Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008

We just got a new Mac. MBP with Leopard.
My wife has a G3 PB with Leopard. And I have a G3 with Tiger.
Taking new Mac on a trip and trying to figure out what is best and
easiest (and fastest) way to migrate/transfer all our documents, etc to

I'm using Microsoft Office v.X on my iMac G4.  I have created three
custom toolbars for Word, three custom toolbars for Excel, and three
custom toolbars for Powerpoint.
When Microsoft announced their Suite Deal to upgrade from MSO 2004 to

I have a Mac G-3 running system 8.6 which I use to run older software.  
Lightening blew me out of the water last week.
These programs are all pre-OSX.  My other computer is a MacPro running
OSX 10.4.11 and 10.5 on separate partitions.

I've just got a new MacBook White, to replace one that died. I always
connected my Palm PDA to the old MacBook using Bluetooth.
The old MacBook was running OS 10.4.11, and had no connection problem.
The new one is running 10.5.3. Every time I try to connect by Bluetooth

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I recently received the following message from my e-mail provider:
his is a HALNet Advisory for your security.
Your email program is contacting the HAL-PC/HALNet mail server on a VERY
frequent basis, much too frequently.   This is happening repeatedly,

New to Time Machine, and just realized that a six Gig folder of photos
is out of place. If it's moved on the HD by dragging, will Time Machine
"be smart" and see the only change is its parent folder, or will it
erase and then copy the whole folder back into the TM backup?

I'm trying to copy a cf card, connected to my iMac through a USB card
reader to disk (network attached)
The problem is that it fails to copy using the finder, but when I use
the terminal and issue the cp command, it works fine.

It always amazes me that backing up is something that so many people somehow
think is unimportant. Today I was notified that an acquaintance, someone who
runs a business on Macintoshes, someone I have urged for literally years to
implement a backup strategy but who has ignored ...

Looks like TM ran all day yesterday on my Mini without doing anything.
The menu bar icon rotated but in the menu it always said something like
"0kb of 300MB backed up". I rebooted and it seems fine. Is there a
process I can safely kill to have the same effect without restarting?

My Epson 740 used to print good sharp characters.  Recently it started
printing each character with a faint image about half a millimeter
before or after the full sharp image.  It looks as if you are seeing
the letters in double vision.

Okay, so I need a portable mp3 player, cell phone, and GPS device.  I
not only WAAAY can't afford an iPhone, I've also had Verizon as a
carrier for two years and don't want to switch from a service which
has worked well for me, and with which I am eligible for an upgrade,

There's gonna be lots of obsolete macs soon.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/04/mac-os-x-10-6-code-named-sn
ow-leopard-may-be-pure-cocoa
"The next version of Mac OS X is code-named "Snow Leopard," and will indeed
be Intel-only."

I use Windows XP to do Skypecasting. So I run Firefox and Skype...
that's all. It's worked fine until today. I can no longer connect to the
net with either application in Windows.
One possibility comes to mind. I have been having some other problems

someone  named ???@??? is sending me email at RR  with no subject. The
details are;