Mac Forum / General / General / July 2008

I have thousands of pictures and somehow over the years they have
duplicated themselves into multiple copies of each, some with names
different to the original. I need to undo that.
I want a program that will look at actual file content and ignore

I've got an Intel Mac on which I've used Bootcamp to install Windows
Vista.
Vista runs great, but I'd like to convert it to a virtual machine
using Parallels or VMWare (not sure which one is better?).

On my laptop, a fairly recent MBP running updated Leopard, all of a
sudden I cannot get a newsfeed off Comcast, including this NG.  This in
itself would not be baffling, except on my iMac, also recent and
updated, same set up, I do get it as normal. I even took it off WiFi and

A few weeks ago I started receiving emails that looked like they were
addressed to other people I know. But on checking the email address, I
found that it was my email address - Mail was just putting somebody
else's name beside it.

Should have released the 2.0 SW with the iTunes 7.7 release. This way,
all the EXISTING iPhone owners could have upgraded (and most
importantly ,re-activated the phone through the itunes store) BEFORE
the MAD CRUSH of people trying to activate the 3G phones.

Anyone know the purpose of the "Owners Enabled" = Yes
(in Disk Utility for Mac OS 10.5.4)
Recently, for some unknown reason, that entry got out-of-whack
on my MacBook Pro, became:   Owners Enabled = No

I gave my 70-something mother a Mac a few years ago, and I've been
upgrading her with my hand-me-downs whenever I replace my computer.  So
I was just visiting her this weekend to give her my old iBook G4.  Most
of that isn't relevant, except that she's old and as ...

Does anyone know if there is a way of mounting an external drive under
OS X so that it is considered non-removable by OS X?  (One way to
accomplish this is to boot off of the external drive, which is what
I'm doing right now, but it seems as if there should be a better way.)

Last night I went into Safari Preferences and happened to look at the
Advanced tab. At the bottom was an unticked box for "Show Develop menu
in menu bar". I had never noticed that before, so I ticked it. So what
is in the Develop menu? Well one thing is "Show Web inspector" and I ...

I'll try to keep this brief and keep my whining to a minimum.  I've
just suffered a catastrophic failure in the most diabolical of ways.
My backup drive had been acting up with directory issues that Disk
Utility couldn't solve, so I decided I would wipe it clean and start

I think I deleted an Apple program that I may need in the future.  Is
there a way of getting it back from the 10.4 Tiger DVD without
installing the entire Operating System?

Compressing files adequately -
Some Mac users do file compression quite a lot,
using the built-in "Compress" utility of OS X
which is available from the OS X "File" menu.

Is there a keyboard shortcut that can put this Mac Mini to sleep if I'm
not using an Apple keyboard?  (I don't have an Eject key.)

Thanks again to all who answered questions related to my daughters G4
mirror door PowerMac and her disk drive. Here is the latest result.
I decided to try one last start up utilizing a known good 10.3 start up
dvd. This produced the same results as before (indefinitely spinning