admin, but I prefer to su when necessary and to log on as root

My Leopard help system has stopped working with the help files of one
application, on just one user account. I wonder if anyone has come
across similar issues and knows how to fix this.
In more detail: None of the hyperlinks in the help files for the

Windows Media Player 9 for OSX tells me that it does not have the
necessary codens for several of the newer windows media (.wmv) files
that I have recently downloaded.  I tried following the update link in
the help menu and it led me to a microsoft website where I downloaded

My girlfriend has a USB hard drive which does not appear on the
desktop of her Macbook anymore when she plugs it in. It has been
acting strangely for a while before, specifically she couldn't unmount
it anymore and - according to her account - it only worked on Macs she