Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008

I guess they have to give it away.  They're going to become the McDonalds of
Smartphone's.

I've got a rather mysterious problem. My e-mail keeps clogging up when
I try to send attachments. I've tried to do it from various accounts
but the same thing occurs. I've called my Internet provider and they
say the problem is not related to their server or my modem. That

Strange issue just popped up on my nearly issueless iMac core 2 duo
running 10.4.11.
So I change the desktop picture from one in the 'Nature' folder to
another in the same folder. Log out and log back in and it shows the

I Hate Pay Pal!
...and yes, you miserable NG nit-pickers,
this is "on topic" for this NG, because without
donations to struggling utility programmers,

I came home to find my wife frustrated with her computer.  She thought
she had trashed an Excel file, but she couldn't open her trash can.  I
couldn't either, and each time I tried to open Excel, the finder would
come up.    She didn't know what she did, saying she was working at

One additional question to follow up on the valuable previous advice.
The iMac originally has a 250GB internal drive. If I am replacing it,
can I increase the capacity of this disk, since I seem to have read some
accounts of heat problems arising form the larger disks? I am ...

Does anyone know what the Red LED 7 (Checkstop) on the motherboard
indicates?

Several times in the last few days my PowerMac G5 OS X 10.5.2 has apparently
crashed during an extended period of inactivity, that is, when I tried to
use it again it was "frozen".
I could move the mouse around on the desktop but nothing happened when I

I just got a new G4 Powerook and would like to transfer my ITunes accounts,
settings and music from my desktop machine to the new laptop.  Is this
possible?  If so, How?
Thankx,

I accidentally deleted an InDesign file.  Is there a utility (preferably
free, of course!) that I can use to undelete that file?  I've tried
downloading all the freeware and demo versions of commercial software
that I can find, and none of them works, one way or another.  Many of ...

I am currently using a laptop MacBook Pro with OSX Leopard.
I have now a new computer, iMac (not a laptop).
I need both computers to be synchronized, not only the data but also
the applications and the whole operating system.

My dual 1.8 G5 froze while working on a file.
Shut it down.
Now when I start it up, I hear it begin to boot (I can hear the hard
drive begin to read), then nothing. No ring and the monitor stays

I just read this months macworld regarding organizing my inbox. And I
see what I desire, but I can't figure out how to get there. I want to
highlight an email, and press the "1" key and have it zoom to a
designated mailbox, the "2" key for another. How do I do this?

I am currently having a small difficulty importing a Quicktime file I
ripped from a DVD into final cut pro. I have two different files both
as MPEG 4 and .MOV....anyone have any advice? The manual states I need
some sort of codec but the file was sent by my associate across the

I got a blue and white G3 450 tower on ebay. It came with I think is
the Single Channel Ultra2 LVD SCSI Card (Single) with 68 pin hook up
and a 9 GB hard drive with OS 9.2.2 on it set to SCSI ID #0. I then
install two IDE hard drives with OS  10.3 and OS 9.2 on them that I